LAISPS-Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies

Taylor Swift has permeated deep into the tissue of contemporary public life. LAISPS candidate Meredith Redding analyzes why in these educational podcast mini-episodes called "PsychoanalySwift Briefs”, Meredith analyzes the global phenomenon of Taylor Swift's music, fandom, persona, and presence as a vehicle to explore depth psychological themes and illustrate psychoanalytic concepts in a palatable, playful, catchy way.

In an effort to expand our reach into culture and refresh our discipline for the upcoming generations, LAISPS candidate Meredith Redding i.s introducing Swifties to Psychoanalysis.

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‎TheraSwifts: PsychoanalySwift: The Transitional Phenomenon of a Pop Phenom on Apple Podcasts ‎Show TheraSwifts, Ep PsychoanalySwift: The Transitional Phenomenon of a Pop Phenom - May 30, 2024

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Where the Action Is: The Art of Psychoanalytic Listening, With Joeseph Bobrow, P.H.D.

Saturday, January 20, 2024

Where the Action Is: The Art of Psychoanalytic Listening, With Joeseph Bobrow, P.H.D. — LAISPS Joeseph Bobrow, P.H.D 1/20/24 10am-12pm 2 CE Credits

The Art and Process of Interpretation:
The Power of “mere” Words*

Instructor: Alan P. Spivak, Ph.D., Training/Supervising Analyst, LAISPS

The Art and Process of Interpretation: The Power of “Mere” Words — LAISPS Saturday, February 3, 2024 Saturday, February 10, 2024 Saturday, February 17, 2024 LAISPS Classroom (map) Alan P. Spivak, Ph.D. Training/Supervising Analyst, LAISPS

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The Psycho-Dynamics of Diagnosis, Case Formulation, and Supervision: A Clinical Workshop with Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D. — LAISPS Saturday, January 27, 2024 Nancy McWilliams, P.H.D. The Psycho-Dynamics Of Diagnosis, Case Formulation, And Supervision: A Clinical Workshop Save The Date

Saturday October 14, Salman Akhtar MD -Two Languages in Clinical Context: Mother Tongue Vs. Adapted Tongue; Prose Vs. Poetry

In person and on zoom! Register today.

Two Languages in Clinical Context: Mother Tongue Vs. Adapted Tongue; Prose Vs. Poetry — LAISPS Salman Akhtar, MD Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College Training & Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia Zoom + In Person 3 CE Credits

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The Psycho-Dynamics of Diagnosis, Case Formulation, and Supervision:
A Clinical Workshop with Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D.

Saturday, January 27, 9-4

Join us on Saturday, January 27 for a clinical workshop with Nancy McWilliams. Best known for her work formulating a psycho-dynamic approach to diagnosis, Dr. McWilliams will focus in particular on the clinical implications and importance of diagnostic assessment and case formulation. In her morning presentation, she will describe the dimensional aspect of diagnostic thinking in psychoanalysis, including the idea that personality can be organized at healthy, neurotic, borderline, or psychotic levels, with an emphasis on what the clinical implications would be of understanding a person as structured at one level or another.

She will argue that attempts to understand personality in terms of traits has been problematic (even in the DSM Alternative Personality Disorder Section, which is dimensional but limited by its trait focus), and argue instead for the value of understanding personality in terms of internal conflicts and repetitive object-relational themes. She will offer numerous clinical examples drawn from her own work with patients. In the afternoon, she will pivot to her more recent work on psychoanalytic supervision, and will model her supervisory process in response to a case presentation by recent LAISPS graduate Victoria Curea. Finally, following a brief break, she will conclude with an in-depth presentation of a particularly challenging patient of her own, underscoring the role of diagnostics and case formulation in terms of personality structure and relational dynamics rather than personality traits.

Date: Saturday, January 27, 2024

Time: 9:00-4 :15 (one hour lunch break)

6 CEs

Location: In-Person TBD, virtual option

Price: $250 Students: $175

Two Languages in Clinical Context: Mother Tongue Vs. Adapted Tongue; Prose Vs. Poetry — LAISPS Salman Akhtar, MD Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College Training & Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia Zoom + In Person 3 CE Credits

https://www.laisps.org/events/two-languages-in-clinical-context

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Two Languages in Clinical Context: Mother Tongue Vs. Adapted Tongue; Prose Vs. Poetry — LAISPS Salman Akhtar, MD Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College Training & Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia Zoom + In Person 3 CE Credits

A wonderful orientation dinner for the new Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. A great kick-off to another great year!

Registration open!

TWO LANGUAGES IN CLINICAL CONTEXT : Mother Tongue vs. Adapted tongue; Prose vs. Poetry — LAISPS Salman Akhtar, MD Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical College Training & Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia Saturday, October 14 10am-1pm PST Zoom and In Person 3 CE Credits ABSTRACT  : This two-part workshop will focus upon the nuanc

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We are pleased to share that Senior Candidate, Meredith Redding's essay "Bulletproof Backpacks" is featured in the forthcoming book, Mind in the Line of Fire, published by the International Psychoanalytic Association.

You can buy it here

Mind in the Line of Fire / Mente en la Línea de Fuego: Psychoanalytic voices to the challenges of our times / Voces psicoanalíticas ante los retos de nuestro tiempo Invited by the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) to participate in a worldwide short essay contest, in this book the winners, 120 authors from 34 countries, share their thoughts about the challenges and complexities of our times. They show how wars, migration, climate change, racial ...

LAISPS members featured on Podcasts!

LAISPS Training and Supervising Analyst, Dr. Michael Diamond Is Featured on New Books In Psychoanalysis, discussing his new book "Ruptures in the American Psyche
Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times"

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LAISPS Members and Candidates at the at the International Psychoanalytic Association Congress in Cartagena last week.

LAISPS member Elizabeth Berlese Presenting her paper "Fire in Her Belly: Aggression, Creative Living, and Creative Politics" at the International Psychoanalytic Association Congress in Cartagena last week.

Congrats to the 17 wonderful graduates of our one year Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, and many thanks to the Analysts who taught classes and ran case consultation!

This courses being offered again this fall, and is an opportunity to dip your toe into analytic thinking and get to know the LAISPS community. If you're curious to learn more about it or apply https://www.laisps.org/store/p/one-year-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy-program

Happy to announce our new website is live!

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PSYCHOSOMATICS TODAY: A VIRTUAL WORKSHOP WITH
MARILIA AISENSTEIN
SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 2023 10:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.
3 CME/CE CREDITS

Join us online on Saturday, June 10 as we explore the breakdown of the link between mind and body that results in “psychosomatic” illnesses with Marilia Eisenstein, a founder of the Paris School of Psychosomatics.

Dr. Aisenstein’s work represents a uniquely French Freudian contribution to the investigation of primitive breakdowns and their somatic consequences.

In this workshop, Dr. Aisenstein will discuss two very recent contributions. In “The Allergic Object Relationship,” and a second paper, “Destruction of Thought Processes."

In preparation for this workshop, we will be offering two online study groups to read and discuss Dr. Aisenstein’s work. The papers and study group are free to those who register for the workshop.

For more information and to register: https://www.laisps.org/_files/ugd/3aada6_1f06f08c296c4601877eac7d77d94a66.pdf

Belonging and Becoming: Identity Transformations in the New Millennium
SPEAKER:
DAVID HAYES, MFT, LPCC SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2023 3:30 – 5:30 P.M.
RSVP to [email protected]
The address will be provided upon your registration.
Fee $25.00. This program will be available via Zoom.
If you would like to attend virtually, please contact Dr. Thomas Helscher at [email protected] for a Zoom link.

This meeting will focus on larger structural changes to the basic frame of our s*xual and gender identities, changes that have been underway for years and accelerated by the pandemic. Specifically, David will explore the dramatic effects for psychoanalytic treatment of the evolution of identity and identification (particularly s*x and gender) becoming increasingly self-determined. Drawing on the work of Lacan, Bion, as well as others from outside of psychoanalysis, David will describe these rapid and recent changes in s*xual and gender identity. Traditional oedipal structures, for example, have been called into question at a time when the fantasy (and lived experience) of separateness and self-creation has become the new foundation of the self. The talk will focus in particular on: 1) the critical changes in the linguistic structures of modern society that both reflect and drive this process, and 2) an effort to distinguish between our “knowing from affect” (the body, the right brain hemisphere, the hysterical) and “knowing from thought” (the symbolic, the intellectual, the left brain hemisphere, and the obsessional). Understanding these differentiations will clarify what I believe has influenced these recent changes in our self-definitions. A third way of knowing, that of “being-with” is offered, and clinical examples of these distinctions will be explored.

OPEN HOUSE THIS SUNDAY!!!!! March 12 from 11-1pm
We would LOVE to see you! Come in person or on zoom and learn more about all that we offer, how we can support you in your development as a clinician and learn more about our programs and meet our members and candidates.

Terrence McBride, Psyd one our Training and Supervising analysts will give a talk "A brief overview of a Psychoanalytic Treatment of developmental trauma disorder" and there will be lunch.

RSVP [email protected] or 310-440-0333.

adress and zoom link provided with RSVP

Happy to share a podcast episode of "Reclaim" in which Senior LAISPS Candidate Meredith Redding LMFT discusses "Exploring Narcissism" With podcast host Thais Sky who is both a member of our one year Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program and a Student Society Member.

Listen here:
https://www.thaissky.com/podcast/196

Bbout this episode Thais says: Our society is currently grappling with an intense fascination with narcissism. It feels like in some ways it is everywhere, with thousands if not millions of articles, social media posts, and books being written about the topic. The word is used so much that we have in many ways lost sight of its original purpose. If everything is narcissism, is anything narcissism? In this episode I bring psychotherapist Meredith Redding onto the podcast to help us understand more about what narcissism really means and how we can understand it in a way that maintains its philosophical integrity.

Ep. 196 Exploring Narcissism with Meredith Redding — Thais Sky Our society is currently grappling with an intense fascination with narcissism. It feels like in some ways it is everywhere, with thousands if not millions of articles, social media posts, and books being written about the topic. The word is used so much that we have in many ways lost sight of its o

We would love to see you this Saturday the 25th from 330 - 530
at another in our series from Psychoanalytic Conversations. It will be in person and streaming online.

"Transformations In the Oceans: Alterations in The Setting"

Speaker: Preston Lear
Fee: 25

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Adress Provided upon RSVP

Congratulations to LAISPS Member Beth Berlese on her paper, "Fire in Her Belly: Aggression, Creative Living, and Creative Politics" which has been accepted to the International Psychoanalytic Association Congress in Cartagena.

We look forward to reading and hearing more about this exciting paper!

Happy Birthday Anna Freud!

Happy birthday Anna Freud! Born on this day in 1895.
https://www.freud.org.uk/education/resources/anna-freud-life-and-work/

We had a great turn out for our Fall Fundraiser, which turned into a wonderful evening of wine, conversation and reconnection. We've almost hit our goal for our new website! https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4DTVKKMYX223Q&source=qr