by PINC

PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE IN THE COMMUNITY CLINIC: RESISTANCE, COLLABORATION, AND RECLAIMING OUR LINEAGES

Saturday, October 8, 2022
11:00 am – 2:30 pm via Zoom

“Psychoanalysis may be deployed either to reproduce or to deconstruct” the status quo (Chow, 2021; St John, 2021). In the U.S., this is evident in the relationship between “institutional” psychoanalysis and the persistence of analytically-informed work in community settings. Our aim is to focus and expand the conversation about what is already true: community clinics have long been the location of significant analysis and meaning-making about the overlapping realities of individual, family, community, institutions, and the larger social-historical surround.

Community mental health has maintained the extra-ordinary truth(s) of psychic life in these interlocking contexts. This community analytic stance has amplified the capacity of those working within these systems and has freed us up to offer invaluable reflection and critique of mainstream, institutionalized psychoanalytic practice, and theory. While psychoanalysis can be a tool for transforming communities, this presentation seeks to highlight how community work also transforms analysis. We come together in this event to foster a collaborative and stimulating conversation between the rich variety of analytic practitioners working in the community, the institute, or independently. Join us!

Presenters: Eleanor Broh, LCSW; Lani Chow, Ph.D.; Alvaro Conde-Alvarez, AMF; Sandra Gaspar, M.S., LMF; Eyal Matalon, Psy.D.; Eneida Sosa, Psy.D.; Maria Seymour St. John, Ph.D., MFT. 

Registration: https://pincsf.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=424

FEE STRUCTURE
Free – community mental health workers, students, candidates
$40 – PINC members
$50 – not members of PINC

3.5 CE credits available.