INTENSIVE STUDY GROUP (ISG)

LONGING TO BELONG: EXPLORATIONS OF BELONGING AND NOT BELONGING

November 17, 2023 - May 24, 2024
Fridays, 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Virtual Event

You can learn more about the individual ISG courses and register here: https://ncspp.org/events/intensive-study-group-longing-belong-explorations-belonging-and-not-belonging

NCSPP’s 2023-2024 year-long virtual Intensive Study Group (ISG) will center around the theme of belonging. The three instructors – Maria Pilar Bratko, Carolina Bacchi, and Ben Morsa – will each take their own approach to exploring how individuals and collectives navigate belonging across nations, generations, institutions, and psyches, with a special focus on conscious and unconscious processes of belonging and otherness at play in experiences of migration and neurodivergence. 

Often those who are the most acutely aware of the benefits and costs of being a member of a collective are those who exist at the margins of society, and this year’s ISG hopes to reimagine what inclusive spaces might look like within the consultation room, the therapeutic relationship, our professional discourses, and at the societal level. 

If you’re considering registering, this is a perfect time to do so since early registration ends on October 20th. 

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE

CALL FOR ANNUAL WRITING AWARD SUBMISSIONS 

This is a call to all graduate students and early-career clinicians! The NCSPP Board is looking for original papers for the NCSPP Annual Writing Award. This award was created to support new voices in the field of psychoanalysis, and winning authors will receive a cash prize of $250. The winning paper will be published in fort da, NCSPP’s journal, and will be presented at a Scientific Meeting with an invited discussant.

We invite papers that contain original thinking and creatively address topics from a psychoanalytic perspective. They may be theoretical, clinical, or interdisciplinary and should make use of psychoanalytic ideas to further the author’s argument. We will judge papers on psychoanalytic content, writing ability and style, integration of theoretical concepts, and original thinking. We especially welcome essays that contain interdisciplinary and culturally diverse perspectives.

The deadline for submitting papers is October 31. Papers received after October 31 will be considered for the following year. All papers received will be blind reviewed by fort da Editorial Committee Members.

Papers should be submitted digitally in Microsoft Word format, typed double-space, and should not exceed 4000 words. For the purpose of anonymous review, the submitted paper itself should only include a title heading. In a separate document, the author should submit a cover letter, including the paper’s title and the author’s name, address, telephone number, email, and a brief bio. 

Authors should email the two documents to Loong Kwok: fortda@ncspp.org.

The winning paper will be announced in December.