INTENSIVE STUDY GROUP (ISG)

PSYCHOANALYSIS: BREAKDOWN AND BREAKTHROUGH 

November 8th, 2024 – May 9th, 2025
Fridays from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
St. Clement’s Episcopal Church and Zoom
Featured Faculty: Daniel Butler, Ph.D., LMFT; Deborah Melman, Ph.D.; Susana Winkel, Ph.D. 

Cost: $1150 – $1620

We live in a society obsessed with constant innovation and change, where promised breakthroughs can cause a collective breakdown. In the clinical relationship, too, genuine breakthroughs can often be experienced as cataclysmic events, threatening the self by piercing the illusion of living in a predictable world. An important task of the contemporary therapist is to reckon with how the therapeutic relationship may be utilized to help patients access their emotional experience and vitality. This often involves a delicate balance between theory and praxis, tradition and the entirely unexpected. By delving into clinical aspects of cultural, social, and political upheaval, this course will create space for clinicians to process, grapple, and play with experiences of and responses to the ever-shifting reality in which we and our patients find ourselves. In a way unique to psychoanalysis, this course explores the nuances of these phenomena while also exploring potential limits to what psychoanalysis can offer and what interdisciplinary ideas can enhance the breadth and depth of our thinking.

To learn more: https://ncspp.org/events/psychoanalysis-breakdown-and-breakthrough

Any questions, contact Sullivan Oakley at SOakley@wi.edu.

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.