Film & Mind: Asteroid City
**PACIFIC TIME**: November 8, 2024, 8:00 - 9:30 PM
*** Registration will close at 4:30 PM the day of the event. No registrations are possible after this time, no exceptions. ***
PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- You will receive confirmation and details by email.
- The program presentation runs from 8 PM to 9:30 PM
- This program is being presented Online Only.
- 1.5 CE/CME credits are offered for this program.
- A signature is required (in the meeting Chat) for CE/CME Credit.
- Contact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.
Asteroid City (2023) has been described by writer-director Wes Anderson as a “poetic meditation on the meaning of life.” Set in the 1950s, Asteroid City is a young girl’s coming-of-age story that deviates from one simple narrative line. Asteroid City leaves the comfortable and familiar setting of a summer camp and opens up to a line of adventure that constitutes a complete interruption of all plans through its confrontation with an outer space alien. Dreamlike switches between different layers of the narrative, which reflect on one another, require the audience to question any and all layers of the events, and penetrate beyond the manifest toward the latent, meaningful, content.
Available on:
Amazon Prime, AppleTV, and Youtube (click for options)
Schedule
*** All times listed are Pacific Time (PT) ***
Discussion (on Zoom): new start time -- 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM - We will hear from our discussants and explore the film together.
We will not watch the film together prior to the discussion. Participants should watch the film beforehand or begin screening on their own before 6:15 pm PT.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
- Explain the importance of differentiating manifest vs. latent content in learning the meaning of a dream
- Apply the psychodynamic principle of defensive operations to explain how the dramaturgy of Asteroid City (with its use of atomic testing and space aliens) guides the audience to the writer’s intention of contemplating the meaning of life
- Describe the mental ecology and function of the intersection in daily life of trauma with fantasy activity and aesthetic function
Program Coordinator: Thomas M. Brod, MD, coordinates the NCP Film & Mind Program with Apurva Shah, MD.
Presenter:
Bettina Soestwohner, PhD, PsyD, holds a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine and taught literature and language for many years. She is a Research Psychoanalyst and faculty member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, where she regularly presents in the film series. She taught at the University of California Southern in the Psychology program. A member of the Freudian School of Quebec (EFQ), she is in charge of the work of the EFQ in California. She is a founding member of the group SPIIRAL, which works on advancing the theory and practice of psychoanalysis today as required by clashes between cultures and civilizations. Currently, she is doing research for a project on Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater and questions of aesthetics. She is interested in the intersection of studies in daily life with trauma, fantasies, and aesthetics.
Luis Vallejo, MD, is a psychiatrist who attended Vanderbilt University on a full tuition Chancellor's scholarship and completed his MD at Baylor in the Houston Medical Center. Beyond Psychiatry board certification, Dr. Vallejo pursued extensive psychodynamic/analytic training via the Cincinnati Institute, and is a current post-seminar candidate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. He holds a private practice in Beverly Hills and is a consult-liaison Psychiatrist at Cedars Sinai Beverly Hills Medical Center, Baptist Health Medical Center, and Orbit Telehealth.
IMPORTANT:
- This is online only. It will be held via Zoom.
- Pre-registration is required.
- 1.5 CE/CME credits offered.
- Signature is required for Continuing Education Credit. Zoom attendees must "sign" in and out at the beginning and end of the discussion in the Zoom Meeting Chat to receive credit.
- You will receive a confirmation and event details message by email after registering. Contact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.
Target audience: Mental health professionals and open to the public interested in psychoanalytic perspectives. Open to members and the community.
Level: Every level.
FEES:
$25 with CE Credit
$15 without Credit
Free for NCP Clinical Associates and Students
Please contact Byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have trouble registering.
"How do I get my CE/CME Credit?"
- Pre-Register below
- If you are registering for the first time you will receive a welcome email. You must follow the directions in this email to complete your registration in order to access your certificates.
- "Sign" in and "sign" out during the event (by typing your full name into the chat). This is how we record your attendance at the event.
- Wait 5 business days.
- Download your Certificate on the NCP website.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT
PHYSICIANS: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the New Center for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: The New Center for Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The New Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists must report CE credits directly to MCEP using this document to verify attendance. Please note that a psychologist must attend the CE program in its entirety in order to receive credit.
SOCIAL WORKERS, MARRIAGE and FAMILY THERAPISTS (LCSW, LMFT, ASW, IMF, LEP, LPCC, PCCI): The New Center for Psychoanalysis is a continuing education provider that has been approved by the American Psychological Association, a California Board of Behavioral Sciences recognized approval agency.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.