As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:

• Assess the clinical presentation of torture survivors, identifying how different characters embody distinct profiles of complex PTSD.
• Summarize moral injury as a distinct clinical construct from PTSD in patients who experienced or witnessed actions that violated their core moral framework. 
• Examine cultural context and trauma expression by distinguishing the distinctly Iranian cultural, linguistic, and political textures of the characters' suffering from the universal issues in cross-cultural trauma work.

Program Coordinators:

Thomas Brod, MD, Apurva Shah, MD and Mary Starks, MA, LPCC

Discussants:

Debra J. Myers, MD is a graduate of Harvard Medical School. She has a private practice in psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in West Los Angeles, serving adults and adolescents. She was a biology major at Stanford University and did a residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford Medical Center. Her training in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine was at UCSF. While on the faculty at Wayne State University School of Medicine, she earned an MS in Biostatistics and Clinical Research Design at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She trained in Psychoanalysis at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. There she combined medical training with her humanistic interests and lifelong interest in the human mind. During her psychoanalytic training, she spent five years as a volunteer telephone counselor at the Didi Hirsch Suicide Crisis Line. She spent two years as an intern therapist at the Valley Community Clinic, a facility serving the underserved. 

Elahe Sagart, MD is a Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychoanalyst in private practice in Newport Beach, California. She completed her psychiatry residency at the University of Virginia and her psychoanalytic training in adult, child, and adolescent programs at NCP, where she has also taught courses on Bion, Klein, child analysis, and infant observation. She is on the faculty of the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP) in Los Angeles and is a member of both the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) and the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA). She founded the Rustin Psychoanalytic Group in Tehran, Iran, and has long been dedicated to advancing psychoanalytic education across cultures. Dr. Sagart is the editor of Bion’s Transformations, Revisited and Expanded by Arnaldo Chuster (Karnac, 2024). She is also an academic editor for the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies.

IMPORTANT:

• This is online only. It will be held via Zoom.
• Pre-registration is required.
• Target audience: Mental health professionals and open to the public interested in psychoanalytic perspectives. Open to members and the community.
• Level: Every level. 
• 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.   

FEES:

$25 with CE Credit | $15 without Credit | Free for NCP Psychoanalysts-in-Training and Students

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.

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.

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 the attendance certificate 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 offers continuing education via the organizations listed above whose requirements meet the course content requirements set by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (see 16 CCR section 1887.4.0 for General CE Course Content Requirements). Acceptance of the CE credits for this activity is at the discretion of the licensing board.