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

• Define "pathological accommodation”, as exemplified in various characters in The Menu, and describe its unconscious dynamic in each subgroup. 
• Describe dynamics of subgroup formation, cohesion, and disunion as exemplified in the film, The Menu.
• Explain how regressive need-to-be-fed (dependency) generates destructive fantasies within individuals of “Privileged/Dominant” class structure, setting up corresponding fantasies in the de-humanized serving classes.
• Explain how a “Veneer of Civility” functions to obscure primal social dynamics

Program Coordinator: Thomas M. Brod, MD, coordinates the NCP Film & Mind Program with Apurva Shah, MD.

Presenters:

Gil Spielberg, PhD, After earning his doctorate in psychology, Gil completed his individual psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS) in New York and his group analytic studies at the Center for Group Studies also in New York. Utilizing the experience of studying various psychoanalytic points of view (relational analysis, self-psychology and modern analysis) Gil is especially interested in exploring the interaction of individual and group development using both interpretive and non-interpretive interventions. Gil is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, a Diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and a Certified Group Psychotherapist. Currently he serves on the faculty of the Contemporary Institute of Psychoanalysis (Los Angeles) New York as a training and supervising analyst. He is the faculty of the Center for Group Studies in New York. Gil is also the clinical director of Bespoke Therapy in Los Angeles, where he conducts and supervises clinicians using Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAT). Gil frequently presents at the American Group Psychotherapy Association Annual conferences and teaches group therapy internationally.

Gaea Logan, LPC-S, CGP, FAGPA, is a British-American psychoanalytic psychotherapist, educator, consultant and writer. She currently serves as the U.S. Executive Director of the International Institute for Trauma Studies in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, and the Public Education Chair of the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, California. She is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and an Alumna of the Harvard Refugee Trauma/Global Mental Health Program. Her evidence-based trauma protocol, Contemplative Based Trauma and Resiliency Training. has been adapted for utilization throughout the U.S., the Middle East, Africa, and Ukraine. In recognition of clinical excellence and international humanitarian outreach, Gaea is the 2023 recipient of the International Association for Group Psychotherapy Yaakov Naor Award for Peace and Dialogue. Previous awards include the Four Corners Regional Group Psychotherapy Society for Visionary Leadership and Group Innovation (2019) and the Social Responsibility Award (2015) of the American Group Psychotherapy Association.

IMPORTANT:

• This is an online conference. 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. 

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT 

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

-Updated July 2021-

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.

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