PRESENTERS:

Michael Diamond, PhD, FIPA is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. He has authored over ninety articles and chapters in the areas of masculinity, femininity, and gender theory; fathering and the paternal function; psychoanalytic technique and the analytic mind; trauma and dissociation; hypnosis and altered states; and group processes and social action including the just published article in Psychoanalytic Inquiry’s special issue on “Perspectives on Populist and Fascistic States of Mind.”  In addition, he has authored five books including Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times; Masculinity and Its Discontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood; My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives; and The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Perspectives on Therapeutic Action.  He is widely known for his national and international presentations and maintains a private practice in Los Angeles, while remaining active in teaching, supervising, and writing.

David James Fisher, PhD has been practicing psychoanalysis and psychotherapy for thirty-seven years. He is a Senior Faculty Member at NCP and a Training and Supervising Analyst at ICP. Dr. Fisher is the author of three books: Bettelheim: Living and Dying; Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition; and Romain Rolland and the Politics of Intellectual Engagement. He specializes in the history of psychoanalysis, the convergence of ideological, political, and psychoanalytic methods of inquiry, and in psychoanalytic cultural criticism. With a doctorate in European Cultural and Intellectual History, he brings an historical and critical perspective to his scholarship. He has written on the film "A Dangerous Method," "The Collaboration and the Jewish Question," and most recently an essay called "A Psychoanalyst Serves on a Jury." He has also written on aspects of erotic countertransference, on the tendencies toward lying in severely narcissistic patients, and on the politics and power structure of contemporary psychoanalytic institutes. In addition to essays on Freud, Lacan, Fenichel, Stoller, Sabina Spielrein, and Winnicott, Dr. Fisher has contributed to the literature on psychoanalysis and history. He practices in West Los Angeles.

Mark Fisher, MD is Professor of Neurology at University of California, Irvine where he holds appointments in the Departments of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Political Science, and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine.  He established the first stroke program in Southern California while at USC (1980-1998), and at UCI he served as Chair of the Department of Neurology. He has received 40 years of continuous NIH stroke research funding and more than 50 citations of clinical excellence as a stroke neurologist. In 2021 he was named Director of the newly formed UCI Center for Neuropolitics, and in 2023 he received the UCI School of Medicine Innovation in Mentoring Award. Dr. Fisher is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, trained at the New Center for Psychoanalysis (2002-2013), and is Director of the Discussion Group “Neuroscience Perspectives on Psychoanalysis” at meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2015-present). He has current research funding from the International Psychoanalytic Association for investigations of the functional neuroanatomy of free association and is senior author of “Consciousness, Cortex, and Neuropsychoanalysis” (Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2024).

Debra Myers, MD, PsyD is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and trained in Internal Medicine at Stanford. She also has an MS in Biostatistics and Clinical Research Design from the University of Michigan School of Public Health (while she was faculty at Wayne State University). Her study of psychoanalysis at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles combined medical training with her humanistic interests and lifelong interest in the human mind. Dr. Myers received her PsyD from ICPLA in May 2020 and is also a member of NCP. She has a private practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in West Los Angeles serving adults and adolescents.

Peter Wolson, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst and faculty member of the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. He has served as LAISPS’ President and Director of Training, is a co-founding member of the Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies and was President of the Los Angeles Society of Clinical Psychologists. Currently, he is on the resident faculty of the Wright Institute Los Angeles and in private practice in Beverly Hills. He has published numerous op-ed pieces for the Los Angeles Times, on-line blogs for the Huffington Post, Thomson Reuters and Counterpunch and psychoanalytic papers on adaptive grandiosity, the existential dimension of psychoanalysis, the relational unconscious, analytic love and political power. His book, Psychoanalysis Enters the Political Fray, was published in 2019.

COORDINATED BY: Thomas Brod, MD

FEES:

Without CE/CME: General Registration - $0.00

With CE/CME: NCP Membership Registration CE/CME - $28.00 | General Registration CE/CME - $35.00 | Student Registration CE/CME - $17.50 

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