BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Exware Solutions Inc.//ExSite v3.8//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-2736-@n-c-p.org DTSTAMP:20260606T193444 DTSTART:20241009T193000 DTEND:20241009T210000 SUMMARY:Prep Course for Mark Solms: Source of Consciousness DESCRIPTION:Due to members affected by the fires, the January 8 study gr oup has been postponed to January 29. Thank you for your understanding.  \n\n*** This course is at capacity. Registration is closed. ***\n\n-- P LEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION: --\n\n* Pre-registration is required. This is a five-session course. Registration is only avail able for all five sessions. \n\n* Each session will be held on the Wedne sday evenings as detailed below, from 7:30-9 pm Pacific Time.\n\n* This course is limited to 25 participants.\n\n* This course will be presente d via Zoom only. \n\n* CE/CME is offered for this course as a whole. Yo u must "sign in" and "sign out" by typing your name in the Chat during t he Zoom meeting to receive credit. See below for full details regarding CE credit.\n\n* You will receive confirmation and details by email. Con tact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.\n\nMark Solms, neuro scientist and psychoanalyst, has substantially altered contemporary unde rstanding of both Consciousness and Self-Experience. Solms is a clear an d personable writer, but his understanding draws on science largely unfa miliar to psychotherapists.  \n\nIn preparation for his appearance at next May’s NCP Manifest Mind conference, we are offering an introducto ry course (5 monthly sessions over Zoom) in which we will study Solms’ important 2021 book: The Hidden Spring.  The final session will review a recent paper by Dana Sawyer, who will also be presenting at the May 2 025 Manifest Mind Conference.\n\nThe following is a partial list of the topics and concepts to be covered in this course.  \n\n* Affect is the fundamental form of consciousness;\n\n* Feeling by an organism of fluct uations in its own needs enables choice and thereby supports survival in unpredicted contexts. This is the biological function of experience;\n\ n* Consciousness is seated in the midbrain, not the Cortex;\n\n* The cer ebral cortex provides context, “memory of the future”, to consciousn ess;\n\n* Consciousness is part of nature and it is mathematically tract able;\n\n* Perception is applied uncertainty; \n\n* Action is an ongoin g process of hypothesis-testing and error correction;\n\n* Affect is an extended form of homeostasis, bringing choice into LIFE’s fight agains t ENTROPY;\n\n* Affect hedonically valences biological needs… Each cat egory of need—of which there is a great variety—has an affective qua lity of its own;\n\n* Needs cannot all be felt at once.  They are prior itized in midbrain and ranked on a “saliency map”.  The actions tha t are generated by prioritized affects are voluntary, which means they a re subject to here-and-now choices rather than pre-established algorithm s;\n\n* All mammals share midbrain seated MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEMS described by Jaak Panksepp;\n\n* The default drive (when all goes well) is SEEKIN G—proactive engagement with uncertainty, with the aim of resolving unc ertainty in advance.  When this affect is prioritized, it is felt as cu riosity and interest in the world.\n\n-- *Course is limited to 25 partic ipants and will be held over Zoom only.* --\n\n-- Course Sessions & Lear ning Objectives: --\n\nRegarding Session Learning Objectives (below): Th ese objectives aim to connect Solms' work in "The Hidden Spring" to prac tical applications in psychodynamic education and clinical practice, foc using on its relevance to psychiatry, neurology, and psychoanalysis. The y encourage learners to critically engage with the material and consider its implications for patient care and clinical decision-making.\n\n-- S ESSION 1 - Oct. 9, 2024 --\n\nTopic:   Feelings\n\nReading:  Chapters 1-6 (to page 148)\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Explain the role of the brainstem in generating consciousness, emotions, and the core of self- experience;\n\n* List the seven Panksepp motivational systems that defin e mammalian behavior; \n\n-- SESSION 2 - Nov. 13, 2024 --\n\nTopic:   Friston Free Energy\n\nReading:  Chapters 7-8 (pages 148-189)\n\nLearni ng Objectives: \n\n* Define the terms “Friston Free Energy” and “ predictive priors”;\n\n* Explain the importance of the terms “Fristo n Free Energy” and “predictive priors” to neuro-psychoanalytic ana lysis of brain function;\n\n-- SESSION 3 - Jan. 8, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Consciousness\n\nReading:  Chapters 9-10 (pages 190-237)\n\nLearning Ob jectives: \n\n* Describe the key neurobiological mechanisms underlying consciousness as presented by Solms, and their implications promoting ad aptive, creative, and pathological behavioral consequences;\n\n* Analyze the relationship between affect and consciousness outlined in "The Hidd en Spring" to understand the demands on the mind for action; \n\n* Summ arize Solms' critique of consciousness as a cerebral cortex function;\n\ n-- SESSION 4 - Feb. 12, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Mind\n\nReading:  Chapter s 11+post (pages 238-305)\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Explain how Sol ms' integration of psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscience can be appl ied to improve psychodynamic formulations in psychiatric evaluations;\n\ n* Discuss the psychological importance of Solms’ characterization of the function of the Cortex is to provide “memory of the future”;\n\n -- SESSION 5 - Mar. 12, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Perennial Philosophy in rel ation to Solms work and topics presented in Manifest Mind \n\nReading:   Sawyer, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misu nderstandings of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Huma nistic Psychology, 64(4), 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167821102 4399\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Discuss the ethical implications of Solms' views on consciousness and free will in the context of psychother apeutic process and change, particularly regarding patient autonomy and informed consent;\n\n* Prepare a case presentation that integrates Solms ' neuropsychoanalytic approach emphasizing the seven drives studied by P anksepp with traditional psychodynamic assessment, demonstrating its pot ential to enhance clinical understanding of motivational systems. \n\n- - Course Readings: --\n\nSolms, M. (2022). The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness. National Geographic Books.\n\nSawyer, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misunderstanding s of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Humanistic Psych ology, 64(4), 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211024399\n\n-- F aculty: --\n\nBarton J. Blinder MD, PhD, is an active member of the NPC Senior Faculty in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis and a past Chair of th e NPC Research Committee. He is an active member of APsA and IPA and a D istinguished Life Fellow of APA and AAPAC. He is a Clinical Professor an d past Director of Eating Disorder Treatment Research at UC Irvine and a dditionally on the teaching faculty at the University of Washington and USC. At APA, in addition to leadership, Dr. Blinder participated in the establishment of Practice Guidelines, Commission and Caucus on Psychothe rapy in Psychiatry, and editing a major text on Integrating Psychotherap y and Pharmacotherapy. His active research interests include Autobiograp hical memory, Neuropsychoanalysis, Spontaneous Thought, and Free Associa tion in Psychoanalysis and relation to Neuroscience Contributions, and T reatment Resistant Depression and Early Life Trauma, Response to psychoa nalytic/psychodynamic treatment, psychodevelopmental and neurobiologic r oots of somatization, embodiment and eating disorders. He is in private practice of Adult and Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Newport Bea ch. \n\nThomas M. Brod MD, Coordinator of the NCP Manifest Mind Series, is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has been an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA G effen School of Medicine. He is a senior faculty member at NCP, the co-c oordinator of the Film and Mind Series, and is psychoanalyst in private practice.\n\n-- Recording: --\n\nThis presentation will be recorded for NCP use only.\n\n--   --\n\n-- CE/CME Credits: 7.5 --\n\n \n\n-- CONTI NUING EDUCATION CREDIT --\n\nPHYSICIANS: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and p olicies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (A CCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Associat ion and the New Center for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic A ssociation is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical educ ation for physicians.\n\nThe American Psychoanalytic Association designa tes this live activity for a maximum of 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the exten t of their participation in the activity.\n\nThe APsA CE Committee has r eviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determ ined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in S tandard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercia l support.\n\nPSYCHOLOGISTS: The New Center for Psychoanalysis is appro ved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing educ ation for psychologists. The New Center for Psychoanalysis maintains re sponsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists must report CE credits directly to MCEP using this document to verify attendance. P lease note that a psychologist must attend the CE program in its entiret y in order to receive credit.  \n\nSOCIAL 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 th e California Board of Behavioral Sciences (see 16 CCR section 1887.4.0 f or General CE Course Content Requirements). Acceptance of the CE credits for this activity is at the discretion of the licensing board.\n \n\nP lease complete all registration pages until you come to the final "Rec eipt" page to ensure the confirmation email with the meeting details is sent to you.\n\nPlease contact Byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have trouble regis tering. \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-2736-@n-c-p.org DTSTAMP:20260606T193444 DTSTART:20241113T193000 DTEND:20241113T210000 SUMMARY:Prep Course for Mark Solms: Source of Consciousness DESCRIPTION:Due to members affected by the fires, the January 8 study gr oup has been postponed to January 29. Thank you for your understanding.  \n\n*** This course is at capacity. Registration is closed. ***\n\n-- P LEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION: --\n\n* Pre-registration is required. This is a five-session course. Registration is only avail able for all five sessions. \n\n* Each session will be held on the Wedne sday evenings as detailed below, from 7:30-9 pm Pacific Time.\n\n* This course is limited to 25 participants.\n\n* This course will be presente d via Zoom only. \n\n* CE/CME is offered for this course as a whole. Yo u must "sign in" and "sign out" by typing your name in the Chat during t he Zoom meeting to receive credit. See below for full details regarding CE credit.\n\n* You will receive confirmation and details by email. Con tact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.\n\nMark Solms, neuro scientist and psychoanalyst, has substantially altered contemporary unde rstanding of both Consciousness and Self-Experience. Solms is a clear an d personable writer, but his understanding draws on science largely unfa miliar to psychotherapists.  \n\nIn preparation for his appearance at next May’s NCP Manifest Mind conference, we are offering an introducto ry course (5 monthly sessions over Zoom) in which we will study Solms’ important 2021 book: The Hidden Spring.  The final session will review a recent paper by Dana Sawyer, who will also be presenting at the May 2 025 Manifest Mind Conference.\n\nThe following is a partial list of the topics and concepts to be covered in this course.  \n\n* Affect is the fundamental form of consciousness;\n\n* Feeling by an organism of fluct uations in its own needs enables choice and thereby supports survival in unpredicted contexts. This is the biological function of experience;\n\ n* Consciousness is seated in the midbrain, not the Cortex;\n\n* The cer ebral cortex provides context, “memory of the future”, to consciousn ess;\n\n* Consciousness is part of nature and it is mathematically tract able;\n\n* Perception is applied uncertainty; \n\n* Action is an ongoin g process of hypothesis-testing and error correction;\n\n* Affect is an extended form of homeostasis, bringing choice into LIFE’s fight agains t ENTROPY;\n\n* Affect hedonically valences biological needs… Each cat egory of need—of which there is a great variety—has an affective qua lity of its own;\n\n* Needs cannot all be felt at once.  They are prior itized in midbrain and ranked on a “saliency map”.  The actions tha t are generated by prioritized affects are voluntary, which means they a re subject to here-and-now choices rather than pre-established algorithm s;\n\n* All mammals share midbrain seated MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEMS described by Jaak Panksepp;\n\n* The default drive (when all goes well) is SEEKIN G—proactive engagement with uncertainty, with the aim of resolving unc ertainty in advance.  When this affect is prioritized, it is felt as cu riosity and interest in the world.\n\n-- *Course is limited to 25 partic ipants and will be held over Zoom only.* --\n\n-- Course Sessions & Lear ning Objectives: --\n\nRegarding Session Learning Objectives (below): Th ese objectives aim to connect Solms' work in "The Hidden Spring" to prac tical applications in psychodynamic education and clinical practice, foc using on its relevance to psychiatry, neurology, and psychoanalysis. The y encourage learners to critically engage with the material and consider its implications for patient care and clinical decision-making.\n\n-- S ESSION 1 - Oct. 9, 2024 --\n\nTopic:   Feelings\n\nReading:  Chapters 1-6 (to page 148)\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Explain the role of the brainstem in generating consciousness, emotions, and the core of self- experience;\n\n* List the seven Panksepp motivational systems that defin e mammalian behavior; \n\n-- SESSION 2 - Nov. 13, 2024 --\n\nTopic:   Friston Free Energy\n\nReading:  Chapters 7-8 (pages 148-189)\n\nLearni ng Objectives: \n\n* Define the terms “Friston Free Energy” and “ predictive priors”;\n\n* Explain the importance of the terms “Fristo n Free Energy” and “predictive priors” to neuro-psychoanalytic ana lysis of brain function;\n\n-- SESSION 3 - Jan. 8, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Consciousness\n\nReading:  Chapters 9-10 (pages 190-237)\n\nLearning Ob jectives: \n\n* Describe the key neurobiological mechanisms underlying consciousness as presented by Solms, and their implications promoting ad aptive, creative, and pathological behavioral consequences;\n\n* Analyze the relationship between affect and consciousness outlined in "The Hidd en Spring" to understand the demands on the mind for action; \n\n* Summ arize Solms' critique of consciousness as a cerebral cortex function;\n\ n-- SESSION 4 - Feb. 12, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Mind\n\nReading:  Chapter s 11+post (pages 238-305)\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Explain how Sol ms' integration of psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscience can be appl ied to improve psychodynamic formulations in psychiatric evaluations;\n\ n* Discuss the psychological importance of Solms’ characterization of the function of the Cortex is to provide “memory of the future”;\n\n -- SESSION 5 - Mar. 12, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Perennial Philosophy in rel ation to Solms work and topics presented in Manifest Mind \n\nReading:   Sawyer, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misu nderstandings of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Huma nistic Psychology, 64(4), 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167821102 4399\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Discuss the ethical implications of Solms' views on consciousness and free will in the context of psychother apeutic process and change, particularly regarding patient autonomy and informed consent;\n\n* Prepare a case presentation that integrates Solms ' neuropsychoanalytic approach emphasizing the seven drives studied by P anksepp with traditional psychodynamic assessment, demonstrating its pot ential to enhance clinical understanding of motivational systems. \n\n- - Course Readings: --\n\nSolms, M. (2022). The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness. National Geographic Books.\n\nSawyer, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misunderstanding s of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Humanistic Psych ology, 64(4), 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211024399\n\n-- F aculty: --\n\nBarton J. Blinder MD, PhD, is an active member of the NPC Senior Faculty in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis and a past Chair of th e NPC Research Committee. He is an active member of APsA and IPA and a D istinguished Life Fellow of APA and AAPAC. He is a Clinical Professor an d past Director of Eating Disorder Treatment Research at UC Irvine and a dditionally on the teaching faculty at the University of Washington and USC. At APA, in addition to leadership, Dr. Blinder participated in the establishment of Practice Guidelines, Commission and Caucus on Psychothe rapy in Psychiatry, and editing a major text on Integrating Psychotherap y and Pharmacotherapy. His active research interests include Autobiograp hical memory, Neuropsychoanalysis, Spontaneous Thought, and Free Associa tion in Psychoanalysis and relation to Neuroscience Contributions, and T reatment Resistant Depression and Early Life Trauma, Response to psychoa nalytic/psychodynamic treatment, psychodevelopmental and neurobiologic r oots of somatization, embodiment and eating disorders. He is in private practice of Adult and Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Newport Bea ch. \n\nThomas M. Brod MD, Coordinator of the NCP Manifest Mind Series, is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has been an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA G effen School of Medicine. He is a senior faculty member at NCP, the co-c oordinator of the Film and Mind Series, and is psychoanalyst in private practice.\n\n-- Recording: --\n\nThis presentation will be recorded for NCP use only.\n\n--   --\n\n-- CE/CME Credits: 7.5 --\n\n \n\n-- CONTI NUING EDUCATION CREDIT --\n\nPHYSICIANS: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and p olicies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (A CCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Associat ion and the New Center for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic A ssociation is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical educ ation for physicians.\n\nThe American Psychoanalytic Association designa tes this live activity for a maximum of 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the exten t of their participation in the activity.\n\nThe APsA CE Committee has r eviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determ ined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in S tandard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercia l support.\n\nPSYCHOLOGISTS: The New Center for Psychoanalysis is appro ved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing educ ation for psychologists. The New Center for Psychoanalysis maintains re sponsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists must report CE credits directly to MCEP using this document to verify attendance. P lease note that a psychologist must attend the CE program in its entiret y in order to receive credit.  \n\nSOCIAL 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 th e California Board of Behavioral Sciences (see 16 CCR section 1887.4.0 f or General CE Course Content Requirements). Acceptance of the CE credits for this activity is at the discretion of the licensing board.\n \n\nP lease complete all registration pages until you come to the final "Rec eipt" page to ensure the confirmation email with the meeting details is sent to you.\n\nPlease contact Byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have trouble regis tering. \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-2736-@n-c-p.org DTSTAMP:20260606T193444 DTSTART:20250108T193000 DTEND:20250108T210000 SUMMARY:Prep Course for Mark Solms: Source of Consciousness DESCRIPTION:Due to members affected by the fires, the January 8 study gr oup has been postponed to January 29. Thank you for your understanding.  \n\n*** This course is at capacity. Registration is closed. ***\n\n-- P LEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION: --\n\n* Pre-registration is required. This is a five-session course. Registration is only avail able for all five sessions. \n\n* Each session will be held on the Wedne sday evenings as detailed below, from 7:30-9 pm Pacific Time.\n\n* This course is limited to 25 participants.\n\n* This course will be presente d via Zoom only. \n\n* CE/CME is offered for this course as a whole. Yo u must "sign in" and "sign out" by typing your name in the Chat during t he Zoom meeting to receive credit. See below for full details regarding CE credit.\n\n* You will receive confirmation and details by email. Con tact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.\n\nMark Solms, neuro scientist and psychoanalyst, has substantially altered contemporary unde rstanding of both Consciousness and Self-Experience. Solms is a clear an d personable writer, but his understanding draws on science largely unfa miliar to psychotherapists.  \n\nIn preparation for his appearance at next May’s NCP Manifest Mind conference, we are offering an introducto ry course (5 monthly sessions over Zoom) in which we will study Solms’ important 2021 book: The Hidden Spring.  The final session will review a recent paper by Dana Sawyer, who will also be presenting at the May 2 025 Manifest Mind Conference.\n\nThe following is a partial list of the topics and concepts to be covered in this course.  \n\n* Affect is the fundamental form of consciousness;\n\n* Feeling by an organism of fluct uations in its own needs enables choice and thereby supports survival in unpredicted contexts. This is the biological function of experience;\n\ n* Consciousness is seated in the midbrain, not the Cortex;\n\n* The cer ebral cortex provides context, “memory of the future”, to consciousn ess;\n\n* Consciousness is part of nature and it is mathematically tract able;\n\n* Perception is applied uncertainty; \n\n* Action is an ongoin g process of hypothesis-testing and error correction;\n\n* Affect is an extended form of homeostasis, bringing choice into LIFE’s fight agains t ENTROPY;\n\n* Affect hedonically valences biological needs… Each cat egory of need—of which there is a great variety—has an affective qua lity of its own;\n\n* Needs cannot all be felt at once.  They are prior itized in midbrain and ranked on a “saliency map”.  The actions tha t are generated by prioritized affects are voluntary, which means they a re subject to here-and-now choices rather than pre-established algorithm s;\n\n* All mammals share midbrain seated MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEMS described by Jaak Panksepp;\n\n* The default drive (when all goes well) is SEEKIN G—proactive engagement with uncertainty, with the aim of resolving unc ertainty in advance.  When this affect is prioritized, it is felt as cu riosity and interest in the world.\n\n-- *Course is limited to 25 partic ipants and will be held over Zoom only.* --\n\n-- Course Sessions & Lear ning Objectives: --\n\nRegarding Session Learning Objectives (below): Th ese objectives aim to connect Solms' work in "The Hidden Spring" to prac tical applications in psychodynamic education and clinical practice, foc using on its relevance to psychiatry, neurology, and psychoanalysis. The y encourage learners to critically engage with the material and consider its implications for patient care and clinical decision-making.\n\n-- S ESSION 1 - Oct. 9, 2024 --\n\nTopic:   Feelings\n\nReading:  Chapters 1-6 (to page 148)\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Explain the role of the brainstem in generating consciousness, emotions, and the core of self- experience;\n\n* List the seven Panksepp motivational systems that defin e mammalian behavior; \n\n-- SESSION 2 - Nov. 13, 2024 --\n\nTopic:   Friston Free Energy\n\nReading:  Chapters 7-8 (pages 148-189)\n\nLearni ng Objectives: \n\n* Define the terms “Friston Free Energy” and “ predictive priors”;\n\n* Explain the importance of the terms “Fristo n Free Energy” and “predictive priors” to neuro-psychoanalytic ana lysis of brain function;\n\n-- SESSION 3 - Jan. 8, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Consciousness\n\nReading:  Chapters 9-10 (pages 190-237)\n\nLearning Ob jectives: \n\n* Describe the key neurobiological mechanisms underlying consciousness as presented by Solms, and their implications promoting ad aptive, creative, and pathological behavioral consequences;\n\n* Analyze the relationship between affect and consciousness outlined in "The Hidd en Spring" to understand the demands on the mind for action; \n\n* Summ arize Solms' critique of consciousness as a cerebral cortex function;\n\ n-- SESSION 4 - Feb. 12, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Mind\n\nReading:  Chapter s 11+post (pages 238-305)\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Explain how Sol ms' integration of psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscience can be appl ied to improve psychodynamic formulations in psychiatric evaluations;\n\ n* Discuss the psychological importance of Solms’ characterization of the function of the Cortex is to provide “memory of the future”;\n\n -- SESSION 5 - Mar. 12, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Perennial Philosophy in rel ation to Solms work and topics presented in Manifest Mind \n\nReading:   Sawyer, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misu nderstandings of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Huma nistic Psychology, 64(4), 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167821102 4399\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Discuss the ethical implications of Solms' views on consciousness and free will in the context of psychother apeutic process and change, particularly regarding patient autonomy and informed consent;\n\n* Prepare a case presentation that integrates Solms ' neuropsychoanalytic approach emphasizing the seven drives studied by P anksepp with traditional psychodynamic assessment, demonstrating its pot ential to enhance clinical understanding of motivational systems. \n\n- - Course Readings: --\n\nSolms, M. (2022). The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness. National Geographic Books.\n\nSawyer, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misunderstanding s of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Humanistic Psych ology, 64(4), 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211024399\n\n-- F aculty: --\n\nBarton J. Blinder MD, PhD, is an active member of the NPC Senior Faculty in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis and a past Chair of th e NPC Research Committee. He is an active member of APsA and IPA and a D istinguished Life Fellow of APA and AAPAC. He is a Clinical Professor an d past Director of Eating Disorder Treatment Research at UC Irvine and a dditionally on the teaching faculty at the University of Washington and USC. At APA, in addition to leadership, Dr. Blinder participated in the establishment of Practice Guidelines, Commission and Caucus on Psychothe rapy in Psychiatry, and editing a major text on Integrating Psychotherap y and Pharmacotherapy. His active research interests include Autobiograp hical memory, Neuropsychoanalysis, Spontaneous Thought, and Free Associa tion in Psychoanalysis and relation to Neuroscience Contributions, and T reatment Resistant Depression and Early Life Trauma, Response to psychoa nalytic/psychodynamic treatment, psychodevelopmental and neurobiologic r oots of somatization, embodiment and eating disorders. He is in private practice of Adult and Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Newport Bea ch. \n\nThomas M. Brod MD, Coordinator of the NCP Manifest Mind Series, is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has been an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA G effen School of Medicine. He is a senior faculty member at NCP, the co-c oordinator of the Film and Mind Series, and is psychoanalyst in private practice.\n\n-- Recording: --\n\nThis presentation will be recorded for NCP use only.\n\n--   --\n\n-- CE/CME Credits: 7.5 --\n\n \n\n-- CONTI NUING EDUCATION CREDIT --\n\nPHYSICIANS: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and p olicies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (A CCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Associat ion and the New Center for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic A ssociation is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical educ ation for physicians.\n\nThe American Psychoanalytic Association designa tes this live activity for a maximum of 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the exten t of their participation in the activity.\n\nThe APsA CE Committee has r eviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determ ined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in S tandard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercia l support.\n\nPSYCHOLOGISTS: The New Center for Psychoanalysis is appro ved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing educ ation for psychologists. The New Center for Psychoanalysis maintains re sponsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists must report CE credits directly to MCEP using this document to verify attendance. P lease note that a psychologist must attend the CE program in its entiret y in order to receive credit.  \n\nSOCIAL 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 th e California Board of Behavioral Sciences (see 16 CCR section 1887.4.0 f or General CE Course Content Requirements). Acceptance of the CE credits for this activity is at the discretion of the licensing board.\n \n\nP lease complete all registration pages until you come to the final "Rec eipt" page to ensure the confirmation email with the meeting details is sent to you.\n\nPlease contact Byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have trouble regis tering. \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-2736-@n-c-p.org DTSTAMP:20260606T193444 DTSTART:20250212T193000 DTEND:20250212T210000 SUMMARY:Prep Course for Mark Solms: Source of Consciousness DESCRIPTION:Due to members affected by the fires, the January 8 study gr oup has been postponed to January 29. Thank you for your understanding.  \n\n*** This course is at capacity. Registration is closed. ***\n\n-- P LEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION: --\n\n* Pre-registration is required. This is a five-session course. Registration is only avail able for all five sessions. \n\n* Each session will be held on the Wedne sday evenings as detailed below, from 7:30-9 pm Pacific Time.\n\n* This course is limited to 25 participants.\n\n* This course will be presente d via Zoom only. \n\n* CE/CME is offered for this course as a whole. Yo u must "sign in" and "sign out" by typing your name in the Chat during t he Zoom meeting to receive credit. See below for full details regarding CE credit.\n\n* You will receive confirmation and details by email. Con tact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.\n\nMark Solms, neuro scientist and psychoanalyst, has substantially altered contemporary unde rstanding of both Consciousness and Self-Experience. Solms is a clear an d personable writer, but his understanding draws on science largely unfa miliar to psychotherapists.  \n\nIn preparation for his appearance at next May’s NCP Manifest Mind conference, we are offering an introducto ry course (5 monthly sessions over Zoom) in which we will study Solms’ important 2021 book: The Hidden Spring.  The final session will review a recent paper by Dana Sawyer, who will also be presenting at the May 2 025 Manifest Mind Conference.\n\nThe following is a partial list of the topics and concepts to be covered in this course.  \n\n* Affect is the fundamental form of consciousness;\n\n* Feeling by an organism of fluct uations in its own needs enables choice and thereby supports survival in unpredicted contexts. This is the biological function of experience;\n\ n* Consciousness is seated in the midbrain, not the Cortex;\n\n* The cer ebral cortex provides context, “memory of the future”, to consciousn ess;\n\n* Consciousness is part of nature and it is mathematically tract able;\n\n* Perception is applied uncertainty; \n\n* Action is an ongoin g process of hypothesis-testing and error correction;\n\n* Affect is an extended form of homeostasis, bringing choice into LIFE’s fight agains t ENTROPY;\n\n* Affect hedonically valences biological needs… Each cat egory of need—of which there is a great variety—has an affective qua lity of its own;\n\n* Needs cannot all be felt at once.  They are prior itized in midbrain and ranked on a “saliency map”.  The actions tha t are generated by prioritized affects are voluntary, which means they a re subject to here-and-now choices rather than pre-established algorithm s;\n\n* All mammals share midbrain seated MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEMS described by Jaak Panksepp;\n\n* The default drive (when all goes well) is SEEKIN G—proactive engagement with uncertainty, with the aim of resolving unc ertainty in advance.  When this affect is prioritized, it is felt as cu riosity and interest in the world.\n\n-- *Course is limited to 25 partic ipants and will be held over Zoom only.* --\n\n-- Course Sessions & Lear ning Objectives: --\n\nRegarding Session Learning Objectives (below): Th ese objectives aim to connect Solms' work in "The Hidden Spring" to prac tical applications in psychodynamic education and clinical practice, foc using on its relevance to psychiatry, neurology, and psychoanalysis. The y encourage learners to critically engage with the material and consider its implications for patient care and clinical decision-making.\n\n-- S ESSION 1 - Oct. 9, 2024 --\n\nTopic:   Feelings\n\nReading:  Chapters 1-6 (to page 148)\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Explain the role of the brainstem in generating consciousness, emotions, and the core of self- experience;\n\n* List the seven Panksepp motivational systems that defin e mammalian behavior; \n\n-- SESSION 2 - Nov. 13, 2024 --\n\nTopic:   Friston Free Energy\n\nReading:  Chapters 7-8 (pages 148-189)\n\nLearni ng Objectives: \n\n* Define the terms “Friston Free Energy” and “ predictive priors”;\n\n* Explain the importance of the terms “Fristo n Free Energy” and “predictive priors” to neuro-psychoanalytic ana lysis of brain function;\n\n-- SESSION 3 - Jan. 8, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Consciousness\n\nReading:  Chapters 9-10 (pages 190-237)\n\nLearning Ob jectives: \n\n* Describe the key neurobiological mechanisms underlying consciousness as presented by Solms, and their implications promoting ad aptive, creative, and pathological behavioral consequences;\n\n* Analyze the relationship between affect and consciousness outlined in "The Hidd en Spring" to understand the demands on the mind for action; \n\n* Summ arize Solms' critique of consciousness as a cerebral cortex function;\n\ n-- SESSION 4 - Feb. 12, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Mind\n\nReading:  Chapter s 11+post (pages 238-305)\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Explain how Sol ms' integration of psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscience can be appl ied to improve psychodynamic formulations in psychiatric evaluations;\n\ n* Discuss the psychological importance of Solms’ characterization of the function of the Cortex is to provide “memory of the future”;\n\n -- SESSION 5 - Mar. 12, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Perennial Philosophy in rel ation to Solms work and topics presented in Manifest Mind \n\nReading:   Sawyer, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misu nderstandings of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Huma nistic Psychology, 64(4), 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167821102 4399\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Discuss the ethical implications of Solms' views on consciousness and free will in the context of psychother apeutic process and change, particularly regarding patient autonomy and informed consent;\n\n* Prepare a case presentation that integrates Solms ' neuropsychoanalytic approach emphasizing the seven drives studied by P anksepp with traditional psychodynamic assessment, demonstrating its pot ential to enhance clinical understanding of motivational systems. \n\n- - Course Readings: --\n\nSolms, M. (2022). The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness. National Geographic Books.\n\nSawyer, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misunderstanding s of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Humanistic Psych ology, 64(4), 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211024399\n\n-- F aculty: --\n\nBarton J. Blinder MD, PhD, is an active member of the NPC Senior Faculty in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis and a past Chair of th e NPC Research Committee. He is an active member of APsA and IPA and a D istinguished Life Fellow of APA and AAPAC. He is a Clinical Professor an d past Director of Eating Disorder Treatment Research at UC Irvine and a dditionally on the teaching faculty at the University of Washington and USC. At APA, in addition to leadership, Dr. Blinder participated in the establishment of Practice Guidelines, Commission and Caucus on Psychothe rapy in Psychiatry, and editing a major text on Integrating Psychotherap y and Pharmacotherapy. His active research interests include Autobiograp hical memory, Neuropsychoanalysis, Spontaneous Thought, and Free Associa tion in Psychoanalysis and relation to Neuroscience Contributions, and T reatment Resistant Depression and Early Life Trauma, Response to psychoa nalytic/psychodynamic treatment, psychodevelopmental and neurobiologic r oots of somatization, embodiment and eating disorders. He is in private practice of Adult and Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Newport Bea ch. \n\nThomas M. Brod MD, Coordinator of the NCP Manifest Mind Series, is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has been an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA G effen School of Medicine. He is a senior faculty member at NCP, the co-c oordinator of the Film and Mind Series, and is psychoanalyst in private practice.\n\n-- Recording: --\n\nThis presentation will be recorded for NCP use only.\n\n--   --\n\n-- CE/CME Credits: 7.5 --\n\n \n\n-- CONTI NUING EDUCATION CREDIT --\n\nPHYSICIANS: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and p olicies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (A CCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Associat ion and the New Center for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic A ssociation is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical educ ation for physicians.\n\nThe American Psychoanalytic Association designa tes this live activity for a maximum of 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the exten t of their participation in the activity.\n\nThe APsA CE Committee has r eviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determ ined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in S tandard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercia l support.\n\nPSYCHOLOGISTS: The New Center for Psychoanalysis is appro ved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing educ ation for psychologists. The New Center for Psychoanalysis maintains re sponsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists must report CE credits directly to MCEP using this document to verify attendance. P lease note that a psychologist must attend the CE program in its entiret y in order to receive credit.  \n\nSOCIAL 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 th e California Board of Behavioral Sciences (see 16 CCR section 1887.4.0 f or General CE Course Content Requirements). Acceptance of the CE credits for this activity is at the discretion of the licensing board.\n \n\nP lease complete all registration pages until you come to the final "Rec eipt" page to ensure the confirmation email with the meeting details is sent to you.\n\nPlease contact Byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have trouble regis tering. \n END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:ExSite-EvtCal-2736-@n-c-p.org DTSTAMP:20260606T193444 DTSTART:20250312T193000 DTEND:20250312T210000 SUMMARY:Prep Course for Mark Solms: Source of Consciousness DESCRIPTION:Due to members affected by the fires, the January 8 study gr oup has been postponed to January 29. Thank you for your understanding.  \n\n*** This course is at capacity. Registration is closed. ***\n\n-- P LEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION: --\n\n* Pre-registration is required. This is a five-session course. Registration is only avail able for all five sessions. \n\n* Each session will be held on the Wedne sday evenings as detailed below, from 7:30-9 pm Pacific Time.\n\n* This course is limited to 25 participants.\n\n* This course will be presente d via Zoom only. \n\n* CE/CME is offered for this course as a whole. Yo u must "sign in" and "sign out" by typing your name in the Chat during t he Zoom meeting to receive credit. See below for full details regarding CE credit.\n\n* You will receive confirmation and details by email. Con tact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.\n\nMark Solms, neuro scientist and psychoanalyst, has substantially altered contemporary unde rstanding of both Consciousness and Self-Experience. Solms is a clear an d personable writer, but his understanding draws on science largely unfa miliar to psychotherapists.  \n\nIn preparation for his appearance at next May’s NCP Manifest Mind conference, we are offering an introducto ry course (5 monthly sessions over Zoom) in which we will study Solms’ important 2021 book: The Hidden Spring.  The final session will review a recent paper by Dana Sawyer, who will also be presenting at the May 2 025 Manifest Mind Conference.\n\nThe following is a partial list of the topics and concepts to be covered in this course.  \n\n* Affect is the fundamental form of consciousness;\n\n* Feeling by an organism of fluct uations in its own needs enables choice and thereby supports survival in unpredicted contexts. This is the biological function of experience;\n\ n* Consciousness is seated in the midbrain, not the Cortex;\n\n* The cer ebral cortex provides context, “memory of the future”, to consciousn ess;\n\n* Consciousness is part of nature and it is mathematically tract able;\n\n* Perception is applied uncertainty; \n\n* Action is an ongoin g process of hypothesis-testing and error correction;\n\n* Affect is an extended form of homeostasis, bringing choice into LIFE’s fight agains t ENTROPY;\n\n* Affect hedonically valences biological needs… Each cat egory of need—of which there is a great variety—has an affective qua lity of its own;\n\n* Needs cannot all be felt at once.  They are prior itized in midbrain and ranked on a “saliency map”.  The actions tha t are generated by prioritized affects are voluntary, which means they a re subject to here-and-now choices rather than pre-established algorithm s;\n\n* All mammals share midbrain seated MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEMS described by Jaak Panksepp;\n\n* The default drive (when all goes well) is SEEKIN G—proactive engagement with uncertainty, with the aim of resolving unc ertainty in advance.  When this affect is prioritized, it is felt as cu riosity and interest in the world.\n\n-- *Course is limited to 25 partic ipants and will be held over Zoom only.* --\n\n-- Course Sessions & Lear ning Objectives: --\n\nRegarding Session Learning Objectives (below): Th ese objectives aim to connect Solms' work in "The Hidden Spring" to prac tical applications in psychodynamic education and clinical practice, foc using on its relevance to psychiatry, neurology, and psychoanalysis. The y encourage learners to critically engage with the material and consider its implications for patient care and clinical decision-making.\n\n-- S ESSION 1 - Oct. 9, 2024 --\n\nTopic:   Feelings\n\nReading:  Chapters 1-6 (to page 148)\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Explain the role of the brainstem in generating consciousness, emotions, and the core of self- experience;\n\n* List the seven Panksepp motivational systems that defin e mammalian behavior; \n\n-- SESSION 2 - Nov. 13, 2024 --\n\nTopic:   Friston Free Energy\n\nReading:  Chapters 7-8 (pages 148-189)\n\nLearni ng Objectives: \n\n* Define the terms “Friston Free Energy” and “ predictive priors”;\n\n* Explain the importance of the terms “Fristo n Free Energy” and “predictive priors” to neuro-psychoanalytic ana lysis of brain function;\n\n-- SESSION 3 - Jan. 8, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Consciousness\n\nReading:  Chapters 9-10 (pages 190-237)\n\nLearning Ob jectives: \n\n* Describe the key neurobiological mechanisms underlying consciousness as presented by Solms, and their implications promoting ad aptive, creative, and pathological behavioral consequences;\n\n* Analyze the relationship between affect and consciousness outlined in "The Hidd en Spring" to understand the demands on the mind for action; \n\n* Summ arize Solms' critique of consciousness as a cerebral cortex function;\n\ n-- SESSION 4 - Feb. 12, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Mind\n\nReading:  Chapter s 11+post (pages 238-305)\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Explain how Sol ms' integration of psychoanalytic concepts with neuroscience can be appl ied to improve psychodynamic formulations in psychiatric evaluations;\n\ n* Discuss the psychological importance of Solms’ characterization of the function of the Cortex is to provide “memory of the future”;\n\n -- SESSION 5 - Mar. 12, 2025 --\n\nTopic:   Perennial Philosophy in rel ation to Solms work and topics presented in Manifest Mind \n\nReading:   Sawyer, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misu nderstandings of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Huma nistic Psychology, 64(4), 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167821102 4399\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n* Discuss the ethical implications of Solms' views on consciousness and free will in the context of psychother apeutic process and change, particularly regarding patient autonomy and informed consent;\n\n* Prepare a case presentation that integrates Solms ' neuropsychoanalytic approach emphasizing the seven drives studied by P anksepp with traditional psychodynamic assessment, demonstrating its pot ential to enhance clinical understanding of motivational systems. \n\n- - Course Readings: --\n\nSolms, M. (2022). The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness. National Geographic Books.\n\nSawyer, D. W. (2024). Redressing a Straw Man: Correcting Critical Misunderstanding s of Aldous Huxley’s Perennial Philosophy. Journal of Humanistic Psych ology, 64(4), 535-563. https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678211024399\n\n-- F aculty: --\n\nBarton J. Blinder MD, PhD, is an active member of the NPC Senior Faculty in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis and a past Chair of th e NPC Research Committee. He is an active member of APsA and IPA and a D istinguished Life Fellow of APA and AAPAC. He is a Clinical Professor an d past Director of Eating Disorder Treatment Research at UC Irvine and a dditionally on the teaching faculty at the University of Washington and USC. At APA, in addition to leadership, Dr. Blinder participated in the establishment of Practice Guidelines, Commission and Caucus on Psychothe rapy in Psychiatry, and editing a major text on Integrating Psychotherap y and Pharmacotherapy. His active research interests include Autobiograp hical memory, Neuropsychoanalysis, Spontaneous Thought, and Free Associa tion in Psychoanalysis and relation to Neuroscience Contributions, and T reatment Resistant Depression and Early Life Trauma, Response to psychoa nalytic/psychodynamic treatment, psychodevelopmental and neurobiologic r oots of somatization, embodiment and eating disorders. He is in private practice of Adult and Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Newport Bea ch. \n\nThomas M. Brod MD, Coordinator of the NCP Manifest Mind Series, is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and has been an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA G effen School of Medicine. He is a senior faculty member at NCP, the co-c oordinator of the Film and Mind Series, and is psychoanalyst in private practice.\n\n-- Recording: --\n\nThis presentation will be recorded for NCP use only.\n\n--   --\n\n-- CE/CME Credits: 7.5 --\n\n \n\n-- CONTI NUING EDUCATION CREDIT --\n\nPHYSICIANS: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and p olicies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (A CCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Associat ion and the New Center for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic A ssociation is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical educ ation for physicians.\n\nThe American Psychoanalytic Association designa tes this live activity for a maximum of 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the exten t of their participation in the activity.\n\nThe APsA CE Committee has r eviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determ ined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in S tandard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercia l support.\n\nPSYCHOLOGISTS: The New Center for Psychoanalysis is appro ved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing educ ation for psychologists. The New Center for Psychoanalysis maintains re sponsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists must report CE credits directly to MCEP using this document to verify attendance. P lease note that a psychologist must attend the CE program in its entiret y in order to receive credit.  \n\nSOCIAL 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 th e California Board of Behavioral Sciences (see 16 CCR section 1887.4.0 f or General CE Course Content Requirements). Acceptance of the CE credits for this activity is at the discretion of the licensing board.\n \n\nP lease complete all registration pages until you come to the final "Rec eipt" page to ensure the confirmation email with the meeting details is sent to you.\n\nPlease contact Byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have trouble regis tering. \n END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR