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

• Discuss psychoanalytic concepts of guilt, disavowal, denial and dissociation as exemplified in The Headless Woman.
• Explain the complex psychodynamics in which personal and societal Trauma affect personal and culture-wide responsibility, remembering and forgetting the past. 

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

Discussants:

Jorgelina Corbatta was born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina where she studies and graduated as Licenciada and Professor in Philosophy and Letters (Universidad Nacional del Sur). She also has a Master and Ph.D. in Hispanic Literatures (University of Pittsburgh) and is an Academic Analyst (Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute). Emerita Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture and ex-Director of Women Studies at Wayne State University, and Academic Associate Faculty at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, she has taught courses on Contemporary Narrative and Film, Latin America Literature, Women’s and Cultural Studies, Literature and Psychoanalysis at universities in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, US, Sweden, France, Belgium, Austria, and Spain. In 2004 she received a Research/Teaching Fulbright Award (Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia). She has seven books on literary/film criticism – on sociology of literature, on the narratives of the Dirty War, on Feminism and Women Writers in Latin America, on Juan José Saer, on Jorge Luis Borges, on Manuel Puig, published in Spain and Argentina. Her latest book and first in English, is Psychoanalysis and Narrative. Literature, Film and Autobiography by Routledge (2024). She has also published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed Journals and is currently looking for a publisher for her Spanish manuscript on “Auto-fiction/ Psychoanalysis and Intertextuality”.  In 2017 she received the IPA/IPSO International Psychoanalytic Award for her paper “The Quest for, and the Denial of, Intimacy in Luisa Valenzuela’s Dark Desires and the Others. Diaries of New York (IPA/Buenos Aires, July 2017). In addition, she has received several awards for teaching, directing graduate students and conducting research at Wayne State University. She is currently writing her autobiography and continue writing essays on literature and film through a psychoanalytic lens.

Gerard Sobnosky, LMFT is in private practice in Manhattan Beach and Rolling Hills Estates, CA. He is an advanced Clinical Associate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, and a member of the Education Committee. He is active in the
International Psychoanalytic Association, and the American Psychoanalytic Association, where he serves on the American Psychoanalytic Foundation, and as Treasurer of the Candidates Council. He teaches dream analysis workshops for clinicians, leads psychoanalytic therapy process groups, and teaches Chinese therapists as part of the Chinese-American Psychoanalytic Alliance, and is also a recording artist with his rockabilly trio Those Sunsabillys.

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

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 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 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.