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

• Summarize how psychodynamic aspects of identity (political beliefs, personal history and relationships) are influenced by the stress of assumed identity and loss of community through ego fragmentation, true and false self dichotomies and restoration of coherent narrative. 
• Discuss generational transmission of parental hypervigilance, family secrets and chronic fear states in children who have not directly experienced social persecution. 
• Explain the difference between symptoms arising from individual trauma history versus those stemming from group identification and collective loss.

Program Coordinators:

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

Discussants:

David James (Jimmy) Fisher, PhD is a Research Psychoanalyst with a background in European cultural and intellectual history, specializing in the history of psychoanalysis, the convergence of cultural history and critical theory with psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic applications to politics, movies, literature, and works of art. He currently serves on the NCP Board of Directors representing the Research Psychoanalyst’s Committee. He is a Senior Faculty Member at NCP and a TA/SA at ICP. His new book, The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis, appeared in January 2025 with Routledge. 

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 75 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 received 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). 

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.