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

• Explain the meaning of phallic/castrative symbology in a patient's clinical material; connect such material with fear of death/shame/guilt/quest for vengeance.
• Describe at least two pathways by which repressed shame and guilt re-emerge.
• Analyze how the tonicity and intervals and the rhythmic structure of the score evoke emotional reactions and a general mood within segments of the film. 

Program Coordinators:

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

Discussants:

Alex Lewin, LMFT is an advanced candidate in the adult psychoanalytic training program at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. He has a private practice in Los Angeles, where he sees many artists and creative professionals, as well as adolescents, families, and couples. Alex holds an MA in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and an MFA in Playwriting from the University of California at San Diego.

Andrei Novac, MD is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Irvine and a recent graduate of the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. His main subjects of expertise are: Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma; Neuropsychoanalysis; Free Association; Identity Narrative and Autobiographical Memory; and Emotional Synchrony. He is the author of over 50 scientific papers in peer reviewed journals and book chapters and has lectured on these topics internationally. He has also published four books of poetry.

Soprano Bonita (Bonnie) Jaros, PhD has an extensive background in the areas of classical and traditional music and Linguistics, and holds three Master of Arts degrees and a PhD in Ethnomusicology. She trained at the Juilliard School of Music, Cornell University and Claremont Graduate University. Bonnie has been a featured soloist with the Oratorio Society of New York, the Bronx Opera, The Theatre Ballet of San Francisco, The Long Beach Opera Guild, The Huntington Beach Library Concert Series, The Orange County Philharmonic Society, The Barclay Theater, UCLA, the Skirball Cultural Center, and the Laguna Beach Chamber Singers, where she also served as language coach. She also sang with Pacific Chorale for eight years and served as the language coach for Chichester Psalms. Bonnie has appeared on television and radio programs as well as YouTube with Pacific Chorale and the Laguna Beach Chamber Singers. She has three CDs out: Songs of the Sephardim: A Medieval View of Judeo-Spanish Song on Titanic Records; Kantigas de mi Chikés (Songs of my Childhood) on Hatikvah Music Publications; and Kaddish: Voices from the Holocaust on ProQuest Publishers. Founder and Artistic Director of Los Tanyaderos Ensemble, a group dedicated to preserving the music of endangered cultures, Bonnie has lectured and concertized throughout the United States and abroad at many international arts organizations and professional associations. While Professor of Linguistics at Santa Ana College, she received many honors, including the Distinguished Faculty Award, the Professional Achievement Award, the Publications Award, and the Community College League of California Vision Award. Now retired, Bonnie coaches languages and musicianship for singers, privately in her studio, The Studio Bonita, and serves as language coach for Southern California Children’s Chorus.

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.