Film & Mind: Mickey 17
**PACIFIC TIME** : May 29, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 PM
*** Registration will close at 4:30 PM the day of the event. No registrations are possible after this time, no exceptions. *** See our Policy page for more info.
PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- You will receive confirmation and details by email. Contact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.
- The program presentation runs from 8 PM to 9:30 PM
- This program is being presented Online Only.
- A signature is required (in the meeting Chat) for CE/CME Credit.
- 1.5 CE/CME credits are offered for this program.
Bong Joon Ho’s 2025 black comedy, the follow-up film to his 2020 multi-Oscar winner Parasite, follows Mickey Barnes, an “expendable” worker on a space colonization mission. Mickey is cloned and regenerated each time he dies. The film explores identity, self-worth, class inequality, dehumanization in capitalism, and what constitutes personhood when multiple versions of the same individual coexist. The film offers a deep space voyage framed by time, desire, and the unconscious, where beauty finds ways to still yet thrive in the face of obscene social authority.
Where to watch
HBO Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video (subscriptions), Apple TV, Fandango at Home and others
Schedule:
*** All times listed are Pacific Time (PT) ***
Discussion (on Zoom): 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM - We will hear from our discussants and explore the film together.
We will not watch the film together prior to the discussion. Participants should watch the film beforehand or begin screening on their own before 6:15 pm PT.
Learning Objectives:
As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
- Explain the psychodynamic significance of different self-states in relation to the unconscious and time.
- Discuss Freud’s concept of the unconscious and its non-recognition of time, and how, in Lacanian terms, this misrecognition gives rise to desire.
Program Coordinators:
Thomas Brod, MD, Apurva Shah, MD and Mary Starks, MA, LPCC
Discussants:
Seth Alt, PhD is an independent cultural theorist and interdisciplinary researcher who explores intersections between museums, digital technology, and audience studies. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University, with a dissertation titled, “The Pervert’s Guide to the Museum.” Seth is a guest reviewer for the journal Psychoanalysis Culture and Society, and in 2026 will additionally be published with Oxford University Press inside their forthcoming volume, Videogames For Mental Health. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Seth has curatorial and archival experience from working for both The Autry Museum of the American West and the California Botanic Garden. He is a member and a past delegate of the California Forum of the Lacanian Field— the west coast anglophone chapter of the international school of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Paris.
Gerald Perman, MD, distinguished psychodynamic psychiatrist, is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at George Washington University, Washington DC. He is a member of the DC Lacanian Forum, past president of the American Academy of Psychodynamic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis, editor of Capital Psychiatry (www.dcpsych.org), and has a telepsychiatry practice in Beverly Hills.
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
"How do I get my CE/CME Credit?"
- Pre-Register below
- If you are registering for the first time you will receive a welcome email. You must follow the directions in this email to complete your registration in order to access your certificates.
- "Sign" in and "sign" out during the event (by typing your full name into the chat). This is how we record your attendance at the event.
- Wait 10 business days.
- Download your Certificate on the NCP website.
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.