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SUMMARY:A Psychoanalytic Town Hall: Controversial Issues in the 2024 Elec
 tion
DESCRIPTION: \n\nAll times listed are in Pacific Time (PT) unless otherw
 ise noted.\n\nPLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION:\n\n* This 
 program is being presented in person only at NCP.\n\n* Pre-registration
  is required. You will receive confirmation and details by email.\n\n* 
 The program presentation is from 1:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.\n\n* 2 CE/CME c
 redits are offered for this program.\n\n* Signature is required for CE/C
 ME Credit.\n\n* Contact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions. \
 n\n-- LAISPS AND NCP PRESENT: --\n\n-- A PSYCHOANALYTIC TOWN HALL: --\n\
 n-- CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES IN THE 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION  --\n\n \n\
 nPANEL OF PSYCHOANALYSTS: Michael Diamond, PhD, David James Fisher, PhD,
  Mark Fisher, MD, Debra Myers, MD, Peter Wolson, PhD\n\nTown Hall Modera
 tor: Peter Wolson, PhD\n\nOn the cusp of this hotly contested presidenti
 al elections with radical differences between the party platforms and ca
 ndidates and American democracy in question, Dr. Wolson will moderate a 
 Town Hall discussion of the most pressing, controversial issues, from a 
 psychoanalytic perspective. This forum provides an opportunity for menta
 l health practitioners to express their opinions about the election as w
 ell as a professional space to analyze the unconscious psychodynamics em
 bedded in the issues and affecting the candidates. Dr. Wolson and a dist
 inguished panel of psychoanalysts will speculate about the psychodynamic
  trends that emerge from the discussion. Participants of every political
  persuasion are encouraged to attend. \n\nThe presenters along with the
  audience will actively participate in a discussion, moving from opinion
 s, feelings and beliefs to a more objective state with greater understan
 ding of psychodynamic implications. The purpose of this workshop is to r
 aise awareness about “the political issues” and how it impacts us as
  professionals, as well as our client population. The program will aid t
 he clinician in identifying and addressing the psychodynamic mechanisms 
 underlying current political issues and parties, helping us with our cli
 ents and our own countertransference issues that may be evoked in the cl
 inical setting.\n\n-- Learning Objectives:  --\n\n* Demonstrate percept
 ion of unconscious psychodynamic conflicts between Republicans and Democ
 rats that can enhance clinical awareness of these issues.\n\n* Describe 
 the psychodynamic motivations for racism that can be applied to clinical
  practice.\n\n* Explain the psycho-dynamics of populism that lead to aut
 horitarianism and political cults, to help understand patient responses 
 to these issues.\n\n* Delineate the neuropsychological assessment of pol
 itical leaders and how this may inform a neuropsychoanalytic foundation 
 for understanding Presidential electoral campaigns.\n\n* Demonstrate how
  the history of political dynamics can enhance clinical perspectives.\n\
 n* Demonstrate how the manifest content of political opinions/issues can
  be analyzed to discern unconscious dynamics.\n\n-----------------------
 -------------------------------------------------\n\n-- PRESENTERS: --\n
 \nMichael Diamond, PhD, FIPA is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Los 
 Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. He has authore
 d over ninety articles and chapters in the areas of masculinity, feminin
 ity, and gender theory; fathering and the paternal function; psychoanaly
 tic technique and the analytic mind; trauma and dissociation; hypnosis a
 nd altered states; and group processes and social action including the j
 ust published article in Psychoanalytic Inquiry’s special issue on “
 Perspectives on Populist and Fascistic States of Mind.”  In addition,
  he has authored five books including Ruptures in the American Psyche: C
 ontaining Destructive Populism in Perilous Times; Masculinity and Its Di
 scontents: The Male Psyche and the Inherent Tensions of Maturing Manhood
 ; My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Through
 out Their Lives; and The Second Century of Psychoanalysis: Evolving Pers
 pectives on Therapeutic Action.  He is widely known for his national an
 d international presentations and maintains a private practice in Los A
 ngeles, while remaining active in teaching, supervising, and writing.\n\
 nDavid James Fisher, PhD has been practicing psychoanalysis and psychoth
 erapy for thirty-seven years. He is a Senior Faculty Member at NCP and a
  Training and Supervising Analyst at ICP. Dr. Fisher is the author of th
 ree books: Bettelheim: Living and Dying; Cultural Theory and Psychoanaly
 tic Tradition; and Romain Rolland and the Politics of Intellectual Engag
 ement. He specializes in the history of psychoanalysis, the convergence 
 of ideological, political, and psychoanalytic methods of inquiry, and in
  psychoanalytic cultural criticism. With a doctorate in European Cultura
 l and Intellectual History, he brings an historical and critical perspec
 tive to his scholarship. He has written on the film "A Dangerous Method,
 " "The Collaboration and the Jewish Question," and most recently an essa
 y called "A Psychoanalyst Serves on a Jury." He has also written on aspe
 cts of erotic countertransference, on the tendencies toward lying in sev
 erely narcissistic patients, and on the politics and power structure of 
 contemporary psychoanalytic institutes. In addition to essays on Freud, 
 Lacan, Fenichel, Stoller, Sabina Spielrein, and Winnicott, Dr. Fisher ha
 s contributed to the literature on psychoanalysis and history. He practi
 ces in West Los Angeles.\n\nMark Fisher, MD is Professor of Neurology at
  University of California, Irvine where he holds appointments in the Dep
 artments of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Political Science, and Pathology & L
 aboratory Medicine.  He established the first stroke program in Souther
 n 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 50 citations of clinical excellenc
 e as a stroke neurologist. In 2021 he was named Director of the newly fo
 rmed UCI Center for Neuropolitics, and in 2023 he received the UCI Schoo
 l of Medicine Innovation in Mentoring Award. Dr. Fisher is a member of t
 he American Psychoanalytic Association, trained at the New Center for Ps
 ychoanalysis (2002-2013), and is Director of the Discussion Group “Neu
 roscience Perspectives on Psychoanalysis” at meetings of the American 
 Psychoanalytic Association (2015-present). He has current research fundi
 ng 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).\n\nDebra Myers, MD, PsyD is 
 a graduate of Harvard Medical School and trained in Internal Medicine at
  Stanford. She also has an MS in Biostatistics and Clinical Research Des
 ign from the University of Michigan School of Public Health (while she w
 as faculty at Wayne State University). Her study of psychoanalysis at th
 e Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles combined medic
 al training with her humanistic interests and lifelong interest in the h
 uman mind. Dr. Myers received her PsyD from ICPLA in May 2020 and is als
 o a member of NCP. She has a private practice of psychoanalysis and psyc
 hotherapy in West Los Angeles serving adults and adolescents.\n\nPeter W
 olson, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst and faculty member of t
 he Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies. He has 
 served as LAISPS’ President and Director of Training, is a co-founding
  member of the Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies and
  was President of the Los Angeles Society of Clinical Psychologists. Cur
 rently, he is on the resident faculty of the Wright Institute Los Angele
 s and in private practice in Beverly Hills. He has published numerous op
 -ed pieces for the Los Angeles Times, on-line blogs for the Huffington P
 ost, Thomson Reuters and Counterpunch and psychoanalytic papers on adapt
 ive grandiosity, the existential dimension of psychoanalysis, the relati
 onal unconscious, analytic love and political power. His book, Psychoana
 lysis Enters the Political Fray, was published in 2019.\n\nCOORDINATED B
 Y: Thomas Brod, MD\n\n \n\n-- FEES: --\n\nWithout CE/CME: General Regi
 stration - $0.00\n\nWith CE/CME: NCP Membership Registration CE/CME -�
 �$28.00 | General Registration CE/CME - $35.00 | Student Registration
  CE/CME - $17.50 \nPlease complete all registration pages until you
  come to the final "Receipt" page. This will complete your registration 
 and ensure the confirmation email with the meeting details is sent to yo
 u. Contact Byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have trouble registering.\n\n  \n\n
  \n\n"How do I get my CE/CME Credit?"\n\n* Pre-Register below\n\n* If y
 ou are registering for the first time you will receive a welcome email. 
 You must follow the directions in this email to complete your registrati
 on in order to access your certificates. \n\n* "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.\n\n* Wait 5-10 business days.\n\
 n* Download your Certificate on the NCP website. \n\n \n\n------------
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 implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and polici
 es of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME)
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 nd the New Center for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Associ
 ation is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education
  for physicians.\n\nThe American Psychoanalytic Association designates t
 his live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Ph
 ysicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of th
 eir participation in the activity.\n\nPSYCHOLOGISTS: The New Center for 
 Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to 
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 o verify attendance. Please note that a psychologist must attend the CE 
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 ARRIAGE and FAMILY THERAPISTS (LCSW, LMFT, ASW, IMF, LEP, LPCC, PCCI): T
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