Community Events (non-Alliance)

NPSI June Scientific Meeting
“A Peculiar People: Mormonism, Drag Performance, and Erotic Non-Belonging”
Danny Gellersen, LICSW, FIPA

In this presentation Danny Gellersen examines the psychic impact of religious cultural inheritance and queer sexual identity—an intersection rarely addressed directly in the psychoanalytic literature. Drawing from a decade-long analytic treatment, they explore how Mormonism, belief, and religious residue persist as uncanny, affectively charged presences within the transference and countertransference.

NPSI May Scientific Meeting
"How Do We Know What We Didn't Know? Recognizing Secrets in the Body"
Kathryn Zerbe, MD, FIPA

The intractable nature of the gun violence problem in the United States resists meaningful analysis. Even more so, the problem resists effective solutions. Perhaps this resistance itself is meaningful, pointing to suppression and denial of deeper problems in the national psyche. Pushing beyond familiar treatments of gun culture, this presentation will examine the depth psychology of homicide by firearm by considering the collective myths and cultural complexes that make this particular form of violence so prevalent.

IN PERSON or VIRTUAL

Program Description
In this course, the Novicks will share clinical material to illustrate a reconceptualization of adolescent development which offers enhanced technical opportunities for effective treatment of a population long thought resistant to psychodynamic therapies. Drawing from the history of psychoanalytic descriptions of adolescence, they will suggest that traditional models illuminate pathology but misrepresent normal development.

Hamlet & Aesthetic Conflict

with Seth Aichele

To be (born), or not to be? To feel, or not to feel? To think, or not to think? To create, or not to create? These questions take on a special meaning in the context of the British Object Relations tradition, and together constitute a basic problem of personality development across its many thresholds.

Saturday Dialogue: The Slow Rhythm of Connection: Infant Observation and Therapeutic Work with Autism

with Sean Jackson & Pam VanDalfsen

Infant observation is a foundational approach in the British Object Relations tradition to learning about and working with primitive emotional states in ourselves and our patients.

The One and the Many: Bion and the Science of At-One-Ment

with Thomas Helscher

NPSI March Scientific Meeting
On Terminating, Ending, and Not Ending
Presented by Stephen Purcell, MD, FIPA

Contemporary British Object Relations

with Collin McFadden & Eric Borgh