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SUMMARY:Looking Through the Psychoanalytic Lens -Voter Choices & Election Outcomes: Case illustrations
DESCRIPTION:The Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute \n\n\n\nCo-sponsoring with MPG consulting \n\n\n\nInvite you to our Sunday Dialogue Program \n\n\n\nGene Guberman\, LP\, MA \n\n\n\n3 CE credit hours for Psychologists\, Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors\, and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding licenses in New York State \n\n\n\nWhat just happened in our nation? Psychoanalyst Gene Guberman will explore some of the challenging issues conflicting our culture as manifested in the psychology of a diverse group of voters. Case vignettes will be used to understand underlying psychodynamic issues & motivations for political choices.Gene distinguishes politics from unwitting psychological factors embedded in politics\, examines the nature of perception including unintentional subjectivity\, defines psychodynamics and how they influence a voter’s choice. In this presentation case vignettes will illustrate the nature of conscious and unconscious psychological factors influencing political choices. \n\n\n\nWe are living in an era of significant cultural polarization. Understanding these consuming social divisions calls for examination of the political\, economic\, social\, and media effects to account for the election outcome. Psychoanalysts need to be attentive to the ways in which these broad cultural forces manifest and shape individual psychodynamics as well as how individual psychodynamics may determine an individual’s political activity or lack of it. Using case examples\, Gene applies psychoanalytic concepts to illustrate how unconscious processes function within voters to influence their election choices. \n\n\n\nFinally\, Gene invites us to look within ourselves\, to identify with his case vignettes and to reflect on aspects of ourselves that may unknowingly be hidden from us. According to philosophers & psychoanalysts\, human nature has been shown to have an inherent self-deceptive feature. In other words\, an emotional or irrational side of us that lead to faulty judgments\, mistaken political and marital choices\, unwanted personal habits\, personality traits\, and self-destructive actions. Using diverse psychoanalytic concepts and vignettes from his practice\, Gene demonstrates how psychological motivations and rationale underlay our election choices. \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nParticipants will gain an understanding of how social interactions entail mutual unconscious collusions\n\n\n\nParticipants will gain broadened insight into unconscious mental processes\, including a contemporary view of healthy and pathological compromise formations\n\n\n\nParticipants will gain insight into how an exploration of voting choice may provide a window into the function of compromise formation in an individual client’s overall dynamics\n\n\n\nParticipants will get an understanding of how childhood dynamics affect our decision-making processes.\n\n\n\nParticipants will have the opportunity to reflect on how consonant or opposing political views in a therapeutic couple may shape transference / countertransference phenomena.\n\n\n\n\nGene Guberman\, LP\, MA\, NCPsyA is a faculty member\, and supervisor at the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (PPSI)\, and The Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA); a former director & faculty member of the New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training (NYCPT) where he graduated in 1990\, he has been affiliated\, taught and supervised at many training institutes and settings\, synthesizing modern conflict theories with relational approaches. Gene lectures on topics addressing the values of psychoanalytic clinical theories and techniques. He is a former editor of the Journal\, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology at Washington Square Institute. Gene was a former Board Trustee as Secretary\, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). \n\n\n\nInformation Contact: Russell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \n\n\n\nMPG Consulting is an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers (#0119) and for Licensed Psychoanalysts (3P-0034). MPG Consulting\, LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health. MPG Consulting LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0283. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/looking-through-the-psychoanalytic-lens-voter-choices-election-outcomes-case-illustrations/
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SUMMARY:Trauma of Human Origin: Effects of Interpersonal Traumatization\, and the Prevention and Repair of Trauma Across the Generations
DESCRIPTION:3 Saturdays: Oct. 4 (10am-12 pm ET)\, Oct. 11 (12:30-2:30 pm ET)\, Oct. 18 (10am-12 pm ET)\, 2025\, On Zoom \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegistration is now closed. You will be emailed the zoom link a day or two prior to the event.\n\n\n\nHave a question? Please contact us at postgrad.psychoanalytic@gmail.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram Description\n\n\n\nIn this class we will be focusing on the distinction between trauma of human origin and trauma stemming from natural catastrophes or accidents devoid of human intentionality and their different effects on the human mind. I will describe three levels of trauma of human origin\, their effects on individuals and society\, and how to work with them clinically to heal dissociative dynamics and repair destructive internalized structures\, for instance the victim-persecutor identification that can be carried through generations. We will learn how to effectively interrupt the repetition of the traumatic cycle by looking at individual cases from first presentation to actual resolution in what I term the embodied witnessing treatment. This treatment is an original integrative approach in working on interpersonal trauma using psychodynamic psychology\, attachment theory\, and affective neuroscience. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIndividual Class descriptions:\n\n\n\nClass1 (Oct.4\, 10am-12n ET) \n\n\n\nI will highlight the differences between trauma of human origin and trauma due to natural catastrophes or other accidents devoid of human evil intention against the other. I will offer my contribution on the three levels of trauma of human origin\, and present the neurobiological effects on the mind and body\, on affect regulation and on personality structure. Dissociation\, not repression\, is the major structural consequence of trauma of human agency\, affecting mind\, body and brain. The neurobiology of interpersonal trauma and the structures of the brain affected (limbic system\, implicit memory vs explicit or declarative memory\, amygdala\, hippocampus etc.) will be described in their functioning through single cases. Reference will be made to the work of Allan Schore\, Philip Bromberg\, Giovanni Liotti\, Dori Laub together with my original use of Sandor Ferenczi’s work on trauma which was controversial at the time of Freud. Genetic vs epigenetic transmission will be discussed through the most up-to date-research \n\n\n\nClass 2 (Oct. 11\, 12:30pm-2:30pm ET; PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME) \n\n\n\nAfter having presented the differences in the multifunctional dimensional and dynamic diagnoses of single cases\, I will distinguish the features of “dissociation\,” and how to identify it in the behavior and dynamics of the patient; its traumatic effects on memory will also be considered. Attachment\, (secure\, insecure and disorganized) will be described from an intergenerational point-of-view\, clarifying what can be transmitted intergenerationally and what might be used as a resource. \n\n\n\nThrough different cases we will learn how to work with affect regulation and how to identify destructive interpersonal dynamics\, such as victim-persecutor identification and their unintentional repetition in the here and now of the sessions. Attacks on the body and unconscious ways of attacking self and other will be presented through cases of personality disorders\, Complex PTSD and somatic disorders \n\n\n\nClass 3 (Oct 18\, 10am-12n ET) \n\n\n\nI will illustrate the dynamic of intergenerational transmission in its neurobiological aspects and in the defense-repetition interpersonal dynamics. I will illustrate how to work with mind-body-brain (right and left brain\, implicit and explicit\, primary and secondary processes) in individual therapy with survivors. The victim-persecutor dyad unconsciously imprinted in the mind of survivors and the dissociative mechanisms will be described as they are reactivated in the survivor and projected against their own bodies (with self-harming\, suicidality\, eating disorders\, addictions) and against others though the analysis of acting out (outside the consulting room) and of enactments (within the consulting room). Vignettes of moment to moment process will illustrate how to work through and elaborate affects in various clinical moments; i.e. moments when affect regulation is robust versus moments when affect dysregulation in the individual and in the therapeutic couple prevails. I term “embodied witnessing” the synthetic description of this complex mind-body-brain healing process illustrated through single cases. \n\n\n\n Learning objectives. Participants will learn: \n\n\n\n\n– How to identify and evaluate the three levels of trauma of human origin (interpersonal trauma) and their effects (in terms of dynamics\, neurobiology and influence on personality structure) on the mind\, the brain and the body in the individual and in the collectivities.\n\n\n\n– How to identify and distinguish dissociative structures from neurotic structures (mostly using the defense of repression in their system\, not dissociation) to borderline or very destructive personalities and how to work with the victim-persecutor internalized dyad of traumatic interpersonal origin.\n\n\n\n– How to analyze\, discuss and work with destructive symptoms of severe patients with dissociative structure and interpersonal trauma in the mind-body-brain system\, considering also their attachment system and how implicitly these all get repeated in dyadic situations both outside of the therapy as well as in treatment.\n\n\n\n– How to work from first evaluation to major progression of the case until resolution (not only of symptoms but of destructive dynamics and dissociative structures) in patients with personality disorders of traumatic origin\, Complex PTSD and some somatic disorders.\n\n\n\n– How to apply an integrative empathic and compassionate mind-body-brain psychotherapeutic approach that I term “embodied witnessing” through practices of witnessing in the relational dyad and in the recognition of the story presented\, both the remembered one and the dissociated one that speaks through the body.\n\n\n\n– How to interrupt the cycle of repetition with survivors of trauma of human agency understanding the neurobiological and unconscious transmission for first\, second and third generations. Reconciliation of split parts and even forgiveness of self and other (though not an aim in the treatment) might become a healing outcome (as that which overcomes the identification with the aggressor and with the internalized victim-persecutor dyad).\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Clara Mucci is Full Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the University of Bergamo\, Italy where she also is The Director of the School of Specialization and Psychotherapy in Health Psychology and Co-Director of the Course of Advanced Training for the Evaluation and Treatment of Eating Disorders. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShe served as Full professor of English Literature and Shakespearean Studies until 2012 (University of Chieti\, Italy). After a PhD in English Studies (Genoa\, 1994)\, she received a PhD in Literature\, Anthropology and Psychoanalysis from the ILA\, (Emory University 1999); subsequently she retrained in Clinical Psychology with a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology (2004) and a fellowship for six months at the Institute for Personality Disorders in New York and White Plains\, Directed by Otto Kernberg (2004-2005). She is a licensed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist practicing in Milan\, Italy and has obtained the AAI certification from Berkeley\, the School directed by the late Mary Main and Erik Hesse\, with Instructors Debbie Jakobvitz and Nino Dazzi. She is also certified in the RF with a course under the guidance of Howard Steele\, The New School for Social Research. \n\n\n\nShe is the author of five monographs (in Italian) on Shakespeare\, Women’s writing\, and literary theory and three volumes in English on trauma and personality disorders\, Beyond Individual and Collective Trauma (Karnac Books\, 2013)\, Borderline Bodies\, Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders (Norton\, 2018) and more recently Resilience and Survival. Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Trauma (Confer Books\, London\, 2022.)\, She co-edited with G Craparo\, Unrepressed Unconscious\, Implicit memory and Clinical Work (Karnac\, 2017)\, and\, with Arnold Rachman\, Ferenczi’s Confusion of Tongues Theory of Trauma (Routledge 2023) \n\n\n\nAssociate Member of SIPP\, Teaching and Supervisor Psychoanalyst for SiPeP-SF\, a supervisor for several schools of training in Italy and abroad\, including the NIP\, New York\, Confer\, London\, Switzerland and the National Psychodynamic Institute in Warsaw\, Poland; she lectures extensively internationally and in Italy\, where she is the Scientific Guarantor of several Institutes of psychodynamic psychotherapy and a consulting supervisor for several institutes\, individuals and group professionals. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFor further information or questions please send an email to: \n\n\n\nRussell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \n\n\n\nIf mailing a check\, please send it to:PPSI\,PO Box 2031 Madison Square StationNew York\, NY 10010-9996 \n\n\n\nThis program is approved for 6 CE Credit Hours. \n\n\n\nMPG Consulting LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work #0119\, Mental Health Counselors #0044\, Creative Arts Therapists #0021\, Marriage and Family Therapists #0030\, Psychoanalysts #0034 and Psychologists #0283 as an approved provider of continuing education. A NYC & NYS certified: M/WBE \n\n\n\nFollowing the last class\, attendees will receive an online evaluation form from MPG Consulting. \n\n\n\nAfter submitting that form\, a second email will be sent containing a printable CE certificate. Please note: Registrants must attend all 3 classes to receive the 6 CE credits. We are unable to offer partial credit for those attending less than 3 classes \n\n\n\nRegistration closes: Tuesday\, September 30th. You will receive a Zoom link two days prior to the beginning of class.  \n\n\n\nRegister Now
URL:https://postgradinstitute.org/event/trauma-of-human-origin-effects-of-interpersonal-traumatization-and-the-prevention-and-repair-of-trauma-across-the-generations/
CATEGORIES:2025
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SUMMARY:Fostering connection: Foster Care\, Complex Trauma\, and Treatment Approaches
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYC \n\n\n\nInvite you to our Sunday Dialogue Program\n\n\n\nDr. Marina Stolerman\, Psy. D. \n\n\n\nSunday\, November 16\, 2025\, 1:00-3:30 pm (EST)\, on Zoom \n\n\n\n3 CE credit hours for Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors\, Psychologists and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding licenses in New York State \n\n\n\nThis presentation will review the neurobiological\, emotional and developmental sequelae of early attachment disruptions in children and youth who were in foster care. We will also explore treatment considerations from a psychoanalytic perspective\, including mentalization based therapy and polyvagal theory. Vignettes from a 12-year treatment will be used to illustrate both the challenges and benefits of long-term psychotherapy for a young person affected by foster care. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTRATION IS CLOSED \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresenter: \n\n\n\n\nDr. Marina Stolerman is the Clinical Director at The Fostering Connection. Dr. Stolerman maintains a private practice in New York and New Jersey where she works with children and adults\, and provides clinical supervision. She has a specialty in working with individuals with ASD and ADHD. Dr. Stolerman is an adjunct clinical supervisor at Yeshiva University where she is supervisor for the psychodynamic practicum. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n\n\nUpon completing this program\, participants will be able to: \n\n\n\n\nDescribe the impact of complex trauma on neurobiological development and attachment in children and adolescents within the foster care system.\n\n\n\n\n\nIdentify emotional and relational challenges specific to foster youth and foster-families.\n\n\n\n\n\nExplain key treatment considerations\, including Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBD) and psychoanalytically informed approaches\, for working with foster-affected populations .\n\n\n\n\n\nIntegrate neurobiological and psychoanalytic perspectives in treatment planning for patients with histories of complex trauma and disrupted attachments.\n\n\n\n\nFor further information or questions\, please send an email to: \n\n\n\nRussell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \n\n\n\nMPG Consulting LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work #0119\, Mental Health Counselors #0044\, Creative Arts Therapists #0021\, Marriage and Family Therapists #0030\, Psychoanalysts #0034 and Psychologists #0283 as an approved provider of continuing education. A NYC & NYS certified: M/WBE
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SUMMARY:Pathways to Change: Core Aspects of Psychoanalytic Theory & Technique
DESCRIPTION:Sunday Dialogue Program | Co-sponsoring with MPG Consulting NYC \n\n\n\nSunday\, May 31\, 2026\, 1:00-3:30 pm (EST)\, on Zoom \n\n\n\nwith Gene Guberman\, LP\, MA \n\n\n\n3 CE credit hours for Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors\, Psychologists and Licensed Psychoanalysts holding licenses in New York State \n\n\n\nREGISTRATION CLOSED. Please contact us with any questions. \n\n\n\nPeople registered for this program will be sent the zoom link on Friday evening\, May 29. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis presentation will explore some of the core concepts of contemporary psychoanalytic theory and technique as they relate to the issue of therapeutic change. How does psychoanalytic psychotherapy work and why is it an effective treatment modality? What are the mechanisms\, processes\, and vehicles of change? Which factors are most effective in facilitating a truly therapeutic outcome? How do we understand the multi-varied factors that may put up barriers to growth? \n\n\n\nHow these questions are understood in the various paradigms of contemporary psychoanalysis will be considered. The role of the analyst’s psychology is spotlighted since their choice of theory and understanding of patient dynamics will affect what\, how and when they interpret\, intervene and conduct analytic sessions. The varied clinical approaches of contemporary psychoanalysis (ego psychology\, modern conflict theory\, object relations\, relational/intersubjective) will be highlighted and contrasted. Issues such as features of mind\, representations and qualia\, affect regulation\, transference/countertransference relationship patterns\, patient-analyst subjectivities and the clinical role of neuroscience will be explored.  \n\n\n\nCase vignettes will be used to illustrate theoretical and technical decisions. \n\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\n\n\n\nGain insight into how psychoanalytic therapy works and why it is effective.\n\n\n\nBetter understand the different ways therapeutic change is conceptualized in various contemporary psychoanalytic paradigms.\n\n\n\nExplain key differences among treatment approaches.\n\n\n\nUnderstand the reasons that hinder & prevent a patients’ change.\n\n\n\nGain insight into the role the analyst’s psychology plays in their choice of analytic theories and clinical approaches.\n\n\n\nExplain the importance of the impact of the brain & neuroscience matters on outcome of treatment.\n\n\n\n\nPresenter: \n\n\n\nGene Guberman\, LP\, MA\, NCPsyA is a faculty member\, and supervisor at the Postgraduate Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (PPSI)\, and The Institute for Expressive Analysis (IEA); a former director & faculty member of the New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training (NYCPT) where he graduated in 1990\, he has been affiliated\, taught and supervised at many training institutes and settings\, synthesizing modern conflict theories with relational approaches. Gene lectures on topics addressing the values of psychoanalytic clinical theories and techniques. He is a former editor of the Journal\, Issues in Psychoanalytic Psychology at Washington Square Institute. Gene was a former Board Trustee as Secretary\, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor further information or questions\, please send an email to: \n\n\n\nRussell Merritt\, LCSW: rgm3@columbia.edu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMPG Consulting LCSW\, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work #0119\, Mental Health Counselors #0044\, Creative Arts Therapists #0021\, Marriage and Family Therapists #0030\, Psychoanalysts #0034 and Psychologists #0283 as an approved provider of continuing education. A NYC &
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