PPSC ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Since PPSC's first year of incorporation in 1986, we have provided the psychoanalytic community with unique workshops and forums covering a wide variety of areas. Here is just a sampling:
PPSC CONFERENCES AND LECTURES
1989 - Alcoholism Treatment and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies: A Meeting of the Minds
1996 - Broken Bonds: The Many Faces of Infidelity
2000 - Storm Warning: Recognizing and Treating Mild to Moderate Forms of Manic Depression in Analytic Patients
2002 - Renovating the Psychoanalytic Space: Psychoanalytic Frame Issues in the New Millennium
2003 - Religion, Sexuality, & Prejudice Through a Psychoanalytic Lens: Trembling Before G-D
2004 - The Cushion and the Couch: Ex;orations in Buddhism and Psychoanalysis
2005 - Michael Balint: His Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalysis;
2005 - Poetry and Psychoanalysis: Finding the Truth in Words. A panel with Donald Hall, US Poet Laureate
2006 - Hide and Seek: When Secrets Haunt the Treatment (co-sponsored with NMCOP)
2007 - Masud Khan: False Self, Anti-Semitism and Alcoholism in Psychoanalysis;
2007 - The Talking Cure: PPSC's First Lifetime Achievement Award Conference honoring Dr. Lawrence Epstein
CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO GENDER AND SEXUALITY
1997-1998 - Bodies, Acts and Sex: Thinking Through the Relational Dare to Keep Your Kids Off Gender: The Epistemology of an Illusion Reconnecting Closeness and Passion: Understanding and Treating Impasses in Lesbian and Gay Sex Post-Coital Triste: Thoughts on (Post) Modernism and Pleasure On Lust and Loathing: Erotic Transference -Countertransference between a Female Analyst and Female Patients Attention vs. Acceptance: Erotic Dynamic Issues in Gay Male Development
1998-1999 - Shame: A Hidden Dimension in Women's Ambition Sex, Power and Gender: The Politics of Passion PoMo Stork: Reproductive Technologies and the "Post-Modern" Family What Does A Man Want?: A Motivational Systems Exploration of Male Gender Identity Development and Disorder Racism and its Repression in Freud's Theory of Sexuality
1999-2000 - Gender and Intersubjectivity: From Either/Or to Both/And Passion Plays: Enhancing the Erotic in Lesbian Couple Relationships Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man: The Closet Gender as a Luxury, Gender as a Symptom: The Shifting Terms in Gender Theory, in Practice and in Clinical Practice Thirty Years of Gender: Where Have We Gotten, and How is the View? Sex, Race and Gender: The Construction of our "Selves"
2000-2001 - Cultural Hierarchies, Splitting and the Heterosexual Unconscious: Clinical Implications of Social Inequalities How Gay Friendly is "Gay Friendly" Psychoanalysis? On the Erotics of Submission: Thinking Relationally about Desire Lesbian Mothers: Integrating New Identities What Kind of Girl/Grrl/Woman Are You?: The Implications of our Gender Performance on Transference and Countertransference Ungendered Bodies and the Violated Self
2001-2002 - Falling in Love With Love: Oedipal Idealization, Mourning and Erotic Masochism Infecting the Treatment: HIV Disclosure and Dissociation Configuring the Family Body Language
THE COMMITTEE ON PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ADDICTIONS TREATMENT (COPAT)
2003 - Relational Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Chronic Substance Use: A Promising Therapeutic Fit Working with Multiple Meanings of Substance Abuse: A Psychodynamic Harm Reduction Approach
2004 - Invitation and Interchange: Engaging the Whole Person in the Treatment of Substance Abuse Sexual Compulsions through a Psychoanalytic Lens Using Attachment Theory to Understand the Psychological Development of ACOAs: Implications for Treatment
2005 - It's Not About the Money: Using A Combined Behavioral & Psychodynamic Approach to Treat Money Addictions Risky Business: Working with Patients Who Engage in Life-Threatening Behavior
2006 - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Crystal Meth Cutting: The Deliberate Dissociation
2007 - Trauma & Addiction Through the Lens of Disorganized Attachment Hidden Eating Disorders & Attachment Theory: Trust and Safety in the Therapeutic Relationship