When

Saturday April 19, 2014

1:00 PM to 5:30 PM CDT

(registration begins at 12:30)

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New Conference Location

Where

Cathedral Counseling Center at
50 E. Washington St.
3rd Floor Conference Room
Chicago, IL 60602

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THIS IS AN INTERMEDIATE LEVEL CONFERENCE. At the end of the conference, participants will be able to

Identify the difference between the heuristic and deductive uses of theory.
Describe the implications of the phenomenological foundation of psychoanalysis.
Describe the concept of unconscious psychic acts and how that differs from the traditional concept of “the unconscious.”
Identify how the cultural emphasis on consumerism and materialistic reductionism impacts patients' awareness of the narratives of American capitalism.

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Continuing Education Credit

This program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 4.0 Continuing Education Credits for psychologists, social workers, and licensed professional counselors.

Details are provided on the registration page.

There will be an additional processing fee of $10.00, assessed at registration for CE credit. CE credit must be arranged before the conference begins. Requests for CE credits after the conference takes place will not be honored. No credit is available for attending only part of this conference.

For more information on continuing education credits and policies regarding them, visit the continuing education page on CAPP's website.

Accessibility and Ethical Commitments

CAPP and Division 39 are committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in continuing education activities. CAPP must be notified of special needs by April 12, 2014 for accommodations to be arranged. If a participant has special needs, she/he should contact Dr. Michael Losoff, 708-263-9655 or mlosoff@cappchicago.org.

CAPP and Division 39 are also committed to conducting all acitvities in conformity with The American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles for Psychologists. Presenters and attendees are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality during and after the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address questions, concerns, or any complaints to Dr. Michael Losoff, 708-263-9655 or mlosoff@cappchicago.org.

During the program, presenters will address the validity/utility of the topics as well as any risks/limitations of the approaches discussed.

Presented by the CAPP Program Committee: Michael Losoff, PhD, President; Bernadette Berardi-Coletta, PhD, Past President; Kathleen O'Connor, LCSW, Treasurer

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Background Material for Conference

If registrants wish to review background material in advance of the conference, the following references are recommended:

Summers, F. (2013) The Psychoanalytic Vision: The Experiencing Subject, Transcendence, and the Therapeutic Process. London: Routledge

Summers, F. "Psychoanalysis in the Age of Nikeism," Presidential Address, Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association, Annual Spring Meeting, April 25, 2013 http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/meaningful-you/201305/psychoanalysis-in-the-age-just-do-it

Summers, F. (2012 The Tyranny of Objectivism, Psychoanalysis, and the Rebellion of the Subjective, International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 9 (1), 35-47

Walls G. (2006). The normative unconscious and the political contexts of change. In L. Layton, N. Hollander, & S. Gutwill (Eds.) Psychoanalysis, Class, and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting. New York: Brunner-Routledge.

Walls, G. (2006) Meaning or medicine: The future of psychoanalysis in the professional schools. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 23, 654-660.

The Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology

Join us as we look at how the central ideas of psychoanalysis fit into the dominant cultural narrative. The contemporary understanding of concepts such as subjectivity and the unconscious may go against the cultural grain, but they represent a view that can help combat some of modern society’s more alienating features. They are therefore concepts important to the formal and continuing education of those practicing psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

Program Faculty

Frank Summers, Ph.D., ABPP,

President Division of Psycchoanalysis, APA

Frank Summers, Ph.D., ABPP, is President of the Division of Psychoanalysis, APA, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Supervising and Training Analyst, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. Winner of several local and national awards, Dr. Summers is associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a member of the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology.

Author of more than 40 journal articles and book chapters, he has taught psychoanalytic theory and practice both nationally and internationally. He has published four books including a best selling text Object Relations Theories: A Comprehensive Text, and two subsequent monographs developing his own model, Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy and Self Creation: Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Art of the Possible. His fourth book The Psychoanalytic Vision: The Experiencing Subject, Transcendence, and The Therapeutic Process, published by Routledge in 2013, is an interpretation of psychoanalysis as a science of the subjective, a worldview that distinguishes it from other areas of human inquiry.

Dr. Summers is in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Chicago, Illinois.

Gary Walls, Ph.D.,

Visiting Instructor, Institute for Clinical Social Work

Gary Walls, Ph.D., has spent the last twenty-five years involved in clinical work as a private practitioner, and as a professor at two schools of professional psychology in Chicago. He is now Visiting Instructor at The Institute for Clinical Social Work. His main area of clinical interest is in contemporary relational psychoanalytic approaches to psychotherapy. He has also pursued interests in the epistemology and politics of psychology, publishing many articles and papers, including critical evaluations of managed care, the so-called “evidence based” therapy movement, and the political implications of psychotherapy. His papers include “Shared Misunderstandings of Science and Psychoanalysis: Overcoming Marginalization and Commodification” (2013), “The normative unconscious and the political contexts of change in psychotherapy” (2006), “Meaning or medicine: The future of psychoanalysis in the professional schools of psychology” (2006), and “Diagnosis, Epistemology, and Politics: The PDM Paradigm” (2007).

Conference registrants who currently are not members of CAPP or whose membership has lapsed will be eligible for discounted membership fee. Further details are available on the registration page.

For more information about CAPP, or to be added to our email list for notification of future events, please contact Michael Losoff, CAPP Preisident, at 708-263-9655, or he can be reached by email at mlosoff@cappchicago.org.

Please visit our website at www.cappchicago.org.

Space is Limited! Registration will close when full.