THE 56th ANNUAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE IS NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION. SIGN UP NOW!
THE 56th ANNUAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE IS NOW OPEN FOR REGISTRATION. SIGN UP NOW!
56th Annual Education Conference
This presentation by Dr. Lynne Layton aims to answer the question of what a social psychoanalysis might look like in the clinic, in our psychoanalytic institutions, and in our society. Drawing on some earlier psychoanalysts’ concepts that have connected the social world and the psychic world, the concept of normative unconscious processes is introduced, which addresses the ways that racism, heterosexism, classism, and other social inequalities are unconsciously replicated in the therapeutic relationship. Dr. Layton will also explore how therapists can resist unconsciously replicating such cultural inequalities. She will offer participants a look outside the clinic to see how cultural inequalities manifest in the wider circles of contemporary institutional and sociocultural life. Throughout the presentation, there will be an exploration of how we, as citizens and therapists, both unconsciously replicate and can resist replicating harmful, unequal relations. She will encourage participants to think together about how to address the places in the different subjective and communal worlds where harm has been done and engage together on how to make repair.
*NYSSCSW Discount applies to NYSSCSW current members only.
**Student Discount only applies to full time students currently enrolled in social work and MHP master level programs.
Please register by Thursday, April 24 at 5pm.
Live Online via Zoom
The Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of the NYS Society for Clinical Social Work, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0028; licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0045; licensed psychoanalysts #P-0017; licensed psychologists #PSY-0121; licensed social workers #SW-0056; and licensed creative art therapists #CAT-0120.
Out-of-state providers are welcome to request a certificate upon completion of the presentation evaluation but must check with their own state licensing boards to inquire about whether or not the certificate is recognized as transferrable for CEs in their state’s jurisdiction.
1. Participants will be able to identify psychosocial psychoanalytic theories and concepts that bridge the psychic and the social.
2. Participants will be able to describe and give examples of clinical enactments of normative unconscious processes.
3. Participants will be able to identify some ways that neoliberal institutions and ideologies shape subjective practices and create particular kinds of symptoms.
Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, nurse practitioners and family and marriage/couple therapists, mental health counselors and licensed creative art therapists.
This seminar is appropriate for clinicians with all levels of experience.
Lynne Layton has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and in Clinical Psychology. She is a psychoanalyst and has taught and supervised at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is also a Corresponding Member of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Psychiatry Department at Harvard Medical School. Lynne is the author of “Who’s That Girl? Who’s That Boy? Clinical Practice Meets Postmodern Gender Theory”, and co-editor of 3 books: “Narcissism and the Text: Studies in Literature and the Psychology of Self”; “Bringing the Plague: Toward a Postmodern Psychoanalysis”; and “Psychoanalysis, Class and Politics: Encounters in the Clinical Setting”. From 2004-2017, she was co-editor of the journal Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society and she is currently an associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. She is a past-President of Psychoanalysis for Social Responsibility and founded Reflective Spaces/Material Places-Boston, a group of psychodynamic therapists committed to community mental health and social justice. Lynne is on the organizing committee of a national Black-led reparations campaign. She is the author of the 2020 book “Toward a Social Psychoanalysis: Culture, Character, and Normative Unconscious Processes”, winner of a 2021 book award from the American Academy and Board of Psychoanalysis.
Contact Hours will be awarded once the entire course is completed, as evidenced by signing in and out and completing a course evaluation. Certificates will be emailed approximately ten business days after the completion of the course.
ACE welcomes participants with diverse abilities. Please contact Kristin or Debbie at info.acefoundation@gmail.com, at time of registration, to request accessibility accommodations. Accommodation requests are considered in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities ACT (ADA), Section 505 of the Rehabilitation ACT.
Cancellations made at least five days before the event will be refunded less a 10% cancellation fee. For cancellation please call 1-800-288-4279, or email us at info.acefoundation@gmail.com.
Should Inclement weather occur, we will be notifying all registrants via the email by which the registrant signed up. Please be sure to check your email before you leave for the course.
