“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us walk together.”
~Aboriginal activist group (Queensland)

 

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October 4-6, 2013
Cambridge, MA
Lesley University

 

Psychology and the Other Conference 2013

 

The Interhuman and Intersubjective:
An Intersection of Discourses

Plenaries

Lewis Aron
New York University

Tina Chanter
DePaul University

Simon Critchley
New School for Social Research

Donna Orange
Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity

Ann Pellegrini
New York University

Malcolm Owen Slavin
Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis

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Some other featured and invited speakers include:

Jessica Benjamin, New York University    

Doris Brothers, Training and Research in Self Psychology Foundation 

Claire Katz, Texas A&M
Scott Churchill,University of Dallas  

Elizabeth Corpt, Harvard Medical School  

Jack Foehl, Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Society  

Ruella Frank, Center for Somatic Studies  

Mark Freeman, College of the Holy Cross    

Roger Frie, Simon Fraser University  

Sue Grand, New York University   

Lynne Jacobs, Pacific Gestalt Institute/Institute of Contemp. Psychoanalysis 

Richard Kearney, Boston College   

Dennis Klein, Kean University 

Lynne Layton, Harvard Medical School  

Peter Maduro, Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis

John Manousakkis, College of the Holy Cross 

Ana-Maria Rizzuto,PINE Psychoanalytic Center 

Jean-Marie Robine, Institut Français de Gestalt-thérapie

Jeffrey Rubin, Private Practice 

Donna San Antonio, Lesley University
Peter Shabad, Northwestern University

Go to Registration Page for Specific Information Regarding Registration and Go to Pre-Conference Workshop Page for Specific Information Regarding These Events.

 

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for Social Workers and Psychologists are being graciously sponsored by the Danielsen Institute at Boston University. The Danielsen Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Danielsen Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for licensed mental health counselors (LMHC) are being graciously sponsored by Lesley University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. These credits are accepted by the Massachusetts Board of Registration for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. A maximum of 19 CEUs are available during the conference over the 3 days of the conference, depending on which sessions are attended. Each plenary and invited address during the conference is eligible for 1.5 CEUs.

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Selected pieces will be included in a Special Section of The Humanistic Psychologist, a Special Issue of Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society, and a book volume (publisher to be announced).

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Pre-conference Workshops

Donna Orange: The Suffering Stranger

Full Day Pre-Conference Workshop, Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

Presenter: Donna Orange

Attitudes toward clinical work, in the moment of facing the terrified and traumatized patient, often group themselves around two traditions. We may react to the patient with a critical, suspicious, diagnostic attitude that distances us from the other’s humanity, wondering what the other is up to with all these demands, acting out, and pathologies. Or we may, recognizing in the other person another sufferer both like and unlike ourselves, respond by wondering what the other needs in this moment to feel included in humanity, held, and healed. These two attitudes describe a large shift in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in recent years that we can describe in terms of the hermeneutics (theory of interpretation) of suspicion—needed as it may sometimes be–and a hermeneutics of trust.

In this pre-conference workshop, Donna Orange will bring a philosophical (and clinical) eye toward five major thinkers in psychoanalysis – Sándor Ferenczi, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, D. W. Winnicott, Heinz Kohut, and Bernard Brandchaft – investigating the hermeneutic approach of each, engaging these innovative thinkers precisely as interpreters, and as those who have seen the face and heard the voice of the other in the ethical sense.

Cost: $250

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for Social Workers and Psychologists are being graciously sponsored by the Danielsen Institute at Boston University. The Danielsen Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Danielsen Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for licensed mental health counselors (LMHC) are being graciously sponsored by Lesley University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. These credits are accepted by the Massachusetts Board of Registration for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. A maximum of 5 CEUs are available during the Donna Orange: The Suffering Stranger pre-conference workshop.

There are only 25 spaces available in this class. Availability is first come, first serve. For more information download the flyer: Donna Orange: The Suffering Stranger 

To register for the suffering stranger workshop click the “Register Now” button directly below.

***It is highly suggested that attendees read the book prior to the workshop***

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Why the Other? A Philosophical Survey

Full-Day Pre-Conference Workshop, Thursday, October 3rd, 2013

Presenters: Jeffrey Bloechl, Ph.D., boston college

Eric Severson, Ph.D., eastern nazarene college 

David Goodman, Ph.D., lesley university 

At the heart of the conversation about psychology and otherness is a fundamental question about the relation between the self and the other. Emmanuel Levinas suggests that the other is not just another ego, an altered but fundamentally similar version of the self. Levinas goes beyond suggesting that the other transcends the self; he suggests that the character of this transcendence is responsibility. This critical move, the suggestion that the fundamental relationship to the other person is one of moral obligation, is at the heart of a philosophical question that is both ancient and contemporary.

This workshop will contextualize the critical question of the other, with particular attention to the appearance of psychology in the trajectory of western thought about otherness. Psychology appears during the heyday of modern philosophy, at a point in time when alterity and debt were frequently subordinated to grand metaphysical systems. Philosophy has come to challenge these systems, which Levinas considers “totalizing” and “violent,” setting up an important conflict within the fields of psychology.

How similar is the other to the self? How does her suffering rank alongside the suffering of the self? What assumptions can be made about the other person based on my own experiences? To what degree does the suffering of the other person render me responsible?

The answers to such questions, foundational for both philosophy and psychology, are derived from the more basic question about the importance of the other. This seminar will review the history of this conversation along with various philosophical, theological, ethical and psychological approaches to the dynamics of the self- other relation. Before the workshop participants will read and reflect on a series of approaches to the self- other relation, from Plato to Freud to Levinas and beyond. Participants will also be invited to see how Judeo-Christian reflections on otherness have deeply informed this conversation, and inspired radical articulations of responsibility that defy the typical categories of both philosophy and psychology.

Cost: $250

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for Social Workers and Psychologists are being graciously sponsored by the Danielsen Institute at Boston University. The Danielsen Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Danielsen Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for licensed mental health counselors (LMHC) are being graciously sponsored by Lesley University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. These credits are accepted by the Massachusetts Board of Registration for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. A maximum of 5 CEUs are available during the Why the Other?: A Philosophical Survey pre-conference workshop.

There are only 30 spaces available in this class. Availability is first come, first serve. For more information download the flyer: Why the Other? A Philosophical Survey

To register for the why the other? workshop click the “Register Now” button directly below.

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Tracking Emergent Experience: Gestalt Therapy at the Intersection of the Interhuman & the Intersubjective

Two Day Pre-Conference Workshop, October 2-3rd, 2013

Presenters: Carol Swanson, LCSW

Dan Bloom, LCSW, JD

Philip Brownell, MDiv, PsyD

This pre-conference workshop introduces participants to contemporary gestalt therapy as an experiential practice at the intersection of the interhuman and intersubjective. Not only will participants learn the relevant concepts of contemporary gestalt therapy, but they will also experience them directly as the workshop develops. Participants will learn by doing how gestalt therapy tracks emergent experience. They will become familiar with how contemporary gestalt therapy focuses on various kinds of meetings of the self and other, which is called “contacting.” These meetings are the basis for gestalt therapy as an approach at the intersection of the interhuman and intersubjective. This workshop will offer a lasting support for the participants since they can take the relationships they form and the concepts they understand with them for the rest of the conference. Implications for psychotherapy, philosophy, and theology will be explored. Didactic, experiential exercise, and discussion will be employed.

Cost: $300

Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for Social Workers and Psychologists are being graciously sponsored by the Danielsen Institute at Boston University. The Danielsen Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Danielsen Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for licensed mental health counselors (LMHC) are being graciously sponsored by Lesley University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. These credits are accepted by the Massachusetts Board of Registration for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. A maximum of 10 CEUs are available during the Tracking Emergent Experience pre-conference workshop over the 2 days of the workshop, depending on which sessions are attended.

There are only 5o spaces available in this class. Availability is first come, first serve. For more information download the flyer: Tracking Emergent Experience: Gestalt Therapy at the Intersection of the Interhuman & the Intersubjective

To register for the tracking emergent experience workshop click the “Register Now” button directly below.