“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)
SAVE THE DATE
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.
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