The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute presents

Join us for the 2023 Winter Academic Lecture

Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 7:00-9:00 PM EST

Play and the Rules That We Need ...to be Broken


In this Academic Lecture, Steven Cooper explores how psychoanalysis is a form of play. With adult patients, play helps unsymbolized experience find expression through words. Winnicott’s theory of play, first described as relevant to children, marked a radical expansion of the intersubjective component of therapeutic action for all therapeutic work. Through the use of clinical examples, Dr. Cooper elaborates an application of this play concept to forms of transference-countertransference engagement and enactment. He explores how the emergence of play in clinical process disrupts and marks shifts in transference-countertransference, and examines how play is nearly always inextricably related to mourning attachments of various kinds. Finally, Dr. Cooper describes how limits in the therapeutic encounter are a representation of reality that is constitutive of play itself. This is an underemphasized but essential feature of Winnicott’s emphasis on psychoanalysis as a very particular and important form of playing. 

Speakers


Steven Cooper, PhD, Presenter

is a Training and Supervising Analyst at BPSI and on the Faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. His most recent book is Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis, just released from Routledge


Tanishia Choice, MD, Panelist

is a Third-year Candidate in joint adult and child psychoanalytic training at BPSI. She is a Child and adult psychiatrist in private practice, Lexington; a staff psychiatrist in child and adolescent psychiatry, MGH; and a lecturer part-time, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. 


Thomas Westerling, III, PhD, Panelist

is a Third-year Candidate in adult psychoanalytic training at BPSI. He is a clinical psychologist in private practice, Cambridge and an instructor, part-time, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Psychology, Harvard Medical School. 


Briana Saltzman, LICSW, Panelist

is a student in the BPSI Advanced Training program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She completed the BPSI Fellowship in Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She is a clinical social worker in private practice, Newton.


Sarah Lusk, PhD, Moderator

is a faculty member in BPSI’s Psychoanalytic training program. She is an Advanced Child Psychoanalytic Candidate at BPSI. She is in private practice with Children, Adolescents and Adults, Cambridge. 

Schedule

7:00 Welcome and Introductions; 7:15 Lecture; 8:00 Panel Discussion; 8:30 Open Discussion  

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this program participants will be able to:  

  1. Identify two ways that play relates to transference-countertransference phenomena. 
  2. Describe how playing applies to the mourning process in psychoanalysis. 
  3. Explain how play is understood in relation to defensive processes. 
  4. Define how play is understood in relation to unconscious fantasy. 

This program is made possible by the generous support of BPSI members and friends. Your gift to BPSI supports psychoanalytic and psychotherapy education and

ensures the future of our field.

To make a gift, please visit www.bpsi.org.

Where


This event will be held

in-person at BPSI

and live-streamed via Zoom


141 Herrick Road

Newton Centre, MA

Registration

Fees*

 

Program Fee

$95 

Early Bird Special

$85

available until 01/09/2023

Use Code at Checkout:

EB2023WAL


In-Person Registration

In-person registrants will receive a Zoom link as well and are also required to sign

BPSI's Booster & Vaccine Attestation form.

Zoom Only Registration

*The fee is waived for Early Career Clinicians, BPSI Members, and Partners.


Scholarships are available for BPSI programs upon request. 

Please contact Stephanie Cavanaugh in the BPSI Office: scavanaugh@bpsi.org or

617-266-0953 x107.

Continuing Education


Physicians: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint provider ship of American Psychoanalytic Association and The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.



*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. -Updated July 2021-



Psychologists: The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 2 hours of CE credits for psychologists.

 

Social Workers: Application for social work continuing education credits has been submitted. Please contact us at team@bpsi.org or 617-266-0953 for the status of social work CE accreditation.

Please note: Per NASW requirements, social workers must attend 80% of a course in order to be eligible for continuing education credit.

Licensed Mental Health Clinicians: The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6913. BPSI is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This program offers 2 NBCC Clock Hours.

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