Series: Social Justice and Human Rights
The Psychoanalyst as Citizen: Clinical, Ethical, and Historical Perspectives

Thursday, March 23 | 7:00 to 8:30 PM

 Details

This talk addresses issues that may remove us from our comfort zone as clinicians. It reviews the history of how psychoanalysts have dealt with the interrelationship between their clinical work and their ethical obligations as citizens to engage in the political and social world around them. Clinical work suffers if not informed by the analyst's keen awareness of the patient's political history as well as her or his own political history. What role is there for the psychoanalyst as activist/advocate/lobbyist in upholding the integrity of the profession? 

Continuing Education Objectives: 

• Discuss the history of how psychoanalysts have dealt with the interrelationship between clinical work and ethical obligations as citizens.
• Examine the therapist's own political history and that of the patient and discuss how it may effect clinical work.
• Discuss the role  for the psychoanalyst as activist/advocate/lobbyist in upholding the integrity of the profession.

CE Target audience:  Psychologists (all levels), Social Workers, Counselors 

Presenter:

Bennett Simon, MD, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, has long been involved in the interface of psychoanalysis and the humanities and psychoanalysis and the social sciences. He has thought and written about the political self of the analyst and of the patient, and in what form these aspects are expressed and how to find a space for appropriate dialogue in the analytic setting. Together with his wife, Dr. Roberta Apfel, he has been active in the study of the effects of war and communal violence on children. In conjunction with Physicians for Human Rights, he has been involved in evaluating refugees from persecution seeking Political Asylum. He is on the Faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, an Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst, and Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, at the Cambridge Health Alliance.

Fee:  Free or $20 per event for 1.5 CE’s/Clock Hours*

*Full refund available if you cancel one week prior to the event. If you have any questions, email info@bgsp.edu.

CE Target audience:  Psychologists (all levels), Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors

Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. BGSP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP solely is responsible for all aspects of the program.

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