Scientific ProgramsThe Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas offers a rich set of presentations by local and out-of-state speakers. These Scientific Programs, which are generally open to PCC members and other mental health professionals and trainees, are designed to broaden and deepen awareness and understanding of the application of psychoanalytic concepts to clinical work. Free admission for PCC members, full-time students with ID, and trainees in the departments of social work, psychology, psychiatry, and mental health counseling. 2023 Scientific Programs (partial list)How does trauma get “under the skin” and what do we do about it?: Neurobiological mechanisms of trauma and adversity & basic tenets of trauma-focused treatments Dr. Berman specializes in understanding the mechanisms of trauma and adversity and trauma-focused treatments for individuals across the lifespan, couples/partners, and families. She will highlight research findings on the neurobiology of trauma, including the Dimensional Model of Adversity and Psychopathology (DMAP; McLaughlin & Sheridan) to understand how experiences of threat may manifest differently than experiences of deprivation (e.g., neglect, cognitive under-stimulation). Dr. Berman will share her work implementing and evaluating a novel group treatment for sexual assault recovery in a women’s prison (SHARE; Karlsson, Zielinski, & Bridges) as well as explaining the common, central features of trauma-focused treatments such as Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT; Cohen, Mannarino, & Deblinger), Prolonged Exposure (PE; Foa & Rothbaum) and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT; Resick). The Ethics of Self-Disclosure in Relational Treatment will be presented by Steven Kuchuk, DSW on April 22, 2023 2022 Scientific ProgramsSocial Psychoanalysis, Normative Unconscious Processes, and an Ethic of Repair Emotional Inheritance: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of Trauma A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Intersecting Traumas Facing Racial Minorities 2021 Scientific ProgramsRosenblitt Lecture – Sex, Drugs, & Rock 'n Roll: A Two-Systems Engagement with the Centrality of Adolescence Psychoanalysis, Race and Class in an Urban ER: Writing as Remembering, Repeating and Working Through Use of the Racial Self in Clinical Encounters The Limo Ride: Reflections on Self Disclosure The Trials, Tolls, and Triumphs of Motherhood: The Many Faces of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans 2020 Scientific ProgramsThe Trials, Tolls, and Triumphs of Motherhood: The Many Faces of Finding the Pieces: Trauma and Reunification within a Family Repairing the Irreparable, Bearing the Unbearable: Clinical work with formerly incarcerated people who have served life sentences "Fragile Containers: Social Upheaval and Its Impact on the Therapeutic Dyad"' Ethical dimensions of the analyst's chosen paradigm: A patient asks, 'Am I not right for Relational Psychoanalysis?' 2019 Scientific Programs The Inner World of an Aggressive Kindergarten Boy: A Child and Analyst at Work Relational Freedom: Emergent Properties of the Interpersonal Field 2018 Scientific ProgramsThe Sudden End of Your Psychotherapy Practice: Ethical and Practical Considerations Long-Term Psychotherapy in the Rear-View Mirror: Boundaries as Psychic Immune System: 2017 Scientific ProgramsTrans*-formations: One analyst’s reflections on transgender Moving Toward Wholeness: Self-States and the Treatment of Trauma Our Patients' Relationships to the Communities in Which They Live: An Underutilized Psychoanalytic Perspective Ethical and Intrapsychic Aspects of Closing an Office The Storied Analyst: The Rhetoric of Clinical Narratives
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