Bridging Body and Mind:
A Psychodynamic Perspective
VIA ZOOM
Saturday, February 17, 2024
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM CST
Cost: $80 General / $35 Students
3 CEU: LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Neuropsychoanalysis is an interdisciplinary field that supports dialogues among neuroscientists and psychodynamic clinicians. From the Neuropsychoanalysis Association (NPSA)website: “The brain is the organ of the mind. If we want to fully understand mental life, we must integrate the findings of neuroscience with all levels of the mind. Neuropsychoanalysisis interested in the neurobiological underpinnings of how we act, think, and feel.”
Individual, neurobiological differences shape eachof our ways of perceiving, experiencing, andunderstanding. These aspects are often anoverlooked area that shapes intrapsychic meaning.This presentation will review neurobiologicalunderpinnings and explore child and adult clinicalmaterial to illustrate how neurodevelopmentalinformation is useful in the clinical setting byexpanding the understanding of a patient’s“experience of” and helping the therapist toempathize more fully with the patient’s experience.
Jane Abrams, DSW, LCSW maintains a private psychotherapy and clinical supervision practice in Philadelphia. She is on the faculty of the Undergraduate Minor in Psychoanalytic Studies and teaches in the MSW and DSW programs at the University of Pennsylvania. As an active member the Neuropsychoanalytic Association, she is chairperson of the Relational Theory Group and is Digest editor for the journal Neuropsychoanalysis.
She is Regional Chair of the American Association of Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work.
Christina Peters, PhD, LCSW, is in private practice in the Chicago area, teaches psychoanalytic theory and methods at the Institute for Clinical Social Work, and has presented at national and international conferences on topics related to individual, neurodevelopmental differences and the impact on subjective experience.
She is a member of NSPS, AAPCSW, IAPSP, and IARPP.
Cost: $80 General / $35 Students
3 CEU: LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions about registration, or need a student link,
please contact Elree C. Smith at esmith@icsw.edu or (773) 943-6506