PsiAN Book Event- Advancing Psychotherapy for the Next Generation
CE Credit Pending Approval for SPPP Members
***This session will be recorded***
Date: November 13, 2023, 7:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
This book brings together a global community of mental health professionals to offer a contemporary assessment of psychoanalytic and other relationally based depth therapies. The broader social, political, and economic context and its implications are considered, as is the cost-efectiveness of therapy, issues of parity and managed care, and the pervasive biases against therapies of depth, insight and relationship. Authors consider racial and cultural diversity and address applications of depth therapy for minority populations, for community work, and for children. They confront timely issues, such as problems with our current diagnostic system and the benefits and risks of new technologies and online platforms. Original research on the public’s attitudes and preferences regarding therapy should be of interest to all psychotherapists and those studying to enter the field.
Presenters:
Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA is a clinical psychologist and consultant in Chicago. She is Chair and Co-Founder of the Psychotherapy Action Network (PsiAN), a non-profit that advocates for quality therapy. She is also Consulting Editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Clinical Associate Faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, and a fellow of the Lauder Institute Global MBA program. She has published and presented on the value of psychotherapy, the therapeutic relationship and technology, and the public narrative about therapy. She has also been interviewed by the New York Times, NPR, the John Oliver show, and other national media on the value of psychotherapy. Linda has a former career in business, with over 15 years’ experience consulting to organizations in the US and Latin America.
Kirk J. Schneider, Ph.D. is a leading spokesperson for existential-humanistic and existential-integrative psychology, an adjunct faculty member at Saybrook University and Teachers College, Columbia University, and a cofounder and current president of the award-winning Existential-Humanistic Institute. He was also a 2022 candidate for president-elect of the American Psychological Association (APA).
Dr. Schneider is a Fellow in seven Divisions of the APA, the recipient of the Rollo May Award from Division 32 of the APA for “Outstanding and Independent Pursuit of New Frontiers in Humanistic Psychology,” and the author/editor of 14 books. These include The Paradoxical Self, Horror and the Holy, The Psychology of Existence (with Rollo May), Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy, The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology, Existential-Humanistic Therapy (with Orah Krug), Awakening to Awe, The Spirituality of Awe, The Polarized Mind, The Depolarizing of America, and his latest book: Life-Enhancing Anxiety: Key to a Sane World. Dr. Schneider’s current focus, which draws on the psychology of Otto Rank, is on the existential bases of as well as alternatives to polarized states of being. For more information on Dr. Schneider’s work visit https://kirkjschneider.com as well as his YouTube channel “Corps of Depth Healers,” which serves as a resource for depth psychological approaches to social crises: https://www.youtube.com/@CorpsofDepthHealers-ws9nq
Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and the Director of Community-Based Education at the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute and Research Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration, trauma, race, and culturally-informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is also in Independent Practice, and works primarily with survivors of trauma from diverse sociocultural backgrounds. Dr. Tummala-Narra is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and the Asian American Journal of Psychology. She serves on the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016) and the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (2021), both published by the American Psychological Association Books.
Nancy McWilliams teaches at Rutgers University’s Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology and has a private practice in Lambertville, NJ. She is author of Psychoanalytic Diagnosis (1994; rev. ed. 2011), Psychoanalytic Case Formulation (1999), and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (2004), all with Guilford Press. She has edited or contributed to several other books, and is Associate Editor of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (2006, Lingiardi & McWilliams, 2017). She is a former president of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association and is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Psychology. A graduate of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, Dr. McWilliams is also affiliated with the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey.
Dr. McWilliams has been awarded the Gradiva prize (1999), the Goethe Scholarship Award (2012), the Rosalee Weiss award for contributions to practice (2004), the Laughlin distinguished teacher award (2007), the Hans Strupp Award for teaching, practice and writing (2014), and the Division 39 awards for both Leadership (2005) and Scholarship (2012). She is an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Moscow Psychoanalytic Society, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Turin, Italy, and the Warsaw Scientific Association for Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Her writings have been translated into twenty languages.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to compare uses and consequences of the categorical approach of the DSM and the biopsychosocial approach of the PDM
- Participants will be able to describe applications of psychoanalytic theory and practice to diverse populations
- Participants will be able to describe the public's main goals of therapy
