DAY 1:
Saturday, November 2, 2024 | 9:30am - 12:00pm
Location: The Carondelet Center 1890 Randolph Ave St. Paul, MN
Title: Is Anti-Democratic Politics Organized Crime? Democracy, The ‘Rule Of Law,’ And Psychoanalysis Or The ‘Good Object’ Reconsidered
The sudden eruption of Donald Trump into the mainstream of American politics alarmed the mental health community. Ensuing psychiatric descriptions of Mr. Trump as a malignant narcissist, anti-social personality, or dangerous psychopath, were very well-supported by the public record, even if these diagnoses violated the so-called “Goldwater rule.” But they remain strangely beside the point and have proved politically ineffectual. Why? What is going on?
Continental Breakfast will be served.
2.5 CEU Credits
Space is Limited to 100 People - Reserve Your Spot Early!
DAY 2:
Sunday, November 3, 2024 | 9:30am - 12:00pm
Location: Semple Mansion Carriage House 104 W. Franklin Minneapolis, MN
Title: Trauma as a Way of Life in a Psychoanalytic Institute
Drawing on a chapter of the same name published in Traumatic Ruptures: Abandonment and Betrayal in the Analytic Relationship (Routledge, 2014), Dr. Levin will discuss his explorations of the underlying connection between these three significant problem areas in the psychoanalytic profession: (1) the difficulties in the governance and transmission of psychoanalysis, (2) the slipperiness of psychoanalytic ethics, and (3) the relation of the profession to the psychological conundrum of trauma.
Light refreshments will be served
2.5 CEU Credits
Space is Limited to 40 People - Reserve Your Spot Early!
About Charles Levin:
Charles Levin, Ph.D., FIPA, is a training and supervising analyst in private practice in Montreal. He has served over many years in a variety of capacities at the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, including director of training and editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is currently on the International Advisory Board of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. In addition to clinical psychoanalysis, his work focuses on issues related to culture, aesthetics, and psychoanalytic ethics. His publications include ‘The mind as an internal object,’ Psychoanalytic Quarterly (2010), Art in the offertorium: Narcissism, psychoanalysis and cultural metaphysics (Rodopi, 2012) and the edited volume Social aspects of sexual boundary trouble in psychoanalysis (Routledge), which received an award from the APA Division 39 in 2021.
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