Menu
Log in


Upcoming Events


click "show details" to read full event information.

    • December 10, 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, 8 S. Michigan Ave, 7th Floor, Chicago (or by Zoom)
    Register

    co-sponsored by: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

    Presentation Title:

    What Is Psychobiography and How Is It Relevant to Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy?

    Presenter: James Anderson, PhD

    Tuesday, December 10, 2024, at 7:00 – 9:00 PM Central time

    In person at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute,
    8 S. Michigan Ave, 7th Floor, Chicago, IL

    And By Zoom




    James W. Anderson, PhD, is a former President of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society and a faculty member of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.  He is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, where he teaches courses on the Psychology of Personality and the Psychology of Film.  His specialty is psychobiography, the study, using a psychological perspective, of historical, political, literary, and artistic figures.


    Description:
     

    Biographies are at their best when they convey that the subject is a three-dimensional human being who possesses an inner life.  Hence psychology is essential to the writing of high-quality biographies.  But psychology is vulnerable to being misused.  All too often psychology has been weaponized to attack biographical subjects, or dogmatic psychological theories are foisted on subjects so these people look like cardboard figures.  In his book, James W. Anderson examines what is necessary for writing first-rate psychobiography.

    In his talk for us, he discusses how the approaches that make for effective psychobiography relate to approaches that make for effective psychotherapy.  Countertransference is key to psychobiography as it is in psychotherapy.  Other key factors are understanding the culture of the subject/patient; learning in depth about the development and personality of the subject/patient; and being sensitive to the subject’s or patient’s narrative identity.  Most important, interpretations are not to be imposed onto the subject/patient but instead the biographer/therapist seeks to open up, not close down; to provide new questions, not easy answers; to complicate, not simplify. 


    Purchase Book

    Use discount code: ASPROMP8 at purchase

    Learning Objectives

    After attending this session, participants should be able to:

    1. describe how to avoid making interpretations that push unnuanced psychoanalytic concepts on patients, such as telling a patient that she/he has sibling rivalry or is unaware of his/her death drive.
    2. describe how to make interpretations that encourage patients to explore themselves more deeply, such as asking a patient to explore how her competition with her two girlfriends may relate to what she has said before about how she resented her father paying more attention to her sister’s soccer team rather than to her own soccer team.


    Admission is free. Continuing Education Credits are offered exclusively to Society members in all membership categories and those intending to join.

    The presenter, James W. Anderson, PhD, and the organizers, James W. Anderson, PhD, and Stephanie Fariss, JD, LCSW, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to report.

    Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program.

    ACCME Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) and the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

    AMA Credit Designation Statement: The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    Disclosure Statement: The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

    Accreditation Information for Professionals Other Than Physicians.  The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content, in relation to accreditation for CE credits for non-physicians.  CPI is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education credits for (license numbers in parentheses): Social Workers (159.000122), Professional Counselors (197.000202), Marriage and Family Therapy Therapists (168.00204), and Clinical Psychologists (268.000091). 

    Eligible professionals will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits an evaluation form must be completed online. Learners must claim the amount of time spent in the educational activity and that will be the amount of credit they will earn.


    • December 12, 2024
    • January 23, 2025
    • 3 sessions
    • via Zoom (facilitator will send link)
    • 0
    Join waitlist


    Chicago Psychoanalytic Society Study Group

    "HOW IS SEX POSSIBLE?"

    by Psychoanalyst Darian Leader

     3 Sessions: December 12, January 9, January 23

    Thursdays 7:30-9:00 pm

    Via Zoom


    This CPS study group is an invitation and preparation for a lecture by Mr. Darian Leader on “How Is Sex Possible?”  He will speak about the general neglect of research into infantile sexuality, and what we might be able to learn from research into sexual practice outside the analytic field. To prepare for the talk we will read seminal papers by Freud on “Three Essays on Sexuality"

    This group is open to all members of the Society, on a first-come, first-serve basis, with a maximum of ten members.  Please register online here by clicking REGISTER.   This is the third study group offering at CPS and part of the “International Series” programming, and it is free to all members of the society and candidates.  There will be no fee at this time as there are no CEU’s, although we may be able to offer them for study groups in the future.

    Participants will be asked to read the papers in advance and to kindly commit to joining all three meetings.  These meetings will be held once in December and twice in January for one and half hours and chaired by Dr. Christopher Rigling on Zoom.  Each meeting will be based on an in-depth discussion of 1 -3 papers over the entire three meetings. The papers can be found in Volume VII in the Standard Edition.  They can also be found on the PEP Web. 


    Recommended Readings:  

    1. December 12 study group: Freud. S. 1905.  “The Three Essays on Sexuality.  Part I. The Sexual Aberrations. SE.VII. pg 135-172
    2. January 9 study group:  Freud. S. 1905. “The Three Essays on Sexuality.  Part II:  Infantile Sexuality.  SE VII. pg. 173-206.
    3. January 23 study group:  Freud. S. 1905.  “The Three Essays on Sexuality. Part III. The Transformations of Puberty.”  SE. VII pg..207-230


     About the presenter:  

    Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst working in London and a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and of The College of Psychoanalysts-UK. He is the author of several books including: 'Why Do Women Write More Letters Than They Post?'; 'Freud's Footnotes'; 'Stealing the Mona Lisa: What Art Stops Us From Seeing'; 'Why do people get ill?' (with David Corfield) , 'The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression’, ‘What is Madness?' , ‘Strictly Bipolar’, 'Hands', ‘Why Can’t We Sleep? (2019) and 'Jouissance; Sexuality, Suffering and Satisfaction', (2021). He writes frequently about contemporary art.


2024-2025 Program Preview

9/24/24 Tuesday. Marcia Dobson. Intersubjectivity, Permeability, and the Interpsychic: How Is Psychoanalysis Changing? (Zoom)   

10/22/24 Tuesday. Edie Hitchcock. Title: speaker changing title  (Hybrid)

11/12/24 Tuesday. Ramya Iyer. Title: "An Exploration of Racial Introjection and Social Construction" (Hybrid)  

12/10/24 Tuesday.  Jim Anderson. Book Launch and Book Talk.  Title: "What Is Psychobiography and How Is It Relevant to Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy?" (Hybrid

01/25/25 Saturday.  Darien Leader. Title: TBD (Zoom).  Study Group prior to event. 

02/25/25 Tuesday. Phil Lebovitz. Title: TBD  (Hybrid)

03/27/25 Thursday.  Michelle Stephens Title: TBD. (Zoom)

04/5/25 or 04/12/25 Saturday.  Film on Vamik Volkan (“Vamik’s Room,” with the filmmaker Molly Castelloe and Volkan.  (Zoom or Hybrid)

04/22/25 Tuesday.  Robert Grossmark Title: TBD. (Zoom) Study Group prior to the event.

05/20/25 Tuesday.  Dale Gody. "What is Yours, Mine, Ours? Unpacking Enactments and the Threat of Being Known."  (Zoom or Hybrid)

06/03/25  Tuesday. Steve Herrmann. "Spiritual Democracy in the Works of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William James, and C.G. Jung” (Zoom)



STAY CONNECTED
Subscribe to our Mailing List

Subscribe Now

© Chicago Psychoanalytic Society
All Rights Reserved

FOLLOW US


Powered by Wild Apricot Membership Software