Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, Inc.
Speaker Program Meeting: May 18, 2019
Presenter: Aisha Abbasi MD
Aisha Abbasi M.D. is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and its immediate Past President. She is the author of the book The Rupture of Serenity: External Intrusions and Psychoanalytic Technique (Routledge Press and available on Amazon). Her analytic papers , book chapters , and presentations (both nationally and internationally) have focused on her primary areas of interest : close attention to the nuances of clinical interaction in psychoanalysis, and challenging clinical situations. She has twice been the recipient of the Ira Miller Award from the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society, for the best clinical paper of the year.
Dr Abbasi is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is also on the Editorial Board of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and a member of the Quarterly’s Board of Directors.
She is licensed to practice both in Michigan and Florida. She has a private practice in West Bloomfield Michigan and is the Founder and Director of The Tampa Bay Center for Psychological Health where patients are seen by her, and by other clinicians working there. She and her husband live primarily in Michigan with frequent visits to their home in Tampa, where they have family ties, and have grown to love over the last several years
DATE: Saturday, May 18, 2019
TIME: 9:30 am-12:30 pm; and 1:30 pm-4:30 pm.
LOCATION: 13919 Carrollwood Village Run, Tampa, FL 33618
CHARGE: 9:30am: $10 non-members /Free to Members ($45 non-members if requesting CEUs;
CEUs free to members upon request)
1:30pm: $35 charge to members / $45 to non-members; (3 hrs. CE credits upon request).
Discounted student rate $25 per person. (No CEUs included.)
(9:30am-12:30pm) "Beyond Miles, Memories, and Usual Modes of Functioning: How We Change as We Help Our Patients Change”
Summary: In this presentation, Dr. Abbasi will share detailed clinical material from the analysis of a patient she initially saw in person (in her office) and later worked with long distance for several years, with a number of sessions in her office every year. Dr. Abbasi will tell us about her gradually dawning recognition of her own complex feelings about the fact that the patient was from a country where her father had been held a prisoner of war during her earlier life. Although the patient did not know this, the analyst’s newer and deeper -than- before understanding of her complicated feelings about her father helped her help her patient better in terms of understanding and working through his relationship with his parents, especially his father. Dr. Abbasi will focus also on the surprising lessons she learned about doing long distance analytic work as she and her patient together traversed the path of this psychoanalytic treatment.
Objectives: Upon completion of the program, the participant will be able to:
(1:30pm-4:30pm) “In the Wake of Major Socio-Political Events: Hateful Feelings in the Transference and Countertransference”
Summary: Things happen. In the world we live in, events take place: All kinds of events. We notice these events. So do our patients. Or, at least, we hope they will. If they don't, there's a very serious problem. If they do notice, but do not bring up these events in the therapeutic setting, it's a different kind of problem. Patients need our help with not noticing things, and with not talking about what they notice, for whatever rationalized or irrational, conscious or unconscious reasons.
In my presentation today I will talk about particular periods in my work with three patients, particularly at points when major socio-political events occurred in the world. I will share with you how discussing the patients' feelings about these events allowed for a deepening of the clinical work, leading us to understand aspects of the patients' history, and their conflicts, in new, unexpected, and meaningful ways. In all the treatments, what patients felt about these external events was closely related, of course, to their own internal struggles, and to feelings about me in the transference. At the same time, very strong and disturbing feelings came up in me as I discussed these events with my patients: both because of what the events evoked in me, and because of my reactions to what my patients were saying about these events and how they were directing certain feelings related to these events, towards me.
Objectives: Upon completion of the program the participant will be able to:
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This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 6 hours AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
The Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society has been approved by the Florida Dept. of Health to provide Continuing Education Accreditation to Psychologists (Provider # PCE-46, Exp. 5/20) and Clinical Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, Mental Health Counselors (Provider # BAP 423, Exp. 3/21). The Society certifies that these courses meet the requirements of the Board on an hour-per-hour basis for continuing education credits.