Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society

Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, Inc.

Speaker Program Meeting: March 02, 2019

Presenter: Usha Tummala-Narra PhD

Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology at Boston College, and in Independent Practice in Cambridge, MA.  Her research and scholarship concern immigration, race, gender, mental health, and cultural competence in psychotherapy practice. She has served on the American Psychological Association Division 39 Board of Directors, the APA Presidential Task Force on Immigration, and the APA Task Force on Re-envisioning the Multicultural Guidelines in the 21^st Century. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy, published by American Psychological Association Books in 2016.

DATE:                     Saturday, March 02, 2019

TIME:                      8:15-9:15 am; 9:30 am-12:30 pm; and 1:30 pm-4:30 pm.

LOCATION:            13919 Carrollwood Village Run, Tampa, FL 33618

CHARGE:                8:15am: $15 member/ $20 non-member; (1 CEU upon request); 

9:30am:  Free to all ($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).

LUNCH:                  12:30-1:30 pm--Boxed lunch will be available by reservation $12.50 if order and paid one week in advance, $15 after deadline, up 

to two days in advance.  (see menu below)

(8:15am-9:15am) “A conversation about the contemporary U.S. sociopolitical climate”

 Summary:  This conversation will provide a foundation for approaching the current sociopolitical climate in the U.S. from a psychoanalytic perspective. The speaker will raise dilemmas faced by psychoanalytic practitioners and educators in the face of problems such as deportation and separation of families among undocumented immigrants, racial violence and profiling, and threats to women’s reproductive rights and to LGBTQI individuals and communities.

Objectives:

1.       Describe how the current sociopolitical climate in the U.S. has affected issues explored in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

2.       Recognize the ways in which transference and countertransference dynamics may be impacted by sociocultural trauma in contemporary U.S.

3.       Describe dilemmas faced by therapists and educators in addressing issues of diversity with their clients and supervisees and students.

(9:30am-12:30pm) "Engaging sociocultural issues in psychoanalytic psychotherapy”

Summary: This presentation highlights psychoanalytic understandings of sociocultural context, and presents a framework for integrating sociocultural issues in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. There will be a focus on the impact of sociocultural oppression on intrapsychic and interpersonal worlds of the client and the therapist, and how ongoing trauma pre- and post-election influences the therapeutic frame and process. Clinical vignettes will serve to help translate culturally informed psychoanalytic theory to practice.

Objectives: Upon completion of the program, the participant will be able to:

CME Criteria

• 1.       Describe ways in which the sociocultural context of the client and the therapist influence conceptualizations of health and pathology in development.
• 2.       Describe the ways in which various psychoanalytic traditions have contributed to understandings of sociocultural issues in the lives of clients and therapists.
• 3.       Describe how sociopolitical contexts and oppression affect the therapist, client, and the therapeutic relationship.

(1:30-4:30 pm) "The complexity of sociocultural identity: Immigration and race”

Summary: Contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives emphasize the impact of sociopolitical contexts on mental health, and the centrality of the therapeutic relationship in addressing the effects of oppression on clients’ sense of safety, functioning, and relational life. I will focus on the complexity of cultural identity formation within the context of choice and constraint. A case illustration will elaborate the theoretical points presented.

Objectives: Upon completion of the program the participant will be able to:

• 1.       Identify how experiences of privilege and oppression contribute to complex and sometimes contradictory cultural identifications, and challenging dynamics within the therapeutic relationship.
• 2.       Describe the effects of oppression on clients’ sense of safety, functioning, and relational life.
• 3.       Describe the roles on choice and constraint in cultural identity formation.

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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 and (name of nonaccredited provider, insert Institute, Society or Center name)). 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 7 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. 3/19). The Society certifies that these courses meet the requirements of the Board on an hour-per-hour basis for continuing education credits.

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