Special Film Presentation
Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, Inc.
Speaker Program Meeting: November 6, 2021
Trauma, and the Disenchantment with Involvement:
A clinical issue or a life choice? Discussion of Nomadland.
9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
LOCATION: Online via Zoom
Chair/Presenter: Albert J. Brok, PhD, CGP
Presenter: Ellen Gussaroff, LCSW, PhD
Summary
Nomadland is a very poignant work of art capturing a state of mind and way of being that is very powerful - depicting those dislocated by loss.... who live in vans, and can only locate themselves in motion, albeit with a home, that is always mobile; rather than a house that is permanent, but always eschewing the permanence of an ongoing secure base from which to adventure. They wander without attaching, or attachment, of which they are phobic? Trauma dislocates and can make detachment one's way of being. Thus desire to construct with another an evolving and involved way of life becomes blunted. For some loss dislocates/ and traumatizes. For others it is a painful experience reminding one of the significance of having someone once again in their life albeit not the same as ones original partner. Implications for clinical work will be discussed via examples from the film “Nomadland” Such an approach, usingcinematic examples ensures confidentiality, as patients are not presented.
Please watch film prior to the presentation. Free on Hulu or $3.99 to rent on Amazon Prime, as of 10/02/21.
Participants will be able to:
1. Recognize and describe those patients who suffer from severe issues of attachment disorders
2. Describe differences between Attachment and Involvement
CHARGE: $45.00 for non-members and Friend Members seeking 3 CME/CEUs; free to Clinical Members and 3 CME/CEUs upon request; and $10.00 for all who want to attend without CME/CEUs. Corresponding Members get up to 9 free CME/CEUs per speaker year upon request. The Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society is able to give CME/CEUs to those registered with the Florida Board of Medicine, The Florida Board of Psychology, and the Florida Board of Social work.
Pay Online at: https://tbpsy.wildapricot.org/
PRESENTERS:
Albert Brok, PhD, CGP has been involved in both teaching and presenting in the US and internationally on issues of Identity, Isolation vs relatedness, quality of relationships, etc. He has presented at the IPA in Prague and in Boston, is on the Board of Division 39, of the American Psychological Association and former President of Section 1, (Psychologist-Psychoanalysts). Being bilingual, he is a member of the Commission of Cine-analises, and lecturer Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, for past 25 years. He has presented at many Analytic institutes, including Oklahoma Society, South Eastern Florida Institute, Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, Madrid Psychoanalytic Institute, Central Asia Institute, etc. He is former Chairman of Clinical Psychology at the Graduate Faculty, New School and Professor at TC, Columbia University, and Supervisor Postgraduate Center for Mental Health and Adelphi Univ. Postgraduate program, In Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, as well as training analyst in the individual program and Supervisor. He is the former Director of Group and Couple therapy. Dr. Brok is in private practice in NY, and is a published author and co-author of a seven books in English and Spanish on multiple Topics of psychodynamic interest. His most recent is Brok, A. (2020) Play, Illusion, Reality, And Trauma: IP Books, NY
Ellen Gussaroff, LCSW, PhD, is a former Supervisor and Training Analyst, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, NY, and author of a number of articles and presentations at IPA Boston on the film “Her” and presenter at the IPA, Prague on the “Silent Mother”. She was Co-Director of the Couple Therapy program and is a training analyst with the 4 year Analytic program of TIMH, NY. She has written on the sequelae of bereavement, and was an invited presenter in Oslo, Norway, Kazakhstan, and South East Florida Psychoanalytic Institutes as well as the IPA programs in Prague and Boston. Dr. Gussaroff was Co-Director of the Introductory Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health.
THEMES:
Ellen Gussaroff, LCSW, PhD, Theme: Those who stay and those who leave; A study of people who want/need to control their lives from the pain of unrelenting abandonment.
Albert Brok, PhD, Theme: Relative Isolation as a free choice vs defensive dynamics of isolating the self from ongoing relationships over time.
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 non-accredited provider). 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 [number of credits] 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 for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
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Deadline for Payment Online is Wednesday, November 3rd, by 5:00 PM. Registered attendees will be sent a Zoom invite by 11 PM Friday, November 5th. If you paid and did not receive an invite by 11 PM to the Zoom meeting, please contact Alan Alonso, LMHC, President of TBPS, at: PresidentTBPS2020@gmail.com , or call (813) 841-1724.