Professional Development

The Professional Development Program at the St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute is a new program targeted toward Psychoanalysts, Candidates, and Advanced Candidates. The Professional Development Program coordinates with the Institute’s Curriculum Committee to plan individual programs. Topics include cutting edge knowledge and newly published materials in the field of psychoanalysis, as well as studies on ways to achieve our psychoanalytic mission of effective psychoanalytic teaching, training, and treatment.

Professional Development is designed to enhance learners’ competence through energizing and engaging discussion with colleagues about new psychoanalytically informed theory and through the sharing of clinically useful information about working with patients. We find that competence is enhanced when we are continuously enriching ourselves and our ongoing clinical practices through learning and sharing new information and clinical outcomes.

SCHEDULE

8:30 – 9 AM

Breakfast (Bagels)

9 – 10:15 AM

Introduction with Todd Dean, Md: “Is it Psychoanalysis Yet?” (with discussion)

Objectives (for Retreat as a whole):

1. Participants will be able to analyze situations in treatment that influence the psychoanalytic nature of the work, such as session frequency, remote treatment, cultural and social issues.

2. Participants will be able to demonstrate the psychoanalytic qualities of a treatment without focusing on operational criteria.

10:15 – 10:30 AM

Break (Snacks provided)

10:30 – 11:45 AM

Volney Gay, PhD: “Psychoanalytic Process & Interpretation: the Bi-Conditional Challenge” (with discussion)

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to distinguish interpretations from causal claims.

2. Participants will be able to locate their clinical reasoning along a continuum that extends from neurological findings to literary/philosophic reasoning.

3. Participants will be able to distinguish post-facto explanations from predictions about not-yet-observed events.

12 – 1:30 PM

Lunch (Provided)

1:30 – 3:00 PM

Schiller and Campbell: “Remote Analysis” (with discussion)

Objectives:

1. After attending this session, participants will be able to describe the differences and similarities of telesessions and in-the-room sessions

2. After attending this session, participants will be able to demonstrate the relevance of the setting and the frame in telesessions and in-the-room sessions to the formation of psychoanalytic competence.

3. Participants will become familiar (with examples) of working analytically via Zoom.

4. Participants will be able to define resistances in the analyst to distant analysis.

5. Participants will be able to discuss how to include distance work in training.

3:00 – 4:15 PM

Carol Robinson: “First Thought Best Thought” (with discussion)

Prices

Candidate Registration $35.00
Candidate Dinner $40.00
Faculty Registration $50.00
Faculty Dinner $50.00
Virtual Registration (Candidate & Faculty) $25.00