Adult Development: Growth in Theory, in the Consulting Room, and in the Historical Moment

This 5-session course aims to provide a concise introduction to theories of growth and change over the adult life span, along with a chance to explore selected examples of growth.

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5 Sessions: Tuesdays, Apr. 2, 9, 16; May 7, 14, 2024
Time: 7:30-9:00 pm EDT 

This course will take place online. Seminar sessions are not recorded.

Adult Development: Growth in Theory, in the Consulting Room, and in the Historical Moment 

This 5-session course aims to provide a concise introduction to theories of growth and change over the adult life span, along with a chance to explore selected examples of growth. Our focus will be on the period from adolescence to late adulthood, and will include work by Erik Erikson (the widening social radius), Carol Gilligan (women’s growth in connection), the Boston Change Process Study Group (micro-process of change in therapy and analysis), and Usha Tummala-Narra (decolonizing psychoanalysis). Clinical material will be used to explore and challenge the theories we study. We will read a new graphic novel illustrating a Korean-American teen's coming of age story (Deborah J.J. Lee's In Limbo) and will explore historical examples of identity and generativity in the midst of social crises (poet Allen Ginsberg's use of a psychiatric hospitalization in his 20s, Mohandas Gandhi's effort to transform the British Empire in his 50's). Throughout, we will critically consider William James’s claim that character is set in plaster by age 30.

Instructors

John Martin-Joy, MD

is a psychoanalyst and a member of the Fellowship and Explo Faculty at BPSI. He has published research on the maturation of defense mechanisms in late life and is co-director of the Adult Development seminar for 3rd-year psychiatry residents at the Harvard BIDMC Psychiatry Residency in Boston. He is the author of Diagnosing from a Distance, a study of the APA's Goldwater Rule, and the co-editor of a collection of interviews on poetry and loss, Conversations with Donald Hall. He has a private practice in Cambridge, MA.

Gil G. Noam, Ed.D., Dr. Habi
is a psychoanalyst and a member of the Faculty at BPSI; director, Program for Study of Resilience in Youth, McLean Hospital; founder and director, PEAR Inc. (Partnerships in Education and Resilience). He has published extensive peer-reviewed research on child and adolescent risk and resilience, social-emotional development, and the effectiveness of developmental interventions. Dr. Noam has a private practice in Belmont, MA.

 

The course will be open to Non-Clinicians, Licensed Clinicians or Clinicians on the path to licensure. Continuing Education will not be offered for this program.

Scholarships are available for BPSI programs.

FEE:

$375 Course Fee
$50 Early Career Clinicians, Residents and Students
$350 Early Bird (available until 03/18/2024) Use Code at Checkout: EB2024AD

The fee is waived for BPSI Members, Trainees, and Partners. Scholarships are available upon request.

 
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Program Administrator
Stephanie Cavanaugh: scavanaugh@bpsi.org

Program Chair
Holly Friedman Housman, LICSW: holly@housman.org
 

Continuing Education will not be offered for this program.
 
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Any program participant requesting their individual program registration be canceled, must submit their request in writing via email to Stephanie Cavanaugh at scavanaugh@bpsi.org. For fee-based events, a request for cancellation (and refund using the original form of payment) must be received no later than 48 hours in advance of the event. Requests received later than 48 hours prior to the event will not be processed or accepted. All approved refunds are subject to a $10.00 administrative fee. If BPSI cancels an event, all registrants will receive a full refund of fees paid (no administration charge) no later than two business days following the scheduled date of the event, using the original form of payment.
 
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