Adult Development: Growth and the Historical Moment

This course will provide an 8-session introduction to growth, stagnation and transformation over the adult life span. Together we will explore psychodynamic and developmental theories beginning with emerging adulthood all the way to late life in individuals and their surroundings.

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8 Sessions: Mondays, Jan. 13, 27; Feb. 10, 24; Mar. 10, 17, 24, 31, 2025 
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM EDT

All courses will take place online. Seminar sessions are not recorded
Registration Deadline: January 10th, 2025

Registrants are expected to be able to attend all sessions in their entirety. Should your availability change, please contact the BPSI Team (team@bpsi.org) to remove your course registration and allow other interested participants to attend.

Adult Development: Growth and the Historical Moment
 

This course will provide an 8-session introduction to growth and transformation over the adult life span. Together we will explore psychoanalytic theories of development in adulthood, starting with emerging adulthood and extending to late life; we will consider individuals in the context of their social surround.  Presentations and discussions will address the central topics of gender, culture, and wisdom, as well as race (decolonizing psychoanalytic thinking) as they pertain to adults inside and outside the consulting room.  We will also discuss clinical, literary, and biographical-historical examples of women and men, including Mohandas Gandhi, who were able to grow as individuals while also experiencing and/or leading social change.  Readings include articles by Erik Erikson, Michael Rutter, Carol Gilligan, James Baldwin, Paul Baltes, and Usha Tummala-Narra.  Throughout, we will address Erikson's probing question, "What, really is an adult?"  Emphasis will be placed on group discussion and respect across differences.  

 

Instructors

John Martin Joy, MD
Psychoanalyst Member; faculty, BPSI psychotherapy fellowship program; codirector, Adult Development seminar, BIDMC Harvard psychiatry residency training program; author of Diagnosing from a Distance, a book that explores the ethics of psychiatrists commenting on the mental health of politicians. Private practice, Cambridge, MA.

Gil G. Noam, Ed.D., Dr. Habil
Psychoanalyst Member and BPSI faculty; Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; head, Study of Resilience in Youth (ISRY) at McLean Hospital. Dr. Noam has published over 200 papers, articles, and books in the areas of child and adolescent development as well as risk and resiliency in clinical, school, and afterschool settings.

This course will be open to licensed clinicians or clinicians on the path to licensure. Continuing Education credits are not offered for this course.

 

Scholarships are available for BPSI programs.

FEE:
$375 Course Fee
$350 Early Bird (available until 01/03/2025)
Use Code at Checkout: EB2025AD
$50 Early Career Clinicians, Residents and Students

 

Explorations in Mind: Community Education at BPSI is made possible by the generous support of BPSI Members and friends. To make a gift to BPSI, contact Carole Nathan (cnathan@bpsi.org or 617-266-0953 x101),
go to www.bpsi.org, or send mail to BPSI, 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459.

 
Program Administrator
Stephanie Maggiano: smaggiano@bpsi.org

Program Chair
Holly Friedman Housman, LICSW: holly@housman.org
Natasha Lifton, PhD:
natashalifton@gmail.com
 
Event Cancellation Policies & Procedures
Any program participant requesting their individual program registration be canceled, must submit their request in writing via email to Stephanie Maggiano at smaggiano@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.
 
Grievance Policy
Please address any questions or concerns about your experience at this or any program or event you have attended at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute to the Program Chair(s), via the Senior Administrator/Continuing Education Administrator, BPSI, 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459; team@bpsi.org; 617.266.0953.
 
The Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Inc., 141 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA 02459, does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin or handicap in the admissions to or administration of its educational programs, scholarship programs or employment.