4 Sessions: Tuesdays, Jan 14, 21, 28; Feb 11, 2025
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 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.
Metabolizing Mortality: Can Psychoanalytic Theory Explain How it Can happen?
How a person relates to mortality - one's own and that of others - colors and corrals everything. And yet this crucial determinant of how a person lives in matters of love work and play can escape the concerted focus of the analyst. A readily useable construct or way of thinking about how death determines and plays out in the mind would aid effective engagement. A model will be presented that draws on diverse schools of psychoanalytic thought to guide the clinician, including for patients who may seek to use psychedelic treatment. Further, in the present time of division and existential threats from multiple sources, a healthy relationship to mortality is now more important than ever. This course will assist clinicians as they help people through their experiences of loss or trauma and through mortal fears that inhibit flourishing.
Instructors
Linda Emanuel, MD, PhD
Linda Emanuel started her professional life as a neurophysiologist, then went into academic medicine, focusing on palliative and end-of-life care, before training as a psychoanalyst. Her practice focus is on people who are facing serious illness in themselves or a family member or who are bereaved. She is a faculty member and Training Analyst at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute and a member at BPSI. She continues her clinical appointment as an emerita professor at Northwestern and has an appointment at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
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: EB2025MM
$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
Program Chair
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.
