Salman Akhtar, MD
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Jefferson Medical CollegeTraining & Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
This two-part workshop will focus upon the nuances of the spoken word in the clinical hour. Emphasizing that psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-informed psychotherapies are essentially 'listening cures', the workshop will delineate ways of listening and discerning the conscious and unconscious functions of language. A special feature of these presentations will be their comparing and contrasting the mother-tongue usage versus speaking in a later acquired language, thus opening up new vistas for deeper work with bilingual patients and with the bilingual therapist's own internal associations and verbal elements of reverie.
Differences in word-usage when it comes to the poetic versus prose form will also be highlighted and the importance of listening to the clinical material as a poem will be demonstrated. Illustrations from daily life, cross-cultural dialogue, and poetry will be deployed to enliven the proposed ideas and their therapeutic significance.
Education Objectives
Upon completion of this CE activity, participants should be able to:
Discern the conscious and unconscious functions of language.
Identify the differences when speaking in one’s mother tongue and when using an adopted language.
List the components of the poetic form of communication.
Utilize these skills to interpret unconscious determinants of current dysfunction.
Licensed Professional — $125
Pre Licensed/Student — $85
Program Committee
Thomas P. Helscher, Ph.D., Chair
Lisa B. Crilley, M.F.T., Co-Chair
Committee Members
Scott Shapiro, Psy.D.
Sandra Wilder-Padilla, Ph.D.
Rachel Katz
Keith Bernstein
Simone Kiboudi, LPC
Virtual Meeting Services
This program will be presented via Zoom Video Conferencing. The Zoom login ID will be provided no later than the night before the program is scheduled. Please make sure to provide LAISPS with the email address you want your login information sent to.
Target Audience
This program meets the needs of all mental health professionals, including Psychiatric Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists.
CE Credit Information
Important Disclosure: All planners, faculty, staff and others involved with this activity have reported no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
This activity has not received commercial support.
Accreditation Statements
Psychologists: LAISPS is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. LAISPS maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Board of Behavioral Sciences: The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts courses approved by the APA for Continuing Education for LCSW, LMFT, LPCC and LEP licenses.
To Earn Credit: Participants must complete an online evaluation within two weeks of completing each session of this CE activity in order to receive credit.
Attention Psychologists: Psychologists can earn a maximum of 3 CE credits for this program. Partial credit may not be awarded, based on APA guidelines
Refunds/Cancellations: Refunds, less a $10 administrative fee, will be made if cancellation notification is phoned or postmarked three (3) business days in advance of this program. There will be no refunds on requests received after the refund deadline. Full refunds are made in the event that LAISPS must cancel this program.
Returned Checks: A $35.00 service charge will be assessed for checks returned by the bank.
Confidentiality: By registering for this educational event, attendees agree to strictly maintain confidentiality of any clinical material shared and will not distribute or convey such confidential material outside of the conference.