Early Registration ends February 14
Licensed Mental Health Professional Early Registration: 150 After Feb 14 175
Pre-Licensed/Student Early Registration: 100 After Feb 14 125
Registration ends 48 hours before the event.
In-person attendees, please arrive 15 minutes before the event starts to allow adequate time for parking and sign-in. We will begin promptly at the start time for our Zoom attendees.
Course Description
This presentation will review the history, theory, and practice of decolonial psychoanalysis as a clinical method, with supporting evidence from psychotherapy process research and contemporary psychological science. Through this review, clinicians will acquire an evidence-informed, theory-guided approach to integrating the relational and sociocultural as part of everyday therapeutic practice. The presenter will draw on his work, the existing literature, and clinical examples.
Clinicians often struggle to integrate questions of culture and identity in everyday clinical practice, in a manner that is integrated into both their theoretical model and technical approach to treatment. Currently, most clinicians receive some level of exposure to theoretical knowledge about the role of culture and identity in mental health and psychotherapy, with some training on achieving competence in terms of “cultural competence”.
However, in actual practice clinicians can struggle with performing these skills in a manner that feels germane to their patients across culture and identity, and that has a clear relationship to patients’ presenting problems. To address this need, the presentation will provide a unique, theoretically and evidence-informed approach to integrating the relational and sociocultural not just at the level of case formulation and theory, but also articulate specific entry points for intervening both in clinical formulation and theory, but also articulates specific entry points for intervening on both in clinical work. Per the above, the presenter will draw on case illustrations to exemplify the nature of this work.
Educational Objectives
Upon completion of this activity participants should be able to:
1. Explain what is meant by the term ‘erotic insufficiency.
2. Describe the value of using the term “erotic field” to conceptualize the sensitive erotic experiences arising in the treatment of adolescents.
3. Identify the issues particular to the erotic transference/countertransference in the treatment of adolescents.
4. Differentiate between the sexualized symptoms of patients with a prior history of sexual abuse and the erotic feelings arising within the intensity of ongoing analytic work.
Licensed Professional —
Early Registration $100
After December 10 $125
Pre Licensed/Student —
Early Registration $75
After December 10 $85
6 CEs offered
Program Committee
Thomas P. Helscher, Ph.D., Chair
Lisa B. Crilley, LMFT, Co-Chair
Committee Members
Scott Shapiro, Psy.D.
Sandra Wilder-Padilla, Ph.D.
Rachel Katz
Dimitri Gatsiounis, LMFT
Simone Kiboudi, LPC
Lauren O’Connell, LMFT
Instructor Bio
Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD, is assistant professor of psychology at Queens College, where he is director of the Frantz Fanon Lab for Decolonial Psychology, and assistant professor of Critical Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of A People’s History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation Psychology, and the recent Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: Putting Freud on Fanon’s Couch. His research and scholarship on colonial mentality, decolonial psychoanalysis, and racial capitalism has been published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, and American Psychologist, among others. Gaztambide is a former member of the APA Taskforce on Strategies for the Elimination of Racism, Discrimination, and Hate, for which he received a presidential citation for his work. Outside of psychology, he is also a member of the Puerto Rican poetry troupe, The Titere Poets.
Target Audience
This program is on an advanced level and meets the needs of all mental health professionals, including Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists. CE Credit is offered for licensed 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.
Psychiatrists: CME credit will not be offered for this program
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 6 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.
Covid-19 Protocol: Attendees are requested to have a negative home test the morning of or evening before class, and to stay home if they are experiencing symptoms or have recently been socially exposed
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. Please let us know 48 hours in advance if you are switching to zoom from in person.