Meredith Redding LMFT SEP
Fee
All Attendees — $25
A Sense of Selfie
As if personalities, provisional lives, & the role of the Imaginary in modern “Failure to Launch” Patients
with Meredith Redding LMFT SEP
"If the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to helpless staleness" - Carl Jung
Jung described the provisional life as the Modern European disease of the merely imaginary life. Tasked more with cultivating a sense of "selfie" than a durable, reality-oriented ego located in temporal reality, this talk considers the unique influence social media may contribute to heightened presentations of the As If personality, and provisional lives in Generation Z patients. Case studies will be presented featuring adolescents and young adults who live a "life deferred" as they find themselves paralyzed by the feelings that it is both too soon and too late for the vulnerable work of building an agentic self and dynamic life in the world. d impossibly vast.
All Attendees — $25
We want to thank WILA for genoursoly providing the venue for these events.
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
Psychoanalytic Conversations
The Psychoanalytic Conversations Series offers more informal, in-person meetings in which a LAISPS candidate, member, or training and supervising analyst presents a case and leads a focused conversation on important clinical topics.
For Winter-Spring 2025, the Psychoanalytic Conversations will address the “Failure to Launch” phenomenon and the developmental challenges posed to adolescence and young adulthood, particularly in this social media saturated, post-Covid environment that has created unusually stressful conditions for an already fraught transitional period.
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.
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.
About the Presenter
Meredith Redding LMFT SEP is a senior psychoanalytic candidate at LAISPS. She maintains a private practice in Malibu, California and has worked with adolescents and young adults at all levels of care for the last decade.