Appalachian Psychoanalytic Society
a local chapter of the Division 39 of the American Psychological Association
presents a
Fall Conference
with
Peter Shabad, PhD,
on
Chronic Loss, Shame, and Mourning
Saturday, October 16, 2021
8:30am - 4:30pm
University of Tennessee Conference Center
600 Henley Street
Knoxville, Tennessee 37902
Participants who have been vaccinated
against COVID-19 are welcomed to attend.
Those who have not been vaccinated should not attend.
Masks are REQUIRED at the UT Conference Center.
Description of Program
In this conference, Dr. Shabad will address how chronic experiences of rejected vulnerability and loss may often lead to an inhibiting shame and a long-term reactive passivity. He will begin by exploring how the interchange of giving and receiving with parents is centrally implicated in the forward motion of development. Self-shaming and self-doubt emerge from the chronic repetition of these ruptured interchanges, thus leading to problems of character passivity such as self-pity, envy, resentment, entitlement, and ultimately culminating in regret for missed life opportunities. Given that such individuals are dissociated from their experiences of traumatic disruption, they are not able to convey what happened to them in words, but instead form symptoms that are meant to communicate their prior experiences of lonely suffering and emotional loss. It is important clinically for the therapist to help articulate /validate the patient’s experiences. Most crucially, the process of mourning entails reintegrating and affirming the original desires and hopes that were attacked and covered up because of one’s shame.
Presenter
Peter Shabad, PhD, received his Certification in Psychoanalysis from the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Shabad serves as a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Medical School. He is a member of the Core Faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and has written about trauma, shame and the role of the patient’s agency in psychoanalytic treatment.
He focuses on the experiences of loss and disappointment that people don’t want to think about, remember or talk about, which often come back to haunt them in their current lives. He teaches a course on trauma, shame and mourning as well as a course on values of psychoanalysis. His clinical interests include loss and mourning, trauma and its aftermath of shame.
Schedule
8:30am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:55am Welcome and Introduction
9:00am Giving and Receiving
10:30am Break and Snacks
10:45am Shame, Doubt, and Passivity
12:15-1:15pm Catered lunch (included in registration fee) will be served at the Conference Center.
1:15pm Symptoms and Dissociation
2:45pm Break and Snacks
3:00pm Treatment Implications
4:30pm Complete Evaluations and Adjourn.
Learning Objectives
After attending this intermediate-level program in full, participants will be able to:
1. Describe how the transition from one generation to the next leads to parental envy and separation guilt.
2. Describe how the interchange of giving and receiving propels development forward.
3. Describe how the rupture of giving and receiving interchanges reflexively leads to shame and self-consciousness.
4. Explain how Winnicott’s statement: “There is no trauma outside of omnipotence” is central to the onset of shame.
5. Describe how the chronic psychic loss experience of repeated hope and disillusionment leads to shame.
6. Explain how the chronic trauma of psychic loss experiences leads to the formation of symptoms that are meant to communicate one’s prior experience.
7. Explain the distinctions between reflexive guilt, shame, and remorse.
8. Describe the pathway by which self-shaming leads to self-pity, resentment, and entitlement.
9. Describe how regret for missed opportunities is a climactic loss of life to shame and inhibition.
10. Describe how mourning is simultaneously the reintegration of shamed wishes and relinquishment of wishful fantasies.
Participants
This program is open to all APS members and other interested mental health professionals who may not be members. It is not limited to individuals practicing in a predominately psychoanalytic mode. The material will be appropriate for clinicians with intermediate levels of experience and knowledge.
Registration Fees and Policies
The registration fee includes a continental breakfast, snacks during breaks and a catered lunch that will be served at the Conference Center. There is not a discounted fee option for those who are not interested in the meals or snacks.
BY October 11, 2021:
Professional Members and Scholar Members: $125
Non-members: $140
Early-Career Professional Members: $70
Graduate Student Members: $25
BETWEEN October 11, 2021 and October 14, 2021:
Professional Members and Scholar Members: $150
Non-members: $165
Early-Career Professional Members: $95.
Graduate Student Members: $50.
Registration will close on October 14, 2021.
Although walk-ins will be accepted, please register online at www.aps-tn.wildapricot.org in advance to assure adequate food and seating.
If you prefer to pay by check, please print the Conference Registration form, and mail with your payment to:
Wesley Gosselin, LMSW
APS Treasurer
100 Forest Court
Knoxville, TN 37919.
Refunds honored with written/electronic notice at least 48 hours before date of conference. Contact Wesley Gosselin, LMSW.
Contact the APS President Joyce Cartor, PhD to negotiate fees, if needed.
Facility is accessible to persons who are physically challenged. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address requests, questions, concerns and any complaints to Joyce Cartor, PhD.
APS Membership
Eligible professionals can join APS or renew their membership for the 2021-2022 program year for $80. Scholars can join/renew for $50 and Early-Career Professionals can join/renew for $45. Graduate students may join or renew for $25.
American Psychological Association Approval Statement
Division 39 is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Continuing Education
This program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 6 continuing education credits. With full attendance (sign-in at start of program) and completion of a program Evaluation and Learning Assessment, a certificate will be issued. Psychologists will have their participation registered through Division 39. Partial credit is not available for partial attendance.
APS and Division 39 are committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. APS and Division 39 are also committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in continuing education activities. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods.
Selected References/Recommended Reading
Benjamin, J. (2017). Beyond Doer and Done To: Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity, and the Third. New York: Routledge.
Drozek, R. (2019). Psychoanalysis as an Ethical Process. New York: Routledge.
Freud, S. (1917). Mourning and Melancholia. Standard Edition 14: 243-258. London: Hogarth.
Shabad, P. (2017). The vulnerability of giving: Ethics and the generosity of receiving. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 37 (6): 359-374.
Shabad, P. (2001). Despair and the Return of Hope. Northvale, N.J.: Aronson.
Winnicott, D.W. Mind and its Relation to the psyche-soma. (p. 243-254). In Through Paediatrics to Psychoanalysis. New York: Basic Books.
Contact
If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them. Please address requests, questions, concerns and any complaints to the APS President Joyce Cartor, PhD.
There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between Division 39, APS, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding sources that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest. During the program, the validity/utility of the content and risks/limitations of the approaches discussed will be addressed.