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Social Justice and Human Rights Series: The Psychoanalyst as Citizen

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March 23, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Social Justice and Human Rights Series
The Psychoanalyst as Citizen: Clinical, Ethical, and Historical Perspectives

Dr. Bennett Simon

Thursday, March 23 | 7:00 to 8:30 PM

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This talk addresses issues that may remove us from our comfort zone as clinicians. It reviews the history of how psychoanalysts have dealt with the interrelationship between their clinical work and their ethical obligations as citizens to engage in the political and social world around them. Clinical work suffers if not informed by the analyst’s keen awareness of the patient’s political history as well as her or his own political history. What role is there for the psychoanalyst as activist/advocate/lobbyist in upholding the integrity of the profession?

 

Continuing Education Objectives: 

  1. Discuss the history of how psychoanalysts have dealt with the interrelationship between clinical work and ethical obligations as citizens.
  2. Examine the therapist’s own political history and that of the patient and discuss how it may effect clinical work.
  3. Discuss the role  for the psychoanalyst as activist/advocate/lobbyist in upholding the integrity of the profession.

CE Target audience:  Psychologists (all levels), Social Workers, Counselors

Presenter:

Bennett Simon, MD, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, has long been involved in the interface of psychoanalysis and the humanities and psychoanalysis and the social sciences. He has thought and written about the political self of the analyst and of the patient, and in what form these aspects are expressed and how to find a space for appropriate dialogue in the analytic setting. Together with his wife, Dr. Roberta Apfel, he has been active in the study of the effects of war and communal violence on children. In conjunction with Physicians for Human Rights, he has been involved in evaluating refugees from persecution seeking Political Asylum. He is on the Faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, an Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst, and Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, at the Cambridge Health Alliance.

Fee:  Free or $20 per event for 1.5 CE’s/Clock Hours*

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Date:
March 23, 2017
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Venue

BGSP
1581 Beacon Street
Brookline, MA 02446 United States
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Phone
617-277-3915
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