We are delighted to announce our first Scholar in Residence: Dr. Peter Shabad. For over 40 years, Dr. Shabad's work has focused on how traumatic and chronically disillusioning experiences have profoundly inhibiting effects on the passion necessary to grow and change throughout life. Over the course of three months, we have curated a series of learning opportunities to examine his body work and current thinking on Trauma, Shame and Mourning. We will start his residency with an interview designed to help you get to know his mind and body of work. This event will be free to the public. The next three events will be lectures focused on a different aspect of shame. Our series will conclude with a paper presentation and panel which seeks to synthesize Dr. Shabad's work.

1) Reflections on Shame, Loss and Mourning: An interview with Scholar in Residence Dr. Peter Shabad

Saturday, Jan 8th 2022, 1:30-3pm Pacific Time, via zoom. 

In this introductory interview, we will dialogue with Dr. Peter Shabad on the origins of shame, how it dynamically manifests in the clinical setting, and how we can utilize the intimacy of connection to generate both mourning and hope.

This event is free to the public - No CE’s available

2) The Rupture of Giving and Receiving and the Emergence of Shame.  

Saturday Feb. 5th, 2022 1:30-3:30pm Pacific Time, via zoom - 2 CE’s

In this first of three seminars, Dr. Shabad will discuss the origins of shame; how a child's inherent passionate life force eventually meets up with the tensions of parental envy and separation guilt. Within the transition from one generation to the next, the passion to give and be received becomes intertwined. The interchange of giving and receiving mobilizes the child's passion and generosity to move forward toward the unknown future. Dr. Shabad will conclude this seminar by describing the process by which the rupture of giving and receiving gives way to self-inhibiting shame.

General: $95 early registration (before Jan. 22, 2022)/ $125 after Jan. 22, 2022

Candidates: $65 early registration (before Jan. 22, 2022)/ $85 after Jan. 22, 2022

3) Shame, Self-Inhibition, and The Problems of Character Passivity.  

Saturday Feb. 19th, 1:30-3:30pm Pacific Time, via zoom - 2 CE’s

In the second seminar, Dr. Shabad will explore how self-doubts concerning the wrongness of one's spontaneous desires inhibit self-expressiveness and self-assertiveness. The sense of feeling victimized by one's own self-shaming and inability to express oneself in the world leads to fatalism and feelings of envy and self-pity. He will then examine how the feeling of being unjustly wronged by one's own shame and by fate often leads to resentment and the entitled sense of feeling owed by the world. He will differentiate between the interrelated concepts of aggression, resentment, rage, and hostility. 

General: $95 early registration (before Jan. 22, 2022)/ $125 after Jan. 22, 2022

Candidates: $65 early registration (before Jan. 22, 2022)/ $85 after Jan. 22, 2022

4) Exclusion/Inclusion, Mourning and Self-Acceptance

Saturday March 12th, 2022 1:30-3:30pm Pacific Time, via zoom - 2 CE’s

In the concluding seminar, Dr. Shabad will explore clinical implications of working with shame. He will begin by contrasting the clinical aims of self-knowledge vs. self-acceptance. His argument centers on self-acceptance as the groundwork for self-awareness. He will then discuss the importance of the analyst's respect for the patient's dignity and sense of agency as an important model for the patient beginning to mobilize her own self-respect. This requires the analyst to bear witness to the underlying communication of psychological symptoms as a receptive trail leading back to traumatic experiences helping pave the way for mourning and accepting the vulnerability of one's desires that were covered over by shame.

General: $95 early registration (before Jan. 22, 2022)/ $125 after Jan. 22, 2022

Candidates: $65 early registration (before Jan. 22, 2022)/ $85 after Jan. 22, 2022

5) Divided Against Oneself: Shame, Inhibition and Life's Aftermath

Saturday March 19th, 2022 1:30-4:30pm Pacific Time, via zoom - 3 CE’s

In this final paper presentation, Dr. Shabad will explore how the rupture in giving of oneself and being received in human relationships may lead to shame and paralyzing self-consciousness. He will discuss how the inhibiting effect of shame leads to self-doubt and a retreat from the transitions inherent in human development and growth. They will explore how shame-inhibited passivity leads to feelings of self-pity, envy, regret, resentment, and the entitled sense of feeling owed. Particular focus will be placed on how exclusion and inclusion are centrally implicated in the mourning process of accepting and embracing shamed desires. A panel of several analysts from ICP will then engage in discussion with Dr. Shabad about the many concepts he brings to us in his work. or something simple. 

General: $135 early registration (before Jan. 22, 2022)/ $160 after Jan. 22, 2022

Candidates: $95 early registration (before Jan. 22, 2022)/ $105 after Jan. 22, 2022

Series Rate

General: $420 early registration (before Jan. 22, 2022)/ $490 after Jan. 22, 2022

Candidates: $ 290 early registration (before Jan. 22, 2022)/ $330 after Jan. 22, 2022

Register below and you will receive an email within 24hrs confirming your registration. Please contact us at event-registration@icpla.edu if you do NOT receive your confirmation.

The deadline to register for all programs is 4pm the Friday prior to each event.