LECTURE INFORMATION
Description:
This presentation, intended for psychoanalytically oriented mental health professionals, will address gender concepts through a psychoanalytic lens.
At this moment in time, conversations about gender are at the epicenter of heated debate and passionate conversation. At stake is gender's status as a concept (does gender matter, and if so, how?) and matters relating to gender development. Is gender an innate part of the self or one that is distorted by exposure, say, to drag queens and the wrong internet sites?
Psychoanalysis has unique insights to contribute to these questions and to the anxieties that underwrite them. In this presentation, Dr. Saketopoulou helps us navigate them by focusing on the theory and clinical implications of two key psychoanalytic ideas: the fiction of a core gender identity that determines what one's true and authentic gender is (be that cis, trans, or otherwise) and the idea of developmentally, predetermined gender endpoints.
This program will be followed by ample time for engagement with the audience.
CME Objectives:
- Describe how ideas of a core gender identity limit and create inelasticity within psychoanalytic thinking and thus impact clinical work.
- Explain the difference between development and developmentalism.
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PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou is a Cypriot and Greek psychoanalyst on faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Avgi teaches in other analytic institutes such as the William Alanson White Institute and her work has received numerous awards including APsA’s Ralph Roughton award. The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association has twice bestowed her their best annual essay prize, in 2014 for her work with a 5-year-old trans girl and in 2023 for her paper on anti-racist racism. Her interview on psychoanalysis is in the collection of the Freud Museum in Vienna and she was co-chair of the first US-based conference dedicated to the work of Jean Laplanche. In 2021 she was co-recipient of the first Tiresias Prize from the IPA’s Sexual and Gender Diversities Committee, which appears in an expanded form in Gender Without Identity, co-authored with Dr. Ann Pellegrini (The Unconscious in Translation Press, 2023). Her monograph, Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU press, 2023) braids psychoanalytic theory with philosophy, Black feminisms, and queer of color critique, and her conversational duets with Dominique Scarfone punctuate his essays in their book The Reality of the Message: Psychoanalysis in the wake of Jean Laplanche (The Unconscious in Translation Press, 2023).
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REGISTRATION DETAILS
Date: Friday, April 12, 2024
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM (MDT)
Cost: While this event is free and open to the public, there is a fee for those who would like to receive CME credit. Please choose the appropriate level when registering.
- No CME Credit: Free
- CME Credit - DPS Member: $30
- CME Credit - Non DPS Member: $40
Location: Virtual using Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the event. Please note that many of our emails get filtered through secondary inboxes, so please do a search within your inbox for key words such as: Denver Psychoanalytic Society, DPS, Zoom link, and/or the name of the speaker or title of the event to find the email with the link. Once payment is made for this event, you will receive a confirmation email.
This event will not be recorded.
Registration: Registration is required. The deadline to register is April 10, 2024 by 12:00 PM (MDT). Cancellation policy is listed below.
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CME INFORMATION
1.5 CME credits available
CME Certificates: In order to receive a CME certificate, the attendee must: pre-register, pay in full, attend the session, and complete an online evaluation within 7 days after the program. An email with the evaluation link will be sent after the program. Credit is equal to time participated for virtual events. CME certificates will be sent by email within a month following the event. Enabling your video while participating is strongly encouraged.
CME Disclosures:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and The Denver Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. (Updated July 2021)
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POLICIES
Confidentiality: During programs, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of this program. No recording of case material is allowed.
Cancellation: There will be NO refunds after April 10, 2024. Any refunds made before April 10th will be less a $10 administrative fee.
Certificate Replacement: If awarded a CME certificate, please retain for your records. There will be a $3 charge if the Society office must resend a certificate.
To contact the Society office, please email office@denverpsychoanalytic.org.
