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Upcoming Events

    • September 22, 2023
    • November 17, 2023
    • 6 sessions
    • Near CO Blvd. & 6th Avenue in Denver
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    This class has reached capacity. Please join the waitlist to indicate your interest in us offering the same course at a later date.


    Please note that this course is for PTP Graduates only!

    COURSE DETAILS

    Description: The PTP Graduate Seminar Series continues this fall with an emphasis on the unconscious. This course will focus on listening and incorporating into the plan for treatment the unconscious (or latent) material which the patient is simultaneously bringing.

    While the series will be focused around psychoanalytic theories of development, it will assume that the participant already has basic grounding in developmental theory. In these seminars, we will approach treatment as a developmental experience. From this perspective, all difficulties that are viewed as difficulties with development and the therapeutic action, are seen as facilitating the individual’s return to a progressive path of development.

    Though there will be some continuity between the modules, it is not expected that participants need take them all. In order to facilitate a good environment for conversation, the group size will be limited to 10.

    CME Objectives: 

    1. Describe the different aspects of unconscious mental life and how they relate to each other.
    2. Explain how different influences affect the development of the unconscious mind, in both childhood and therapy.

      Instructor: Rex McGehee, MD, FABP specializes in child adolescent and adult psychoanalysis. He is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and member of the Denver Psychoanalytic Society. This will be his 11th session teaching the PTP Graduate Seminar.

      REGISTRATION DETAILS

      Dates & Times: Class will take place from 10:30 - 11:45 AM (MDT) for six Fridays, September 22, 29, October 6, November 3, 10 and 17, 2023.

      Location: The class will be in person near Colorado Blvd. & 6th Avenue. The exact address will be emailed to registrants prior to the start of class. 

      Cost: $188 for Society members and $225 for non-Society members. Your spot for the class is not guaranteed until the registration fee is paid in full.

      Waitlist to Show Interest: To help facilitate a good environment for conversation, the group size is limited to 10. Once capacity is reached, a waitlist will be enabled. Please join the waitlist to indicate your interest in us offering this same course at a later date. 

      Deadline to register is September 15, 2023.

      Confidentiality: During this course, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of the class. No recording of case material is allowed.

      CME Certificates:  In order to receive a CME certificate, the attendee must: pre-register, pay in full, sign the attendance sheet, attend class and complete an evaluation within 7 days after the program. An email with a link to the online evaluation will be sent after the program. CME certificates will be sent by email within a month following the event. 

      Cancellation and Certificate Replacement Policy: There will be no refunds after September 15, 2023; any refunds prior to  September 15th will be less a $10.00 administration fee.  Please retain your CME certificate for your records.  There will be a $3 charge if the Society office has to resend a certificate. 

      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 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 7.5 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)

      • October 07, 2023
      • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
      • Anschutz Medical Campus
      • 60
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        CONFERENCE DETAILS

        This conference is for all mental health professionals interested in the interpretive process.

        Bion (1965) noted that “… no one can ever know what happens in the analytic session, the thing-in-itself, O; we can only speak of what the analyst or patient feels happens, know what the participants say happens, or the emotional state engendered by the verbalization of analyst or patient in the listener.” (p. 33).

        In regard to what we might interpret, what we hope that our interpretations will do and our assumptions about the very epistemological ground on which we stand, our understanding of the psyche, language, therapeutic action and much, much more has shifted seismically. This paper will begin to address the complexity revealed by this shift and some of the implications and changes for our understanding of interpretation and the interpretive process, especially when working with patients and psychic organizations that lay beyond neurosis.

        Learning Objectives (Participants will be able to:)

          1. Describe interpretation as a process as well as a descriptive statement.

          2. Apply the interpretive process to the creation and co-creation of new psychic contents (construction), especially in the treatment of non-neurotic sectors of the psyche.

          SPEAKER & DISCUSSANT BIOGRAPHIES

          Biographies:  Howard B. Levine, MD is a member of APsA, PINE, the Contemporary Freudian Society and Pulsion, on the faculty of NYU Post-Doc’s Contemporary Freudian Track, on the Editorial Board of the IJP and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, editor-in-chief of the Routledge Wilfred Bion Studies Book Series and in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts.

          He is the author of Transformations de l’Irreprésentable (Ithaque 2019) and Affect, Representation and Language: Between the Silence and the Cry (Routledge 2022) and editor of The Post-Bionian Field Theory of Antonino Ferro (Routledge 2022) and The Freudian Matrix of Andre Green. Towards A Psychoanalysis For The 21st Century by André Green (Routledge/IPA 2023).

          His co-edited books include Unrepresented States and the Construction of Meaning (Karnac 2013); On Freud’s Screen Memories (Karnac 2014); The Wilfred Bion Tradition (Karnac 2016); Bion in Brazil. (Karnac 2017); Andre Green Revisited: Representation and the Work of the Negative (Karnac 2018); Covidian Life (2021 Phoenix); Psychoanalysis of the Psychoanalytic Frame Revisited: A New Look at Bleger’s Classical Work (Routledge/IPA, 2022); and Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: Explorations in the Emergence of Self (Phoenix 2023).

          Nancy Bakalar, MD, DFAPA, FABP is a psychiatrist and practices adult psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in CO. Nancy lived in the Washington, DC area for 30 years and trained at The International Institute for Psychoanalytic Training (IIPT) in Chevy Chase, MD, an APsA certified training program. Nancy is a TA/SA at The Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and is a teaching and supervising analyst at IIPT. She trained in infant observation for four years under Jeanne Magagna, PhD, who was Esther Bick’s last student, and contributed and edited a book with Dr. Magagna entitled Intimate Transformations: Babies with Their Families. Nancy founded the infant Observation Program at The International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) and was the chair for nine years. Nancy has written numerous book chapters and written and presented on clinical work utilizing telepsychiatry, tele-psychoanalysis, and tele-therapy for individuals, couples, and families. Nancy’s 26 years serving as an active-duty psychiatrist for the United States Navy has given her a wealth of experience in evaluating and treating adults who suffered pathological and characterological personality structures.

          Diana C. Pitaru, LPC is a US-trained, Romanian psychotherapist and psychoanalytic candidate in her last year of training at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis. She has practiced psychotherapy for 15 years in Texas and Colorado working primarily with disadvantaged adults and adolescents. Diana has a background in political communication, arts, and philosophy, fields from which she continues to draw and incorporate into her psychoanalytic practice and writing. Diana is interested in developing psychoanalytic theory surrounding early development and primary process functioning – particularly sadomasochism. Most recently, Diana’s theoretical interest materialized in a clinical paper titled “The Look, The Enigma, and The Birth of Sadomasochism” which won an award for Best Clinical Paper at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis.

          REGISTRATION DETAILS

          Date: Saturday, October 7, 2023

          Time/Schedule: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Mountain Time); Boxed lunches will be provided during an hour-long lunch break. The morning and afternoon sessions will both include short breaks.

          Location (In Person): Room #2201 of the Anschutz Health Sciences Building on the Anschutz Medical Campus located at 1890 N. Revere Ct., Aurora, CO 80045.

          This is a live event only and will not be streamed.

          Parking: Parking for the day will cost $1 and may be paid through ParkMobile or at parking lot kiosks. Further parking information will be included in registrant reminder emails.

          Cost: (5.5 CME Credit Available)

          • DPS Member - $170
          • Non-Member - $185
          • Student Rate - $75
          • Late Registration - $200 (Late registration fee has been waived!)

              Registration is not complete until registration fee is paid in full. 

              Book Raffle: All attendees will be entered into a raffle to win Affect, Representation, and Language, Between the Silence and the Cry, written by Dr. Levine.

              Event Emails: Please be sure to add @denverpsychoanalytic.org to your safe sender list and regularly check your 'promotions', 'junk' and 'updates' email folders, as many of our emails get filtered through to secondary inboxes.

              POLICIES

              Confidentiality Policy: During this conference, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of the conference. No recording of case material is allowed.

              Updated Cancellation Policy: Your attendance is important to us, but if you are feeling unwell the day of the event, please stay home and get some rest. Due to the financial obligations incurred by the Society in planning this event, last-minute cancellations (less than 48 hours from the scheduled event start time) or no-shows are ineligible for refunds. Any refunds between September 28th and the 48-hour window, will be less a $15 administrative fee. We appreciate your understanding. Registration closes October 4, 2023 at midnight.

              CME INFORMATION

              CME Certificates:  5.5 CME Credit Available To receive a CME certificate, the attendee must: pre-register, pay in full, sign the attendance sheet, attend the entire conference, and complete an evaluation. CME certificates will be handed out at the conclusion of the event in exchange for the completed evaluation. If awarded a CME certificate, please retain for your records. There will be a $3 charge if the Society must replace a CME certificate. 

              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 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 5.5 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)

              • October 10, 2023
              • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

              Not a society event

              Please join us on Tuesday, October 10th from 7:00 - 8:30 PM to learn more about the Institute's post-graduate programs in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalytic.  Have your questions answered by some of our faculty, committee chairs and current or past students.

              Light snacks and drinks will be served.

              Location is in the North Denver neighborhood near MLK & N. Downing streets.  Exact address given after RSVP in the reminder emails.

              Register on the Institute's webpage

              • October 13, 2023
              • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
              • Virtual using Zoom
              • 49
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              The purpose of the film series is to encourage psychoanalytic dialogue with respect to creativity and movies. 


              Description: Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood visits 1969 Los Angeles, where everything is changing, as TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) make their way around an industry they hardly recognize anymore. The ninth film from the writer-director features a large ensemble cast and multiple storylines in a tribute to the final moments of Hollywood's golden age. – Summary from IMDB

              Discussant Biography: Masha Kirshyna moved to the US in 2018 and studies at the International Institute of Deep Psychology, Kyiv Ukraine, remotely. Her goal is to complete the application to Graduate School of Professional Psychology, Denver CO, for next year. She is a member of the Denver Psychoanalytic Society and her hobbies are reading, music, movies, museums, theatre, opera, ballet and traveling. 

              Film: Please watch the film prior to the discussion. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is available to view with a premium subscription or rent on several platforms such as: Prime Video, Google Play, and Vudu.

              Location: This film discussion will take place virtually using Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the discussion. 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.

              Cost: This film discussion is offered free to the community. No CME credit available. Donations are welcome during registration to help keep our programs affordable. 

              Donations: During this time of transition from a 501c6 to a 501c3, a tax-deductible receipt cannot be given for any donations coming in during registration, but we hope you will continue to give to support Society programming.

              Registration: Registration is required and closes at noon on October 12, 2023.

              • November 03, 2023
              • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
              • Virtual using Zoom
              • 37
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              LECTURE DETAILS

              Description: This lecture is for all mental health professionals. Until Covid upended the psychoanalytic frame as we knew it, most of us assumed that the therapeutic process required that analysts’ and patients’ bodies occupy the same physical space. While Covid forced us to abandon these assumptions, we anticipated, even yearned for the day when we could return to in-person work. But times have changed. Today, many of us have chosen to continue practicing remotely for reasons that are not related to fears of exposure. Many have no plan to return. Why? What dynamics--personal and intersubjective--underlie our decision to remain remote? This presentation explores our new relationship to remote work and the implications of staying online for ourselves, our patients, and for the field.

              CME Objectives:

              1. Describe several external and internal (often unconscious) pressures on analysts to incorporate screens into treatment.
              2. Asses the clinical impact of screens on treatment in an individualized way.
              3. Assess how their own vulnerabilities and unconscious fears may contribute to how they use screens in conducting treatment.

                Biography:  Leora Trub, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at Pace University’s doctoral program in School/Clinical-Child Psychology and a practicing clinical psychologist. Her primary research interest is the study of identity development, relationship formation and psychological well-being in the age of technology, and the implications of digital technology on clinical practice. She is the author of numerous papers and chapters on clinical practice in the digital age, and the relationship between technology and psychological constructs including attachment, emotional regulation, intimacy, self-presentation, and mindfulness. Her research has been published in a range of research, clinical, and psychoanalytic journals.

                REGISTRATION DETAILS

                This event will run from 7:00 - 8:30 PM Mountain Time.

                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.

                • CME credit for DPS Members: $30
                • CME credit for non DPS Members: $40
                • No CME credit: Free - $0

                Location: This lecture will take place virtually 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.

                Registration: Registration is required and closes at noon on November 2, 2023. 

                Confidentiality: During lectures, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of this lecture. No recording of case material is allowed. 

                CME Certificates:  In order to receive a CME certificate, the attendee must: pre-register, pay in full, attend the lecture and complete an evaluation within 7 days after the program. Enabling your video while participating is strongly encouraged. An email with a link to the online evaluation will be sent after the program. CME certificates will be sent by email within a month following the event. For virtual events, CME credit will be equal to the actual time participated.

                Cancellation & Certificate Replacement Policy:  There will be no refunds of fees for cancellations within 3 days of the event. If awarded a CME certificate, please retain for your records. There will be a $3 charge if the Society office must resend a certificate.

                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 provider ship of American Psychoanalytic Association and (name of nonaccredited provider). 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)

                • November 10, 2023
                • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
                • Lowry Conference Center
                • 74
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                The purpose of the film series is to encourage psychoanalytic dialogue
                with respect to creativity and movies.
                 


                FILM DETAILS

                Description:  Dive My Car narrates a global, transgenerational, and personal journey of loss and mourning. As the movie recites several stories simultaneously, we witness the timeless influence of these often-traumatic events that are remembered, retold, and reconstructed as they happened in the past, are happening in the present, and will occur because of how the past and present shape the future—borrowing known works of literature and music to create links between pained souls of the characters and to heal the old wounds and nagging scars.

                The discussants will show excerpts from the movie to generate a dialogue with the audience about the intrapsychic process of mourning, the transgenerational impact of trauma, and the presentation of un-mourned trauma, metaphorically called haunting ghosts of the past, in the psychic life of a cast of diverse characters.

                CME Objectives: 

                1. Discuss “how the past is present” from a psychoanalytic perspective that focuses on the impact of repressed and unmetabolized trauma on the actions and personalities of different characters.
                2. Apply the movie to describe, explain, and demonstrate mourning as an intrapsychic, multinarrative, transgenerational process in the journey “to bury the ghosts of the past and transform them into ancestors” that offer healing and acceptance.
                3. Discuss and describe common themes in internalizing relationships and the mourning process by using intertextuality in the presence of multi-lingual and multicultural context.

                Discussant Biographies: Larry Mortazavi, MD, CGP is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who has been treating young children and their parents/families in diverse settings, including residential treatment programs, outpatient clinics, and private practice. He is President of the Denver Psychoanalytic Society and faculty member of the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis. 

                Rick D. Bailey is a trial lawyer and mediator, focusing on complex business cases. From 2009 to 2014, Rick was in analysis with the late Dr. Fred Mimmack. During and as a result of the analysis, Rick began creative writing, primarily stage plays and screenplays. Rick's full-length screenplay "Lincoln at Congo Square" was recently submitted to several film festivals and as of this writing, has been named a semi-finalist in the Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards and runner-up for Best Historical Screenplay by the Chicago Script Awards. He is at work on his second full-length screenplay called Days of War, which will be about the years 1967-69 and the effect of the Vietnam War on families. In 2014, Rick and Dr. David Stevens together published a paper "Hearing and Mishearing: Psychoanalytic Observations on the Attorney-Client Relationship." Rick maintains a strong interest in psychoanalysis and is a member of the Society.

                REGISTRATION DETAILS

                Please watch the movie prior to the event.

                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.

                • CME credit for DPS Members: $30
                • CME credit for non DPS Members: $40
                • No CME credit: Free - $0

                Location: This event will take place at Lowry Conference Center located at 1061 Akron Way, Denver, CO. There is plenty of free parking in lots near the building. 

                Registration: Registration is required. The deadline to register is November 8, 2023. This event will NOT be livestreamed. Donations may be made during registration to help keep our programs affordable.

                Film: Please watch the film prior to the event. The film can be viewed with a premium subscription or rented from various platforms such as: Prime Video, Apple TV, Vudu, 

                CME Certificates: In order to receive a CME certificate, the attendee must: pre-register, pay in full, sign the attendance sheet, attend the entire session and complete an evaluation within 7 days after the program. An email with a link to the online evaluation will be sent after the program. CME certificates will be sent by email within a month following the event.

                Cancellation & Certificate Replacement Policy: There will be no refunds of fees for cancellations within 3 days of the event. If awarded a CME certificate, please retain for your records. There will be a $3 charge if the Society office has to resend a certificate.

                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 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)

                • January 20, 2024
                • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
                • Virtual using Zoom
                • 100
                Register


                CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION

                Description: This conference is suitable for psychoanalytic psychotherapists.

                In this conference, we will explore the psychedelic renaissance in mental health treatment and how it can influence and be influenced by psychoanalysis. We will consider two of the compounds being studied for their efficacy with mental health disorders and learn about research into their effectiveness. We will discuss how psychoanalysts are uniquely well-positioned to understand expanded states of consciousness and explore clinical issues in working with patients who use psychedelics.

                Karen Peoples, PhD will present MDMA-Assisted Therapy: Potentials and Challenges for Psychoanalytic Treatment and Megan Rundel, PhD will present Ketamine and Psychoanalysis: Expanding Consciousness

                Both presenters are psychoanalysts and trained in the therapeutic use of psychedelic medicines. Please see individual bios below.

                CME Objectives: 
                1. Explain the major psychedelic compounds being studied for their efficacy in treating mental health disorders, their mechanisms of action, contraindications, research findings, and clinical indications.
                2. Explain the reasons psychoanalysts are well-positioned to work with psychedelic medicines, including their familiarity with expanded states, understanding of the unconscious, and ability to work relationally.
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                PRESENTER BIOGRAPHIES

                Karen Peoples, PhD is a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a Personal & Supervising Analyst and Faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and Faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She served as a Sub-Investigator and Therapist on the clinical trial for treatment-resistant PTSD at the University of California at San Francisco sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and was an Associate Supervisor in MAPS' European Clinical Trial. She is currently a Consultant for MAPS. Karen is also an Experienced Facilitator who will be training palliative care staff in a new clinical trial of psilocybin for demoralization in advanced cancer patients. Karen has published and presented numerous analytic papers on telepathic dreams in analysis, the value of psychoanalytic practice for psychedelic-assisted therapy, incest trauma, and unconscious bodily communication, among others. Her recent publication is the chapter “The Mystery of the Unconscious: Non-Ordinary States in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy,” published in Integral Psychedelic Therapy: The Non-Ordinary Art of Psychospiritual Healing, 2023. Karen has a long-standing interest in contemplative traditions and practices.

                Megan Rundel, PhD is a psychoanalyst, psychedelic therapist, and Zen teacher in Oakland, CA. She is a Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, where she is also on the faculty. Additionally, she has a certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research from CIIS and has completed several advanced training programs in ketamine and psychedelic therapy. Her most recent paper is Psychedelic Psychoanalysis: Transformations of the Self, published in Psychoanalytic Dialogues in 2022.

                ________________________________________________________

                REGISTRATION DETAILS

                Date: Saturday, January 20, 2024

                Time & Schedule: This event will run from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (MT). Please log in by 9:55 AM so we may begin promptly. A  short break will be offered midway through the event. 

                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.

                You may also add @denverpsychoanalytic.org to your safe sender list and regularly check your 'promotions', 'junk' and 'updates' email folders. Once payment is made for this event, you will receive a confirmation email.

                Cost:

                • CO Trainees: $40.00 (Please list your CO training institution at registration)
                • DPS Members: $60.00
                • Non DPS Members: $75.00 
                Your spot for the conference is not guaranteed until the registration fee is paid in full.

                ________________________________________________________

                CME INFORMATION

                2.75 CME credits are available for this conference. 

                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. 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 2.75 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)

                ________________________________________________________

                POLICIES

                Cancellation and Certificate Replacement: There will be NO refunds after January 17, 2024. Any refunds made before January 17th will be less a $10 administrative fee. If awarded a CME certificate, please retain for your records. There will be a $3 charge if the Society office must resend a certificate.

                Confidentiality: During conferences, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of this conference. No recording of case material is allowed.
                • February 02, 2024
                • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
                • Virtual using Zoom
                • 100
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                COURSE DETAILS

                Description: This presentation is for all health professionals. It will describe patient selection and preparation for, and the actual procedure and process of, psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy with various medicines. We will also discuss the importance of integration work in this therapy.

                CME Objectives:

                  1. Discuss screening criteria for patients for PAP (Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy) and considerations when choosing a patient-appropriate medicine.
                  2. Describe the role of the facilitator/guide in a PAP session.
                  3. Explain the critical importance of good preparation for and integration work with PAP.

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                  INSTRUCTOR BIOGRAPHIES

                  Susan Frederick, MD graduated from Auburn University with a BS in Biology and Psychology her MD from the University of Alabama School of Medicine, completed her internship in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia, completed her Adult Psychiatry residency and then Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. She completed her Adult, Adolescent, and Child Psychoanalytic training at Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis. Susan joined the clinical psychiatry faculty at the University of Colorado where she is an Associate Clinical Professor. She has taught and supervised in both the UCHSC psychiatry residency and child and adolescent fellowship, and the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis. She is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

                  Susan has had a busy private practice in adult, adolescent, and child psychiatry since 1989. More recently, she graduated from the Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Program of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute in 2022, the Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Program through PRATI in 2022, the Trauma Touch Therapy Program at the Colorado School of the Healing Arts in 2022, and the Ketamine and Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy at the End-of-Life Program through PRATI in 2023. She also completed the MAPS MDMA online training component in 2022.

                  Randy Buzan, MD graduated from the University of Michigan with a BS in Psychology, a MD from the U-M Medical School, and completed his general psychiatry residency at the University of Colorado. He graduated from the PTP program at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and then completed his psychoanalytic training at the DIP. He completed a fellowship in psychopharmacology at the University of Colorado and another mini-fellowship in electroconvulsive therapy at Duke. He joined the psychiatry faculty at the medical school where he directed the electroconvulsive therapy service, ran the psychiatry department’s outpatient services, and did psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatry research for 9 years. Randy has served as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Neuropsychiatry, is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and has published more than 25 papers and book chapters. He has presented nationally on pharmacology, treatment of brain injury and spinal cord injury, the neuropsychiatry of meditation and philosophy of mind, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and developmental disabilities.

                  Randy spent 25 years as the chief neuropsychiatrist at ReMed/Learning Services, a residential treatment unit for brain-injured patients and Randy has been the chief neuropsychiatric consultant at Craig Hospital for the past 30 years. He recently graduated from the Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Program of the Integrative Psychiatry Institute in 2022, and the Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy program through PRATI in 2022. He completed the MAPS MDMA online training component in 2022.

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                  REGISTRATION DETAILS

                  Date & Time: This class will take place on Friday, February 2, 2024 from 9:00 - 11:00 AM (MT)

                  Cost: 

                  • DPS Members: $50
                  • Non DPS Members: $60
                  Your spot for the class is not guaranteed until the registration fee is paid in full.

                  Location: Virtual using Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the class 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.

                  You may also add @denverpsychoanalytic.org to your safe sender list and regularly check your 'promotions', 'junk' and 'updates' email folders. Once payment is made for this event, you will receive a confirmation email.

                  Registration: Registration is required. The deadline to register is January 31, 2024. 

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                  CME INFORMATION

                  2 CME Credits are available for this class.

                  CME Certificates:  In order to receive a CME certificate, the attendee must: pre-register, pay in full, attend class, and complete an evaluation within 7 days after the program. Credit is equal to time participated for virtual events. An email with a link to the online evaluation will be sent after the class. CME certificates will be sent by email within a month following the event. 

                  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 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 2 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

                  Cancellation & Certificate Replacement Policy: There will be NO refunds after January 31, 2024. Any refunds made before January 31st will be less a $10 administrative fee.  If, after registering, you can no longer attend, please notify office@denverpsychoanalytic.orgPlease retain your CME certificate for your records. There will be a $3 charge if the Society office must resend a certificate.

                  Confidentiality: During this class, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of the class. No recording of case material is allowed.

                  • June 07, 2024
                  • June 09, 2024
                  • Virtual

                  SAVE THE DATE FOR APsA's 113TH ANNUAL MEETING!

                  The American Psychoanalytic Association is happy to officially announce the 113th Annual Meeting will take virtually from June 7-9, 2024.

                  Add the dates to your calendar now!

                  More information will be posted to APsA's Meeting Website when available.


                CME CREDIT GUIDELINES

                The Denver Psychoanalytic Society offers CME credit for many of its programs. The following are general guidelines for obtaining CME credit. Each event that is offering credit will have detailed information listed in the event description, so please be sure to read through all information listed about an event.

                If CME credit is being offered, the attendee must do the following to receive a certificate: pre-register, pay in full, attend sessions in their entirety, sign the attendance sheet and complete an evaluation within 7 days after the program. For virtual events, CME credit will be equal to the actual time participated. A link to the online evaluation will be emailed to each registrant after attendance sheets have been recorded. CME certificates will be sent by email within a month following the event after attendees are cross referenced by registration, payment, sign-in, and completion of the evaluation.

                Certificate Replacement Policy: If awarded a CME certificate, please retain for your records. There will be a $3 charge if the Society office has to resend a certificate.

                DPS programs offer a varying amount of credits, depending upon the activity. The amount of CME credit being offered can be found in the second paragraph of the disclosures section (usually located in the lower section of an event description):

                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 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 ___ 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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