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Society Meeting Information

Upcoming Events

    • January 10, 2025
    • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
    • Virtual using Zoom
    • 57
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    The purpose of the film series is to encourage psychoanalytic dialogue
    with respect to creativity and movies.
     


    FILM DESCRIPTION

    Description: Poor Things (2023) traces the early development of a highly unusual woman, Bella Baxter. Best described as Frankenstein meets Siddhartha, it is a peculiar tale of a new being in her accelerated growth from infancy through to adulthood, encountering different people and their needs for her. The film is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and based on a novel by Alasdair Gray. It is an exploration of early development and narcissism, the role of socialization on female sexuality, and privilege and idealism. We are left wondering who, exactly, are the Poor Things?

    Format: The evening will begin with a presentation by the discussant followed by a group discussion. Please watch the film prior to the event. Poor Things is available to view with a premium subscription or rent on several platforms such as: Amazon, Vudu, Apple TVGoogle Play, etc.

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    DISCUSSANT BIOGRAPHY

    Jennifer Garfein, PsyD received her doctorate from the Graduate School of Professional Psychology and completed doctoral and post-doctoral internships at McGill University Health Centre at Montreal General Hospital. She worked for 5 years at Aurora Mental Health Center before beginning her full-time private practice. She attended the 4-year Adult Psychoanalytic Post Graduate Program at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and has greatly enjoyed participating in various Institute and Society events, including this fabulous Film Series. A special thank you to Tom Avery LCSW.

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    REGISTRATION DETAILS

    Date: January 10, 2025

    Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (MDT)

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

    Our emails often 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: To help cover costs, there is a fee to register for this event. Donations are welcome during registration to help keep our programs affordable.

    • Nonmembers - $15 
    • Society Members - $10
    • Students - $0 (Please list your training institution during registration.)

      Registration: Registration is required. Once registration is complete, you will receive a confirmation email. Registration closes at 12:00 PM (MT) on 1/10/25.

      No CE Credit is available for this event.

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      POLICIES

      Confidentiality: During all 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. Recording without authorization is prohibited.

      Cancellation: There will be no refunds within 48 hours of the event.

      To contact the Society office, please email office@denverpsychoanalytic.org.

      • January 14, 2025
      • January 28, 2025
      • 3 sessions
      • Virtual using Zoom
      • 93
      Register


      CLASS INFORMATION

      Description: 

      This class will weave together interpersonal and psychoanalytic perspectives, informed by indigenous Andean shamanism, and contemporary scientific understanding of time in an exploration of a more expansive, vision of the world within the context of clinical practice. The presenter will draw on her experience as a psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst as well as her immersion in Andean shamanistic practice.

      CME Objectives:

        1. Explain four key principles of Andean cosmology and shamanic practice that can be linked to psychoanalytic theory.
        2. List four techniques used in Andean shamanism in shifting between states of consciousness that correspond with a psychoanalytic conceptualization of working through trauma states.
        3. Describe five principles of Andean shamanism that are relevant to clinical analytic practice that correspond with quantum theory.

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        PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY

        Deborah Bryon, PhD, Jungian Analyst is a licensed psychologist and diplomate Jungian analyst in private practice in Denver. She received in-depth training with Q'ero shamans in Peru and has undergone a series of sacred initiations becoming a yachacheq (a paqo, or shaman, who works with the mind). Deborah is the author of multiple books and articles. The book Time and Trauma in Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy: The Wisdom of Andean Shamanism (Routledge, 2024) is her most recent publication.

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        REGISTRATION DETAILS

        Date: Tuesday evenings on January 14, 21 & 28, 2025

        Time:  6:30 - 8:30 PM (MT)

        Cost: 

        • CME Credit - DPS Member: $150
        • CME Credit - Non DPS Member: $180

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

        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, 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.

        Required Reading: Attendees will need to purchase a textbook. Details are listed in the confirmation email.

        This event will not be recorded.

        Registration: Registration is required. The deadline to register is January 7, 2025. Minimum of 6 registrants. Cancellation policy is listed below. 

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        CME INFORMATION

        6.0 CME credits available 

        CME Certificates:   To receive a CME certificate, the attendee must: pre-register, pay in full, attend the session with your name clearly labeled in Zoom, and complete an online evaluation within 7 days of the final class.

        An email with the evaluation link will be emailed after the last class. Credit will be issued for actual participation time in 15-minute increments. CME certificates will be emailed within 2 weeks following the event if the evaluation is completed. Enabling your video while participating is strongly encouraged.

        ACCME Accreditation Statement
        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.

        AMA Credit Designation Statement
        The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

        Disclosure Statement
        The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

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        POLICIES

        Confidentiality: During all 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. Recording without authorization is prohibited.

        Cancellation: There will be no refunds after January 7, 2025. Any refunds made before January 7th 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.

        • February 04, 2025
        • February 09, 2025
        • San Francisco

        NOT A SOCIETY EVENT

        American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)

        2025 National Meeting

        February 4 - 9, 2025

        Palace Hotel

        San Francisco, CA

        Click for more information

        • February 21, 2025
        • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
        • Virtual using Zoom
        • 70
        Register

        The purpose of the film series is to encourage psychoanalytic dialogue with respect to creativity and movies. 


        EVENT DESCRIPTION

        Description: In this presentation, Homay King puts two concepts in dialogue, Édouard Glissant’s "opacity" and Jean Laplanche’s "enigmatic signifier." Together, these authors question the fiction of a self that is transparent to itself, the desire to render the other transparent, and the idea that comprehension and understanding are prerequisites to being in solidarity with one another. These ideas are applied to an interpretation of the film Return to Seoul (dir. Davy Chou, France, 2022), an elliptical portrait of a Korean-French adoptee revisiting the country of her birth.

          Format: The evening will begin with a short presentation about the film followed by discussion. Please watch the film prior to the discussion. Return to Seoul is available to view with a premium subscription or rent on several platforms such as: Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, Apple TV, etc. 

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          DISCUSSANT BIOGRAPHY

          Homay King, PhD is Professor and Chair on the Catherine Fales Fellowship in the Department of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, where she co-founded the Program in Film Studies. She is the author of two books, both published by Duke University Press: Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier, which inspired the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass, and Virtual Memory: Time-based Art and the Dream of Digitality, which won the Anne Friedberg Innovative Scholarship Award of Distinction from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Her essays on film, media, and contemporary art have appeared in Afterall, Afterimage, Camera Obscura, Discourse, Film Criticism, Film Quarterly, JCMS, liquid blackness, October, and over a dozen edited volumes including The Andy Warhol Film Catalogue Raisonné and The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. She is a member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective, and appears in a video essay on the Criterion Collection edition of Shanghai Express. Currently, she is working on a book project entitled Go West: A Mythology of California’s Silicon Valley, for which she was awarded an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

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          REGISTRATION DETAILS

          Date: Friday, February 21, 2025

          Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (MST)

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

          Our emails often 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: There is a fee to register for this event. Donations are welcome during registration to help keep our programs affordable. 

          • Nonmembers - $15 
          • Society Members - $10
          • Students - $0 (Please list your school, university, or training institution during registration.)

          Registration: Registration is required. Once registration is complete, you will receive a confirmation email. The deadline to register is February 21, 2025 by 12:00 PM (MT). 

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          POLICIES

          Confidentiality: During all 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. Recording without authorization is prohibited.

          Cancellation: There will be no refunds within 48 hours of the event.

          To contact the Society office, please email office@denverpsychoanalytic.org.

          • March 14, 2025
          • 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
          • Lowry Conference Center
          • 46
          Register

          The purpose of the film series is to encourage psychoanalytic dialogue with respect to creativity and movies. 


          EVENT DESCRIPTION

          Description:  No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, (based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel) starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, and Woody Harrelson. The story takes place in the desolate landscape of West Texas, where a man who stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and a case full of money, sets off a chain of events that leads to relentless pursuit by a ruthless killer.

          Format: The film will be shown in its entirety during the event followed by a presentation and discussion led by Dr. Moran.

          Discussant Biography: Michael Moran, MD, FABP is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and member of the Denver Psychoanalytic Society. He maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis. His long-standing interests include Greek tragic drama, Shakespearean tragedy, and the origins of war. 

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          REGISTRATION DETAILS

          Date: Friday, March 14, 2025

          Time:  6:00 - 9:00 PM (MDT)

          Location: Lowry Conference Center located at 1061 Akron Way, Denver, CO 80230. There are plenty of free, accessible parking lots around the Conference Center. The film discussion will NOT be livestreamed.

          Cost: To help cover costs, there is a fee to register for this event. Donations are welcome during registration to help keep our programs affordable.

          • Nonmembers - $15 
          • Society Members - $10
          • Students - $0 (Please list your training institution during registration.)

          Registration: Registration is required and will be capped at 49 attendees due to licensure limitations. If you plan to bring a guest, there is a place to add them during the registration processRegistration closes at noon (MST) on March 14, 2025. 

          No CE credit offered.

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          POLICIES

          Confidentiality: During all 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. Recording without authorization is prohibited.

          Cancellation: There will be no refunds within 48 hours of the event.

          Photography Notice: By registering for this event, I hereby acknowledge and agree that the Denver Psychoanalytic Society (DPS) or its agents may take photographs and recordings for DPS purposes, including but not limited to news, publicity, and fundraising purposes, without further compensation to me. All such photos and videos are the sole property of the DPS.

          To contact the Society office, please email office@denverpsychoanalytic.org.

          • June 13, 2025
          • June 15, 2025
          • Virtual

          SAVE THE DATE FOR APsA's 114TH ANNUAL MEETING!

          The American Psychoanalytic Association is happy to officially announce the 114th Annual Meeting will take virtually from June 13-15, 2025.

          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 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 ___ AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

        Disclosure Statement: The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

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