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    • March 22, 2024
    • 5:45 PM - 9:30 PM
    • Lowry Conference Center
    • 43
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    The purpose of the film series is to encourage psychoanalytic dialogue with respect to creativity and movies. 


    EVENT DESCRIPTION

    Format: The film will be shown in its entirety at the beginning of the event followed by discussion.

    Description: Pride & Prejudice is a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Joe Wright, in his feature directorial debut, and based on Jane Austen's 1813 novel of the same name. The film features five sisters from an English family of landed gentry as they deal with issues of marriage, morality, and misconceptions. Keira Knightley stars in the lead role of Elizabeth Bennet, while Matthew Macfadyen plays her romantic interest Mr. Darcy. - Wikipedia

    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: March 22, 2024; the fourth Friday of the month

    Time: 5:45 - 9:30 PM (MDT). The extended timeframe of the event provides time to watch the film as a group followed by discussion. 

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

    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.

    Registration: Registration is required. The deadline to register is March 20, 2024 by 12:00 PM (MST). 

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    POLICIES

    Confidentiality: During events, 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.

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

    • March 23, 2024
    • 9:00 AM - 12:15 PM
    • Virtual

    NOT A SOCIETY EVENT


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    SUMMARY

    The training led by clinical psychologist, Dr. Lillian Gibson, will provide mental health professionals with a practical framework to confidently assess and treat racial trauma along with minority stress.

    The first phase of training will focus on the importance of recognizing both the likenesses and dissimilarities of clients’ and clinicians’ worldviews, race, and ethnicity within the context of assessing the impacts of race based stressors. Attendees will learn how to apply culturally-specific approaches when exploring clients’ trauma experiences.

    The second phase of training will be positioned on clinicians diving deeper to assess trauma through clinical interviews and assessments to in-turn develop a client-centered treatment plan.

    Training will use case vignettes to guide the presentation, and demonstrate how common clinical mistakes can be made when cultural considerations are not appropriately utilized.

    Participants will leave the training with practical approaches to discuss racial identity and trauma with all clients while taking into account the biopsychosocial impacts of racial trauma and minority stress.


    • April 12, 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Virtual using Zoom
    • 32
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    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:

    1. Describe how ideas of a core gender identity limit and create inelasticity within psychoanalytic thinking and thus impact clinical work.
    2. 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.

    • April 18, 2024
    • 5:45 PM - 8:45 PM
    • Embassy Suites Denver Central Park 4444 N. Havana Street, Denver, CO 80239

    NOT A SOCIETY EVENT


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    Agenda

    5:45-7:00pm Cocktail Hour & Exhibitor Hall

    7:00-7:15pm Plated Dinner

    7:15-7:40pm opening remarks & business meeting

    7:40-8:05pm Program

    C. Neill Epperson, MD
    "Managing Common Menopausal Problems in the Psychiatric Setting"

    Sarah Nagle-Yang, MD
    "Advances in Perinatal Depression Treatment"

    8:25-8:40pm Q&A

    8:40-8:45pm Closing remarks


    • May 04, 2024
    • 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
    • Anschutz Medical Campus
    • 79
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      CONFERENCE DETAILS

      Achieving tangible, structural change isn't easy. Four skill areas, frequently missing from psychodynamic curricula, help change stick: Goal-setting, Right-Hemispheric processing, enhancing Absorption, and actively developing Internalization. This workshop describes and illustrates these four skill areas to psychotherapists of all experience levels and theoretical orientations, using lecture, slides, case examples, and live role-play.

      Learning Objectives (Participants will be able to:)

        1. List four elements of treatment-relevant diagnosis to consider when developing treatment goals.

        2. Demonstrate three interventions for deepening a patient’s absorption and two interventions for promoting internalization.

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        PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY

        Mary Jo Peebles is a Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, who practices and teaches as a theoretical synergist. Her “six men and the elephant” concept, of six equally valid, supported, and vital theoretical portals into human functioning (biological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, systems), forms the basis for her psychotherapeutic reasoning. Her intensive background in the David Rapaport, Merton Gill, and Roy Schafer approach to Psychological Testing shapes her understanding of the importance of mapping structural instabilities and recovery when planning treatment. Dr. Peebles is the author of Beginnings: The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy as well as When Psychotherapy Feels Stuck and is co-author with Anthony Bram of Psychological Testing That Matters. She teaches the same way she conducts therapy: with an understanding that multimodal encountering complexifies neural networks, brings ideas alive, and thus helps change stick.

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        REGISTRATION DETAILS

        Date: Saturday, May 4, 2024

        Time/Schedule: 9:00 AM - 4:30 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): Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, CO. Exact location will be shared in reminder emails.

        This is a live event only and will not be streamed nor recorded.

        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: (6 CME Credits Available)

        • DPS Member - $165
        • Non-Member - $180
        • Student Rate - $75 (Please list educational institution during registration)
        • Late Registration - $190 (Begin April 25th)

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

            Book Purchase & Signing:  Dr. Peebles' book, When Psychotherapy Feels Stuck, is available for purchase during registration for $35 (20% discount off MSRP) and will be given to attendees at check-in the day of the conference. To provide the publisher ample shipping time, this discount opportunity will close on 4/14/24. Time will be provided during lunch and at the end of the conference for books to be signed. Reading or purchasing the book is not a requirement to attend.

            Used Book Sale: The Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis is selling a wide variety of used psychoanalytic titles and all proceeds support psychoanalytic education. If you shop the online used book sale and purchase before May 2nd, we will have the books ready for you when you arrive at the conference. Please choose the 5/4/24 - pickup for attendees at DPS Conference with Dr. Mary Jo Peebles option during check out.

            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.

            Late registration: Late registration fees begin on April 25th and continue until registration closes on May 1, 2023 at 12:00 PM (MT). Registration after May 1st may be considered.

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            CME INFORMATION

            CME Certificates:  6 CME Credits 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. 

            Required CME Disclosures:

            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 the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis. 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.

            Planner Disclosure
            Larry Mortazavi, MD - No relevant financial relationships
            Shoshana Adler, PhD - No relevant financial relationships
            Nancy Bell, LCSW - No relevant financial relationships
            Balin Anderson, LCSW - No relevant financial relationships
            Stacie Aden, LCSW - No relevant financial relationships
            Lynne Gillick, PhD - No relevant financial relationships
            Margy Stewart, PsyD - No relevant financial relationships
            Dana Tautfest, PsyD - No relevant financial relationships

            Presenter Disclosure
            Mary Jo Peebles, PhD, ABPP, ABPH - Does Disclose
            • Taylor & Francis Publishing, Receives Royalties as Author

            CE Committee Reviewer:
            Aneil M. Shirke, M.D., Ph.D., FABPN, FABP - No Relevant Financial Disclosures

            Disclosure Statement
            In accordance with disclosure policies of ACCME, effort is made to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all accredited activities. These policies include mitigating all possible relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for all planners and faculty. The APsA CE Committee has reviewed these disclosures and determined that the relationships are not inappropriate in the context of their respective presentations and are not inconsistent with the educational goals and integrity of the activity.

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            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.

            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 April 25th and the 48-hour window, will be less a $25 administrative fee. We appreciate your understanding.

            Certificate Replacement: If awarded a CME certificate, please retain for your records. There will be a $3 charge if the Society must replace a CME certificate. 

            • May 10, 2024
            • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
            • Virtual using Zoom
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            The purpose of the film series is to encourage psychoanalytic dialogue with respect to creativity and movies. 


            FILM DESCRIPTION

            Description: This discussion is for any learner interested in psychoanalytic theory. The use of film for exploring analytic theories can illustrate them in more immediately relatable and applicable manners. I will utilize the 2013 film The Counselor to illustrate aspects of Kleinian theory, in particular how paranoid-schizoid dynamics are manifested by the main characters, the difficulty reaching the depressive position, the defenses employed to avoid this transition, and the eventual despair when they fail. 

            CME Objectives: 
            1. Describe how paranoid-schizoid dynamics relate to the psychic framework of the two principal characters.
            2. Discuss the defenses deployed to avert awareness of dimensions of the depressive position, including grief.

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

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            DISCUSSANT BIOGRAPHY

            Christopher W. T. Miller, MD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He obtained his medical degree in 2005 from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis, Brazil. He trained in Adult Psychiatry at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Residency Program, graduating in 2012. He completed training in Adult Psychoanalysis in 2018 at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. He is the Director of Psychotherapy Education for the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Program. He is also the Medical Director for the Psychiatry Associates Outpatient Practice and an attending physician in the Psychiatric Emergency Services at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He has published and lectured on educational frameworks for teaching psychotherapy in residency programs, on the intersection between the neurosciences and psychotherapy, and on psychodynamic dimensions of film and literature, with a particular interest in the works of William Shakespeare. He is the author of “The Object Relations Lens: A Psychodynamic Framework for the Beginning Therapist.”

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            REGISTRATION DETAILS

            Date: Friday, May 10, 2024

            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. 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: 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

            Registration: Registration is required. The deadline to register is May 7, 2024 by 12:00 PM (MST). Cancellation is policy 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 and 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 events, 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.

            Cancellation: There will be NO refunds after May 7, 2024. Any refunds made before May 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.

            • 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.


            • February 04, 2025
            • February 09, 2025
            • NYC

            NOT A SOCIETY EVENT

            American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)

            2025 National Meeting

            February 4 - 9, 2025

            Palace Hotel

            San Francisco, CA

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          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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