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    • March 17, 2023
    • April 07, 2023
    • 4 sessions
    • Virtual using Zoom
    • 5


    COURSE DETAILS

    Description: The course will center on Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference by M. Fakhry Davids. This book "explores the inner relationship between the self and the socially stereotyped - "racial"- other, providing a clinically derived model of how racist dynamics play out in the mind."

    Learners will discuss the book's content as it relates to clinical work and larger societal issues that impact both clinicians and clients/patients. The course will assist clinicians to competently treat diverse populations and contribute to furthering social justice as respected members of society who see the impact of oppression on a population’s overall health. 

    Objectives: (after this discussion, participants should be able to):

    1. Summarize some of the existing literature on racism and psychoanalysis.
    2. Discuss ways in which race and class divides are internalized and the relationship between individual and institutional racism/classism.
    3. Describe how racism can be addressed in group and individual clinical settings.

    Facilitator Bios: Sangeeta Patel, MD is a psychoanalyst from the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and Society member. She completed her medical training and psychiatric residency at the University of Colorado and currently works at the Veteran's Affairs hospital in addition to maintaining a private practice. Jennifer Perlman, PsyD is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Denver, CO and a Society member. Jennifer has advanced training in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, specializing in the treatment of complex PTSD and LGBTQ issues. Jennifer is particularly interested in using psychological practice and theory to help increase consciousness, expand global empathy and inclusivity to facilitate a collective healing.

    REGISTRATION DETAILS

    Books & Format: Participants will furnish their own books and be expected to read the assigned sections before each meeting. The format will be discussion by participants in the style of a book group, divided over 4 sessions. To enhance discussion, this course is limited to a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 13 registrants. 

    Dates & Times: Discussions will take place virtually using Zoom from 10:00 - 11:30 AM for four Fridays on March 17, 24, 31 & April 7, 2023. The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the first class. The deadline to register is March 15, 2023.

    Cost: $90 for Society members and $110 for non-Society members. Your spot is not guaranteed until the registration fee is paid in full.

    Confidentiality: During this discussion 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, 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 last class. CME certificates will be sent by email within a month following the class. For virtual events, CME credit will be equal to time participated.

    Cancellation and Certificate Replacement Policy: There will be no refunds after March 15, 2023; any refunds prior to March 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 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 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 6 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)

    • April 21, 2023
    • May 26, 2023
    • 6 sessions
    • Near CO Blvd. & 6th Avenue in Denver
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    Please note that this course is for PTP Graduates only!

    COURSE DETAILS

    Description: This spring will begin a new series of seminars for graduates of the PTP. Like our previous seminars, this will be a multi-year series of modules. While it 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 are viewed as difficulties with development and the therapeutic action is seen as facilitating the individual’s return to a progressive path of development.

    While 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 early influences on development and link those influences to capacities in the treatment situation.
    2. Assess and discern relational and personality complications that may be rooted in the infancy period.

    Instructor: Rex McGehee, MD 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 10th session teaching the PTP Graduate Seminar.

    REGISTRATION DETAILS

    Dates & Times: Class will take place from 10:30 - 11:45 AM (MDT) for six consecutive Fridays on: April 21, 28 & May 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2023. 

    Location: The class will be 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.

    The group size is limited to 10 to help facilitate a good environment for conversation.

    Deadline to register is April 14, 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, 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 April 14, 2022; any refunds prior to April 14th 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)

    • April 29, 2023
    • 12:45 PM - 5:00 PM
    • Lowry Campus
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    COURSE DETAILS

    Description:  With improvement in fMRI resolution, we have exciting new information about a primitive brain structure called The Aversion Network or the Anti-Reward network. Dysregulation of this network has been correlated with addiction, chronic pain, complicated grief, PTSD, and depression. The implications regarding two topics dear to my heart, psychoanalysis and addiction, are remarkable. This half-day seminar will discuss current research on the operations of this network, especially with respect to addiction, complex PTSD, and psychoanalysis and offer some suggestions for psychoanalytic interventions based on these findings.

    The talk will be divided into four parts. Part I will discuss the neurobiology of the Anti-Reward network and how this relates to psychiatric disorders, especially addiction. Part II surveys a few psychoanalytic concepts considering this model of brain dysregulation. Part III will look at treatment of addiction, taking these new findings into account. This section is subtitled, “Where psychoanalysis, addiction treatment, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and Buddhism meet.” And Part IV examines what psychoanalysis has to offer to people suffering from addiction.

    I am looking forward to the kind of lively discussions generated in previous talks with the Denver Psychoanalytic Society, not only with regard to the nature of addiction and psychoanalysis, but to the implications on what it is like to be human and whether we might have more choice about what kind of society we make.

    CME Objectives:

      1. Apply psychoanalytic techniques to treatment of addiction.
      2. Demonstrate a working knowledge of the Aversion Network as it applies to addiction, PTSD, chronic pain, complicated grief, and depression.

      Instructor Biography: Michael Levin, MD brings to this talk his 27 years of experience dealing with patients suffering from addiction, 7 years of psychoanalytic training, 5 years practice as an internist, 4 years working in R&D as an engineer, 2 years of experience in basic neuroscience research, and over 50 years of meditation practice.

      REGISTRATION DETAILS

      Date & Time: This class will take place on Saturday, April 29, 2023 from 12:45 - 5:00 PM. There will be a short break midway through the event.

      Cost:  $100 for Society Members and $120 for non-Society members. Your spot for the class is not guaranteed until the registration fee is paid in full.

      Location: This class will be held in person on the Lowry Campus. The exact address will be emailed to registrants prior to the first class. There is plenty of free, accessible parking. Water bottle filling stations and vending machines are available on site. 

      Registration: Registration is required. The deadline to register is April 22, 2023. This class will be capped at 50 registrants.

      Registration Waiver: By registering for this class, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any place where people are gathered, you knowingly assume all such risks related to illness and infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, and agree not to hold the Denver Psychoanalytic Society or any of their affiliates, officers, employees, or volunteers liable for any illness or injury.

      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.

      CME Certificates:  In order to receive a CME certificate, the attendee must: pre-register, pay in full, sign the attendance sheet, attend the session in its entirety and complete an evaluation within 7 days after the program. 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.

      Cancellation & Certificate Replacement Policy: There will be no refunds of fees for cancellations within 7 days of the first class; any refunds prior to April 22, 2023 will be less a $10 administration 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.

      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 3.75 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)

      Health and safety recommendations can change quickly, therefore, we will adjust as needed to follow CDC, and state guidelines for meeting in-person for this class.
      • May 13, 2023
      • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
      • Virtual using Zoom
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      CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION

      Description: The program is targeted at all levels of practitioners of mental health services and will discuss the effects of relational trauma, misdiagnosis and misunderstanding of the effects on development, and the necessity of genuine relationship in the healing process. We will look at progress and the ongoing struggle to understand experiences of early trauma on development and implications for treatment.

      Dr. Annita Sawyer will trace her journey as a suicidal adolescent in 1960, mistakenly diagnosed with schizophrenia and treated with ECT and lengthy hospitalizations over nearly 6 years. It was when she was assigned a young psychiatric resident that she began to improve. He reached her through genuine interpersonal interaction. Her life was saved through this relationship. As we look back at her experiences we can now recognize that relational trauma went unidentified at the time.

      Please see Dr. Sawyer's biography for more information.

      Discussion Panel Descriptions: Dr. Adler will discuss trauma and adolescent development, families and the ongoing nature of working through trauma throughout life. Dr. Stewart will discuss dissociation, state-related experience, difficulty with integration of traumatic material and apply knowledge of mutual regulation to the relationship between patient and therapist/analyst.

      CME Objectives:
      1. Discuss the necessity of genuine, active therapeutic relationships and interactive recognition within safe therapeutic environments to reach and facilitate recovery for patients who have experienced relational trauma.
      2. Discuss the effects of relational trauma on development and interference with developing integrated and adaptive senses of self.
      3. Discuss ongoing professional struggles about recognizing trauma.

      PRESENTER & DISCUSSANT BIOGRAPHIES

      Annita Sawyer, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist in practice for over forty years. She has a BA and a PhD from Yale. As a member of the clinical faculty, she supervised Yale predoctoral fellows for fifteen years. 

      For much of her adult life, Annita hid an adolescence spent in psychiatric hospitals, misdiagnosed and mistreated. After twenty years in successful practice, she read her hospital records, triggering a dramatic return of devastating early symptoms. As an experienced clinician in 2001, she recognized what had been avoided in 1960: she suffered from trauma, not schizophrenia. Again, with skilled help, she recovered.

      To share what she learned, Annita became a writer. Her essays have appeared in both professional and literary journals and in three anthologies. Her memoir, Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass, won the 2013 Santa Fe Writers Project Nonfiction Grand Prize and was published in 2015.

      Using herself as a case study, Annita speaks to lifetime consequences of childhood trauma, harmful effects of fads in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, the enduring impact of stigma and shame, and the power of human connection to heal.

      Shoshana Shapiro Adler, PhD enjoys helping her patients overcome obstacles to their creativity, success, and relationships. She is a child and adult analyst and licensed psychologist who is on the faculty of the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and adjunct child faculty at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. She has taught and supervised both nationally and internationally, particularly for psychoanalytic training programs in Chengdu and Yichang, China. In addition to her clinical practice, Shana co-leads a monthly peer supervision group with Anita G. Schmukler, DO for interested Association for Child Psychoanalysis (ACP) members. As coordinator of the Schools Committee of the Denver Psychoanalytic Society (DPS), she consults in the Denver Metro area (see DPS’ School Outreach Service). Integrating two of her long-standing interests, she chairs the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) Study Group on Meditation and Psychoanalysis.

      Margy Stewart, PsyD is a psychologist/psychoanalyst in Denver. She has extensive experience working with patients with relational trauma within hospital settings, and long-term outpatient practice. She began her work with traumatized people in the late 1980s while in graduate school and worked as an RN on a specialized, inpatient trauma unit . After becoming a psychologist, she continued providing psychotherapy for traumatized people in inpatient and partial care units and outpatient practice. Eventually, she worked solely in outpatient practice. Margy owes a lot to her patients for what she has gained from knowing and working with them. Margy is on the faculty of the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and a former President of the Denver Psychoanalytic Society. She is retired from working with patients but continues to teach and consult.


      REGISTRATION DETAILS

      Registration is required. The Zoom link be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the event. Registration will close at noon (MDT) on May 11th. 

      Cost:

      • CO Trainees: $40.00 (Please list your CO training institution at registration)
      • DPS Members: $60.00
      • Non DPS Members: $75.00 

      Conference Schedule (2.75 CME credits): Please log in by 8:55 AM so we may begin promptly at 9:00 AM (MDT)

       Time (MDT)  Description
       9:00 - 9:05 AM  Welcome & Introduction
       9:05 - 10:00 AM  Presentation by Dr. Sawyer
       10:00 - 10:05 AM  Break
       10:05 - 10:40 AM  Discussion with Dr. Stewart
       10:40 - 11:15 AM  Discussion with Dr. Adler
       11:15 - 11:20 AM  Break
       11:20 AM - 12:00 PM  Audience Questions & Comments


      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.

      Cancellation and Certificate Replacement: There will be NO refunds after May 10, 2023. Any refunds made before May 10th will be less a $10 administrative feeIf 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.

      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)

      • June 05, 2023
      • 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
      • 2044 E Evans Avenue, Denver, CO 80208 (Joy Burns Center on DU Campus)
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      Description: The Society Annual Business Meeting is ONLY open to Society members and their guests. It will be held on Monday, June 5, 2023 (in person) at a new location: Wine Cellar in the Joy Burns Center on the DU Campus, located at 2044 E. Evans Avenue, Denver, CO 80208. More information about parking and parking passes will be provided to registrants closer to the event

      The evening will start at 6:00 PM with a cash bar and mingling followed by dinner and the business meeting at 7:00 PM. Each dinner will come with a salad, dessert and coffee or tea. You may choose from 3 dinner options as listed below:

      Blackened Salmon (Dairy Sensitive)
      sweet soy glaze, mango salsa, cilantro pistou, grilled asparagus, coconut rice

      Bistro Beef (Gluten Sensitive)
      port wine demi, onion confit, grilled asparagus, garlic mashed potatoes

      Sweet Potato Flauta (Vegetarian)
      ancho coulis, avocado crema, asadero cheese, seasonal vegetables

      Cost: The cost of each entrée (member and guest) is $65. When registering, you will be asked to list your (and your guest's) meal choice of beef, salmon or vegetarian as well as any dietary restrictions as related to your specific meal choice. 

      Discount for First-Time Members: First-time members who joined this past year (6/1/22 through present) have been sent a separate email sharing a discount code that can be used to register for a $30 entrée. We ask that you pay the full fee for guests. 

      Registration: Registration is required and the deadline to register is May 28, 2023. If inviting a guest, please include their information during registration. 

      Update Profile Information: Please update your member profile information on the website by May 20, 2023. To do so, log into the website with your email address and password (if you have forgotten your password, click "Forgot Password" under the log in button). Click 'View Profile' in the upper, right-hand corner and edit your information as needed. Save when finished. 

      Disclaimer: This event is not sponsored by or affiliated with Colorado Seminary or the University of Denver. Please note that the university's campus is 100% smoke free and smoking is not allowed indoors or outdoors on campus property. 

      Registration Waiver: By registering for this dinner meeting, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any place where people are gathered. By attending, you knowingly assume all such risks related to illness and infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, and agree not to hold the Denver Psychoanalytic Society or any of their affiliates, officers, employees, or volunteers liable for any illness or injury.

      • June 09, 2023
      • June 11, 2023
      • virtual

      NOT A SOCIETY EVENT

      American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)

      112th Annual Meeting

      June 9-11, 2023

      Virtual 

      Click for more information

    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. 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.

    Cancellation and Certificate Replacement Policy: There will be no refunds of fees for cancellations within 7 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.

    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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