DISCUSSION GROUP

1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.A2

DEPARTMENT of PSYCHOANALYTIC EDUCATION of the American Psychoanalytic Association DPE EDUCATION FORUM ON PSYCHOANALYTIC SUPERVISION Chair: Wendy Jacobson, M.D. (Atlanta, GA)

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Co-chair: James W. Barron, Ph.D. (Brookline, MA) Presenter: DEPARTMENT of PSYCHOANALYTIC Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D. (Lambertville, NJ) EDUCATION of the American Psychoanalytic Association Psychoanalysts want to ensure that supervision is effective and helpful. Until recently, the general assumption was that any well-trained analyst is a potentially good supervisor. But both empirical

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and experiential data suggest that supervisors differ in their effectiveness, that supervisory effectiveness can be increased, and that supervisees keep more secrets from supervisors than supervisors suspect. DEPARTMENT of This session will help supervisors become more

PSYCHOANALYTIC EDUCATION of the skilled at fostering developmental processes in American Psychoanalytic Association supervision and increasing supervisee confidence in frankly presenting clinical work and personal reactions. The presenter, Dr. Nancy McWilliams, recently published a well-regarded book entitled Psychoanalytic Supervision. After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Describe ten “vital signs” of overall therapeutic progress that supervisors help supervisees to monitor; 2) Describe two styles of supervision that may be damaging as well as two alternative styles that benefit the supervisory matrix. : 3

2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.

SENIOR ANALYST PRESENTATION (PART 2) For description and educational objectives see Part I at 9:00 a.m. : 2

DISCUSSION GROUP 9: PSYCHODYNAMIC PROBLEMS IN ORGANIZATIONS Co-chairs: Kerry J. Sulkowicz, M.D. (New York, NY) Kenneth M. Settel, M.D. (Brookline, MA) Presenter: Alexander Stein, Ph.D. (New York, NY) The presenter is an experienced psychoanalyst and founder of a business consultancy who brings psychoanalytic principles and expertise to bear working with enterprise leaders in large organizations. This presentation details a multi-year engagement advising the executive team and board of directors in a culture and governance turnaround and designing and leading a CEO succession and transition process. The audience will be invited to participate, discuss, and engage the presenter, and each other, on challenges, benefits, and limits to using psychoanalysis in large-scale organizational situations. After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Discuss psychoanalytic principles and other techniques used in consulting to senior executives and high-performing boards inside their organization to resolve enterprise issues involving psychological underpinnings; 2) Describe how core psychoanalytic theory and clinical precepts can be adapted for use in leading large-scale change initiatives inside organizations contending with complex compound challenges. : 2

DISCUSSION GROUP 10: FATHERHOOD: A RANGE OF PERSPECTIVES Chair: Seth Aronson, Psy.D. (New York, NY) Presenters: Willa N. France, J.D. (New York, NY) Leon Hoffman, M.D. (New York, NY) Hopeton Earl Shaw, M.A., LQP (Brooklyn, NY) Discussant: Ann Pellegrini, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) Note: This program is intended to satisfy the requirements of those states that require CE/CME credits in the area of cultural competency for license renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification is made by each state’s board. This session will present perspectives on fatherhood from three panelists: a gay black man who became a father during the Black Lives Matter movement; a transwoman who has a child and grandchild, and a straight identifying father and grandfather. Discussion will focus on issues of race, gender and intersection with parenting. The unique perspectives presented will give participants the opportunity to consider how to apply the ideas presented in their work with this population. After attending this session, participants should be able to: 1) Identify two ways in which race impacts the role of the father and its implication for paternal/ parental issues and interactions described in the clinical encounter; 2) Distinguish two ways in which gender may affect fatherhood, leading to conflicts and enactments in the therapeutic situation. : 2