Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice Across Cultures: The Immigrant Experience and the Analysand as Neighbor
Date: Saturday, March 22: 10:00am-3pm
Credits: 4 CE
Speaker: Salman Akhtar, MD
Meeting is both on Zoom & in-person at:
The Center for Integrative Counseling & Psychology
4305 MacArthur Ave.
Dallas, TX 75209
Guidelines for working with immigrant, refugee, and otherwise culturally 'different' patients will be delineated in this session. These will include (a) cultivating and sustaining cultural neutrality, (b) allowing the patient a greater physical latitude while settling in the office,(c) validating the feelings associated with dislocation, (d) affirmatively as well as interpretively dealing with the immigrant's nostalgia and the refugee's absence of nostalgia, (e) paying attention to the various expressive. and defensive functions of bilingualism, (f) conducting developmental work, and (g) staying vigilant about non-human transferences and to the countertransference experience at large. Psychoanalytic reflections on the cultural “neighbor” are included.
Learning Objectives:
Learn to cultivate and evaluate cultural neutrality in clinical, psychoanalytic intervention.
Clinically enact the developmental triad of reality constancy, average expectable environment, and waking screen, anchoring the proposal regarding pathological and normative outcomes consequent upon immigration and its attendant biculturalism.
Under the didactically helpful categories of (a) presence, (b) perception, (c) participation, and (d) progress, attendees learn to deconstruct and elucidate the subjectivity of immigrant minorities with positive clinical outcomes.
Presenter Biography:
Salman Akhtar, MD is an internationally known psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, writer, and poet based in the Philadelphia. He has published 114 authored or edited books and given lectures and workshops in over 40 countries. Dr.Akhtar has served on the editorial boards of the three most important journals of our field, namely JAPA, IJP, and PQ. His books have been translated in many languages and he has received numerous professional honors, including the highly prestigious Sigourney Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalysis. Recently a 10-volume set of his Selected Papers was released at a festive ceremony at the Freud House & Museum in London. Dr. Akhtar has published 18 collections of poetry and serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Thater Company in Philadelphia.
References:
Akhtar, S. (2018) Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves: Edited by Julia Beltsiou. New York: Routledge, 2016. 224 pp.. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 87:379-382
Akhtar, S. (2014) The Mental Pain of Minorities. British Journal of Psychotherapy 30:136-153
Akhtar, S. (2016) Salman Akhtar on "A Third Individuation: Immigration, Identity, and the Psychoanalytic Process". PEP/UCL Top Authors Project Video Collection 1:17
Akhtar, S. (2017) Editorial: Muslims as Victims of Prejudice and Violence. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 14:245-246
Akhtar, S. (2022) Neighbors: Some Psychoanalytic Reflections. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 19:92-104
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