KEYNOTE SPEAKERS


A Psychoanalysis for Precarious Times: Decolonizing Our Theory and Praxis
Nancy Caro Hollander, PhD

Can We Decolonize Narratives on Development in Psychoanalysis?
Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD

Whereof Future Generations?
Mireille Fanon-Mendés France

STEERING COMMITTEE INVITED PANELS 
Queer and Gender Expansive Clinicians of Color Talk Psychoanalysis: A Dialogues Across Difference Invited Panel

Panelists: Jourdan Porter, MA, Luis Ramirez, LCSW, Jixia Ao, LCSW
Co-Chairs: Mamta Dadlani, PhD, Kori Bennett, PsyD

Reconsidering Neutrality 
Panelists: S.J. Langer, LCSW-R, Daniel Polyak,MA Daniel Rosengart, PhD
Moderator: Toni Hellmann, LCSW 

Reckoning with Trauma in Theory and Practice
Panelists: Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD, Yo’ad Ghanadry-Hakim, MA, Gilbert Kliman, MD (via recorded interview)
Panelist and Moderator: Gurmeet Kanwal, MD  

Colonialism and the Climate Crisis: Links we cannot afford to attack
Panelists: Nathan Jessee, PhD, Jessica Chavez, PhD, Elizabeth Allured, PsyD, Chakira Haddock-Lazala, PhD, Jan Haaken, PhD (playing clips from her film “Necessity: Oil, water and climate resistance”)
Moderator: Katie Gentile, PhD

Who am I and how did I get here? Insights from community-based research with pregnant and postpartum women struggling with new motherhood
Panelists: Ozlem Bekar, PhD, Madeleine Miller-Bottome, MA, Jennifer Halpern, MA
Discussants: Beatrice Beebe, PhD, Lawrence D. Blum, MD 
Moderator: Inga Blom, PhD

It takes a multiracial village: Child therapy in the community
Panelists: William Brenner, MA, Almas (Ally) Merchant, PhD
Moderator: Kirkland C. Vaughans, PhD 

Special Invited Panel: The Writing and Scholarship of Lewis Aron: Wide Ranging, Deep, Committed, Passionate, Transformative
Panelists: Adrienne Harris, PhD, Galit Atlas, PhD, Spyros D Orfanos, PhD, ABPP
Chair: Spyros D Orfanos, PhD, ABPP 

Reckoning with the Unattended/Unanalyzed in Training: Structural Challenges in Analytic Institutes 
Co-Chairs Invited Panel in Collaboration with The Inter-Institute Task Force on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion


COMMITTEE INVITED PANELS 
EARLY CAREER PROFESSIONAL (ECP) COMMITTEE INVITED PANEL 

When is graduate school really over? Unpacking, redressing, reframing, and reworking what we’ve learned 
Panelists: Laura Levin, PhD, Tiffany L Frank, PhD, Leslie Thompson García, MSc, Shari Appollon, LCSW, Jordan Bate, PhD
Co-Chairs: Laura Levin, PhD, Tiffany L Frank, PhD

 RESEARCH COMMITTEE INVITED PANEL 
Treating Veterans with Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy
Panelists: Cory K. Chen, PhD, Nicole Nehrig, PhD, Cassondra Feldman, PsyD, Christopher Schadt, PsyD 
Discussant: Paul Wachtel, PhD
Co-Chairs: Tracy A. Prout, PhD, Kevin B. Meehan, PhD
 
GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEE INVITED PANEL
Deconstructing the Supervisory Experience: A Conversation Between a Black Female Analyst — a LatinX Queer Early Career Clinician —
a White Lesbian Queer Cis Woman — a Taiwanese International Woman with Low Vision
Supervisor: Annie Lee Jones, PhD. Student Case Presenter: Luis Ramirez, MSW, LCSW
Senior Discussant: Regina Hund, PsyD
Student Discussant: Rosaline Ching-Lan Lin, MEd
Chair/Moderator: Anna Maria Baldauf, PsyD
Co-Moderator: Alicia MacDougall, MS
  
DISCUSSION GROUPS  

EROTIC TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE DISCUSSION GROUP 

Erotic Transference and Countertransference: The Discussion Continues 
Moderators: Arlene (Lu) Steinberg, PsyD, Judie Alpert, PhD

TRAUMA DISCUSSION GROUP

Love for Sale: A Case Presentation of a “Mail Order Bride”
Presenter: Oksana Yakushko, PhD
Discussant: Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD
Chair/Moderator:  JoAnn Ponder, PhD

PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION DISCUSSION GROUP

Courting Curiosity: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Integration
Moderators: Jill Bresler, Ph.D, Catherine F. Eubanks, PhD 

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT DISCUSSION GROUP 

Walls: Within Us and Between Us 
Presenter: Rebekah Small, LCSW
Discussant: Norka T. Malberg, PsyD
Co-Moderators: Seth Aronson, PsyD, Virginia M. Shiller, PhD

PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS 

Psychoanalysis Trans(-)cendent: Theory, Science, and Skills for Working with Transgender and Gender Expansive Individuals, Families, and Communities
Richard Ruth, PsyD, Ben Morsa, PsyD, Kori Bennett, PsyD

Four Models of Infant-Parent Trauma: Implications for Treatment 
Beatrice Beebe, PhD,  Inga Blom, PhD, Amanda Zayde, PsyD

Collaboration or Collusion: Reckoning with Conflicting Loyalties in Assessment Supervision
Sarah L. Hedlund, PhD, Helen DeVinney, PsyD, Katherine Marshall Woods, PsyD 

The “Illegal” Traveler: The Process of Evaluating and Treating Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Nina K. Thomas, PhD, ABPP, CGP, Rukhsana Moona Chaudhry, PsyD, Michael O’Loughlin, PhD 


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