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Clinical Conference: Gurmeet Kanwal "Individuation - Becoming a Person Elsewhere

When
10 Dec 2016
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Location
NH Lawn Club

Registration

(depends on selected options)

Base fee:

Early Career Members – $25.00
Members: Early Registration (through December 3) – $40.00
Members: Regular Registration (after December 3) – $50.00
Non-Members: Early Registration (through December 3) – $50.00
Non-Members: Regular (after December 3) – $60.00
Retired Members – $25.00
Student Members – $10.00
Student Non-Members – $15.00

The Connecticut Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology

Presents a Clinical Conference

Gurmeet Kanwal

INDIVIDUATION

Becoming A Person Elsewhere

Saturday December 10, 2016

10:30 am – 12:30 pm
The New Haven Lawn Club
193 Whitney Ave, New Haven
Lunch will follow
.

The Speaker

Originally from New Delhi, India, Dr Gurmeet S Kanwal is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is a Supervising Psychoanalyst and Teaching Faculty at the William Alanson White Institute, and Past President of the William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Journal of Psychoanalytic Discourse. Dr Kanwal is co-editor, with Dr Salman Akhtar, of a forthcoming book titled Bereavement- Personal Experiences and Clinical Reflections, (Karnac.) Dr Kanwal is in full time Private Practice in NYC.

Summary

Separation-Individuation is a foundational concept in psychoanalytic theory. Culture, however, is often seen as ancillary and superfluous. What does it mean to grow up in a completely different culture? How do we take that into account in understanding people? Do we fit square pegs into round holes or change the shape of the hole? Along with gender, sexuality and race, ethnicity and culture are important forces that are knocking on the doors, and chipping away at the walls of an old psychoanalytic edifice. This presentation will propose one way that psychoanalytic theory may need to shift to become truly global.

Learning Objectives

1. Explain the ways in which cultural factors determine processes of individuation from childhood to adulthood.

2. Demonstrate how different cultures perceive what is normal and abnormal about styles of individuation.

3. Apply the cultural differences in individuation to psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic assessment and treatment of individuals from different backgrounds.

Conference Schedule

10:00 – 10:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:30 – 12:30 Presentation
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

Please note

Lunch is now served to all attendees of CSPP conferences. If you are interested in joining a small group for lunch with Dr Kanwal following the conference, please notify Ellen Nasper, PhD by Friday December 2, 2016. Space is limited.

Participants

The conference is appropriate for professionals interested in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The instructional level of this conference is Intermediate.

Continuing Education
This conference has been approved for 2 continuing education hours (NASW & Div. 39)

Division 39 is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Participants are asked to be aware of needs for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.Please address questions, concerns and any complaints to Ellen Nasper, PhD.

Conference Registration

We welcome online registration for our conferences at cspponline.org or you may mail in the form below.

Mail in Registration Form

Please print and complete this form and return by regular mail with check to: Nir Yehudai, 303 Mansfield Street, apt 1, New Haven, CT 06511
Please make checks payable to CSPP.

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