The Connecticut Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
Presents
Peter Shabad, PhD
Divided Against Oneself:
Shame, Inhibition, and Life's Aftermath
Art: Alice Pike Barney, The Shadow, n.d., pastel on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Lecture and Clinical Workshop
Saturday, March 27, 2021
10:30 am – 12:00 pm
CSPP conferences will be held via Zoom until further notice.
The Speaker
Peter Shabad, PhD is on the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and is on the Core faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He is also an Associate Editor at Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Shabad is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives published by IUP in 1989 and author of Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy published by Aronson in 2001. He is currently working on a new book entitled Seizing The Vital Moment: Passion, Shame, and Mourning to be published by Routledge. Dr. Shabad is the author of numerous papers and book chapters on diverse topics such as loss and mourning, giving and receiving, shame, parental envy, resentment, spite, and regret.
Summary
In this presentation, Dr. Shabad will first explore how the rupture in giving of oneself and being received in human relationships may lead to shame and paralyzing. self-consciousness. The inhibiting effect of shame may subsequently lead to much self-doubt and a retreat from the transitions inherent in human development and growth. He will then describe the pathway by which such shame-inhibited passivity leads to feelings of self-pity, envy, regret, resentment, and the entitled sense of feeling owed. Here, he will contrast how whereas remorseful guilt leads to the sense of owing, shame often leads ultimately to a sense of feeling owed.
Learning Objectives
1) A the end of the presentation, participants will be able to describe how ruptured vulnerability of giving and being received lead to shame and self-consciousness.
2) At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to describe how the shame-induced passivity leads to self-pity, resentment, and entitlement.
3) At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to contrast the dynamics of guilt with those of shame.
References
Shabad, P. (2017). The vulnerability of giving: Ethics and the generosity of receiving. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 37 (6): 359-374.
Shabad, P. (2010). The suffering of passion: Metamorphoses and the embrace of the Stranger, Psychoanalytic Dialogues 20: 710–729.
Shabad, P. (2007). Between determinism and self-blame: The freedom to choose oneself. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol, 43, (4).
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 for 1.5 continuing education hours(NASW & Div. 39) Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Social workers can receive continuing education credit through NASW/CT.
If CE credit is desired, please mark the appropriate box on the registration page. A $3.00 fee will be added. In addition, 100% attendance and a completed evaluation form is required to receive CE credit. The evaluation form will be sent in the form of an online survey to all registrants within a few days after the event. Questions/problems, contact the registrar, Matt Bukowski.
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