The Connecticut Society For Psychoanalytic Psychology
presents
Sam Guzzardi, LCSW
Are You Gay Too?
Considering Identity, Alikeness, and Safety Seeking in Clinical Encounters
Zoom & In Person
Saturday November 2, 2024
Conference Schedule
Coffee hour and in-person check-in 10-11
Zoom check-in 10:45
Presentation 11-1
Lunch 1-2
Location
Albertus Magnus College,
Behan Community Room, New Haven, CT
Directions and Photo
Map of Albertus Magnus College
2 CECs (Division 39)
2 CECs (NASW): Social Work, LPCs & LMFTs
A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants the day before the event.
The Talk
As psychoanalysis attempts to repair its relationship with marginalized individuals, communities, and theoretical traditions, it finds itself caught up in—and often tripped up by—questions of identity. This essay takes up these questions as it examines an encounter with a prospective patient wherein the patient insisted on hearing whether or not the analyst is a “gay man,” despite knowing the analyst identifies as a “queer person.” The paradoxes inherent in the notion of a queer identity are considered, as are the potential possibilities and pitfalls attendant to psychoanalysis’ alignment with the identity paradigm.
Learning Objectives
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1. Describe at least two strategies for handling requests from patients about aspects of their identity in domains of salience to the patient.
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2. Identify the repetitive dimension and selfobject dimension of patients' expressed and nonverbal longings for experiences of belonging with the analyst.
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3. List at least two techniques for assessing patients' motivations for eliciting information about the therapist's identity.
Meet the Speaker
Sam Guzzardi, LCSW, is a New York City-based psychoanalyst trained at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity. His written work has appeared in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and other analytic publications. Sam’s paper “The Only Fag Around: Twinship in Gay Childhood” has won several awards, including the Ralph Roughton Award at APsA. His clinical work focuses on questions of gender, identity, trauma, and loss. Sam's most recently published piece, “Towards a Queered Psychology of the Self: Empathy and Passibility from the Margin to the Center,” was released in Psychology, Self, and Context in January.
References
Sam Guzzardi (2022) Nicki, Nicholas, Nicole: Play as Relational Therapeutic Action on the Transgender Edge, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32:2, 175-190,
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10481885.2022.2032076
Gentile, J. (2018). The P*ssy Missile Has Launched: Free Speech Effects of the Women’s March as Prelude to #MeToo, and With a Coda1. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 19(4), 256–261.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2018.1531518
Harris, A. (2000). Gender as a Sort Assembly Tomboys’ Stories. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 1(3), 223–250.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15240650109349157
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 2 continuing education credits by Div. 39. Division 39 maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
It has also been approved for 2 cultural competence CECs from NASW-CT.
If continuing education credit is desired, please mark the appropriate box on the registration page, for our records. In addition,100% attendance and a completed evaluation form is required to receive CEC certificates. The evaluation form will be sent in the form of an online survey to all registrants within a few hours after the event, and if you attend the full conference and return that you will be sent a certificate of attendance.
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