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June 1st, 2nd, 8th 2024

The Immigrant: A Seminar Series with Salman Akhtar, MD

Course description

This is a seminar series:


Seminar 1: Treating immigrant patients and their children

This presentation will address the specific challenges faced by therapist treating immigrant patients and their children. Issue of geo-cultural dislocation, hybrid identity, nostalgia, cultural conflicts, cultural rationalizations, and acculturation gaps will be elucidated.


Seminar 2: Technical challenges faced by immigrant therapists

The technical issues elucidated in this presentation would include wondering about the patient's choice of an immigrant therapist, scanning his/her/their associations for ethnocultural allusions, remaining vigilant towards hetero-ethnic biases, and tackling homo-ethnic scotoma and nostalgic collusions. 


Seminar 3:  Mother tongue vs adopted language

The dilemmas of bilingualism in the clinical situation will be highlighted. Matters of linguistic oscillations and sanitization as well as the role of obscene words and metaphor in dream imagery will also be discussed.


Each seminar will be combination of lecture and Q&A. 

Speaker

Salman Akhtar, MD (he/him) is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a Training & Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. 


He has over 450 publications to his credit including 212 books (41 of which are solo-authored). He has served on the editorial boards of all three major psychoanalytic journals (International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and Psychoanalytic Quarterly). 


Dr. Akhtar has given Plenary Addresses at both the IPA and the APsA Meetings and has received the highly prestigious Sigourney Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalysis. 


He is a published poet in three languages and serves as Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. 

Who is this course for?

  • Practicing mental health clinicians (pre-licensed or licensed in any location)
  • This seminar is for those who identify as Asian or Asian American

Details

Dates:

  • Saturday June 1, 9am - 1030am PST / 12pm - 130pm EST 
  • Sunday June 2, 9am - 1030am PST / 12pm - 130pm EST 
  • Saturday June 8, 9am - 1030am PST / 12pm - 130pm EST


Fees:

  • $90 for pre-licensed clinicians before 5/15, $100 after 5/15
  • $120 for licensed clinicians before 5/15, $150 after 5/15


Virtual. On Zoom. No recordings available. 


Please read participant's FAQs before registering.


To Register

Frequently Asked Questions

Unfortunately, not at this time. If you can or know of someone who can help us get approved nationwide, please email hello@taacp.org.

We encourage you to attend all 3 seminars as the topics are interconnected and build on each other. But you can certainly just attend one or two. For administrative ease, the seminars are being offered as a series and cannot be "purchased" individually.  

There will be no recording of these seminars. 

We believe in valuing the time and work of our instructors. Instructors are paid and fees also go to support Center's operating costs for current and future programming.  At this time, non-teaching staff are volunteers. 

We want to offer a space for Asian / Asian American clinicians to be, to learn, to question, to create, and to support one another.  And, from this space, our hope is that we can have more nuanced conversations and in depth explorations of the intersection of Asian subjectivities and psychoanalysis.


Our one time events are open to all.  And, in the future, we might offer courses for non-Asian clinicians. 

If you need to withdraw your registration, refund will be given to up to 5 days prior to first seminar minus a processing fee of $25.  


No refunds after that or once seminar begins or for missed seminars.


In the event that the Center has to cancel the series, full refund will be provided. 

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