Who We Are Founded in 1997, the Psychoanalytic Educational Forum of Boston grew out of a common goal of enhancing the amount of psychoanalytic teaching in the training of mental health professionals. Sponsored by the three psychoanalytic institutes in Boston (BPSI, PINE, and MIP) and endorsed by a grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation, PEFB sponsors educational programs specifically designed for students and recent graduates of psychology and social work graduate programs as well as psychiatric residences, nursing, and medical schools, interested in psychoanalytic theory and practice. Offerings Free lectures and seminars by psychoanalysts in the Boston area. These address the application of psychoanalytic principles to everyday clinical challenges. Topics in the past have included beginning psychotherapy, empathy, termination, and countertransference. Membership Information Membership is free and open to current or recent psychology and social work graduate students, psychiatric residents, nurses, and medical students. To add yourself to our mailing list, please send your name, e-mail address, U.S. mail address, and institutional affiliation to Mary Loughlin at mloug23@aol.com Additional Information PEFB is directed by a Steering Committee of representatives from the three psychoanalytic institutes and students and residents from the educational institutions in the Boston, Worcester, and Providence areas. If you are interested in participating on the Steering Committee, or would like further information about the PEFB and our programs, please contact Richard Frankel, PhD at richard@ontic.us or 617-489-4051 or Jane Leavy, LICSW at jhleavy@verizon.net or 617-964-6061. The PEFB invites trainees, students, and recent graduates in mental health professions to participate in these free programs. All mental health professionals are welcome. 2007- 2008 Schedule Thursday, September 20, 2007 8:00-9:30 p.m. Which Unconscious Do We Mean? A Brief History of the Most Central Concept in Clinical Psychoanalysis Alfred Margulies, MD Everyone seems to be re-discovering the unconscious these days. From neurobiology, to economics, to sociology, to cognitive studies, to literary criticism, to affect and empathy research, to linguistics, to complex pattern recognition, the Unconscious has become really hot, almost a growth industry. But is this contemporary rage for all things unconscious about the same unconscious as our psychoanalytic unconscious? Indeed, is the psychoanalytic unconscious really one unconscious? And how about other depth psychologies? Why, for example, do Jungian patients have Jungian dreams? Could we speak of the varieties of the unconscious? Doesn't it all depend on how we conduct our search? In this informal discussion (through case vignettes, news clippings, literature, and whatever comes to mind), we'll trace the way that mainstream psychoanalysis "discovered" the unconscious even as it continually re-operationalized the unconscious in such fashion as to find these very discoveries. Of course, our hard-won and sophisticated contemporary clinical conception of the psychoanalytic unconscious didn't have to evolve the way it did, but herein dwells its fascination, power, limitations, and possibilities. But, just what are these possibilities? Alfred Margulies, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of New England and Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance, where he is also Associate Chair of the Department of Psychiatry. Place: Learning Center, Cambridge Hospital, 1493 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA (Please note this year's change in Forum location.) Easy access: For directions to Cambridge Hospital, please visit http://www.challiance.org Parking fee in the Cambridge Hospital garage will be approx. $5.00. Monday, October 22, 2007 8:00-9:30 p.m Psychoanalytic Approaches to Eating Disorder Treatment Linda Gelda, LICSW. This evening's discussion is designed to engage attendees in thinking about the unique problems and complexities inherent in working with people who present with eating disorder symptoms. One challenge for the therapist/physician is how to engage analytically, while simultaneously addressing very real mind/body issues that may, at the extreme, interfere with functioning. Questions about how to address the symptoms both practically and conceptually will be discussed. Woven into the evening's discussion will be attention to other techniques, besides analytic, that inform our work, such as cognitive behavioral, psychoeducational and DBT. If time allows we will incorporate case material. Linda Gelda, LICSW, is a graduate and faculty member of the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She works on the Infertility Team at Mass General Hospital. She practices in Newton, working with males and females who present with eating issues, and she supervises colleagues in the field. Linda is also a professional member of the Massachusetts Eating Disorder Association in Newton, MA. Place: Learning Center, Cambridge Hospital, 1493 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA (Please note this year's change in Forum location.) Easy access: For directions to Cambridge Hospital, please visit http://www.challiance.org Parking fee in the Cambridge Hospital garage will be approx. $5.00.