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  • May 10, 2019 12:18 PM | Anonymous

    Bexar County Psychological Association Spring 2019 Diversity Workshop

    Clinical and Ethical Foundations of Psychological Practice with Transgender Adolescents and Adults

    Presented by Richard H. Reams, Ph.D. Associate Director of Counseling Services Trinity University

    Friday, May 17, 2019 1pm-4pm

    Location: St. Andrew Presbyterian Church 8231 Callaghan Rd San Antonio, TX 78230

    This basic- and intermediate-level session is rooted in APA's Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming [TGNC] Clients.

    The session is designed to:

    • Enhance clinician understanding of gender-diverse persons,

    • Expand the range of psychological practice that clinicians can competently and confidently offer to gender-diverse clients,

    • Equip clinicians to be an educator and advocate with institutions and with the loved ones of gender-diverse people.


    3 hours Professional Development credits (includes 3 diversity hrs) (continuing education credits provided for Psychologists, Social Workers, LPCs, and LMFT’s) Workshop Fees (Coffee, Tea and Snacks provided).

    Early Bird Registration: $55 BCPA Members / $70 Non-Members / $20 Student Affiliates After May 3: $75 Members / $90 Non-Members / $40 Student Affiliates Space is limited! Please register at…

    http://www.bexarpsyc.org/event-details/2019-springdiversity-workshop/

  • April 27, 2019 8:13 PM | Anonymous


    The Teen Brain

    Thursday, 9 May, 2019 6:30 pm

    Pearl Stable

    Just what IS going on in the teen brain? Join Abigail Baird, PhD (Vassar) as she shares how the neurological growth spurt of adolescence dictates how we learn to consolidate, generalize and then (at light speed) make use of our experiences to navigate our every day lives AND avoid/survive life threatening situations.

    Click here for more details

  • October 27, 2018 11:04 AM | Anonymous

    Please join San Antonio Society for Psychoanalytic Studies member 

    Ricardo Ainslie, PhD, for a free screening of his documentary

    The Mark of War

    on

    October 30th, 2018 at 7:00 PM

    Santikos Bijou

    4522 Fredericksburg Road

    San Antonio, TX, 78201

    The Mark of War is an intimate portrait of seven men who served in the Vietnam War drawn by a psychoanalyst-filmmaker keen on entering their worlds. In this film, Dr. Ainslie explores their lives before going off to war, their experiences fighting in Vietnam, and their lives since their return. 

    Visit the Mark of War Website


  • October 05, 2018 9:04 AM | Anonymous

    SASPS Reading Group Dates

    Our Reading group will meet from 7:30 PM-9:00 PM on the following Wednesdays: 

    September 12

    October 10

    November 14

    December- Winter Social Gathering

    January 9

    February 13

    March 13

    April 10

    May 8

    June 12

    July 10 - Summer Social Gathering and Board/Committee Voting

  • August 30, 2018 11:22 AM | Anonymous

    Psychoanalysis, Division 39 of the APA, would like to invite you again to submit proposals to the 2019 Spring Meeting in Philadelphia! Proposal submissions are due by September 7th (Poster session proposals are due November 9th. Our theme for the conference is "Resonant Voices: Sameness, Difference, and Mutuality in the Consulting Room, Clinic, and Community," with keynote plenary speakers Jessica Benjamin, Ph.D., Francisco González, M.D., Kathleen Pogue White, Ph.D., and keynote speaker Norka Malberg, Psy.D. 

    For more information about our theme, proposal options and the submission process, please visit our website at: https://www.division39springmeeting.com.

    Please Note: when submitting a proposal through our submissions portal, you can save a draft of your proposal! Simply click "submit" to store your progress for when you're ready to revisit the portal to complete your submission.  Proposals can be edited once submitted, even when completed, up until our deadline.  Also, please read the instructions on the submission form carefully, including how to complete the author/presenter information matrix, which must not have any empty fields in order for the submission to be considered complete.

    For more information regarding the poster presentations please contact:

    Joseph Schaller, Psy.D.

    Matthew Whitehead, Psy.D.

    Conference Co-Chairs

    Division 39 Spring Meeting

    Philadelphia 2019

    div39springmeeting2019@gmail.com


    For information on the Local Chapter of Division 39, Please contact Dr. Wayne Ehrisman. 


  • July 29, 2018 7:35 PM | Anonymous

    An election was held July 11, 2018 for new officers and Executive Committee Members. There were 14 ballots submitted.  The following candidates were elected:

    Executive Committee Members

     

    Ashley Powell- President

    Kay Schanzer  - President Elect

    Trey Thompson – Past President

    Bob Kalter - Secretary

    Paul Ingmundson - Treasurer

    Kim Fox - Communications Chair

    Wayne Ehrisman – Division 39 Representative, APA

     

    Members-at-Large

     

    Josh Essery

    Jacob Pickard

    Tom Stone

    Carlos Velez

    Julie Waters

     

    Student Representatives


    Mary Baldwin

    Karla Caballero

    Jeffrey Wentz

     

    These elected officers and Executive Committee Members will serve in their roles until June 30, 2019.

  • June 18, 2018 7:14 AM | Anonymous

    We will hold a social and ballot collection at Tribecca (4331 McCullough Ave, Olmos Park 78212) on July 11 from 8pm to 10pm. Ballots must be presented in person in order to allow us to preserve the integrity of the election and confidentiality of votes.

    Click here to download a printable ballot

  • May 12, 2017 9:21 AM | Anonymous

    San Antonio Society for Psychoanalytic Studies

    Division of Psychoanalysis Spring Meeting

    Yearly Activity Summary

    April 6, 2017

    SASPS continues to play a central role in the education and support for the importance of psychoanalytic theory, and psychoanalytically informed practice in our academic and professional community. Our active membership is a professionally diverse group of approximately 62 registered members. A significantly larger number of mental health professionals regularly attend our meetings and presentations. We are primarily Psychologists, but are well represented with Psychiatrists, Social Workers, and LPCs. A few are certified Psychoanalysts and Jungian Analysts. We have 12 Division members at present.  We now have 16 Graduate Student Members in psychology and psychiatry, a significant increase from past years. We continue to expand our working group by appointing new members to committees in order to spread the workload and get more members involved in sustaining the organization. We have an active and diverse board, representing Psychology, Psychiatry, Social Work, Licensed Professional Counselors, and Psychoanalysis, who come from academic, hospital and private practice settings.

    We continue to benefit from our close alliance with the Mind Science Foundation which has co sponsored several of our chapter activities and provided publicity and administrative support over the years.  We also have alliances with other community organizations, which help support our Continuing Education offerings this year, including The University of the Incarnate Word, and Trinity University, and the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Our society maintains a sound financial foundation, in part though our affiliation with, and support from local universities and community agencies.

    We have benefited from an organizational consultant who provides ongoing consultation regarding clarification of goals, diversifying leadership responsibilities, delegation of event planning, defining needs for administrative support, and upgrading our website.

    Our website is up to date, user friendly, and serves a number of our functions for member information, workshop registration, and communication. This has a significant positive impact on the efficiency of our event planning.

    The current leadership of our Executive Committee includes:

    Tom Stone Ph.D :  President

    Jacob Pickard, Ph.D : Past President

    Russel Thompson, Ph.D. President Elect

        Education Committee Chair

    Cynthia Dias De Leon, Ph.D.:  Secretary

    Paul Ingmundson, Ph.D.  :  Treasurer

    Kim Fox, Communications Committee Chair

    Ashley Powell, Ph.D. Membership committee Chair

    Bob Kalter, M.D.  Member at Large

    Sara Gill, Ph.D., Member at Large

    Carlos Velez, M.D. Member at Large

    Manu Gupta, Student Representative

    Shane Riggs, Student Representative

    Natasha Benatti, PsyD, Student Representative

    Wayne J. Ehrisman, Ph.D. ABPP:  Local Chapter Representative

    The Education Committee planned several professional and community educational offerings this past year. Our activities include:

    • (1)      Our monthly Psychoanalytic Study Group, led by local members, continues to meet in our homes, and reviews mostly contemporary psychoanalytic literature.  The group continues to draw approximately 15-25 members from a diverse group of mental health professionals and students, representing psychology, psychiatry, social work, psychoanalysis, and others interested in psychoanalytic ideas and their application to clinical theory and practice. Current topics have continued to focus on Relational, Self Psychology, Gender, Diversity, and historical Psychoanalytic Perspectives. We continue to send out our Newsletter electronically to a large number of our current and past members and attendees, which sustains interest and attendance.
    • (2)      For our Spring workshop on May 16, 2016 we sponsored a workshop by Jerry Gans MD on the topics of “Recognizing Shame and Acknowledging Courage in Group Psychotherapy” and “Money Matters in Psychotherapy”, conducted in a group  process format which was innovative and productive.
    • (3)      For our annual Paredes Lecture on October 7th, focused on community outreach, We presented a workshop on “Restorative Justice: Bursting the School to Prison Pipeline” with presentations by Juvenile Court Judge Laura Parker, Phillip Carney, Coordinator of Restorative Discipline NEISD, who developed a model program used in a local school district, and Anne Thomas, Ph.D., Deputy  Chief of Clinical Services for the Bexar County Juvenile Probation Department.  This brought in attendees within the educational, juvenile justice, and mental health communities for an informative exchange of ideas about new innovations in the management of juvenile offenders.
    • (4)      For our Fall Workshop on November 11, we invited Neil Altman, PhD to present a presentation on “Race, Class and Culture in Psychoanalysis” followed by a Consultation with Dr Altman the next day.  A useful and informative discussion of the conscious and unconscious influences of these influences on the practice of psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy.
    • (5)      On May 19 of this year,  SASPS and the Mind Science Foundation will cosponsor a workshop entitled “From Self to Selfies: reflection on the Impact of Technological Change on the Psychology of the Self” presented by SASPS members  Cynthia Diaz de Leon, PhD., Joshua Essery, PsyD, ABPP, Paul Ingmundson, Ph.D, and Thomas Stone, Ph.D
    • (6)      On September 15, 2017 we plan to invite Ricardo Ainslie, Ph.D to present and discuss his documentary “The Mark of War” and intimate portrait of men who served in the Vietnam war.
    • (7)      On November 4, 2017 Melanie Suchet will present on Therapeutic Impasse and Race
    • (8)      We are in the planning for reviving our Film Society later this summer, with a film presentation of “The Danish Girl” to facilitate awareness and discussion of transgender issues.

    In other ongoing activities, several of our members continue to teach in both the Psychology and Psychiatry Residency Program at UTHSCSA, and function as co-leaders in seminars, and providing psychodynamic psychotherapy supervision.

    Our Psychodynamic Track in the Clinical Psychology Training Program continues to provide an internship such that  Psychology Residents are afforded many more opportunities for a specific focus on psychodynamic approaches to a broad range of clinical problems, within a Generalist model of training. We have involved several psychodynamic psychologists from our group who have Clinical Appointments at UTHSCSA to supervise our Residents.  The Track system has provided considerable improvement in the recruitment of interns,

    In summary, our organization continues to grow, with increasing membership, more diverse offerings, and more student involvement, and more administrative efficiency. There’s increasing interest in Division activities, including attendance at  Spring Meetings.

    Wayne J Ehrisman, Ph.D. ABPP

    Local Chapter Representative

    San Antonio Society of Psychoanalytic Studies


  • March 13, 2017 10:39 AM | Anonymous

    "In this first-ever biography of Rorschach, Damion Searls draws on unpublished letters and diaries and a cache of previously unknown interviews with Rorschach’s family, friends, and colleagues to tell the unlikely story of the test’s creation, its controversial reinvention, and its remarkable endurance—and what it all reveals about the power of perception. Elegant and original, The Inkblots shines a light on the twentieth century’s most visionary synthesis of art and science."

    Listen to the podcast HERE

    Find the book HERE  

    Damion Searls has written for Harper’s, n+1, and The Paris Review, and has translated the work of authors including Rainer Maria Rilke, Marcel Proust, and five Nobel Prize winners. He has been the recipient of Guggenheim, NEA, and Cullman Center fellowships.


  • February 24, 2017 6:09 AM | Anonymous

    Dr. Ainslie will be presenting for SASPS in September.  Below is a link to his most recently published article:


     https://news.utexas.edu/2017/02/23/picking-fights-with-mexico-will-be-at-our-own-peril

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