Houston Psychoanalytic Society
Online Evening Lecture
(Diversity & Cultural Competence)
Words to Live by: Personal and Cultural Origins of Imagination and Self in Language
Jeanine Vivona, PhD
Thursday, September 5, 2024
7:30PM – 9:00PM Central Time

Live via Zoom
*Pre-Registration required for Zoom invitation
This event will not be recorded

Registration Fees
HPS Active Member: Free
HPS Student Member: Free
Non-Member: $30

1.5 CME/CEU/CE Credits

Instructional Level: Intermediate - Advanced
We tend to think of language as an abstract system that is imposed upon us from outside. Yet, as Hans Loewald knew, language is also an inner system, one that is learned from particular others in particular lived moments, one that is idiosyncratic and inherently relational. Indeed, every person’s language enacts and conveys the ways that person has experienced the potentials of language for imagining and construing self and world. This deeply personal imagining of self and world is what we encounter when we engage in the therapeutic talking that is psychoanalysis.

In this lecture, I explore the early roots of this imaginative capacity of language in the ways that parents speak with their infants, drawing on empirical infant research to stir our imagination. An exploration of both individual and cultural differences in early language experience enriches our understanding of the meanings that are inherent in psychoanalytic talking, as well as the versions of self and language we encounter in our therapeutic work.

This program is intended to help fulfill licensure renewal requirements for continuing education in diversity and cultural competence. However, registrants should check with their licensing board if uncertain.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
After attending the program in its entirety, attendees will be able to:
  1. Describe how personal and cultural meanings are written into every person’s language.
  2. Identify the personal qualities and functions of language as used in clinical interactions with their clients and to use these as a source of knowing the client.
Presenter
Jeanine M. Vivona, PhD is Professor of Psychology at The College of New Jersey. She is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Psychoanalytic Psychology. Author of numerous
publications, she has twice been awarded The JAPA Prize, for her 2006 article, “From Developmental Metaphor to Developmental Model: The Shrinking Role of Language in the Talking Cure” and for her 2012 article, “Is There a Nonverbal Period of Development?” She is currently working on a book focused on language and the therapeutic process, to be published by Routledge as part of the Psychoanalysis in a New Key series, edited by Donnel Stern. She maintains a private practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and
supervision near Philadelphia.

REFERENCES
Keller, H. (2017). Culture and development: A systematic relationship. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 12(5), 833–840

Senzaki, S., & Shimizu, Y. (2020). Early learning environments for the development of attention: Maternal narratives in the United States and Japan. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 51(3–4),187–202

Vivona, J. M. (2019). The interpersonal words of the infant: Implications of current infant language research for psychoanalytic theories of infant development, language, and therapeutic action. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 88(4), 685-725

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Agenda
7:30 - 7:35 pm | Introduction
7:35 - 8:30 pm | Presentation by Dr. Vivona
8:30 - 9:00 pm | Presenter-led question and answer session
Disclosure
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Houston Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support. 
Houston Psychoanalytic Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Houston Psychoanalytic Society maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

HPS, through co-sponsorship with the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, also offers approved CEUs for Texas state-approved social workers, licensed professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists.
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