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Genders & Sexualities

February 25, 2022 @ 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm, Freud Classroom

Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2021-22, 2nd Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Karen Weisbard, PsyD


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Introduction

Karen Weisbard: When I taught this course with John Cardinali in Fall 2019 the world was a different place. We met in a classroom, there was no knowledge/fear of a virus that would threaten/transform our lives, George Floyd was still alive, I was married to a man, and both my boys were where they were supposed to be – senior in high school, sophomore in college. Two and a half years later, I feel dramatically changed, and the world feels like another place entirely.

Amy Ferlazzo: I am curious about ongoing and current social changes, and particularly in ongoing changes in the areas of genders and sexualities. In June 2019 APSaA issued an overdue apology for “past views that pathologized homosexuality and transgender identities.” I’d like to continue exploring that history, the formulations that engendered understanding as well as myopia, and move into a deeper exploration of current theories and views. I hope we can ground this in discussions of our work with patients, as well as our self-explorations.


This course, this term, is situated in the changes of these past few years, thus the title of the class has been changed to pluralities. The objectives of this nine-week course are for us to learn together how to occupy the worlds of genders and sexualities; how to think pluralistically; and how to find deeper access to the lived experiences of ourselves, our family members, and our patients through interdisciplinary readings and self-reflections. We hope to cover the short psychoanalytic history of the development of these ideas, while mindful that this history is white, male, heterosexual. We will bring in other voices – and even though they won’t be white, male ones, they will be biased by the systemic structures of psychoanalytic institutes and journals. Only some can speak. Thus, we will seek access to other voices through literature, poetry, social media, film, tv, music. We invite all of you to contribute to this developing pluralistic canon of what are genders and sexualities.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this class, candidates will:

  1. learn to think more pluralistically about genders and sexualities. This will enable candidates to have greater self-knowledge of their own development and greater access to their patients’ lived experiences of genders and sexualities.
  2. have greater knowledge of the psychoanalytic contributions to theory and practice of genders and sexualities, and will have greater awareness of the limitedness of these contributions. This will enable candidates to seek out many interdisciplinary resources as they work with their clients.
  3. have a deeper understanding of the ranges of genders and sexualities, which will enable them to have a greater empathic and less pathologizing lens from which to view others.

February 25, 2022 — Karen to lead discussion

[38 pages]

Only read Part 1 of Freud’s “Three Essays”; on PEP-Web, pages 135-172.

Freud, Three Essays: We will read the first 2 essays over the 1st 2 weeks of classes as Freud’s contribution to the concept of infantile sexuality was/and still is revolutionary.

Freud, S. (1905) Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud 7:123-246



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Date:
February 25, 2022
Time:
1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
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SPSI
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(206) 328-5315
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SPSI
4020 E Madison St, #230
Seattle, WA 98112
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