1.5 CEs are available for New York State psychologists, social workers, licensed mental health counselors and psychoanalysts.

*A continued talk description + Elena Vogman & Christopher Chamberlin's biography → on the "Speaker Series" page*

Between the rise of fascism in Europe and the dawn of decolonization in Africa, a radical constellation of clinicians, philosophers, and artists reconceptualized the causes of mental illness and reenvisioned the aims of psychotherapy. It began by listening to the “mad.” If delusional speech expressed a conflict between lived experience and the crises of modern social life, psychosis had to be treated as an ethical response to dehumanizing conditions wherever they persisted—from the asylum to the colony. By adopting the ethics of psychosis, radical psychiatrists and psychoanalysts expanded freedom from political ideal into a principle of therapeutic action. Treatment could not stop with the care of the individual but had to turn pathological institutions into therapeutic ones—and invent new transferential milieus in which the lived experience of catastrophe could find its place as a mode of existence...