#PATO2021
Schedule
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Session Types
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
A new addition to this year: there will be a keynote address on Thursday night to launch the conference and a keynote on Sunday evening to bring our time to a close. These will invite us to enter into and journey from the dialogues we will share throughout the weekend.
PLENARY ADDRESSES
Plenary addresses are interdisciplinary touchpoints in our conference. There are 6 plenaries total and they take place in the middle of each of the three days of the event. They provide an opportunity for the whole conference community to join together in shared learning. To facilitate this, there are no other concurrent sessions takin place during the plenaries. CE credits are being submitted to credentialing bodies so that the plenaries can be CE eligible.
INVITED ADDRESSES
Invited addresses take place in each of the session-blocks throughout the conference. These invited addresses bring a scholar and/or practitioner into contact on key themes related to human suffering, identity, and potential. CE credits are being submitted to credentialing bodies so that the invited addresses can be CE eligible.
SYMPOSIUM
Symposia are intended to be pre-organized combinations of papers on a shared area of scholarship (3-6 persons).
PAPER-PANELS
Paper panels consist of three presenters whose work was independently submitted and were then organized into a panel based on content, themes, and/or thinkers. Each presentation is 20 minutes long, leaving ample time for discussion between panelists and with the audience.
Friday, September 17
Tracks
Our conference tracks are new this year and provide a specialized place for clinicians to freely explore their specific discipline. Learn more about each track here.
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Psychological Humanities and Ethics - PHE
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Plato Symposium - Plato
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Dante Salon - Dante
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Alien Salon - Alien
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Narrative & Psychosocial Dialogues - Narrative
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Psychoanalytic Ideas on Technology and Subjectivity - Technology and Subjectivity
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Lacan and Race/Fanon and Phenomenology - Lacan/Fanon
Morning Sessions (9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. EDT)
Invited Address
Soulcraft: The Strains of Integrity and the Contours of Character
Presenter: Chris Higgins
Respondent: Mark Freeman
Symposium
Trauma as Self-Making, Trauma as Divine
Presenters: Ginna Clark, Michelle Harwell, Manon Voice
Paper Panel: Narrative Track
Conflicting Discourse of Disabilities & Differences
Justin Karter: Within and Against Global Mental Health: The Activism of Psychosocial Disability Advocates
Carly Solome: Encounters with the Liberal or Conservative Other: A Jungian Phenomenological Analysis of Individuation Through Conflict
Paper Panel: PHE Track
Our Responsibility to Self and Other
Sam Aston: Into the Kingdom: The Process of Self-Responsibility
Katie Harster: Symptoms of Trauma, Kantian Natural Powers, and the Duty to Seek Treatment
Stephen Lambert: The Enhancement of Flourishing in Challenging Social Systems: Reflections on Hope for the Other Contrasted to Experiential Satisfaction in the philosophies of Jürgen Moltmann
Paper Panel: PHE Track
On Inter-Relationality
Paulina Fuentes Moad: Shattered Intimacy, Devastating Truths: Ruptures Due to Ethical Misconduct
Phil Garrity: YaYa: An Existential Reflection on Intimacy and Alienation among Identical Twin Brothers
Donna Wolfskehl DiStefano: Considering I-Thou Philosophy in Intersubjective Relations
Paper Panel: Dante Track
Oh Power Divine
Aaron B. Daniels: "Welcome and Introduction"
John Took: I Cannot Tell... but This I Know: Dante at the Point of Ultimate Concern
William Franke: Self-Reflection and the Other in Dante's Paradiso
Paper Panel: Lacan/Fanon Track
Afropessimism P.1
Moderator: Michelle Stephens
David Marriott: Lacan Noir
Lee Edelman: White, Black, Un-Black: Why the Symbolic Necessitates Racism
Plenary (10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. EDT)
The 'real' of anti-Blackness
Welcome and Introduction: David Goodman
Presenter: Derek Hook
Respondent: Michelle Stephens
Lunch Break
Plenary (1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. EDT)
The Edifice Complex: Towards a Trans-Mutual Psychoanalysis
Presenter: Francisco González
Respondents: Lara Sheehi, Daniel Gaztambide & Celia Brickman
Afternoon Sessions (3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EDT)
Invited Address
The Languages of Emmanuel Levinas
Presenter: Donna Orange
Respondent: Eric Severson
Symposium
Breaking Scientism's Stranglehold on Psychology: Hermeneutics and the Politics of Resistance
Presenters: Philip Cushman, Daniel Masler, Max Livshetz, S. Peregin Lord, Julianne Ludlam, & Kathleen Pape
Paper Panel: Narrative Track
Arcs of Redemptive Narratives: Predators, Incarnation & Other
Nahanni Freeman: Confessions and Quantum Uncertainties: The Violence of Language, Orgasmic Cells, and the Incarnation of Words
Orrin Page: The Significance of 'the Other' in Self-Development: Narrative, Neuroscience, and the New Testament
Paper Panel: PHE Track
Contemporary Consciousness: On Psychoanalysis
Meera Lee: The Superego Today: Tracing the Voice of the Law and Desire in Freud and Lacan
John Roberts: Modern Subjectivity, Concealment, and the Problem of the Lacanian Unconscious
Susan Varney: Vulnerable Mind of State
Paper Panel: PHE Track
Escape from the Self: On Transcendence and Existentialism
Stefan Bolea: Nietzsche's Three "Noes" to Life
Robert Langan: A Case for Transcendence
Edward Suprenant: Turning Towards the Luminous Darkness: How Buddhist Ontology, Heideggerian Aesthetics, and Intimations of the Divine Feminine Can Transform Our (Post)modern Dilemma
Paper Panel: Dante Track
Longing for this Journey
Stephen Surh: Revisiting Apophasis in the Commedia: Dante and the Self-Emptying God
Tommaso Priviero: Jung, Dante, and the Art of Visionary Travelling
Matthew Elmore: Canto and Commentary: A Way Forward in Dantology
Paper Panel: Lacan/Fanon Track
The Drive, Sex and Race
Sheldon George: The Drive and Lacan's Object 'a' in Racism and Racial Identification
Todd McGowan: Capitalism's Racist Requirement
Sheila Cavanagh: The Other Jouissance of Racism(s): Rachel Dolezal and Amy Cooper
Evening Sessions (4:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. EDT)
Invited Address
"Helping others feel that they matter": A Storied Relationship with Narrative Therapy
Presenter: Steve Gaddis
Respondent: Mookie Manalili
Symposium
Embodying Religion: Neuropsychology, Theology and the Role of the Body in Spiritual Experience
Presenters: Martha Reineke, James W. Jones & Steven J. Sandage
Paper Panel: PHE Track
The 'Subject' Matters in Literature
Marilyn Charles: Psychosocial Studies and Literature: Subjectivity and Social Context
Myka Hanson: Seeing Through Sarah: A Hermeneutic Exploration of Stephen King’s Bag of Bones
Sarah Horton: Testifying to the Misremembered Other: Thinking Fidelity in Light of Memory’s Unreliability
Paper Panel: PHE Track
The Praxis of Neoliberalism
Karley Petersen: To Work and To Love: Resistance Toward a Dignified World of Work
Jeremy DaCruz: Anticapitalistic Praxis as Balm for Societally-Rooted Mental Distress
Laine Walters Young: Addressing the Anxiety of Supermodernity: Ethicists and Psychologists in Tandem Confront the "Wasteland of Meaning"
Paper Panel: PHE Track
A Field in Context
Jeff Sugarman: Psychology and The Significance of History
Gabrielle Taylor: When Illness Becomes the Cure: A Relational Account of COVID-19
Penelope Starr-Karlin: Planetary-Selfhood: Global Warming and a World-Wide Context of Being
Paper Panel: Dante Track
Across More Kindly Waters
David M. Black: Dante's Vision and the Structure of Ethics
Christian Y. Dupont: Phenomenological Readings of Dante's Poetry II: Memory and Mimesis
Paper Panel: Lacan/Fanon Track
Race and Anticolonialism
Zahi Zalloua: Jamming Israel's Libidinal Economy
Wayne Wapeemukwa: Indigenous Femicide as Settler-Colonial Reproductive Futurism
Robert Beshara: A Liberation Psychoanalytic Account of Racism
KEYNOTE ADDRESS WITH HOMI K. BHABHA
7:00-8:30 pm EDT
Systemic Racism and Traumatic Racism: The Long and the Short of It...
Online via Zoom
Register Here
Saturday, September 18
Morning Sessions (9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. EDT)
Invited Address
Transference and the Methodology of Critique
Presenter: Amy Allen
Respondent: Stefanie L. Speanburg
Symposium
Hope and Hopelessness: Potential Space in Year Two of the Pandemic
Presenters: Adrienne Harris, Heather Ferguson, Arthur Fox, Michael Feldman & Susan Klebanoff
Symposium
The Crisis of Exposed Vulnerability: Shame, Power and the Dignity of the Other
Presenters: Jerome Miller, Peter Shabad & Donna Orange
Paper Panel: Plato Track
True Lies: Education, Deception, and the Pursuit of Wisdom
Christine Rojcewicz: A MisReading of Rhetorical Logos in Plato's Gorgias that Vindicates Persuasive Speech
Donald Boyce: On Noticing: The Applicability of the Erotic Hunting Metaphor in Plato for Psychoanalysis
Stephen Mendelsohn: Blinded by Desire: Self-Deception and the Threat of the True Lie in Plato's Republic
Paper Panel: Narrative Track
Relationships to Persons (with Borderline and Schizophrenia)
Miranda Brown: The Transmission of Borderline Personality Disorder from Mother to Child
Cody Sandschafer: Borderline Personality Disorder and Liberation Through Radical Acceptance
Stephen Wykstra & Mark Ruffalo: Befriending the Schizophrenic Other: Revisiting Arieti on Therapeutic Friendship and Countertransference
Paper Panel: PHE Track
On Racialized Intersubjectivity
Sam Binkley: Whiteness, Trauma and the Racial Uncanny
Peter Capretto: The Ideological Conflict of Empathic Freedom in Intersubjective Relation
Patricia Hunter: "Preoedipal Politics"
Paper Panel: Lacan/Fanon Track
Politics, Social Media and Racial Jokesters
E. Chebrolu: Mind the Gap: An Analysis of Racial Anxieties in Populist Fantasies of Content Moderation on Digital Platforms
Clint Burnham: Logical Time and the White Riot
Stephanie Swales & Carol Owens: The Jouissance of Black Humor in Key and Peele (and why White people don't know if it's ok to laugh)
Plenary (10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. EDT)
Gratitude and Meaning
Presenter: Jonathan Lear
Respondent: Alfred Margulies
Lunch Break
Plenary (1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. EDT)
Ethical Labor: Making Reparations within Psychoanalysis
Presenter: Elizabeth Corpt
Respondent: Lewis Gordon
Afternoon Sessions (3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EDT)
Invited Address
Open Wounds of Racial Terror: The Elaine Race Massacre
Presenter: Roger Frie
Respondent: Lynne Layton
Symposium
Community Psychoanalysis and the Ethics of Care
Presenters: Tiffany Houck-Loomis, Tracy Sidesinger, Carlos Padrón, Naomi Snider, Alex Sierck
Symposium
Lucas Fain's Primal Philosophy: Rousseau with Laplanche
Presenters: Lucas Fain, Jack Foehl, Gregory Fried
Paper Panel: Plato Track
Desire and Division: Platonic (mis)readings
John Proios: Race and Division in Plato's Statesman
Andrew Zeppa: The Noble Taboo: Homoerotic Desire and Philosophic Inquiry
Noah Richardson: An Erotic Death
Paper Panel: Narrative Track
Suffering Meaning: Surviving Stories
Zipora Rosenberg Schipper: To Be a Witness and Stay Alive
Jennifer Hamann: The Phenomenological Experience of Living with Terminal Cancer: A Case Study
Breanna Vizlakh: Sitting with our Grief: Consequences of Containing the Trauma of COVID-19
Paper Panel: PHE Track
Movement Towards Healing: Oppression, Trauma and Woundedness
Nathaniel Fasman: Horrors and Racial Oppression
Sean Fitzpatrick: Thorns in the Spirit: Addressing Trauma as a Barrier in Sustained Engagement in Racial Justice Movements
A. Taiga Guterres: Trauma and Reconciliation in a World of Conflict
Paper Panel: Lacan/Fanon Track
Fanon at 60
Nigel Gibson: Fanon Today, Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth
Daniel Jose Gaztambide: Black existence, White ontologies: Fanon's contribution to psychoanalytic diagnosis and treatment
Leswin Laubscher: Frantz Fanon, my 'Brother'
Evening Sessions (4:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. EDT)
Invited Address
Studies of Mentality: Fascist Subjectivity, Subhumanism and Culture-Supremacy
Presenter: Thomas Teo
Respondent: Jeffrey Yen
Symposium
Flatland: Disembodied Modes of Living and the Possibility of an Embrace
Presenters: Jack Foehl & Peter Shabad
Symposium
Re-Storying Society: On Narrative Therapy and Stories of Justice
Presenters: Steve Gaddis, Mookie Manalili, and others
Paper Panel: Technology and Subjectivity Track
Technological Reductions: Memes, Frankenstein, and Illusions
Lewis Thurston: Internet Memes and the Other
Robert Romanyshyn: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Reflections on the Other as Monster
Susan Schwartz: Who Am I Really? - Illusions and Splits in the Mirror
Paper Panel: PHE Track
Diverse Pitfalls and the Need for Community
Hee An Choi: Asian Immigrants as the Third Order
Julia Goetz: Why don’t people go to therapy? A call for intersectional and feminist-focused therapy
Raimundo Salas: A Psychological Dilemma at the Heart of Diversity?
Paper Panel: PHE Track
Continental Analysis: Kierkegaard, Kristeva, and Reverie
Dante Clementi: Reconciling with Otherness: Kierkegaard and the Psychology of Nausea
Samuel Gable: Ironically into the end of an era: The late modern carnival of social media and Internet forums, Kristevean humanism, and Kierkegaard's knight of faith in the new dark age
Paper Panel: Lacan/Fanon Track
Fanon and Lacan
Gautam Basu Thakur: Subalternity, Blackness, & (the Crisis of) the Onto-Phenomenological
Amy Stewart: Lacan and the Necropolitics of the Signifier
Alia Al-Saji: Too Late: Fanon and the dismembered past, and a phenomenology of racialized time
Sunday, September 19
Morning Sessions (9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. EDT)
Invited Address
Freedom and Context: Psychoanalytic Perspectives
Presenters: Peter Maduro, Doris Brothers, Jon Sletvold, Mauricio Cortina & Allison Merrick
Symposium
Affect & Psychoanalysis
Presenters: Gila Ashtor, Adriane Johnston, Elizabeth Wilson & Donovan Schaefer
Paper Panel: PHE Track
Ethical Distancing and Receptivity
Deborah De Chiara-Quenzer: Anger: Its Nature and Value
Alexander Pennington: On the Possibilities of Being(s) in Tact
Sophia Shieh & Haleigh Creamer: Turning Toward the Faces of the Suffering Other - Dialogue of Ethical Distancing in Psychiatric Care
Paper Panel: PHE Track
Into the Darkness, Temptations and Joy
Jacob Goodson: Darkness, Depression, Downwardness: Reflections on the Metaphor of Hell for Understanding Mental Illness
James Morley: The Temptations of Christ in the Desert: A Phenomenological Psychedelic Hermeneutic
Austin Williams: Joy Unspeakable and Full of Shame: Supplementing and Applying Brian Treanor's "Melancholic Joy"
Paper Panel: Technology and Subjectivity Track
Interfacing with Technology: Artificial Other, Mental Health, and Digital Objects
Gabriel Fernandez-Borsot: The Artificial Other: Artificial Companions and the Rise of Social Techno-Narcissim
Lisa Finlay: Mental Health Treatment in the Information Age: Exploring the Functions of Artificial Intelligence and Human Subjectivity in Psychotherapy
Sharon Tugwell: What Lurks Beneath: The Erotic Charge of the Laplanchean Unconscious and the Digital Object
Paper Panel: Alien Track
Transported by the Alien
Aaron B. Daniels: Welcome and Introduction
Emily McAvan: The Alien Messiah: On Divine Alterity
Scott Scribner & Gregory J. Wheeler: Toward a Psychology of UFO Abduction Beliefs
Paper Panel: Lacan/Fanon Track
Afropessimism P.2
Moderator: Evan Malater
Daniel Butler: Infancy Imperiled: Aphanisis and Antiblackness in Developmental Thought
Linette Park: Desire and Falling: On the Question of Abolition and the "Other Side" of Afro-Pessimism
Calvin Warren: Nothing Eros: Anti-blackness, Nihilism, and the Drives
Plenary (10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. EDT)
When the cure is that there is no cure: Mourning, melancholia, and creativity
Presenter: Mari Ruti
Respondent: Jamieson Webster
Lunch Break
Plenary (1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. EDT)
What Does Decolonization Demand from Psychology: Reflections on Otherness
Presenter: Sunil Bhatia
Respondent: Helen Neville
Afternoon Sessions (3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EDT)
Invited Address
From Magdalens to Dress Codes: Embodied Shame and the Limits of Apology
Presenter: Claire Katz
Respondent: Sue Grand
Symposium
Dwelling-In-Between: Reification, Rupture, and Resoluteness at the Intersections of Being
Presenters: Robin Chalfin, Ming Chang & Jason Ri
Paper Panel: Technology and Subjectivity Track
From Social Media to Social Movement: Technologies of Change
Christopher Bell: Collective Bargaining in the Social Media Era
John O'Leary: Hidden Discourses: Political Polarization and The Role of The Unconscious - An Approach to Changing Hearts and Minds
Sarah Essner: Traumatic Viewings Online: Social Media Reflections and Responses
Paper Panel: PHE Track
Levinasian Orientations: Synchrony/Diachrony and Autonomy/Heteronomy
Ryan Mest: Dyadic Diachrony
Angelos Mouzakitis: From Heroic Autonomy to Responsible Heteronomy: Castoriadis and/or Levinas?
Paper Panel: PHE Track
Abuse: On Witness, Supremacy, and Boundaries
Lisa Cataldo: The Other Is Us: Relational Psychoanalytic Considerations of Complicity, Accountability, and the Role of Witness
Beverly Haviland: The Color of Shame: The Perversity of White Supremacy and Child Sexual Abuse in the Bluest Eye
Jenny Logan: The Ethics of Disciplinary Boundaries: A Case Study
Paper Panel: Alien Track
The Alien at Home and on the Couch
Anna Bugaiska: The Human and the Smart House: Speculative Psychology and Systems of Attachment
Michael Walden: The Alien Inside: Jean Laplanche's Internal Other in the Fiction of Brian Evenson and the Case of Ana
Eliza Rose: Starship Asylum: Laloux at La Borde and the Therapeutic Uses of Science Fiction
Paper Panel: Lacan/Fanon Track
Race and the Clinic
Patricia Gherovici: Hysteria and Race Between Edith Roberts’ Candle in the Sun and Jacques Lacan’s The Family
Christopher Christian: Observations on Ataque de Nervios as a Cultural Expression of Conflict and Compromise Formation
Respondent: Ann Pellegrini
Evening Sessions (4:45 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. EDT)
Invited Address
Psychoanalytic Innocence: The Ideological Underpinnings of Theory and Praxis
Presenter: Lara Sheehi
Respondent: Robin DG Kelley
Symposium
Alfred Lorenzer and a Psychological Cultural Analysis
Presenters: Daniel Rosengart & Katharina Rothe
Paper Panel: Technology and Subjectivity Track
Effects of Technology on Healing and Embodiment
Jessica Thomas: Utilizing the Practice of Mindful Photography and Journal Writing to Mediate the Experience of Anticipatory Loss
Hannah Venable: Virtual Symphony and Virtual Church: Considering the Importance of Bodily Presence
Hannah Zeavin: Remote Relations: Teletherapy and Knowledge of the Self
Paper Panel: PHE Track
Mystical Ascent: Therapeia, Contexts and Flesh
Marilyn Charles: The Establishment and the Mystic: Extreme Experience and Social Context
Jennifer Wang: "The Mystic's Body: Hildegard, Merleau-Ponty and Glorified Flesh"
Paper Panel: Alien Track
The Uncanny and Abcanny Alien
Dorothy Chang: Repetition and Return in Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast Trilogy
Jason Harris: Uncanny Fascinations: Alienation, Obsession, and Enthrallment in Thomas Ligotti's "The Small People" and Other Weird Fiction
Aaron B. Daniels: The Abcanny: Encounters with the Inscrutably Alien
Paper Panel: Lacan/Fanon Track
Black Femme, Thenatopolitics, and Ethics
Tiara Jackson: Look, a Négresse: The Remains of the Black Femme
Christopher Chamberlain: Afropessimism's Ethics
Jamil Khader: Beyond Jouissance: Thenatopolitics, Undead Palestinians, and the Death Drive
KEYNOTE ADDRESS WITH SHELLY RAMBO
6:30-8:00 pm EDT
Guarding the Inward Sea: Moral Injury and the Spiritual Exercises of Howard Thurman
Respondent: A. Taiga Guterres
Closing Remark: Michael Mookie C. Manalili