February 8, 2025
Jennifer Kunst, PhD
Live Interactive Online Webinar
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Time:
9:00 am – 12:15 pm (PST)
12:00 pm – 3:15 pm (EDT)
Content Level: Intermediate
One-Session Program: 3 CEs
Member Fee: $120.00
Candidate/Student Fee: $75.00
This videoconference is co-sponsored by The Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies (CIPS) and The Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS)
The Ethical Clinician: Working from the outside in and the inside out by Jennifer Kunst, PhD
This seminar will offer an advanced framework for clinical practice that takes seriously the need for an “outside in” and an “inside out” approach to ethical considerations. The external established framework of legal and professional ethics serves as the foundation for an internal model that is fluid, lived, applied, and emerging within the context of the clinical work itself. General rules and guidelines about ethical behavior provide necessary boundaries for our work. However, we also need to develop an internal compass that can help us think and find our bearings in the challenging conditions that we encounter in the stormy conditions that often characterize psychoanalytic work.
Jennifer Kunst, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Pasadena, CA where she works with adults, adolescents, couples, and families. She earned her PhD at Fuller Graduate School of Psychology and is licensed in the state of California. Dr. Kunst trained at the Psychoanalytic Center of California, where she now is a Training and Supervising Analyst and teaches courses on Kleinian theory and technique. She has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed professional psychology journals on the topics of psychoanalytic psychotherapy as well as the interface between religion and psychology. As an approved provider of continuing education by the California Psychological Association, she provides workshops and seminars to licensed mental health professionals through her Psychoanalytic Essentials program. Her outreach projects include her Psychology Today blog, “A Headshrinker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, and her book, “Wisdom from the Couch: Knowing and Growing Yourself from the Inside Out” (Central Recovery Press, 2014).
References
Ackerman, S. (2020). Impossible Ethics. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, (68)(4):561-582
Ackerman, S. (2021) The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice.: By Mitchell Wilson. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 223 pp.. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 90:173-187.
Schechter, S. (2024) Ethics Education in Psychoanalytic Institutes. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 44:178-193.
Slochower, J. (2003). The Analyst’s Secret Delinquencies. Psychoanallytic Dialogues, (13)(4):451-469.
Richard B. Zimmer (2022) Shared Trauma, the Renegotiation of the Frame, and the Preservation of What Is Essential: Transformations in Psychoanalytic Treatment in the Time of the Pandemic, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 91:1, 63-88.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Distinguish between a rule-based model of ethics and a model of lived ethics
- Identify how the concept of “deferred action” contributes to developing an advanced ethical framework in psychodynamic psychotherapy
- Differentiate the features of serious boundary violations and ethical misdemeanors
Who Should Attend
Mental Health Professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, licensed professional counselors, e.g., LPs, LCATs, and pastoral counselors) and those with an interest in psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking and clinical applications.
Continuing Education Credits
- NY Social Workers: The PTI-CFS is recognized by the NYS Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0087
- NY Psychoanalysts: The PTI-CFS is recognized by the NYS Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0021.
- NY Licensed Psychologists: The PTI-CFS is recognized by the NYS Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0017.
- Psychologists: The Contemporary Freudian Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The CFS maintains responsibility for this program and its content. (DC, MD and VA Psychologist licensing boards accept CE credits provided by an APA approved Sponsor. All other psychologists should check with their licensing boards.)
- DC, MD and VA Social Workers: The Social Work Boards of the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia will grant continuing education credits to social workers attending a program offered by an APA authorized sponsor.
CE credits will only be granted to participants with documented attendance of the entire program. No partial credit will be offered. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion of this program and online evaluation form, participants will be granted CE credits.
Important Disclosure Information: There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
Cancellation Policy:
Full refunds will be issued if notification of cancellation is received 72 hours prior to the start of the course.