BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//WILA Alumni Association - ECPv6.16.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:WILA Alumni Association X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wilaalumni.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for WILA Alumni Association REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250719T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250719T123000 DTSTAMP:20250707T160919Z CREATED:20250412T142448Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250707T160919Z UID:223462-1752915600-1752928200@wilaalumni.org SUMMARY:CE: "Working with Fat in the Countertransference" - Dr. Hilary Offman DESCRIPTION:Sponsored byThe WILA Alumni Association\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n :::PROGRAM DESCRIPTION\nSaturday\, July 19th\, 2025; 9 am-12:15 pm PST \n9:00-9:10 – Welcome\, CE reminders\, introduction\, review of CE information \n9:10-9:50 – Paper presentation: “The Intersectionality of Misogyny: On Being Female\, Fat\, and Trans” \n9:50-10:30 – Discussion \n10:30-10:45 – Break \n10:45-11:15 – What happened when I was a guest supervisor for a case on fat \n11:15-12:15 – Discussion \nIn Western culture\, fat is one of the worst things you can be. In addition\, the application of stereotypes like laziness\, greediness\, and lack of self-discipline to fat bodies automatically assigns a sense of culpability in the form of a morality of appearance. This societal view further marks fat individuals as ‘failed’ members who are then more likely to internalize collective fatphobia into a marginalized self-identity. Therapists working with fat patients must\, therefore\, be prepared to confront their patients’ profound feelings of shame. How can we navigate this complexity? \nIn a ‘two-person psychology\,’ a framework that emphasizes the importance of the analyst’s subjectivity in the co-construction of meaning\, we need to take into account how the therapist feels about fat. Should we admit to patients that we share the same feelings about fat as everybody else\, or do we pretend that we don’t in order to be “nice”? Regardless of whether we have ever been fat\, almost all of us have experienced what it’s like to be afraid of it. How much of it\, if any\, should we share?  \nThis presentation delves into some of the countertransferential issues that surface when therapists work with fat. In the first part\, Dr. Offman will feature a paper entitled “The Intersectionality of Misogyny: On Being Fat\, Female\, and Trans. This case study explores countertransference working with a fat trans patient\, both before and after my transformation from a very fat therapist to a ‘regular’ one. \nFor the second part\, Dr. Offman will present what happened when guest-supervising a case involving a slim psychoanalytic candidate and her 400-pound patient. We will use this example to facilitate a discussion about how crucial it is to acknowledge the impact of the analyst’s subjectivity with respect to fat\, whether to ourselves or to our patients. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n LEARNING OBJECTIVES\nUpon completion of the program participants should be able to: \n\nIdentify the essential features of a two-person psychology and how they relate to the treatment of patients with fat bodies.\nFormulate how the desire to be ‘nice’ while neglecting one’s own feelings and experiences related to fatness may affect the treatment of these patients.\nApply new insights into countertransference when working with fat patients to enhance one’s own clinical practice.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PRESENTER\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Hilary Offman\, MD FRCPC\, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a private practice in Toronto\, Canada. She is a lecturer and supervisor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She is also a supervising analyst\, faculty and Board member for the Toronto Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TICP). She is the former co-chair of the Candidates Committee for the International Association of Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (IARPP) and a current member of the IARRP Board of Directors\, where she co-chairs the International Chapters Committee. Her writing interests include themes of otherness\, queerness\, and fatness. Her papers are used to teach about working psychoanalytically with patients who identify as non-binary. Her article “Fatphobia is Real” won the Council for Advancement and Support of Education in Medicine (CASE) Gold Writing Award. She recently published her first poem\, “Why? July?” in the Annals of Internal Medicine. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CE INFORMATION\n\n3 CE credits are available for all nationally licensed clinicians\nThis CE is at the intermediate level\nTo receive CE credit you must attend the entire event\n\n \n \n \n \n \n The Wright Institute Los Angeles (WILA) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. 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