BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//WILA Alumni Association - ECPv6.17.1//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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260711T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260711T120000 DTSTAMP:20260728T213010Z CREATED:20260514T232238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260728T213010Z UID:223874-1783764000-1783771200@wilaalumni.org SUMMARY:CE: "Untangling: What Patients Can Tell Analysts About Psychoanalysis" – Joan Peters DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by\nThe WILA Alumni Association\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n PROGRAM DESCRIPTION\nWhat if the most important perspective in psychoanalysis is the one we rarely hear? Lay patients—those without theoretical training or professional community—make up the vast majority of analysands\, yet their authentic voices remain largely absent from our field’s discourse. Unlike analyst-patients who can contextualize their experience through theory and collegial exchange\, lay patients navigate analysis without a map. Their accounts offer raw\, unfiltered insights into what truly matters in the therapeutic encounter—insights with the potential to transform our understanding of the analytic process. \nThis talk invites attendees to join a pioneering project exploring the place and value of patient narrative in psychoanalytic discourse. Together we’ll consider excerpts from Joan K. Peters’ own memoir Untangling: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis\, alongside narratives she is collecting for a forthcoming special issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry on The Patient Experience. The unique data you’ll hear marks a striking departure from the “nightmare analyst” novels of popular culture—which we’ll briefly review—as well as the handful of accounts written by analysts in the early years of the profession. \nBy the end of the discussion\, we will reflect on whether granting patients their own voice can deepen our understanding of the intersubjective relationship emphasized by Winnicott\, Kohut\, and others\, and advance the vision of true “two-person therapy” articulated by Jay Greenberg and Stephen Mitchell in The Relational Revolution. \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\nUtilize patient narratives to inform their practice and deepen their connections with theirpatients.\nFormulate clearer ideas about what matters to patients most during an analysis\, whatbuilds trust\, what can weaken it.\nDiscuss the challenges for patients undergoing analysis in the absence of an analyticcommunity or theoretical foundation that most candidate/analysts have.\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 JOAN K. PETERS is a Professor Emerita of Literature at CSU Channel Islands\, is the author of Untangling: A Memoir of Psychoanalysis” (Roman & Littlefield)\, which she’s discussed at APsA 2025 and was the subject of an APsA panel in 2026. Her essay\, “Bad Dreams (Are Made of This)” will appear in Psychoanalytic Inquiry where she is also guest editing a special issue on “The Patient Experience.” \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CE INFORMATION\n\n2 CE credits\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. WILA maintains responsibility for this program and its content.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Donation Amount:\n \n \n $ 100.00\n \n Licensed ClinicianWILA Alumni Association MemberStudents/Unlicensed ClinicianPurchase\n \n Select Payment Method \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Stripe - Credit Card\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n Personal Info \n\n \n \n \n First Name *\n \n \n \n\n \n \n Last Name *\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n \n Email Address *\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n Credit Card Info \n\n \n \n \n This is a secure SSL encrypted payment. \n \n \n \n \n Card Number *\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n CVC *\n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n Cardholder Name *\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Expiration *\n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Would you like to help cover the processing fees?\n\n \n \n I'll cover the 0 transaction fee to support WILA's non-profit mission!\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Subscribe to our Email List\n \n \n \n \n \n Total \n \n $100.00 \n \n {amount} payment + {fee_amount} transaction fee \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n WILA Alumni get a discount!\nMembership gives you many benefits including discounts on CE events like this one. Join or Renew today to save!\n \n \n \n \n \n Refunds and Cancellations\nRegistrants who cancel with more than 24 hours’ notice are eligible to receive a 50% refund by emailing WILA’s Business Director\n \n \n \n \n \n Questions or concerns?\nEmail info@wilaalumni.org for help URL:https://wilaalumni.org/event/2026-ce-peters/ LOCATION:Zoom (link will be emailed upon registration) CATEGORIES:CE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wilaalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/cdd20-puzzle-5831246_1920.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="WILA Alumni Association":MAILTO:info@wilaalumni.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260919T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260919T120000 DTSTAMP:20260728T214029Z CREATED:20260728T212822Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260728T214029Z UID:223947-1789812000-1789819200@wilaalumni.org SUMMARY:CE: "The One and the Many: Bion and the Science of At-One-Ment" with Thomas Helscher\, Ph.D. 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\nBion’s unique contributions to psychoanalysis are only now beginning to be fullyappreciated\, particularly his focus on analysis as an experience situated between the mindand the body\, between the self and the world\, between the individual and the group\,between the analyst and analysand. His early work on groups\, particularly his attention tothe group mind\, manifested in the basic assumption group\, and its tension with the moremature and evolved aspects of the personality contained in the individual as individual\,remains a vital source of understanding intersubjective and intrapsychic conflict. In thisclass\, we will look first at his pre-Kleinian work on groups\, and then trace thedevelopment of his thinking through his seminar in Los Angeles\, his last major work\,Attention and Interpretation\, and conclude with his clinical seminars. \nOur focus will be on how his theory of the group mind represents an important development of Freud’sprimary and secondary processes and how his technique for interpreting the groupunconscious becomes the ground for his work on “the science of at-one-ment” aselaborated in his LA seminar and in Attention and Interpretation. In these latter works\,Bion’s goes beyond dyadic conceptions of the psychoanalytic relationship\, eschewingcounter-transference and doer and done to dynamics in favor of what he callstransformations in O\, which derive from shared encounters with the emotional experienceof the session. \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 will be able to: \n\nDescribe recent developments in the psychoanalytic theory of development and their implications for technique.\nApply knowledge of early integration of the psyche and soma and developmental issues that result from integration problems.\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 THOMAS HELSCHER\, PH.D. is is a Training and Supervising Analyst at LAISPS\, and on the faculty at LAISPS and WILA. He teaches classes\, leads groups\, and supervises individuals on the collected works of Bion\, Lacan\, and Andre Green in Los Angeles\, New York City\, Vienna\, Poland\, and Australia. He received a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Virginia before undergoing psychoanalytic training and receiving a Psy.D. in Psychoanalysis from LAISPS. He has written and published on trauma\, moral injury\, counter-transference\, and Bion’s papers and seminars. He is a Fellow of the IPA and a member of the University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium. He is in private practice in Santa Monica\, CA. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n CE INFORMATION\n\n2 CE credits\nThis CE is at the intermediate/advanced 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. WILA maintains responsibility for this program and its content. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n INSERT GIVE SHORTCODE HERE\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n   \n \n \n \n \n \n Rates go up on 9/5/2026!Licensed Clinician – $120WILA Alumni Member – $100Student / Pre-licensed Clinician – $60 \n \n \n \n \n \n WILA Alumni get a discount!Membership gives you many benefits including discounts on CE events like this one. Join or Renew today to save! \n \n \n \n \n \n Refunds and CancellationsRegistrants who cancel with more than 24 hours’ notice are eligible to receive a 50% refund by emailing WILA’s Business Director \n \n \n \n \n \n Questions or concerns?Email info@wilaalumni.org for help URL:https://wilaalumni.org/event/2026-ce-helscher/ LOCATION:Zoom (link will be emailed upon registration) CATEGORIES:CE ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wilaalumni.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/cdd20-moon-6374508_1920.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="WILA Alumni Association":MAILTO:info@wilaalumni.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR