Series: Connections and Conversation
Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting, cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis.
This free event that alternates times. The meeting often begins with a 45 minute presentation followed by 45 minutes of conversation. When an event is recorded you can access the recording at the vault.
This series is open to all.
In case of questions please contact: [email protected]
The Creativity of Transgender Embodiment: A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective
December 6 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST
Gendered embodiment is a series of acts of accommodation for the body we have towards a body we can call our own. The feeling of being ill at ease in one’s embodiment and subsequent resolution can be understood through Friston’s Free Energy Principle. The creative compromises that trans people construct to live as an embodied self will be explored through the neuropsychoanalytic lens of predictive processing. We will discuss the clinical work of transformation and accommodation in trans embodiment.
Presenter
S.J. Langer, LCSW-R
S.J. Langer is a writer and psychotherapist based in New York City. He is in private practice, providing clinical supervision and WPATH GEI SOC8 Certified Mentorship. He is on faculty at School of Visual Arts in both the MPS Art Therapy and Humanities & Sciences departments. His research lab at SVA studies embodiment and trans phantoms. He is also part of the Faculty of Psychology for the Diploma in Psychotherapy and Mental Health in Sexual Diversity of Gender at Universidad Diego Portales – Centre for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Studies (CEPPS-Centro de Estudios en Psicología Clínica y Psicoterapia) in Santiago, Chile. He has published several peer-reviewed articles on clinical practice, gender theory and research on trans embodiment one of which, Trans Bodies and the Failure of Mirrors, won the Symonds Prize from Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He has chapters in the edited volumes Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities, Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach and Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapy. His first book Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 2020. He was just named a Fulbright Specialist for 2024-2027.
Series: Connections and Conversation
Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting, cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in psychoanalysis.
This free event that alternates times. The meeting often begins with a 45 minute presentation followed by 45 minutes of conversation. When an event is recorded you can access the recording at the vault.
This series is open to all.
In case of questions please contact: [email protected]
The Creativity of Transgender Embodiment: A Neuropsychoanalytic Perspective
December 6 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST
Gendered embodiment is a series of acts of accommodation for the body we have towards a body we can call our own. The feeling of being ill at ease in one’s embodiment and subsequent resolution can be understood through Friston’s Free Energy Principle. The creative compromises that trans people construct to live as an embodied self will be explored through the neuropsychoanalytic lens of predictive processing. We will discuss the clinical work of transformation and accommodation in trans embodiment.
Presenter
S.J. Langer, LCSW-R
S.J. Langer is a writer and psychotherapist based in New York City. He is in private practice, providing clinical supervision and WPATH GEI SOC8 Certified Mentorship. He is on faculty at School of Visual Arts in both the MPS Art Therapy and Humanities & Sciences departments. His research lab at SVA studies embodiment and trans phantoms. He is also part of the Faculty of Psychology for the Diploma in Psychotherapy and Mental Health in Sexual Diversity of Gender at Universidad Diego Portales – Centre for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Studies (CEPPS-Centro de Estudios en Psicología Clínica y Psicoterapia) in Santiago, Chile. He has published several peer-reviewed articles on clinical practice, gender theory and research on trans embodiment one of which, Trans Bodies and the Failure of Mirrors, won the Symonds Prize from Studies in Gender and Sexuality. He has chapters in the edited volumes Sex, Sexuality and Trans Identities, Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Global Reach and Intersectionality in the Arts Psychotherapy. His first book Theorizing Transgender Identity for Clinical Practice: A New Model for Understanding Gender was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 2020. He was just named a Fulbright Specialist for 2024-2027.
Presentation Vault
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