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Seizing The Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis
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Seizing The Vital Moment in Psychoanalysis
Presented by Peter Shabad, PhD
June 10, 2025 | 6pm-7:30pm CST
Free Virtual Event
1.5 CEU Credits offered through Yellowbrick Foundation
$25 processing fee
Conference Description:
In this presentation, I will describe how the vulnerability of giving oneself to a significant other and being received or not received has major implications for human development. More specifically, I will examine how the disruption of expectant hopes to be received by the other leads to a reflexive process of self-shaming, and the self-exclusion of disillusioned desires. Finally, I will describe how the treatment of shame involves the replacement of self-shaming with the mourning process, in which excluded disillusioned desires are welcomed back in to the emotional bloodstream of the self.
Learning Objectives:
- At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to describe how passion is manifested in the need to give of oneself and be received by a significant other.
- At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to describe how self-shame emerges as a defensive reflex in the aftermath of significant relational ruptures.
- At the end of the presentation, participants will be able to describe how mourning fundamentally a process of re-integrating disillusioned desires.
Presenter
Peter Shabad, PhD
Peter Shabad, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School. He is on the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and he is on the Faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is also Supervising and Training Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He is an Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Shabad is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (IUP, 1989) and is the author of Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy (Aronson, 2001). He is the author of numerous papers on diverse topics such as the psychological implications of death, giving and receiving, shame, resentment, spite, and regret.
Dr. Shabad’s new book is Passion, Shame, and The Freedom To Become: Seizing The Vital Moment In Psychoanalysis (2024) published by Routledge.
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