Please join the Pre-Licensed Clinicians Committee in celebrating the work of Amber Trotter, Psy.D., on her paper titled, “Living Our Dreams or Dreaming a Nightmare: Reflections on an Increasingly Virtual Reality,” which received fort da’s 2018 Student Paper Award.
Mutual love, while inducing great happiness, weakens higher mental functions and, so, is paradoxically traumatic. We will begin with the clinical observation that experiences of satisfaction, especially when mutual, make people happy but anxious.
Join NCSPP board and members for a friendly and fun gathering at the Presidio Off-the-Grid Picnic. Buy your lunch from your favorite food truck and meet us at our designated picnic area marked with signage. We will meet, eat, and mingle in the park.
NCSPP's Digital Media and Technology Committee is looking for new committee members as we use digital technologies to expand the reach and accessibility of NCSPP to members and the wider community.
TAKING OUR TECHNOLOGY TO THE NEXT LEVEL
JOIN OUR COMMITTEE TO HELP US EXPAND
An overcrowded, demoralized, punitive educational system — combined with the abdication of mental health services to a juvenile justice system that incarcerates Black youth at an increasingly alarming rate — have made it difficult for many Black adolescent boys to find and engage in helpful treatment. When they are able to gain a referral, the complicated effects of White racism often impact the treatment encounter and are rarely addressed in the clinical session.
Within the psychic space of youth, interests come to define one’s sense of self. These idiosyncratic obsessions, whether bands, internet memes, or comic books, are often subtly characterized as unimportant within psychoanalysis, while other cultural interests are elevated.
