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Webinars:
March 13 - April 7, 2006: Jack Drescher
Please Note: REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
Our next webinar will be taught by Jack Drescher and is titled: "WHAT CAUSES HOMOSEXUALITY? A GAY PERSPECTIVE ON PSYCHOANALYTIC KNOWLEDGE AND AUTHORITY".
The webinar will begin on March 13 and will run until April 7. PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR THE REGISTRATION ANNOUNCEMENT. These webinars are limited to a maximum enrollment of 20 participants and they fill up quickly. For this reason, priority will be given to those who have not participated in previous webinars.
Reading material will be posted on the website once the webinar begins.
Readings:
Drescher, J. (2002), Causes and becauses: On etiological theories of homosexuality. The Annual of Psychoanalysis (Rethinking Psychoanalysis and the Homosexualities), 30:57-68. (Copyright The Analytic Press) Drescher, J. (1999), The therapist's authority and the patient's sexuality. J. Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy, 3(2):61-80. (Copyright The Haworth Press)
Description:
Theories of etiology, psychoanalytic or otherwise, seek to provide both explanations and an ontological rationale for the way things are. However, psychoanalytic practitioners - for reasons that will be reviewed in this webinar - tend to conflate gay patients' beliefs about the meaning(s) of their same-sex attractions with developmental theories about the "causes" of homosexuality. Through analytic deconstruction of some etiological theories, this webinar will teach therapists and analysts how to read the meanings of patient narratives. Through the use of clinical material, this webinar will also show how a therapist's authority can wittingly or unwittingly impose itself on a patient's understanding and feelings about their own homosexuality.
Bio:
Jack Drescher, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute and recently joined the teaching faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy and The Analytic Press's Bending Psychoanalysis Book Series. He has edited 19 books and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Homosexuality and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Dr. Drescher is in private practice in New York City.
This webinar series is conducted via easy to use webinar rooms provided by The Psychoanalytic Connection. In these webinars all the communications are posted in a private web accessible e classroom, rather than sent via email to each participant's individual e mail box. In other words, it is a web forum, bulletin board structure. The limit on the number of participants along with the web forum structure allows these webinars to provide greater opportunity for personal contact and open discussion among the webinar participants, along with facilitating a sense of shared participation and joint activity.
The webinar will run for 4 weeks. The first of the 4 weeks will be an introduction to online learning devoted to giving participants a chance to become familiar with the web forum medium.
Remember, there will be a limit of 20 participants per webinar, and sign up will be on a first come first serve basis. So please keep your eyes open for the registration announcement. If you do not get into this webinar, please do not get frustrated. A number of other webinars are already scheduled and others are being planned.