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Erika Schmidt Essay Prize Colloquium
Psychoanalysis in the Clinical, Social, and Cultural World

Saturday, October 19, 2024 

9:30 AM-12 Noon CDT

Where: https://chicagoanalysis.zoom.us/j/83519816724



 

 

Please join us for the Colloquium to celebrate the winners of the Erika Schmidt Essay Prize. The two winning essays illuminate social, cultural and clinical issues from a psychoanalytic perspective and further the relationship between the clinical encounter and larger social understandings.

First Prize:          

“Deprivation and Disruption: The Development of Narcissistic Vulnerability and Toxic Masculinity in Chinese Culture” by Xiaomeng Qiao.

Xiaomeng Qiao, MA is a candidate at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and a Psya.D student at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, (specializing in Psychoanalysis, Society, and Culture). They are also a graduate of CPI’s PPP Program. (In addition to their work in psychoanalysis, Xiaomeng designs and programs indie games.) They currently maintain a private practice in Beijing, China, and Oxford, UK.

Second Prize:

“We need to forget about what we actually did not even see here: On Denial in Polish Memory of the Holocaust" by Jan Borowicz.

Jan Borowicz, PhD  is a candidate of the Polish Psychoanalytic Society, an IPA Institute. He has a PhD in Cultural Studies. He is a member of the Holocaust Remembrance Research Team at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His most recent book is Perverse Memory and the Holocaust: A Psychoanalytic Understanding of Polish Bystanders (2024; Routledge). He has been a guest on the IPA podcast Off the Couch hosted by Harvey Schwartz (episode 159: “Bystanding as Perversion”).

 

The Colloquium is presented free of charge although 2.5 Contuining Education Credits are available with a registration fee.

Registration is not necessary for those not receiving CE's

 

 

Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CPI is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education credits for (license numbers in parentheses): Social Workers (159.000122), Professional Counselors (197.000202), Marriage and Family Therapy Therapists (168.00204), and Clinical Psychologists (268.000091). 

 

Eligible professionals will receive 2.5 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits an evaluation form must be completed online. Learners must claim the amount of time spent in the educational activity and that will be the amount of credit they will earn. 

 

Continuing Education credits (CMEs) are not available for physicians for this program.