2023 - 2024 Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
| Program Title: | A Psychoanalytic Playlist with Sasha Frere-Jones |
| Date: | Saturday, June 8, 2024 |
| Time: | 10:00am – 12:30pm Pacific Time |
| Interviewee: | Sasha Frere-Jones |
| Interviewer: | Adam Blum, PsyD |
| Moderator: | Elizabeth Bradshaw, PsyD |
| Location: | San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis 444 Natoma Street San Francisco, CA 94103 (remote option is available) |
| Program Fee: | $ 40 — General Admission If you are a Candidate, Trainee, or Student of the SFCP, including those in the SF-PPTP, PAPPTP, CAPPTP programs or the Extension Yearlong Program: If you are a Candidate, or Student of another institution: |
| CME/CE: | 2.5 CME/CE credits available for free (for SFCP members) or $ 37.50 (for non-members) After the program ends, SFCP will email all participants a program evaluation form. The completion of this evaluation form is required for everyone who requests CME/CE credits. |
At some point between the heyday of the mixtape and the infinite scroll of the app-based feed, the music playlist found its place in history, as a new form of history. With the human touch of curation, the playlist captures a moment, selecting some tracks over others, but breathing with the polymorphous possibility of continuous response. Assembling a live playlist for the audience out of samples of music and psychoanalytic theory, the kaleidoscopic writer Sasha Frere-Jones (The New Yorker, Buttondown) will riff on the “frame” of historical change, refracted through his new memoir, Earlier (2023), and in dialogue with Adam Blum, co-author (with Peter Goldberg and Michael Levin) of the recent book, Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis (2023), which Frere-Jones reviewed for Parapraxis magazine. Ears up.
Sasha Frere-Jones is a writer and musician from New York. Semiotext(e) published his memoir, Earlier, in 2023.
Adam Blum, PsyD is co-author of Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis (Columbia UP, 2023). He is adjunct faculty at SFCP, and has written and presented on psychoanalysis and the music of Björk, Kendrick Lamar, Frank Ocean, Stephen Sondheim, Aretha Franklin, and Michael Jackson. He is in private practice in San Francisco.
Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, the learners will be able to:
- describe the framing function of music in forming personal and collective history.
- analyze the function of music in giving form to feeling.
- discuss the role of music in psychical translation.
- describe the “playlist” logic of free association in psychoanalytic process.
Accreditation Statement for CME/CE Sponsorship and Disclosure Statement
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Planner Disclosure
Adam Blum, PsyD – No relevant financial relationships
Faculty Disclosure
Adam Blum, PsyD – No relevant financial relationships
Sasha Frere-Jones – No relevant financial relationships
Elizabeth Bradshaw, PsyD – No relevant financial relationships
CE Committee Reviewer:
Aneil M. Shirke, M.D., Ph.D., FABPN, FABP – No Relevant Financial Disclosures
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Psychologists attending SFCP events approved for CE credits may report AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ toward their CE requirements. Psychologists self-certify the number of hours they have completed on their renewal form (whether online or paper).
LCSWs/MFTs: The San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis is a continuing education provider that has been approved by the American Psychological Association, a California Board of Behavioral Sciences recognized approval agency
Psychologists, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family Therapists will be awarded AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ on an hour for hour basis; see the program description for the maximum of credits awarded for each program.
Commercial Support: None