2024 - 2025 Scientific Meetings
| Program Title: | SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN AN ADOLESCENT BOY: WAKING THE OBJECT |
| Date: | Saturday, December 7, 2024 |
| Time: | 10:30am – 12:00pm PT |
| Presenter: | Mary Brady, PhD Faculty, SFCP; Psychoanalyst; Author |
| Location: | San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis 444 Natoma Street San Francisco, CA 94103 (remote option is available) |
| Program Fee: | Free |
| CME/CE: | This program has been approved for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1™ for free (for SFCP members) or $22.50 (for non-SFCP members) |
This presentation by Dr. Mary Brady, expands psychoanalytic understanding and treatment when substance abuse is a central symptom in an adolescent. Her analysis of an adolescent boy abusing alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs is used to discuss unconscious object relationships that can underlie substance dependence. She will address the challenge of differentiating experimental from dangerous substance use. The boy’s escalating substance use is viewed both as an effort to numb himself and to “speak” through symptoms of problems he could not yet name. Rosenfeld’s (1960/1966) view of the relationship of drug addiction to an identification with an ill or dead object is used to explicate the boy’s psychodynamics. Aspects of containment by the analyst that contribute in different ways to an adolescent’s capacity to think about their self-destructiveness will be discussed along with the need for confrontation and ancillary care when substance abuse becomes life threatening.
Dr. Brady is an adult and child psychoanalyst practicing in San Francisco. On the Faculties of the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, she received the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Roughton Award for her writing which includes, Analytic Engagements with Adolescents, and The Body in Adolescence (Routledge 2018 and 2016). She is Editor of Braving the Erotic Field in the Treatment of Children and Adolescents, (Routledge, 2022). Her forthcoming book is titled, Psychoanalysis with Adolescents and Children: Learning to Surf (Routledge.) Dr. Brady is also the IPA North American Co-Chair for the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis (COCAP) and for a decade has co-led a Psychoanalysis and Film group.
Accreditation Statement for CME/CE Sponsorship and Disclosure Statement
Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, the learners will be able to:
- Describe the relationship of substance abuse in some adolescents to the effort to ‘wake’ an ill or dying object.
- Summarize aspects of containment that contribute to adolescents’ capacity to think about their substance abuse.
- Explain the analytic meanings of confrontation with adolescents.
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 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 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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