Transgender Psychoanalysts Speak: Reflections from Training, Patient Care and Professional Practice (Member)

Title of Workshop:
Transgender Psychoanalysts Speak: Reflections from Training, Patient Care and Professional Practice

Format: Online
Credit: 3 CEUs approved for Social Workers, LPCs/LMFTs and LADCs

Cost:
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*(Full-Time Undergraduate, Graduate, Doctoral students, and LMFT, LADC, LPC, Social Work, Psychology, and Psychoanalytic licensure/certification candidates

Speaker: Jack Drescher, MD; Jack Pula, MD; Sean Rivera, MD

Description:

Today, it is possible for mental health professionals and patients to openly present themselves as gay or gender-nonconforming. However, recent court decisions and legislative actions opposing gender-affirming care have created an atmosphere in which transgender and nonbinary individuals are both stigmatized and rendered invisible. This panel seeks to provide insight into the experience of transgender psychoanalysts today as the panelists will speak about how these experiences have influenced their practices. Drs. Pula and Riveera will provide their background experiences in navigating multiple types of educational and professional spaces and challenges, including the impact of transition and career on family life. The panel will be followed by Dr. Drescher presenting a paper on his Clinical Work with Transgender Patients

Learning Objectives:

Objective #1: Demonstrate the importance of supportive and inclusive learning environments on a learner’s professional growth.

Objective #2: Incorporate understanding of the prevalence of gender dysphoria in clinical practice.

Objective #3: Analyze the role that personal experience plays in informing the clinician’s understanding of their patients and their approach to treatment.

Speaker’s bio:

Jack Pula, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York, a graduate of Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Research and Training and assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, Columbia. He works clinically with transgender people and those on the LGBTQ spectrum. He has published papers and spoken at national and international conferences. He serves on the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee of Gender and Sexuality and was the first openly trans candidate at an APsaA-affiliated institute. He belongs to the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry’s LGBTQ+ Committee and was part of the American Psychiatric Association’s Working Group for Gender Dysphoria. Sien (pronounced, "Sheen") Rivera, MD, is Assistant Program Director of the Prisma Health Midlands/University of South Carolina General Psychiatry residency program, and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia, SC. They received their medical degree from SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and completed their general psychiatry residency and child adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Prisma Health Midlands/University of South Carolina. They are a former fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a winner of the Ralph Roughton Paper Award. They are former chair of APsA’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality, current co-chair of our subcommittee on Education, and they write and present nationally and internationally on topics related to gender, sexuality, and new technologies. Jack Drescher, MD, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University. He serves on faculties of William Alanson White Institute (where he is also a Trustee and Acting Executive Director), NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He is Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Past President of APA’s New York County Psychiatric Society and Past President of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP). He received the 2022 Mary S. Sigourney Award for international work on gender and sexuality. He was Section Editor of the Gender Dysphoria chapter in APA’s DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR). He served on the World Health Organization’s Working Group that revised sex and gender diagnoses in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). He is a member of APsA’s Committee on Gender & Sexuality and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of LGBTQ+ Mental Health (formerly the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health).