Trauma, Shame, and Mourning (Member)

Title of Workshop:
Trauma, Shame, and Mourning

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

Cost:
$100 for Non-Members
$80 for Members - Log into the Member Area to purchase
$20 for *Students - Click here to request a student discount
$0 for current Foundation 1 Students
*(Full-Time Undergraduate, Graduate, Doctoral students, and LMFT, LADC, LPC, Social Work, Psychology, and Psychoanalytic licensure/certification candidates

Speaker: Peter Shabad, Ph.D.

Description:

In this course we will explore how self-shaming emerges in the aftermath of traumatic and chronically disillusioning experiences. Self-shaming can have profound inhibiting effects on the entire course of one’s life. We will devote special attention to how human beings transform their traumatic experiences outside of their control into shameful failures, in which they “blame the victim” in themselves for being a victim. Becoming the victim of one’s own self-punitive shame also leads to character passivity and interrelated dynamics of self-pity, envy, and eventually to resentment and a sense of entitlement to feeling owed by life. I will then highlight the importance of replacing self-shaming with an curiosity, inquiry, and understanding, Mourning entails an acceptance of one’s entire inner life.

Learning Objectives:

1. By end of presentation, participants will describe how shame emerges from dissociation from traumatic experience.

2. By end of presentation, participants will describe how mourning entails the generosity of letting go after accepting one’s inner life.

Speaker’s bio:

Peter Shabad is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at Northwestern University Medical School. He is also on the Faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago and the Teaching and Supervisory Faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. He is a also a Training Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He is an Associate Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dr. Shabad is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (IUP,1989) and is the author of Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in Psychotherapy (Aronson, 2001). Dr. Shabad new book entitled “Passion, Shame, and The Freedom To Become was published by Routledge (2024). He is also the author of numerous papers and book chapters in psychoanalysis on diverse topics such as loss and mourning, shame, resentment, and regret. Dr. Shabad has a private practice in Chicago in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy.