A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Community for New Mexico & surrounding areas.
COMING SOON:
Events
Newsletter
Symposia/Conference
Referral Network
Study & Consultation Groups
& More!!!
About Southwestern Alliance for Psychoanalytic Psychology
Supporting Psychoanalytic Community
Welcome! SWAPP was formed in response to the growing need for rigorous, contemporary psychoanalytic community in New Mexico and surrounding areas.
We are a registered Continuing Education provider under Division 39 of the American Psychological Association (APA) Section 4 (local chapters).
Our administrative offices are currently Located in Santa Fe, NM. However, we represent a large region from El Paso / Las Cruces to Tucson to Durango to Colorado Springs, and more.
A home for analytic education and support
We draw our theoretical orientations many schools, but largely cohere around relational, feminist, social justice, and integrative psychoanalytic frames, including Freud, Winnicott, Jessica Benjamin, Laplanche, Solms, Schore, Lacan, Bion, Searles, Fanon and Lynne Layton.
Current SWAPP Leadership:
Ben Greenberg, PsyD - President
Brooke Jordan, LMHC - Treasurer
John Peloian, PsyD - Secretary
Scott Chapman, LMHC - Member-at-Large
Mitchell Goheen, LMHC - Member-at-Large
Nancy Julius, PhD - Member-at-Large
A multi-modal organization for modern times
The world is changing fast - psychoanalysis must keep up.
While we trace the origins of how we think, work, and collaborate to the very beginnings of the field, starting with Breuer and Freud, we recognize that in a changing world psychoanalysis has to to better to extend its reach and survive.
If you're interested in joining our growing community to participate, teach, present, supervise, or more, please don't hesitate to reach out!!
Southwestern Alliance for Psychoanalytic Psychology
Events
Upcoming Winter Mini-Symposia on:
Ethics in Clinical Practice and Community Mental Health
Sunday, December 8th, 2024
12-2pm Mountain Time
Zoom
Ethical Challenges in the Treatment of Personality Disorders - A Trauma-Informed, Integrative Psychodynamic Perspective:
In addressing the notoriously challenging components of working with Personality Disorders (PD), this presentation will focus on ethical challenges when working with personality disorders such as Paranoid PD, Narcissistic PD, and Borderline PD in therapeutic settings with individuals, couples, and families, as well as in organizational and supervisory contexts, particularly in context to the current greater political moment. This online presentation will provide integrative psychodynamic and trauma-informed perspectives including an overview of developmental and neuropsychological components to the origins and challenges of these difficult diagnostic presentations, offering professionals essential insights and strategies in expanding our skill sets to support those who suffer from PD's, as well as their family, peers, and the public.
Presented by: Ben Greenberg, PsyD
Community-Based & Practice Considerations of Ethics, Through a Psychoanalytic Lens:
Codes of Ethics contain sensible, unexceptional guides for action. They are meant to protect and to serve the interests of consumers, clients and patients, yet sometimes they can shift the therapist's concern from doing the right thing for the human being in front of them to following the appropriate code. Through case examples derived from agency-based, private and community-based practice, this presentation will focus on the impact of third party demands on the therapy, the therapeutic relationship, and consider how the therapist maintains themselves over time, as they endeavor to provide effective and ethical treatment to their patients and the community.
Presented by: Reed Larsen, LCSW
Reference:
Greenberg, B. (2023). Ameliorative mechanisms of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the treatment of developmental trauma. Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, 17, 155-172.
§ Registration: please email intent to attend – info@thecenterfordynamicpractice.com
§ Cost: Free (suggested donation of $50 for those needing Continuing Education Units)
Licensed Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, and Physicians: this presentation is eligible for 2 Credit Hours of Continuing Education via the American Psychological Association (APA Division 39, Section IV).
Newsletter
If you have an idea for an article you wish to publish, we welcome you to submit to our upcoming peer-reviewed newsletter: Clinical Issues in Psychodynamic Practice.
Symposia/Conference
In addition to regularly scheduled events, we plan to have a yearly half-day symposia/conference where regional members (and beyond) can meet, participate, share, present and network.
Feel free to send us a proposal of a topic you'd like to see, or an idea you'd like to wish to present.
Study & Consultation Groups
We are currently forming various series of ongoing reading, study, and consultation groups that stem from classical psychoanalytic literature to contemporary, social justice, and feminist modes of thinking.
Let us know what your interest is, and we'd be happy to try and make it happen!
Referral Network
Members will have access to an increasingly robust network of analytically-oriented
Supporting Organizations
SWAPP was formed with the support and partnership of the following organizations:
The Center for Dynamic Practice:
www.thecenterfordynamicpractice.com
Dynamic Therapy Services of Northern NM:
If you have or are a member of an organization that supports psychoanalysis in the Southwest, and would like to become a member, we'd be happy to list your organization here