Co-Sponsored with NJSCSW (New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Work)

Where is Our Humanity?

Three Latina Psychoanalysts Discuss Immigration, Dehumanization and Gender

Ruth Lijtmaer, PhD (Chair), Ridgewood, NJ

Adriana Cuenca Carrara, PhD, Tijuana, Mexico

Anne Marie Maxwell Martinez, PhD, Mexico City

Sunday, January 26, 2025

1:00pm-3:30pm (EST)

Live Interactive via Zoom

Zoom Invite Will be Sent to Registrants on January 25, 2025

2.5 CEs offered for Counselors, Psychologists and Social Workers (Cultural Competency)

Ruth M. Lijtmaer, PhD, Senior supervisor, training analyst and faculty at the Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey. Private practice. Ridgewood, New Jersey. Board member of IFPE (International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education) from 2015 to 2022. Co- Chair of the Social Responsibility Committee IFPE. Member IARPP. She presents papers nationally and internationally as well as published articles and book chapters in topics of immigration, social responsibility, human rights violations, trauma, ethnicity, race and clinical psychoanalytic topics.

Adriana Cuenca Carrara, PhD is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist working in private practice in Tijuana, Mexico and San Diego, United States. She has a doctorate degree in Psychology from Mexico, and she is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California. She is faculty member and supervisor of the Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Master Program at Universidad Marista de Mérida, Mexico. She is a member of CAMFT California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and a Board member of IARPP International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy where she co-chairs the Webinars Committee and has recently co-chaired the 2024 IARPP International Conference in Merida, Mexico. She has lived and worked for the past 35 years between Tijuana and San Diego.

Anne Marie Maxwell Martinez, PhD is currently living in Mexico City and mother of a single daughter. Has a Bacherlor degree in Psychology, and a PhD in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy by the Universidad Intercontinental in México City. Psychoanalyst and Member of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association. Some of her professional experience includes being Group Coordinator giving contention for the personnel that works at the Attention Unit for the Family Violence Victims for the Federal District Government. Dr Maxwell-Martinez was Coordinator of the Mexican Psychoanalytic Association Community’s Care Network in 2012, Co-founder and Board member of the IARPP Mexican Local Chapter since 2013. Co-founder Member of GRILPP – Grupo Relacional Ibero Latinoamericano de Psicoterapia y Psicoanálisis since 2020. She has published in academic journals such as Radure, Quaderni di Materiali Psichico and Cuadernos de Psicoanálisis. She wrote book chapters in several books. She is in private practice since 1988.

Workshop Description

From different geographical locations, one presenter in the United States will address how dehumanization takes place; the second presenter living on the border of Mexico and the United States (Tijuana-San Diego) as a “Trans-border” therapist will discuss dehumanization of migrant women; and the third presenter in Mexico City will address gender violence.

Concerned about the continuous threats of the loss of women's rights, the loss of democracy, a virus that does not disappear, climate change, human rights violations and the treatment of people of color and other minorities: "the other" whoever that is, we question how dehumanization is sustained by power.

Discussants will bring their different points of views concerning these important themes to better approach dehumanization of vulnerable groups. From a psychoanalytically informed perspective presenters aim to expand our cultural sensitivity in order to improve our cultural competence in our clinical work.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Identify and understand how victims of intergroup harm are perceived as similar to nonhuman entities (dehumanization) becoming more vulnerable to harm.
2. Use an understanding of the emotional suffering of migrant women across the border of Mexico and the United States and their broad socio cultural context to better address how their psychic life and interpersonal processes are shaped and to improve our cultural sensitivity in psychoanalytic practice.
3. Understand where gender violence comes from in the current Mexican social context and how the change from hetero-normativity towards gender diversity can affect people and social groups psychically and emotionally causing cumulative personal and social trauma.

Target Audience:  Suitable for Psychologists, Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, Psychiatrists, Advanced Practice Nurses, Graduate Students, Marriage and Family Therapists.

Level of Sophistication: This is an introductory level post-graduate continuing education program suitable for all levels of training.

ADA accommodations available upon request (Required at least 14 days prior to course start date).

2.5 Continuing Education Credits

Counselors:

Counselors: CPPNJ has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6863. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CPPNJ is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Psychologists:

Psychologists:  CPPNJ is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CPPNJ maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.

NY Psychologists: Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0165. 

Social Workers:

Social Workers: Center for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New Jersey is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0757.

The New Jersey Board of Social Work Examiners, and some other state boards, recognize CEs approved by the New York State Education Department.

COST: Members $65/$75 pre-registration by January 12; CPPNJ Candidates: $45; Students with ID: $15; Non-Members $110/$115 pre-registration by January 12.

Cancellations made prior to three days (72 hours) before the event will receive a full refund minus a $25 administrative fee.  Cancellations made less than 72 hours before the event will be given a refund of half of the registration fees. Refunds will NOT be granted for cancellation requests made on the day of the event.

There is no potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support for this CE event.



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