IAPSP Mid-year Online International Conference
This presentation will take place on Zoom.
Program will run from:
7am – 10am Eastern (NYC) time
8pm – 11pm Tokyo time
7pm – 10pm Taipei / Beijing time
2pm – 5pm Tel Aviv time
Agenda:
- Opening Remarks: Koichi Togashi: 15 minutes
- Case Presentation: Hsiu-Hui: 50 minutes
- Break: 10 minutes
- Discussion 1: Gabriela Mann: 20 minutes
- Discussion 2: Liling Lin: 20 minutes
- Reply to Discussants: Hsui-Hui 10 minutes
- Audience participation / Q & A: 50 minutes
- Closing Remarks
Registration Fees:
IAPSP Members: $40.00
Non Members: $50.00
About the Program:
This virtual conference explores the cultural, historical, and social aspects of the therapeutic relationship. A colleague presents her long-term work with an Asian patient suffering from self-devaluation, emptiness, depression, ambition. She focuses on his narcissistic rage and impulsivity as observed in the clinical setting, and illustrates how the patient takes the step to let go of the false self and connect with his true inner experience. She concludes that his anger is a symbol of hope, evolving him to assess his true self and initiating a more genuine and deeper connection to his self. With two discussants with a deep knowledge of the cultural and social aspects of clinical work, we will discuss the impact of the cultural context on the patient’s trauma, life struggles, and gender identity.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this conference, the participants will be able to:
1. Describe specific cultural and historical aspects that the presenter has to deal with in her therapeutic work with her patient.
2. Identify a variety of ways in which the cultural, historical and social context manifest themselves in clinical practice.
3. Discuss the perspectives on self psychological/intersubjective theory as influenced by Asian cultural backgrounds.
About the Speakers:
Hsiu-Hui Huang, M.A., is a licensed counseling psychologist in Taiwan. She works in private practice in Taipei City, Taiwan. She is the Candidate of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Hsiu-Hui Huang is the member of Taiwan Psychoanalytic Society. She has been an IAPSP member since 2011, and a researching member of the Taiwan Self Psychology Study Group.
Gabriela Mann, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and training psychoanalyst, founding member, and former chairperson of the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She is the previous head of the Post-Graduate Program in Self Psychology at the Sackler Medical School, Tel-Aviv University, and a faculty member of Human Spirit, Psychoanalytic-Buddhist Training Program. Gabriela published numerous papers about trauma and its transformation. She edited an issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, “Beyond the Consulting Room – Psychoanalysis Within the Social Sphere in Israel”(2020). Her book, Practicing Psychoanalysis in Israel: Seeing Through Blindness, was recently published by Routledge.
She is in private practice in Tel Aviv.
Liling Lin, LCSW is currently the President of Taiwan Psychoanalytic Association and a training and supervising analyst at the Taiwan Psychoanalytic Society (Provisional). She currently holds her private practice in Taipei City, Taiwan. She received her psychoanalytic training in New York City and had her private practice in Manhattan for over a decade. She and colleagues translated The Kohut Seminars and published it in 2024. Liling Lin has been an IAPSP member since 2013 and is currently a member of Global Advisory Committee.
Koichi Togashi ,Ph.D. is a certified clinical psychologist and a licensed psychologist in Japan; a licensed psychoanalyst in the State of New York; and a certified psychoanalyst at the National Association for Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP), New York. He is a member of the faculty, and training & supervising analyst at the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation (TRISP), a professor at Konan University, Kobe, Japan, and a mentor of the Taiwan Self Psychology Study Group. He has published numerous books and articles in the US, Japan, and Taiwan. He is a co-author of the book, “Kohut’s Twinship across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human,” and an author of the book, “The Psychoanalytic Zero: A Decolonizing Study of Therapeutic Dialogues,” for which he received the 2020 Gradiva Award.
Makiko Kasai, Ph.D. (she/her) works at the Naruto University of Education in Tokushima, Japan as a Professor and the Director of the Student Guidance and Support Center. She graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia with a Ph.D. Her research interests include psychotherapy with psychoanalytic self psychology orientation and practice of sexual and gender minorities and LGBTQ+ -friendly counselor training. She serves as the executive director of the Japanese Society of Clinical Psychology and as a national delegate to the Japanese Society of Clinical Psychologists.
