CCMPS Community Meeting | Friday, December 13, 2024

CCMPS Community Meeting_Psychoanalytic Meeting

Friday, December 13, 2024

3 – 4:30 PM Mountain Time

Meetings are in discussion format.

There is much to discuss in our next community meeting, including Spring Semester courses. Faculty members Victor Stampley and Lynn Irwin and Clinical Director, Joseph Scalia III will briefly preview current offerings. Changes at the Board level are also happening, and we thank Travis Svensson for moving into the CCMPS Board Chair role and we thank Helene Stilman for her years of service as Board Chair.

We continue to make changes to CCMPS and to the website. You can find past newsletters on the About  page for those who may be interested. Websites have both static and dynamic content. You will begin to see more dynamic content via a CCMPS blog.

Thoughts today as we move through the week:

As community-building unfolds at our school, we have a seminal opportunity for evolution.

Can we embrace this opening together and help each other face the resistances that always accompany change?

Possible topics – from December 1 newsletter:

Thoughts to ponder as we approach our next gathering:
As we enter our second Community Meeting, moving forward from a time of sharp decline, we’re looking to a school future worthy of the term “community.” What, though, is community?

And what does it mean in today’s unprecedentedly troubling times for a space of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic community to exist? Is there a place in our perhaps apocalyptic era for psychoanalysis? And if so, toward what end? Can psychoanalysis learn from the humanities as well as contribute to them?

Can we live with differing schools of thought? Can we manage a move from more decidedly Modern Psychoanalytic theory and practice to a more diverse position? How does a school change its identity?

And perhaps most crucially of all, can we live within a healthy group functioning, “practicing what we preach?” Can we be open to discovering unconscious enactments amongst ourselves?

What might be our place in the psychoanalytic world and the world at large?