Thursday, September 28th, 2023
8:00PM – 9:30PM
This paper will discuss the unique developmental challenges LGBTQIA+ people face, the impact of early developmental stage rejection, and ways to improve clinical engagement with clients for more affirming care. This paper will describe ways clinicians can improve their skills in working with LGBTQIA+ clients who have suffered familial rejection and religious trauma. From an Intersubjective Self Psychological framework, this paper will also explore the therapist’s leading and trailing edge transferences with a cis-gender gay male client with a history of relational and religious trauma who is striving toward a cohesive self.
Location:
71 W 23rd St., Ste. 1400, New York, NY 10010
online option
(Meeting link will be e-mailed to registered participants on the day of the event)
Nick Santo, DSW earned his MSW at Fordham and his DSW at NYU. He is currently an IPSS psychoanalytic candidate. He also holds a certificate in Advanced Clinical Practice and completed the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy one-year program at the Training Institute for Mental Health. Nick has been practicing clinical social work and psychotherapy for 15 years. He currently maintains a private practice in Manhattan. His clinical interests include working with sexual and gender minority people with histories of relational and/or religious trauma and survivors of conversion therapy.
George Hagman, LCSW is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and Stamford, Connecticut. He is on faculty of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology, and is a training analyst, supervisor, and faculty member of the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. George is the author of numerous published articles and several books and edited volumes. George is co-editor with Peter Zimmermann and Harry Paul of Intersubjective Self Psychology: A Primer (Routledge, 2019). He is also the General Editor of the Art, Creativity and Psychoanalysis book series and New Directions in Self Psychology book series both published by Routledge, This November he will receive the Clinical Writing Award of the AAPCSW.
1.5 Continuing Education Credits for Social Workers & LMHC’s