6th Annual

Moderator:

Tom Taylor, S.T.M., LCSW-R, PhD

Live Online via Zoom

(Registration is required in order to receive the zoom link)

Registration will close

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, at 1PM

YOU WILL RECEIVE THE

ZOOM LINK BETWEEN

1PM AND 2PM

ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 1

Live Online: Lecture

(Info follows mandatory Registration)

Open to

NPAP Member I $25

Professionals I $40

Candidates I $15

Learning Objectives: After attending the presentation, participants will be able to

• Describe the relevance and significance of naming in their own clinical practice.
• Analyze how personal naming choices and resistance to naming conventions can reflect unconscious conflicts, desires, and cultural identifications.
• Identify opportunities within clinical practice to explore naming as a symbolic act that reveals transgenerational themes, identity formation, and relational dynamics.

Bio: Melissa Daum, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in the West Village. She’s an advanced candidate at NPAP as well as the founder and supervisor of Atrium Psychotherapy, a group practice for psychodynamically oriented post-graduate therapists. She also teaches in NYU’s Mental Health Counseling Program. Melissa completed her post graduate training at an eating disorder day program, which offered her a nuanced understanding of appetite in all its enigmatic and contradictory forms.

Bio: Mikita Brottman is Professor of Literature at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She has a D.Phil from Oxford University in English Language and Literature, and is an NAAP certified psychoanalyst. She performs forensic evaluations for the National Institute for the study, prevention and treatment of sexual trauma. She is also the author of 15 nonfiction books, the latest of which, Guilty Creatures (Simon & Schuster, 2024) was described by the New York Times as "an unputdownable read."

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