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Getting Unconscious Conflict to Work For, Rather than Against, Us: The Therapeutic Effects of Unconscious Exposure - Paul Siegel, PhD (Live)
A longstanding clinical conviction is that people with anxiety disorders must directly confront their feared object or situation in order to reduce fear of it. This dogma is the basis of exposure therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapies. Challenging this belief, my collaborators and I have repeatedly shown that repeated, unconscious exposure to phobic stimuli -- what we term very brief exposure (VBE) -- reduces avoidance and self-reported fear of a live tarantula in highly spider-phobic persons. VBE is based on both the neuroscience of fear and psychoanalytic theory, specifically Freud’s (1932) proposal that “inside of every phobic, there is a counter-phobic”: phobic people are actually unconsciously conflicted about their fears. I will present a series of randomized controlled tests (RCTs) of VBE, including RCTs conducted during fMRI scanning and psychophysiological monitoring, which provide a window into the dynamic mechanisms of unconscious exposure. I will also present our current and future research directions, which include using VBE to treat combat-related, Post-traumatic stress disorder in recent U.S. combat veterans, and to reduce phobia-based, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.
Please be advised that in order to obtain CE/CME credit you must remain in the event for its entirety.
Target Audience
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Learning Objectives
1: Demonstrate knowledge of the therapeutic effects of unconscious exposure on Specific Phobia.
2: Discuss the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of phobic fear and of unconscious exposure
3: Describe a novel research design in which a controlled trial of a behavioral treatment occurs during brain imaging.
Dr. Paul Siegel is Professor of Psychology at Purchase College/SUNY and Research Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California (USC). A clinical psychologist and expert in unconscious processes in psychopathology, Paul is the co-creator of very brief exposure (VBE), an experimental technique for unconsciously reducing fear symptoms in people with anxiety disorders. For the past 17 years, he has developed VBE to study its effects on various dimensions of anxiety disorders in his psychology laboratory at Purchase College/SUNY, and in the brain imaging lab at the Saban Research Institute of USC. Paul has received two research grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, a NARSAD Young Investigator Award, many research grants from private organizations, and has published widely in high-impact scientific journals. He has received two SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence in Teaching and for Excellence in Research, which recognize distinguished SUNY faculty in these areas.
Austen Riggs Center Inc. confirms that Paul Siegel, PhD, nor anyone involved in the planning of the CME event, has disclosed a potential conflict of interest.
The views and opinions expressed in this presentation are those of the presenter(s) and do not necessarily represent the official policy or position of the Austen Riggs Center.
General CME/CE Information
Please be advised that in order to obtain CE/CME credit you must remain in event for its entirety.
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Accreditation
(Physicians, Psychologists, Social Work and Nursing)
The Austen Riggs Center designates this live interactive webinar for a maximum of (see specific event) AMA PRA Category1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Austen Riggs Center Inc. is accredited by the Massachusetts Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Austen Riggs Center’s policy on disclosure, in keeping with requirements of the Massachusetts Medical Society, requires continuing education planners and speakers to disclose any relevant financial interest or other relationship with commercial entities that could pose a potential conflict of interest in the presentation of this educational activity. The Austen Riggs Center Continuing Medical Education Committee has established policies for identifying and resolving all conflicts of interest prior to this educational activity. The Austen Riggs Center accepts no commercial support of any kind to support our CME/CE activity.
The Austen Riggs Center Inc. also designates this live interactive webinar for (see specific event) continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology.
Austen Riggs Center, Inc. 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-0115.
The Austen Riggs Center Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content. For additional information about this program, please call the Erikson Institute Education Coordinator, at 413.931.5230.
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Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Accreditation Statement - Austen Riggs Center,Inc. is accredited by the Massachusetts Medical Society to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement - Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this Live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 1.00 APA
The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this Webinar live for 1.00 continuing education credit(s) (CE) for psychology. The Austen Riggs Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for the program and its content.
Austen Riggs Center, Inc. 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-0115.
- 1.00 ASWB-ACEThe Austen Riggs Center, #1344, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Austen Riggs Center maintains responsibility for this Webinar live. ACE provider Approval Period: 02/02/2023-2/2/2026. Social workers completing this Webinar live will receive 1.00 continuing education credit(s). For a listing of jurisdictions that accept ACE, please visit States and provinces that accept ACE | Association of Social Work Boards.
- 1.00 Contact Hours/ Participation
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