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ForwardIOP Seminar 2026 - On Listening, Instructor: Christina Biedermann, PsyD, ABAP
This three-class seminar will explore what might be learned about the mechanics of listening to patients from critical reading.
Using the work of psychologist Carol Gilligan, PhD as a frame and author George Saunders as a guide, we will consider what reading text critically (here, a Russian short story) might help us articulate about how we listen. We will then apply what we’ve learned to part of a clinical interview conducted by Otto Kernberg, MD. Finally, we’ll reconsider it all in light of a more traditionally psychoanalytic text on listening by Bruce Reis, PhD.
Ideally, participation in the seminar will deepen our understandings of how we listen to patients, particularly what Gilligan describes as their “under voice[s],” including but—more importantly beyond—what psychoanalytic theories might direct our attention to.
Course Expectations: Although I’ll begin each class with a brief overview of why I chose each reading and offer a few preliminary thoughts, this seminar will primarily be discussion-based, so please come to seminar having viewed the video, read the reading, etc…
Target Audience
______ Introductory ___x___ Intermediate ______ Advanced
Learning Objectives
Describe the “understory” as articulated by Carol Gilligan (2026)
Assess participants’ implicit means of listening to patients
Articulate what data psychoanalysts listen to uniquely
Discuss strengths and weaknesses of using interdisciplinary tools to reconsider psychoanalytic listening
Apply learning to recorded case material
Course summary
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 3.00 ASWB-ACE
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. 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. Social workers completing this will receive 3.00 continuing education credit(s).Austen Riggs Center, Inc is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0843.
Christina Biedermann, PsyD, ABAP, is an Associate Professor at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology at National Louis University as well as a practicing clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is also Clinical Associate Faculty at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and board certified in assessment psychology.
Austen Riggs Center Inc. adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Medical Education. All those at Austen Riggs Center involved in the planning of this activity, including the presenter(s) listed above, report they have no relevant financial relationships with an ineligible company*.
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.
* An ineligible company is any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Available Credit
- 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
ACCME - As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc. designates this learning activity for a maximum of 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 3.00 ASWB-ACE As a Jointly Accredited Organization, The Austen Riggs Center, Inc is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses, are approved under this program. 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. Social workers completing this will receive 3.00 continuing education credit(s).
Austen Riggs Center, Inc is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0843.