David Levit, PhD, ABPP, SEP, speaks about interweaving principles and approaches from a somatically based trauma therapy, Somatic Experiencing (SE), into psychoanalytic treatment.

This presentation will identify a series of common, clinical training dilemmas associated with race-based bias, discrimination, hatred, and prejudice.

The presentation is based on the recently published book entitled Toward a Unified Psychoanalytic Theory: Foundation in a Revised and Expanded Ego Psychology.

The tendency to avoid issues around professional ethics is common and multi-determined.  Codes of ethics are uniquely boring and hard to remember. Unconsciously, most of us carry shame about clinical situations in which we know we may have crossed a boundary, prioritized our own needs above the p