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NPAP's 2026 Summer CE series PROGRAM

Unknowing as Truth: Clinical Presence, Paradox, and Process

Presenter

Todd Anderson, PhD, PsyD, LP

Moderator

Thomas S. Taylor, PhD, LCSW-R

Description

This presentation explores the clinical and ethical implications of not-knowing in psychoanalysis. It examines how analytic work may deepen when we loosen commitments to mastery, premature recognition, and overly linear models of meaning, and instead make room for recursive process, paradox, and forms of experience that can be approached only indirectly. Drawing on themes from Unknowing as Truth: Epistemic Inversions and the Recursive Psyche and Curved Being, Knowing, and Ethics in Psychoanalysis: Möbius Inflections, the talk will consider how clinical presence may become more receptive to what emerges obliquely, belatedly, or in excess of immediate formulation.

Learning Objectives

After attending the presentation, participants will be able to:

Describe how recursive process, paradox, and indirect approaches to experience can deepen psychoanalytic work.
Differentiate between analytic approaches organized around mastery, premature recognition, and linear meaning, and approaches that make room for uncertainty, recursion, and emergent forms of understanding.

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CE Credits

1.5 CE contact hours will be granted to participants with documented attendance and complete evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion, a Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to all participants.

National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis 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-0139.
National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0010.
The National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, 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-0137.