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NPAP Summer CE Series

Nomen est Omen

A psychoanalytic inquiry into the significance of names

Presenters

Melissa Daum, LMFT

Mikita Brottman, NCPsyA

Moderator

Tom Taylor, S.T.M., LCSW-R, PhD

Description

This paper will consider the relevance of personal names and naming in relation to the unconscious. Particular attention will be paid to our associations with certain names and the use of names in clinical practice, with references drawn from current and historical psychoanalytic literature.

About the presenters

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.

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.”

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.

Open to

NPAP Member

$25

Other Professionals

$40

Candidates / Students

$15

Contribution

Optional

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.
  • 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 marriage and family therapists #MFT-0093.

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