A Scientific Meeting Presented by Dr. Robert Benedetti, Ph.D
Event Price: This event is free. CE fee is $10.
Continuing Education (CEU/CME): 1.5 credits
Attendance: This is a hybrid event: in-person and online attendance is available. Online attendees will have a webinar experience, which will not include the ability to ask questions of the speaker. No attendance limit.
NOTE: Pre-registration is encouraged. Walk-in registration is available. No CEs available for walk-ins.
Reception 6 - 6:30 p.m. at the Center before the presentation.
Course Description:
Nearly 30 years after the height of the AIDS epidemic in the United States, when there was not yet hope for a cure and when it was at its most grim, there remains an aging group of gay men who are confounded in their grief. When AIDS appeared, their sexual behavior was linked with illness and death further contributing to their sense of precarity and their experience of alienation. By 1995, AIDS was the single greatest killer of men in America ages 25-44 but with the introduction of protease inhibitors, survivors of this devastating period including those who are HIV+, are often isolated and left to endure a complicated grieving process. Reinforcing the alienation associated with AIDS, the psychoanalytic literature is limited in which grieving experiences of individuals from stigmatized groups such as gay men is interrogated. In addition to the AIDS related focus on loss, this paper, which won the 2025 Ralph E. Roughton Award for Best Paper by the Committee on Gender and Sexuality of the American Psychoanalytic Association, brings in the concept of the apres-coup and how it can be applied to the historical situatedness of gay men. Since psychic space for gay men is often foreclosed, ways in which this may be addressed and implications for the analytic relationship are considered.
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe why the current psychoanalytic literature fails to provide an adequate description of the unique grief experiences of individuals from a stigmatized group, such as gay men post AIDS.
2. List examples of how and why aging gay men are confounded in their grief.
3. Discuss the effect of the self object milieu on the mourning process of gay men.
4. Discuss ways in which the foreclosed psychic space of gay men might be reopened.
CE information will be sent to all attendees the week after the event.
Refunds are available only with pre-event cancellation.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.” The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the Ohio Psychological Association-MCE Program to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center as Approved Provider 18PO-341019020, maintains responsibility for the program. This event provides 1.5 CE to psychologists. The State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board accepts this approval for licensees. This event provides 1.5 CE to counselors and social workers only.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
