Daniel Goldin, MFT, PsyD - Toward a New Interpretation of Dreams

Event Description:

Humans have always sought to find meaning in dreams. These strange absurdist parables that take shape in an infinite virtual space behind our eyes, when we lose control of our limbs and lose contact with our senses, seemed at one time to be coded communications from God or at the least intimations of what is to come. Dreams tell us things we don’t know. Their elements are symbolic, and we know that symbols point elsewhere and have a purpose.

I believe that dreams return us to a state akin to that of our pre-verbal ancestors, who communicated in what Tomasello calls a "natural language" of imaginative pretense. The prelinguistic human was able to enact stories to reproduce situations in order to warn, explain or entertain, and then to apply those little dramas metaphorically to other situations. Lakoff argues that these basic embodied metaphors underlie our "civilized" verbal communication as well, although we are often unaware of the original storied sources of our abstract ideas. Dreams bring us back into contact with that original imagery. They send us into an immersive virtual world, a seemingly mind-independent "reality," in which the stories behind our ordinary language -- ancient, cultural and personal -- take concrete shape around an active protagonist adapting to a metaphoric world generated by their own mind. By acting within these condensed fictional parables, we are able to evolve the narrative schemas or storylines behind our current problems in living.

Presenter information:

Dr. Goldin is a licensed therapist and psychoanalyst with offices in South Pasadena. He specializes in psychotherapy for adults, adolescents, families, and couples. In addition, He runs psychotherapy process groups and groups for addicts in recovery.

Dr. Goldin has written for The International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He is an associate editor for Psychoanalytic Inquiry and an associate book editor for Psychoanalysis: Self in Context.

Educational Objectives:

1. Identify narrative schemas or storylines undergirding a patient’s narrative.
2. Consider how a patient’s dreams enact problems in living, in a fictional form, in order to
   evolve the intransigent storylines behind them.
3. Develop strategies for listening for metaphors in a patient’s presentation and working “within
   the metaphor.

CME/CEU Credits: 2.0

Cost: 

• $50 General
• $25 SDPC Members, 
• $20 Candidates, Fellows, and Students

*Please note that SDPC only provides a credit, no cash refunds, on purchased tickets; event credit can be applied towards future events.

Virtual Option: This event will be offered only on Zoom. You will be sent a link by 6 pm the day before the event, once your registration and payment are complete. Please email: events@sdpsychoanalytic.org if you have not received your link.

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Continuing Professional Education Accreditation

The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center (SDPC), is proud to offer CME credit to Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Psychologists and Social Workers. These CME credits will usually satisfy requirements for Social Worker and Psychologist CEUs. However, clinicians should consult their state licensing boards for final approval. Please see the CE/CME credits page for more information. 

Continuing Education certificates of attendance will be awarded electronically in exchange for a completed evaluation form. For refund policies or cancellations, please visit our policies page. Any other questions, contact the SDPC Continuing Education Manager.

AMA Credit Designation Statement: The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center designates this Continuing Education activity for a maximum of 2 hours AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™️. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

CAMFT Accreditation: The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center (SDPC) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) as a continuing education provider, (#050121), to offer Category 1 credit for LMFT’S, LCSW’S, LPCC’S and LEP’S. SDPC as required by the California Board of Behavior Sciences. SDPC maintains responsibility for this course program and all of its content.

Psychologists: SDPC is also approved as a Continuing Education Provider by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, Provider number PCE#794, to offer Category 1 credit for LCSWs, MFTs, and Registered Nurses, Provider Numbers CEP#4940. The California Board of Psychology accepts the Category 1 CE credits from the CMA. Psychologists are responsible for reporting their individual attendance to the Board of Psychology. All attendees are responsible for keeping their certificate of attendance for personal records.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose. 

The San Diego Psychoanalytic Center (SDPC) CME Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that none of the planners and presenters for this activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 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 relationships. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

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