Indulgences: What Memoir Tells Us About Therapy

Memoirs offer an underutilized yet rich resource for psychoanalysts, providing insight into therapeutic encounters from the perspective of those unconstrained by professional norms or theoretical allegiances. Set within the broader context of Holding the Frame: Navigating Politics, Permeability, and Fear in Therapy, this seminar considers how these personal narratives reflect, challenge, and inform the psychoanalytic frame in an era of heightened sociopolitical awareness. We will examine how memoirists write about vulnerability, transformation, and resistance, and what their accounts reveal about the permeability between lived experience and clinical process.

This seminar is apart of the Holding the Frame: Navigating Politics, Permeability, and Fear in Therapy series.

Workshop Information

Date

February 1, 2026

Time

10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST

Location

Online, live via Zoom

CEUs

3 CE contact hours available for NYS: Psy, SW, MHC, MFT & Psychoanalysts and APA: Psy

Fee

$85 – General Admission
$60 – Derner Alum, Adelphi faculty/clinical supervisor, Non-Adelphi psychoanalytic Candidate/student
$30 – Derner student/Postgraduate candidate

Registration will close 48 hours before the start of the event.

Speaker

Elliot L. Jurist, PhD, PhD

Elliot Jurist was the Director of the Doctoral Program at CCNY, CUNY and also served as the Editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology. He is the author of Minding Emotions; co-author with Peter Fonagy, Gyorgy Gergely, and Mary Target of Affect Regulation, Mentalization, And The Development Of The Self; and co-author with Norka Malberg, Jordan Bate and Mark Dangerfield of Working With Parents In Therapy: A Mentalization Based Approach. He has been honored by Division 39 with the Scholarship award and the Leadership award.

Credentialing Information

Adelphi University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Adelphi University maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Adelphi University, Derner School of Psychology, 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-0024 and 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-0607 and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0185; for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0083; and for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0058.

Disclaimer Statement

This continuing education seminar, seminar instructor/s, and the Postgraduate Programs as the seminar’s sponsor, receive no commercial support for the content of instruction (e.g., research grants funding research findings etc.), or benefit for endorsement of products (e.g., books, training, drugs, etc.) that are known to present a conflict of interest.

Cancellation Policy

Full refunds are issued for cancellations made up to 7 working days before the event. Cancellations of less than 7 days for any reason, or no-shows are not refunded. Credit towards a future event/workshop are issued for cancellations less than 7 days and up to 24 hours before the event. No credit is issued for cancellations less than 24 hours before the events or no-shows.