This is a virtual event held via Zoom at Eastern Time (ET).

The Interdependence of Blue and Natural Light:
The Positive and Negative Impacts of Digital Objects on Our Human Relationships and Vice Versa

Hosted by BGSP’s Department of Continuing Education

For the past 30 years, we have been living, relating, and working in the digital era. This event addresses some of the qualities of our digital objects e.g., smartphones, laptops, iPads, and Alexa.  It argues that the digital object can become a kind of family member. What characterizes our ways of relating to one another and to our digital devices in this era? How have our ways of thinking changed? How do we acknowledge and navigate the sense of excess and arousal associated with these ever-present devices? Finally, the emergence of AI, in terms of its implications for learning and, even, the conduct of psychotherapy will be discussed. The ongoing differences and tensions between machine and body, animate and inanimate, virtual and real are considered. The roles of corporeality and authenticity will be explored.

Presenter

Jennifer Davids, originally trained as a clinical psychologist in South Africa, is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the IPA. She is a child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst, who teaches and supervises at the BPaS, has participated in IPA webinars and moderated thinking labs for the IPA.  She teaches internationally and is serving her second term on the IPA in Health committee. Ms. Davids was the chief clinical psychologist at the Anna Freud Centre and then a clinical and teaching staff member there for over 20 years. Ms. Davids has published widely on a number of subjects including digital matters, erotic and somatic transference and countertransference, and psychoanalytic writing. She has taught at the University of London and at the University of Cape Town, where she is currently undertaking doctoral research. She lives and works in private practice in London.

OBJECTIVES

The participant will be able to:

• Describe the qualities of our digital objects through a psychoanalytic lens .
• Critique our ways of relating to such objects and how such objects impact on our human relationships.
• Discuss what can and cannot be replaced by machines—in what ways are “people living machines? Are machines psychological objects?” (Kogan, 2019, p.11)  

General Admission | FREE
CEUs Admission | $30 (2 CEUs / Clock Hours)

Questions? Email us at continuinged@bgsp.edu or call (617) 277-3915.

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The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis is accredited by the New England Commission on Higher Education.

Direct inquiries may be made regarding the accreditation status by NECHE to the administrative staff of the institution. Individuals may also contact: New England Commission on Higher Education, 3 Burlington Woods Drive, Ste 100, Burlington, MA 01803-4514, at (781) 425-7785 or email: info@neche.org