CO-SPONSORED Speaker Series
Friday october 3, 2025
6:00-800pm
Always There and Never Before: The Eclipse of “Everyday Life”
Event price: Event is free! Registration is required.
Doors Open: 5:30pm - Refreshments and Light Snacks
Parking: Lot A
Location:
Carlow University
A.J. Palumbo Hall, Room 107
3333 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Continued Education: 2.0 credits
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Donald Moss, MD
October 3, 2025: Always There and Never Before: The Eclipse of “Everyday Life”
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Some time ago, Freud could confidently write about "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life". Given a steady and reliable backdrop, he, and the rest of us, could reasonably direct our focus to intrapsychic variables. We psychoanalysts can no longer count on the regular, safe and predictable world of "everyday life". The "everyday" is over, replaced now by the "day-to-day", the baseline expectation that something unexpected, disruptive, and fracturing has taken place in the immediate past-- today, yesterday, NOW. Patients, therapists and analysts are unavoidably caught up in these fracturing events. This poses new clinical challenges to all of us. In this presentation, I will take up some of those challenges, via examples in which I both met and evaded them..
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Donald Moss, MD has been in full-time psychoanalytic practice in NYC for 40 years. Winner of the Haskell Norman Prize for excellence in psychoanalysis, member of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis, author of five books (most recently Psychoanalysis in a Plague Year) and 60+ articles (most recently "Traumatizing Disorders of Everyday Life"), on the faculty of NY Psychoanalytic Institute.
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Required readings:
Connect contemporary psychoanalytic theory to the world(s) that we individually and collectively inhabit and navigate
Learn about the clinical and social utility in applying contemporary psychoanalytic thought to the complexities of human experience in culture
Benefit from the opportunity for dialogue between nationally-recognized psychoanalytic experts and local clinicians and students in the mental health field
Our program welcomes students and mental health practitioners learning and working in diverse fields of psychotherapy and social service
We are committed to decreasing financial barriers to robust educational experiences by providing this program tuition free and offering enrolled participants access to APA- approved continuing education credits at no cost.
Series details:
The speaker series, “Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies in the Contemporary World” highlights the ongoing relevance of psychoanalytic concepts in today’s world to the broader mental health community in Western Pennsylvania. For recent generations of students and clinicians in our region, psychoanalytic ideas have often not been relevant and useful for daily clinical work. However, as psychoanalytic language and concepts become less abstract and more accessible, we see the time as ripe to explore the connections that can be drawn between contemporary psychoanalytic theory and the worlds that we individually and collectively navigate as we try to improve the practice of psychotherapy in an ever increasing complicated surround. Our aim is to bring experts in contemporary psychoanalytic theory into dialogue with clinicians and students in our Western Pennsylvania region by offering a compelling free educational program through this speaker series.