an unlived life: finding hope in complex trauma

panelists:

Estelle Shane is training/supervising analyst and on the faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and Founding Member, Board Member, Training/supervising Analyst and faculty member at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, where she currently serves on the Board of Directors and chairs the Training and Supervising Analyst Committee.

Dr, Shane is a Child, Adolescent, and Adult Analyst certified by the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. Her clinical practice is in the city of Los Angeles and she is especially interested in working with patients who have suffered from experiences with trauma. Her orientation is Relational Self Psychology, a version of self psychology expanded both by findings from related disciplines such as neurobiology and attachment theory, and by concepts drawn from relationality.

Dr. Shane is on the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Inquiry and Psychoanalysis Self and Context. She writes extensively about varied subjects including, in particular, trauma experienced by adults and children, and has published numerous articles in diverse psychoanalytic journals, Finally she co-authored, with M. Shane and M.Gales, Intimate Attachments Guilford Press, 1997.

William Coburn is a psychoanalyst and a licensed clinical psychologist practicing in West Los Angeles and in Westlake Village, California. He is Founding Editor Emeritus of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context (formerly the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology), Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Editorial Board Member of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. He is a Faculty Member and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. He is a Founding Council Member Emeritus of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (IAPSP) and an Advisory Board Member of the International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP). He co-edited (with Nancy VanDerHeide) Self and Systems: Explorations in Contemporary Self Psychology (2009, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences), and also co-edited (with Roger Frie) Persons In Context: The Challenge of Individuality in Theory and Practice (2010, Routledge). His more recent book is titled Psychoanalytic Complexity: Clinical Attitudes For Therapeutic Change (2014, Routledge).

Dr Leena Chaugule is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Sydney, Australia. She is a member of ICP and is in the process of becoming a training and supervising analyst. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and the current president of the Australian Chapter of IARPP. She has an interest in how individuals embed themselves within groups, beginning with the family up to the level of organisations. She utilises a relational lens to explore how an individual’s agency can impact systems through the work of the relationship in the clinical room. She also has a particular interest in perinatal psychiatry and works with mothers and groups of perinatal women using an attachment-informed approach to effect generational change within the family system.