A.A.P.E.

American Association for Psychoanalytic Education

October 25, 2025 Webinar Event

Building Blocks and “White Lies”: A Patient’s and an Analyst’s Struggle Toward a Common Language

 October 25, 2025

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET

The Child/Adolescent Training Committee of the American Association for Psychoanalytic Education (AAPE) invites child and adult analysts, candidates and psychotherapists to join us for a discussion focused on the applicability of Kleinian thinking to clinical work with children. The webinar will offer clear and clinically useful explanations of Kleinian concepts. Process material from an in-depth treatment will be used to demonstrate the potential clinical value of these concepts.

registration Closed

Thank you for your interest in joining this AAPE webinar event. Registration for this event is now closed. We hope you’ll join us for our next webinar on November 16, 2025, Analysis of Childhood Sins in an Adult Treatment: Multiple Theoretical Perspectives.

faculty

Shirley B. Hiscock
Child Analyst

Shirley B. Hiscock is a child analyst and Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. She spent 21 years working in the UK’s National Health Service, including at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Free Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, where she developed a psychotherapy service for patients with chronic pain.
She previously served as Head of Online Education at the British Psychoanalytical Society (2016–2019) and as an Associate Board Member of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Shirley lectures and supervises both in the UK and internationally. She currently serves as Chair of the IPA in Education in the Community Committee and is a visiting lecturer at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She is also a training analyst for the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), the Severnside Institute for Psychotherapy (SIP), and maintains a private psychoanalytic practice.

    Margaret Rustin
    Child Analyst

    Margaret Rustin is an Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. She served as Head of Child Psychotherapy at the Tavistock from 1986 to 2009, and as Dean of Postgraduate Studies from 1993 to 1999, later becoming Chair of the Professional Committee.

    She is a Child Analyst and an Honorary Affiliate of the British Psychoanalytical Society. Margaret continues to teach and supervise at both the Tavistock and the British Psychoanalytical Society, as well as internationally.

    Her numerous publications include journal articles and co-authored books. In 2023, a collection of her selected clinical papers, Finding a Way to the Child, was published by the New International Library of Psychoanalysis.

      Statement of Objectives

      AAPE meetings are intended to bridge the practice gaps in the professional knowledge of attendees by exploring new and recent developments in research, theory, technique, clinical knowledge and by offering opportunities to review essential psychoanalytic knowledge. After attending AAPE’s webinar, attendees should be able to:

      1. Explain the defense of inhibition from an ego psychological perspective and a contemporary object relations perspective.
      2. Apply two theoretical understandings of sexual inhibition to effective interpretive strategies for working through this defensive structure.
      3. Discuss the relationship between sexual inhibition and superego functioning, from both an ego psychological perspective and a contemporary object relational perspective.

      Continuing Professional Education Credits

      This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the American Association for Psychoanalytic Education. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

      The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

      Important Disclosure Information for All Learners

      The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that 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 relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.