About This Event
Continuing Education Committee
Virtual Course
This session will present the second 2025 Ralph Roughton Prize winning paper awarded to an unpublished manuscript that makes an original and outstanding contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding and/or treatment of LGBTQ* people. The author will bring into focus the similar ways in which queer and autistic bodies have been regulated by the medical establishment and offer a critical view of the psychoanalytic lens and risk of jumping to linear models of development when working with intersectionality. Clinical examples will explore the way that diverging from allistic heteronormativity creates a cycle of ostracization, bullying and suicidality and demonstrate the importance of elaborating meaning in a holding environment and collaboration while holding both their suffering and complexity in mind.
.Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the significant points of intersection between queerness and neurodiversity and the ways that autistic gender-nonconforming bodies have been regulated by the medical and psychoanalytic fields.
- Describe common themes in the lived experience of queer autistic patients and how to think of them developmentally and psychoanalytically.
Presenter:
Diana Moga, PhD, MD received her medical degree and her doctorate in Neuroscience from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed psychiatric residency and psychoanalytic training at Columbia’s Presbyterian Hospital/ New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, respectively. She is currently an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, and a training and supervising analyst at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She also chairs the Sexuality course and teaches on psychedelic assisted psychotherapy, neuropsychoanalysis and trauma at Columbia as well as courses on gender and sexuality and neurodiversity across the country. She has published book chapters and articles on psychodynamic and psychoanalytic education, gender and sexuality and neurodiversity. She has a private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan specializing in trauma and neurodiversity as well as Ketamine assisted psychotherapy.
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Saturday, April 18, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. CDT
CEs: 3
Fees: $50 General Public/ Free to ICSW Students - No CEs.
Questions and ICSW Student Link- Contact: Elree C. Smith at esmith@icsw.edu
Registration and attendance at, or participation in, ICSW classes, meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the registrant to ICSW's use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee's image or voice in photographs, videotapes, electronic reproductions, and audiotapes of such events and activities.
About This Event
Continuing Education Committee
Virtual Course
This session will present the second 2025 Ralph Roughton Prize winning paper awarded to an unpublished manuscript that makes an original and outstanding contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding and/or treatment of LGBTQ* people. The author will bring into focus the similar ways in which queer and autistic bodies have been regulated by the medical establishment and offer a critical view of the psychoanalytic lens and risk of jumping to linear models of development when working with intersectionality. Clinical examples will explore the way that diverging from allistic heteronormativity creates a cycle of ostracization, bullying and suicidality and demonstrate the importance of elaborating meaning in a holding environment and collaboration while holding both their suffering and complexity in mind.
.Learning Objectives:
- Discuss the significant points of intersection between queerness and neurodiversity and the ways that autistic gender-nonconforming bodies have been regulated by the medical and psychoanalytic fields.
- Describe common themes in the lived experience of queer autistic patients and how to think of them developmentally and psychoanalytically.
Presenter:
Diana Moga, PhD, MD received her medical degree and her doctorate in Neuroscience from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed psychiatric residency and psychoanalytic training at Columbia’s Presbyterian Hospital/ New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, respectively. She is currently an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, and a training and supervising analyst at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She also chairs the Sexuality course and teaches on psychedelic assisted psychotherapy, neuropsychoanalysis and trauma at Columbia as well as courses on gender and sexuality and neurodiversity across the country. She has published book chapters and articles on psychodynamic and psychoanalytic education, gender and sexuality and neurodiversity. She has a private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan specializing in trauma and neurodiversity as well as Ketamine assisted psychotherapy.
.
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Time: 12:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m. CDT
CEs: 3
Fees: $50 General Public/ Free to ICSW Students - No CEs.
Questions and ICSW Student Link- Contact: Elree C. Smith at esmith@icsw.edu
Registration and attendance at, or participation in, ICSW classes, meetings and other activities constitutes an agreement by the registrant to ICSW's use and distribution (both now and in the future) of the registrant or attendee's image or voice in photographs, videotapes, electronic reproductions, and audiotapes of such events and activities.