Activity ID
14091Expires
August 1, 2028Format Type
EnduringCME Credit
2Fee
$50.00CME Provider: American Psychoanalytic Association
Description of CME Course
The Ralph Roughton Award is given to an unpublished manuscript that makes an original and outstanding contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding and or treatment of LGBTQ* people. This 2025 Roughton award winning paper brings into focus the similar ways in which queer and autistic bodies have been regulated by the medical establishment and offers a critical view both of our psychoanalytic lens and the risk of jumping to linear models of development when working with intersectional patients. The clinical examples explore how diverging from allistic heteronormativity creates a cycle of ostracization, bullying and suicidality in neurodiverse patients and the importance of elaborating meaning collaboratively in a holding environment in which both their suffering and the complexity of their experience are held in mind.
ABMS Member Board Approvals by Type
ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity
Psychiatry and Neurology
Commercial Support?
NoNOTE: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement. Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.
Educational Objectives
After attending this session, learners will be able to:
1. Describe two contributions from Enid Balint. 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.
2. Describe common themes in the lived experience of queer autistic patients and know how to think of them developmentally and psychoanalytically
Keywords
Psychoanalysis, Autism, LGBTQ, psychoanalytic, gender-nonconforming
Competencies
Interpersonal & Communication Skills, Patient Care & Procedural Skills, Professionalism
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Practice Setting
Academic Medicine, Inpatient, Outpatient, Physician Executives, Physician Scientists, Rural, Urban, VA/Military
