Center Seminar - March 10 - Propaganda and Its Discontents: Navigating the Cultural Landscape

MONDAY NIGHT SEMINAR - March 10th, 2025

on Zoom

Propaganda and Its Discontents: Navigating the Cultural Landscape

Presented by: Janis Huntoon, PhD

In this talk, Dr. Janis Huntoon will explore the ways in which propaganda affects us, our patients, and our work. To do this, Dr. Huntoon will focus on Jacque Ellul’s 1962 book, “Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes”, to provide a framework for understanding the current propaganda landscape. She will then explore some of the conflicts we might experience as mental health providers who both shape and are targeted by propaganda; look at some of the internal representations and expressions of these external constructs; and discuss how to lessen the impact of these influences and regain a measure of cognitive freedom.

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

After attending this session, participants should be able to:

1. Describe the differences between a propaganda of action and a propaganda of

integration.

2. List three benefits of propaganda for the propagandee.

3. Assess the role of propaganda in clinical work.

Janis Huntoon, PhD

About the Presenter

Dr. Huntoon earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Kansas in 1997. She was a pre-doctoral intern at the Colmery-O’Neill VA in Topeka, Kansas, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka. After completing the fellowship, she worked as a staff psychologist at the Menninger Clinic until moving to private practice with the Heritage Mental Health Clinic, also in Topeka, in 2001, and then to private practice in Lawrence, Kansas. She graduated from the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute in 2012 and was on the faculty of the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute until her recent retirement.

Monday, March 10th, 2025

7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Central Time

This seminar is free and open to the public.

Click HERE to Register

visit our website www.gkcpsa.org

The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants on March 7th.

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1.5 CMEs/CEUs are available for this seminar.

Certificates of attendance are FREE for Center members,

$30 for non-Center members.

(Details about how to receive CMEs/CEUs will be provided during the seminar.)

Helpful Information to Access and Participate in the Center Seminar

· We strongly recommend that you use your PC or Mac for this meeting rather than phone or tablet, as the reception and functionality is much better.

· When you enter the meeting, you will be on mute. You are free to unmute yourself during the event during discussion

. We ask that you plan to attend the event with your personal video camera on so that you may be seen by the other participants on screen. This is necessary for CME/CEU attendance tracking purposes.

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Continuing Medical Education Credits

ACCME Accreditation Statement

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 Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement

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.