How Affect Organizes the Mind

How Affect Organizes the Mind: Implications for Clinicians

Psychoanalysis is undergoing a quiet revolution. Increasingly, affect is being recognized as the central organizing force of mental life. In this timely and compelling lecture, distinguished author, scholar, and clinician Dr. Dan Hill draws from his forthcoming sequel to the acclaimed Affect Regulation Theory to deepen our understanding of how affect shapes the mind—and how we engage it in clinical practice. Building on the work of Damasio, Fonagy, Schore, and others, as well as his own influential contributions, Dr. Hill will examine the nature and regulation of affect, present a neuroscience-informed model of implicit and explicit mental processes, and show how these systems generate starkly different subjective realities. For clinicians, this lecture offers essential insight into the affective foundations of psychic life—and a powerful lens through which to view psychoanalysis as a dynamic, evolving discipline responsive to contemporary science and clinical need.

Learning Objectives

I. Students will learn core concepts of affect regulation theory.

II. Students will learn how implicit and explicit processes shape subjective experience.

II. Students will learn the effects of affect on self functioning.

Daniel Hill, PhD is a psychoanalyst, educator and a leading proponent of the affect regulation model. He is the author of Affect Regulation Theory: A Clinical Model(2015) and Affect, Consciousness and Self:A View from the Bottom of the Mind (2025). His publications include topics ranging from the use of computer- mediated psychotherapy, to the clinical use of multiple models, to religious fundamentalism. He was the founder/director of PsyBC.com (1996-2017). Dr. Hill is in private practice in NYC where he is on the faculties of the National Institute of the Psychotherapies and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Dr. Hill can be contacted at danhill@psybc.com.

Continuing Education

This class is approved for 3.0 CE contact hours for psychologists, social workers, and psychoanalysts:

The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education credits for psychologists. The National Institute for the Psychotherapies maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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Personalized CE certificates can be downloaded at the end of this event after completing an evaluation form. Attendance for the full duration of the lecture is mandatory for CE credits.

Refunds, & Cancellation Policy

Cancellation requests made more than a week prior to the event will be given a full refund of registration fees. Refunds will not be granted for cancellation requests made within a week of the first day of the event or for no-shows on any of the days event take place.