Sessions Geared for Psychotherapists

*Sessions organized by Psychotherapy Department members and/or Psychotherapist Associates.

Wednesday, February 12

9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Professional Development Workshop 1: Blog or Podcast? Do Both!
Discussion Group 1: The Psychodynamics and Psychological Impact of Misogyny
Discussion Group 2: Erotic Transference-Countertransference Dynamics
Discussion Group 7: Separation-Individuation Revisited: Integrating Mahler and Attachment Theory in the Study of Transformations of Mental Representations of Aggression and Sense of Gender
Discussion Group 11: Modern Ego Psychology

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
*Committee Sponsored Workshop 1: Psychotherapy Training Curricula: Diversity Curricula in Psychotherapy Training Programs
Committee Sponsored Workshop 3: Gender and Sexuality

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Service Member and Veterans Initiative

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
*Discussion Group 18: Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: A Comparative Consideration of Method, Technique, and Therapeutic Action

4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
*Two-Day Clinical Workshop 6: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Part 1)
Discussion Group 30: Domestic Violence and Clinical Practice
Discussion Group 31: Contributions of Infant Research to Adult Treatment
Discussion Group 34: Effects of the Holocaust and Genocide on Survivors and Family Members
Discussion Group 41: Shame Dynamics
Discussion Group 42: Emerging Perspectives on LGBTQ: Making Good on Our Apology: Using The Past to Understand the LGBTQ+ Experience in the Present

Thursday, February 13

9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Discussion Group 50: Treatment Resistance: Application of Psychoanalytic Ideas to Psychiatric Dilemmas
Discussion Group 53: Cultural Narratives in Psychoanalysis
Discussion Group 54: Failed Cases: Understanding Our Patients and Ourselves
Discussion Group 56: Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy
*Discussion Group 58: Psychotherapist Associates Present: Treatment Interrupted: Transference/Counter-Transference Implications (Dr. Glen Gabbard will discuss.)

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
DPE Research Education Dialogue: What do we mean by corrective emotional experience and what is its therapeutic role?

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Professional Development Workshop 2: How to Talk About Psychoanalytic Treatment and More Importantly, How NOT to
Scientific Paper Prize for Psychoanalytic Research: “Association between insight and outcome of psychotherapy: systematic review and meta-analysis”
Discussion Group 61: Distance Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
Discussion Group 64: Facing the Facts: Self-disclosure and the Analytic Relationship
*Discussion Group 66: Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapeutic Hospitals

4:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
*Two-Day Clinical Workshop 6: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Part 2)

Discussion Group 79: Psychoanalytic Approaches to the Seriously Disturbed Patient
Discussion Group 82: Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Patients with Cancer
Discussion Group 85: Psychodynamic Problems in Organizations
Discussion Group 88: Treating the Suicidal Patient

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Discussion Group 93: Deepening the Treatment: Focus on Sexual Trauma

Friday, February 14
9:30 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Plenary Address and Presentation of Awards: Dr. Robert Lifton: “Owning Reality – Reflections on Cultism and Zealotry”

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Presidential Symposium: The Efficacy of Psychoanalytic Therapy

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
*Committee Sponsored Workshop 9: The Business of Practice: Working with the Concrete and Difficult to Engage Patient
APsaA Public Advocacy on Capitol Hill: APsaA Leads in Reducing Mass Shootings

2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Panel I: Between Insight and Change
University Forum: Racism in America IV: Return of the Biological Race: Has the Old Become New Again?

Saturday, February 15
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Committee Sponsored Workshop 10: Practice Building Today: Widening the Scope of Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Part 1: Understanding Queer Theory

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Psychoanalysis in the Community Symposium: Of Abraham, Ishmael, and Isaac: Unconscious and Large Group Dynamics Affecting Abraham’s Legacy
Symposium II: The #MeToo Movement and Music Education

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Science Department Session 2: Psychodynamic Treatments for Children and Parents: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial and a Hospital-Based Open Trial

Sunday, February 16
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Panel IV: Motherhood: Risks and Resilience Under Traumatic Conditions

*Sessions organized by Psychotherapy Department members and/or Psychotherapist Associates.