Events

Video Launch by ROOM: Speaking of Home: An Intimate Exchange on Israel-Palestine

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ROOM, A Sketchbook for Analytic Action has released a video entitled "Speaking of Home: An Intimate Exchange on Israel-Palestine."  This video provides an urgent focus on Israel-Palestine, Eyal Rozmarin (Israeli) and Karim Dajani (Palestinian) engage in a powerful and tender conversation showing how unconscious process underlies political-cultural realities and individual misunderstandings.

Considering Child Development in Adult Clinical Work

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2024-25 Grand Rounds Series Dr. Theodore Fallon will present ongoing work illuminating a developmental perspective on working with adult patients in talk therapy. This perspective focuses on three different stages […]

Luminaries of the Interpersonal Tradition-The Online TOPP

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The Online TOPP is an ADVANCED course for clinicians who are already working interpersonally or relationally and wish to deepen their clinical work. Most students in the program are psychoanalysts […]

Online intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program-The Online IPPP

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The Online IPPP is designed for working clinicians who wish to learn the Interpersonal psychoanalytic perspective.The 28 week curriculum is divided into 4 modules: Consultation and Beginning a Treatment, Key […]

Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

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This series of ten bimonthly meetings is designed to meet the needs of clinicians interested in incorporating psychodynamic concepts and techniques into their clinical practice. This course will have a […]

The Work of Christopher Bollas

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The Work of Christopher Bollas

Alumni Group – The Lure of the Symptom in Psychoanalytic Treatment

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Presenter: Glen O. Gabbard, MD | Psychoanalysis, which at its core is a search for truth, stands in a subversive position vis-a-vis the contemporary therapeutic culture that places a premium […]

Paul A. Dewald Lecture: Developing a Stable Internal Home

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Aisha Abbasi, MD: Homesickness is a commonly used term, and a feeling that has been studied with interest, in psychoanalysis. The connection and distinction between homesickness and nostalgia has been […]

Body and Mind

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Donald Campbell

Judith Butler’s Psychoanalysis

This course will focus on Butler’s experience and engagement with psychoanalysis, in order to explore what impact their thinking can hold for clinical practice. We will focus both on their […]

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Meeting

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Wendy Katz, PhD. Silence, Second Skin, and the Unrepresented.  Dr. Katz uses the concepts of microdialect and secondskin to to explore the patient's silence in session and how it may function on multiple levels of […]

Frame to Frame: Film Through the Lens of Psychoanalysis

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From the start, the craft of filmmaking has been intertwined with psychoanalysis. Both were developed around the turn of the 20th century, and both involve, in practice, a fair amount […]

Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis

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Presented by Dr. Lauren Levine, Ph.D. In this presentation, Dr. Lauren Levine will reflect on the power of stories to create shared symbolic meaning and coherence out of ungrieved trauma. […]

Alumni Group – Imagining a (Social) Ethics of the Unconscious

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Presenter: Sean Fitzpatrick, PhD, LPC | We live in a liminal moment in which mental health stigma is crumbling, in great part because of increasing psychological struggle triggered by the […]

Talking About Money

Some say the love of it is the root of all evil. Others do not believe they can ever have enough. Therapists can, at times, avoid discussing it as much […]

When the Body Speaks

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Ronny Jaffe

Mixed Race Couples

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Pierre Cachia

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Meeting

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Tyia Grange Isaacson, PhD. Daring to Hope: A Couple's Journey from Trauma to Connection.  Dr. Isaacson presents her treatment of a deeply traumatized, high conflict couple that is massively overwhelmed […]

The Ethics of Divorce

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Arthur Leonoff

Community Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis has been criticized from its beginnings as a treatment that is only available to the genteel and affluent; however, at the same time, it is a treatment that, from […]

Alumni Group – Bringing Psychotherapy Back to Life

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Presenter: Jon G. Allen, PhD | This presentation will include discussion of the developmental trajectory of relationships informed by attachment theory and research; empirical findings from a study of the […]

Creativity & Early Loss

Speaker: Chester Smith, MEd, LPC. Loss and trauma in general have long been understood to play a role in the creative process for many famous artists. Using the early histories […]

High Conflict Divorce

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Kate Scharff & David Scharff

Writing and Psychoanalysis

Speakers: Harold Braswell, PhD & Nikki Karalekas, PhD. This course will explore the relationship between writing and psychoanalysis through a group workshop process. We will begin by holding two courses […]

Interpersonal Trauma and the Developmental Roots of Personality Disorders

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Dr. Clara Mucci presents the three levels of interpersonal traumatizations with all the consequences at the level of attachment styles, interpersonal neurobiology, and affect regulation and personability dynamics up to […]

WPS David Black Memorial Lecture 2025

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Daniel Shaw, LCSW. Understanding Traumatizing Narcissism and Its Clinical Utility.  Mr. Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally and as it […]

Alumni Group – What is Effective in Psychoanalytic Treatments?

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Presenter: M. Sagman Kayatekin, MD | Psychoanalytic discipline is in the process of broadening its theory, practitioners and applications. We welcome contributions from different psychoanalytic approaches and related disciplines in […]