A 6-week seminar for graduate psychology and social work students, psychiatry residents, and mental health professionals.
This three-hour seminar explores how racialized identity, particularly Latinx identity, is shaped by cultural, institutional, and historical forces. Drawing from three papers, participants will examine psychoanalysis’s relationship to race, whiteness, and systems of power; internalized racial hierarchies; and memory, music, and resistance. The seminar invites clinicians to consider multiplicity and unconscious assumptions within clinical practice.
NCP is privileged to present a morning with Annie Reiner, PhD, PsyD, LCSW guiding us with a fresh introduction to Wilford Bion’s clinical insights into optimizing an analytical state of mind. Dr. Reiner will first present an orienting paper entitled, “Bion’s ‘O’: The Search for Truth in Psychoanalysis. Art, and Religion,” examining Bion’s central and […]
This introductory course provides an overview of the fundamental principles and practices of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy, integrating contemporary group analytic perspectives. Participants will explore how unconscious processes, transference and countertransference, resistance, interpersonal feedback, and emotional immediacy emerge within the dynamic interpersonal field of the group. The course will emphasize the here and now experience of […]
Scott Koeneman, PsyD & Paul Hoard, PhD, LMHC will consider how interactions with AI chatbots/LLM’s are reshaping our emotional, relational & experiential lives. Topics such as smart phone cult like grooming, rising anxieties about the future, AI psychosis & the epidemic of loneliness will be considered. The presenters will promote an ethical imperative around the […]
Sebastian Leikert, The Donald Meyers International Scholar Lecture. Somatic narration is a method of working that focuses the shared perception of traces of traumatization inscribed in the body-self. A clinical example will show how the working-through of these bodily traces of trauma changes the pathology of the superego and allows it to overcome the death […]
Through an extended case study of a tattoo artist in psychoanalytic treatment, this lecture explores tattooing as a legitimate artistic expression. This point of departure shifts the psychoanalytic perspective away from viewing tattoos as a pathological and masochistic external solution to internal unconscious conflicts. What emerges is a dynamic perspective on tattoos, viewing them as […]
When Dr. Valerie Frankfeldt lost her analyst in 2024, she turned to an unexpected companion: ChatGPT. What began as a cursory attempt at coping with grief became a profound reckoning with her own ambivalence about AI, a journey she has since turned into an unflinching and deeply personal paper. Dr. Frankfeldt used ChatGPT to help […]
Format: 6-Week Live Course Hosted over Zoom Dates: Fridays - October 9, 16, 23, 30; November 6, 13, 2026 Times: Fridays - 7:30am – 10:30am PT/10:30am - 1:30pm ET/3:30 pm - 6:30pm GMT Credit Amount: 18 credits Cost: $199 for all guests This 6-week virtual seminar will focus on critical concepts in systems psychodynamics and field […]
Henry Markman, MD will explore Similarities between creative processes in painting and psychoanalysis come from the same source within us.
“This administration has lost it’s f-ing mind and we are all going to die!” bellows a vein popping Leonardo DiCaprio. Don’t Look Up (2021) captures the dangerous emotional crosscurrents when human nature is confronted with existential terror. Astronomers — Dr. Randall Mindy (DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), his doctoral student — discover a comet […]
Henry Markman will lead a discussion of analytic ethos, a practice based on ethics before theory and technique.
This half-day conference offers a psychoanalytic examination of racialization as it is lived, felt, and structured within psychic life. Ramya B. Iyer, LCSW, introduces societal racial introjection, a proposed mechanism by which social racial logics become constitutive of psychic structure. Gabriel Ruiz, LCPC, explores racialized transference and countertransference in the treatment relationship, and Molly Witten, […]
In this masterclass for licensed therapists, participants will actively review in fine detail a subtitled clinical video with in-depth discussion with Jon Frederickson and Thomas Brod. The video is edited from a single multi-hour consultation in which Jon Frederickson interviews an extraordinarily resistant patient. The case, called “The Man Who Thought Therapy Was Bullshit,” demonstrates […]
This six-part Series brings together some of the most prolific and celebrated authors in contemporary psychoanalysis to address precisely these questions. Each month, one presenter will reflect on their own experience of writing for publication: the motivations, the challenges, the craft, and the rewards. Whether you have never submitted a manuscript or are a seasoned […]
Theodore Jacobs, MD, will discuss his paper, which focuses on the important role that secrets kept by both patients and analysts play in psychoanalytic treatment. Such secrets are often played out in treatment without them having been recognized and confronted by either party. Unrecognized and uninterpreted they can have a significant effect on the analytic […]
Four papers from leading psychoanalysts: Otto Kernberg, Michael Feldman, Sara Boffito, and Sun Ju Chung. Chaired by Francis Grier, Editor-In-Chief, International Journal of Psychoanalysis A recording of the conference will be shared with all those who register. Foreign language subtitles will be available. Violence takes an infinite number of forms. In recent times, the IJP […]
The Inner Frame Film Festival is an evening of curated short films created by psychoanalysts and others who are deeply connected to psychoanalytic thought, treatment and practice. It is a community event created for discussion and engagement around representation of unconscious dynamics, the experiences that take place in the therapeutic process and the powerful ideas about […]