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SUMMARY:Special Presentation - Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma Part II: Group Therapy with Chronic Shame and Abject States
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Kathleen Adams\, PhD\nDiscussion by: Robert Grossmark\, PhD\nIn Part II of this two-part special presentation\, author Kathleen Adams\, PhD\, discusses her book Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused\, High Functioning People Living Outside of Time. \nGroup and individual therapists who frequently encounter patients with characters organized around melancholy\, anxiety\, entitlement\, and rage may be caught off guard by patients who developed autistic defenses to manage terror\, shame\, and powerlessness. We will explore the abject self as an enacted manifestation of relentless despair. My group work centers primarily on high functioning\, non-abused individuals with disorganized attachment and mild dissociation. Judith Herman suggests that along with terror\, shame is linked to the development of disorganized attachment. Relentless despair and abject states are complex enactments that contribute to failed individual and group therapy experiences because they are difficult to recognize and manage effectively. We will focus tonight on abject states: a neural network which leads to enactment of worthlessness and despair about connection.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/special-presentation-attuned-treatment-of-developmental-trauma-part-ii-group-therapy-with-chronic-shame-and-abject-states-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Shakespeare’s Hamlet   A mini-course presented by   James W. Stone
DESCRIPTION:This mini-course explores Shakespeare’s Hamlet through the lens of psychoanalytic theory\, examining the psychological dimensions of the play’s characters\, themes\, and dramatic structure. Drawing on classical and contemporary psychoanalytic frameworks\, the course investigates issues such as mourning and melancholia\, repression\, desire\, family dynamics\, and the unconscious motivations that shape Hamlet’s actions.\nParticipants will gain a deeper understanding of how psychoanalytic criticism illuminates Hamlet’s enduring complexity and relevance\, while also engaging broader questions about subjectivity\, identity\, and interpretation in literature and clinical thought.\nAt the conclusion of this activity\, participants should be able to:\nApply psychoanalytic concepts to the interpretation of Hamlet.\nAnalyze key themes in Hamlet such as grief\, repression\, and ambivalence through a psychoanalytic framework.\nEvaluate the relevance of psychoanalytic literary criticism to clinical thinking and practice.\nIntegrate insights from psychoanalytic readings of literature into broader understandings of human behavior and internal conflict.\nJames W. Stone is a lecturer on Shakespeare and early modern literature at American University and on Shakespeare at the Osher Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He taught at the American University in Cairo and at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Crossing Gender in Shakespeare: Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within (Routledge\, 2010) and articles on Shakespeare\, Milton\, the Renaissance Ovid\, film theory\, and contemporary Egyptian art. In 2024 James Newlin and he co-edited the essay collection New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains (Routledge). He and Catherine Bates are the editors of Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis: Method in the Madness (forthcoming in Spring 2026 from Palgrave Macmillan).
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-perspectives-on-shakespeares-hamlet-a-mini-course-presented-by-james-w-stone-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Shakespeare’s Hamlet  A mini-course presented by  James W. Stone
DESCRIPTION:The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine is pleased to announce the latest in our recent series of mini courses\, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Shakespeare’s Hamlet\, to be held with Professor James Stone during the upcoming months via Zoom. \nThe classes will be held on Sunday April 19th\, Sunday May 31st\, and Sunday June 28th\, from 4-5:30 pm EST\, and will be open to all APM members free of charge. Registration is required.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-perspectives-on-shakespeares-hamlet-a-mini-course-presented-by-james-w-stone/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T160000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260319T174429Z
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SUMMARY:Deanna Holtzman Applied Psychoanalysis Winning Essay
DESCRIPTION:Joshua Ehrlich\, PhD will present his winning essay entitled “Teaching Consent: How Psychoanalysts Can Enhance the Cultural Conversation.” The speaker elaborates the important role of fantasy in all aspects of daily life\, including the important issue of consent.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/deanna-holtzman-applied-psychoanalysis-winning-essay/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T150000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260413T194948Z
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SUMMARY:Calvin Colarusso\, MD - The Nuclear Family\, a Living Organism
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is based on a paper by Calvin Colarusso\, MD\, which reflects his longstanding interest in the observation of children and adults within the context of the nuclear family. In this work\, Dr. Colarusso conceptualizes the family as a living organism that progresses through five stages of development\, from formation to eventual decline\, offering a framework for understanding the evolution of family structure and relationships over time. \nBringing together theory and clinical material\, this presentation offers a rich perspective on the developmental life cycle of the family and the therapeutic processes that support the creation of a thriving and viable organic nuclear family life.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/calvin-colarusso-md-the-nuclear-family-a-living-organism/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: San Diego Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)\, 4455 Morena Blvd\, Ste 202\, San Diego\, CA\, 94117\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="San Diego Psychoanalytic Center":MAILTO:events@sdpsychoanalytic.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T140000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20251024T182542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T154901Z
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SUMMARY:Anthony Bass\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:“Unconscious Communication Between Therapist and Patient: The Ordinary Uncanniness of Everyday Psychoanalytic Life-Back to the Future of Psychoanalysis”
URL:https://apsa.org/event/anthony-bass-phd/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T170000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260304T172025Z
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SUMMARY:Emotional Inheritance as Diagnostic Companion:  Love\, Loss\, and the Legacy of Trauma
DESCRIPTION:This full-day clinical workshop will delve into the heart of Galit Atlas’s work on Emotional Inheritance. Through clinical and theoretical discussions\, it will introduce a psychoanalytic model for listening to and working with intergenerational material\, family secrets\, and the legacy of trauma. The clinical presentation will explore the roles of attachment and the place of sexuality\, mourning\, and aggression. It will examine the many faces of our emotional inheritance and illustrate how inherited trauma both hides and comes to life in the analytic dyad.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/emotional-inheritance-as-diagnostic-companion-love-loss-and-the-legacy-of-trauma/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T210000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260319T174430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T150026Z
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SUMMARY:Noticing Understanding Responding: Winnicott at Work
DESCRIPTION:Written and presented by Lesley Caldwell\, MA\, PhD\, FIPA \nThis paper aims to extend the understanding of Donald Winnicott’s theoretical and clinical assumptions through his concern with play and playing\, and its links with the development of psychic flexibility. It approaches his work through his extensive clinical experience with babies and children\, and with neurotic and more disturbed adults. It highlights the need for the analyst to meet the patient on their own terms and be prepared to wait for them to arrive at a quality of psychic life through the continuing presence of the analyst. Dr. Caldwell thinks that playing originates in and depends on the patient’s capacity to be\, and to live from that being\, most especially with oneself and only then with others\, though Winnicott himself argues that these different ways of being initially emerge together. Dr. Caldwell illustrates this through his brief work with a child and his analysis with an adult woman.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/noticing-understanding-responding-winnicott-at-work-2/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & In-person: NYU Science Building\, 550 1st Ave\, New York\, NY 10016)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T220000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260327T173407Z
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation: Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma Part I Non-abused\, High-functioning People Living Outside of Time
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Kathleen Adams\, PhD\nIn Part I of this two-part special presentation\, author Kathleen Adams\, PhD\, discusses her book Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused\, High Functioning People Living Outside of Time. \nMany therapists don’t even think of their patients as “trauma patients” despite descriptions of early neglect\, abuse\, separations and loss\, and dysfunctional families without enough love to go around. Two years ago\, I was invited to give a presentation on preverbal trauma in group therapy to a group of seasoned group clinicians. Only two out of the 50 present believed they had a single patient with preverbal trauma in their practices. Instead we diagnose them in the fashion most familiar to us and insert them into our therapeutic practices\, undertaking defense analysis\, tackling characterological issues\, exploring underlying conflicts and fantasies. That’s what we do. This protocol fails to permit our trauma patients to unfold and reveal who they really are unless we broaden our scope and think trauma\, listen for vertical splits\, subtle Me and Not-Me states\, (Chefetz and Bromberg\, 2004) and look underneath their surface presentation for the depth within. \nThe goal of this presentation is to sensitize you to the presence of subtle dissociative states\, preverbal trauma\, long term attachment distress\, and chronic shock in your patients. I also hope to change your approach as a group therapist to incorporate a hard look at how attachment and neglect are handled in your groups. When patients approach us with stories of early deprivation\, neglect and abuse\, we tend to interpret “upward\,” focusing on conflict and character\, and then go home to our full lives and families without a clue that we are missing the point. The point\, as you shall see\, is that we are working with people who are falling down into an abyss\, and we are making polite conversation about their defenses and fantasies while they continue to fall\, shatter\, and shake. Meanwhile our patients with developmental trauma are so desperate for a secure attachment experience that they collude with our roadmaps\, willingly fantasize\, earnestly explore conflicts\, and stolidly work on their character flaws. We will discuss assessment issues for developmental trauma and explore the management of these states in your group and individual treatments.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/special-presentation-attuned-treatment-of-developmental-trauma-part-i-non-abused-high-functioning-people-living-outside-of-time/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T133000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260402T183000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T184145Z
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SUMMARY:Online Study Group: Exploring Sources of Liminal Data in Psychoanalytic Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by J. Christopher Fowler\, PhD & Stuart Weir\, PsyD \nA foundational premise of psychoanalysis is Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and uncovering the meaning of latent content from dreams\, parapraxes\, and unintentional actions such as forgetting. This 6-week seminar will explore sources of latent (liminal) data from the analysand\, as well as the analyst. We will traverse classical Freudian approaches to liminal data including Freud’s Psychopathology of Everyday Life and Paul Gray’s notion of close process analysis captured in A brief didactic guide to analysis of the ego in conflict. We will then move to modern ideas of paralinguistic communication with a deep dive into John Gedo’s The Languages of Psychoanalysis. Throughout the seminar\, participants are encouraged to share clinical material bearing on how we utilize liminal data to discern meaning (whether shared or held as an internal formulation) and how we convey our understanding in ways that are meaningful to the analysand.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/online-study-group-exploring-sources-of-liminal-data-in-psychoanalytic-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T170000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260402T183000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T184011Z
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SUMMARY:Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival: Close (2023) - Katrin Haller\, MSW
DESCRIPTION:The Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival\nMovie: Close (2023)\nPresented by: Katrin Haller\, MSW\nDate: April 11\, 2026\nTime: 2:00pm – 5:00pm\nDoors Open at 1:30pm \n3.0 CME/CE \nWhere: Baltimore Museum of the Arts\n10 Art Museum Drive\, Baltimore\, MD 21218 \nPresentation Description: \nThis film by Belgian filmmaker Lucas Dhont was awarded the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film festival and was nominated for an Oscar for Best International Film is an emotionally in-depth drama about a close friendship between two 13-year-old boys from the countryside in Belgium. The film is a symbolically rich lyrically narrated portrayal of a close friendship between two boys\, Leo and Remi. The boys’ intense friendship is nested in two families who are sensitively supportive of the deep connection the boys have. The emotional connection of the boys’ changes after a playful summer\, or the end of childhood\, with the start of the school year when classmates assert that Leo and Remi have a romantic relationship. Leo breaks the link to a three-dimensional space in his friendship with Remi. After tragedy strikes\, Leo suffers severe loss and with the help of his family and Remi’s mother is eventually able to mourn the loss. \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_leon_levin_film_2026\nEducational Flyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/Leon%20Levin%20flyer%2025-26%28Brit%29.pdf
URL:https://apsa.org/event/leon-levin-psychoanalytic-film-festival-close-2023-katrin-haller-msw/
LOCATION:Baltimore Museum of the Arts 10 Art Museum Drive\, Baltimore\, MD 21218\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21218\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T161500
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260213T145501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T154655Z
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SUMMARY:Saturday Salon: Boundary Dilemmas in Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss the complexity of addressing boundary issues with our presenter Ira Poll\, Ph.D\, Psy.D
URL:https://apsa.org/event/saturday-salon-boundary-dilemmas-in-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:In-Person: 111 Pacifica Suite 270\, Irvine\, CA 92618
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T200000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20251009T155528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T160010Z
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SUMMARY:Becoming Raced-Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dionne R. Powell\, MD \nYasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture \nRacism\, and otherness\, continues to be contentious for psychoanalysts to consider as a psychic phenomenon. Unlike aggression and sexuality\, racism is held in silence and resistance\, inhibiting exploration of this aspect of mind. By closely examining how and where the analyst/psychotherapist locates themselves racially and working through our resistance and countertransference to this type of exploration\, this paper invites us to include these aspects of mind for our analytic use. This paper expands on how we become raced by exploring the transgenerational transmission of racial trauma\, and its intra-psychic\, structuralizing components. Using examples from the creative arts and clinical vignettes to demonstrate how being raced\, as a universal phenomenon\, is embodied and symbolized in mind\, opens a therapeutic aperture for clinicians who may benefit from a psychoanalytic\, intrapsychic perspective on this aspect of our shared humanity.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/becoming-raced-psychic-consequences-of-transgenerational-racial-trauma-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260410T143000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20251024T182526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T160800Z
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SUMMARY:Alumni Roundtable - Resolving Rapprochement Challenges
DESCRIPTION:Resolving Rapprochement Challenges: The Process of Metabolizing Love-Fueling Development\, Therapeutic Growth\, Reparation\, and Healing\nPresenter: William Singletary\, MD
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-roundtable-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T220000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20250820T175922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T171006Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Where We Are Not: Interpellation\, Dissociative Enactment\, and the Social
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Donnel Stern\, PhD \nIn the interest of integrating the social and the individual in psychoanalysis\, Dr. Stern examines the relation of Althusser’s concept of interpellation and the psychoanalytic idea of dissociative enactment. Interpellation is a way of conceptualizing the creation of subjectivity via individual participation in the ideological tropes of power. Dissociative enactment is a relational psychoanalytic way of referring to unconscious participation in relatedness. In interpellation\, one person is “hailed” by another in a way that inducts the person so addressed\, without the awareness of either party\, into a relational pattern that includes both. Dr. Stern argues that we can see the same process in dissociative enactment. Clinical process is illuminated by the recognition of the continuity of the social and the individual that is modeled by the relation of these two dissociative processes. New meaning–the formulation of unformulated experience–comes about unbidden\, sometimes slipping the traces of ideology. Paraphrasing an aphorism from Lacan: We think where we are not. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/thinking-where-we-are-not-interpellation-dissociative-enactment-and-the-social/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T213000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20251024T182742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T055146Z
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SUMMARY:Multicultural Competency in Psychodynamic Practice
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alicia Naveas\, LPC\, MEd. This course will explore foundational concepts of cultural competency within psychodynamic frameworks. Emphasizing the work of authors such as Tummala-Narra\, Salman Akhtar\, and Patricia Gherovici will integrate multicultural awareness into psychoanalytic thinking. For instance\, Tummala-Narra (2025) conceptualizes multicultural competence as a reflective capacity to shift perspectives and understand the patient’s lived experience. Credits: 4.5
URL:https://apsa.org/event/multicultural-competency-in-psychodynamic-practice/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: 7700 Clayton Rd.\, Suite 200\, St. Louis\, MO 63117 & Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T203000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260402T183000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T183623Z
UID:20000783-1775674800-1775680200@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Tender Mercies: Introducing Memoir in Prison Settings
DESCRIPTION:This 5 week course\, taught by Gretchen Hermes\, MD\, PhD\, offers an exploration of memoir writing as a therapeutic tool within prison settings. Through writing exercises\, guided reflection\, and psychoanalytic insights\, participants will examine themes of transformation\, conscience\, trauma\, creativity\, and social change. Readings will include excerpts from “The House of the Dead” by Dostoevsky; “The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness” by Simon Wiesenthal; “The Man Died” by Wole Soyinka\, “Orange is the New Black” by Piper Kerman; and “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.” The course is structured to help participants gain a deeper understanding of the psychological and emotional impact of incarceration\, as well as to create practical\, therapeutic resources for use in jails and prisons. Instructors and healthcare professionals will work collaboratively to develop a workbook that integrates prompts addressing themes such as internal conflict and enactment\, the development of conscience and moral reckoning\, drives and desires\, insight and self-awareness\, projective identification\, and forgiveness and repair.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/tender-mercies-introducing-memoir-in-prison-settings/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="Western New England Psychoanalytic Society":MAILTO:arodems@wneps.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260407T213000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260319T174429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T144332Z
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SUMMARY:Systems and Fields: Intersubjectivity in New York\, Buenos Aires\, and Montevideo
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Soni will trace the contemporary psychoanalytic concept of the “field” to its origins in the 1950 – 70s within two distinct traditions: the Interpersonal analysts of the William Alanson White Institute and the analysts of the Rio de la Plata in Argentina and Uruguay. He will argue that both groups drew on the social scientific thought of their time to develop complex models of the analytic process that foregrounded the reciprocal\, unconscious influence of patient and analyst upon one another. By reconstructing these lineages\, Dr. Soni aims to articulate some alternatives to key features of the contemporary field perspectives that draw on Bionian thinking.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/systems-and-fields-intersubjectivity-in-new-york-buenos-aires-and-montevideo/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260330T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260330T163000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260327T173406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T173642Z
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SUMMARY:Study Group - Exploring Sources of Liminal Data in Psychoanalytic Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by: J. Christopher Fowler\, PhD & Stuart Weir\, PsyD \nA foundational premise of psychoanalysis is Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and uncovering the meaning of latent content from dreams\, parapraxes\, and unintentional actions such as forgetting. This 6-week seminar will explore sources of latent (liminal) data from the analysand\, as well as the analyst. We will traverse classical Freudian approaches to liminal data including Freud’s Psychopathology of Everyday Life and Paul Gray’s notion of close process analysis captured in A brief didactic guide to analysis of the ego in conflict. We will then move to modern ideas of paralinguistic communication with a deep dive into John Gedo’s The Languages of Psychoanalysis. Throughout the seminar\, participants are encouraged to share clinical material bearing on how we utilize liminal data to discern meaning (whether shared or held as an internal formulation) and how we convey our understanding in ways that are meaningful to the analysand. \nClass logistics: All reading materials are supplied. Facilitators will provide a frame and summary of the week’s reading then invite discussion. This is intended to be a fulsome seminar.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/study-group-exploring-sources-of-liminal-data-in-psychoanalytic-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T170000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260213T145500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T154440Z
UID:20000757-1774692000-1774717200@apsa.org
SUMMARY:The Dynamics of Personality Development: Freud\, Klein\, and Bion Unplugged with Jennifer Kunst\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, Dr. Jennifer Kunst will provide an in-depth exploration of key concepts of psychoanalysis from the vantage point of the dynamic process of personality development. She will draw from the ideas of Sigmund Freud\, Melanie Klein\, and Wilfred Bion\, applying their ideas to the challenges of modern life as well as clinical practice. Key concepts include various ways of conceptualizing the unconscious\, the life and death instincts\, psychic equilibrium and psychic change\, the Oedipus complex\, the interplay between dependence and independence\, transference\, and the interaction between internal and external worlds. She will utilize clinical case material\, movie clips\, poems\, and stories to bring these concepts to life. Two live role plays will demonstrate how these concepts can be applied to actual clinical psychotherapy practice.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-dynamics-of-personality-development-freud-klein-and-bion-unplugged-with-jennifer-kunst-phd/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Dallas Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260321T133000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260126T035852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T054743Z
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SUMMARY:Language Strangeness at the Core of Psychoanalysis: The Educator\, The Artist\, and The Hiker
DESCRIPTION:John Rosegrant\, PhD will present on how the “talking” part of the talking cure is strange. Using clinical material with the help of an imaginary educator\, an imaginary artist\, and an imaginary hiker\, to explore how Freud\, infant researchers\, and Lacan understand this strangeness to identify a fundamental uneasiness and alienation between language and nonverbal parts of the mind\, and how to clinically address the problems this creates.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/language-strangeness-at-the-core-of-psychoanalysis-the-educator-the-artist-and-the-hiker/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person at New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260320T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260320T160000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260304T172025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T174231Z
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SUMMARY:Mentalizing Across Contexts
DESCRIPTION:A virtual conference presented by the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center\, Yale Child Study Center\, and the Anna Freud Centre \nMentalization—the capacity to understand one’s own and others’ behavior in terms of underlying thoughts\, feelings\, and intentions—is fundamental to emotional well-being\, learning\, and effective interpersonal functioning. Yet\, how mentalization develops and operates can vary widely across age\, culture\, and context. \nThis day-long virtual conference brings together clinicians and researchers\, from three internationally recognized institutions—the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center\, Yale Child Study Center\, and the Anna Freud Centre—for a rich exploration of Mentalizing Across Contexts. \nThrough six presentations\, participants will explore how mentalization can be fostered and supported from childhood to adulthood. The program integrates theoretical insights with practical applications\, offering depth and relevance for both clinical and educational professionals. \nDesigned for mental health professionals and educators\, this collaborative conference offers an opportunity to deepen understanding of the mentalizing process and its implications for treatment\, research\, and wider applications.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/mentalizing-across-contexts/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T143000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20251210T134729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T054415Z
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SUMMARY:NCP's Virtual Open House 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for a lively discussion with students and faculty from each of our programs who will share how their training at NCP has fostered personal growth\, a deeper understanding of their patients’ experiences\, and opportunities to build professional networks. \nYou’ll also have an opportunity to meet our program directors and Dean\, learn more about our multi-year training programs\, and ask any questions you may have. \nWhether you are considering training this year or in the near future\, all are welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ncps-virtual-open-house-2026/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T150000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260220T190046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260220T200707Z
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SUMMARY:Family Matters\, Lived Experiences
DESCRIPTION:A parent\, sibling\, psychoanalyst\, and trans man share their stories from the frontlines \n  \nGiven the rise of political attacks on LGBTQIA+ (especially trans) persons and communities and the distress that our current political climate is creating for families wrestling with the impact of these attacks\, the Committee on Gender and Sexuality (CoGS) of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) wants to offer education\, advocacy and support to parents and family members of LGBTQIA+ individuals\, as well as to clinicians working with them. \n  \nThis panel is an opportunity to hear directly from family members\, a psychoanalyst working with trans kids and families\, and a trans man about what it is like on the frontlines of one of the most destructive culture wars of our time. Panelists will discuss lived experiences related to navigating sudden loss of healthcare and rights within a social environment that has become virulently phobic toward gender diversity. Whether you’re a clinician who wants to learn more about working with LGBTQIA+ children and their parents/family members or are yourself a parent/family member facing these issues\, we invite you to join us. \n  \nAll are welcome. \n  \nWhen: Saturday\, 3/14/26 at 1:00-2:45pm ET(10-11:45am PT)  \n  \nREGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/JSQQhVNtCxM6aiXS7
URL:https://apsa.org/event/family-matters-lived-experiences/
LOCATION:MA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T193000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260102T205602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T054158Z
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SUMMARY:Bridging the Gap: Holding in a Relational Context
DESCRIPTION:This course reviews the evolution of a relational holding model that bridges the space between Winnicottian and relational thinking. I begin with a review of Winnicottian holding\, the relational critique of developmental tilt models\, and then present my proposed resolution of that gap. Offering a retrospective critique of my own model\, I also revisit a more traditional analytic concept—resistance—and consider its role in contemporary work. \nPresented by Dr. Joyce Slochower\, Ph.D.\, ABPP
URL:https://apsa.org/event/bridging-the-gap-holding-in-a-relational-context/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T130000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260213T145501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T153043Z
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SUMMARY:Clinical Issues in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Transgender & Nonbinary Patients
DESCRIPTION:Not theory and not advocacy\, this program highlights the lived experiences of transgender and nonbinary psychoanalysts and patients\, offering a clinically-relevant presentation of how psychoanalytic thinking can bring understanding when gender\, ideology\, and law collide inside the analytic frame.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/clinical-issues-in-the-psychoanalytic-treatment-of-transgender-nonbinary-patients/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T120000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260126T035852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T053920Z
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SUMMARY:The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice
DESCRIPTION:An Ethics Workshop Presented by Mitchell Wilson
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-analysts-desire-the-ethical-foundation-of-clinical-practice/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: 2460 Fairmount Blvd\, Suite 312\, Cleveland Heights\, OH 44106 & Virtual)\, 2460 Fairmount Blvd Ste 312\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T200000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260126T035851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T053419Z
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SUMMARY:Comedy and Cruelty: The Comic Mode in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:A Scientific Meeting Presented by Mitchell Wilson
URL:https://apsa.org/event/comedy-and-cruelty-the-comic-mode-in-the-age-of-trump/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: 2460 Fairmount Blvd\, Suite 312\, Cleveland Heights\, OH 44106 & Virtual)\, 2460 Fairmount Blvd Ste 312\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T200000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20251009T155527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T155904Z
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SUMMARY:Working Clinically with Overwhelm: The Cost and Growth-Inducing Possibilities of Undoing the Self
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Avgi Saketopoulou\, PsyD \nThis presentation begins with a summary of the theory of overwhelm\, a way of conceptualizing working with intensity and excitation that is not about guarding the self (not about emotional regulation\, not about protecting the ego from the drives) but which explores what becomes possible when one reaches the limit of what is bearable in oneself\, when one follows the exigency of the unconscious. For the clinician\, working with overwhelm is both a challenge and an art form: it requires us\, as therapists\, to make ourselves permeable to our patients in ways that make us exquisitely vulnerable and to take true risks the results of which cannot be guaranteed ahead of time. \nTo illustrate the difficulty\, but also the extraordinary possibilities of such work\, work that rends the self to allow something new to emerge\, Dr. Saketopoulou will discuss the analysis of a Jewish patient whose encounter with the Palestinian genocide raised considerable anxieties and revived questions of identity\, trauma\, and intergenerational transmission. The clinical work–and the presentation–raise questions of ethics\, of rethinking questions of intergenerational transmission and the debts it incurs\, and the relation of the political to the psychic.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/working-clinically-with-overwhelm-the-cost-and-growth-inducing-possibilities-of-undoing-the-self/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260308T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260308T160000
DTSTAMP:20260710T081730
CREATED:20260305T145517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260305T145517Z
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SUMMARY:2025 Holtzman Essay Prize Presentation
DESCRIPTION:“Buried in the Future Which Has Not Happened” Non-linear Time\, Non-logic and the Ultimate Reality of the Session\nSaturday\, March 8\, 2025\n2:00 to 4:00 pm\nReception following presentation\n2 CME and CE Credit Hours\nHYBRID\nMichigan Psychoanalytic Institute\n32841 Middlebelt Rd.\, Farmington Hills\nOr join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/my/michiganpsychoanalysis\nAbout the presenter: Avner Bergstein is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and faculty member of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. He has authored numerous papers elaborating on the clinical implications of the writings of Bion and Meltzer and is the author of the 2018 book Bion and Meltzer’s Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life: Beyond the Spectrum in Psychoanalysis. He is a visiting lecturer at several psychoanalytic institutes and conducts reading seminars focusing on the writings of W.R. Bion. He is also the recipient of the IPA 2021 Elizabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice Award. \nPractice Gap/Need and Course Description: Facilitating one’s ability for truthfully apprehending reality is at the heart of psychoanalytic work. And yet\, Bion’s radical contribution to psychoanalysis\, and its affinity with contemporary insights from Quantum Theory\, highlights the ungraspable complexity of reality that does not conform to what is comprehensible to the human mind. Expanding on Bion’s mode of listening extends the work of analysis beyond uncovering unconscious thoughts buried in the past\, to cultivating a psychically alive mind capable of generating novel thoughts\, oriented toward the future and the unknown. The presenter brings clear explanations of Bion’s ideas that can expand our therapeutic approaches and theoretical understandings. \nAfter attending this presentation\, participants will be able to: \n1: Discuss Bion’s idea of the inherent unknowability of the human mind and reality \n2: Apply Bion’s ideas about tolerating the unknown and ambiguity to better listen to their patients to help them become more tolerant about the unknown and oriented toward the future. \nPlease call Monica Evans at 248-851-3380 for additional information \nCONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION \nACCME Accreditation Statement \nThis 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 Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. \nAMA Credit Designation Statement \nThe American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. \nDisclosure Statement \nThe 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. \nCONTINUING EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL WORK \nThe Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative. \nCONTINUING EDUCATION FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS \nThe Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/2025-holtzman-essay-prize-presentation/
LOCATION:Virtual
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