BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//American Psychoanalytic Association - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:American Psychoanalytic Association X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://apsa.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for American Psychoanalytic Association REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T213000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260514T210425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T214102Z UID:20000817-1780430400-1780435800@apsa.org SUMMARY:APM Scientific Meeting - The Disabling Object DESCRIPTION:Disability remains among the least theorized subjects in psychoanalysis. This is notable but not surprising: the relational anxiety that disability provokes in the non-disabled is pervasive\, and psychoanalysts are not exempt. This paper introduces the concept of the disabling object — a persecutory internal structure through which social prejudice and structural ableism are psychically internalized and perpetuated. Integrating psychoanalytic ideas on racism\, anxiety\, and object relations with insights from critical disability studies\, the paper explores how disability becomes a site of projected anxiety and disavowed vulnerability\, shaping internal\, interpersonal\, and social experience. Through theoretical elaboration and clinical and personal vignettes\, the disabling object is shown to obstruct symbolization\, foreclose grief\, and reproduce social hierarchies within the mind. Psychoanalysis\, Dr. Crosby argues\, must confront its own ableist investments to help clinicians sustain contact with psychic pain and difference as generative rather than annihilating. URL:https://apsa.org/event/apm-scientific-meeting-the-disabling-object/ LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Virtual)\, New York\, NY ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T180000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260402T182959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T195158Z UID:20000782-1780156800-1780164000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis and Artificial Intelligence DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Todd Essig\, Phd and Oscar Hills\, MD. Generative AI\, especially chatbots\, presents psychoanalysis with tremendous promise and significant peril. While some benefit tremendously from their AI relationships\, others sink into delusion\, and for most they threaten to flatten inner life\, externalizing what has always been internal. Plus\, so called “therapy-bots” are on the near horizon with both promise and peril. Overall\, if you’re not at least a little anxious about AI’s transformations to self-experience\, intimate relationships and professional life\, you’re not paying enough attention. But anxiety need not lead to denial\, retreat\, panic or paralysis. This presentation offers a path toward active\, informed\, and hopeful engagement on the side of human needs\, psychoanalytic values\, and affirming life. It argues that hope\, not fear\, should drive our response. Active participation combined with critical\, contemplative\, and deeply psychoanalytic engagement can secure not just survival but a thriving psychoanalysis for the AI age. Three dimensions of this AI-age psychoanalytic activism will be explored. First\, why hope provides the essential foundation for AI-age psychoanalytic activism in our moment of accelerating technological transformation. Second\, how to develop the procedural knowledge necessary for authentic psychoanalytic engagement with these technologies so one can move beyond abstract fantasies to embodied understanding. Finally\, a new framework of “techno-subjunctivity” for understanding the unique qualities of chatbot intimacies will illustrate what it looks like to practice hopeful\, AI-age psychoanalytic activism. URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalysis-and-artificial-intelligence/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="Western New England Psychoanalytic Society":MAILTO:arodems@wneps.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T120000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260514T210424Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T213649Z UID:20000814-1780135200-1780142400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Self-loathing: Origins\, Manifestations\, Dynamics\, and Treatment DESCRIPTION:Presented by Salman Akhtar\, MD \nThis presentation will address the painful malady of self-loathing. Four types of self-loathing will be described: (i) primal\, (ii) shame based\, (iii) guilt based\, and (iv) remorse based. Therapeutic strategies to lessen such self-hatred and to improve self-esteem will also be discussed. Ample clinical material will be presented to illustrate the various proposals contained in this presentation. URL:https://apsa.org/event/self-loathing-origins-manifestations-dynamics-and-treatment/ LOCATION:Hybrid: In-Person at McKimmon Center at NCSU\, Raleigh\, NC or via Zoom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T230000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260514T210435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T214642Z UID:20000822-1780002000-1780009200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Intersections: Clinical Work in Social Contexts DESCRIPTION:Inaugural Talk with Dr. Carolyn Laubender: We are excited to open this new series with an evening conversation with Carolyn Laubender on her book The Political Clinic – winner of the 2025 Book Prize of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the 2025 Book Award of the British Psychological Society. Examining the work of influential British psychoanalysts including Klein\, Winnicott\, Sachs\, and Bowlby. The book combines history with feminist and decolonial social theory to trace how concepts such as race\, gender\, colonialism\, and democracy were both shaped by and reshaped within clinical practice\, challenging the assumption that psychoanalysis is or should be politically neutral. \nFor this evening\, Dr. Laubender will draw on chapter 4 of her book entitled “Dreaming of ‘Black Mummy: Race\, Gender\, Decolonization\, and D. W. Winnicott”. The evening will offer a closer engagement with the material\, followed by a response and open discussion. URL:https://apsa.org/event/intersections-clinical-work-in-social-contexts/ LOCATION:Hybrid: In-Person (The Chicago School in Anaheim\, CA) or via Zoom ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T090000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260413T195007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T195007Z UID:20000809-1779958800-1779958800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Barr-Harris 50th Anniversary 2- Day Clinical Conference DESCRIPTION:A CE-eligible Conference on Grief and Loss will be taught by national experts Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer and Carolyn Ng as well as Chicagoans José A. Hernández Zeind\, MS\, LCPC\, Dr. Froma Walsh\, Dr. Molly Witten\, and Boston-based Dr. Linda Emanuel\, offered in-person in Chicago\, IL and online throughout the U.S. and around the world. URL:https://apsa.org/event/barr-harris-50th-anniversary-2-day-clinical-conference/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T220000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260327T173406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T174929Z UID:20000774-1779566400-1779573600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Book Discussion - Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Lauren Levine\, PhD\nDiscussion by: Janine de Peyer\, LCSW \nPlease join us whether or not you have read the book. Some people want to read and discuss the book; others want to learn more before deciding if they want to read it. All are welcome! \nIn this presentation\, Dr. Levine examines the transformative power of storytelling and witnessing in creating shared symbolic meaning and coherence from ungrieved trauma. She explores creativity as a transformative force that emerges within the clinical process\, drawing on film\, dance\, literature\, and dreams as frames for experiences that exceed what language alone can capture. As both an analyst and a writer\, Dr. Levine is especially interested in the stories individuals and communities tell\, the interstitial gaps created by unmetabolized trauma\, and the potential of an intimate psychoanalytic process to help patients reclaim memory\, creative agency\, and authorship of their own lives. URL:https://apsa.org/event/book-discussion-risking-intimacy-and-creative-transformation-in-psychoanalysis/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T130000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260413T194948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T194948Z UID:20000798-1779454800-1779454800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Queering Classical Psychoanalytic Concepts Through the Subaltern DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tiffany Hale\, LMFT & Jamie Steele\, LMFT \nBring your cases that are outside of normative bounds. We will draw in our well-worn and well-loved analytic concepts to explore clinical material together. If you have found that your thinking\, your lived experience and/or that of your patients has not quite been thinkable within analytic theory\, join us. We’ll stretch the limits and make room together. Each week we will center a classical concept with the intention of queering it through the lens of case material from the group. URL:https://apsa.org/event/queering-classical-psychoanalytic-concepts-through-the-subaltern/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T153000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260402T183021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T194929Z UID:20000794-1778936400-1778945400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Countertransference: The Total Situation in Child Analysis DESCRIPTION:Using vivid clinical material\, broad theoretical references\, and decades of experience as an analyst\, Dr. Sugarman will explore the total situation in child analysis — and why it tends to elicit particularly intense countertransference responses and enactments. He defines transference and countertransference as the interpersonalization of mental structures\, examining them not only in response to child patients and their caregivers\, but also teachers\, drivers\, and other seemingly peripheral figures. His approach is nuanced\, clear\, and clinically grounded. URL:https://apsa.org/event/countertransference-the-total-situation-in-child-analysis/ 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260514T210434Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T211942Z UID:20000819-1778931900-1778937300@apsa.org SUMMARY:Different Meanings of Fantasy and Phantasy DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Nasir Ilahi\, LLM\, LP\nThe term “fantasy” is foundational to psychoanalysis\, yet its clinical application varies dramatically across the Atlantic. While all schools share a common Freudian root\, the British Kleinian tradition added something additional. It developed the concept of “unconscious phantasy” as a continuous\, somatic\, and structural undercurrent of the psyche. This talk will explore these divergent definitions\, tracing their development from Freud’s central usage to his subsidiary notions of fantasy in his concepts of hallucinatory wish-fulfillment and negation. URL:https://apsa.org/event/different-meanings-of-fantasy-and-phantasy/ LOCATION:Hybrid: In-person (1 Park Ave 8th Fl\, New York\, NY 10016) & Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T135000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260402T183008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T193550Z UID:20000788-1778849400-1778853000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Psychological Assessment and Access: A Multidisciplinary Population Health Approach - Hadas Pade\, PsyD DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Hadas Pade\, PsyD \nThis session highlights the need to address the current inequitable access to psychological assessment services by acknowledging and embracing different levels of assessment versus a more traditional comprehensive assessment approach\, and the potential role of various health care providers other than psychologists. While comprehensive assessments are highly valued\, they are costly\, often not adequately covered by insurance\, and not readily available for many individuals\, especially those from minoritized groups. In addition\, one must be highly qualified to complete such an assessment; thus\, supply is short. The current alternatives of a lengthy waitlist or simply bypassing an assessment are unacceptable and in direct opposition to social justice values. Instead\, applying a population health model including a multidisciplinary approach that systematically and thoughtfully offers universal screenings and targeted assessments rather than primarily comprehensive ones along with overall promotion of health and emotional well-being is the way forward. This multi-tiered approach utilizes preventative tools and early detection and intervention applied to more or even all people that can be completed by a range of mental health and health trained individuals. Although not new\, a population health approach has yet to be widely applied to psychological assessment. The different levels will be described including purpose\, scope\, type of providers considered\, and resources necessary as well as advantages and limitations. URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychological-assessment-and-access-a-multidisciplinary-population-health-approach-hadas-pade-psyd/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T220000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20250820T175922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T150225Z UID:20000624-1778790600-1778796000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Freedom and The Loving Gaze DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Shir Shanun\, PhD \nCivitarese (2024) writes we have a need to exist in the eyes of others\, it is what makes relationships meaningful. Such loving connections and freedom in complex analytic system and the positive relationship between them are at the center of this paper. I will argue that restriction or expansion of one impacts the other. I define freedom—as an emergent component within the analytic complex system that reflects an increase in perspectives a person has and experiences; and the loving gaze—as an integral constituent of the conditions that support recognition and an indicator of movement toward or away from recognition and connection. The use of Giuseppe Civitarese’s model of Post Bionian Field Theory (BFT) and Daniel Goldin’s Storying\, supports the emergence of both loving gaze and freedom including more freedom to address the socio-political and transform our experience into a loving gaze experience. \nIn this paper a clinical example will demonstrate a moment of restricted freedom in the context of socio-political impingement. We will explore its transformation into a loving gaze experience using BFT and storying techniques. It will exemplify how when our loving gaze is restricted toward the other and toward ourselves\, our freedom is restricted. Whereas we might feel a more intimate connection when we experience more freedom in our relatedness. \nCE URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-freedom-and-the-loving-gaze/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T220000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260501T155307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T160311Z UID:20000812-1778529600-1778536800@apsa.org SUMMARY:58th Anniversary Freud Lecture: The Innate Capacity for Representing Subjective Experience: The Infant’s Mind is Neither Primitive nor Pre-representational DESCRIPTION:Anne Erreich\, PhD\, cites the prominence of theories which locate serious adult psychopathology in the pre-verbal infant’s inability to formulate or represent traumatic experience in her paper presentation. The work of two such authors\, H. Levine and D.B. Stern\, is briefly considered. The frame of reference for this investigation is that clinical and academic research findings are highly relevant to psychoanalytic theorizing. It is argued that when such findings are considered\, a view of the infant with “primordial and unrepresented” states of mind has little evidence to support it. In fact\, research findings summarized herein point to an opposite view: that of the “competent infant\,” one with highly accurate perceptual discrimination capacities and an innate ability to register and represent subjective experience in both procedural and declarative memory\, even pre-natally. Given the infant’s competencies it seems implausible to hold that representational deficits are at the heart of serious adult psychopathology\, which is instead seen to be the result of defensive maneuvers against unknowable and unspeakable truth rather than the absence of a pre-verbal representational capacity. Current research findings seem to pose a significant challenge for psychoanalytic theories which espouse so-called “primitive mental states\,” “unrepresented\,” ”unformulated\,” “unsymbolized” experience or “non-conscious” states. URL:https://apsa.org/event/58th-anniversary-freud-lecture-the-innate-capacity-for-representing-subjective-experience-the-infants-mind-is-neither-primitive-nor-pre-representational/ LOCATION:In-Person: NYU Langone Health\, Science Building\, 550 1st Avenue\, New York\, NY 10016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T161500 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260413T194948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T155737Z UID:20000799-1778331600-1778343300@apsa.org SUMMARY:Saturday Salon: Dreaming the Unconscious Through Collage DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dr. Glenda Corstorphine\, Psy.D \nThis course will focus on the idea that we can access our unconscious thoughts and images through art\, specifically collage. There will be an introduction to “dreaming while awake” referencing both Bion and Thomas Ogden’s thoughts. Participants will be invited to create a collage that represents work with a patient. There will be time to make more than one collage\, as well as time to process what we create with the group. Art materials will be provided. URL:https://apsa.org/event/saturday-salon-dreaming-the-unconscious-through-collage/ LOCATION:NPI: 17821 E 17th Street\, Suite 260 Tustin\, CA 92780 ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T120000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260402T183020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T185751Z UID:20000793-1778322600-1778328000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Dislocated Presences: Technology\, the Psyche\, and the Meaning of Virtual Space DESCRIPTION:In-person (at the Austen Riggs Center) and virtual attendance options. \nFeaturing:\nBen Kafka\, PhD\nLeora Trub\, PhD\nChristian Thorne\, PhD\nHannah Schmitt\, PsyD (Moderator) \nThe final roundtable examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence. What becomes of presence\, intimacy\, and therapeutic containment in virtual space? Panelists will consider how teletherapy\, online rituals\, and screen-mediated relationships challenge and extend traditional psychoanalytic concepts\, including transitional space\, the container-contained\, and the skin ego. \nThis session offers a space for reflection on disembodiment\, connection\, and the symbolic potential of virtual environments—inviting new ways of thinking about psychic life in the digital age. \nThis roundtable is also part of “Rooted & Displaced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Meaning of Place. An International Roundtable Series”\, a collaboration between the Sigmund Freud Museum\, the Freud Foundation US and the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center. URL:https://apsa.org/event/dislocated-presences-technology-the-psyche-and-the-meaning-of-virtual-space/ LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Austen Riggs Center\, Stockbridge\, MA and Virtual)\, Stockbridge\, MA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T163000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260413T194948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T155502Z UID:20000801-1777723200-1777739400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Laplanche Part II - Special Topics DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Levin Psy.D. \nThis conference will continue exploring aspects of Laplanche’s work that we did not have time to cover during the February presentation. It will include a case presentation to facilitate further clinical discussion and learning. \nTopics covered will include: \n• Laplanche’s view of the metapsychology of psychotic and dissociative disturbances \n• Laplanche’s view of loss\, mourning\, and human temporality \n• Laplanche’s theory of gender \n• A closer look at Laplanche’s view of the psychoanalytic clinical method\, process\, and aims of treatment \n• Laplanche’s view of the relationships between psychoanalysis\, ideology\, and human freedom URL:https://apsa.org/event/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-laplanche-part-ii-special-topics/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T141500 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260327T173407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T174747Z UID:20000777-1777719600-1777731300@apsa.org SUMMARY:Conference - Clinical and Theoretical Considerations in Telehealth vs. In-person Psychoanalytic Treatments DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Arthur Niesser\, Dr. Med.\, Derek Hook\, PhD & Leora Trub\nDiscussion by: Todd Essig\, PhD\nThis conference will consider some clinical and theoretical considerations in telehealth versus in-person psychoanalytic treatments. Dr. Niesser will explore if there might be groups of patients for whom online analysis might be advantageous compared to the traditional in-person setting. The potential for a ‘safe space’ is examined\, especially in view of erotic transference and countertransference. Furthermore\, the preferred choice of setting might depend in part on the therapist’s personality. \nRather than immediately designating teletherapy (or for that matter\, in-person therapy) as the inferior form\, Dr. Hook suggests we might pause and ask: how have ‘distanced’ forms of treatment (analysis via phone\, teletherapy\, etc.) drawn our attention to certain facets of the ‘original’ form of psychoanalysis that often go unremarked upon? For example\, in Lacanian psychoanalysis with neurotic analysands\, a degree of anxiety is often considered necessary\, just as a degree of personal distance (following the imperative to work rather in the symbolic than in the imaginary). I will note the role of a type of ‘minimal uncanny’ effect in teletherapy\, highlight a few points in respect of differing forms of transference\, and consider what interpretative potentials arise from a combining the two forms of psychoanalytic work. \nAccording to Dr. Trub\, digital culture increasingly conflicts with longstanding assumptions about psychoanalytic practice. This tension was sharply amplified by the abrupt\, unprepared shift to telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contemporary clinical practices suggest that certain traditional analytic ideals may have exceeded their explanatory and regulatory usefulness. As a result\, these ideals may no longer function reliably as markers of deviations from the analytic frame or as guides for reestablishing idealized technique under digitally-mediated conditions. This presentation argues for a new paradigm for conceptualizing the analytic ideal\, as one which is rooted in the paradoxes that exist at the heart of digital experience. \nThe Illusion of Equivalence. Telehealth requires us to act as if in-person and remote modalities are equivalent in order to function\, while knowing clinically that they are not. The paradox lies in sustaining continuity of care without collapsing meaningful differences in embodiment\, proximity\, and shared space. \nHolding at a Distance: Maintaining Presence in Absence. Telehealth asks the therapist to provide holding and presence in the absence of shared physical space\, requiring presence to be actively produced rather than passively given. What is usually sustained by co-location must now be symbolically\, relationally\, and technologically assembled. \nHealing without Resolution. In a fractured and technologically mediated world\, psychotherapy cannot promise wholeness without acknowledging brokenness—including its own. Telehealth becomes therapeutic not by resolving contradiction\, but by modeling how psychic life can be held together in the presence of inconsistency\, loss\, and limits. URL:https://apsa.org/event/conference-clinical-and-theoretical-considerations-in-telehealth-vs-in-person-psychoanalytic-treatments/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T143000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20251024T182527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T155935Z UID:20000680-1777640400-1777645800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Alumni Roundtable - Working with Shame DESCRIPTION:Working with the Unspeakable: Shame\, Self-hatred\, and Relational Repair\nPresenter: Cynthia Mulder\, LCSW-S URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-roundtable-3/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T180000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260402T182959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T185152Z UID:20000781-1777132800-1777140000@apsa.org SUMMARY:On Trauma DESCRIPTION:In their presentation\, “On Trauma\,” Drs. Betsy Brett and Sid Phillips will explore how Freud tried to understand where emotional and psychological problems come from. From early on\, he asked whether people’s symptoms grow mainly out of painful life experiences (trauma) or out of inner conflicts and instinctual wishes (drives)\, and he described these questions using ideas about how mental energy is organized in conscious and unconscious life. Over the years he repeatedly revised how he thought these inner processes work and how they relate to the causes of suffering. This presentation will focus on why those debates still matter in the consulting room today—especially whether problems rooted in trauma differ in important ways from those rooted in inner conflict\, and whether each may call for a different therapeutic approach. Rich\, detailed clinical examples will illustrate these ideas and show how they play out in therapeutic encounters URL:https://apsa.org/event/on-trauma/ LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person: 255 Bradley St\, New Haven\, CT & Virtual\, New Haven\, CT\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Western New England Psychoanalytic Society":MAILTO:arodems@wneps.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T140000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260413T194952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T194952Z UID:20000806-1777125600-1777125600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival Session 2: - Speak Sunlight (La Voz Del Sol) (2023) – Noreen Honeycutt\, PhD with Director Carol Polakoff DESCRIPTION:The Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival\nMovie: Speak Sunlight (La Voz Del Sol) (2023)\nPresented by: Noreen Honeycutt\, PhD with Director Carol Polakoff\nDate: April 25\, 2026\nTime: 2:00pm – 5:00pm\nDoors Open at 1:30pm\n3CME/CE \nWhere: Baltimore Museum of the Arts\n10 Art Museum Drive\, Baltimore\, MD 21218 \nPresentation Description:\n Set in 1965\, teenage Alan travels from Paris to Spain with his beloved nanny\, Maruja\, and her husband\, Manolo\, who have emotionally raised him. We follow the three on their memorable summer voyage to seek resolution\, to untangle lies\, and to search for identity while there is still time. Themes of separation and loss\, rupture and reconciliation\, truths and secrets unfold in this powerful true story of complicated love. The film is based on the memoir of the same name by author Alan Jolis. \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_leon_levin_film_2026 \nProgram Flyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/Leon%20Levin%20flyer%2025-26%28Brit%29.pdf \nRegistration Deadline: April 22nd by 4:30pm URL:https://apsa.org/event/leon-levin-psychoanalytic-film-festival-session-2-speak-sunlight-la-voz-del-sol-2023-noreen-honeycutt-phd-with-director-carol-polakoff/ LOCATION:Baltimore Museum of the Arts 10 Art Museum Drive\, Baltimore\, MD 21218\, Baltimore\, MD\, 21218\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T150000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260402T183021Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T185411Z UID:20000795-1777122000-1777129200@apsa.org SUMMARY:When the Risk of Targeted Violence Enters the Psychotherapy Relationship DESCRIPTION:Despite the steady decrease in violent crime over the past three decades\, there has been an increase in targeted attacks toward people in public places\, ranging from schools and workplaces to open recreational areas. Motivations vary\, but often include both personal grievances and an attraction to extreme religious or political beliefs. Mental health professionals\, on rare occasion\, may find the antecedents of such thoughts\, emotions\, and behaviors in their patients. In this seminar\, Dr. Meloy will teach such pre-offense warning behaviors to clinicians in attendance. Based upon his research group’s work over the past 15 years\, and validated by numerous studies by others in North America\, Europe\, and Australia\, these proximal warning behaviors provide important benchmarks for the clinician to identify\, assess\, and manage such threats posed by their patients in their daily practice. URL:https://apsa.org/event/when-the-risk-of-targeted-violence-enters-the-psychotherapy-relationship/ 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T133000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260126T035906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T155618Z UID:20000756-1777113000-1777123800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Comics on the Couch: Psychoanalysis and Graphic Medicine DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Vera J. Camden & Valentino L. Zullo \nPsychoanalysis has from its origins been imbricated in culture\, both high and low. Sigmund Freud defined and illustrated his pivotal discoveries through explications of folklore and fairy tales as well as the works of Sophocles\, Shakespeare and other venerable texts. What is less known\, however\, is that comics is also part of psychoanalytic history and development. \nIn this presentation\, we both uncover this history and frame a place for sequential art in the future of psychoanalysis following the words of French psychoanalyst Didier Anzieu\, who wrote that “psychoanalysis has a greater need of people who think in images than of scholars\, scholiasts\, abstract or formalistic thinkers.” URL:https://apsa.org/event/comics-on-the-couch-psychoanalysis-and-graphic-medicine/ LOCATION:In-Person: Lowry Conference Center\, Denver\, CO END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T100000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260501T155306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T155306Z UID:20000811-1777111200-1777111200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Reid Meloy\, Ph.D. - When the Risk of Targeted Violence Enters the Psychotherapy Relationship DESCRIPTION:In this seminar\, Dr. Reid Meloy will teach such pre-offense warning behaviors to clinicians in attendance. Based upon his research group’s work over the past 15 years\, and validated by numerous studies by others in North America\, Europe\, and Australia\, these proximal warning behaviors provide important benchmarks for the clinician to identify\, assess\, and manage such threats posed by their patients in their daily practice. URL:https://apsa.org/event/reid-meloy-ph-d-when-the-risk-of-targeted-violence-enters-the-psychotherapy-relationship/ ORGANIZER;CN="San Diego Psychoanalytic Center":MAILTO:events@sdpsychoanalytic.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T084000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T130000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260319T174430Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T171005Z UID:20000771-1777106400-1777122000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Margaret S. Mahler Symposium on Child Development: Optimizing Early Development DESCRIPTION:Leading researchers and clinicians will present and compare the latest findings as to how to best facilitate successful early relationships and most successfully interrupt the intergenerational transmission of trauma. URL:https://apsa.org/event/margaret-s-mahler-symposium-on-child-development-optimizing-early-development/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T213000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260402T183219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T184603Z UID:20000796-1777053600-1777066200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Movie Night at the Thalia DESCRIPTION:“What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” \nDiscussant: Clark Johnsen \nJoin us for a screening of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?\, Robert Aldrich’s 1962 psychological thriller starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford as two sisters locked in a decaying mansion and in a decades-long struggle over envy\, dependency\, and humiliation. A gothic study in sibling rivalry\, regression\, and sadomasochism\, the film offers a rich clinical text for thinking about trauma\, narcissistic injury\, and the perverse bindings of love and hate across the lifespan. URL:https://apsa.org/event/movie-night-at-the-thalia/ LOCATION:Thalia Theater\, Broadway\, NY\, NY\, New York\, NY\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T135000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260126T035852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T155115Z UID:20000755-1777035000-1777038600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Race\, Fear\, and the American Way DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lisa L. Moore\, PhD\, LICSW – The deployment of racialized fear as a political strategy has a profound impact on the individuals and communities who are targeted as objects of fear. In our current climate the use of fear as a tool of racialization is an important site for practitioners to consider in their work not solely with clients who are targets\, but also when considering the work of clinical practice. \nThis presentation will consider the framework of fear and racialization as conceived in the historic work of Frantz Fanon through the work of Afro Futurists who offer language and framing for holding sites of possibility in the Black imaginary in the midst of oppressive conditions of the present. While Blackness is an origin site of this discussion of fear\, understanding the application of these concepts may be of significant utility in our current climate to individuals\, practices\, and spaces who may be targeted as objects of fear. This presentation will center the significance of understanding what fear can do to people\, while identifying the necessity of holding autonomous sites of possibility for both the client\, practitioner\, and communities in which people reside. URL:https://apsa.org/event/race-fear-and-the-american-way/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T220000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260327T174535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T174535Z UID:20000780-1776974400-1776981600@apsa.org 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) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260413T195007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T195007Z UID:20000810-1776614400-1776614400@apsa.org 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) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260413T194951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T194951Z UID:20000802-1776614400-1776614400@apsa.org 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) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T160000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260319T174429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T144841Z UID:20000769-1776520800-1776528000@apsa.org 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) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T150000 DTSTAMP:20260604T100742 CREATED:20260413T194948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T221321Z UID:20000797-1776517200-1776524400@apsa.org 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 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR