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:20260502T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T141500 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T163000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260509T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T120000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260509T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260509T161500 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260511T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T220000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260514T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T220000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260515T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T135000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260516T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T131500 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260516T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260516T153000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260522T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T130000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260523T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T220000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260528T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T090000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260528T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T230000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260530T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T120000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260530T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T180000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260602T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T213000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 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:20260605T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T135000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260402T183008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T203130Z UID:20000789-1780663800-1780667400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Matrix\, Environment\, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Hannah Zeavin\, PhD \nFrom the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond\, class\, race\, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature in pediatric psychological studies of Bad Mothers. Newly codified diagnoses of aloof “refrigerator mothers” and overstimulating “hot mothers” were inseparable from midcentury conceptions of stimulation\, mediation\, domesticity\, and race\, including Marshall McLuhan’s theory of hot and cool media\, as well as maternal absence and (over)presence\, echoes of which continue in the present in terms like “helicopter parent.” Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media\, this talk attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed\,” queer\, and neurodivergent children. The talk thus elaborates a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” URL:https://apsa.org/event/matrix-environment-atmosphere-how-mother-became-a-medium-hannah-zeavin-phd/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T130000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260501T155307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T155307Z UID:20000813-1780664400-1780664400@apsa.org SUMMARY:A Consultation Group for Therapists: Dreams on the Couch DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald\, PsyD\, MFT\, Training and Supervising Analyst. This consultation group invites therapists into an ongoing exploration of dreams as living expressions of the unconscious. Drawing from the full arc of psychoanalytic thought\, participants will bring clinical material and engage in a collaborative process of listening\, reverie\, and meaning-making. \nTogether\, we will explore how dreams emerge within the intersubjective field\, how they speak to unconscious communication\, and how they may be used clinically to deepen the relationship between the patient\, the therapist\, and the analytic relationship itself. URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-consultation-group-for-therapists-dreams-on-the-couch/ 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:20260605T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T143000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260402T183008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T205828Z UID:20000787-1780664400-1780669800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Dreams on the Couch: A Consultation Group for Therapists DESCRIPTION:This consultation group presented by Kathleen Fitzgerald\, invites therapists into an ongoing exploration of dreams as living expressions of the unconscious. Drawing from the full arc of psychoanalytic thought\, participants will bring clinical material and engage in a collaborative process of listening\, reverie\, and meaning-making. \nTogether\, we will explore how dreams emerge within the intersubjective field\, how they speak to unconscious communication\, and how they may be used clinically to deepen the relationship between the patient\, the therapist\, and the analytic relationship itself. This is a space for clinicians who wish to think deeply\, work imaginatively\, and remain in contact with the mystery and vitality of the unconscious. URL:https://apsa.org/event/dreams-on-the-couch-a-consultation-group-for-therapists/ 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:20260612T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T173000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260514T210435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T214916Z UID:20000821-1781280000-1781285400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Reading Group: A People's History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dr. Holly Han\, Psy.D.\, LMFT & Ivy Zequeira\, LMFT. This 6-week course explores psychoanalysis as a living\, political\, and decolonial practice through Daniel José Gaztambide’s A People’s History of Psychoanalysis. We’ll trace the field from Freud’s early formulations through its entanglement with race\, class\, and empire\, to contemporary liberation psychology and decolonial movements. Students will critically examine how psychoanalytic ideas have been used to both reinforce and resist oppression\, and consider what a liberatory\, community?oriented psychoanalysis can look like today. URL:https://apsa.org/event/reading-group-a-peoples-history-of-psychoanalysis-from-freud-to-liberation/ 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:20260612T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T213000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260402T183020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T213946Z UID:20000792-1781294400-1781299800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Xenophobia\, War\, and the Problem of Social Disorder - George Makari\, MD DESCRIPTION:Keynote of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group\nhosted by the Erikson Institute for Education\, Research\, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center \nSpeaker: George Makari\, MD \nIn Of Fear and Strangers\, George Makari\, MD\, considered how different psychological models – behaviorist\, cognitive\, phenomenological – accounted for xenophobia\, and in the end\, considered psychoanalytic theories of projection to most clearly define the most intractable form of this problem. With ethnonationalism and militarism on the rise around the world\, Dr. Makari wanted to explore the social conditions that fostered such projected hatred. For that\, he turned to Einstein and Freud’s 1932 exchange\, “Why War?”. In Freud’s brief letter\, he proposed a model for collectives\, in which the problem of self-defense and the risk of social disintegration were central. How\, we might ask\, does this model apply to our present? URL:https://apsa.org/event/xenophobia-war-and-the-problem-of-social-disorder-george-makari-md/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T154500 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260327T173409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T212019Z UID:20000778-1781353800-1781365500@apsa.org SUMMARY:Saturday Salon: My Analyst Has Dementia\, I Might Need a Donut DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald\, PsyD\, MFT\, Training and Supervising Analyst. \nIn this Saturday Salon\, Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald invites participants into an intimate exploration of a 10-year analytic relationship reframed through an unexpected reversal as the analyst’s mind is slowly overtaken by dementia. Through a series of vivid clinical and relational moments\, she reflects on the unfolding experience of remaining in analytic dialogue while the analyst’s capacity for coherence becomes increasingly compromised. \nThis experience both challenges and illuminates the foundations of psychoanalytic work. Together\, participants are invited to explore vulnerability\, asymmetry\, and the deeply human dimensions of analytic work. URL:https://apsa.org/event/saturday-salon-my-analyst-has-dementia-i-might-need-a-donut/ 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:20260627T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260627T190000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260514T210425Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T215227Z UID:20000815-1782581400-1782586800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Film Series Phantom Thread Maybe He’s the Most Demanding Man: Authoritarian Ambivalence and The Wounded Patriarch DESCRIPTION:Drawing from the works of Sigmund Freud\, Wilhelm Reich and Ruth Ben-Ghiat\, Jon Dimond\, PhD will use Phantom Thread as an illustration of the confounding phenomenology of The Strongman. Participants will apply psychoanalytic principles to better understand how a character structure organized around obsessiveness\, dominance\, and relentless control can also be so vulnerable\, emotionally reactive\, and prone to surrender. URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-series-phantom-thread-maybe-hes-the-most-demanding-man-authoritarian-ambivalence-and-the-wounded-patriarch/ LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person at New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T125000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260514T210435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T210436Z UID:20000820-1783687800-1783687800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Authenticity: An Ethical Core for Clinical Practice DESCRIPTION:The ethical codes for mental health professionals are guided by internationally recognized standards centered around core principles: respect for others\, competence\, integrity\, and responsibility to society. Central to these standards is our integrity as a human being\, a professional\, and a member of society\, based on principles of fairness\, justice\, and respect for difference. These codes also recognize the value of community service; ways in which our training demands a certain level of social responsibility. We are called upon to know our field well enough to make choices that have integrity\, and to engage in ongoing trainings that support our own development within a changing world. And yet\, countering these standards is the anxious insecurity that threatens to make us lose our minds rather than build them\, and to turn to rules that\, in the absence of our reflective capacity\, can become dangerously mindless. We see this\, for example\, in the turn towards using diagnoses\, not to organize our understanding\, but as reified entities that demand specific treatments that may harm more than they help. In that turn\, we lose touch with the most basic principle guiding our ethics: to do no harm. The price of objectifying persons rather than assisting them in enlarging their own subjective capacities is highlighted in this era of AI. In such an era\, we need to locate our ethics within a foundation that does not betray us – or those we work with – by masquerading behind a veneer of ‘truth’ that has no authentic\, ethical\, human core. Using clinical illustrations\, I discuss the values of authenticity and respect for difference as crucial grounding points for ethical clinical practice. URL:https://apsa.org/event/authenticity-an-ethical-core-for-clinical-practice/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T135000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260402T183009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T214418Z UID:20000790-1784292600-1784296200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Links Between Childhood Trauma\, Psychosis\, the Bayesian Predictive Processing Model of Brain Function\, Transference\, and the Mind Conceived as a Self-Organizing System - Michael D. Garrett\, MD DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Michael D. Garrett\, MD \nResearch in the last four decades has shown a strong correlation between childhood adversity (e.g.\, sexual abuse\, physical abuse\, emotional neglect) and psychosis\, which recasts chronic psychosis as a trauma-related/stress/related disorder requiring psychotherapy as well as medication. This presentation will describe how psychotic symptoms can be understood as meaningful expressions of a psychotic person’s past history and current state of mind\, manifestations of a person’s subjective world that provide invaluable guides to a person’s emotional ailments. The talk will show how transference in psychotherapy can be understood as an inevitable consequence of the Bayesian predictive processing model of brain function and how delusions and other psychological defenses emerge as a natural consequence of the neuroscientific conception of the mind as a self-organizing system. URL:https://apsa.org/event/links-between-childhood-trauma-psychosis-the-bayesian-predictive-processing-model-of-brain-function-transference-and-the-mind-conceived-as-a-self-organizing-system-michael-d-garrett-md/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T135000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260402T183020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T214639Z UID:20000791-1784897400-1784901000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Resolving Therapeutic Dilemmas in Suicidal Clients Using Principles of Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy - Robert J. Gregory\, MD DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Robert J. Gregory\, MD \nEngaging suicidal clients in treatment and recovery is intense and challenging. Clients may state: “I just want to die”\, “Nothing is going to help”\, or “If you discharge me\, I’m going to kill myself”. Therapists can sometimes feel helpless\, hopeless and trapped in the responsibility of holding their client’s life in their hands. In this presentation\, Dr. Gregory will share principles and techniques grounded in Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy theory\, research\, and extensive front-line experience to shed light on complex cases and common therapeutic dilemmas\, offering a path forward for both therapists and clients. URL:https://apsa.org/event/resolving-therapeutic-dilemmas-in-suicidal-clients-using-principles-of-dynamic-deconstructive-psychotherapy-robert-j-gregory-md-webinar-live-online/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T125000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260413T194952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T194952Z UID:20000803-1786107000-1786107000@apsa.org SUMMARY:How We Conceptualize Disability and Why it Matters Clinically DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series \nSpeaker: Rhoda Olkin\, PhD \nClients come to therapy with entrenched ideas about illness\, health\, and disability. How they conceptualize disability impacts all aspects of therapy\, including goals\, acceptable interventions\, and the therapeutic relationship. These conceptualizations\, called Models of Disability in the literature\, are one aspect of Disability Affirmative Therapy. The models are Moral\, Medical\, Social and Biopsychosocial models. Most clients have some combination of each model and its positive and negative connotations. This presentation covers the four models of disability and gives examples of how clients talk within their model\, and how that affects their responses to microaggressions. The relationship of models to mental health will be discussed. URL:https://apsa.org/event/how-we-conceptualize-disability-and-why-it-matters-clinically/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260815T090000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260514T210426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T210426Z UID:20000818-1786784400-1786784400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis in the Berkshires | DESCRIPTION:The Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center and the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine are collaborating on a morning seminar focused on Hamlet and its enduring themes of grief\, conscience\, identity\, and inhibition. The program will bring together psychoanalytic\, clinical\, and theatrical perspectives.\nMorning Seminar\n9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.\nAusten Riggs Center\, Stockbridge\, Massachusetts\nPresenters will include Kevin Coleman of Shakespeare & Company\, along with Linda Mayes\, MD; Elizabeth Tillinghast\, MD; and Beth Turner\, LICSW. We will have ample time for discussion.\nParticipants are also invited to attend the opening night performance of Hamlet that evening at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. Tickets may be purchased through Shakespeare & Company.\nPlease email us at education@austenriggs.net to let us know if you plan to attend. Partners and guests are welcome. URL:https://apsa.org/event/shakespeare-and-psychoanalysis-in-the-berkshires/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T160000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260413T195007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T195007Z UID:20000808-1788278400-1788278400@apsa.org SUMMARY:WBCP Application Portal Now Open- Psychoanalytic Training Program DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic Institute Training Program \nPrepare to practice as an Adult Psychoanalyst. Child and Adolescent training is also offered. \nWho Should Apply: Applicants to both Adult and the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Programs must be independently licensed in a mental health field. These include (but are not limited to) psychiatry\, psychology\, social work\, professional counseling\, and marriage and family counseling. There is also a Psychoanalytic Scholar Program for academicians not seeking full clinical training. \nTuesdays\, 4:00 pm – 8:15 pm\nSeptember–May\nMixed format (Zoom and in-person attendance required) \nApplication Fee: $275 \nApplication Deadline: June 1\, 2026 \nLearn more about the Psychoanalytic Institute Training Program: https://www.wbcp.org/psychoanalytic-training-program/ \nApply Now: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/institute-application-2026-2027 \nPlease note: The Institute Training Program is only offered on a full-time basis. \nApplicants should have all materials prepared prior to beginning the application\, as partial submissions are not accepted. URL:https://apsa.org/event/wbcp-application-portal-now-open-psychoanalytic-training-program/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T160000 DTSTAMP:20260604T110344 CREATED:20260413T195007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T195007Z UID:20000807-1788278400-1788278400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Application Portals Now Open-Psychoanalytic Studies Program DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic Studies Program (PSP) \nA two-year program for licensed clinicians and advanced scholars interested in psychoanalytic approaches to enrich their clinical and academic work. \nWho Should Apply: The Psychoanalytic Studies Program is open to licensed mental health professionals\, including licensed psychiatrists\, psychologists\, social workers\, and professional counselors. Academic scholars interested in psychoanalytic theory are also invited to apply. \nTuesdays\, 4:00 pm – 8:15 pm\nSeptember–May\nMixed format (Zoom and in-person attendance required) \nApplication Fee: $275 \nApplication Deadline: June 1\, 2026 \nLearn more about the Psychoanalytic Studies Program:https://www.wbcp.org/psychoanalytic-studies-program/ \nApply Now: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/psp_application_26-27#!/ \nPlease note: Applicants should have all materials prepared prior to beginning the application\, as partial submissions are not accepted. URL:https://apsa.org/event/application-portals-now-open-psychoanalytic-studies-program/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR