BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//American Psychoanalytic Association - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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:20260523T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T220000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 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:20260709T012035 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/ LOCATION:MA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T230000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 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:20260709T012035 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:20260709T012035 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:20260709T012035 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:20260709T012035 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:20260709T012035 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:20260709T012035 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:20260709T012035 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:20260709T012035 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:20260709T012035 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:20260709T012035 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:20260710T135000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260514T210435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T191948Z UID:20000820-1783687800-1783691400@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:20260710T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T193000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260706T191705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T192636Z UID:20000827-1783706400-1783711800@apsa.org SUMMARY:IPA COWAP NA and APSA COSWAG Film Series: Discussions on Gender COWAP North America Presents: Discussion of the film “Marie Langer: Desire and Revolution” (2025) by Marcelo Haber co-produced by Horacio Legras and Belen de Martino DESCRIPTION:Discussants: Virginia Ungar\, Marcelo Haber\, Horacio Legras\, and Belen de Martino \nModerator: Margarita Cereijido\, PhD \nFriday\, July 10\, 2026\n6:00 pm – 7:30 pm ET\nVia Zoom\nNOTE: a link to view the film will be sent out 2 weeks prior to the event. \nNo CME/CE\nDiscussion of the film: Marie Langer: Desire and Revolution (2025) \nA gender-focused discussion of Marcelo Haber’s film on Marie Langer\, with the participation of Virginia Ungar and the filmmaker. \nDrawing on Langer’s autobiography From Vienna to Managua\, the film interweaves fiction and documentary to trace a life shaped by war\, exile\, and political upheaval. From her training in interwar Europe to her foundational role in Argentine psychoanalysis and later work in Mexico\, Langer reimagined psychoanalysis as deeply embedded in social and political life. \nA committed feminist\, she challenged traditional psychoanalytic views of femininity and\, in 1951\, published Motherhood and Sexuality\, a pioneering work on the psychodynamics of femininity. Her break from institutional psychoanalysis foregrounds tensions between neutrality and ethical responsibility\, while her turn toward community mental health reflects her enduring commitment to bringing psychoanalysis beyond the consulting room and into collective life. \nThe film invites reflection on the analyst’s role in times of crisis\, positioning psychoanalysis as both a clinical practice and a transformative presence within communities. \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_cowap_ipa_film_7-10-26#!/ \nFlyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/7-10-26%20COWAP%20Film%20Series-%20Discussions%20on%20Gender.pdf URL:https://apsa.org/event/ipa-cowap-na-and-apsa-coswag-film-series-discussions-on-gender-cowap-north-america-presents-discussion-of-the-film-marie-langer-desire-and-revolution-2025-by-marcelo-haber-co-pr/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260711T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260711T133000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260706T191704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T193022Z UID:20000824-1783771200-1783776600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Nomen est Omen: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Names DESCRIPTION:Mikita Brottman\, PhD\, will present on her paper\, “Nomen Est Omen: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Names.” She will discuss how personal names and naming are shaped by unconscious dynamics\, implicit associations\, cultural influences\, and relationships to parents. URL:https://apsa.org/event/nomen-est-omen-a-psychoanalytic-exploration-of-names/ LOCATION:Hybrid (Zoom or In-Person New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T143000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260706T191704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T193224Z UID:20000823-1784291400-1784298600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Supervision DESCRIPTION:Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This series of 4 classes introduces an approach to supervision that emphasizes developing supervisory alliance\, parallel process\, working with countertransference\, and the supervisor-supervisee dynamic. Both didactic and experiential learning will be equally emphasized. This class is designed for those who supervise graduate students\, interns\, postdocs\, and associates at multiple levels of training in academic\, community\, and private practice settings. URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-supervision/ LOCATION:Virtual ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T135000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 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:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260402T183020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T193931Z 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:20260725T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260725T190000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260706T191704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T193538Z UID:20000825-1785000600-1785006000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Film Series Mommie Dearest: Joan’s Wire Hangers: Reconciling that Recollection is the Best Fake We Have on Hand DESCRIPTION:Through the lenses of psychoanalysis\, memory\, and cultural reinvention\, Laura McMaster\, LMFT\, will explore Joan Crawford\, the contested narratives surrounding her life\, and the film’s unexpected second life in drag culture. Drawing on Freud’s ideas about memory and recollection\, this discussion examines how stories are retold\, reimagined\, and transformed over time. URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-series-mommie-dearest-joans-wire-hangers-reconciling-that-recollection-is-the-best-fake-we-have-on-hand/ LOCATION:Hybrid (Zoom or In-Person New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T135000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260413T194952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T194122Z UID:20000803-1786107000-1786110600@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:20260815T123000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260514T210426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T194820Z UID:20000818-1786784400-1786797000@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/ LOCATION:Austen Riggs Center\, Stockbridge\, MA\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260413T195007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T195026Z 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/ LOCATION:MA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T160000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260413T195007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T194930Z 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/ LOCATION:MA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260904T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260904T135000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260413T194952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T195245Z UID:20000804-1788526200-1788529800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Out of Sight\, Still in Mind: Intersession Processes and Suicidal Ideation in Psychodynamic Treatment DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series \nSpeaker: Mareike Ernst\, PhD \nThis presentation introduces the concept of intersession processes—patients’ thoughts\, feelings\, fantasies\, and internalized experiences of therapy and therapist between sessions—and examines their relevance from a contemporary psychodynamic perspective. Drawing on psychodynamic theory and empirical research\, the talk will discuss how intersession processes may illuminate clinically meaningful fluctuations in suicidal ideation\, including both protective and risk-related dynamics in outpatient treatment. Particular attention will be given to recent findings showing how both between-person and within-person variation in intersession experience can deepen our understanding of suicidal processes beyond symptom severity alone. It will further consider how the study of intersession life may open new avenues for clinically sensitive routine monitoring\, smartphone-based assessment\, and personalized interventions\, while also inviting a critical discussion of the conceptual and methodological limitations of integrating intersession-focused assessment into care. URL:https://apsa.org/event/out-of-sight-still-in-mind-intersession-processes-and-suicidal-ideation-in-psychodynamic-treatment/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T161500 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260706T191710Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T195543Z UID:20000828-1789822800-1789834500@apsa.org SUMMARY:The Unconscious Conflicts of Postpartum Depression DESCRIPTION:This course defines postpartum depression (PPD) and explores it through the lens of psychoanalytic framework. The course will examine the role of ego regression in PPD\, as well as specific triad of unconscious conflicts: dependency\, anger\, and maternal identification. URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-unconscious-conflicts-of-postpartum-depression/ LOCATION:In-person: Newport Psychoanalytic Institute\, 17821 17th St #260\, Tustin\, CA 92780\, Tustin\, CA\, 92780\, United States ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261001T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261001T163000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260413T194952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T195821Z UID:20000805-1790872200-1790872200@apsa.org SUMMARY:WBCP Application Portal Now Open Observational Studies In-Person Program DESCRIPTION:A Two-Year In-Person Training Based on the Esther Bick Infant Observation Model. \nWho Should Apply: The Observational Studies In-Person Program is open to mental health professionals\, trainees\, educators\, researchers\, and others with a serious interest in psychoanalytic thought and observation. No prior psychoanalytic training is required. \nFormat: In-Person\nClasses will meet from October to May in the evenings from 4:30 pm to 8:35 pm. \nLocation: Washington\, DC\nDuration: Two years \nApplication Fee: $175 \n30 CME/CE \nLearn more about the Observational Studies In-Person Program: https://www.wbcp.org/observational-studies/ \nTo Apply: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/app_osp_inperson_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/wbcp-application-portal-now-open-observational-studies-in-person-program/ LOCATION:Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis\, 2120 L St\, NW\, Ste 600-4\, Washington\, DC\, 20037\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T210000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260706T191711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T200136Z UID:20000829-1790964000-1790974800@apsa.org SUMMARY:2026 Fall Conference - Hope in Hard Times: Building Community DESCRIPTION:In-person attendance: $250; limited to 50 people at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge\, MA \nVirtual/remote attendance: Free \nCE/CME available: 6 hours (pending approval) \nHope in Hard Times: Building Community is a hybrid conference designed for mental health clinicians and allied professionals seeking to think together about the ethical\, clinical\, and institutional challenges of practicing in a time marked by social fragmentation\, political instability\, and collective trauma. Drawing on psychoanalytic perspectives and interdisciplinary dialogue\, the conference explores how transgenerational trauma\, structural violence\, and bureaucratic systems shape both individual psychic life and professional roles—while also attending to sources of resistance\, responsibility\, and hope. \nThe conference opens with a framing panel on “Transgenerational Trauma\, Resistance\, and Radical Hope\,” featuring brief presentations by Marilyn Charles\, PhD\, ABPP; Morteza Modarres Gharavi\, PhD\, LP\, PsyA; and Bindu Methikalam\, PhD. This session situates contemporary clinical and institutional dilemmas within broader historical\, cultural\, and political contexts\, establishing a shared foundation for the conference. \nSubsequent sessions invite participants to engage with two central questions: how clinicians and institutions can remain ethically grounded in the face of dehumanizing bureaucratic pressures\, and how professionals can speak and listen across differences of identity\, power\, vulnerability\, and role. Throughout the conference\, brief didactic presentations are paired with facilitated large-group discussions to support reflection\, dialogue\, and application to clinical and professional practice. \nThe conference concludes by turning explicitly toward action and connection\, examining how psychoanalytic ideas and values can inform social engagement in clinical\, educational\, and civic arenas. Participants will be invited to identify shared concerns and areas of interest and to make collegial connections intended to support ongoing work beyond the conference itself. Rather than managing ongoing groups\, the conference serves as a clearing-house for connection\, emphasizing community-building\, professional resilience\, and ethical responsibility in difficult times. \nConference Organizers \nMarilyn Charles\, PhD\, ABPP\nVivian Chan\, DO\, MS\nPresenters \nBindu Methikalam\, PhD\nMorteza Modares Gharavi PhD\, LP\, PsyA\nMichael O’Loughlin\, PhD\nKritika Dwivedi\, PsyD\n Cynthia Chalker MSS\, LCSW\nCarrie Attikune\, PsyD\nCheryll Rothery\, PsyD\, ABPP\nDennis Debiak\, PsyD\nHada Soria Escalante\nAbby Kuchin URL:https://apsa.org/event/2026-fall-conference-hope-in-hard-times-building-community/ 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:20261024T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T193000 DTSTAMP:20260709T012035 CREATED:20260706T191705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T200959Z UID:20000826-1792843200-1792870200@apsa.org SUMMARY:NPI Fall Conference: Understanding Traumatic Narcissism Theory and Its Clinical Utility DESCRIPTION:Beginning in 1996 with the essay “Traumatic Abuse in Cults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective\,” up to the release in 2026 of his latest book\, Traumatic Narcissism Theory: A Contemporary Introduction\, Daniel Shaw has studied the psychology of the individual he terms the “traumatizing narcissist\,” and the specific ways that they seduce and then subjugate others. The Traumatic Narcissism Theory summarizes Shaw’s work of the last thirty years\, providing accessible\, practical information and tools in support of both psychotherapists and their clients working toward healing from the traumatizing narcissist’s relational system of subjugation. URL:https://apsa.org/event/npi-fall-conference-understanding-traumatic-narcissism-theory-and-its-clinical-utility/ LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual and In-person: NPI\, 17821 E. 17th Street\, Suite 260\, Tustin\, CA 92780) ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR