Interpersonal Trauma and the Developmental Roots of Personality Disorders

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Dr. Clara Mucci presents the three levels of interpersonal traumatizations with all the consequences at the level of attachment styles, interpersonal neurobiology, and affect regulation and personability dynamics up to […]

Oedipus and Anti-Oedipus: On the Circularity of a Myth

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Led by Prof. Dr. med. Lutz Goetzmann. In this presentation, I will present?theoretically?the three stages of the Oedipus complex according to Freud and Lacan. A clinical discussion will follow this. […]

Mahler Symposium: It’s Not All About You: How Cultures Influence Toddlerhood

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How infants and toddlers separate and individuate from their families has been formally studied largely from a Euro-American viewpoint. Separation-individuation occurs simultaneously, and intertwined with, the development of attachment patterns, […]

The Spring Symposium 2025

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Adjusting the Distance. Michael Feldman MB, BS,FRC,Psych; Kay Long PHD; Elizabeth Wilson MD

WPS David Black Memorial Lecture 2025

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Daniel Shaw, LCSW. Understanding Traumatizing Narcissism and Its Clinical Utility.  Mr. Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally and as it […]

Psychoanalytic Techniques for Patients with Somatic Diseases

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This conference will explore the dynamic between psyche and soma, using the theoretical frame of the Paris Psychosomatic School to enhance skills. Both adult and child clinical cases of patients […]

Alumni Group – What is Effective in Psychoanalytic Treatments?

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Presenter: M. Sagman Kayatekin, MD | Psychoanalytic discipline is in the process of broadening its theory, practitioners and applications. We welcome contributions from different psychoanalytic approaches and related disciplines in […]

Meet the Author: Fred Busch, PhD

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Join Fred Busch PhD, for our next Meet the Author event with Dan Jacobs, MD, and the online audience.

Understanding and Treating Disordered Eating Through A Psychoanalytic Lens

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This event will be presented by Dr. Jennifer Hanlin: Attendees will explore Philip Bromberg’s paper, Treating Patients with Symptoms—and Symptoms with Patience: Reflections on Shame, Dissociation, and Eating Disorders. Bromberg’s […]

Poetry and Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique

Led by Salman Akhtar, MD. This presentation will open by discussing what poetry is in actuality. What are its components? From where does it originate? How does it exert a […]

Major Issues in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Technique

Led by Salman Akhtar, MD. While retaining the 'trio of guideposts' ( Pine, 1997) constituted by anonymity, abstinence, and neutrality, contemporary psychoanalysis has witnessed many changes in its theoretical base […]