Evening Presentation – Somatic Experiencing: Enhancing Psychoanalytic Holding and Containment for Complex Trauma and Dissociation – Contending with the Flood and the Fog

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This presentation is about interweaving somatic approaches from outside of psychoanalysis into psychoanalytic treatment, especially for patients suffering from early developmental trauma and severe dissociation. Dr. Levit is a psychoanalyst […]

Boundaries and Boundary Violations in Clinical Practice

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Presenter: Glen O. Gabbard, MD Description: Glen O. Gabbard, MD will discuss the forces, both conscious and unconscious, that lead clinicians to transgress the boundaries of clinical practice. I will […]

Clinical Conference: Trauma, Psychedelics, and Psychoanalysis – Part One

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A Brief History of Psychedelic Psychoanalytic Therapy and an Introduction to Psychedelic Phenomenology presented by Jeffrey Guss, MD This talk will begin with a brief review of the history of […]

LGBTQ+ Workshop: “From Silenced Narratives to Inclusive Dialogues: Addressing Sexuality in Psychoanalysis and Empowering Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals”

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This workshop includes reflections on the presenter’s experiences as the first openly lesbian candidate at an institute of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She will share lessons learned from her leadership […]

The Musical Foundation of Being Human: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

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Instructor: Duane Dale, MD Course Description In these nine monthly seminars, we will be discussing the book, Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis, written by Adam Blum, […]

Connections & Conversation with Martha Stark: “Conflict Statements”- Leveraging the Patient’s Anxiety to Incentivize Transformation and Growth

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If deep and enduring psychodynamic change is the ultimate goal of treatment, then periodically juxtaposing seemingly contradictory “forces” (Hegel’s thesis and antithesis) will eventually jump-start the patient’s “adaptive recovery” by […]

Ruptures in the American Psyche: Containing Destructive Populism in Perilous Times

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Michael J. Diamond, PhD, FIPA In this two-hour presentation, Dr. Diamond will examine larger social and cultural factors at play during today’s perilous times. He describes destructive populism and group […]

MPSI Fall Conference: On Becoming and Being a Subject of Sexual Desire

Union Depot - Red Cap Room 214 4th St East, St. Paul, MN, United States

Dr. Lynne Harkless of the Florida Psychoanalytic Center will be presenting her paper, forthcoming publication in JAPA, which questions and retheorizes the connection between embodiment of erotic desire and embodiment […]

Clinical Conference – Trauma, Psychedelics, and Psychoanalysis – Part Two

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Ketamine and Trauma On the Couch presented by Megan Rundel, PhD In this interactive presentation, we will explore the biological and psychological effects of ketamine on mental health issues, with […]

When Psychotherapy Feels Stuck with Mary Jo Peebles, PhD

PCC CLIMB Center 1626 SE Water Ave, Portland, OR, United States

Mary Jo Peebles, PhD will present on... We have all felt stuck as therapists. This may be difficult to admit (and seldom do we tell our patients). But rest assured, […]

Film and Mind Online: Free Angela and All The Political Prisoners

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Free Angela and All the Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch, 2013) 1 hr 42 min. Contemporary psychoanalysis as a field is struggling to make sense of racism and culturally imposed trauma. […]

What’s Love Got to Do With It? Somatic Treatment Under a Psychodynamic Umbrella

UNC School of Social Work Tate-Turner-Kuralt Bldg Auditorium 325 Pittsboro St, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Presented by Presented by Boris Thomas, JD, PhD, with discussant Huey Hawkins, Jr., PhD Regardless of our approach to treatment, a foundational aspect of the work is the relationship between […]

Reflections on Practicing During the Pandemic: What Can Be Learned? What Now?

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Description: Even for those of us with prior tele-analytic experience, our sudden immersion in practicing tele-analytically during the pandemic caused a seismic shift in our ordinary way of practicing with […]

The Fascist Turn: Totalitarian Objects & Perpetrator Fragments

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Join us for a clinically rich and socially relevant discussion with renowned psychoanalyst and author, Sue Grand, PhD. Across the globe, neo-fascism is on the rise and democracy is at […]

Comparative Clinical Methods: A Training and Clinical Experience

Oregon Psychoanalytic Center 2250 NW Flanders St, Suite 312, Portland, OR, United States

Presenter: Abbot Bronstein, PhD The Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party Group started by David Tuckett and a group of European Psychoanalysts and brought to APsA and NapSac IPA institutes by […]

Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Perspectives on Racism, Discrimination and Othering

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Addressing the challenges presented by systemic racism, discrimination, and othering in our psychoanalytic and community-based organizations is a long-term, multi-generational endeavor. As part of that effort, the Council for Leadership […]

Shame, Self-Alienation and the Power of Self-Compassion

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The concept of self-alienation is inextricably linked to shame. Working with adult children of traumatizing narcissists, and with others who experience narcissistic abuse, Shaw’s way of working with these clients […]

Social Psychoanalysis and an Ethic of Repair

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This program begins with a talk on what a social psychoanalysis might look like in the clinic and draws on some earlier psychoanalysts’ concepts that have connected the social world […]

Meet the Author: Andrea Celenza, PhD

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Join Andrea Celenza, PhD, for our next Meet the Author event with Shari Thurer, Sc. D., and the online audience. We will be talking about Andrea's book, "Transference, Love, Being: […]

Windows into Psychotherapy

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Presented by Stuart Ozar, MD and Juliana Varela, MSW. For clinicians or mental health students who are curious about what it is that psychodynamic therapists actually do, we offer a […]

Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Perspectives on Racism, Discrimination and Othering

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Addressing the challenges presented by systemic racism, discrimination, and othering in our psychoanalytic and community-based organizations is a long-term, multi-generational endeavor. As part of that effort, the Council for Leadership […]

The Neurobiological Underpinnings of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy

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Dr. Solms will discuss how the emotional mind works (using Panksepp’s scheme for core human emotions) and how psychoanalysis achieves relief of mental suffering by making emotions conscious.

Film and Mind Online: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

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Directed by Kelly Freeman Craig, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (2023) is a film adaptation of the Judy Blume young-adult novel. Social, biological, and (to a much smaller […]

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Meeting

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Danielle Novack, PhD. “Meeting Again, Meeting Anew: A Child Patient Returns as an Adult”

Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Perspectives on Racism, Discrimination and Othering

Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)

Addressing the challenges presented by systemic racism, discrimination, and othering in our psychoanalytic and community-based organizations is a long-term, multi-generational endeavor. As part of that effort, the Council for Leadership […]

Psychedelics and Psychoanalysis: Myths & Possibilities

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This is a continuation of NCP's Manifest Mind Series. As psychedelic medicine moves toward wide clinical implementation, psychoanalysts are establishing a specialized set of roles and methods separate from other […]

Changing Notions of the Feminine: Challenging Psychoanalysts’ Prejudices

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Speaker: Margarita Cereijido, PhD Discussants: Kirsten Dahl, PhD & Rosemary Balsam, MD Psychoanalysis, from its beginnings, has a long history of pathologizing certain groups – women and homosexuals, to name […]

Western Regional Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Conference

Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual) +1 more

Weekend Event - October 21 & 22 Sunday, October 22 The Developmental Process: The Analysis of a Traumatized Three-Year-Old. Rex McGeHee, M.D. Training and Supervising Child, Adolescent and Adult Analyst. […]

Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Under the Skin

Our discussion of the Under the Skin screening will introduce viewers to the psychoanalytic notion of alienation from humanist (classical Freudian and relational theory) and posthumanist (contemporary French psychoanalytic) perspectives.

Linking Field Theory and Systems Psychodynamics to Enhance Leadership: Perspectives on Racism, Discrimination and Othering

Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)

Addressing the challenges presented by systemic racism, discrimination, and othering in our psychoanalytic and community-based organizations is a long-term, multi-generational endeavor. As part of that effort, the Council for Leadership […]

Meet the Author – Working with Patients Who Had a Severely Disabled Sibling

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Presented by Johanna Dobrich, LCSW-R Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis: Ability and Disability in Clinical Process explores a previously neglected area in the field of psychoanalysis, addressing undertheorized concepts […]

Psychoanalytic Takes on the Cinema: The Invitation (2015)

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Discussion of the film:  The Invitation (2015) (104 min) Director: Karyn Kusama *** Film must be viewed prior to event.*** REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 25, 2023 Discussant: Alex Smith, Psy.D. Film […]

ACP’s International Clinical Conversation Conference

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Association for Child Psychoanalysis:  Presented by Denia Barrett and Peter Bruendl Clinical work performed in isolation or within only a small group of colleagues risks a narrowing of techniques. A […]