Phoebe Cirio, MSW, LCSW: William Styron vividly recounts the experience of his suicidal depression while suffering a breakdown in mid-life, in his small book Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. […]

Free zoom event with Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.: In this talk, I consider Ferenczi’s groundbreaking work on sexual abuse in conjunction with other projects he undertook, in which trauma, regression, and […]

Vitality is considered a manifestation of life, of being alive (Stern, 2010). While most of us have an embodied, intuitive sense of aliveness or deadness in our daily interactions and […]

Presented by Jeanine M. Vivona, PhD We tend to think of language as an abstract system that is imposed upon us from outside. Yet, as Hans Loewald knew, language is […]

Presenter: Efrain Bleiberg, MD This presentation aims to review a developmental-mentalizing-attachment formulation of narcissistic disorders, emphasizing a response to interpersonal helplessness and threats to one’s bids for attachment that is […]

Arthur Nielsen

Going Deeper Into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Details of the Diagnostic and Contracting Processes and Their Crucial Role Throughout the Therapy This live, online only, interactive two-day program with Master TFP Clinician […]

Jorge Claudio Ulnik (Buenos Aires)

Jon K. Meyer, MD

Please join us for a series of conversations  Time: Saturday mornings, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EST 7 sessions 2024: September 14, October 26, December 14 2025: January 11, February […]

Please join us for a series of conversations Time: Saturday mornings, 11:00 to 12:30 EST 7 sessions 2024: September 14, October 26, December 14 2025: January 11, February 22, March […]

Presented by Stephen Seligman, DMH, Anne Alvarez, PhD, M.A.C.P. & Christopher Bonovitz, PsyD Vitality might be considered the essence of aliveness. Louis Sander and Daniel Stern drew our attention to […]

The 2 recent explosions within the Program Committee and then within the American Psychoanalytic Association are examined, from an insider's perspective, as analysts' difficulties with listening to each other. Analysts' […]

Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy In A Thorn in the Flesh: Trauma you will learn more about theories and techniques of treating trauma and about the empirical research that supports successful treatments. […]

Ofra Eshel was invited to review and discuss Joseph Aguayo's book, Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion (Routledge, 2023). After reading the book, she decided to focus on what […]

A Scientific Meeting presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando, MDCM

A Scientific Meeting presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando, MDCM. This presentation explores the links between trauma, guilt, and the superego, and through this exploration attempts to make some additions to […]

Cinematic masterpiece Saltburn, (2023) directed by Academy Award winning Emerald Ferrell, is a fascinating study in perverse autonomy. Barry Keoghan stars in the psychological drama Saltburn from which he won […]

Workshop presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando, MDCM

A Scientific Meeting presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando, MDCM. In this presentation Dr. Fernando will differentiate two defenses that are important clinically but that are often confused with each other: […]

About the Event: Self-defeating behaviors are present to some degree in every psychodynamic treatment. We will explore ways in which sadomasochism manifests, particularly in the transference/countertransference arena. The developmental roots […]

Art Nielsen, MD. Asking for Things and Listening to Criticism: Two Fundamental Challenges in Intimate Relationships and Targets for Couples Therapy. Grounded in self psychology, Dr. Nielson uses everyday language to […]

In this era of increasing recognition that most individuals who enter our consulting rooms are struggling with symptoms that mark developmental impasses, we encounter bright individuals who appear to have […]

Janice Hiller

featuring Tyler Beach, MSW, LCSW

This seminar will present basic tenets of theory and practice in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, including a consideration of the differences between the two. The first half of the seminar will […]

What do you want to be when you grow up? This provocative question is the title of one chapter as well as the theme woven throughout Thomas Ogden’s book, Coming […]

Presenter: Jean Goodwin, MD., MPH | Psychoanalysis was both a help and a hindrance to me in the late twentieth century as I was beginning to explore child sexual abuse […]

The Headless Woman is a 2008 Argentine psychological thriller art film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel and starring María Onetto. After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois woman’s […]

Racial Rage, Racial Guilt: The Uses of Anger in Asian America Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Presenter: David L. Eng Live Presentation Post Hall George Washington University Mt. Vernon […]

Brett Kahr

Mark Solms, neuroscientist and psychoanalyst, has substantially altered contemporary understanding of both Consciousness and Self-Experience. Solms is a clear and personable writer, but his understanding draws on science largely unfamiliar […]

Presented by Ricardo Ainslie, PhD Cities are interesting and complex psychological spaces that shape our subjective experience in ways that are both conscious and unconscious. Drawing from Bion, Winnicott, and […]

Edmund Sprunger, MSW, LCSW: Students sometimes seem to dismiss their teachers' best attempts to help them learn. They might ignore simple directions, roll their eyes, sigh, or mention that elephants […]

Jill Savege Scharff and David Scharff   CE

Dismayed by the fragmentation haunting the psychoanalytic project for more than a century, Dr. Karbelnig has proposed an overarching clinical model for psychoanalysis. The approach intends to unify practitioners using […]

A Scientific Meeting presented by Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D. A common misconception about treatments derived from psychoanalysis is that they are appropriate only for highly educated people of means. This presentation […]

A Scientific Meeting presented by Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D.

Workshop presented by Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D. Freud believed that dream work is the "royal road" to the unconscious, and he called The Interpretation of Dreams his "best and most important […]

Beginning with the question of the individual’s fitness with their family of origin, the authors describe the variables that determine the adolescent’s capacity to join peer groups. Optimally, the adolescent […]

Presented by Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD with Discussant Joseph Aguayo, PhD Terms such as vitality and authenticity are difficult to define. Moreover, they are not truly psychoanalytic concepts. However, when […]

Free zoom event with Koichi Tagashi, Ph.D., L.P.: Are you able to cure your patient? In this presentation, I like to pose this question, without defining what a “cure” might […]

Compulsions and Obsessions: A Lifespan Perspective. Greg Rizzolo, PhD. Freud's concept of the obsessional neuroses has evolved into today's obsessive-compulsive disorder with ideas from many fields helping to understand this […]

Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This salon introduces an approach integrating psychoanalytic/psychodynamic principles and processes to enhance clinical competence. Participants will learn practical […]

Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm Presenter: Sam Guzzardi, LCSW "Holding Laplanche Lightly: The Story of Two Queer Treatments" Via Zoom Presentation: As psychoanalysis seeks to find new frontiers both for clinical […]

This presentation is divided into five parts. The first part will concentrate on Eigen’s work. The following four parts will explicate each one of the relational areas in dialogue with […]