What if the most important perspective in psychoanalysis is the one we rarely hear? Lay patients—those without theoretical training or professional community—constitute the majority of analysands, yet their authentic voice […]

Speaker: Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-C - The role of the father, both flesh-and-blood and symbolic, is explored in a subset of families of patients with anorexia nervosa. In […]

Led by our Emeritus Faculty, this event will feature a short documentary and discussion about the shared trauma of Katrina: how the Center came together to manage the crisis and […]

presented by Tobias Wiggins, PhD

The Gender and Sexualities Education and Development Group (sponsored by the APsA Committee on Gender and Sexuality) has initiated the First Things First series to educate ourselves and other psychoanalysts […]

Facilitated by: Erica Ehrenberg, MFA Psychoanalytic, Buddhist, and literary works indicate a vast internal expanse for which each discipline attempts to find language. However abstract the terms for describing variations […]

James Anderson, Ph.D. introduces therapists and analysts to the ways that psychobiography reveals the powerful undercurrents of countertransference, to serve as a didactic tool for early career therapists and analysts, […]

Author: Katherine Marshall Woods, PsyD | Interviewer: Ricardo Ainslie, PhD | Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens delves into the nuanced character development and narrative themes within the struggles and […]

Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center 2025 Virtual Fall Conference The Austen Riggs Center invites you to join an interdisciplinary conference, "Rebuilding Trust in Institutions: Bridging Generational Insights.” This […]

Presented by Beverly Simmons, PhD, LCSW

APsA's Candidates' Council Online Seminar: Instructor: Bonnie J. Buchele, Ph.D., ABBP, DFAGPA This seminar will focus on the relationship between fashion and the frame as it relates to the analysand, the […]

Join Dr. Lawrence Hedges, Ph.D., Psy.D., ABPP for The Unfinished Copernican Revolution: An Introduction to the Work of Jean Laplanche, a thought-provoking salon exploring how Freud’s “four insults to human […]

The conference will be divided between exploring four different psychoanalytic models and their relevance to the treatment of major primitive psychopathologies. Dr. Panajian will discuss Freud’s understanding of two principles […]

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 […]

Dr. Stark’s therapeutic approach to working through neurotic conflictedness, “Conflict Statements: Leveraging the Patient’s Anxiety to Incentivize Transformation and Growth”

This conference will feature Peter Fonagy, PhD, and Ed Tronick, PhD — distinguished researchers and scholars who have had long academic careers studying and theorizing about the clinical processes that […]

Join Dr. Holly Han and Dr. Shirley Liao for a five-week, psychoanalytically-informed group exploring the text Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation by David L Eng and Shinhee Han (2019). Together, we […]

Selma Fraiberg and colleagues’ seminal article, “Ghosts in the Nursery,” brought our attention to the infant-parent relationship and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Since the publication of the article in […]

Kathryn Zerbe, MD will discuss how hearing secrets is an often-overlooked yet critical aspect of clinical practice, necessitating that therapists understand the ethical complications and potential for powerful, unanticipated reactions […]

The Morris Eagle Psychoanalytic Research Lecture is an annual NCP Lecture in honor of the career and contributions of Morris Eagle. Introducing the Revised Standard Edition of Freud’s Psychological Works: […]

Psychoanalysis Creativity and the Arts: Session 1 of 3: “Lo creativo y lo vital” Presented by Alfredo Panceira, MD, Jani Santamaria, PhD, Ariel Liberman, PhD, and Rosa Aurora Chavez, MD, […]

DEWALD LECTURE: The New Other: A.I. What have we created, and why? (Amy Levy, PsyD) Humanity has engineered a new Other. Sometimes referred to as “alien intelligence,” AI technology has […]

Humanity has engineered a new Other. Sometimes referred to as “alien intelligence,” AI technology has the capability to think about our minds, communicate with us at conscious and unconscious levels, […]

LGBTQ+ Workshop Please join us as Sien Rivera, MD and Justin Shubert, PsyD, PhD present Monstrousness and Aliveness: Engaging Gender in Psychoanalysis Sunday, October 5, 2025 Public Session: 1:00 – […]

This paper takes up the clinical challenges of working with patients for whom the repetitive pursuit of intense, erotic relationships both expresses and conceals yearnings to be and belong. While […]

Psychoanalytic clinicians often encounter the complexities of erotic transference and countertransference, yet struggle with conceptual frameworks and language that adequately capture these intense, often ambiguous experiences. Traditional models can obscure […]

Speaker Linda Horrell, MDiv, MSW, LCSW. This course is for anyone curious about child development and for experienced psychotherapists who are interested in the psychoanalytic insights into the dreams of […]

Presented by: Elizabeth Danze, FAIA This presentation examines the concept of resilience in both architecture and human experience through the shared metaphor of the palimpsest—a form that retains traces of […]

THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (2024) written, co-produced and directed by Mohammad Rasoulof won them Special Jury Prize of 2024 Cannes Int’l Film Festival. The film centers on a […]

This hybrid conference offers clinicians and psychoanalytic practitioners an opportunity to deeply engage with how social positionality, embodiment, and therapeutic practices intersect—equipping attendees with reflection tools, case-based learning, and strategies […]

Instructor: Golzar Selbe Naghshineh, LP, CGP This seminar explores how fashion influences identity through the lens of heritage— how it's either embraced or rejected in both cultural fashion and in […]

Join us for an illuminating exploration of the hidden narratives and alternative histories that have shaped psychoanalytic practice from Los Angeles to the broader therapeutic landscape. Hannah Zeavin will open […]

Felecia Powell-Williams, Ed.D., LPC-S, RPT/S presents a case presentation with a focus on clinical material of a four-year analysis that has continued therapeutically from childhood into adulthood, and her early […]

6 Tuesdays | Oct 21 – Dec 9 | Facilitated by JoAnn Ponder, PhD We have recently witnessed brazen displays of patriarchy, oppressive behavior toward women, attempts to control their […]

Please join PCOP in welcoming Dr. Steve Axelrod from NYC to speak about some of the most recent considerations of adult psychological development in our field. CE.

Defense Mechanisms: Hierarcy, Adaptation and Change - Dr. Chris Perry

Book Editor: Klara Naszkowska, PhD | Discussant: Rosemary Balsam, MD This book discussion is dedicated to filling a hole in the history of women pioneers of psychoanalysis. Their groundbreaking contributions […]

Presenter: Todd Essig, PhD - The AI revolution is here—and by “here,” I mean right here in our consulting rooms. Interactive self-help tools are now marketed as AI psychotherapy, and […]

Nancy Kulish Ph.D Educational objectives: 1. Describe how early infantile trauma can be expressed in bodily symptoms or replayed in a person’s behavior. 2. Identify how the manifestations and symptoms […]

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’ […]

6 Mondays | Oct 27 – Dec 8 | Presented by: Erica Ehrenberg, Licensed Psychoanalyst, MFA In this course we will discuss, respond to, and write together from the work […]

Presented by: Carol Gilligan, PhD In a special presentation for HPS, renowned social psychologist and feminist Carol Gilligan, PhD will explore the roots of patriarchy and its persistence in contemporary […]

Exploring the Links: Moving from Observation to Transformative Interventions We are excited to announce our upcoming conference with Jeanne Magagna, PhD, Tavistock Centre-trained Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist London, UK […]

Model Minority and Its Discontents: Understanding the Asian American Experience This presentation offers a psychoanalytic exploration of the Asian American experience.? Asian Americans comprise 7% of the total US population; […]

In this presentation Dr. Lotterman documents the extensive overlap between the symptoms and psychology of neurotic and psychotic patients. He portrays the way the sense of self falls apart, and […]

Child Analysis

Instructor: Julie Jaffee Nagel, Ph.D., psychologist, psychoanalyst & musician The Power of Music as Heard in Peter's Psychological Development in "Peter and the Wolf" (Sergei Prokofiev, Composer) This presentation will […]

In this book discussion, we will discuss Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder (Beacon Press, 2024), authored by Alexander Kriss, PhD. The presentation will consist of a conversation between […]

Session 1 of 3 *** Film must be viewed prior to event. *** Discussion of the film “The Thing” Friday, November 14, 2025 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Via Zoom […]

Presenter: Gila Ashtor, PhD, LP - There is a type of patient who haunts psychoanalysis from the margins, never settling into existing diagnostic categories but never completely disappearing either. Variously […]