Join us for the Kramer-Mahler Forum for a compelling case presentation demonstrating the use of TFP-A in working with a 17-year-old patient with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
Given that we can detect in the canonical work of many psychoanalytic thinkers the philosophical influences of Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, and Heidegger this presentation explores this point of connection between […]
How do psychoanalysts work with medication? What is the significance to both patient and analyst of an analyst prescribing medication? Dr. Garza will address these topics and provide clinical examples […]
Through panel presentations and large and small group discussions, this program will address the nature of generational anxieties (parricidal, filicidal, and siblicidal) as these emerge in the varying aspects of […]
Presenter: Bruce Reis, Ph.D., FIPA, BCPsa Program Committee Chair: Marina Mirkin, MD Analysts seem spellbound by language when it comes to the word interpretation, a word so idealized and grand, […]
Presented by: Anne Alvarez, PhD, MACP We can sometimes be too preoccupied with removing defenses, which is helpful with many patients but can drain the already limited resources of those […]
These classes may be taken individually or together. When taken as a series, they thoughtfully complement one another. Participants who register for both will receive a 10% discount.
*** Film must be viewed prior to event. *** Discussion of the film “Me Before You” Friday, January 30, 2026 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Via Zoom 2016 (120 min) […]
SORRY, BABY (2025), written, directed, and starring Eva Victor, invites us into the intimate-life world of Agnes, a newly minted Liberal Arts professor. The unsavory underbelly of academic power dynamics […]
Facilitated by: Barton Jones, LCSW & Lindsey Hogan, PhD A collegial companion to Dr. Nancy McWilliams’ lecture, Diagnosis and Its Torments This seven-week, all-level study group invites clinicians to engage […]
Speaker: John Lucas, LPC. Many clinicians are hesitant to begin working with adolescents, although there is a significant need for adolescent therapists. This course will serve as a primer on […]
Presented by: Lauren Levine, PhD Discussion by: Janine de Peyer, LCSW In this presentation, Dr. Levine examines the transformative power of storytelling and witnessing in creating shared symbolic meaning and […]
Presenter: Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD - This presentation will use a decolonial lens to review current thinking in psychoanalytic case formulation that addresses a) intrapsychic functioning (Davanloo’s feeling-anxiety-defense model), b) […]
Presenter: K. Chapman Attwell, MD Dr. Attwell will introduce the class to the didactic similarities and differences between individual and group psychoanalysis as well as how they can work in […]
The APM is honored to present the second Margaret Morgan Lawrence Lecture for Social Justice This Lecture brings to the APM/Columbia community speakers who apply psychoanalytic theory or practice to […]
Speaker: Nikki Karalekas, PhD, LCSW. Love is both mysterious and a psychoanalytic term of art. Despite worrying that love was beyond the scope of scientific inquiry, Freud developed several different […]
Presented by: Clara Mucci, PhD Dr. Mucci will use neurobiology of attachment and affect regulation theory (Allan Schore), developmental psychopathology (Giovanni Liotti) and contemporary relational psychoanalysis to illustrate her own […]
Charlie and His Maps: The Developmental Vicissitudes in Achieving a Recognition of External Reality Presenter: Dr. E. Kirsten Dahl
Concrete life circumstances – trauma, early abuse, neglect, and poverty – shape a person’s path and can lead to homelessness. This presentation by Stuart Perlman, PhD, Gerard Sobnosky, LMFT, FIPA, […]
This program will introduce Jean Laplanche’s contributions to psychoanalytic theory and practice in accessible terms. Topics will include the historical context of and influences on Laplanche’s life and thought, Laplanche’s […]
Presented by Jane S. Hall, LCSW, FIPA Too many of our current theories lead the clinician away from recognizing uniqueness and individuality. This program will explore how to connect to […]
APsA's Advanced Practice in Nursing Committee Presents: Unlock Your Greatest Potential Committee Q&A Panel - How to Become a Nurse Psychoanalyst Dear Colleagues, I warmly invite you to attend a […]
We’re excited to welcome you to an engaging open house and discussion with the Chair of our Psychoanalytic Education Committee, Molly Rothenberg, PhD, about our upcoming Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program, […]
Speaker: Robert Grossmark, PhD, ABPP. Unrepresented and yet-to-be-suffered trauma and neglect announce themselves in the language of symptoms, absence and emergent enactments in the treatment field. This lecture will address […]
Presenter: Katie C. Lewis, PhD - Psychic pain – often described as unbearable, overwhelming emotional suffering – has been increasingly recognized as a core contributor to suicide risk, yet its […]
Elizabeth Colistra, PhD, explores Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen to demonstrate how fairy tales can guide the integration of heart and mind within Jungian psychoanalytic practice. Participants will learn […]
Often in a psychoanalytic treatment, money is a vehicle, unconsciously used by our patients to obscure their deepest wishes and fears. However, the analyst’s own inner world of feelings surrounding […]
Participants will have the opportunity to join a Q&A with faculty from the PANY Psychoanalytic Program.
Join us for a lively discussion with students and faculty from each of our programs who will share with you how their training at NCP has fostered personal growth, a […]
Speaker: Rudy Oldeschulte, MA, JD, MACP. This is an introductory course on the evolution of the Independent Tradition (British in origin) applied to our work with children and adolescents. This […]
Community health institutions have long resisted psychoanalytic thinking, and the siloed psychoanalytic world similarly makes little room for the experience and knowledge of those institutions and the psychic lives of […]
Presented by: Karen Hopenwasser, MD While moments of attunement with individuals manifesting dissociated self-states are often confusing, dissociative attunement can be used as a valuable tool in therapeutic process. Attunement […]
Speaker: Catherine L. Grus, PhD - New tools using artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies with applications for health care and specifically mental health care are increasingly being developed. […]
When Machines Seem to Care: Close Encounters with the Techno-Subjunctive - Presenter: Todd Essig
This year, the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia's Henri Parens Symposium will focus on resilience in the face of violence. The speakers will be Ann Masten, PhD, LP, a distinguished researcher […]
“When We Are Undone: Exploring Moments of Vulnerability, Surrender, and Creative Transformation Within the Analyst”
This paper describes the re-accessing of early trauma, longings, and subsequent repression in a 91-year-old man who enters psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The precipitant is both a loss and the infliction of […]
“Buried in the Future Which Has Not Happened” Non-linear Time, Non-logic and the Ultimate Reality of the Session Saturday, March 8, 2025 2:00 to 4:00 pm Reception following presentation 2 […]
Presenter: Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD This presentation begins with a summary of the theory of overwhelm, a way of conceptualizing working with intensity and excitation that is not about guarding the […]
A Scientific Meeting Presented by Mitchell Wilson
An Ethics Workshop Presented by Mitchell Wilson
Not theory and not advocacy, this program highlights the lived experiences of transgender and nonbinary psychoanalysts and patients, offering a clinically-relevant presentation of how psychoanalytic thinking can bring understanding when […]
This course reviews the evolution of a relational holding model that bridges the space between Winnicottian and relational thinking. I begin with a review of Winnicottian holding, the relational critique […]
A parent, sibling, psychoanalyst, and trans man share their stories from the frontlines Given the rise of political attacks on LGBTQIA+ (especially trans) persons and communities and the distress […]
Join us online for a lively discussion with students and faculty from each of our programs who will share how their training at NCP has fostered personal growth, a deeper […]
A virtual conference presented by the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center, Yale Child Study Center, and the Anna Freud Centre Mentalization—the capacity to understand one’s own and others’ […]
John Rosegrant, PhD will present on how the “talking” part of the talking cure is strange. Using clinical material with the help of an imaginary educator, an imaginary artist, and […]
In this workshop, Dr. Jennifer Kunst will provide an in-depth exploration of key concepts of psychoanalysis from the vantage point of the dynamic process of personality development. She will draw […]