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 […]
Facilitated by: J. Christopher Fowler, PhD & Stuart Weir, PsyD A foundational premise of psychoanalysis is Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and uncovering the meaning of latent content from dreams, […]
Dr. Soni will trace the contemporary psychoanalytic concept of the “field” to its origins in the 1950 - 70s within two distinct traditions: the Interpersonal analysts of the William Alanson […]
This 5 week course, taught by Gretchen Hermes, MD, PhD, offers an exploration of memoir writing as a therapeutic tool within prison settings. Through writing exercises, guided reflection, and psychoanalytic […]
Speaker: Alicia Naveas, LPC, MEd. This course will explore foundational concepts of cultural competency within psychodynamic frameworks. Emphasizing the work of authors such as Tummala-Narra, Salman Akhtar, and Patricia Gherovici […]
Presented by: Donnel Stern, PhD In the interest of integrating the social and the individual in psychoanalysis, Dr. Stern examines the relation of Althusser’s concept of interpellation and the psychoanalytic […]
Resolving Rapprochement Challenges: The Process of Metabolizing Love-Fueling Development, Therapeutic Growth, Reparation, and Healing Presenter: William Singletary, MD
Presenter: Dionne R. Powell, MD Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture Racism, and otherness, continues to be contentious for psychoanalysts to consider as a psychic phenomenon. Unlike aggression and sexuality, racism is […]
Kerry Novick, FIPA & Jack Novick, PHD
Join us to discuss the complexity of addressing boundary issues with our presenter Ira Poll, Ph.D, Psy.D
The Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival Movie: Close (2023) Presented by: Katrin Haller, MSW Date: April 11, 2026 Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm Doors Open at 1:30pm 3.0 CME/CE Where: Baltimore […]
Facilitated by J. Christopher Fowler, PhD & Stuart Weir, PsyD A foundational premise of psychoanalysis is Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and uncovering the meaning of latent content from dreams, […]
Presented by: Kathleen Adams, PhD In Part I of this two-part special presentation, author Kathleen Adams, PhD, discusses her book Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused, High Functioning People Living […]
Written and presented by Lesley Caldwell, MA, PhD, FIPA This paper aims to extend the understanding of Donald Winnicott’s theoretical and clinical assumptions through his concern with play and playing, […]
This full-day clinical workshop will delve into the heart of Galit Atlas's work on Emotional Inheritance. Through clinical and theoretical discussions, it will introduce a psychoanalytic model for listening to […]
“Unconscious Communication Between Therapist and Patient: The Ordinary Uncanniness of Everyday Psychoanalytic Life-Back to the Future of Psychoanalysis”