American Psychoanalytic Association

Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens
2025-12-02 20:00 - 22:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
This presentation explores how the framework of neuroqueering—a concept rooted in neurodiversity and queer theory—invites a radical reconsideration of foundational psychoanalytic concepts such as identity, subjectivity, normativity, and development. By centering lived experiences of neurodivergent and queer individuals, this talk interrogates the implicit assumptions of the analytic frame and challenges psychoanalysis to reexamine its historical investments in normative development, binary gender theory, and the medicalization of difference.
Drawing on clinical material, literary theory, and contemporary scholarship, the speaker will propose a reorientation of psychoanalytic thinking that embraces multiplicity, nonlinearity, and neurodivergent epistemologies. The discussant will offer reflections on clinical implications, including how neuroqueering perspectives may reshape our understanding of transference, diagnosis, and therapeutic goals.
This session aims to provoke rich interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of psychoanalysis, disability studies, queer theory, and contemporary clinical practice.
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Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens
2025-12-02 20:00 - 22:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Diana Moga, MD, PhD and Robert Glick, MD
This presentation explores how the framework of neuroqueering—a concept rooted in neurodiversity and queer theory—invites a radical reconsideration of foundational psychoanalytic concepts such as identity, subjectivity, normativity, and development. By centering lived experiences of neurodivergent and queer individuals, this talk interrogates the implicit assumptions of the analytic frame and challenges psychoanalysis to reexamine its historical investments in normative development, binary gender theory, and the medicalization of difference.
Drawing on clinical material, literary theory, and contemporary scholarship, the speaker will propose a reorientation of psychoanalytic thinking that embraces multiplicity, nonlinearity, and neurodivergent epistemologies. The discussant will offer reflections on clinical implications, including how neuroqueering perspectives may reshape our understanding of transference, diagnosis, and therapeutic goals.
This session aims to provoke rich interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of psychoanalysis, disability studies, queer theory, and contemporary clinical practice.

A Symbol and Sandplay Presentation: Castles in the Sand and Psyche
2025-12-04 19:00 | Virtual
Presented by: JoAnn Ponder, PhD
This special presentation will examine castles as historical structures in reality and as symbols that may appear in sandplay therapy with children or adults. Castles are magnificent structures that capture our collective imagination. My own fascination with them began when I was a young child living in Darmstadt, Germany. From the third-floor balcony of my family’s apartment, I could see the ruins of Frankenstein’s Castle atop a nearby mountain. There are ruins of these medieval structures all over Europe, originally built by wealthy barons as fortified residences to defend against attack. While castles are not endemic to the U.S., their distinctive architectural features have been revered and copied. As such, there are even a few castles in Austin, Texas, the city where I currently reside. Based on the history and purpose of these structures, they have come to symbolize power, protection, refuge, wealth, and status. They also serve as metaphors for the mind, for example, its defenses and resources. Not surprisingly, castles may appear in clients’ sandplay scenes.

Sun, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy
2025-12-05 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presenter: Brin Grenyer, PhD
The Sheila Hafter Gray Memorial Lecture is underwritten by ACPEinc and honors Dr. Gray’s role in advancing the importance of psychoanalytic education.
The mechanisms of patient change have been described in detail by prominent psychoanalytic thinkers over the last 130 years. These descriptions form the basis for analytic training and are often grounded in the wisdom learnt from single case studies. Along with these papers on technique is a growing set of empirical research studies demonstrating psychoanalytic psychotherapy across multiple groups of patients is an effective treatment for mental health disorders. In parallel to these traditional therapy descriptions and outcome studies, has been another form of research: psychotherapy process research. Process-outcome studies aim to discover if patient changes observed in treatment can be understood in more detail using validated research measures applied to empirical data – usually transcripts of audio or video from therapy sessions. This talk overviews 30 years of studies from the author’s and other research groups that includes studies of transference, attachment, mastery of self-understanding and self-control, and emotional and cognitive change. Recent work will be highlighted describing changes in Erikson’s psychosocial maturity conflicts – particularly the resolution of Mistrust and Constraint and growth of Industry and Affiliation studied over 5 years of treatment for patients meeting criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder. A final reflection will be learnings from a subsample of patients who do not improve over time.

Ethics Workshop: Revisiting the Concept of the Working Alliance. Applying it to Teaching and Learning and Exploring the Ethical Considerations: A Relational Model.
2025-12-06 09:00 | Virtual
Gerald Melchode, MD
The working alliance or the therapeutic alliance is the strongest predictor for the success of psychotherapy. The presentation explores the origins of these concepts and raises the question whether the working alliance can be applied to teaching and learning. Academics educators have already begun to do this. Their findings are presented which also inform us further about the use of the concept in psychotherapy. The ethical principles of the teacher student engagement are reviewed along with strategies for repairing strains and ruptures in the relationship. A relational model is explored based on the work of the noted educator Parker Palmer. Controversies around applying this important psychodynamic concept to teaching are also taken up.

Revisiting the Concept of the Working Alliance. Applying it to Teaching and Learning and Exploring the Ethical Considerations: A Relational Model.
2025-12-06 10:00 - 13:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
The working alliance or the therapeutic alliance is the strongest predictor for the success of psychotherapy. The presentation explores the origins of these concepts and raises the question whether the working alliance can be applied to teaching and learning. Academics educators have already begun to do this. Their findings are presented which also inform us further about the use of the concept in psychotherapy. The ethical principles of the teacher student engagement are reviewed along with strategies for repairing strains and ruptures in the relationship. A relational model is explored based on the work of the noted educator Parker Palmer. Controversies around applying this important psychodynamic concept to teaching are also taken up.
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THE TRUMAN SHOW DELUSION: REVISITING THE PSYCHOANALYTIC ATTITUDE TOWARD PSYCHOSIS
2025-12-06 11:45
This talk will endeavor to address appropriate concerns while also revisiting the utility of a psychoanalytic approach toward patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic illness. We will review of the history of the seminal contributions of psychoanalytic thinkers to theories of psychosis, as well as their applications. The benefits, limitations and dangers of psychoanalytic treatments of psychosis will be addressed.

Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference: Analyst Losses: Illness and Life-Changing Events and Their Effects on Treatment
2025-12-07 13:00 - 16:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference
Please join us for a panel discussion on
Analyst Losses: Illness and Life-Changing Events and Their Effects on Treatment
Presented by: Paula L. Ellman, PhD, Marc S. Levine, MD, and Harvey J. Schwartz, MD
Moderated by: Sandra S. Lashley, PsyD
Sunday, December 7, 2025
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Presentation and Discussion Via Zoom
Presentation: This conference will address illness in the analyst and unexpected life changing events that impact treatment are not widely covered in literature. This is changing. More recent writings have brought this topic to the forefront, with greater appreciation of the complex factors that impede on the analyst and make thinking about these unexpected events difficult. Ethical issues in regard to this area abound and include issues surrounding denial, disclosure, abstinence, competence, transference and impact on the treatment. This conference will be presented by three seasoned analysts, all of whom experienced serious illness while in clinical practice. Integrating theoretical, ethical and deeply personal experiences combined with their own writings, issues surrounding disclosure, defenses, abstinence and the Transference/countertransference matrix will be explored.
Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_stacia_ethics_12-7-25#/
Full Program Flyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/Stacia%20I%20Super%20Memorial%20Ethics%20flyer%2012-7-25.pdf

Complex Cases and Treatment Planning: Does It Take a Village to Revive the Treatment?
2025-12-10 20:00 | Virtual
Presented by: Lisa Madsen, MD
This special presentation will focus on complex cases which have reached an impasse with little forward movement or even a regression on the part of the patient. What do you recommend when a patient is no longer progressing in weekly psychotherapy? What do you do when a patient needs more? Do you intensify the individual therapy, or do you reach out to the community to expand the treatment team? What intrapsychic and interpersonal factors inform your treatment recommendation in these cases? This presentation will explore these questions and more as we reflect on the decision-making process involved in treatment planning.

I.H. Cohn Lecture: What Bion Meant by "Dying"
2025-12-11 19:30 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
What is a baby trying to say when it is crying? For British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion, cries are more than a call for food or assistance. They are expressions of an all-consuming fear: of dying. Understanding this fear, and responding to it empathically was, for him, essential to the work of parenting—and analysis. But what does it mean that Bion placed dying at the beginning—not the end—of life? And how does his use of this term relate to both his early work on linking and thinking, as well as his later explorations of mysticism? This lecture will answer these question by exploring what Bion meant by “dying” and why it matters for clinicians and psychoanalytic theorists today.

Dream Interpretation and Empirical Dream Research
2025-12-12 12:30 - 14:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presented by: Christian Roesler, PhD
Dreams have been used in psychotherapy since Freud’s publication, The Interpretation of Dreams. First, the prominent dream interpretation theories of Freud and Jung are presented in comparison, as well as the resulting therapeutic approach. These concepts are then compared with the results of empirical dream research, which has developed since the discovery of REM sleep in the 1950s. An important finding here is that the central assumptions of Freudian dream theory need to be reconsidered, while many elements of Jung’s understanding of dreams are supported. The results of this research have also led to further development of the concepts of psychotherapeutic work with dreams within psychodynamic schools, which today can be formulated as a general psychodynamic model of dream work. In addition, there is now comprehensive clinical dream research in the context of various therapeutic schools. In summary, it can be said that it has now been convincingly proven that dreams have meaning, are related to problems in the dreamer’s waking life, that they deal with these problems in a targeted manner, and that the use of dreams in psychotherapy is helpful and effective. The overview of clinical dream research is rounded off with an overview of the results of the lecturer’s research program Structural Dream Analysis, in which the close connection between the client’s unconscious psychological issues, conflicts, and complexes, the course of psychotherapy, and the structure and symbolism of dreams could be demonstrated. This is illustrated by example cases with very large dream series (over 1000 dreams). It has been demonstrated here that dream series from psychotherapy follow a typical phase model and that typical motifs actually appear at the phase transitions (which can also be understood as turning points). Overall, it can be said that working with dreams in psychotherapy today enjoys broad scientific support, and that these findings can be used to derive a coherent, practice-oriented concept for working with dreams in psychotherapy.
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Film & Mind: The Big Lebowski
2025-12-12 20:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
The Coen Brothers 1998 film THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) is a post-modern fever-dream, now a classic. As a comic retelling of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, the film wiggles through multiple genres with an underlying message that narrative spins as communication is distorted by desire and expectation.
Discussants:
Seth Alt, PhD is an independent cultural theorist and interdisciplinary researcher who explores the intersections of museums, digital technology, and audience studies. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University, with a dissertation titled, “The Pervert’s Guide to the Museum.” In 2025, Seth published with Oxford University Press inside their forthcoming volume, Videogames For Mental Health. Seth has curatorial and archival experience from working for both The Autry Museum of the American West and the California Botanic Garden. He is a member and the current delegate of the California Forum of the Lacanian Field— the west coast anglophone chapter of the international school of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Paris.
Joseph Aguayo, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California in West Los Angeles. He is a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in London and holds UC LA doctorates in both Clinical Psychology and European History. He specializes in publishing in Bionian and Kleinian studies. His most recent projects are co-edited publications, including Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision, (Karnac Books, 2013).

Home, Homelessness, and Immigration
2025-12-13 11:45 | Virtual
What might contribute to our subjectively feeling at home in the world? What leads to the loss of one’s psychic sense of home which in turn results in us feeling psychically unmoored in the world? These are some of the questions we will ponder together. Focus will be on the psychic loss of home even though the structural (literal) loss of home will be addressed by looking at the impact of immigration on the sense of belonging.

Clinical Perspectives on the Psychoanalytically-Informed Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
2025-12-13 13:00 | Virtual
Using both psychoanalytic writing and a case conference format, participants will examine psychoanalytic perspectives on SUDs and deepen their understanding of the psychodynamic underpinnings of their own cases. Presented by Dr Holly Han, Psy.D., LMFT.

PANY Candidate Organized Scientific Meeting: "Meeting the Beginning Analyst's Unconscious Through Writing"
2025-12-13 14:00
Beginning and senior candidates will present vignettes from their early encounters with analytic patients, illustrating the ways our experience of writing helped us to understand ourselves as budding analysts. Discussants Jennifer Stuart, Ph.D. and Mark Moore, Ph.D. will respond, drawing from their own expertise in clinical writing and experience teaching psychoanalytic trainees.

Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy
2025-12-19 12:50 - 13:50 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presenter: Stephen E. Finn, PhD
Psychological assessment is typically viewed as something one does to diagnose psychological disorders or to plan for or evaluate an intervention. In this Grand Rounds, Dr. Finn will discuss Therapeutic Assessment, a brief intervention during which psychological testing is used collaboratively with clients to help them develop new self-narratives that are more coherent, accurate, useful, and compassionate. Dr. Finn will summarize more than 30 years of research on Therapeutic Assessment and its implication for other forms of psychological interventions. He will also discuss the core values underlying Therapeutic Assessment. He will also present a case with a video of an actual client.

American Slavery & Psychoanalytic Reflection
2026-01-07 19:30 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Spreaker: Volney Gay, PhD. We explore American slave owners who embodied the existential contradiction of American values (individual liberty) with human bondage. We focus on their struggles to defend themselves against that contradiction. We locate those struggles within the biographies of famous persons, such as President Washington, and unknown persons who claimed to be both adamantly for liberty AND yet were adamantly pro slavery. Psychoanalysis offers unique insights into those struggles and the national crime they engendered. Credits: 3.75

An Uncommon View of Common Factors in Psychotherapy
2026-01-08 20:30 - 22:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presented by: Jon Allen, PhD
Decades of research shows that factors common to various therapies contribute more to their effectiveness than the differences among them. These common factors pertain largely to the quality of the patient-therapist relationship. Prototypical are the Rogerian triad (empathy, positive regard, and genuineness) and the extensively researched therapeutic alliance. These factors are commonly understood in an instrumental fashion: establish a good relationship to facilitate the real work of the therapy (whatever that might be). Contrarily, we might view cultivating relational capacities as the essential work and optimal outcome of the therapy insofar as these capacities generalize to other relationships—current and future. This presentation illustrates with four uncommonly considered factors: attachment, mentalizing, trust, and care—and a fifth factor that is both common and unique to each therapy, the therapist.
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Introduction to Sandplay Therapy, Study Group
2026-01-09 10:30 | Virtual
This presentation is appropriate for psychotherapists of all levels, interested in learning more about sandplay technique, its underlying theory, utility, and interpretation. It is a 10-session study group and workshop on Friday mornings from January 9 to April 10, 2026. Presented by Joann Ponder, PhD.

Alumni Roundtable Discussion - Middle School Latency
2026-01-09 12:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Middle School Latency

The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century
2026-01-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presenter: Dagmar Herzog, PhD
These days, the topic of intellectual disability seems frequently to function as a conversation stopper, and yet studying its history can teach us much we need to know about the seductive appeal of fascisms both past and present. The Question of Unworthy Life resituates the hundredthousandfold Nazi coercive “eugenic” sterilizations and “euthanasia” murders of people with cognitive impairments and psychiatric diagnoses in a longer history of lethal malice toward the vulnerable that was erotically charged already since the 1890s and inseparable from the promise of libidinal pleasures that facilitated the Nazi ascent to political power. On the basis of a wealth of rare archival evidence, Dr. Dagmar Herzog revisits this grim history, exploring also the ambivalent enmeshment of those professionals in medicine, religious charity, and pedagogy principally responsible for provision of supports. But she recovers as well singularly courageous counter-voices at every step and, taking the story into the 2020s, chronicles the uneven, protracted battles to establish a revolutionary new image of the human and novel practices of education and care.

Risk in the Psychoanalytic Process: Ethics, Exposure, Eroticism
2026-01-10 10:00 | Virtual
This conference on risks involving ethics, exposure, and eroticism in the psychoanalytic process features talks by two authors and clinicians, Charles Levin, PhD and Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD, who have numerous publications on these important topics. Commentary will be offered by Elizabeth Wallace, MD, who has published papers about the immediate and long-term effects of losing an analyst due to sexual boundary violations.

Literature as Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis as Literature: A Writing Workshop
2026-01-12 12:00 | Virtual
Facilitated by: Erica Ehrenberg, Licensed Psychoanalyst, MFA
What do the great writers have to teach us about psychoanalysis, and in what ways do some of the most powerful psychoanalytic texts function as poetry? This writing workshop is predicated on the idea that creative writers have crucial contributions to make to how we conceptualize psychological experience, and that some of the great psychoanalytic texts lift off the page beyond theory and into poetry. Through writing exercises designed in response to texts like Kafka’s “The Country Doctor,” Celan’s poetry from and beyond trauma, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill,” D. W. Winnicott’s “Fear of Breakdown,” Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams, and Barbara Guest’s essay on the creative unconscious, “Invisible Architecture,” we will meet at the place where psychoanalytic thinking and poetry not only overlap, but feed on and become each other. The goal will be to generate creative work that emerges from this exploration — a seed for both creative and clinical work. We will share it in a workshop format, with discussion that mines the relationship between form and content in the works we read and in each participant’s particular voice.

2025 Fred Pine Paper Award Presentation
2026-01-13 20:00 - 21:30 | Virtual
***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.*** You must register to attend the virtual event.
The recipients of the 2025 Fred Pine Ph.D. Award for a Paper Contributing to Psychoanalytic Theory, Technique, or Development will present the work on January 13, 2026 from 8:00-9:30pm at an event to be hosted by NYPSI and co-sponsored by APsA and the NYU Postdoc program. Register for this event through NYPSI.
The winning paper, “Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious” by Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. and Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D. suggests that time and timelessness are coexistent, interrelated dimensions of experience, rather than binaries. They delineate ways that temporality infiltrates unconscious processes, including in language production, date marks, anniversary reactions, unconscious fears of death, and compromise formation. They draw on the psychoanalytic literature, contemporary chronobiological and developmental research, recent work in neuroscience as well as clinical observations.

Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, is the coauthor (with Danielle Knafo) of the book, Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World. He is a clinical consultant at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He has published articles on child development, empathy, unconscious fantasy, and sexual abuse. He is in private practice in New York City where he sees adults, teenagers and couples.

Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is Teaching Faculty, Clinical Consultant, and served for 6 years as Co-Chair of the Relational Track at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Faculty at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and the National Training Program of NIP. She maintains an office practice in NYC working with individuals and couples.

Complex Case Consultation Group When Talk Therapy Isn't Enough... or Is It?
2026-01-14 19:00 | Virtual
Presented by: Lisa Madsen, MD
This consultation group will focus on complex cases which have reached an impasse with little forward movement or even a regression on the part of the patient. We will consider systemic or environmental factors impinging on the dyad, the patient’s comorbid conditions, intrapsychic variables (i.e., personality, resources, defenses), interpersonal issues, and the clinician’s defenses, expectations, and reactions. We will explore various treatment options such as intensifying the existing treatment, discontinuing it, or utilizing ancillary treatments such as couples/family therapy, group therapy, somatic experiencing, EMDR, etc.

Film & Mind: The Fall
2026-01-16 20:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Tarsem Singh’s THE FALL (2006) explores themes of trauma, healing, storytelling as therapy, and the complex relationship between a hospitalized stuntman and a young immigrant girl in 1920s Los Angeles. The movie is an illuminating example of transference and countertransference within a dyad, and that it illustrates the interesting effect of the immutable presence of the living other in the room which leads to transformation. It also illustrates the phenomenon of “Reverie” within the shared story telling that demonstrates the useful and revealing nature of that less understood concept of reverie in analytic technique.
The film appeared on several critics’ top ten lists of the best films of 2008. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film four stars out of four and wrote, “You might want to see [it] for no other reason than because it exists. There will never be another like it.” He later named it among his top 20 films of 2008.
Gerard Sobnosky, LMFT, is a psychoanalyst and licensed marriage and family therapist in Los Angeles, CA. He is on the Admissions Committee and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Committee at the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP). He teaches in NCP’s Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program and Adult Psychoanalytic Training program, for which he was named Instructor of the Year. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association and former Vice President for North America for the International Psychoanalytic Studies Organization. He enjoys participating regularly in the Mind and Film series.
Luis Vallejo, MD is a psychiatrist whose private practice Great Oak Psychiatry is based out of Beverly Hills. Beyond managing his practice of multiple clinicians in different states, he is a post seminar psychoanalytic candidate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis with interests in broadly applying psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory to business and the arts. He has a burgeoning youtube channel called Wild Man Psychiatry and collaborates with multiple colleagues in the media industry to evolve creative dimensions of his career which are largely philanthropic in intent.

Leon Hoffman, MD
2026-01-17 11:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
“Addressing Defenses: A Core Mechanism of Change in Psychodynamic Treatments “

The I in You
2026-01-17 12:00 - 13:30 | Hybrid (In-person at New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)
Explore the pervasive narcissism of our culture and attempt to re-define the concepts of Self, Narcissism and Well-Being with Jeffry Luria, PhD

OPUS Book Launch Event: Amy Levy & Susie Orbach
2026-01-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Join us for an exciting opportunity to hear Susie Orbach in conversation with Amy Levy about Amy’s new book The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive.
This book is a meditation on a technology that manifests all the hallmarks of human relating, human needs, and human complexities in its interactions with another subject. Amy Levy’s approach applies the psychoanalytic clinical attitude, with its sensitivity to enactment, into the investigation of AI. She makes use of her encounters with AI via media, research, personal usage, and traces woven into her day-to-day relations with people to apprehend the essence of what humanity is enacting. Levy retains an inquisitive, factual stance while noting her emotional reactions, using such tension to best perceive the Other. This intelligent book is our guide to a future of unprecedented psychological complexity.

Diagnosis and its torments
2026-01-20 20:00 | Virtual
Presented by: Nancy McWilliams, PhD
Dr. McWilliams will reflect on contemporary diagnostic conventions in mental health, emphasizing the unintended negative consequences for both patients and clinicians of diagnostic practices that focus solely on symptoms and observable behaviors. She will describe alternative taxonomies intended to remedy the weaknesses of the DSM and ICD for guiding treatment, and she will mention other efforts to pursue a diagnostic sensibility that privileges inference, dimensionality, context, and meaning. She will discuss the new edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, focusing on its relevance to contemporary clinical practice.
