Events

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: “The Maternal Death Drive” Lisa Baraitser in conversation with Katie Gentile, and Lynne Zeavin, moderator This “conversation” will focus on Lisa Baraitser’s understanding of a ‘maternal death drive’. This supplements Freud’s death drive by accounting for the temporality of repetition that retains a relation to the future […]

Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute Location: virtual Visit: https://cpi.memberclicks.net/adult-clinical-4-week-seminar This event addresses: The faculty of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute invite you to participate in an invitational seminar focused on Deepening Psychotherapy Treatment with adult cases. The goal of this training is to demonstrate, through in-depth presentation of two psychotherapy treatments, practical, psychoanalytically-informed approaches and techniques for work […]

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006) This event addresses: Woman’s powerful process of getting to know her authentic self after coming into therapy following an affair. Presenter: Jennifer Gardner, LCSW – In this talk we will aim to explore these concepts, in addition to using a case to demonstrate a woman’s […]

Florida Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: Bion (1965) noted that “… no one can ever know what happens in the analytic session, the thing-in-itself, O; we can only speak of what the analyst or patient feels happens, know what the participants say happens, or the emotional state engendered by the verbalization of analyst or patient […]

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006) This event addresses: Challenges of Emergent Adulthood Presenter: B. James Bennett, MD – In recent years there has been an increasing understanding of emergent adulthood as a distinct developmental stage from late adolescence through mid to late twenties. In this discussion, we will explore some […]

New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: Ethics/Professional Will In the event of death or disability or other unexpected circumstances that would prevent a clinician from continuing to provide services, many tasks typically need to be completed, which should be set forth in the clinician’s Professional Will. Deb Henson, attorney and LCSW, will address […]

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Working with a hard to reach patient Writing and Righting and Selling the Cow for Beans: The Case of Tad, Psychoanalysis, Self and Context. Dr. Jeffrey Stern recounts his work with Tad, a difficult to reach patient, with whom treatment stalls. Dr. Stern turns to writing to reach an […]

New Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Overview of training programs in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy . NCP offers four postgraduate training programs in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for licensed mental health professionals. Just as the landscape for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis has evolved during the past year, NCP continues to evolve through the integration of […]

Western New England Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: climate crisis and leadership Speaker: Merritt Gardiner Juliano, JD, LCSW This half-day workshop will explore Otto Scharmer’s Theory U Leadership principles of “presencing,” or operating from the future as it emerges. During this time of great disruption as evidenced by the planetary health crisis, and massive failures […]

Dallas Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: survivors of abuse Dr. Marilyn Charles and Dr. Zane Dodd, Co-leaders, expand on their understanding on enactments in working with deeply traumatized persons.

Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia This event addresses: Conscious and Unconscious Guilt, Religion, Psychoanalysis Co-Facilitators Sonja Ware, TH.M.,M.DIV. & David Sachs, MD. present THE PASTOR AND THE ANALYST: An Interactive Discussion of Conscious and Unconscious Guilt, Religion, and Psychoanalysis. Guilt is part of the emotional spectrum of human life. As a function of the superego, it […]

San Diego Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: Shame and Guilt In the aftermath of relational disruptions to giving of oneself and being received, shame inverts the passionate movement of responsibility toward and for others into an enclosed self-focused preoccupation. Through the filter of omnipotence and omniscience, shame transforms the helplessness of one’s suffering into punishment […]

Oregon Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: Ferenczi’s Secret Life Ferenczi’s mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis. Routinely attacked by conservative commentators as a boundarv vio ation and an exploitation of the patient, Rudnytsky defends Ferenczi’s experiment on both counts and argues that […]

The American Institute for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: On the aspects of Western psychoanalysis and Eastern meditative traditions Interest in blending Eastern meditative and Western psychotherapeutic traditions is burgeoning, yet we have only begun to realize what these rich traditions can teach each other. In this presentation—a combination of lecture, meditation practice, and dialogue with […]

New Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Embodiment and the Perversion of Desire Dr. Celenza presents the case of Laura, who considers her sexual desire to be perverse, to illustrate ways in which subjective positions and affective, embodied states can be defended against, split off or otherwise dissociated, reflecting a perverse intra-subjective position. A schematic […]

International Psychotherapy Institute This event addresses: the emotional significance of money and attempt to show the ways in which it impacts upon the work of psychotherapy This one hour lecture features guest presenter Salman Akhtar, MD, the keynote speaker for our April Weekend Conference. About the Presentation: This presentation will address the emotional significance of […]

New Center For Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Maternal Erotic Transferences and the Fate of Feminine Signifiers This program is designed to address clinically relevant theorizing and its clinical applications on a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives revolving around transferences, states of being and the place of love in the analytic setting. The day’s program will be […]

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Psychological Complexity in Shakespeare Richard Waugaman, MD will present excerpts from his chapter on “Psychological Complexity in Shakespeare,” to be published by Routledge in a book on psychoanalytic approaches to Shakespeare. Psychoanalysis has helped illuminate the astonishing complexity of Shakespeare, arguably the greatest creative writer in history. […]

The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists This event addresses: Gender Identity PRESENTER: SUSAN McNAMARA, MD At a time when various states are criminalizing transgender care, it is important for clinicians to be well-educated about gender identity and gender expression, as […]

Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute This event addresses: Therapeutic Action The Elusive Construct of “Therapeutic Action” is one of the major sources of frustration among psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic clinicians. The title of the presentation reflects the fact that after many decades of study and practice, it is still difficult for clinicians and researchers to adequately […]

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Gender Adrienne Harris and Abby Pariser will each give a brief discussion of the movie, followed by an open conversation with the audience. We look forward to your participation. The discussion will focus on the importance of abortion being legal and of women fighting for their rights.

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Ethics Presented by Nancy McWilliams, PhD Beginning therapists tend to go to supervisors with ethical questions at a very high frequency, and most experienced therapists know they need to seek consultation when facing ethical dilemmas. Because the literature on psychoanalytic supervision, especially in the domain of ethics, is quite […]

Western New England Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: trauma Speaker: Joseph Fernando, Mpsy, MD This paper delves further into the nature and clinical applications of the zero process, an idea I introduced in my 2009 book on defenses to designate a specific form of mental functioning that is a product of trauma. The formation of […]

Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute This event addresses: This paper presentation is designed for psychoanalytically oriented clinicians who work with children, adolescents, and adults. The focus is on understanding the sources of resistance in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapies and psychoanalysis, and

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Racism Beverly J. Stoute, MD, who is African American, and Michael Slevin, MA, MSW, who is white, will discuss the personal and historical moments that precipitated their decision as colleagues to tackle their five-year project co-editing The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter (Routledge, 2023). […]

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Study Group – Conflict: Various Psychoanalytic Perspectives From its beginning, psychoanalysis has been defined as a psychology of conflict. As such, conflict is considered ubiquitous and unavoidable, central to the formation of human character and maladaptive symptoms. Freud’s tripartite structure of id, ego, and superego, and the subsequent development […]

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Compromised Analyses: On the Failure to Productively Use Difficult Countertransference Experience Presented by Irwin Hirsch, PhD Psychoanalysts have long questioned the relative value of insight as a mutative factor in psychoanalytic treatment. Currently, most analysts believe that insight has value, but is not sufficient in and of itself to […]

International Psychotherapy Institute This event addresses: the role of the non-human shapers and regulators of personality, both as it develops and functions over the human lifespan. Keynote Speaker: Salman Akhtar, MD Psychoanalysis, including psychoanalytic psychotherapy, is a discipline devoted to studying psychic development, well-adapted and maladapted mental functioning, the unfolding of the inner world of […]

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006) This event addresses: Renewed focus on women in today’s world Presenters: Sylvia Gonzalez, MD, PLLC and Adriana Martinez Crane, LCSW – The current socio-political climate has forced a renewed focus on women in today’s world. We see women of all ages, ethnicities, socio-economic status and […]

Greater Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: How the active freedom of healthy development becomes inhibited by trauma. In this workshop, Dr. Peter Shabad will use a psychoanalytic-existential framework to describe how the active freedom of healthy development becomes inhibited by trauma and its aftermath of shame. He will describe the origins of shame […]

New Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory Winnicott’s Analytic Technique: Learning from the Patient Professor Lesley Caldwell, MA, PhD — Visiting Professor, Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London In this first presentation, Lesley Caldwell examines Winnicott’s clinical trajectory as a pediatrician, adult analyst, and child analyst from the 1930s […]

Western New England Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: COVID-19 Speaker: Paola Contreras, PsyD The presenter will describe how Ogden’s description of two forms of thinking ––dream thinking and transformative thinking–– are preceded by the Magical of the session. Drawing on her external and internal experiences amidst the unrest experienced in response to the COVID pandemic, […]

THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY This event addresses: This workshop will focus on the very complicated yet inescapable importance of the fee in clinical practice. PRESENTER: BARBARA STIMMEL, PH.D. SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2023 10 AM – 12 Noon This workshop will focus on the very complicated yet inescapable importance of the fee […]

The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis LA This event addresses: Elaborating psychoanalytic thoughts and creating community Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting, cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in […]

New Center of Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Racism Join NCP’s Film and Mind series online! A once a month psychoanalytical discussion on a topical Film! This month we analyze C’mon, C’mon (2021, 108 minutes) which is an emotionally rich film from writer-director Mike Mills starring Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Norman. One of the salient and […]

Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: Dissociative Identity Disorder This presentation, given by Ira Brenner, M.D., will focus upon the very controversial, very misunderstood, and very difficult to treat condition, currently known as D.I.D., Dissociative Identity Disorder. By reconceptualizing it as a “lower level dissociative character” in which dissociation is the central underlying defense, it […]

Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia This event addresses: This program will focus on how experiences of love and aggression affect attachment, separation-individuation and intimate relationships across the lifespan. Presenters: Wendy Olesker, PhD, Miriam Steele, PhD, Robert Waldinger, MD Discussants: Diana Diamond, PhD, Otto Kernberg, MD Moderator: Lawrence D. Blum, MD This program will focus on how […]

Symposium 2023: Love and Empathy, hosted by Mount Sinai Medical Center, will take place virtually and in person on April 22, 2023 from 8:45 am to 4:30 pm. Jonathan Lear will be the keynote speaker. Brochure: https://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Symp-2023-Brochure-FIN-9R.pdf

Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas This event addresses: Clinician boredom Presented by Steven Kuchuck, DSW, this presentation will explore traditional as well as much more contemporary thinking about the meaning of clinician boredom. Dr. Kuchuck argues that boredom can of course indicate dissociated or otherwise inaccessible patient and/or therapist affect. But there may be something […]

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Unconscious Relstionship with Psychoanalytic Theory Our Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory. *****Our David Black Memorial Lecturer***** this year, Dr. Gretchen Schmutz, uses clinical material to explore the role of the unconscious in relationship to psychoanalytic theory. She find theory allows the analyst to have experience that contain important unconscious […]

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Unconscious Relstionship with Psychoanalytic Theory Our Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory. *****Our David Black Memorial Lecturer***** this year, Dr. Gretchen Schmutz, uses clinical material to explore the role of the unconscious in relationship to psychoanalytic theory. She find theory allows the analyst to have experience that contain important unconscious […]

Presented by: Kathleen Adams, PhD Discussion by: Robert Grossmark, PhD In Part II of this two-part special presentation, author Kathleen Adams, PhD, discusses her book Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused, High Functioning People Living Outside of Time. Group and individual therapists who frequently encounter patients with characters organized around melancholy, anxiety, entitlement, and rage […]

The American Institute for Psychoanalysis (329 East 62nd Street, New York, NY 10065) This event addresses: How Feminism Sparked Psychoanalysis Rage and Creativity: How Feminism Sparked Psychoanalysis – presented by Dr. Arlene Kramer Richards

Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia This event addresses: International Scholar Forum. Dr. Leopold Nosek, Sao Paulo, Brazil, will discuss his ideas about how analysts participate in an analysis with a particular theoretical ensemble, an ethical conception, and an aesthetic development. He will explore how the analyst’s entire being is mobilized by the analytic encounter and how […]

New Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory Bion’s Analytic Technique Joseph Aguayo, PhD — Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of California; Faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis; Honorary Member, British Psychoanalytical Society For this presentation, Joseph Aguayo takes up how Bion came to his Kleinian training as a […]

Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia This event addresses: Dr. Leopold Nosek will discuss his unique interdisciplinary approach for understanding how musical language contains a syntax that can be used to think about psychoanalysis. Dr. Leopold Nosek will join us in person, on Sunday, April 30th, for an intimate program that will focus on his unique interdisciplinary […]

Steven Cooper's book, Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Collisions and Uncomfortable Countertransference in the Clinical Encounter Facilitated by Cynthia Mulder, LCSW-S and Nancy Warren, PhD Collisions and uncomfortable countertransference in the clinical process may have both conscious and unconscious contributions. The patient’s and therapist’s histories, character structure, wishes, and expectancies may clash, often fueled by external stresses […]

Association for Child Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Child Analysis The Annual Meeting is open to ACP members and includes three days of workshops, panel presentations, breakout groups, special lectures, and sessions for Candidate members. CE credits are available. Non-members are welcome to join and then register for the Annual Meeting.

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006) This event addresses: Views beyond the intrapsychic approach towards interpersonal formulations, dyadic and group aspects of human mental functioning Presenter: M Sagman Kayatekin MD – This session is targeted to help the treaters to have a multilayered, psychoanalytically informed systemic formulation of the patient, and […]