Judith Butler’s Psychoanalysis

This course will focus on Butler’s experience and engagement with psychoanalysis, in order to explore what impact their thinking can hold for clinical practice. We will focus both on their […]

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Meeting

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Wendy Katz, PhD. Silence, Second Skin, and the Unrepresented.  Dr. Katz uses the concepts of microdialect and secondskin to to explore the patient's silence in session and how it may function on multiple levels of […]

Alumni Group – Imagining a (Social) Ethics of the Unconscious

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Presenter: Sean Fitzpatrick, PhD, LPC | We live in a liminal moment in which mental health stigma is crumbling, in great part because of increasing psychological struggle triggered by the […]

Talking About Money

Some say the love of it is the root of all evil. Others do not believe they can ever have enough. Therapists can, at times, avoid discussing it as much […]

When the Body Speaks

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Ronny Jaffe

Mixed Race Couples

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Pierre Cachia

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Meeting

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Tyia Grange Isaacson, PhD. Daring to Hope: A Couple's Journey from Trauma to Connection.  Dr. Isaacson presents her treatment of a deeply traumatized, high conflict couple that is massively overwhelmed […]

The Ethics of Divorce

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Arthur Leonoff

Community Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis has been criticized from its beginnings as a treatment that is only available to the genteel and affluent; however, at the same time, it is a treatment that, from […]

Alumni Group – Bringing Psychotherapy Back to Life

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Presenter: Jon G. Allen, PhD | This presentation will include discussion of the developmental trajectory of relationships informed by attachment theory and research; empirical findings from a study of the […]

Creativity & Early Loss

Speaker: Chester Smith, MEd, LPC. Loss and trauma in general have long been understood to play a role in the creative process for many famous artists. Using the early histories […]

High Conflict Divorce

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Kate Scharff & David Scharff

Writing and Psychoanalysis

Speakers: Harold Braswell, PhD & Nikki Karalekas, PhD. This course will explore the relationship between writing and psychoanalysis through a group workshop process. We will begin by holding two courses […]

WPS David Black Memorial Lecture 2025

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Daniel Shaw, LCSW. Understanding Traumatizing Narcissism and Its Clinical Utility.  Mr. Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally and as it […]

Alumni Group – What is Effective in Psychoanalytic Treatments?

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Presenter: M. Sagman Kayatekin, MD | Psychoanalytic discipline is in the process of broadening its theory, practitioners and applications. We welcome contributions from different psychoanalytic approaches and related disciplines in […]