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SUMMARY:Clinical Issues in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Transgender & Nonbinary Patients
DESCRIPTION: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 gender\, ideology\, and law collide inside the analytic frame.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/clinical-issues-in-the-psychoanalytic-treatment-of-transgender-nonbinary-patients/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T120000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
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SUMMARY:The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice
DESCRIPTION:An Ethics Workshop Presented by Mitchell Wilson
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-analysts-desire-the-ethical-foundation-of-clinical-practice/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: 2460 Fairmount Blvd\, Suite 312\, Cleveland Heights\, OH 44106 & Virtual)\, 2460 Fairmount Blvd Ste 312\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T200000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
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SUMMARY:Comedy and Cruelty: The Comic Mode in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:A Scientific Meeting Presented by Mitchell Wilson
URL:https://apsa.org/event/comedy-and-cruelty-the-comic-mode-in-the-age-of-trump/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: 2460 Fairmount Blvd\, Suite 312\, Cleveland Heights\, OH 44106 & Virtual)\, 2460 Fairmount Blvd Ste 312\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260313T200000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20251009T155527Z
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SUMMARY:Working Clinically with Overwhelm: The Cost and Growth-Inducing Possibilities of Undoing the Self
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Avgi Saketopoulou\, PsyD \nThis 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 self (not about emotional regulation\, not about protecting the ego from the drives) but which explores what becomes possible when one reaches the limit of what is bearable in oneself\, when one follows the exigency of the unconscious. For the clinician\, working with overwhelm is both a challenge and an art form: it requires us\, as therapists\, to make ourselves permeable to our patients in ways that make us exquisitely vulnerable and to take true risks the results of which cannot be guaranteed ahead of time. \nTo illustrate the difficulty\, but also the extraordinary possibilities of such work\, work that rends the self to allow something new to emerge\, Dr. Saketopoulou will discuss the analysis of a Jewish patient whose encounter with the Palestinian genocide raised considerable anxieties and revived questions of identity\, trauma\, and intergenerational transmission. The clinical work–and the presentation–raise questions of ethics\, of rethinking questions of intergenerational transmission and the debts it incurs\, and the relation of the political to the psychic.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/working-clinically-with-overwhelm-the-cost-and-growth-inducing-possibilities-of-undoing-the-self/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260308T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260308T160000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20260305T145517Z
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SUMMARY:2025 Holtzman Essay Prize Presentation
DESCRIPTION:“Buried in the Future Which Has Not Happened” Non-linear Time\, Non-logic and the Ultimate Reality of the Session\nSaturday\, March 8\, 2025\n2:00 to 4:00 pm\nReception following presentation\n2 CME and CE Credit Hours\nHYBRID\nMichigan Psychoanalytic Institute\n32841 Middlebelt Rd.\, Farmington Hills\nOr join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/my/michiganpsychoanalysis\nAbout the presenter: Avner Bergstein is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and faculty member of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. He has authored numerous papers elaborating on the clinical implications of the writings of Bion and Meltzer and is the author of the 2018 book Bion and Meltzer’s Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life: Beyond the Spectrum in Psychoanalysis. He is a visiting lecturer at several psychoanalytic institutes and conducts reading seminars focusing on the writings of W.R. Bion. He is also the recipient of the IPA 2021 Elizabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice Award. \nPractice Gap/Need and Course Description: Facilitating one’s ability for truthfully apprehending reality is at the heart of psychoanalytic work. And yet\, Bion’s radical contribution to psychoanalysis\, and its affinity with contemporary insights from Quantum Theory\, highlights the ungraspable complexity of reality that does not conform to what is comprehensible to the human mind. Expanding on Bion’s mode of listening extends the work of analysis beyond uncovering unconscious thoughts buried in the past\, to cultivating a psychically alive mind capable of generating novel thoughts\, oriented toward the future and the unknown. The presenter brings clear explanations of Bion’s ideas that can expand our therapeutic approaches and theoretical understandings. \nAfter attending this presentation\, participants will be able to: \n1: Discuss Bion’s idea of the inherent unknowability of the human mind and reality \n2: Apply Bion’s ideas about tolerating the unknown and ambiguity to better listen to their patients to help them become more tolerant about the unknown and oriented toward the future. \nPlease call Monica Evans at 248-851-3380 for additional information \nCONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION \nACCME Accreditation Statement \nThis activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. \nAMA Credit Designation Statement \nThe American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. \nDisclosure Statement \nThe APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore\, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification\, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support. \nCONTINUING EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL WORK \nThe Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative. \nCONTINUING EDUCATION FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS \nThe Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/2025-holtzman-essay-prize-presentation/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T160000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
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SUMMARY:Grandfathers\, Mothers\, and Sons; Three Generations Undertake Project of Reconstruction & Restoration
DESCRIPTION: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 severe psychological pain occasioned by the arrival of a grandson. \nAbout the Presenter: \nJim Herzog\, MD\, is an adult training and supervising analyst and a child and adolescent supervisory analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is also an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School\, an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Hamburg\, Germany\, and a supervisory analyst at the Sigmund Freud Institute in Zurich\, Switzerland. He is the author of numerous articles on child analysis and a very important book\, Father Hunger: Exploration with Adults and Children (2001).
URL:https://apsa.org/event/grandfathers-mothers-and-sons-three-generations-undertake-project-of-reconstruction-restoration/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-Person (NYU Langone Health – 1 Park Ave 8th Floor\, NY\, NY) & Virtual\, 1 Park Ave 8th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20251024T182542Z
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SUMMARY:Michelle Harwell\, PsyD\, MFT
DESCRIPTION:“When We Are Undone: Exploring Moments of Vulnerability\, Surrender\, and Creative Transformation Within the Analyst”
URL:https://apsa.org/event/michelle-harwell-psyd-mft/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260307T133000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20260126T035851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260225T214138Z
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SUMMARY:Resilience in Response to Violence: Children\, Adolescents\, & Adults
DESCRIPTION: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 on resilience\, and Merav Roth\, PhD\, Training Analyst and world-renowned trauma expert\, as well as one of the organizers of the psychoanalytic on-the-ground response in Israel.    \nA case presentation will be given by Salem Eid S. Al Arjani\, PhD\, a Palestinian psychoanalytic psychotherapist\, trauma researcher\, and Director of the Mental Health Program at Gaza Children’s Village\, which provides daily education\, nutritious meals\, healthcare\, and trauma-informed support to orphaned and vulnerable children through their Academies of Hope.  \nDr. Masten calls resilience “ordinary magic”\, a combination of a person’s own adaptive system and their supportive connections with others. In Dr. Masten’s research\, she has found that resilience is more common than we may think\, even in response to violence.  \nDr. Roth bears witness to the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit through her work with those who have endured profound trauma.  \nPlease note that the title of this event has changed. It was previously titled “The Henri Parens Symposium: Resilience in Response to Violence & War: Children\, Adolescents\, & Adults.”  \nThe topics and views expressed at events hosted via affiliated institutes\, centers\, and societies are solely that of the event speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-henri-parens-symposium-resilience-in-response-to-violence/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T143000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20251024T182525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T160459Z
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SUMMARY:Alumni Roundtable - When Machines Seem to Care
DESCRIPTION:When Machines Seem to Care: Close Encounters with the Techno-Subjunctive – Presenter: Todd Essig
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-roundtable/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260306T135000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20260126T035837Z
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SUMMARY:Ethical and Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in Mental Health Care
DESCRIPTION: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. While clinicians and treatment settings vary with respect to their adoption\, the rapid and pervasive development of these technologies suggests a need for all mental health care providers to have a basic understanding to navigate potential ethical pitfalls. This presentation will describe some of the more common types of technology-based tools available to mental health providers and how they are developed with a focus on how to ethically incorporate their use in clinical practice.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ethical-and-responsible-use-of-artificial-intelligence-and-emerging-technologies-in-mental-health-care/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260305T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260305T220000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20250820T175922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T170853Z
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SUMMARY:Dissociative Attunement: Rhythm and Resonance in Therapeutic Process
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Karen Hopenwasser\, MD \nWhile 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 is a synchronized awareness of implicit knowing that is nonlinear and bidirectional. It is an embodied rhythmic encounter that can be understood\, in part\, through the science of entrainment\, a natural process by which our biological and psychophysiological systems synchronize within an environment. It is not necessary to understand the complex science of rhythmic entrainment to notice and appreciate the felt sense of being in rhythm. However\, some knowledge of the neuroscience and the physics of information flow can help us listen to intuition in an informed and critical way. It takes effort to move beyond concepts of transference and countertransference so embedded in our philosophy and training as therapists. Attunement with dissociated self-states is often mistaken as countertransference and mis-attunement. When that happens\, we lose an opportunity to think differently\, to understand more about the experience of dissociated self-states and ultimately to appreciate how humans are enmeshed within the deep ecology of complex systems. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/dissociative-attunement-rhythm-and-resonance-in-therapeutic-process/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T213000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20260304T172025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260304T174426Z
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SUMMARY:Monique Losson
DESCRIPTION: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 their workers and clients. A clinician who appreciates psychoanalytic insights and understanding and wants to practice in a community setting would find it nearly impossible to integrate both in their work. \nA panel of three distinguished psychoanalysts\, involved in community settings and contending with the issues that prevail there – poverty\, homelessness\, racism\, immigration\, their effects on health\, and the economics of community mental health – will speak to what psychoanalysis and community mental health workers and institutions can learn and gain from one another for mutual their benefit. \nOur panelists will present new interventions and programs that attempt to bridge the psychoanalysis-community gulf by creatively engaging both psychoanalysts in their institutes and societies and community mental health workers in their institutions in what is becoming community psychoanalysis. The audience will be invited to imagine how they might engage in this new field in their own practice and professional lives.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/monique-losson/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T200000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20251205T142604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T052429Z
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SUMMARY:The Independent Tradition in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION: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 tradition (or approach) is developmentally appropriate to our work with younger populations\, as it moves from the more epistemological (knowing) approach\, with its emphasis on interpretation and insight\, to a more ontological framework (being and becoming). The emphasis is on the child talking through their play and the adolescent exploring who they are through discussions of music\, films\, sports\, inter alia. This results in the child and the parents beginning to understand their child’s emotional struggles and how they are to be managed. Credits: 3.0
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-independent-tradition-in-child-adolescent-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260301T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260301T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20251210T134715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T050740Z
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SUMMARY:NCP Open House 2026
DESCRIPTION: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 deeper understanding of their patients’ experiences\, and opportunities to build professional networks. \nAs you partake of refreshments with us\, you’ll also have an opportunity to meet our program directors and Dean\, learn more about our multi-year training programs\, and ask any questions you may have. \nWhether you are considering training this year or in the near future\, all are welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ncp-open-house-2026/
LOCATION:New Center for Psychoanalysis\, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T160000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20260213T145500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T145735Z
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SUMMARY:PANY Psychoanalytic Training Program Open House
DESCRIPTION:Participants will have the opportunity to join a Q&A with faculty from the PANY Psychoanalytic Program.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/pany-psychoanalytic-training-program-open-house/
LOCATION:NYU Langone Health Science Building (NYC)\, 435 East 30th St\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T160000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20260126T035837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T050549Z
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SUMMARY:The Meaning of Money in the Mind  of Analyst and Analysand
DESCRIPTION: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 money often allows such wishes and fears to be obscured. A decided upon fee\, missed payments\, missed billings\, too high a fee\, too low a fee\, all\, can become a concrete world in which the meaning of the money in a particular treatment goes unnoticed. \nThe meaning of money within the mind of the analyst can effect the analyst’s capacity to address the deeper and nuanced meaning of money in a treatment. When choosing to view money as mostly transactional\, we turn away from important aspects of our patient’s past and inner world. So\, how do we allow ourselves to earn a living\, while at the same time manage the complex symbolism of money in an analytic treatment? \nPlease join us for an open house event as Pola Eisenstein-Rosan and Milos Markovic\, both third-year candidates here at PANY\, will present clinical material with follow up discussion by PANY Faculty members Carlos Almeida\, MD\, and Stephanie Newman\, PhD\, who will discuss the meaning of how treating money only in the concrete\, may have blurred the ability to live more fully in the symbolic while also respecting money’s place in the concrete as well.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-meaning-of-money-in-the-mind-of-analyst-and-analysand/
LOCATION:In-Person: NYU Langone Health\, Science Building\, 550 1st Avenue\, New York\, NY 10016
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T133000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20260126T035837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T050104Z
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SUMMARY:Rehabilitating the Heart: A Jungian Psychoanalytic Exploration of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tale The Snow Queen by Elizabeth Colistra\, PhD
DESCRIPTION: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 how to use these archetypal narratives to transform “meaningless suffering” into a conscious process of psychological development and personality integration.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/rehabilitating-the-heart-a-jungian-psychoanalytic-exploration-of-hans-christian-andersens-fairy-tale-the-snow-queen-by-elizabeth-colistra-phd/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person at New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260227T135000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20260126T035837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T045821Z
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SUMMARY:Where the Mind Suffers: Understanding Psychic Pain and Suicidal Crisis
DESCRIPTION: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 clinical contours and empirical significance have only recently begun to be clarified. This talk will review the concept of psychic pain within the broader landscape of suicidology\, psychoanalysis\, and clinical science and highlight emerging findings that illuminate its structure\, correlates\, and role in the unfolding of suicidal crises. Across both clinical and nonclinical populations\, recent work has demonstrated that psychic pain is not a diffuse or monolithic experience but reflects distinct dimensions of affective overwhelm and perceived loss of emotional control. These facets of psychic pain show robust links with well-established suicide-related vulnerabilities\, including trauma exposure\, greater severity of psychopathology\, diminished psychological resilience\, and pathological personality traits. Together\, these associations underscore psychic pain as a meaningful marker of heightened vulnerability rather than a nonspecific emotional state. In this presentation\, the presenter will review findings from recent studies which show that psychic pain is not only associated with chronic risk but also exerts a powerful moment-to-moment influence on both affective and interpersonal experiences. Taken together\, these converging findings position psychic pain as a dynamic\, clinically actionable construct that may help identify both who is at risk and when risk is likely to emerge. Implications for assessment and intervention will be discussed\, with attention to how recognizing and targeting psychic pain may support more precise and timely suicide prevention efforts.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/where-the-mind-suffers-understanding-psychic-pain-and-suicidal-crisis/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T220000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20251024T182742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T045712Z
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SUMMARY:Fingert Lecture: The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Enactment\, Trauma\, and Time
DESCRIPTION: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 the challenges when working with patients whose trauma does not avail itself to symbolization and mentalization. In this lecture I will outline how the analyst can unobtrusively create the safe and robust space within which the fullness of the patient’s internal world and trauma can be realized and companioned such that the patient can be known in the register of illusion\, fragmentation and non-relatedness that are the signature of the residue of trauma and neglect. The emphasis is on companioning and being-with the patient in their particular idiom and register rather than seeking to bring the patient into the analyst’s reality and understanding. This unique therapeutic relationship offers the space for the instantiation of time such that trauma can be located in memory and the past. This involves the un-telling and un-doing of prior “translations”\, personality structures and relational patterns such that being and time can be re-assembled and re-integrated. Credits: 1.5
URL:https://apsa.org/event/fingert-lecture-the-unobtrusive-relational-analyst-enactment-trauma-and-time/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T210000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
CREATED:20260126T035837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T045527Z
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SUMMARY:NOBPC Psychotherapy Training Open House
DESCRIPTION: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\, launching in Fall 2026. The program offers a rich learning experience for mental health professionals eager to deepen their understanding of psychoanalytic principles and elevate their skills in conducting intensive psychotherapy. The curriculum features 26 classes each academic year\, including psychoanalytic/psychodynamic theory and clinical case presentations
URL:https://apsa.org/event/nobpc-psychotherapy-training-open-house/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260222T143000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
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SUMMARY:Unlock Your Greatest Potential: How to Become a Nurse Psychoanalyst
DESCRIPTION:APsA’s Advanced Practice in Nursing Committee Presents: \nUnlock Your Greatest Potential  \nCommittee Q&A Panel – How to Become a Nurse Psychoanalyst \nDear Colleagues\, \n\nI warmly invite you to attend a free online Q&A panel this Sunday\, February 22\, 2026\, from 1:00–2:30pm EDT\, hosted by the Advanced Practice in Nursing Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. We will discuss the path to becoming a psychoanalytic nursing clinician in a pragmatic way\, covering the ins and outs of training routes\, clinical integration\, supervision\, personal analysis\, and opportunities for involvement within APsA. \nJoin Zoom Meeting:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/89293148945\nMeeting ID: 892 9314 8945 \nWhether you are simply curious or actively considering analytic training\, you are most welcome. Please bring your questions. Feel free to share this invitation and invite a colleague or friend. The event is free and open to all. \nI hope you can join us for what promises to be a thoughtful\, practical\, and energizing conversation. \nCommittee Chair: Brooke A. Finley\, PhD\, DNP\, RN\, PMHNP-BC\, CARN-AP\, APHN-BC
URL:https://apsa.org/event/unlock-your-greatest-potential-how-to-become-a-nurse-psychoanalyst/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260221T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260221T180000
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SUMMARY:The Power Of Connection: Shift in Technique
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jane S. Hall\, LCSW\, FIPA \nToo many of our current theories lead the clinician away from recognizing uniqueness and individuality. This program will explore how to connect to the client by recognizing their unique childhoods and the way they responded to key figures. My hope is to encourage the therapist to reevaluate certain ‘received wisdom\,’ in order to incorporate what recent research is providing\, and to think creatively based on new discoveries\, always with the unique individual in mind. \nBy leveling the playing field and connecting as partners to solve mysteries\, clinicians can engage the client in sharing the work of therapy. This is a skill that requires ‘benevolent curiosity\,’ which means that criticism is not part of the work. Our patients are critical of themselves which impedes the development we aim for.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-power-of-connection-shift-in-technique/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260221T163000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
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SUMMARY:Everything you always wanted to know about Laplanche (but were afraid to ask)
DESCRIPTION: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 research method of “reading Freud (with) Freud”\, and Laplanche’s paradigmatic renovation of psychoanalytic theory\, the General Theory of Seduction\, a framework that offers a new and highly integrated account of the origins of the unconscious\, infantile sexuality\, the differentiation and organization of the internal world\, and the dynamics and aims psychoanalytic treatment. Finally\, we will explore Laplanche’s work on special psychoanalytic topics\, including mourning\, temporality\, sublimation\, and gender. \nPresented by Dr. Mike Levin\, Psy.D.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-laplanche-but-were-afraid-to-ask/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260219T223000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T003000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
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SUMMARY:Inside the Homeless Crisis: What Psychoanalysis Reveals
DESCRIPTION: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\, and Daniel Farrell\, LCSW\, aims to raise awareness of psychoanalytic and psychoanalytically informed work being done with the unhoused population. \nThe total number of Americans experiencing homelessness on a single night in 2024 was the highest ever recorded – 771\,480 (as compared to 567\,715 in 2019). In California\, that estimate was 187\,084 and in Los Angeles\, the point-in-time estimated people experiencing homelessness was 72\,308 in the county and 43\,699 in the city. \nDuring the presentation the three psychoanalysts will offer insight into the unique challenges for mental health practitioners in working with the unhoused\, and strategies for addressing those challenges. Using his poignant oil portraits and documentary film Struggle In Paradise\, Perlman will discuss his striking work interviewing and painting portraits of unhoused people in Los Angeles. Sobnosky will discuss his ongoing 5-year analysis of an unhoused man and will examine the concepts of the “unhoused mind”\, and the “Diogenes paradigm” to help understand the patient’s subjective experience and the analytic work. Farrell will discuss his work with the homeless at a clinical and organizational level\, including his current work as Chief Operations Officer at HELP USA\, which provides transitional shelter and permanent supportive housing to thousands of clients and tenants across multiple U. S. states. \nGerard Sobnosky\, LMFT\, FIPA is a psychoanalyst and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Pedro\, CA. He holds two master’s degrees in psychology and is on the faculty\, Admissions Committee\, and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Committee at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. He has presented at local\, national\, and international conferences\, and is a former member of Board of Directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association\, and former Vice President for North America for the International Psychoanalytic Studies Organization. \nStuart Perlman\, PhD is a psychoanalyst and training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis where he has been a member of the Board of Directors\, and chairs of admissions and curriculum. Dr. Perlman graduated from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute and was a faculty member. He was president of the Southern California Chapter of Division 39 of the American Psychological Association. He has published many articles in psychoanalytic journals and authored the book The Therapist’s Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma. Perlman has painted oil portraits of over 250 homeless individuals\, right where they live\, collecting their life stories\, art and music. \nDaniel Farrell\, LCSW is a psychoanalyst and Chief Operating Officer of HELP USA. Trained in psychoanalysis at the New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology\, he is an Adjunct Professor at Hunter College’s School of Social Work\, a published author of multiple papers on homelessness\, and a speaker at regional\, national\, and international conferences.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/inside-the-homeless-crisis-what-psychoanalysis-reveals/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T143000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
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SUMMARY:Alumni Roundtable Discussion - Charlie & His Maps
DESCRIPTION:Charlie and His Maps: The Developmental Vicissitudes in Achieving a Recognition of External Reality\nPresenter: Dr. E. Kirsten Dahl
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-roundtable-discussion/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
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SUMMARY:Dissociation vs. Repression A New Neuropsychoanalytic Model for Psychopathology
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Clara Mucci\, PhD\nDr. Mucci will use neurobiology of attachment and affect regulation theory (Allan Schore)\, developmental psychopathology (Giovanni Liotti) and contemporary relational psychoanalysis to illustrate her own contribution to the field through what she terms the “three levels of trauma of human origin” and what she indicates as “embodied witnessing” as a complex multi-dimentional interventional in which the mind\, the body and the brain of both subjects implied in the treatment are engaged in order to repair the destructiveness on body and mind (on self and other) created by interpersonal trauma and in particular by the internalized victim-persecutor dyad at intergenerational levels (Mucci\, 2013\, 2018\, 2022).
URL:https://apsa.org/event/dissociation-vs-repression-a-new-neuropsychoanalytic-model-for-psychopathology/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T213000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
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SUMMARY:Falling in Love (with Nikki Karalekas\, PhD\, LCSW)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nikki Karalekas\, PhD\, LCSW. \nLove is both mysterious and a psychoanalytic term of art. Despite worrying that love was beyond the scope of scientific inquiry\, Freud developed several different theories of love. Perhaps most famously\, in the Three Essays on Sexuality\, he writes\, “The prototype of every love relationship is the child sucking at his mother’s breast. The finding of the love object is in fact a refinding” (p. 222). More recently\, psychoanalysis has drawn on and expanded beyond Freud’s theories of love as a repetition compulsion\, a narcissistic projection\, or an atonement for loss. Contemporary thinkers have developed theories of yearning and desire; mature and immature love; and love as an achievement. But what are all of those often maddening\, explosive\, and tingling feelings of falling in love\, really? This Valentine’s Day\, I invite you to put cynicism aside and join us for a psychoanalytic exploration of falling in love. \nCredits: 4.5
URL:https://apsa.org/event/falling-in-love-with-nikki-karalekas-phd-lcsw/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T213000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
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SUMMARY:The Margaret Morgan Lawrence Lecture for Social Justice w/ Kirkland Vaughans\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:The APM is honored to present the second Margaret Morgan Lawrence Lecture for Social Justice\nThis Lecture brings to the APM/Columbia community speakers who apply psychoanalytic theory or practice to socially\, racially and culturally diverse community contexts and honors the life and work of Dr. Margaret Morgan Lawrence. \nWhiteness and the Psychoanalytic Frame\nKirkland Vaughans\, PhD\nFebruary 10\, 2026\n8:00 pm – 9:30 pm Eastern Time \nDr. Vaughans has been at the forefront in helping white American psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to acknowledge and struggle to manage our racial bias. In this Lecture\, Dr. Vaughans attempts to examine the findings of the Holmes Commission of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2023) through the lens of the Latin American psychoanalyst Jose Bleger and his notion of the psychoanalytic frame. The mission of the Holmes Commission was to assess systemic racism within psychoanalytic training and its entrenched impact on theory and practice. However\, Bleger discredited the traditional focus on breaches and ruptures of the frame. Instead\, he proposed scrutinizing the frame when everything is going smoothly\, believing that absence of perceptible issues may obscure underlying tensions or that systemic problems may be going on unnoticed. \n  \nKirkland Vaughans\, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. A training and supervising analyst of IPTAR\, he is also on faculty and founder of the Adelphi Derner/Hempstead Child Clinic and supervisor in the Child & Adolescent Program of the Derner Postgraduate Program. Dr. Vaughans is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. He is a Founding Editor of the Journal of Infant\, Child\, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and co-editor of the two-volume Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. He has presented at numerous conferences and panel discussions on white racism\, generational trauma among African Americans\, and the school-to-prison pipeline for boys and girls of color\, and is a subject of the documentary\, “Your Mum and Dad.” A founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak\, Dr. Vaughns was a member of the Holmes Commission of APsA and is the recipient of the 2024 Founder Award of the American Psychological Association\, Div. 39. \nDiscussant:\nDr. Dionne Powell is a training and supervising psychoanalyst at our own Columbia Psychoanalytic Center and at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY). She is Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH)/Columbia and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at NYPH/Weill Cornell. She served as Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equity in American Psychoanalysis and currently serves on the IPA Board as North American Representative. Dr. Powell has written and presented extensively on a range of issues with her most recent contribution\, (2025) Becoming Raced: Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She gave the inaugural Margaret Morgan Lawrence Lecture (March 2022) and is the recipient of many awards for her work\, including the 2026 APsA Sabshin Teaching award. She is in full-time private practice in NYC.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-margaret-morgan-lawrence-lecture-for-social-justice-2/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Virtual)\, New York\, NY
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260207T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260207T131500
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
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SUMMARY:Group Psychoanalysis: Who Knew?
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: K. Chapman Attwell\, MD\nDr. Attwell will introduce the class to the didactic similarities and differences between individual and group psychoanalysis as well as how they can work in effective tandem. He will then run an experiential group to illustrate the key principles in a here-and-now focus on growth of the interpersonal ego and meaningful affective communication. In closing\, the class will wrestle to link the didactic and experiential portions of the class to illuminate future directions of learning.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/group-psychoanalysis-who-knew-3/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260206T135000
DTSTAMP:20260604T091904
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SUMMARY:A Decolonial Approach to Case Formulation: Pragmatic Applications for Therapeutic and Political Action
DESCRIPTION: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) interpersonal dynamics (Luborsky’s wish-response of other-response of self)\, c) personality structure (Kernberg’s level of personality organization)\, and d) structural forces (Raque and Meisels’ structurally informed case formulation). Drawing on an integration of Freudian\, relational\, and decolonial perspectives\, the presentation will explore evidence-informed and theory grounded principles for attending to the intrapsychic\, interpersonal\, and sociocultural dimensions of clinical experience. Specifically\, a decolonial approach to case formulation informs how the clinician draws upon specific tools and interventions to attend to a) intrapsychic functioning (defense work)\, b) the patient’s contribution to relationships (transference work)\, c) the therapist’s contribution to the therapeutic relationship (rupture-repair work)\, and d) how each of these are grounded in wider relational and sociocultural realities (“social” work). Put differently\, such an approach to case formulation not only clarifies to what extent clinical phenomena is “due to personal/interpersonal” factors versus “sociocultural” factors (to the extent these can be separated)\, but also helps clinicians distinguish between experiences of trauma and sociocultural marginalization that require accompaniment\, and the defensive\, avoidant uses of such experiences which require confrontation. In sum\, such an approach supports clinicians in being socioculturally responsive to patients’ needs without losing sight of intrapsychic and interpersonal contributions to their struggles.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-decolonial-approach-to-case-formulation-pragmatic-applications-for-therapeutic-and-political-action/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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