Weekend Event - October 21 & 22 A Psychoanalytic Retrospective: Thoughts on the Essence of a Happy and Fulfilled Life Calvin A. Colarusso M.D. Training and Supervising Child Adolescent and Adult Analyst San Diego Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Colarusso will describe the effect of more than fifty-five years of exposure to psychoanalytic theory and the practice […]

Speaker: Margarita Cereijido, PhD Discussants: Kirsten Dahl, PhD & Rosemary Balsam, MD Psychoanalysis, from its beginnings, has a long history of pathologizing certain groups – women and homosexuals, to name a few. Personal beliefs and prejudices of the times – both past and present –seep into psychoanalytic theory, education and practice. Many new psychoanalytic ideas […]

Weekend Event - October 21 & 22 Sunday, October 22 The Developmental Process: The Analysis of a Traumatized Three-Year-Old. Rex McGeHee, M.D. Training and Supervising Child, Adolescent and Adult Analyst. Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis Dr. McGeHee will present a case to illustrate how psychoanalytic treatment changes the developmental trajectory of a life. Building on Freud's […]

Our discussion of the Under the Skin screening will introduce viewers to the psychoanalytic notion of alienation from humanist (classical Freudian and relational theory) and posthumanist (contemporary French psychoanalytic) perspectives.

Presented by Johanna Dobrich, LCSW-R Working with Survivor Siblings in Psychoanalysis: Ability and Disability in Clinical Process explores a previously neglected area in the field of psychoanalysis, addressing undertheorized concepts on siblings, disabilities and psychic survivorship, and broadening our conceptualization of the enduring effects of lateral relations on human development. What happens to a person’s […]

Discussion of the film:  The Invitation (2015) (104 min) Director: Karyn Kusama *** Film must be viewed prior to event.*** REGISTRATION DEADLINE: October 25, 2023 Discussant: Alex Smith, Psy.D. Film Description: When a man accepts an invitation to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife, the unsettling past reopens old wounds and creates new tensions. […]

Association for Child Psychoanalysis:  Presented by Denia Barrett and Peter Bruendl Clinical work performed in isolation or within only a small group of colleagues risks a narrowing of techniques. A continuing conversation between experienced clinicians, working together throughout the year and then sharing their discourse with the conference participants, allows for a detailed examination of […]

Free meeting with the ICP community in LA open to all.  Most psychoanalysts never serve on a jury. This essay narrates my experience of being juror number 11 for nine days. This criminal trial involved horrific allegations of rape, sodomy, kidnapping, armed robbery, and brutal beating. The case also involved issues of race and of violence. […]

This CPI/AAPE webinar will focus on the concepts of internalization and identity, integrating the sociocultural with the intrapsychic. One thread of the discussion will involve the inevitable tensions between sociocultural determinants and individuality in the context of an individual psychoanalysis. Clinical vignettes will be interwoven with a review of the relevant literature.

Presented by Jean Goodwin, MD Electra, like Oedipus, is a character from Greek mythology. The founders of psychoanalysis used their names to denote a psychosocial developmental phase. However, Electra’s story, like the biography of Oedipus, teaches us more about murderous violence than about internal conflict. Electra can also teach us something about recovery; she and […]

Presented by Richard Gartner, PhD Research suggests that in the United States one in six boys is directly victimized sexually by age 16. It has also become increasingly apparent in recent years that adult men, like women, are subject to sexual abuse, harassment, and assault. In order to treat this population, it is crucial that […]

Presented by Micah J. Knobles, MD A case study and discussion of how psychoanalytic technique remains relevant to today's modern medical settings.

A Scientific Meeting presented by Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D., ABPP with Respondent, Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

This event will focus on ideas from Dr. Galit Atlas’ new book, Emotional Inheritance. It will address silenced experiences that belong not only to us or to our patients, but to their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents, and the ways they impact our lives. The clinical tales will focus on emotional material that is passed down […]

Both the American Psychological and the American Psychiatric Associations have recently advocated specific courses in supervision for their trainees. Good supervision has been described in terms of specific competences or progressive skill sets, often measured via symptom reduction in the supervisee’s clients. Emphasis has also been put on adapting supervision, like treatment, to areas of […]

This presentation, by Jeffrey Rubin, PhD, is a combination of lecture, meditation practice, and dialogue with the audience, exploring “meditative psychoanalysis”, blending Western psychoanalysis and Eastern meditative traditions into a more encompassing synthesis.

Carol Gilligan joins NCP to discuss her newly released book In a Human Voice. It has been over forty years since the publication of Gilligan’s revolutionary book In a Different Voice (1982), when she amplified women’s voices on self and moral development, helping them to be heard in their own right, and with their own […]

"The Total Training Situation: Dimensions of Candidacy that Potentiate Analytic Process" - 2023 Semi-Finalist Presentation Presenter: Matt Shatzman, M.A. - A recent graduate of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute Discussant: Richard Tuch, M.D. - Training and Supervising Analyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Chair of the DPE Scholarship and Writing Section. Matt Shatzman, M.A., […]

Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting. This conversation will explore the space between violence and trauma is dangerous silence. Time, space and history collides. Silence intensifies the impact of trauma, and trauma that goes unspoken, un-witnessed and unclaimed produces more trauma to self and others. Silence can be associated with a ghost, […]

Hybrid Program - In Person in Portland, OR or Virtual via Zoom (this program will not be recorded). Speakers: David L. Eng, PhD & ShinHee Han, PhD In this workshop, we will consider how social and psychic processes of loss for Asian Americans are mediated, mitigated, and exacerbated by the problem of guilt. Scholars working […]

Dr. Megan Rundel, PhD, is a practitioner of psychedelic-assisted psychoanalysis in Oakland, CA. In this course, we will explore the psychedelic renaissance in mental health treatment and how it is relevant to psychoanalysis. We will consider the history of psychedelic use, and cultural issues that exert strong influence on our attitudes toward them. We will […]

The International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) is pleased to announce a private virtual screening of CURED, an award-winning documentary that highlights a pivotal but little-known moment in LGBTQ history when activists and psychiatrists challenged a formidable institution - and won a crucial victory in the modern movement for LGBTQ equality and dignity. On Monday, November 13th […]

It can be challenging to wrestle alone with ethical dilemmas when working with children and adolescents. Therefore, the IPI Child Psychotherapy and Child Psychoanalysis Faculty offer a one-day workshop to think together about psychoanalytic approaches to common ethical conundrums facing child therapists who work with both the child and the parents/family. CE Available.

Are you seeking a conference that focuses on the ethics and complexities of working analytically with youth as they negotiate their sexual and gender identities? Alessandra Lemma is the guest speaker as we discuss a range of clinical phenomena with a special focus on ethical principles and exercising an ethical self-discipline to support critical reflection […]

Sylvia Flescher, M.D., will join us in person on Friday, November 17th, and share with us excerpts from her memoir-in-progress. Her memoir describes the evolution of her identity as a clinician since her analytic training in the '80s. Dr. Flescher will talk about the origins and development of her ambivalence towards psychoanalysis, considering the role […]

Carol Gilligan, psychologist, feminist and ethicist will discuss her new book, In a Human Voice. Forty years after the publication of In a Different Voice, considered by the Harvard University Press as “the little book that started a revolution,” Dr. Gilligan expands her ideas regarding morality and self to introduce care ethics which she conceptualizes […]

Presented by M. Gerard Fromm, PhD In January, 2002, an annual Group Relations Conference was held as it had been for many years, and one of its large-group events began ordinarily enough. But, four months after 9/11/2001, members could not stay in the room to do the work of that session. Even though the recent […]

Bruce Fink joins NCP to discuss Lacan’s Clinical Theory"Analysts on the whole imagine that to understand is an end in itself... To think, it is often better not to understand; and one can gallop along, understanding for miles and miles, without the slightest thought being produced.” - Lacan, 1958 This meeting is designed for analytically […]

Conflicts and Ethics in Psychoanalytic Consultation and SupervisionPresenter: Nancy McWilliams, PhD Discussant: Kit MacLean, PsyD Program Description: This ethics conference aims to be of practical value to supervisors and their supervisees. Utilizing vignettes from the presenter and participants, we will look at recurrent controversies in psychoanalytic supervision, the “vital signs” that supervisors monitor that go […]

Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting. From the first contact with our patients, we begin to engage the question: who is this person who has sought out our help? How do we understand their suffering? The maverick founders of interpersonal school of psychoanalysis, originally known as the cultural school, each in his/her […]

From 1934 until 1945, Otto Fenichel and a small group of left-leaning psychoanalysts were forced to flee the rise of Nazism in Germany. As refugees, they furtively shared their ideas about the politics of institutional psychoanalysis through a series of private Rundbriefe (circulating letters, or circulars), and discussed in the exchange of letters the possibility […]

Donald Moss, MD. “The Traumatizing Disorder of Everyday Life”.  

Learn how interpersonal processes become internalized and create the structure of the conscious and unconscious mind. Through readings, discussions, and case presentations you will gain a deeper understanding of core object relations concepts including internalization, identification, mentalization, splitting, repression, projective identification, and containment.

Presenter: J. Christopher Fowler, PhD Description: We are acutely aware of the fear and dread of losing a patient to suicide. Unlike other medical crises, there are no biologic tests to accurately determine the level of suicide risk, nor metrics for determining when a suicidal crisis may occur (Fowler, 2012; Franklin et al., 2017). It […]

Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting. The core thesis, threading through several publications is that if contemporary psychoanalysis aspires to contribute to addressing our socio-political and ecological challenges, we must develop an enlarged repertoire of theory and practice. The distinguished Harvard Law School Professor, Lawrence Lessig has eloquently argued that repairing our […]

The Allure of Fascism and the Appointment in Samarra (presented by Era A. Loewenstein, PhD with discussion by Michael J. Diamond, PhD, FIPA) Increasingly we are observing the rise of proto-fascist parties around the world and in the American MAGA political movement. Building on the fable The Appointment in Samarra, the presentation will discuss the characteristic features […]

Join Shari Thurer, Sc.D., and a panel of discussants as she discusses her new book, Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender with Dan Jacobs, MD, and the online audience.

David Scharff, MD presents a case study on Family Reconciliation as part of our ongoing Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Videoconference series.

Presented by Harold Braswell, PhD, MSW. The word “radical” is generally understood to mean a break from tradition. But, etymologically, the term also connotes a return to one’s roots. A “radical” psychoanalysis would, in this sense, seem paradoxical—but perhaps, in the process, faithful to the nature of the unconscious itself. This course explores this paradoxical […]

Anne Alverez presents on erotic transference as part of our Master Speaker Series videoconference.

The Master Gardener (2022, 2 hr, 25 minutes), directed by Academy Award® nominee Paul Schrader, continues Schrader’s long filmic exploration of the psychology of redemption. Here, a former skinhead gang enforcer lives an apparently monastic life as he tends the grounds of a beautiful estate until others’ needs impinge on his ascetic resolve. Learning Objectives: […]

The word “stranger” comes from the Latin word extraneus, meaning “one who is on the outside.” In this latest installment of our case conference series, targeted to early career clinicians and those curious to learn more about psychodynamic approaches to therapy, PCOP Psychotherapy Associate Member, Jasmine Gibson, LCSW, will present from her work with a […]

Interpersonal psychoanalysis has always included culture and other intersectionalities

Participants will explore challenging places of analytic work from different theoretical perspectives of working in the psychoanalytic field: Autism is the Treatment: Suturing the Rupture Between Body and Mind by Leon Brenner, Ph.D; Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Substance Use and Mis-use by D. Bradley Jones, Psy.D, LCSW; Placement, Displacement, Replacement: Where the Social and the Unconscious […]

Although we might wish for them not to, racial enactments in psychoanalytic organizations can be observed to happen regularly, exposing schisms that are borne of personal, social, and structural elements. Now, in the wake of contemporary racial polarization and galvanizing instances of brutality, and in the ongoing context of widespread social division, upheaval, and international […]