This is a continuation of NCP's Manifest Mind Series. As psychedelic medicine moves toward wide clinical implementation, psychoanalysts are establishing a specialized set of roles and methods separate from other […]

In this presentation, Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou urges psychoanalysts to let the debate about the validity of trans children take its place in the fossil record of analytic history. Encouraging us […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

"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: […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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; […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]