Guest Speaker: Mary Jo Peebles, PhD, ABPP, ABPH Achieving tangible, structural change isn't easy. Four skill areas, frequently missing from psychodynamic curricula, help change stick: Goal-setting, Right-Hemispheric processing, enhancing Absorption, […]

This panel will explore how music comprises the forms of collective living in which the body finds its place in psychical life. The presentations will describe the ways that the […]

Dr. Gilbert Kliman will present on his preschool Reflective Network Therapy. He will address how children can resiliently emerge from trauma and the adult aftermath of childhood trauma in foster […]

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

In this 90 minute offering, Dr. Attwell will introduce the class to the didactic similarities and differences between individual and group psychoanalysis as well as how they can work in […]

The speaker will be Dr. Mary Morgan. In this course we will look at some of the theories and clinical technique in working psychoanalytically with couples developed at Tavistock Relationships. […]

Winnicott's concept of primary maternal preoccupation highlighted an altered mental state presumed essential to a mother's transition to parenthood. This presentation will review how Winnicott's is relevant to more contemporary […]

Presented by Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D. Psychoanalytic thinking teaches us that trauma leaves the subject fractured, less agentic, more subject to iterative, stalled revisitations of the traumatic event. With the help […]

The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute invites you to join us for day one of a two-day (Hybrid) event featuring Dr. Mark Solms: Contemporary psychoanalysts have lost confidence in Freudian drive theory […]

The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute invites you to join us for day two of a two-day (Hybrid) event featuring Dr. Mark Solms & Dr. Lois Oppenheim: The most commonly referenced translations […]

Presented by Marco Posadas, PhD, MSW, RSW, FIPA

Evil is grounded in an effort to correct the errors of Creation– to define, categorize and eliminate what it designates as sources of threat and pain. This logic of elimination […]

Free zoom event with Janine de Peyer, LCSW-R: Why has so little been written about the female analyst’s sexual desire? Is sexual arousal during clinical work such a rarity, or […]

Application Deadline: May 31, 2024 The Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis online application portal for the 2024-2025 Community Psychoanalysis Certificate Program (CPCP) is now open. Expand and enrich your clinical […]

Please Join Us Discussants: Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, MD and Carolyn Ratner-Fitzgerald, JD, PsyD Moderators: Margarita Cereijido and Anne Adelman present discussion of the film “Anatomy Of a Fall” (2023) Directed […]

Please Join Us Discussants: Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, MD and Carolyn Ratner-Fitzgerald, JD, PsyD Moderators: Margarita Cereijido and Anne Adelman present discussion of the film “Anatomy of a Fall” (2023) Directed […]

Scientific Program presented by Dwarakanath G. Rao, MD. CE.  

During this interactive workshop, Jonathan Lebolt, PhD, LCSW-R, CGP, will address the following questions: What do we mean by LGBTQ+ (especially the +)? How can we work effectively with patients […]

Thomas Barrett, PhD, will present his ideas about the impact of early relational misattunement on children and the role of relational attunement (ie Mindsight) when provided in the context of […]

Thomas Barrett, PhD, will present his ideas about the impact of early relational misattunement on children and the role of relational attunement (ie Mindsight) when provided in the context of […]

At some point between the heyday of the mixtape and the infinite scroll of the app-based feed, the music playlist found its place in history, as a new form of […]

Judith Edwards discusses the myths and realities underneath the saccharine grandmother 'norm', where culture, geography, social ideas and personality all play a part. 'An area ripe for exploration' said the […]

Bruce Hillowe, J.D., PhD, is a psychologist-psychoanalyst and mental health care attorney in New York State. In this workshop, he will be presenting a comprehensive overview of the ethical, professional, […]

The Advanced Practice in Nursing Committee at the American Psychoanalytic Association Presents, Nursing + Psychoanalysis Group Mentorship Q&A.

Please join us via zoom on Sunday, June 23rd, 2024 at the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82103596670?pwd=OmkT7URLfsN0fitVnqhp83ZXasc0Q.1

Zoom Meeting ID: 82103596670
Passcode: Freud333!

Free zoom event with Charles Turk M.D. By means of a metapsychologic elaboration of certain psychoanalytic concepts “Le388” a psychoanalytic treatment program for psychotic young adults in Quebec City has […]

Free zoom event with Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA: Our psychotherapy practices do not exist in a vacuum and in these last few years we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the […]

Phoebe Cirio, MSW, LCSW: In a world where there is a high level of strife and anxiety, and seemingly endless conflict, including war, ethnic violence, sexism and gender attacks, open […]

Phoebe Cirio, MSW, LCSW: William Styron vividly recounts the experience of his suicidal depression while suffering a breakdown in mid-life, in his small book Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. […]

Free zoom event with Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.: In this talk, I consider Ferenczi’s groundbreaking work on sexual abuse in conjunction with other projects he undertook, in which trauma, regression, and […]

Vitality is considered a manifestation of life, of being alive (Stern, 2010). While most of us have an embodied, intuitive sense of aliveness or deadness in our daily interactions and […]

Presented by Jeanine M. Vivona, PhD We tend to think of language as an abstract system that is imposed upon us from outside. Yet, as Hans Loewald knew, language is […]

Presenter: Efrain Bleiberg, MD This presentation aims to review a developmental-mentalizing-attachment formulation of narcissistic disorders, emphasizing a response to interpersonal helplessness and threats to one’s bids for attachment that is […]

Arthur Nielsen

Going Deeper Into Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Details of the Diagnostic and Contracting Processes and Their Crucial Role Throughout the Therapy This live, online only, interactive two-day program with Master TFP Clinician […]

Jorge Claudio Ulnik (Buenos Aires)

Jon K. Meyer, MD

Please join us for a series of conversations  Time: Saturday mornings, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EST 7 sessions 2024: September 14, October 26, December 14 2025: January 11, February […]

Please join us for a series of conversations Time: Saturday mornings, 11:00 to 12:30 EST 7 sessions 2024: September 14, October 26, December 14 2025: January 11, February 22, March […]

Presented by Stephen Seligman, DMH, Anne Alvarez, PhD, M.A.C.P. & Christopher Bonovitz, PsyD Vitality might be considered the essence of aliveness. Louis Sander and Daniel Stern drew our attention to […]

The 2 recent explosions within the Program Committee and then within the American Psychoanalytic Association are examined, from an insider's perspective, as analysts' difficulties with listening to each other. Analysts' […]

Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy In A Thorn in the Flesh: Trauma you will learn more about theories and techniques of treating trauma and about the empirical research that supports successful treatments. […]

Ofra Eshel was invited to review and discuss Joseph Aguayo's book, Introducing the Clinical Work of Wilfred Bion (Routledge, 2023). After reading the book, she decided to focus on what […]

A Scientific Meeting presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando, MDCM

A Scientific Meeting presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando, MDCM. This presentation explores the links between trauma, guilt, and the superego, and through this exploration attempts to make some additions to […]

Cinematic masterpiece Saltburn, (2023) directed by Academy Award winning Emerald Ferrell, is a fascinating study in perverse autonomy. Barry Keoghan stars in the psychological drama Saltburn from which he won […]

Workshop presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando, MDCM

A Scientific Meeting presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando, MDCM. In this presentation Dr. Fernando will differentiate two defenses that are important clinically but that are often confused with each other: […]

About the Event: Self-defeating behaviors are present to some degree in every psychodynamic treatment. We will explore ways in which sadomasochism manifests, particularly in the transference/countertransference arena. The developmental roots […]

Art Nielsen, MD. Asking for Things and Listening to Criticism: Two Fundamental Challenges in Intimate Relationships and Targets for Couples Therapy. Grounded in self psychology, Dr. Nielson uses everyday language to […]

In this era of increasing recognition that most individuals who enter our consulting rooms are struggling with symptoms that mark developmental impasses, we encounter bright individuals who appear to have […]