Join us for an engaging opportunity to learn more about NPI! Meet the Dean and President for an introduction to the programs offered, connect with current candidates, experience a live […]

Led by Diane O'Donoghue. There is a considerable bibliography of writings about the vast collection of early objects, most from Egypt and the classical Mediterranean, filled Freud’s working spaces at […]

Howard Levine, MD: Psychoanalysis is ‘the talking cure,’ but the problems raised by language are complex, paradoxical, and perhaps unsolvable. At their most effective, words play a vital role in […]

This case conference series targets early career clinicians and those interested to learn about psychodynamic therapy technique. Jon Venitz, LSW, will present a patient seen in residential D&A treatment, with […]

Presented by Diane O'Donoghue. Guided tour at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Sigmund Freud’s widely read The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) made a number of bold claims about the meaning […]

During this two-day conference, Ofra Eshel will present two works, which will be evaluated and discussed by contemporaries Charles Levin, Aner Govrin, and Mary Tennes, as well as a clinical […]

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 […]

Kate Scharff & David Scharff

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 […]

This series of four meetings is designed to meet the needs of clinicians interested exploring on- line aspects of child play psychotherapy and incorporating these psychodynamic concepts and techniques into […]

Presented by Christie Hunnicutt, PhD, LCSW

Morning Focus: Core Competencies in Relational Psychoanalysis Drawing from Dr. Roy Barsness’ text, Core Competencies in Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study, and Research, this session invites participants to […]

If virtual, the discussion begins at 4pm CDT. Please use link to review all details. This film screening explores the pleasure and fascination we experience when consuming horror movies and […]

In person film screening begins at 2pm. The discussion begins at 4pm. This film screening explores the pleasure and fascination we experience when consuming horror movies and true crime media. […]

David Scharff & Kate Scharff

Daniel Brockett, M.D. will explain the neuropsychopharmacology of classical psychedelics as well as atypical psychedelics such as ketamine and empathogens such as MDMA.

Alessandra Lemma

Presenter: Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. | In this presentation, Dr. Tummala-Narra will explore how personality is shaped by sociocultural context, and how experiences of one’s sociocultural context rely on personality, family […]

Join us for an engaging opportunity to learn about NPI on Zoom! Meet the Dean and President for an introduction to the program, connect with current candidates, experience a live […]

Please join us for a series of conversations 1  Sessions remaining April 12, 2025 Presented by the Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis of the International Psychoanalytic Association (COWAP) North America, […]

"Work Discussion Group (WDG) for Catastrophic Situations" – Martha Harris Model, Tavistock Organized by the IPA PACE Committee & NCP. About the Work Discussion Group: The Work Discussion Group (WDG) […]

This course will focus on the idea that we can access our unconscious thoughts and images through art, specifically collage. There will be an introduction to “dreaming while awake” referencing […]

Hosted by the Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center Peer support serves a vital role in the mental health of college students. Beyond buttressing […]

Dr. Kite will present a paper, Strange Bedfellows: Sexual Boundary Violations and Ethics in Psychoanalysis, in which she will highlight the powerful role played by the analyst's unconscious functioning in […]

An opportunity to study parenting issues in a variety of settings. This conference will explore current issues of diversity and social challenge as couples become parents and navigate unique parenting […]

Anne Erreich, PhD, cites the prominence of theories which locate serious adult psychopathology in the pre-verbal infant’s inability to formulate or represent traumatic experience. The work of two such authors, […]

Dr. Clara Mucci presents the three levels of interpersonal traumatizations with all the consequences at the level of attachment styles, interpersonal neurobiology, and affect regulation and personability dynamics up to […]

Led by Prof. Dr. med. Lutz Goetzmann. In this presentation, I will present?theoretically?the three stages of the Oedipus complex according to Freud and Lacan. A clinical discussion will follow this. […]

How infants and toddlers separate and individuate from their families has been formally studied largely from a Euro-American viewpoint. Separation-individuation occurs simultaneously, and intertwined with, the development of attachment patterns, […]

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 course will address the challenges when working with […]

Led by Prof. Dr. med. Lutz Goetzmann. Altruism itself is underexplored in psychoanalysis. The topic's importance for learners is its investigation into a peculiar form of altruism. Living kidney donors […]

Dr. Karbelnig believes that psychoanalytic clinicians practice framing, presence, and engagement in their work with patients. They pursue the unconscious mind through focusing on transference and countertransference, repetitive psycho-behavioral themes, […]

Adjusting the Distance. Michael Feldman MB, BS,FRC,Psych; Kay Long PHD; Elizabeth Wilson MD

Presented by Neal Vorus, PhD

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 […]

We are all imbedded in the sociocultural context in which we exist. The personal subjectivities of both therapist and patient are deeply affected by the experiences within their particular sociocultural […]

In everyday language, "gender" is often used to signify whether one identifies as male, female, or something beyond these categories. For some, gender represents an expansive field of identity possibilities, […]

This conference will explore the dynamic between psyche and soma, using the theoretical frame of the Paris Psychosomatic School to enhance skills. Both adult and child clinical cases of patients […]

This applied psychoanalytic presentation by W. Scott Griffies, MD, explores the phenomenon of murder-suicide in post-Katrina New Orleans. This presentation utilizes an object relational framework to understand the multidetermined causes […]

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 […]

This series of 6 closed meetings offers pre-licensed and licensed therapists a safe and confidential place to get help with difficult cases, discuss professional challenges, and explore new ways to […]

Anora (2024) is the fifth consecutive feature film from Sean Baker to focus on the lives of sex workers and similarly marginalized peoples. It tells the story of Anora, or […]

This event will be presented by Dr. Paula Christian Kliger, Dr. Kris Yi, Dr. Lynne Jacobs, and Dr. Holly Han. We are all imbedded in the sociocultural context in which […]

Michael Langlois

Todd Essig

Fred Busch, MD, speaks about Problem-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, a modified psychoanalytic treatment approach that addresses patient’s specific problems, including symptoms, personality issues, relationship struggles, and behavioral difficulties. The primary facets […]

Join us Saturday, May 10, 2025 for Thinking Together Without Falling Apart: A Day in Conversation with Dr. Beverly J. Stoute Live Presentation Only Must be able to attend in […]

This event will be presented by Professor Brett Kahr: Although we have all encountered naked human bodies across our lifetime, very few of us have had the opportunity to explore […]

57th ANNIVERSARY FREUD LECTURE: The Revolution in North American Psychoanalysis: Enhancement or Betrayal The question asked in this paper is whether the various modifications taking place over the past 50 […]

Join Fred Busch PhD, for our next Meet the Author event with Dan Jacobs, MD, and the online audience.