This introductory course provides an overview of the fundamental principles and practices of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy, integrating contemporary group analytic perspectives. Participants will explore how unconscious processes, transference and countertransference, […]
Scott Koeneman, PsyD & Paul Hoard, PhD, LMHC will consider how interactions with AI chatbots/LLM’s are reshaping our emotional, relational & experiential lives. Topics such as smart phone cult like […]
Sebastian Leikert, The Donald Meyers International Scholar Lecture. Somatic narration is a method of working that focuses the shared perception of traces of traumatization inscribed in the body-self. A clinical […]
Through an extended case study of a tattoo artist in psychoanalytic treatment, this lecture explores tattooing as a legitimate artistic expression. This point of departure shifts the psychoanalytic perspective away […]
When Dr. Valerie Frankfeldt lost her analyst in 2024, she turned to an unexpected companion: ChatGPT. What began as a cursory attempt at coping with grief became a profound reckoning […]
Format: 6-Week Live Course Hosted over Zoom Dates: Fridays - October 9, 16, 23, 30; November 6, 13, 2026 Times: Fridays - 7:30am – 10:30am PT/10:30am - 1:30pm ET/3:30 pm - […]
Henry Markman, MD will explore Similarities between creative processes in painting and psychoanalysis come from the same source within us.
“This administration has lost it’s f-ing mind and we are all going to die!” bellows a vein popping Leonardo DiCaprio. Don’t Look Up (2021) captures the dangerous emotional crosscurrents when […]
Henry Markman will lead a discussion of analytic ethos, a practice based on ethics before theory and technique.
This half-day conference offers a psychoanalytic examination of racialization as it is lived, felt, and structured within psychic life. Ramya B. Iyer, LCSW, introduces societal racial introjection, a proposed mechanism […]
In this masterclass for licensed therapists, participants will actively review in fine detail a subtitled clinical video with in-depth discussion with Jon Frederickson and Thomas Brod. The video is edited […]
This six-part Series brings together some of the most prolific and celebrated authors in contemporary psychoanalysis to address precisely these questions. Each month, one presenter will reflect on their own […]
Four papers from leading psychoanalysts: Otto Kernberg, Michael Feldman, Sara Boffito, and Sun Ju Chung. Chaired by Francis Grier, Editor-In-Chief, International Journal of Psychoanalysis A recording of the conference will […]
The Inner Frame Film Festival is an evening of curated short films created by psychoanalysts and others who are deeply connected to psychoanalytic thought, treatment and practice. It is a community […]