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Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This series of 4 classes introduces an approach to supervision that emphasizes developing supervisory alliance, parallel process, working […]

The field of psychoanalysis is replete with theories about infancy and child development, and within psychoanalysis there is a longstanding tradition of linking child development to the organization of intrapsychic […]

This course defines postpartum depression (PPD) and explores it through the lens of psychoanalytic framework. The course will examine the role of ego regression in PPD, as well as specific […]

Scientific Meeting This presentation will be held virtually via Zoom. Register at the host website.  Presentation Summary: As AI systems take up residence in the consulting room, classroom, bedroom, nursery, […]

Artificial Intelligence and Implications for Psychoanalysis by Amy Levy, Psy.D.

A presentation of an analyst's illness and how he understood and addressed it when it occurred over 30 years ago; and how he has reconsidered it in face of greater […]

Drawing on more than twenty years of clinical work with patients suffering from obesity, bulimia and anorexia, this presentation explores the necessity of a shift away from models centered on […]

Following the suicide of the celebrated photographer Francesca Woodman at the age of twenty-two, the creative work of her artist parents, Betty and George Woodman, was profoundly transformed. Following Abraham […]

A Two-Year In-Person Training Based on the Esther Bick Infant Observation Model. Who Should Apply: The Observational Studies In-Person Program is open to mental health professionals, trainees, educators, researchers, and […]

In-person attendance: $250; limited to 50 people at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA Virtual/remote attendance: Free CE/CME available: 6 hours (pending approval) Hope in Hard Times: Building Community […]

Presenter, Derek Hook will highlight multiple facets of the drive - amongst which is, of course, a type of relationality arguably inherent in the concept - and do so accessibly, […]

Derek Hook will utilize Freud's 'Three Essays on Sexuality' as a means of tracking various drive phenomena as of crucial importance in the symptoms, identifications, modes of jouissance, relations, transference […]

Despite emerging frequently in the psychoanalytic process, there is a sparseness of literature on erotic transferences and countertransferences. There is also a tendency to desexualize the psychoanalytic process due to […]

Dr. Shirke conceptualizes racism and prejudice as the consequence of intergenerational transference of experiences and attitudes about the identities of self and of others. Two analytic theories of mind can […]

Spectacularization (Debord 1967), enshittification (Doctorow 2025), and depressive hedonia (Fisher 2008; Gilroy-Ware 2017) are discussed as emerging defenses against envy. Fascism, nostalgia, and homogenization are linked by the psychodynamics of […]

For clinicians or mental health students who are curious about what it is that psychodynamic therapists actually do, we offer a “window” into the process and a chance to connect […]

Presented by: Paul Koehler, LCSW & Michelle Pfeifer, LMHP Whether you are an early career clinician or a seasoned analyst this course will help you create and solidify your personal-professional […]

Presented by Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald, Psy.D., LMFT. This consultation group invites therapists into an ongoing exploration of dreams as living expressions of the unconscious. Drawing from the full arc of […]

It Was Just an Accident (2025) is Jafar Panahi’s critically acclaimed darkly comedic thriller/crime drama that explores the far-reaching social dimensions of trauma and spotlights the choice point we face […]

Join us for a screening of Yair Qedar’s Outsider. Freud., a look into the life, work, and legacy of Sigmund Freud. Blending archival material, animation, dreams, and insights from psychoanalysts, […]

Sien Rivera, MD

Dr. Alison Feit: We are living through a strange cultural moment. People have never had more freedom, more choices, more opportunities for self-expression, or more language for understanding themselves. Yet […]

Presented by Dr. Holly Han; Dr. Cheryl Farole-Roman Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This series is based on an approach to supervision that […]

What is authoritarianism? Do we live in an authoritarian society? What is the difference between the authoritarian impulse and the artistic impulse? Can art help us resist the allure of […]

Transference, countertransference, resistance, neutrality, focus on the unconscious…these are a few of the key elements of a psychodynamic approach to treatment that will be explored in this seminar. The speaker […]

The centrality of love and sexuality in our work will be illustrated through the use of clinical vignettes, including a variety of erotic fantasies and transferences that can emerge in […]

The history of psychoanalysis since Freud has been marked by fragmentation into multiple theoretical schools, often with limited dialogue across them. M. Nasir Ilahi, LLM, LP’s paper examines the deeper […]

This is an intermediate to advanced study group that will explore questions of sexuality and gender through a psychoanalytic lens. We will also explore queer sensibility in clinical work with […]

This 8-session seminar, led by Paul Koehler, LCSW and Karen Fraley, LCSW, will be structured around the careful reading and study of the book, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native […]

A focus of James W. Anderson’s book on psychobiography is his exploration of how the authors’ relationship with the people written about impacts the biographical account.

The Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis is pleased to announce a full-day workshop designed to help mental health practitioners create a Professional Will. This workshop addresses the emotional, ethical, and […]

Beginning in 1996 with the essay “Traumatic Abuse in Cults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective,” up to the release in 2026 of his latest book, Traumatic Narcissism Theory: A Contemporary Introduction, Daniel […]

NCP is privileged to present a morning with Annie Reiner, PhD, PsyD, LCSW guiding us with a fresh introduction to Wilford Bion’s clinical insights into optimizing an analytical state of […]

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, […]

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 […]

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.