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 […]
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 - […]
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 […]
Speaker: Susan Resek, LCSW, FABP It can be daunting for clinicians who work primarily with individuals to conduct therapy sessions with couples. Part of the challenge is shifting the focus […]
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 […]
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 - […]
A 6-week seminar for graduate psychology and social work students, psychiatry residents, and mental health professionals.
An intensive reading group on Fred Busch’s book, Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind. Busch, an influential ego psychologist, writes complex psychoanalytic ideas in an unusually clear, usable way. This seminar cultivates […]
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 - […]
This three-hour seminar explores how racialized identity, particularly Latinx identity, is shaped by cultural, institutional, and historical forces. Drawing from three papers, participants will examine psychoanalysis’s relationship to race, whiteness, […]
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, […]
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 […]
Theodore Jacobs, MD, will discuss his paper, which focuses on the important role that secrets kept by both patients and analysts play in psychoanalytic treatment. Such secrets are often played […]
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 […]