Free zoom event Connections and Conversation

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies This event addresses:  Borderline Personality Disorders Presenter: Robert E. Feinstein MD – The literature on evidence-based treatment of borderline personality disorders (BPDs) has exploded in the last 50 years.

Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting. The core thesis, threading through several publications is that if contemporary psychoanalysis aspires to contribute to addressing our socio-political and ecological challenges, we must develop an enlarged repertoire of theory and practice. The distinguished Harvard Law School Professor, Lawrence Lessig has eloquently argued that repairing our […]

Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute This event addresses: Meet the Author Meet the Author with John Martin-Joy, MD, presenting his new book Conversations With Donald Hall. The discussion will be moderated by Steven Luria Ablon, MD. The online audience will have a chance to ask questions via a Q&A chat or “on camera”.

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Almost Half a Century Since it Was Expelled From the DSM, Why is Psychoanalytic Thought Still in the Wilderness? Professor Hannah Decker’s presentation will illustrate the strength of the anti-psychiatry movement, a part of the Vietnam era’s many protests. The anti-psychiatry’s influence became so deep that the APA continues […]

Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Instittute This event addresses: This course is designed to integrate the basic theoretical and technical concepts of psychodynamic therapy with clinical material from therapy with children/adolescents who are functioning at different developmental stages and with varying types of presenting psychopathology. The readings will focus on the topics of therapeutic engagement and alliance, deepening […]

Greater Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: Evolution and how it informs therapeutic practice Dr. David Blakely is a psychiatrist in Topeka, KS, practicing analytically oriented therapy with psychopharmacology.

Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute This event addresses: Play In this Academic Lecture, Steven Cooper explores how psychoanalysis is a form of play. With adult patients, play helps unsymbolized experience find expression through words. Winnicott’s theory of play, first described as relevant to children, marked a radical expansion of the intersubjective component of therapeutic action […]

New Center for Psychoanalysis (Los Angeles) This event addresses: transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) NCP and TFP New York present Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP): Scientific Meeting Diana Diamond, PhD, will discuss her innovative work in using transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) to treat a broad range of patients with personality disorders, highlighting pathological narcissism. TFP is a contemporary object relations […]

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Conflicts and Ethics in Psychoanalytic Consultation and Supervision Nancy McWilliams, PhD will present this Ethics Conference. 3 CE/CMEs Beginning therapists tend to go to supervisors with ethical questions at a very high frequency, and most experienced therapists know they need to seek consultation when facing ethical dilemmas. Because the […]

New Center for Psychoanalysis (Los Angeles) This event addresses: Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) NCP and TFP New York present a one-day training in TFP for pathological narcissism: TFP is a manualized, evidence-based psychoanalytic therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) that has recently been adapted for patients with narcissistic personality disorder […]

Western New England Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Gender variances Speaker: Eve Watson, PhD Discussant: Oren Gozlan, PsyD Sexuality for children and adolescents is a site of intense curiosity, brooding, and fluidity and it is not unusual for an intensive questioning of subjectivity to be supported by a gender-based identity query. Transitioning out of childhood […]