Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: Dissociative Identity Disorder This presentation, given by Ira Brenner, M.D., will focus upon the very controversial, very misunderstood, and very difficult to treat condition, currently known as D.I.D., Dissociative Identity Disorder. By reconceptualizing it as a “lower level dissociative character” in which dissociation is the central underlying defense, it […]

Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia This event addresses: This program will focus on how experiences of love and aggression affect attachment, separation-individuation and intimate relationships across the lifespan. Presenters: Wendy Olesker, PhD, Miriam Steele, PhD, Robert Waldinger, MD Discussants: Diana Diamond, PhD, Otto Kernberg, MD Moderator: Lawrence D. Blum, MD This program will focus on how […]

Symposium 2023: Love and Empathy, hosted by Mount Sinai Medical Center, will take place virtually and in person on April 22, 2023 from 8:45 am to 4:30 pm. Jonathan Lear will be the keynote speaker. Brochure: https://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Symp-2023-Brochure-FIN-9R.pdf

Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas This event addresses: Clinician boredom Presented by Steven Kuchuck, DSW, this presentation will explore traditional as well as much more contemporary thinking about the meaning of clinician boredom. Dr. Kuchuck argues that boredom can of course indicate dissociated or otherwise inaccessible patient and/or therapist affect. But there may be something […]

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Unconscious Relstionship with Psychoanalytic Theory Our Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory. *****Our David Black Memorial Lecturer***** this year, Dr. Gretchen Schmutz, uses clinical material to explore the role of the unconscious in relationship to psychoanalytic theory. She find theory allows the analyst to have experience that contain important unconscious […]

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Unconscious Relstionship with Psychoanalytic Theory Our Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory. *****Our David Black Memorial Lecturer***** this year, Dr. Gretchen Schmutz, uses clinical material to explore the role of the unconscious in relationship to psychoanalytic theory. She find theory allows the analyst to have experience that contain important unconscious […]

The American Institute for Psychoanalysis (329 East 62nd Street, New York, NY 10065) This event addresses: How Feminism Sparked Psychoanalysis Rage and Creativity: How Feminism Sparked Psychoanalysis – presented by Dr. Arlene Kramer Richards

Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia This event addresses: International Scholar Forum. Dr. Leopold Nosek, Sao Paulo, Brazil, will discuss his ideas about how analysts participate in an analysis with a particular theoretical ensemble, an ethical conception, and an aesthetic development. He will explore how the analyst’s entire being is mobilized by the analytic encounter and how […]

New Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory Bion’s Analytic Technique Joseph Aguayo, PhD — Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of California; Faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis; Honorary Member, British Psychoanalytical Society For this presentation, Joseph Aguayo takes up how Bion came to his Kleinian training as a […]

Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia This event addresses: Dr. Leopold Nosek will discuss his unique interdisciplinary approach for understanding how musical language contains a syntax that can be used to think about psychoanalysis. Dr. Leopold Nosek will join us in person, on Sunday, April 30th, for an intimate program that will focus on his unique interdisciplinary […]

Steven Cooper's book, Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Collisions and Uncomfortable Countertransference in the Clinical Encounter Facilitated by Cynthia Mulder, LCSW-S and Nancy Warren, PhD Collisions and uncomfortable countertransference in the clinical process may have both conscious and unconscious contributions. The patient’s and therapist’s histories, character structure, wishes, and expectancies may clash, often fueled by external stresses […]

Association for Child Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Child Analysis The Annual Meeting is open to ACP members and includes three days of workshops, panel presentations, breakout groups, special lectures, and sessions for Candidate members. CE credits are available. Non-members are welcome to join and then register for the Annual Meeting.

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006) This event addresses: Views beyond the intrapsychic approach towards interpersonal formulations, dyadic and group aspects of human mental functioning Presenter: M Sagman Kayatekin MD – This session is targeted to help the treaters to have a multilayered, psychoanalytically informed systemic formulation of the patient, and […]

Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute This event addresses: COVID-19, Mortality Death haunts human life. We cope by seeking a tolerable place between denial and terror. COVID, and overlapping existential threats, bring this struggle to the surface. Psychoanalysis believes that truth offers freedom. But how do we look at the truth of death, when our own mortality, […]

New Center of Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Suppressed Familial Truths Join NCP’s Film and Mind series online! A once a month psychoanalytic discussion of a topical film! On May 12, Film & Mind explores what makes a transformative movie with a doubleheader of two films of vastly different subject matter—Ted K (“The Unabomber”) and Good […]

Denver Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Trauma The program is targeted at all levels of practitioners of mental health services and will discuss the effects of relational trauma, misdiagnosis and misunderstanding of the effects on development and the necessity of genuine relationship in the healing process. We will look at progress and the ongoing struggle […]

"In this latest installment of our case conference series, targeted at early career clinicians and those curious to learn more about psychodynamic approaches to therapy, PCOP psychotherapy student Nicole Flibbert Laurino, LPC, will present from her work with an adult patient treated in a community mental health setting, who struggles with feeling ""not good enough"" […]

Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis This event addresses: The Analyst’s Vulnerability It has long been recognized that therapists have a history of being caretakers in their families of origin. Yet we have not pursued how that role impacted our own personal growth, values, ideas and limitations. What are the vulnerabilities and strengths that we share as […]

Ketamine therapy and TMS treatments

Psychedelic Drugs

Divergent Models of Psychoanalytic Identity

Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute This event addresses: COVID-19, Children The global pandemic has had a devastating impact on the social and emotional development of young children and their caregivers in early educational settings. Children at different developmental levels experience the multiple stresses caused by the pandemic and its disruptions in different ways. How do […]

New Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory Klein’s Analytic Technique Professor Robert Hinshelwood, MD — Professor Emeritus of University of Essex; Member, British Psychoanalytical Society; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK In the final part of our series, Robert Hinshelwood takes us back to Klein’s original psychoanalytic […]

Observational Studies

 Presented by John R. White, Ph.D., LPC This presentation compares the clinical concepts of “adaptation” in Robert Langs and Carl Jung, examining their central similarities and differences. Our presenter, John R. White, PhD, LPC is a practicing Jungian psychoanalyst in Pittsburgh PA and Coordinator of the C. G. Jung Institute Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh. […]

Analytic conversation

Film Discussion

Shame

Meditation, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis

The Aging Process

Details will be posted soon.

Triangle of Conflict; children's defense mechanisms; value of systematic empirical work

CURED illuminates a pivotal yet largely unknown chapter in the struggle for LGBTQ+ equality: the campaign that led the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from its manual of mental illnesses. Before this momentous 1973 decision, the medical establishment viewed every gay and lesbian person as diseased and in need of a cure. Business and government used the mental-illness classification to justify discrimination and bigotry. As long as lesbians and gay men were “sick,” progress toward equality was nearly impossible.
Incorporating a trove of newly unearthed archival material, CURED takes audiences inside this riveting narrative to chronicle the strategy and tactics that led to a crucial turning point in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights. Indeed, following the Stonewall rebellion of 1969, the battle that culminated in the APA’s decision to remove homosexuality from the DSM, marked the first major step on the path to first-class citizenship for LGBTQ+ Americans. CURED sheds new light on this victory, while situating the APA story within the larger context of the modern movement for LGBTQ+ equality.

International Psychotherapy Institute This event addresses: Object Relations Theory and Practice provides a concentrated immersion in the fundamentals of object relations theory and therapy. The International Psychotherapy Institute offers a certificate program in Object Relations is life-changing. We provide a high quality, deeply immersive, supportive training through our two-year certificate training program. Our training is […]

Free zoom event: Connections and Conversation Psychoanalytic dialogue

The current moment in psychoanalytic thinking has made a “turn towards the social,” but what does this mean in theoretical and practical terms. This presentation aims to provide a conceptual basis for the Social Unconscious as a register grounded in groups, and operating as a different kind of psychic life than what we are used […]

Join us in this all-level study group as we utilize Nancy McWilliams’ text, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, as a guide to exploring the defining and distinguishing features of a psychoanalytic approach. Through reading and discussion, we will discuss some of the values and assumptions associated with a psychoanalytic sensibility, examine key considerations such as therapeutic frame and […]

This presentation is about interweaving somatic approaches from outside of psychoanalysis into psychoanalytic treatment, especially for patients suffering from early developmental trauma and severe dissociation. Dr. Levit is a psychoanalyst who trained in Somatic Experiencing (SE). Developed originally as a treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder, SE is rooted in neurophysiology, biology and ethology. As its […]

Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute This event addresses: Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy The goal of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program (CAPP) is to provide participants with exposure to concepts that inform psychodynamic therapy with children and adolescents. The program includes an in-depth exposure to concepts from psychoanalytic understandings of development and psychopathology as they apply to […]

Presenter: Glen O. Gabbard, MD Description: Glen O. Gabbard, MD will discuss the forces, both conscious and unconscious, that lead clinicians to transgress the boundaries of clinical practice. I will illustrate with clinical material from my many years of evaluating and treating practitioners.

A Brief History of Psychedelic Psychoanalytic Therapy and an Introduction to Psychedelic Phenomenology presented by Jeffrey Guss, MD This talk will begin with a brief review of the history of psychedelic psychoanalytic treatment in the United States and Europe. Following this an introduction to psychedelic phenomenology from a psychoanalytic perspective will be offered, focusing on 1) […]

This workshop includes reflections on the presenter’s experiences as the first openly lesbian candidate at an institute of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She will share lessons learned from her leadership role at the national and local level before and after the APsA's 1991 decision to allow for the training of gay and lesbian psychoanalysts. She […]

In this three part study group, participants will explore the trends and controversies that have occurred over time in the psychoanalytic conceptualizations and treatment of trauma. The purpose is not to examine history as static and resolved, but to consider how the prior issues keep evolving, influencing the ways in which we view trauma, its […]

Instructor: Duane Dale, MD Course Description In these nine monthly seminars, we will be discussing the book, Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis, written by Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, and Michael Levin. In my reading of this book, much of the exciting growth in psychoanalytic perspectives is captured and synthesized. The musical […]

Is a patient’s distress predominantly rooted in their personality or in the cultural milieu, or both? There has been a tendency to separate the psyche and the social throughout the history of psychoanalysis, and tensions persist in theorizing about this issue. In this program, we will explore how personality is shaped by sociocultural context and […]

If deep and enduring psychodynamic change is the ultimate goal of treatment, then periodically juxtaposing seemingly contradictory “forces” (Hegel’s thesis and antithesis) will eventually jump-start the patient’s “adaptive recovery” by creating optimally stressful, growth-incentivizing “mismatch experiences.” I will be proposing use of something to which I refer as a “conflict statement” – a clinically useful […]

Michael J. Diamond, PhD, FIPA In this two-hour presentation, Dr. Diamond will examine larger social and cultural factors at play during today’s perilous times. He describes destructive populism and group regression as exemplified by malignant cult-like elements. The current political discourse. Using both a psychoanalytic and a cultural lens, he analyzes the development of paranoid, […]

Dr. Lynne Harkless of the Florida Psychoanalytic Center will be presenting her paper, forthcoming publication in JAPA, which questions and retheorizes the connection between embodiment of erotic desire and embodiment of gender. She proposes that children identify with caregivers’ modes of embodying erotic desire and that these identifications can be thought of as separable from […]

Session 2 will be held on September 30 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT This seminar attempts to raise awareness of unconscious states of mind around race in clinical work using a variation of the Balint method. This Method utilizes group engagement with a case problem brought by a case holder who describes a […]