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 […]

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: “The Maternal Death Drive” Lisa Baraitser in conversation with Katie Gentile, and Lynne Zeavin, moderator This “conversation” will focus on Lisa Baraitser’s understanding of a ‘maternal death drive’. This supplements Freud’s death drive by accounting for the temporality of repetition that retains a relation to the future […]

Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute Location: virtual Visit: https://cpi.memberclicks.net/adult-clinical-4-week-seminar This event addresses: The faculty of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute invite you to participate in an invitational seminar focused on Deepening Psychotherapy Treatment with adult cases. The goal of this training is to demonstrate, through in-depth presentation of two psychotherapy treatments, practical, psychoanalytically-informed approaches and techniques for work […]

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006) This event addresses: Woman’s powerful process of getting to know her authentic self after coming into therapy following an affair. Presenter: Jennifer Gardner, LCSW – In this talk we will aim to explore these concepts, in addition to using a case to demonstrate a woman’s […]

Florida Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: Bion (1965) noted that “… no one can ever know what happens in the analytic session, the thing-in-itself, O; we can only speak of what the analyst or patient feels happens, know what the participants say happens, or the emotional state engendered by the verbalization of analyst or patient […]

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006) This event addresses: Challenges of Emergent Adulthood Presenter: B. James Bennett, MD – In recent years there has been an increasing understanding of emergent adulthood as a distinct developmental stage from late adolescence through mid to late twenties. In this discussion, we will explore some […]

New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: Ethics/Professional Will In the event of death or disability or other unexpected circumstances that would prevent a clinician from continuing to provide services, many tasks typically need to be completed, which should be set forth in the clinician’s Professional Will. Deb Henson, attorney and LCSW, will address […]

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Working with a hard to reach patient Writing and Righting and Selling the Cow for Beans: The Case of Tad, Psychoanalysis, Self and Context. Dr. Jeffrey Stern recounts his work with Tad, a difficult to reach patient, with whom treatment stalls. Dr. Stern turns to writing to reach an […]