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 […]

New Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Overview of training programs in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy . NCP offers four postgraduate training programs in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for licensed mental health professionals. Just as the landscape for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis has evolved during the past year, NCP continues to evolve through the integration of […]

Western New England Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: climate crisis and leadership Speaker: Merritt Gardiner Juliano, JD, LCSW This half-day workshop will explore Otto Scharmer’s Theory U Leadership principles of “presencing,” or operating from the future as it emerges. During this time of great disruption as evidenced by the planetary health crisis, and massive failures […]

Dallas Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: survivors of abuse Dr. Marilyn Charles and Dr. Zane Dodd, Co-leaders, expand on their understanding on enactments in working with deeply traumatized persons.

Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia This event addresses: Conscious and Unconscious Guilt, Religion, Psychoanalysis Co-Facilitators Sonja Ware, TH.M.,M.DIV. & David Sachs, MD. present THE PASTOR AND THE ANALYST: An Interactive Discussion of Conscious and Unconscious Guilt, Religion, and Psychoanalysis. Guilt is part of the emotional spectrum of human life. As a function of the superego, it […]

San Diego Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: Shame and Guilt In the aftermath of relational disruptions to giving of oneself and being received, shame inverts the passionate movement of responsibility toward and for others into an enclosed self-focused preoccupation. Through the filter of omnipotence and omniscience, shame transforms the helplessness of one’s suffering into punishment […]

Oregon Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: Ferenczi’s Secret Life Ferenczi’s mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis. Routinely attacked by conservative commentators as a boundarv vio ation and an exploitation of the patient, Rudnytsky defends Ferenczi’s experiment on both counts and argues that […]

The American Institute for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: On the aspects of Western psychoanalysis and Eastern meditative traditions Interest in blending Eastern meditative and Western psychotherapeutic traditions is burgeoning, yet we have only begun to realize what these rich traditions can teach each other. In this presentation—a combination of lecture, meditation practice, and dialogue with […]

New Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Embodiment and the Perversion of Desire Dr. Celenza presents the case of Laura, who considers her sexual desire to be perverse, to illustrate ways in which subjective positions and affective, embodied states can be defended against, split off or otherwise dissociated, reflecting a perverse intra-subjective position. A schematic […]

International Psychotherapy Institute This event addresses: the emotional significance of money and attempt to show the ways in which it impacts upon the work of psychotherapy This one hour lecture features guest presenter Salman Akhtar, MD, the keynote speaker for our April Weekend Conference. About the Presentation: This presentation will address the emotional significance of […]

New Center For Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Maternal Erotic Transferences and the Fate of Feminine Signifiers This program is designed to address clinically relevant theorizing and its clinical applications on a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives revolving around transferences, states of being and the place of love in the analytic setting. The day’s program will be […]

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Psychological Complexity in Shakespeare Richard Waugaman, MD will present excerpts from his chapter on “Psychological Complexity in Shakespeare,” to be published by Routledge in a book on psychoanalytic approaches to Shakespeare. Psychoanalysis has helped illuminate the astonishing complexity of Shakespeare, arguably the greatest creative writer in history. […]

The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists This event addresses: Gender Identity PRESENTER: SUSAN McNAMARA, MD At a time when various states are criminalizing transgender care, it is important for clinicians to be well-educated about gender identity and gender expression, as […]

Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute This event addresses: Therapeutic Action The Elusive Construct of “Therapeutic Action” is one of the major sources of frustration among psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic clinicians. The title of the presentation reflects the fact that after many decades of study and practice, it is still difficult for clinicians and researchers to adequately […]

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Gender Adrienne Harris and Abby Pariser will each give a brief discussion of the movie, followed by an open conversation with the audience. We look forward to your participation. The discussion will focus on the importance of abortion being legal and of women fighting for their rights.

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Ethics Presented by Nancy McWilliams, PhD 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 literature on psychoanalytic supervision, especially in the domain of ethics, is quite […]

Western New England Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: trauma Speaker: Joseph Fernando, Mpsy, MD This paper delves further into the nature and clinical applications of the zero process, an idea I introduced in my 2009 book on defenses to designate a specific form of mental functioning that is a product of trauma. The formation of […]

Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute This event addresses: This paper presentation is designed for psychoanalytically oriented clinicians who work with children, adolescents, and adults. The focus is on understanding the sources of resistance in psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapies and psychoanalysis, and

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Racism Beverly J. Stoute, MD, who is African American, and Michael Slevin, MA, MSW, who is white, will discuss the personal and historical moments that precipitated their decision as colleagues to tackle their five-year project co-editing The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter (Routledge, 2023). […]

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Study Group – Conflict: Various Psychoanalytic Perspectives From its beginning, psychoanalysis has been defined as a psychology of conflict. As such, conflict is considered ubiquitous and unavoidable, central to the formation of human character and maladaptive symptoms. Freud’s tripartite structure of id, ego, and superego, and the subsequent development […]

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Compromised Analyses: On the Failure to Productively Use Difficult Countertransference Experience Presented by Irwin Hirsch, PhD Psychoanalysts have long questioned the relative value of insight as a mutative factor in psychoanalytic treatment. Currently, most analysts believe that insight has value, but is not sufficient in and of itself to […]

International Psychotherapy Institute This event addresses: the role of the non-human shapers and regulators of personality, both as it develops and functions over the human lifespan. Keynote Speaker: Salman Akhtar, MD Psychoanalysis, including psychoanalytic psychotherapy, is a discipline devoted to studying psychic development, well-adapted and maladapted mental functioning, the unfolding of the inner world of […]

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006) This event addresses: Renewed focus on women in today’s world Presenters: Sylvia Gonzalez, MD, PLLC and Adriana Martinez Crane, LCSW – The current socio-political climate has forced a renewed focus on women in today’s world. We see women of all ages, ethnicities, socio-economic status and […]

Greater Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: How the active freedom of healthy development becomes inhibited by trauma. In this workshop, Dr. Peter Shabad will use a psychoanalytic-existential framework to describe how the active freedom of healthy development becomes inhibited by trauma and its aftermath of shame. He will describe the origins of shame […]