Presented by Ricardo Ainslie, PhD Cities are interesting and complex psychological spaces that shape our subjective experience in ways that are both conscious and unconscious. Drawing from Bion, Winnicott, and […]

Edmund Sprunger, MSW, LCSW: Students sometimes seem to dismiss their teachers' best attempts to help them learn. They might ignore simple directions, roll their eyes, sigh, or mention that elephants […]

Jill Savege Scharff and David Scharff

Dismayed by the fragmentation haunting the psychoanalytic project for more than a century, Dr. Karbelnig has proposed an overarching clinical model for psychoanalysis. The approach intends to unify practitioners using […]

Dismayed by the fragmentation haunting the psychoanalytic project for more than a century, Dr. Karbelnig has proposed an overarching clinical model for psychoanalysis. The approach intends to unify practitioners using […]

A Scientific Meeting presented by Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D.

A Scientific Meeting presented by Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D. A common misconception about treatments derived from psychoanalysis is that they are appropriate only for highly educated people of means. This presentation […]

Workshop presented by Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D.

Workshop presented by Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D. Freud believed that dream work is the "royal road" to the unconscious, and he called The Interpretation of Dreams his "best and most important […]

Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This salon introduces an approach integrating psychoanalytic/psychodynamic principles and processes to enhance clinical competence. Participants will learn practical […]

Presented by Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD with Discussant Joseph Aguayo, PhD Terms such as vitality and authenticity are difficult to define. Moreover, they are not truly psychoanalytic concepts. However, when […]

Beginning with the question of the individual’s fitness with their family of origin, the authors describe the variables that determine the adolescent’s capacity to join peer groups. Optimally, the adolescent […]

Greg Rizzolo, PhD. Compulsions and Obsessions: A Lifespan Perspective.  Freud's concept of the obsessional neuroses has evolved into today's obsessive compulsive disorder with ideas from many fields helping to understand […]

Free zoom event with Koichi Tagashi, Ph.D., L.P.: Are you able to cure your patient? In this presentation, I like to pose this question, without defining what a “cure” might […]

Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm Presenter: Sam Guzzardi, LCSW "Holding Laplanche Lightly: The Story of Two Queer Treatments" Via Zoom Presentation: As psychoanalysis seeks to find new frontiers both for clinical […]

In this conference, Donna Roth Smith, LCSW & Hilda Catz, Ph.D offer a new way to talk about clinical work. They will talk together through the year about ongoing treatments […]

A Psychoanalytic Town Hall: Controversial Issues in the 2024 Presidential Election Panel of Psychoanalysts: Michael Diamond, PhD, David James Fisher, PhD, Mark Fisher, MD, Debra Myers, MD, Peter Wolson, PhD […]

Alexandra Leonardo

For clinicians or mental health students who are curious about what it is that psychodynamic therapists actually do, we offer a “window” into the process and a chance to connect […]

This is an introductory course on the evolution of the Independent Tradition (British in origin) applied to our work with children and adolescents. This tradition (or approach) is developmentally appropriate […]

Presenter: Ellen Safier, LCSW | Our intimate partnerships are the places where we are most vulnerable. It is of course these relationships that have the potential to provide the greatest […]

Presented by Dr. Mauricio Salvador Garza Villalobos Psychiatric medication is surrounded by myths and fears both by patients and even from professionals in the mental health world. Being able to […]

Presented by Donnel B. Stern In my first model of unformulated experience (Stern, 1983, 1997), my intention was to study our capacity to reflect on our own experience; and that […]

Nestor Kapusta

Asteroid City (2023) has been described by writer-director Wes Anderson as a“poetic meditation on the meaning of life”. Set in the 1950’s, Asteroid City is a young girl’s coming-of-age story […]

Free zoom event with Veronica D. Abney, Ph.D.: This paper presents a description of the analysis of an African-American patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder. It will focus primarily on one […]

Caroline Sehon

Presented by Lawrence Hedges, PhD, PsyD, ABPP. Technologically driven research during the last three decades in the fields of neuroscience, infant research, and relational psychotherapy has made clear the importance […]

Jana K. Edwards, LCSW. Shame and Reunions: A New Look at the Compulsion to Repeat.  Ms. Edwards frames the repetition compulsion in her work with adult partners as a path […]

Hanni Mann-Shalvi

Talia Hatzor

Kathryn Zerbe

Presenter: Arnold Richards, MD | This memoir describes the relationship between Richards' personal life and professional life inside and outside of psychoanalysis. The influence of his Russian Jewish father, an […]

Presented by Dr. Avedis Panajian, Ph.D., ABPP in Clinical Psychology Dr. Panajian will discuss the differences between neurotic, borderline, and psychotic mental functioning. Personality disorders with severe and not-so-severe psychotic […]

Presented by Dr. Lawrence Hedges, Ph.D., Psy.D., ABPP: Over the past two decades, it has become increasingly clear that the earliest of life’s experiences have left “pockets” of primitive relational […]

The Online TOPP is an ADVANCED course for clinicians who are already working interpersonally or relationally and wish to deepen their clinical work. Most students in the program are psychoanalysts […]

The Online IPPP is designed for working clinicians who wish to learn the Interpersonal psychoanalytic perspective.The 28 week curriculum is divided into 4 modules: Consultation and Beginning a Treatment, Key […]

Presenter: Glen O. Gabbard, MD | Psychoanalysis, which at its core is a search for truth, stands in a subversive position vis-a-vis the contemporary therapeutic culture that places a premium […]

Perrine Moran

Aisha Abbasi, MD: Homesickness is a commonly used term, and a feeling that has been studied with interest, in psychoanalysis. The connection and distinction between homesickness and nostalgia has been […]

Donald Campbell

Presented by Tiffaney Hale, LMFT Attendees will explore Griffith Hansbury’s paper, The masculine vaginal: Working with queer men’s embodiment at the transgender edge (2017) as a conduit for both thinking […]

This course will focus on Butler’s experience and engagement with psychoanalysis, in order to explore what impact their thinking can hold for clinical practice. We will focus both on their […]

Wendy Katz, PhD. Silence, Second Skin, and the Unrepresented.  Dr. Katz uses the concepts of microdialect and secondskin to to explore the patient's silence in session and how it may function on multiple levels of […]