Connections and Conversation with George Bermudez, Ph.D.: Towards a Socio-centric Psychoanalysis Contributing to Deliberative Democracy: Social Dreaming, Community Psychoanalysis, & Reflective Citizenship

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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 […]

Meet the Author: John Martin-Joy

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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”.

Almost Half a Century Since it Was Expelled From the DSM, Why is Psychoanalytic Thought Still in the Wilderness?

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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 […]

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program 2023

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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 […]

Psychoanalytic Therapy and Evolution

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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.

Play and the Rules That We Need … to be Broken

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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 […]

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Scientific Meeting

Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)

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 […]

Ethics Conference: Conflicts and Ethics in Psychoanalytic Consultation and Supervision

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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 […]

Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)

Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)

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 […]

Gender Fluidities and Valences in Childhood

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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 […]

COWAP Revisiting the Maternal

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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 […]

Adult Clinical 4 week seminar

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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 […]

Alumni Group: Libido in the Lunchbox

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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 […]

Scientific Meeting “On the Genesis of Interpretation in a Changing Landscape”

Hybrid-In Peson at Florida Psychoanalytic Center and Zoom

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 […]