This lecture will consider the importance but also the puzzles of gratitude in human life. Why is gratitude so important to our flourishing, yet why is it also so elusive? Attention will be paid to special issues concerning gratitude and its place in the psychoanalytic situation. Jonathan Lear, PhD

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 early Bolshevik who emigrated to America in the 1920s, contributed to his efforts for fairness and inclusion in psychoanalytic training.

Relating Racially: Shifting Between We, They, and I Senses of Self - Michelle Stephens, LP, PhD (Live) 2024-25 Friday Night Guest Lecture Series Psychoanalysts and psychotherapists are currently showing considerable interest in, and concern over, the relevance of different forms of racism to psychological suffering and to the development of the field of psychoanalysis itself. […]

Presented by Christie Hunnicutt, PhD, LCSW

Robert Wolf, DPsa presents a group supervision experience that provides a supportive environment to explore and process countertransference feelings and inductions through nonverbal, expressive modalities, and sensory motor techniques like drawing, role-playing, visualization, and somatic exploration, to help understand how our unconscious constantly collects information without our overt awareness. CE.

Part of the 2024 Virtual Roundtable Series, Minding the Gaps: Addressing Mental Health Through the Life Cycle Erik Erikson outlined specific tasks associated with developmental stages across the life cycle. In Erikson’s model generativity, stagnation, ego integrity, and despair are all potential aspects of development in the second half of life. Aging brings a crisis […]

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 functioning will be reviewed. The impact of psychiatry, culture, and some analytic practice that views suffering as destructive for our patients will be discussed. Destructive […]

Session 3: In Her Own Voice: Challenging Theories of Women’s Development Participants: Nancy Kulish and Catherine Mallouh Registration Deadline: December 11, 2024 For additional information including the program flyer, speaker bios, and information about future sessions please visit the informational program page: https://www.wbcp.org/cowap-women-the-longest-revolution-presenter-biographies/ Description: Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the […]

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 patterns in many otherwise well-developed people. Hedges will discuss the nature of early relational experience and how early experiences of distress often leave marks on […]

Speaker: Elizabeth Brett, PhD Discussant: Alfred Margulies, MD From his first publications, Hans Loewald presents a model of mother?infant unity, in which psychic development takes place in the tension systems of an interpersonal field. He outlines the almost undetectable and emergent processes in the psyche as psychological functioning begins to form and evolve in its […]

2024-25 Grand Rounds Series Dr. Theodore Fallon will present ongoing work illuminating a developmental perspective on working with adult patients in talk therapy. This perspective focuses on three different stages in child development: Developing a core sense of self which in “normative” chronology takes place during the first 18 months of life; The psychic equivalent […]