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). […]