Presented by Jean Goodwin, MD Electra, like Oedipus, is a character from Greek mythology. The founders of psychoanalysis used their names to denote a psychosocial developmental phase. However, Electra’s story, like the biography of Oedipus, teaches us more about murderous violence than about internal conflict. Electra can also teach us something about recovery; she and […]

Presented by Richard Gartner, PhD Research suggests that in the United States one in six boys is directly victimized sexually by age 16. It has also become increasingly apparent in recent years that adult men, like women, are subject to sexual abuse, harassment, and assault. In order to treat this population, it is crucial that […]

Presented by Micah J. Knobles, MD A case study and discussion of how psychoanalytic technique remains relevant to today's modern medical settings.

A Scientific Meeting presented by Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D., ABPP with Respondent, Lisa Damour, Ph.D.

This event will focus on ideas from Dr. Galit Atlas’ new book, Emotional Inheritance. It will address silenced experiences that belong not only to us or to our patients, but to their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents, and the ways they impact our lives. The clinical tales will focus on emotional material that is passed down […]

Both the American Psychological and the American Psychiatric Associations have recently advocated specific courses in supervision for their trainees. Good supervision has been described in terms of specific competences or progressive skill sets, often measured via symptom reduction in the supervisee’s clients. Emphasis has also been put on adapting supervision, like treatment, to areas of […]

This presentation, by Jeffrey Rubin, PhD, is a combination of lecture, meditation practice, and dialogue with the audience, exploring “meditative psychoanalysis”, blending Western psychoanalysis and Eastern meditative traditions into a more encompassing synthesis.

Carol Gilligan joins NCP to discuss her newly released book In a Human Voice. It has been over forty years since the publication of Gilligan’s revolutionary book In a Different Voice (1982), when she amplified women’s voices on self and moral development, helping them to be heard in their own right, and with their own […]

"The Total Training Situation: Dimensions of Candidacy that Potentiate Analytic Process" - 2023 Semi-Finalist Presentation Presenter: Matt Shatzman, M.A. - A recent graduate of the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute Discussant: Richard Tuch, M.D. - Training and Supervising Analyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Chair of the DPE Scholarship and Writing Section. Matt Shatzman, M.A., […]

Hybrid Program - In Person in Portland, OR or Virtual via Zoom (this program will not be recorded). Speakers: David L. Eng, PhD & ShinHee Han, PhD In this workshop, we will consider how social and psychic processes of loss for Asian Americans are mediated, mitigated, and exacerbated by the problem of guilt. Scholars working […]

Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting. This conversation will explore the space between violence and trauma is dangerous silence. Time, space and history collides. Silence intensifies the impact of trauma, and trauma that goes unspoken, un-witnessed and unclaimed produces more trauma to self and others. Silence can be associated with a ghost, […]

Dr. Megan Rundel, PhD, is a practitioner of psychedelic-assisted psychoanalysis in Oakland, CA. In this course, we will explore the psychedelic renaissance in mental health treatment and how it is relevant to psychoanalysis. We will consider the history of psychedelic use, and cultural issues that exert strong influence on our attitudes toward them. We will […]

The International Psychotherapy Institute (IPI) is pleased to announce a private virtual screening of CURED, an award-winning documentary that highlights a pivotal but little-known moment in LGBTQ history when activists and psychiatrists challenged a formidable institution - and won a crucial victory in the modern movement for LGBTQ equality and dignity. On Monday, November 13th […]

It can be challenging to wrestle alone with ethical dilemmas when working with children and adolescents. Therefore, the IPI Child Psychotherapy and Child Psychoanalysis Faculty offer a one-day workshop to think together about psychoanalytic approaches to common ethical conundrums facing child therapists who work with both the child and the parents/family. CE Available.

Are you seeking a conference that focuses on the ethics and complexities of working analytically with youth as they negotiate their sexual and gender identities? Alessandra Lemma is the guest speaker as we discuss a range of clinical phenomena with a special focus on ethical principles and exercising an ethical self-discipline to support critical reflection […]

Sylvia Flescher, M.D., will join us in person on Friday, November 17th, and share with us excerpts from her memoir-in-progress. Her memoir describes the evolution of her identity as a clinician since her analytic training in the '80s. Dr. Flescher will talk about the origins and development of her ambivalence towards psychoanalysis, considering the role […]

Carol Gilligan, psychologist, feminist and ethicist will discuss her new book, In a Human Voice. Forty years after the publication of In a Different Voice, considered by the Harvard University Press as “the little book that started a revolution,” Dr. Gilligan expands her ideas regarding morality and self to introduce care ethics which she conceptualizes […]

Presented by M. Gerard Fromm, PhD In January, 2002, an annual Group Relations Conference was held as it had been for many years, and one of its large-group events began ordinarily enough. But, four months after 9/11/2001, members could not stay in the room to do the work of that session. Even though the recent […]