This is a concise and accessible 5-session introduction to theories of adult development, featuring literary and historical case studies. In weekly meetings we'll read Carol Gilligan, Erik Erikson, and Usha Tummala-Narra on processes of change in the context of social justice. In tandem we'll read a new graphic memoir of adolescence by a Korean-American artist-writer […]

Olga Khokhlova presents a clinical case with James Poulton as discussant in our ongoing Family and Couple therapy videoconference series. 2 CEs $60

Andrea Celenza presents in our ongoing videoconference series on The Erotic in Psychoanalysis. 2 CEs $60

Presenter: Jon G. Allen, PhD Description: After its dominance in American psychotherapy in the first half of the twentieth century, psychoanalysis was marginalized in the healthcare system in the latter part of the century. This marginalization resulted from the confluence of academic scientism and tailoring of psychotherapies to DSM diagnoses in psychiatry.

Following a two-year personally driven immersive odyssey into the works of French Psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, Nancy M. Kulish, PhD has arrived at a particular understanding of the concept of the abject. Dr. Kulish will guide us on her journey to show us a new way to understand the way the very early conflictual engagement between […]

Free zoom event Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D: For a long time, I have been interested in the relations between individuals and collectives: the groups they are, and feel, part of; the groups they identify with, and in the act of identifying, becoming who they are. In other words, I’ve been interested in belonging: in how we […]

Presented by Paula Christian Kliger, PhD. Taking the position that a road paved with truth, reconciliation, and reparation is the road less traveled in our racial and sociocultural healing and our search for human resonance, this presentation seeks to face our toxic history and asks the question “How do we heal?” It also asks the […]

A Scientific Meeting presented by Judy Kantrowitz, PhD In this presentation, we will consider the importance of an outside observer in clinical work after the end of formal training. This includes but is not limited to the importance of peer supervision, supervision groups where cases can be shared confidentially, and other forms of clinical consultation. […]

Presented by Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD. At this moment in time, conversations about gender are at the epicenter of heated debate and passionate conversation. At stake is gender's status as a concept (does gender matter, and if so, how?) and matters relating to gender development. Is gender an innate part of the self or one that […]

Dr. Judy Kantrowitz presents Understanding Issues of Dual Roles and Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Practice. In this workshop, we will consider the Ethical issues presented by Dual Roles and Conflicts of Interest in clinical practice. Dr. Kantrowitz will come prepared with 3 formal case vignettes for discussion. In addition, she will invite vignettes from […]

D. Bradley Jones, PsyD, LCSW and Darren Haber, PsyD, MFT demonstrate how a relational psychoanalytic approach that engages the subjective experience of the patient and contextualizes emotional pain can facilitate developmental growth for two patients on the “continuum of change,” not yet ready for abstinence. Heather Ferguson, LCSW, faculty from The Institute for the Psychoanalytic […]

Clinicians and researchers find it difficult to adequately describe how the patient changes and what roles the clinician has in facilitating change. What approaches have been developed to help us understand how patients can expand their understanding of the source of the difficulties and what they can do to improve their lives? Dr. Gabbard will […]

This salon, taught by Glenda Corstorphine, will focus on our patients who have a hard time letting us help them. From a very young age they are used to figuring everything out on their own. When these patients enter therapy there is a longing for help, a hope that someone can come along side of […]

Mark Solms is a psychoanalyst, neuropsychologist and a professor in Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). His lecture begins with a discussion on the series of discoveries about the dreaming brain between the 1950s and 1980s that suggested that Freudian theory was scientifically disproven. Less well known is the fact that a […]

William Jankowiak presents in our ongoing Couple and Family therapy videoconference series. 2 CEs $60

Please come in person or attend online a very special event sponsored by the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society. We have 2 wonderful speakers: Dionne Powell and Beverly Stoute who are highly credentialed scholars in the field of race and culture and eminently knowledgeable about working with race in the consulting room. We are very pleased to […]

53rd Annual Margaret S. Mahler Symposium on Child Development:  This program draws from approaches to clinical research and practice that are aligned with the work and legacy of Anni Bergman, PhD, a pioneer in developmental theory and in working with high-risk and at-risk individuals and families. Each presentation, and each discussant, builds on Dr. Bergman’s […]

Join us at the 55th Annual Education Conference (Live Online) hosted by the Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of New York State Society for Clinical Social Work (NYSSCSW)– a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to supporting the professional development of licensed mental health professionals, including psychodynamic and psychoanalytic practice. Two Virtual Saturdays: April 20th 2024 […]

Treating people suffering with trauma disorders present the clinician with several challenges and dilemmas. How does one diagnose and treat a trauma survivor from a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic perspective? How does the clinician understand changes in self-states, moods, and shifting affective states? Are we treating developmental trauma, or the kind of trauma that leads to […]

The Dancer's Voice: Performance, Psychoanalysis and the South Asian Experience $15 (minimum donation) will benefit South Asian Americans For Change, a mental health non-profit. In this discussion, University of Georgia professor of music and women's studies, Rumya S. Putcha, PhD, and Chicago psychoanalytic candidate and psychiatrist Indrany Datta-Barua, MD, will be integrating their respective social […]

This course will offer an introduction to Community Psychoanalysis, with a focus on the experiences of clinicians working in community settings in the midst of sociocultural changes. The course aims to foster mutual dialogue and learning between community-based clinicians and leaders and members of the psychoanalytic community. CE.

Rachel Blass presents “A new perspective on Freud’s thinking on truth, it’s foundational role in psychoanalysis, and its contemporary relevance." At the foundation of Freud’s thinking is the idea that psychopathology is the result of denial. Truths denied lead to a distorted reality and accordingly coming to know these truths, discovering the true meanings underlying […]

Join us at this 2nd Conference Day for the 55th Annual Education Conference (Live Online) hosted by the Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of New York State Society for Clinical Social Work (NYSSCSW) – a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to supporting the professional development of licensed mental health professionals, including psychodynamic and psychoanalytic practice. […]

Tapping the roots of mental health history, Dr. Clara Mucci continues the pioneering work begun in 1919 at The Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas with her masterful and highly accessible synthesis of psychoanalytic theorists, such as Freud, Ferenczi, and more, with contemporary perspectives on neurobiology and attachment disturbances. Cultivating refined skills in diagnosis and treatment, […]

Marilia Aisenstein will lead us on a journey inside the mind of the newborn infant to demonstrate how human beings develop the capacity for waiting, a state that involves a pleasurable experience that paves the way for desire. Referencing Freud’s concept of “primary masochism” Ms. Aisenstein shows that having a “good enough mother”-- who through […]

Free zoom event with Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-S : Psychoanalytic thinking offers valuable insights to clinicians working with eating disorders and body image concerns. In a field that increasingly emphasizes rapid symptom reduction, treatment providers risk neglecting less overt, and less easily measurable, aspects of the patient’s experience. This presentation will bring together […]

Rachel Blass presents “On the special nature of Kleinian transference interpretation, and why it is essential to analytic cure." The idea that transference interpretation plays an important role in the analytic process is a familiar one. Underlying the London Kleinian approach is the idea that it is not only essential to the process but that […]

Marilia Aisenstein will show how the psychoanalytical approach and the writing of fiction share the power to transform human psychological experience, to change the very essence of our being in the world. By referencing masterpieces of literature and presenting clinical vignettes, Ms. Aisenstein will demonstrate the intersubjective processes that are based in the unconscious. She […]

Rachel Blass presents “On the Kleinian view of narcissism: self-love, perfection and idealization as forces of destruction." In this course we will examine the Kleinian approach to narcissism, focusing on the works of Melanie Klein, Joan Riviere and Herbert Rosenfeld. We will see how and why in this approach narcissism and the self-love, sense of […]

Angelika Mellema presents a case for discussion in our ongoing family and couple therapy videoconference series. 2 CEs $60

One of the most damaging sequelae of trauma is the loss of trust and security in interpersonal relationships (Fonagy & Allison, 2014.) When encountering a patient with traumatic interpersonal experiences, we cannot assume a capacity to trust or to form a safe, secure attachment. Nor can we assume the capacity to learn or benefit from […]

In the seventh installment of "Lost Classics," we will be taking a close look at Rene Roussillon's "Primitive Agony and Symbolization. " How are archaic experiences present in the adolescent and adult mind? What role does "interpretation" play in making contact with these primitive parts of ourselves? Does symbolization help? How might we think about […]

Alessandra Lemma presents the final session of our ongoing videoconference series on the Erotic in Psychoanalysis. 2 CEs $60

Presented by Charles E. Parks, PhD

Guest Speaker: Mary Jo Peebles, PhD, ABPP, ABPH Achieving tangible, structural change isn't easy. Four skill areas, frequently missing from psychodynamic curricula, help change stick: Goal-setting, Right-Hemispheric processing, enhancing Absorption, and actively developing Internalization. This workshop describes and illustrates these four skill areas to psychotherapists of all experience levels and theoretical orientations, using lecture, slides, […]

This panel will explore how music comprises the forms of collective living in which the body finds its place in psychical life. The presentations will describe the ways that the vitality of the psychoanalytic clinical process depends at all times on this background quality of shared music, and how many of the contemporary maladies we […]

Dr. Gilbert Kliman will present on his preschool Reflective Network Therapy. He will address how children can resiliently emerge from trauma and the adult aftermath of childhood trauma in foster care. CE.