Psychoanalytic Fellowship Saturdays, 11:45 am - 1:45 pm September 7, 2024 – April 2025 Psychoanalytic principles find application in a variety of fields and disciplines and can provide advanced students, psychiatric residents, and graduate mental-health practitioners with valuable fundamental insights in their professional development and careers. In this tuition-free program, fellows learn through exposure to […]

Free zoom event with Robin Cohen: Using the works of Fairbairn, Guntrip, Bowlby, Mitchell, Benjamin, and others, Dr. Cohen examines the dynamics involved in toxic, destructive relationships. If you treat people who are enmeshed in abusive relationships, you may feel frightened and frustrated as they edge closer to self-destruction. Some may withstand physical and emotional […]

Combined Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program and Candidate Seminar Mondays, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm September 9, 2024 – April 28, 2025 Via Zoom Program Flyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/fellowships/24-25%20Child%20and%20Adolescent%20Fellowship%20FLYER.pdf For additional academic details please visit our program page: https://www.wbcp.org/combined-child-and-adolescent-psychoanalytic-fellowship-program-and-candidate-seminar/ The Combined Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program and Candidate Seminar is a tuition-free program for advanced […]

The Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis online application portal for the 2024-2025 Community Psychoanalysis Certificate Program (CPCP) is now open. Expand and enrich your clinical work by engaging in a two-year journey that melds didactic learning, experiential reflective groups, and hands-on placements in community agencies or nonprofits. Fridays, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm September 20, […]

A Scientific Meeting presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando, MDCM. This presentation explores the links between trauma, guilt, and the superego, and through this exploration attempts to make some additions to our understanding of individual dynamics, group regression, and group delusions. Dr. Fernando first describes his concept of the zero process as the form of mental […]

A Scientific Meeting presented by Dr. Joseph Fernando, MDCM. In this presentation Dr. Fernando will differentiate two defenses that are important clinically but that are often confused with each other: projective identification and identification with the aggressor. He will show that differentiating these two defenses at the conceptual level can be helpful clinically. Dr. Fernando […]