What do you want to be when you grow up? This provocative question is the title of one chapter as well as the theme woven throughout Thomas Ogden’s book, Coming to Life in the Consulting Room: Toward a New Analytic Sensibility. While the question seemingly refers to occupational goals, Ogden clarifies that he really means […]

Presenter: Jean Goodwin, MD., MPH | Psychoanalysis was both a help and a hindrance to me in the late twentieth century as I was beginning to explore child sexual abuse and its sequelae. It was unhelpful that my medical school mentor(1968) explained that incest occurs one per million population. Also unhelpful when my supervisor in […]

The Headless Woman is a 2008 Argentine psychological thriller art film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel and starring María Onetto. After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois woman’s life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone. Not well-known to American movie-goers, Martel is "arguably the most […]

Racial Rage, Racial Guilt: The Uses of Anger in Asian America Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm Presenter: David L. Eng Live Presentation Post Hall George Washington University Mt. Vernon Campus REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Wednesday, October 2, 2024 Description: Asian Americans are conventionally described as “middle-man minorities,” outside of dominant racial paradigms of White and Black, […]

Brett Kahr

Mark Solms, neuroscientist and psychoanalyst, has substantially altered contemporary understanding of both Consciousness and Self-Experience. Solms is a clear and personable writer, but his understanding draws on science largely unfamiliar to psychotherapists. In preparation for his appearance at next Spring’s NCP Manifest Mind conference, we are offering an introductory course (5 monthly sessions over Zoom) […]

Edmund Sprunger, MSW, LCSW: Students sometimes seem to dismiss their teachers' best attempts to help them learn. They might ignore simple directions, roll their eyes, sigh, or mention that elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. Teachers can also feel disregarded by parents, who may attempt to discredit a teacher, fail to support their […]

Presented by Ricardo Ainslie, PhD Cities are interesting and complex psychological spaces that shape our subjective experience in ways that are both conscious and unconscious. Drawing from Bion, Winnicott, and other psychoanalytic theorists, but also from the work of architects and researchers from a variety of disciplines. This presentation examines the thesis that we simultaneously […]

Jill Savege Scharff and David Scharff   CE

Dismayed by the fragmentation haunting the psychoanalytic project for more than a century, Dr. Karbelnig has proposed an overarching clinical model for psychoanalysis. The approach intends to unify practitioners using Freudian, Jungian, Kleinian, Self-Psychological, Relational, or any psychodynamic approach. The presentation expands upon his February 2022 paper, "Chasing Infinity: Why Clinical Psychoanalysis' Future Lies in […]

Dismayed by the fragmentation haunting the psychoanalytic project for more than a century, Dr. Karbelnig has proposed an overarching clinical model for psychoanalysis. The approach intends to unify practitioners using Freudian, Jungian, Kleinian, Self-Psychological, Relational, or any psychodynamic approach. The presentation expands upon his February 2022 paper, "Chasing Infinity: Why Clinical Psychoanalysis' Future Lies in […]

A Scientific Meeting presented by Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D.

A Scientific Meeting presented by Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D. A common misconception about treatments derived from psychoanalysis is that they are appropriate only for highly educated people of means. This presentation challenges that assumption by referring both to Freud's free clinics and to Winnicott's work with homeless children. We will proceed to a discussion of IFA […]

Workshop presented by Deborah Luepnitz, Ph.D. Freud believed that dream work is the "royal road" to the unconscious, and he called The Interpretation of Dreams his "best and most important book." While the "Relational turn" of the 1980s enhanced the field in several ways-- reviving an interest in trauma, redefining counter-transference, and exploring the categories […]

Beginning with the question of the individual’s fitness with their family of origin, the authors describe the variables that determine the adolescent’s capacity to join peer groups. Optimally, the adolescent – when cognitive advancement is combined with a specific kind of group psychological mindedness – can consolidate their group identifications. When traumatized, an adolescent’s exclusion […]

Presented by Giuseppe Civitarese, MD, PhD with Discussant Joseph Aguayo, PhD Terms such as vitality and authenticity are difficult to define. Moreover, they are not truly psychoanalytic concepts. However, when psychoanalysis attempts to theorize the non-specific aspects of treatment, such as those related to the person of the analyst, it becomes inevitable to refer to […]

Compulsions and Obsessions: A Lifespan Perspective. Greg Rizzolo, PhD. Freud's concept of the obsessional neuroses has evolved into today's obsessive-compulsive disorder with ideas from many fields helping to understand this condition. Dr. Rizzolo contributes to this effort by framing the variety of obsessive presentations as "a disorder of volition, an exaggerated sense of willpower not […]

Free zoom event with Koichi Tagashi, Ph.D., L.P.: Are you able to cure your patient? In this presentation, I like to pose this question, without defining what a “cure” might look like, in order to get at your initial instinctive feeling. This presentation is intended to be an ethical question. I am not examining whether […]

Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This salon introduces an approach integrating psychoanalytic/psychodynamic principles and processes to enhance clinical competence. Participants will learn practical strategies to facilitate effective clinical supervision through presentations, video examples, and discussions. Topics include best practices for developing the supervisory alliance, facilitating reflective practice, addressing […]

Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm Presenter: Sam Guzzardi, LCSW "Holding Laplanche Lightly: The Story of Two Queer Treatments" Via Zoom Presentation: As psychoanalysis seeks to find new frontiers both for clinical work and engagement with the social, the work of Jean Laplanche is becoming increasingly popular in the United States. In this presentation, participants will hear […]

featuring Allen R. Dyer, MD

In this conference, Donna Roth Smith, LCSW & Hilda Catz, Ph.D offer a new way to talk about clinical work. They will talk together through the year about ongoing treatments and then bring participants into the conversation they have been having. Clinical work performed in isolation or within only a small group of colleagues risks […]

A Psychoanalytic Town Hall: Controversial Issues in the 2024 Presidential Election Panel of Psychoanalysts: Michael Diamond, PhD, David James Fisher, PhD, Mark Fisher, MD, Debra Myers, MD, Peter Wolson, PhD Town Hall Moderator: Peter Wolson, PhD On the cusp of this hotly contested presidential elections with radical differences between the party platforms and candidates and […]