Name: The Dynamics of Personality Development: Freud, Klein, and Bion Unplugged with Jennifer Kunst, PhD
Start: 2026-03-28T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-28T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Hybrid (In-Person at Dallas Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)

Jan 2026
- Sat 24
  - 9:30am - 11:30am EST
    
    Kramer Mahler Forum: The Use of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Adolescents (TFP-A) to Treat a Teenager with Narcissistic Personality Disorder
  - 10:00am - 10:00am EST
    
    The Moral Defense: Nietzsche in the Clinic (Hybrid)
  - 11:45am - 1:15pm EST
    
    Impact of Medication on the Psychotherapeutic Situation
  - 1:00pm - 7:00pm EST
    
    Hoarding the Future: Generational Anxieties and Their Implication for Psychoanalytic Training and Treatment
  - 2:00pm - 2:00pm EST
    
    Myriad Uses and Functions of Interpretation
- Sun 25
  - 9:00am - 9:00am EST
    
    Prosody and the Introduction of Meaning with Empty Patients
- Fri 30
  - 3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
    
    Theories of Mind & Case Conceptualization Courses
  - 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
    
    Psychoanalytic Takes On Cinema: Session 2 of 3: Discussion of the film “Me Before You”
  - 11:00pm - 12:30am EST
    
    Film & Mind: Sorry, Baby
- Sat 31
  - 11:00pm - 12:30am EST
    
    Film & Mind: Sorry, Baby
Feb 2026
- Tue 3
  - 9:00pm - 10:30pm EST
    
    Psychoanalytic Diagnosis to Conceptualize Cases and Guide Interventions, a study group
- Wed 4
  - 7:00pm - 8:15pm EST
    
    A Psychodynamic Approach to Working with Adolescents & Their Parents
- Thu 5
  - 8:00pm - 9:30pm EST
    
    Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis
- Fri 6
  - 12:50pm - 1:50pm EST
    
    A Decolonial Approach to Case Formulation: Pragmatic Applications for Therapeutic and Political Action
- Sat 7
  - 11:45am - 1:15pm EST
    
    Group Psychoanalysis: Who Knew?
- Tue 10
  - 8:00pm - 9:30pm EST
    
    The Margaret Morgan Lawrence Lecture for Social Justice w/ Kirkland Vaughans, PhD
- Wed 11
  - 8:00pm - 9:30pm EST
    
    Falling in Love (with Nikki Karalekas, PhD, LCSW)
- Fri 13
  - 12:30pm - 2:00pm EST
    
    Dissociation vs. Repression A New Neuropsychoanalytic Model for Psychopathology
  - 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST
    
    Alumni Roundtable Discussion – Charlie & His Maps
- Thu 19
  - 10:30pm - 12:30am EST
    
    Inside the Homeless Crisis: What Psychoanalysis Reveals
- Fri 20
  - 10:30pm - 12:30am EST
    
    Inside the Homeless Crisis: What Psychoanalysis Reveals
- Sat 21
  - 12:00pm - 4:30pm EST
    
    Everything you always wanted to know about Laplanche (but were afraid to ask)
  - 3:00pm - 6:00pm EST
    
    The Power Of Connection: Shift in Technique
- Sun 22
  - 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST
    
    Unlock Your Greatest Potential: How to Become a Nurse Psychoanalyst
- Thu 26
  - 8:00pm - 9:00pm EST
    
    NOBPC Psychotherapy Training Open House
  - 8:30pm - 10:00pm EST
    
    Fingert Lecture: The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Enactment, Trauma, and Time
- Fri 27
  - 12:50pm - 1:50pm EST
    
    Where the Mind Suffers: Understanding Psychic Pain and Suicidal Crisis
- Sat 28
  - 12:00pm - 1:30pm EST
    
    Rehabilitating the Heart: A Jungian Psychoanalytic Exploration of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tale The Snow Queen by Elizabeth Colistra, PhD
  - 1:30pm - 4:00pm EST
    
    The Meaning of Money in the Mind of Analyst and Analysand
  - 1:30pm - 4:00pm EST
    
    PANY Psychoanalytic Training Program Open House
Mar 2026
- Sun 1
  - 2:00pm - 5:00pm EST
    
    NCP Open House 2026
- Tue 3
  - 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
    
    The Independent Tradition in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
  - 8:00pm - 9:30pm EST
    
    Monique Losson
- Thu 5
  - 8:30pm - 10:00pm EST
    
    Dissociative Attunement: Rhythm and Resonance in Therapeutic Process
- Fri 6
  - 12:50pm - 1:50pm EST
    
    Ethical and Responsible use of Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in Mental Health Care
  - 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST
    
    Alumni Roundtable – When Machines Seem to Care
- Sat 7
  - 9:00am - 12:00pm EST
    
    How Do We Know What We Didn’t Know? The Fate of Secrets on Psyche and Soma with Kathryn Zerbe, MD
  - 9:00am - 12:00pm EST
    
    How Do We Know What We Didn’t Know? The Fate of Secrets on Psyche and Soma
  - 10:00am - 1:30pm EST
    
    Resilience in Response to Violence: Children, Adolescents, & Adults
  - 12:00pm - 2:00pm EST
    
    Michelle Harwell, PsyD, MFT
  - 2:00pm - 4:00pm EST
    
    Grandfathers, Mothers, and Sons; Three Generations Undertake Project of Reconstruction & Restoration
- Sun 8
  - 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
    
    2025 Holtzman Essay Prize Presentation
- Fri 13
  - 6:30pm - 8:00pm EDT
    
    Working Clinically with Overwhelm: The Cost and Growth-Inducing Possibilities of Undoing the Self
  - 6:30pm - 8:00pm EDT
    
    Comedy and Cruelty: The Comic Mode in the Age of Trump
- Sat 14
  - 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
    
    The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice
  - 10:00am - 1:00pm EDT
    
    Clinical Issues in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Transgender & Nonbinary Patients
  - 12:00pm - 7:30pm EDT
    
    Bridging the Gap: Holding in a Relational Context
  - 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
    
    Family Matters, Lived Experiences
    
    Free
- Mon 16
  - 1:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
    
    NCP’s Virtual Open House 2026
- Fri 20
  - 10:00am - 4:00pm EDT
    
    Mentalizing Across Contexts
- Sat 21
  - 11:30am - 1:30pm EDT
    
    Language Strangeness at the Core of Psychoanalysis: The Educator, The Artist, and The Hiker
- Sat 28
  - 10:00am - 5:00pm EDT
    
    The Dynamics of Personality Development: Freud, Klein, and Bion Unplugged with Jennifer Kunst, PhD

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Mar 2026

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