Board Meeting Meeting of Members Town Hall
2022-02-11 03:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York)

Virtual Meeting via Zoom
2022-02-12 03:00 - 12:00, 2022-02-13 03:00 - 12:00

Alumni Group: Dueling Treatments for Borderline Personality Disorders. Transference-focused psychotherapy versus Mentalization-based treatment
2023-01-06 07:30 | Live via Zoom
Center for Psychoanalytic Studies
This event addresses: Borderline Personality Disorders
Presenter: Robert E. Feinstein MD – The literature on evidence-based treatment of borderline personality disorders (BPDs) has exploded in the last 50 years.

Connections and Conversation with George Bermudez, Ph.D.: Towards a Socio-centric Psychoanalysis Contributing to Deliberative Democracy: Social Dreaming, Community Psychoanalysis, & Reflective Citizenship
2023-01-06 09:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting. The core thesis, threading through several publications is that if contemporary psychoanalysis aspires to contribute to addressing our socio-political and ecological challenges, we must develop an enlarged repertoire of theory and practice. The distinguished Harvard Law School Professor, Lawrence Lessig has eloquently argued that repairing our dysfunctional democratic project is the “first problem” that must be fixed if there is to be any hope in effectively addressing all the other problems. I’ve developed the conviction that unless we co-create inclusive democratic processes and structures that authentically facilitate a citizenship which is engaged, informed, imaginatively deliberating together about the existential challenges we face, and having a meaningful impact on political decision-making—we will remain stuck in systemic dysfunction. However, I do believe (aligned with Kohut’s call for psychoanalysts to reflect on their group dynamics) that psychoanalysis has in fact, over the course of its long history and multiple streams, generated both theory and practice which has great promise for a socio-political contribution. In our conversation, I will outline some of the pieces of an emergent socio-centric psychoanalysis and suggest an emergent path forward: Community Psychoanalysis; the Psycho-social Unconscious Citizenship Dream Group process; Social Dreaming integrated with Deliberative Democracy.
The “Community Psychoanalysis” paradigm proposes an integrative path forward with which psychoanalysis can contribute robustly to multidisciplinary strategies to addressing the multivalent “wicked problems”, which are challenging our institute, regional, national, and global communities.
“Wicked problems” have no definitive formulation: these are problems which in a seemingly infinite regress are symptoms of other problems; problems which involve multiple stakeholders who like the proverbial blind men and the elephant have divergent and often incommensurable perceptions of the problem and its causes; problems which generate attempted solutions which in turn generate unintended consequences and new problems; problems with no objective right or wrong, requiring reliance on human judgment, subjectivity, and collective wisdom.

Meet the Author: John Martin-Joy
2023-01-09 14:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
This event addresses: Meet the Author
Meet the Author with John Martin-Joy, MD, presenting his new book Conversations With Donald Hall. The discussion will be moderated by Steven Luria Ablon, MD. The online audience will have a chance to ask questions via a Q&A chat or “on camera”.

Almost Half a Century Since it Was Expelled From the DSM, Why is Psychoanalytic Thought Still in the Wilderness?
2023-01-12 15:30 | Live via Zoom
Houston Psychoanalytic Society
This event addresses: Almost Half a Century Since it Was Expelled From the DSM, Why is Psychoanalytic Thought Still in the Wilderness?
Professor Hannah Decker’s presentation will illustrate the strength of the anti-psychiatry movement, a part of the Vietnam era’s many protests. The anti-psychiatry’s influence became so deep that the APA continues today to be motivated to keep that movement at bay. The second part of her talk will deal with the anti-psychoanalytic animus of the DSM-III Task Force, who were dedicated to bringing about the fall of psychoanalysis. The Task Force was dominated by members or offshoots of the biological psychiatry department of the Washington University in St. Louis whose prejudice against psychoanalysis influenced the editor of DSM-III, Robert Spitzer.

Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program 2023
2023-01-13 08:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Instittute
This event addresses: This course is designed to integrate the basic theoretical and technical concepts of psychodynamic therapy with clinical material from therapy with children/adolescents who are functioning at different developmental stages and with varying types of presenting psychopathology. The readings will focus on the topics of therapeutic engagement and alliance, deepening treatment, transference, countertransference and resistance as they apply to work with children, adolescents, and parents. The faculty instructors will present illustrative clinical material. For those who have participated in the three previous semesters of this child and adolescent psychotherapy program, the course will involve a revisiting of these concepts with more depth and a different exposure to the seminal psychoanalytic literature. The course is also suitable for participants who have not participated in the earlier classes.
This 15 – week, one-semester clinical conference will focus on discussion of process material from clinical cases presented by both instructors and participants. The discussions will integrate the clinical material with psychodynamic understandings of development, psychopathology, and technique. This class is designed for persons seeking introductory or intermediate level exposure to psychodynamic work with children.

Psychoanalytic Therapy and Evolution
2023-01-16 15:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Greater Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Center
This event addresses: Evolution and how it informs therapeutic practice
Dr. David Blakely is a psychiatrist in Topeka, KS, practicing analytically oriented therapy with psychopharmacology.

Play and the Rules That We Need … to be Broken
2023-01-19 14:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
This event addresses: Play
In this Academic Lecture, Steven Cooper explores how psychoanalysis is a form of play. With adult patients, play helps unsymbolized experience find expression through words. Winnicott’s theory of play, first described as relevant to children, marked a radical expansion of the intersubjective component of therapeutic action for all therapeutic work. Through the use of clinical examples, Dr. Cooper elaborates an application of this play concept to forms of transference-countertransference engagement and enactment. He explores how the emergence of play in clinical process disrupts and marks shifts in transference-countertransference, and examines how play is nearly always inextricably related to mourning attachments of various kinds. Finally, Dr. Cooper describes how limits in the therapeutic encounter are a representation of reality that is constitutive of play itself. This is an underemphasized but essential feature of Winnicott’s emphasis on psychoanalysis as a very particular and important form of playing.

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy: Scientific Meeting
2023-01-19 18:00 | Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
New Center for Psychoanalysis (Los Angeles)
This event addresses: transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP)
NCP and TFP New York present Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP): Scientific Meeting
Diana Diamond, PhD, will discuss her innovative work in using transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) to treat a broad range of patients with personality disorders, highlighting pathological narcissism.
TFP is a contemporary object relations approach to assessing and treating patients with personality disorders. Participants will be introduced to the basic tenets of TFP, such as use of a treatment contract, naming players in a dominant object relation, and identifying and working with how these object relational dyads help to contribute to typical transference/ countertransference patterns and resistances encountered with narcissistic patients.

Ethics Conference: Conflicts and Ethics in Psychoanalytic Consultation and Supervision
2023-01-20 - 2023-01-21 | Live via Zoom
Houston Psychoanalytic Society
This event addresses: Conflicts and Ethics in Psychoanalytic Consultation and Supervision
Nancy McWilliams, PhD will present this Ethics Conference. 3 CE/CMEs
Beginning therapists tend to go to supervisors with ethical questions at a very high frequency, and most experienced therapists know they need to seek consultation when facing ethical dilemmas. Because the literature on psychoanalytic supervision, especially in the domain of ethics, is quite limited, there is a need for meetings at which practitioners consider the unique and highly complex ethical problems that psychodynamic therapists may encounter. Rather than construing ethics as a set of rules of procedure, this conference anchors ethical questions within the general principles of the psychological and medical professions, placing clinical and supervisory choices within the broader humanistic goals that underlie the exploratory psychotherapies.

Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)
2023-01-21 06:30 | Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
New Center for Psychoanalysis (Los Angeles)
This event addresses: Treating Pathological Narcissism with Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP)
NCP and TFP New York present a one-day training in TFP for pathological narcissism:
TFP is a manualized, evidence-based psychoanalytic therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) that has recently been adapted for patients with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and pathological narcissism (PN).
TFP is based on a contemporary object relations model of psychological functioning that incorporates findings from attachment and neurocognitive research. The treatment focuses on internalized representations of self and other that organize the patient’s interpersonal experience.
Take your first step toward TFP certification with NCP and Diana Diamond, PhD.

Gender Fluidities and Valences in Childhood
2023-01-21 08:00 | Live via Zoom
Western New England Psychoanalytic Society
This event addresses: Gender variances
Speaker: Eve Watson, PhD
Discussant: Oren Gozlan, PsyD
Sexuality for children and adolescents is a site of intense curiosity, brooding, and fluidity and it is not unusual for an intensive questioning of subjectivity to be supported by a gender-based identity query. Transitioning out of childhood and adolescence can be a significant challenge, added to by gender questioning. This talk explores the “queerness” of childhood in light of it as a periodicity of frustrations, perplexities, helplessness, abjections, and “defeats of appetite” and considers how this does not fit well with contemporary culture which promotes ideals and objects of happiness, pleasure, and choice. The talk will also explore the ethics specific to psychoanalysis which sometimes run counter to social ideals and the social “good.”

COWAP Revisiting the Maternal
2023-01-28 06:00 | Live via Zoom
Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis
This event addresses: “The Maternal Death Drive”
Lisa Baraitser in conversation with Katie Gentile, and Lynne Zeavin, moderator This “conversation” will focus on Lisa Baraitser’s understanding of a ‘maternal death drive’. This supplements Freud’s death drive by accounting for the temporality of repetition that retains a relation to the future but remains distinct from a life drive.

Adult Clinical 4 week seminar
2023-01-31 14:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute
Location: virtual
Visit: https://cpi.memberclicks.net/adult-clinical-4-week-seminar
This event addresses: The faculty of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute invite you to participate in an invitational seminar focused on Deepening Psychotherapy Treatment with adult cases. The goal of this training is to demonstrate, through in-depth presentation of two psychotherapy treatments, practical, psychoanalytically-informed approaches and techniques for work with adult patients who have complex, seemingly intractable problems.
The faculty of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute invite you to participate in an invitational seminar focused on Deepening Psychotherapy Treatment with adult cases. The goal of this training is to demonstrate, through in-depth presentation of two psychotherapy treatments, practical, psychoanalytically-informed approaches and techniques for work with adult patients who have complex, seemingly intractable problems. Rita Robertson, MSW and Andrew Klafter, MD will be the instructors.

Alumni Group: Libido in the Lunchbox
2023-02-10 07:30 | Live via Zoom
Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006)
This event addresses: Woman’s powerful process of getting to know her authentic self after coming into therapy following an affair.
Presenter: Jennifer Gardner, LCSW – In this talk we will aim to explore these concepts, in addition to using a case to demonstrate a woman’s powerful process of getting to know her authentic self after coming into therapy following an affair.

Scientific Meeting “On the Genesis of Interpretation in a Changing Landscape”
2023-02-11 04:00 | Hybrid-In Peson at Florida Psychoanalytic Center and Zoom
Florida Psychoanalytic Center
This event addresses: Bion (1965) noted that “… no one can ever know what happens in the analytic session, the thing-in-itself, O; we can only speak of what the analyst or patient feels happens, know what the participants say happens, or the emotional state engendered by the verbalization of analyst or patient in the listener.”
Howard Levine, M.D.

Alumni Group: The Challenges of Emergent Adulthood
2023-03-03 07:30 | Live via Zoom
Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006)
This event addresses: Challenges of Emergent Adulthood
Presenter: B. James Bennett, MD – In recent years there has been an increasing understanding of emergent adulthood as a distinct developmental stage from late adolescence through mid to late twenties. In this discussion, we will explore some of the features of this time with particular reference to the analyst/analysand dyad and challenges encountered.

Advance Ethical Planning for the Therapist’s Unexpected Departure: The Professional Will
2023-03-04 05:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
This event addresses: Ethics/Professional Will
In the event of death or disability or other unexpected circumstances that would prevent a clinician from continuing to provide services, many tasks typically need to be completed, which should be set forth in the clinician’s Professional Will. Deb Henson, attorney and LCSW, will address the ethical obligations of therapists to engage in advance planning for such an unexpected event. Deb will lecture on specific ethical, clinical, & legal challenges, including a thorough analysis of methods to protect client confidentiality. Unconscious resistance to this task is understandable and we will discuss various facets of this issue. Participants will be invited to share their ideas, experience, and thoughts about this evolving ethical aspect of practice so often overlooked. The workshop will cover the entire process of planning and creating the Professional Will, implementing advance team preparation, and incorporating notice to clients by amending Intake paperwork. Participants will have time to create their own first draft.

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Meeting
2023-03-04 07:00 | Virtual, via Zoom
Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society
This event addresses: Working with a hard to reach patient
Writing and Righting and Selling the Cow for Beans: The Case of Tad, Psychoanalysis, Self and Context.
Dr. Jeffrey Stern recounts his work with Tad, a difficult to reach patient, with whom treatment stalls. Dr. Stern turns to writing to reach an authentic and intimate part of himself that resonates with his patient Tad.

NCP’s 2023 Open House
2023-03-05 12:00 | In person (Los Angeles) and online
New Center for Psychoanalysis
This event addresses: Overview of training programs in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy .
NCP offers four postgraduate training programs in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy for licensed mental health professionals.
Just as the landscape for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis has evolved during the past year, NCP continues to evolve through the integration of theories and our commitment to inclusion and diversity.
Join us for a lively discussion with students from each of our programs, who will engage regarding how their training fostered personal growth, a deeper understanding of their patients’ experiences, and opportunities to build professional networks.
You’ll also have an opportunity to meet our program directors and dean, learn about our multi-year training programs, and ask any questions you may have.
NCP actively welcomes a broad range of psychoanalytic perspectives and fosters discussion among clinicians from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and life experiences.
Whether you are considering training this year or in the future, all are welcome to attend.

Psychoanalysis and Leadership for the Emergent Future
2023-03-11 04:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Western New England Psychoanalytic Society
This event addresses: climate crisis and leadership
Speaker: Merritt Gardiner Juliano, JD, LCSW This half-day workshop will explore Otto Scharmer’s Theory U Leadership principles of “presencing,” or operating from the future as it emerges. During this time of great disruption as evidenced by the planetary health crisis, and massive failures in our social, political, and economic institutional systems, Scharmer sets forth a framework to address these challenges drawing from the work of Fritjof Capra, and calling for us to heal the ecological, the social and the spiritual. Participants will become familiar with Scharmer’s three arenas of the social world: (1) objective structures and systems, (2) enacted structures and systems or intersubjectivity, and (3) deep sources of enactment or trans-subjectivity. Finally, we will explore principles and practices of presencing. Participants will discuss parallels in the psychoanalytic process, and contrast learning from the past with operating from the future (that wants to emerge). We will also consider aspects of psychoanalysis that can nurture presencing, as well as aspects of psychoanalysis that may no longer be useful in light of emerging complexity and systems science.

Aggressive Enactments: Containing the “No” in Clinical Work with Survivors of Abuse
2023-03-11 05:00 | 2201 Inwood Rd. NC8.212, 2201 Inwood Rd. NC8.212, Dallas, TX, 75390, United States
Dallas Psychoanalytic Center
This event addresses: survivors of abuse
Dr. Marilyn Charles and Dr. Zane Dodd, Co-leaders, expand on their understanding on enactments in working with deeply traumatized persons.

THE PASTOR AND THE ANALYST: An Interactive Discussion of Conscious and Unconscious Guilt, Religion, and Psychoanalysis
2023-03-11 05:30 | Live via Zoom
Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
This event addresses: Conscious and Unconscious Guilt, Religion, Psychoanalysis
Co-Facilitators Sonja Ware, TH.M.,M.DIV. & David Sachs, MD. present THE PASTOR AND THE ANALYST: An Interactive Discussion of Conscious and Unconscious Guilt, Religion, and Psychoanalysis.
Guilt is part of the emotional spectrum of human life. As a function of the superego, it can be a healthy compass helping us to make choices. Yet, guilt also has the capacity to burden us in painful and inhibiting ways. Guilt is a societal reality as well. Courts, judges, and juries are put in place to hear cases and then declare a person either guilty or not guilty. In Religion, guilt is addressed through the concept of sin defined as acting against God’s will. Discussing guilt automatically opens the door to concepts like penance, punishment, forgiveness, and reconciliation. Guilt is a hot topic in Psychoanalysis as well as Religion and is large and deep enough to be explored for hours, days, and months. Many theories and concepts have been developed about both conscious and unconscious guilt.
With this in mind, David Sachs and Sonja Ware invite you to explore the aspect of conscious and unconscious guilt in a very practical manner in this year’s discussion between the Pastor and the Analyst. Sonja and David will introduce the conversation by sharing some initial reflections and then present practical examples of situations in which they discovered conscious and unconscious guilt. The clinical examples are made up of a blend of different people to foster discussion and to maintain privacy. The conversation will then be opened to give most of our time together for mutual discussion, thriving through the insights of the participants and their experiences. This program intentionally is an interdisciplinary invitation to all who are curious about exploring guilt, psychoanalysis, and/or religion.

Owing and Being Owed: Shame and Responsibility Toward the Other
2023-03-11 07:00 | Virtual, via Zoom
San Diego Psychoanalytic Center
This event addresses: Shame and Guilt
In the aftermath of relational disruptions to giving of oneself and being received, shame inverts the passionate movement of responsibility toward and for others into an enclosed self-focused preoccupation. Through the filter of omnipotence and omniscience, shame transforms the helplessness of one’s suffering into punishment and fault.
Self-shaming becomes paradoxically intertwined with self-pity, which then eventually leads to resentment and the entitlement of feeling owed, which is contrasted with the remorseful guilt that leads to a sense of owing others. Since a patient’s curiosity about the person of the therapist reflects an attempt to emerge from shame and take responsibility for what she comes to discover and know, it is of crucial importance that the therapist responds respectfully and actively engages that curiosity on a democratic rather than hierarchical basis.

Ferenczi’s Secret Life: Mutual Analysis as a Relational Paradigm with Peter Rudnytsky, PhD, LCSW
2023-03-11 07:30 | 5441 SE Belmont St, 5441 SE Belmont St, Portland, OR, 97215, United States
Oregon Psychoanalytic Center
This event addresses: Ferenczi’s Secret Life
Ferenczi’s mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn is one of the most controversial and consequential episodes in the history of psychoanalysis. Routinely attacked by conservative commentators as a boundarv vio ation and an exploitation of the patient, Rudnytsky defends Ferenczi’s experiment on both counts and argues that mutual analysis serves as a paradigm for the two-person model of relational analysis, as Freud’s self-analysis is a paradigm for the one-person model of classical analysis. Ferenczi’s return to Freud’s pre-1897 (misnamed) “seduction theory,” and his concomitant modifications of therapeutic technique, caused him to go underground and develop a secret life trom Freud in a way that has until recently been necessary for trauma theorists.
Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., L.C.S. W., is Professor of English at the University of Florida and Head of the Department of Academic and Professional Affairs as well as Chair of theCommittee on Confidentiality of APsaA. He is Editor of the History of Psychoanalysis series for Routledge and Coeditor of the Psychoanalysis series for Bloomsbury. He received the Gradiva Award for Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck (Cornell, 2002), and his most recent book is Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory (Routledge, 2022).
Clinical material will be presented by a local analyst Jeanne Johnson, MD.

Meditative Psychoanalysis: The Marriage of Mindfulness, Meaning, and Intimacy
2023-03-16 15:30 | Live via Zoom
The American Institute for Psychoanalysis
This event addresses: On the aspects of Western psychoanalysis and Eastern meditative traditions
Interest in blending Eastern meditative and Western psychotherapeutic traditions is burgeoning, yet we have only begun to realize what these rich traditions can teach each other. In this presentation—a combination of lecture, meditation practice, and dialogue with the audience—Dr. Jeffrey B. Rubin will explore what he terms meditative psychoanalysis, a practice that blends the best aspects of Western psychoanalysis and Eastern meditative traditions (heightened concentration and mindfulness, decoding unconscious meaning, and liberated intimacy) into a more encompassing synthesis.

Scientific Meeting: Embodiment and the Perversion of Desire
2023-03-16 19:00 | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
New Center for Psychoanalysis
This event addresses: Embodiment and the Perversion of Desire
Dr. Celenza presents the case of Laura, who considers her sexual desire to be perverse, to illustrate ways in which subjective positions and affective, embodied states can be defended against, split off or otherwise dissociated, reflecting a perverse intra-subjective position. A schematic is offered that depicts various subjective positions (The Embodied Subject, The Reflective Self or “I,” The Subjective Object or “Me,” The Objectified Self or “It,” and Unconscious Processes or “Not Me”). These positions are conceived as phenomenal subjective states that are universal potentials. The schematic also depicts the extent to which each position is integrated and interpenetrates with other positions. In addition, a modification of this schematic is proposed to illustrate perverse modes of intra-subjective functioning where the position of the Embodied Subject is split off or dissociated, resulting in a deadening of affective experience. The case of Laura is presented to illustrate an example of the latter mode of functioning.

The Music and Madness of Money: Psychoanalytic Reflections
2023-03-17 06:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
International Psychotherapy Institute
This event addresses: the emotional significance of money and attempt to show the ways in which it impacts upon the work of psychotherapy
This one hour lecture features guest presenter Salman Akhtar, MD, the keynote speaker for our April Weekend Conference.
About the Presentation:
This presentation will address the emotional significance of money and attempt to show the ways in which it impacts upon the work of psychotherapy. The ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ agendas of money in and individual’s emotional life will be highlighted and five pathological syndromes will be described. These include (i) chronic miserliness, (ii) characterological over-spending, (iii) inordinate generosity, (iv) monetary masochism and, (v) pathological gambling. Setting of fees for psychotherapy, charging (or not charging) for missed sessions, and other transference and countertransference reverberations of monetary exchange within the clinical dyad will also be discussed. Finally, some unusual situations where a firm refusal to accept money offered by a patient as an ethical intervention will be underscored.s
This special event does not offer CE credits, however the April Weekend will offer up to 14.5 hours of CE.
