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SUMMARY:2026 Fall Conference - Hope in Hard Times: Building Community
DESCRIPTION:In-person attendance: $250; limited to 50 people at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge\, MA \nVirtual/remote attendance: Free \nCE/CME available: 6 hours (pending approval)  \nHope in Hard Times: Building Community is a hybrid conference designed for mental health clinicians and allied professionals seeking to think together about the ethical\, clinical\, and institutional challenges of practicing in a time marked by social fragmentation\, political instability\, and collective trauma. Drawing on psychoanalytic perspectives and interdisciplinary dialogue\, the conference explores how transgenerational trauma\, structural violence\, and bureaucratic systems shape both individual psychic life and professional roles—while also attending to sources of resistance\, responsibility\, and hope.  \nThe conference opens with a framing panel on “Transgenerational Trauma\, Resistance\, and Radical Hope\,” featuring brief presentations by Marilyn Charles\, PhD\, ABPP; Morteza Modarres Gharavi\, PhD\, LP\, PsyA; and Bindu Methikalam\, PhD. This session situates contemporary clinical and institutional dilemmas within broader historical\, cultural\, and political contexts\, establishing a shared foundation for the conference.  \nSubsequent sessions invite participants to engage with two central questions: how clinicians and institutions can remain ethically grounded in the face of dehumanizing bureaucratic pressures\, and how professionals can speak and listen across differences of identity\, power\, vulnerability\, and role. Throughout the conference\, brief didactic presentations are paired with facilitated large-group discussions to support reflection\, dialogue\, and application to clinical and professional practice.  \nThe conference concludes by turning explicitly toward action and connection\, examining how psychoanalytic ideas and values can inform social engagement in clinical\, educational\, and civic arenas. Participants will be invited to identify shared concerns and areas of interest and to make collegial connections intended to support ongoing work beyond the conference itself. Rather than managing ongoing groups\, the conference serves as a clearing-house for connection\, emphasizing community-building\, professional resilience\, and ethical responsibility in difficult times.  \nConference Organizers \nMarilyn Charles\, PhD\, ABPP\nVivian Chan\, DO\, MS\nPresenters \nBindu Methikalam\, PhD\nMorteza Modares Gharavi PhD\, LP\, PsyA\nMichael O’Loughlin\, PhD\nKritika Dwivedi\, PsyD\n Cynthia Chalker MSS\, LCSW\nCarrie Attikune\,  PsyD\nCheryll Rothery\, PsyD\, ABPP\nDennis Debiak\, PsyD\nHada Soria Escalante\nAbby Kuchin
URL:https://apsa.org/event/2026-fall-conference-hope-in-hard-times-building-community/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Austen Riggs Center\, Stockbridge\, MA and Virtual)\, Stockbridge\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T183000
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SUMMARY:Do we do enough to foreground the role of the drive in clinical work and case formulation?
DESCRIPTION:Presenter\, Derek Hook will highlight multiple facets of the drive – amongst which is\, of course\, a type of relationality arguably inherent in the concept – and do so accessibly\, via Freud’s work\, so as to highlight opportunities for case formulation.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/do-we-do-enough-to-foreground-the-role-of-the-drive-in-clinical-work-and-case-formulation/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: 2460 Fairmount Blvd\, Suite 312\, Cleveland Heights\, OH 44106 & Virtual)\, 2460 Fairmount Blvd Ste 312\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T090000
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SUMMARY:A Case of Urethral Eroticism
DESCRIPTION:Derek Hook will utilize Freud’s ‘Three Essays on Sexuality’ as a means of tracking various drive phenomena as of crucial importance in the symptoms\, identifications\, modes of jouissance\, relations\, transference and repressed fantasies of an analysand
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-case-of-urethral-eroticism/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: 2460 Fairmount Blvd\, Suite 312\, Cleveland Heights\, OH 44106 & Virtual)\, 2460 Fairmount Blvd Ste 312\, Cleveland Heights\, OH\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T130000
DTSTAMP:20260904T180113Z
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SUMMARY:Erotic Transferences and Countertransferences in Psychoanalytic Practice
DESCRIPTION:Despite emerging frequently in the psychoanalytic process\, there is a sparseness of literature on erotic transferences and countertransferences. There is also a tendency to desexualize the psychoanalytic process due to the inherent threat erotic transferences can pose. This gap in training and continuing education leaves practitioners ill-equipped to deal with the intense affects and pressures that tend to arise with erotic transferences. This presentation will address this gap in our knowledge base by presenting an overview of the topic\, clarifying terminology\, and providing vivid case examples. \nAndrea Celenza\, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst\, Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; faculty\, NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and The Florida Psychoanalytic Center; and\, Assistant Clinical Professor\, Harvard Medical School
URL:https://apsa.org/event/erotic-transferences-and-countertransferences-in-psychoanalytic-practice/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Dallas Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261003T114500
DTSTAMP:20260921T165049Z
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SUMMARY:Barriers to Closeness: Is Race an Obstacle? Or a Bridge?
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Shirke conceptualizes racism and prejudice as the consequence of intergenerational transference of experiences and attitudes about the identities of self and of others. Two analytic theories of mind can be applied to grasp this intellectually\, prior to integrating emotionally this sensibility.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/barriers-to-closeness-is-race-an-obstacle-or-a-bridge/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T190000
DTSTAMP:20260831T181036Z
CREATED:20260831T181036Z
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SUMMARY:The Robert Waelder Memorial Lecture: Spectacularization & Enshittification: Recent Trends in the Psychology of Envy
DESCRIPTION:Spectacularization (Debord 1967)\, enshittification (Doctorow 2025)\, and depressive hedonia (Fisher 2008; Gilroy-Ware 2017) are discussed as emerging defenses against envy. Fascism\, nostalgia\, and homogenization are linked by the psychodynamics of envy and unmourned loss.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-robert-waelder-memorial-lecture-spectacularization-enshittification-recent-trends-in-the-psychology-of-envy/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T190000
DTSTAMP:20260921T165049Z
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SUMMARY:Windows into Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:For clinicians or mental health students who are curious about what it is that psychodynamic therapists actually do\, we offer a “window” into the process and a chance to connect an introduction to theory with actual clinical material. Each class will begin with a brief theoretical description of a core clinical concept\, followed by the presentation and discussion of material from a long-term psychotherapy process. We welcome lively discussion\, dialogue\, and debate.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/windows-into-psychotherapy-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T213000
DTSTAMP:20260904T180404Z
CREATED:20260805T151747Z
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SUMMARY:Integrating Knowing and Being:  Toward a Psychoanalytic Identity
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Paul Koehler\, LCSW & Michelle Pfeifer\, LMHP \nWhether you are an early career clinician or a seasoned analyst this course will help you create and solidify your personal-professional identity. \nIn recent decades there has emerged a strand of psychoanalytic theorizing and practice that distinguishes between what has been designated as the epistemological approach to psychoanalysis\, which emphasizes the facilitation of the patient’s gaining a fuller understanding of himself or herself (explicated in the writings of Freud and Klein)\, and the ontological approach\, which emphasizes the facilitation of the patient’s more fully becoming himself or herself (as explicated in the writings of Winnicott and Bion).\nThis course will consider how this distinction operates in the other half of the analytic dyad: i.e.\, how we as psychoanalytic practitioners allow for and integrate our understanding and mastery of psychoanalytic theory and technique with who we are continually becoming as human beings and evolving practitioners; or\, in other words\, how we internalize and hold true to established psychoanalytic knowledge and tradition while at the same time working as practitioners in our own distinctive and deeply personal ways.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/integrating-knowing-and-being-toward-a-psychoanalytic-identity/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T133000
DTSTAMP:20260730T180726Z
CREATED:20260730T180347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T180726Z
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SUMMARY:6-Week Advanced Leadership Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Format: 6-Week Live Course Hosted over Zoom \nDates: Fridays – October 9\, 16\, 23\, 30; November 6\, 13\, 2026 \nTimes: Fridays – 7:30am – 10:30am PT/10:30am – 1:30pm ET/3:30 pm – 6:30pm GMT \nCredit Amount: 18 credits \nCost: $199 for all guests \nThis 6-week virtual seminar will focus on critical concepts in systems psychodynamics and field theory such as the social unconscious\, projective identification\, splitting\, social defenses\, complex identities\, and intersubjective processes. Widening our conceptual lens so that we can think of individual\, group\, organization\, and the environmental surround as co-creating the field and influencing and shaping each other\, we will use these concepts to deepen our understanding of the unconscious uses and abuses of power across the constructive and destructive spectrum. Each session will be evenly divided between theoretical and experiential components. In the large group\, faculty and members will discuss key points in the assigned readings; break into pre-assigned small self-study groups to reflect on our own group process as it relates to our primary task of learning together about the uses and abuses of power; and return to the large group to continue our self-reflection and organizational self-study. Ultimately\, the primary aim is to enhance our individual and collective efforts\, particularly in the face of hate and human destructiveness\, to become more inclusive as leaders\, more open in our thinking\, and equitable in sharing power. \nLearn more about the 6-week Advanced Leadership Seminar.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/6-week-advanced-leadership-seminar/2026-10-09/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260904T180547Z
CREATED:20260805T151747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T180547Z
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SUMMARY:Dreams on the Couch Pt. 2
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald\, Psy.D.\, LMFT. This consultation group invites therapists into an ongoing exploration of dreams as living expressions of the unconscious. Drawing from the full arc of psychoanalytic thought\, participants will bring clinical material and engage in a collaborative process of listening\, reverie\, and meaning-making.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/dreams-on-the-couch-pt-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T200000
DTSTAMP:20260921T165049Z
CREATED:20260921T165049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260921T165049Z
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SUMMARY:Film & Mind: It Was Just an Accident
DESCRIPTION:It Was Just an Accident (2025) is Jafar Panahi’s critically acclaimed darkly comedic thriller/crime drama that explores the far-reaching social dimensions of trauma and spotlights the choice point we face in how we respond to it. Vahid\, a former political prisoner living in Tehran identifies a hair-raising sound associated with the jailhouse abuse and indignities he suffered. This triggers an immediate somatic reaction and Vahid and his fellow political prisoner comrades gather to face the dilemma of whether to impose revenge on the man they believe to be their tormentor\, known as “Peg Leg“ Eghbal. The film spins on the issue of how differently trauma shatters the mind and moral registration of each survivor\, yet they must collectively decide: can traumatic memories be trusted\, as none of them saw their torturer’s face.  Do they run the risk of becoming the persecutor themselves and perpetuating evil through their thirst for revenge?  \nPlease note: \nParticipants are requested to watch the film before arriving. The session will be structured around guided clinical discussion rather than summary\, with facilitators and invited discussants drawing out the film’s psychoanalytic architecture in dialogue with the group.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-it-was-just-an-accident/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T090000
DTSTAMP:20260904T180843Z
CREATED:20260831T181020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T180843Z
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SUMMARY:A Film Screening of Outsider. Freud.
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of Yair Qedar’s Outsider. Freud.\, a look into the life\, work\, and legacy of Sigmund Freud. Blending archival material\, animation\, dreams\, and insights from psychoanalysts\, the film offers an intimate look at Freud’s experiences of marginalization as a Jew in Vienna and explores how his position as an outsider shaped his ideas and enduring influence. \nA Q&A with director Yair Qedar will follow the screening.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-film-screening-of-outsider-freud/
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T120000
DTSTAMP:20260904T181830Z
CREATED:20260831T181017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T181830Z
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SUMMARY:Connected Worlds: Working Psychoanalytically Between the Virtual and Corporeal
DESCRIPTION:Sien Rivera\, MD
URL:https://apsa.org/event/connected-worlds-working-psychoanalytically-between-the-virtual-and-corporeal/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas & Virtual)\, 101 Cloister Court\, Suite A\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T211500
DTSTAMP:20261014T144845Z
CREATED:20260921T165051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T144845Z
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SUMMARY:Why Can't We Want Anything Anymore? Desire\, Burnout\, Identity\, and the Hidden Costs of Modern Life
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Alison Feit: We are living through a strange cultural moment. People have never had more freedom\, more choices\, more opportunities for self-expression\, or more language for understanding themselves. Yet everywhere we look\, people are reporting some version of the same experience: burnout\, numbness\, indecision\, loneliness\, endless scrolling\, a loss of direction\, a loss of meaning\, a loss of desire. What happened? \nIn this three-part live course\, psychoanalyst Dr. Alison Feit explores one of the defining psychological questions of our time: not simply why we stop wanting\, but why so many of us seem to have lost the capacity to want at all. Drawing on psychoanalysis\, contemporary culture\, philosophy\, literature\, and clinical work\, we will examine the hidden ways desire disappears—not only through disappointment and trauma\, but through success\, adaptation\, identity\, self-improvement\, certainty\, and the pressure to become someone.\nThis is not a course about finding your passion. It is a course about understanding what happened to it.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/why-cant-we-want-anything-anymore-desire-burnout-identity-and-the-hidden-costs-of-modern-life/
LOCATION:Virtual
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T133000
DTSTAMP:20260730T180726Z
CREATED:20260730T180347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T180726Z
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SUMMARY:6-Week Advanced Leadership Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Format: 6-Week Live Course Hosted over Zoom \nDates: Fridays – October 9\, 16\, 23\, 30; November 6\, 13\, 2026 \nTimes: Fridays – 7:30am – 10:30am PT/10:30am – 1:30pm ET/3:30 pm – 6:30pm GMT \nCredit Amount: 18 credits \nCost: $199 for all guests \nThis 6-week virtual seminar will focus on critical concepts in systems psychodynamics and field theory such as the social unconscious\, projective identification\, splitting\, social defenses\, complex identities\, and intersubjective processes. Widening our conceptual lens so that we can think of individual\, group\, organization\, and the environmental surround as co-creating the field and influencing and shaping each other\, we will use these concepts to deepen our understanding of the unconscious uses and abuses of power across the constructive and destructive spectrum. Each session will be evenly divided between theoretical and experiential components. In the large group\, faculty and members will discuss key points in the assigned readings; break into pre-assigned small self-study groups to reflect on our own group process as it relates to our primary task of learning together about the uses and abuses of power; and return to the large group to continue our self-reflection and organizational self-study. Ultimately\, the primary aim is to enhance our individual and collective efforts\, particularly in the face of hate and human destructiveness\, to become more inclusive as leaders\, more open in our thinking\, and equitable in sharing power. \nLearn more about the 6-week Advanced Leadership Seminar.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/6-week-advanced-leadership-seminar/2026-10-16/
LOCATION:Virtual
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T143000
DTSTAMP:20261014T145439Z
CREATED:20260904T175822Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T145439Z
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Supervision Consultation Group
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dr. Holly Han; Dr. Cheryl Farole-Roman \nClinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This series is based on an approach to supervision that emphasizes developing supervisory alliance\, parallel process\, working with countertransference\, and the supervisor-supervisee dynamic. Both didactic and experiential learning will be equally emphasized. This consult group is designed for those who supervise associates\, graduate students\, postdocs\, and psychoanalytic candidates at multiple levels of training in academic\, community\, and private practice settings.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-supervision-consultation-group/
LOCATION:Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T193000
DTSTAMP:20261014T190609Z
CREATED:20261014T190609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T190609Z
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SUMMARY:What Teleanalysis Teaches Us About Analysis: Presence\, Absence\, and the Analyst's Internal Frame
DESCRIPTION:Lena Ehrlich\, PsyD has made considerable contributions to our understanding of developing an analytic identity and in the psychoanalyst’s experience of the work we do with patients beyond the narrow concept of countertransference. She has identified our hopes\, enthusiasm and reluctances to extend ourselves to patients. Dr. Ehrlich will now help us think about what was lost and gained before\, during\, and after the COVID pandemic and the increasing use of telephone and video in our work.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/what-teleanalysis-teaches-us-about-analysis-presence-absence-and-the-analysts-internal-frame/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Institutes, Centers, & Societies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T140000
DTSTAMP:20261014T151815Z
CREATED:20260921T165051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T151815Z
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis\, Authoritarianism and the Arts: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
DESCRIPTION:What is authoritarianism? Do we live in an authoritarian society? What is the difference between the authoritarian impulse and the artistic impulse? Can art help us resist the allure of authoritarianism? Across two 90-minute panels\, scholars from Tulane University and clinicians from our community will present their work\, engage with the audience and discuss how psychoanalytic ideas help us understand our culture\, our patients and ourselves.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalysis-authoritarianism-and-the-arts-an-interdisciplinary-symposium/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person at New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T131500
DTSTAMP:20261014T153208Z
CREATED:20260921T165051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T153208Z
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SUMMARY:Examination of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Technique Fundamentals
DESCRIPTION:Transference\, countertransference\, resistance\, neutrality\, focus on the unconscious…these are a few of the key elements of a psychodynamic approach to treatment that will be explored in this seminar.  The speaker will use video clips from the HBO series “In Treatment” (2008-2010) in which a psychotherapist meets with patients in a re-enacted version of actual therapeutic material.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/examination-of-psychodynamic-psychotherapy-technique-fundamentals/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-person (1 Park Ave 8th Fl\, New York\, NY 10016) & Virtual
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T140000
DTSTAMP:20261014T153458Z
CREATED:20260831T181036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T153458Z
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SUMMARY:The Place of Love & Erotics in Psychoanalytic Practice
DESCRIPTION:The centrality of love and sexuality in our work will be illustrated through the use of clinical vignettes\, including a variety of erotic fantasies and transferences that can emerge in treatment.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-place-of-love-erotics-in-psychoanalytic-practice/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Rockland – East Fairmount Park 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr. Philadelphia\, PA & via Zoom)\, 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19121\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T150000
DTSTAMP:20260924T144439Z
CREATED:20260923T200619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260924T144439Z
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SUMMARY:Lee Jaffe Candidates’ Council Paper Prize's Semifinalist Zoom Presentation
DESCRIPTION:Free Association\, Racial Slurs\, and Social Justice: A Psychoanalytic Collision Course\n\nAuthor and Presenter: Emily Frank\, Ed.D.\nDiscussant: Dorothy E. Holmes\, Ph.D.\n\n\nEmily S. Frank\, Ed.D. will elucidate the dilemmas that can arise when a clinician seeks to promote free association and simultaneously attaches pejorative value to racial slurs\, silently deeming some words unspeakable because of a conscious desire to embody social justice values. The judgment of a patient’s words as unspeakable may have innumerable unconscious meanings for the clinician as well as the patient. The author examines potential dynamic meanings of patients’ use of racial slurs in white clinician/white patient dyads and also considers how the clinician’s social justice values can operate as a tension–potentially expansive or constricting–within psychoanalytic treatment. \n\nSaturday\, October 17\, 2026 from 1-3 PM ET. This is a free event open to all members. Register via the Member Portal.\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily S. Frank\, Ed.D. is a psychologist in private practice in Boston and a candidate in the Adult Psychoanalysis Program at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (BPSI). Her article\, “Profile: Dorothy Evans Holmes: Psychoanalytic Visionary” has been published online in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and will be in print in an upcoming issue of the journal. \n\n\n\n\nDorothy Evans Holmes\, PhD\, is a Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas and Teaching and Training Analyst Emerita at the same Center. Dr. Holmes is widely published on the psychoanalytic understanding of race\, class\, and gender. Her most recent peer-reviewed article is: Evans Holmes\, D. (2026). Hatred: A Traumatizing Underpinning of Racism. Psychoanalytic Inquiry\, 46(8)\, 828–832. She currently serves in several capacities on the Editorial Board for the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA): on the Board on Race in Psychoanalysis\, the Advisory Board\, and the Book Review Advisory Board. Formerly\, she has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and JAPA. She is a recipient of the JAPA Prize (2021)\, the Sigourney Award (2022) and the Hans W. Loewald Memorial Award (2025). She was the eponymous chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis (2020-2024). Dr. Holmes lives and works in Bluffton\, SC.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/lee-jaffe-candidates-council-paper-prizes-semifinalist-zoom-presentation/
CATEGORIES:Member Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T140000
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SUMMARY:Revisiting Donald Winnicott’s 1968 Encounter and the Ongoing Limits of Regional Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:The history of psychoanalysis since Freud has been marked by fragmentation into multiple theoretical schools\, often with limited dialogue across them. M. Nasir Ilahi\, LLM\, LP’s paper examines the deeper reasons for such failures of communication—focusing on schools that originate across transatlantic traditions\, specifically the US and the UK. It proposes that these failures cannot be explained solely in terms of intellectual divergence\, but must also be understood in relation to “internalized psychoanalytic cultures”—the non-conscious cultural value systems that shape the development\, reception\, and practice of analytic theories within a given geographical culture. Focusing on the reception of D.W. Winnicott’s “The Use of an Object” paper at NYPSI in 1968\, Ilahi illustrates how a lack of awareness of differing underlying cultural frameworks and implicit worldviews—especially between British Object Relations theory and American Ego Psychology—obstructed meaningful dialogue despite a shared professional language on the surface. Whereas British approaches emphasize the preverbal mind\, unconscious phantasy\, and early object relations\, American ego psychology privileged adaptation\, verbal processes\, and later developmental stages. These transatlantic confusions continue to the present day\, as will be briefly illustrated by the case of Thomas Ogden\, where despite an explicit affinity at the level of theoretical statements\, clinical work remains firmly—and unknowingly—rooted in North American traditions. These divergences demonstrate that theories in psychoanalysis migrate unevenly across cultural contexts\, often undergoing unconscious transformations. While recognizing the influence of such internalized cultures—rather than assuming universal agreement on psychoanalytic concepts—may create anxieties that our theories are not free of local values (and thus not totally “scientific”)\, it nevertheless offers a way forward for more genuine dialogue across schools and geographies\, helping to differentiate what is regional versus universal in our theories. The paper argues that without acknowledging the cultural and non-conscious foundations of theoretical orientations\, psychoanalysis risks perpetuating confusion\, false consensus\, and seriously missed opportunities for growth and global relevance.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/revisiting-donald-winnicotts-1968-encounter-and-the-ongoing-limits-of-regional-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-person (1 Park Ave 8th Fl\, New York\, NY 10016) & Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T163000
DTSTAMP:20261014T154005Z
CREATED:20260831T181020Z
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Study Group Focusing on Sexuality & Gender
DESCRIPTION:This is an intermediate to advanced study group that will explore questions of sexuality and gender through a psychoanalytic lens. We will also explore queer sensibility in clinical work with all patients. \nRequirements for participation:\n• Some familiarity with psychoanalytic theory\n• Some experience and comfort working clinically with people who present withnon- normative gender and sexuality \nWriters we will explore:\nSigmund Freud\, Jean Laplanche\, Ruth Stein\, Julia Kristeva\, Adrian Harris\, Muriel Dimen\, Ken Corbett\, Avgi Saketopoulou\, Griffin Hansbury\, Patricia Gherovici\, Paul Preciado\, Gila Ashtor\, Oren Gozlan\, Sam Guzzardi\, Tobias Wiggins\, and others. \nPresented by Tiffaney Hale\, LMFT & Dylan Berkey\, LMFT
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-study-group-focusing-on-sexuality-gender/
LOCATION:Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261021T210000
DTSTAMP:20261014T160140Z
CREATED:20260831T181016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T160140Z
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SUMMARY:Resilience and Survival: The Ongoing Journeys of Native Americans
DESCRIPTION:This 8-session seminar\, led by Paul Koehler\, LCSW and Karen Fraley\, LCSW\, will be structured around the careful reading and study of the book\, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present\, by David Tueuer.  This book challenges the notion that Native American culture perished with the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.  It\, rather\, chronicles the struggles of Native American tribes and individuals as they encountered\, navigated\, and in many ways have overcome the many and varied obstacles they have confronted on their journeys to sustain their ancestral\, pluralistic cultures while at the same time seeking to assimilate into the larger American cultural landscape.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/resilience-and-survival-the-ongoing-journeys-of-native-americans/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T133000
DTSTAMP:20260730T180726Z
CREATED:20260730T180347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T180726Z
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SUMMARY:6-Week Advanced Leadership Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Format: 6-Week Live Course Hosted over Zoom \nDates: Fridays – October 9\, 16\, 23\, 30; November 6\, 13\, 2026 \nTimes: Fridays – 7:30am – 10:30am PT/10:30am – 1:30pm ET/3:30 pm – 6:30pm GMT \nCredit Amount: 18 credits \nCost: $199 for all guests \nThis 6-week virtual seminar will focus on critical concepts in systems psychodynamics and field theory such as the social unconscious\, projective identification\, splitting\, social defenses\, complex identities\, and intersubjective processes. Widening our conceptual lens so that we can think of individual\, group\, organization\, and the environmental surround as co-creating the field and influencing and shaping each other\, we will use these concepts to deepen our understanding of the unconscious uses and abuses of power across the constructive and destructive spectrum. Each session will be evenly divided between theoretical and experiential components. In the large group\, faculty and members will discuss key points in the assigned readings; break into pre-assigned small self-study groups to reflect on our own group process as it relates to our primary task of learning together about the uses and abuses of power; and return to the large group to continue our self-reflection and organizational self-study. Ultimately\, the primary aim is to enhance our individual and collective efforts\, particularly in the face of hate and human destructiveness\, to become more inclusive as leaders\, more open in our thinking\, and equitable in sharing power. \nLearn more about the 6-week Advanced Leadership Seminar.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/6-week-advanced-leadership-seminar/2026-10-23/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T183000
DTSTAMP:20260904T175821Z
CREATED:20260904T175821Z
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SUMMARY:Biographers’ Countertransference with Their Subjects\, and Our Countertransference with Our Patients
DESCRIPTION:A focus of James W. Anderson’s book on psychobiography is his exploration of how the authors’ relationship with the people written about impacts the biographical account.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/biographers-countertransference-with-their-subjects-and-our-countertransference-with-our-patients/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T090000
DTSTAMP:20260831T181017Z
CREATED:20260831T181017Z
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SUMMARY:Professional Will Boot Camp: An Emotional\, Ethical\, and Practical Workshop with Jeffrey Axelbank\, PsyD
DESCRIPTION:The Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis is pleased to announce a full-day workshop designed to help mental health practitioners create a Professional Will. \nThis workshop addresses the emotional\, ethical\, and practical dimensions of professional will planning\, guiding clinicians through the process step by step in a supportive environment. \nAfter addressing the emotional issues\, there will be time during the workshop to draft your professional will. \nParticipants will have the opportunity to leave with a completed professional will in hand. \nWe warmly invite our colleagues from across the mental health community to join us for this meaningful event. \nSaturday\, October 24\, 2026\n9:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET\nLunch will be provided for all attendees. \nIn-Person Workshop\nGeorge Washington University Student Center\n800 21st Street\, NW\nWashington\, DC 20052\nRoom 308 \nInstructor \nJeffrey Axelbank\, PsyD \nAbout the Instructor \nJeffrey Axelbank\, PsyD is a psychologist in Highland Park\, NJ. He specializes in treating chronic pain and group therapy. He also consults to organizations. After his experience losing his long-time psychoanalyst to a sudden unexpected death was reported in the NY Times\, he began running support groups for people whose therapists died. \nFlyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/26-27/10-24-26%20Profession%20Will%20Bootcamp%20V1.pdf \nRegistration: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_professional_will_10-24-26
URL:https://apsa.org/event/professional-will-boot-camp-an-emotional-ethical-and-practical-workshop-with-jeffrey-axelbank-psyd/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T193000
DTSTAMP:20260727T190013Z
CREATED:20260706T191705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260727T190013Z
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SUMMARY:NPI Fall Conference: Understanding Traumatic Narcissism Theory and Its Clinical Utility
DESCRIPTION:Beginning in 1996 with the essay “Traumatic Abuse in Cults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective\,” up to the release in 2026 of his latest book\, Traumatic Narcissism Theory: A Contemporary Introduction\, Daniel Shaw has studied the psychology of the individual he terms the “traumatizing narcissist\,” and the specific ways that they seduce and then subjugate others. The Traumatic Narcissism Theory summarizes Shaw’s work of the last thirty years\, providing accessible\, practical information and tools in support of both psychotherapists and their clients working toward healing from the traumatizing narcissist’s relational system of subjugation.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/npi-fall-conference-understanding-traumatic-narcissism-theory-and-its-clinical-utility/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual and In-person: Stadium Towers\, 2400 E Katella Ave Ste 150\, Anaheim\, CA 92806\, Anaheim\, CA\, 92806\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261030T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261030T133000
DTSTAMP:20260730T180726Z
CREATED:20260730T180347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260730T180726Z
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SUMMARY:6-Week Advanced Leadership Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Format: 6-Week Live Course Hosted over Zoom \nDates: Fridays – October 9\, 16\, 23\, 30; November 6\, 13\, 2026 \nTimes: Fridays – 7:30am – 10:30am PT/10:30am – 1:30pm ET/3:30 pm – 6:30pm GMT \nCredit Amount: 18 credits \nCost: $199 for all guests \nThis 6-week virtual seminar will focus on critical concepts in systems psychodynamics and field theory such as the social unconscious\, projective identification\, splitting\, social defenses\, complex identities\, and intersubjective processes. Widening our conceptual lens so that we can think of individual\, group\, organization\, and the environmental surround as co-creating the field and influencing and shaping each other\, we will use these concepts to deepen our understanding of the unconscious uses and abuses of power across the constructive and destructive spectrum. Each session will be evenly divided between theoretical and experiential components. In the large group\, faculty and members will discuss key points in the assigned readings; break into pre-assigned small self-study groups to reflect on our own group process as it relates to our primary task of learning together about the uses and abuses of power; and return to the large group to continue our self-reflection and organizational self-study. Ultimately\, the primary aim is to enhance our individual and collective efforts\, particularly in the face of hate and human destructiveness\, to become more inclusive as leaders\, more open in our thinking\, and equitable in sharing power. \nLearn more about the 6-week Advanced Leadership Seminar.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/6-week-advanced-leadership-seminar/2026-10-30/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261103T203000
DTSTAMP:20261014T160418Z
CREATED:20261014T144300Z
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SUMMARY:Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind (Second Section)
DESCRIPTION:An intensive reading group on Fred Busch’s book\, Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind. Busch\, an influential ego psychologist\, writes complex psychoanalytic ideas in an unusually clear\, usable way. This seminar cultivates a Busch-informed clinical stance and technique\, with close attention to reverie\, countertransference as an instrument\, timing of interpretation\, symbolization\, working through trauma and splitting\, and fostering analytic creativity and ethical presence. Ideal for clinicians and training\, psychoanalytic candidates\, advanced psychotherapy trainees\, early-career therapists\, and clinical graduate students.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/creating-a-psychoanalytic-mind-second-section/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Institutes, Centers, & Societies
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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