NCP's Virtual Open House 2026
2026-03-16 10:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
Join us online for a lively discussion with students and faculty from each of our programs who will share how their training at NCP has 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 more about our multi-year training programs, and ask any questions you may have.
Whether you are considering training this year or in the near future, all are welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you!

Multicultural Competency in Psychodynamic Practice
2026-04-08 19:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Speaker: Alicia Naveas, LPC, MEd. This course will explore foundational concepts of cultural competency within psychodynamic frameworks. Emphasizing the work of authors such as Tummala-Narra, Salman Akhtar, and Patricia Gherovici will integrate multicultural awareness into psychoanalytic thinking. For instance, Tummala-Narra (2025) conceptualizes multicultural competence as a reflective capacity to shift perspectives and understand the patient’s lived experience. Credits: 4.5

Thinking Where We Are Not: Interpellation, Dissociative Enactment, and the Social
2026-04-09 20:30 - 22:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presented by: Donnel Stern, PhD
In the interest of integrating the social and the individual in psychoanalysis, Dr. Stern examines the relation of Althusser’s concept of interpellation and the psychoanalytic idea of dissociative enactment. Interpellation is a way of conceptualizing the creation of subjectivity via individual participation in the ideological tropes of power. Dissociative enactment is a relational psychoanalytic way of referring to unconscious participation in relatedness. In interpellation, one person is “hailed” by another in a way that inducts the person so addressed, without the awareness of either party, into a relational pattern that includes both. Dr. Stern argues that we can see the same process in dissociative enactment. Clinical process is illuminated by the recognition of the continuity of the social and the individual that is modeled by the relation of these two dissociative processes. New meaning–the formulation of unformulated experience–comes about unbidden, sometimes slipping the traces of ideology. Paraphrasing an aphorism from Lacan: We think where we are not.
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Alumni Roundtable
2026-04-10 12:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Resolving Rapprochement

Becoming Raced-Psychic Consequences of Transgenerational Racial Trauma
2026-04-10 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presenter: Dionne R. Powell, MD
Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture
Racism, and otherness, continues to be contentious for psychoanalysts to consider as a psychic phenomenon. Unlike aggression and sexuality, racism is held in silence and resistance, inhibiting exploration of this aspect of mind. By closely examining how and where the analyst/psychotherapist locates themselves racially and working through our resistance and countertransference to this type of exploration, this paper invites us to include these aspects of mind for our analytic use. This paper expands on how we become raced by exploring the transgenerational transmission of racial trauma, and its intra-psychic, structuralizing components. Using examples from the creative arts and clinical vignettes to demonstrate how being raced, as a universal phenomenon, is embodied and symbolized in mind, opens a therapeutic aperture for clinicians who may benefit from a psychoanalytic, intrapsychic perspective on this aspect of our shared humanity.

Anthony Bass, PhD
2026-04-18 11:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
“Unconscious Communication Between Therapist and Patient: The Ordinary Uncanniness of Everyday Psychoanalytic Life-Back to the Future of Psychoanalysis”

Alumni Roundtable
2026-05-01 12:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Working with Shame

Psychoanalytic Freedom and The Loving Gaze
2026-05-14 20:30 - 22:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presented by: Shir Shanun, PhD
Civitarese (2024) writes we have a need to exist in the eyes of others, it is what makes relationships meaningful. Such loving connections and freedom in complex analytic system and the positive relationship between them are at the center of this paper. I will argue that restriction or expansion of one impacts the other. I define freedom—as an emergent component within the analytic complex system that reflects an increase in perspectives a person has and experiences; and the loving gaze—as an integral constituent of the conditions that support recognition and an indicator of movement toward or away from recognition and connection. The use of Giuseppe Civitarese’s model of Post Bionian Field Theory (BFT) and Daniel Goldin’s Storying, supports the emergence of both loving gaze and freedom including more freedom to address the socio-political and transform our experience into a loving gaze experience.
In this paper a clinical example will demonstrate a moment of restricted freedom in the context of socio-political impingement. We will explore its transformation into a loving gaze experience using BFT and storying techniques. It will exemplify how when our loving gaze is restricted toward the other and toward ourselves, our freedom is restricted. Whereas we might feel a more intimate connection when we experience more freedom in our relatedness.
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