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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Takes On Cinema: Session 2 of 3: Discussion of the film “Me Before You”
DESCRIPTION:*** Film must be viewed prior to event. *** \nDiscussion of the film “Me Before You” \nFriday\, January 30\, 2026\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm\nVia Zoom \n2016 (120 min)\nDirector: Thea Sharrock\nDiscussant: Katherine Marshall Woods\, Psy.D. \nA girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recently-paralyzed man she’s taking care of. \nPresentation: It has been a long-standing question regarding whether an individual has the right to take their own life. This question has invited both legal and moral considerations into the conversation. Physician Assisted Suicides have become legal in America in thirteen states and the District of Columbia for certain individuals/patients. Me Before You explores the affective response and behavioral manifestations that occur with the loved ones of those who have accepted a PAS. Examining the range of grief experienced\, coupled with the diligent use of defense mechanisms to emotionally cope with the person’s chosen manner to end their life is illustrated in this film event. \nIn this talk\, we will discuss the dynamics present within the film Me Before You in thecontext of age and SES. We will also have the opportunity to screen Pat Basstini’s short\, Dignity (2020)\, and explore similar and differing dynamics given the season in life the characters find themselves. Participants will have an opportunity to speak with the filmmaker at the event. \nDiscussant: Katherine Marshall Woods\, PsyD\, is a media psychologist and licensed clinical psychologist in Washington\, DC. Dr. Marshall Woods spearheads PsychMinded Media\, which allows her to assist individuals in the film and media industry to conceptualize projects with a psychological perspective. She has worked with actors\, screenwriters\, producers\, and directors\, and collaborates with film festivals in the US and abroad. Dr. Marshall Woods co-leads the Psychoanalytic Takes on Cinema with the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and is the developer of Cinematic Imprints with American Psychological Association’s Division 39\, Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology. She is also the Director of Graduate Studies with The George Washington University Professional Psychology Program. \nDr. Marshall Woods has contributed blogs for The Huffington Post\, the former American Psychological Association’s PsycCRITIQUES\, has a column with Psychology Today and blogs with Thrive Global and Medium regarding psychology\, film and media works. She has authored the book\, Best Psychology in Film\, which has become a 2024 Telly Award-winning television show and podcast that she produces and hosts with UDCtv. Her recent publication\, Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens\, has been featured on numerous podcasts and speaking engagements around the US. Additionally\, Dr. Marshall Woods has lent her expertise to media outlets\, such as News Channel 8\, NPR\, The Huffington Post\, The Daily Drum and remains the host and producer of A Healthy Mind television show in Washington\, DC. \nPre-registration is required via the WBCP website at http://wbcp.org. If you do not have an account on the WBCP website\, you will need to create a “guest account” to register and view/print your CME/CE credit certificate after the seminar. For registration assistance\, contact the WBCP at 301-470-3635/ 410-792-8060 / 202-237-1854 or admin@wbcp.org \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_psy_cinema_25-26 \nFull program Flyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/1-30-26%20Psychoanalytic%20Takes%20on%20the%20Cinema%20-%20Me%20Before%20You.pdf \nREGISTRATION DEADLINE: Wednesday\, January 28\, 2025\, at 4:30 pm
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-takes-on-cinema-session-2-of-3-discussion-of-the-film-me-before-you/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T163000
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SUMMARY:Theories of Mind & Case Conceptualization Courses
DESCRIPTION:These classes may be taken individually or together. When taken as a series\, they thoughtfully complement one another. Participants who register for both will receive a 10% discount.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/theories-of-mind-case-conceptualization-courses/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260125T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260125T090000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070010
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SUMMARY:Prosody and the Introduction of Meaning with Empty Patients
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Anne Alvarez\, PhD\, MACP  \nWe can sometimes be too preoccupied with removing defenses\, which is helpful with many patients but can drain the already limited resources of those with weak egos and a kind of apathetic despair. \nThis session will alert participants to the difference between resistance of a defensive nature and true deficit\, where certain social skills are really missing or reduced. Recognizing this distinction allows for the use of more appropriate therapeutic skills and strategies.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/prosody-and-the-introduction-of-meaning-with-empty-patients/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T140000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070010
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SUMMARY:Myriad Uses and Functions of Interpretation
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: \nBruce Reis\, Ph.D.\, FIPA\, BCPsa \nProgram Committee Chair: \nMarina Mirkin\, MD \nAnalysts seem spellbound by language when it comes to the word interpretation\, a word so idealized and grand\, so laden with fantasy\, that the term itself continues to hold a magical sense that defies us to think about it. Accordingly\, issues of construction\, co-construction\, and transformation are examined. Every interpretation is at once a concealment\, every inscription a negation\, every representation a representation of something unrepresentable. Despite this\, the concept of interpretation\, even if theoretically unsupportable in large measure\, retains its clinical utility.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/myriad-uses-and-functions-of-interpretation/
LOCATION:NYU Langone Health Science Building (NYC)\, 435 East 30th St\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T190000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070010
CREATED:20251210T134730Z
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SUMMARY:Hoarding the Future: Generational Anxieties and Their Implication for Psychoanalytic Training and Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Through panel presentations and large and small group discussions\, this program will address the nature of generational anxieties (parricidal\, filicidal\, and siblicidal) as these emerge in the varying aspects of psychoanalytic institutions. \nPresenters Brian Ngo-Smith and Teresa Méndez will share reflections from their clinical work as well as from supervisory and other collegial relationships\, to address the impact of these anxieties as they lead to resistances to progression\, succession\, and diversification of learning opportunities. \nAttendees will be invited to engage with the presenters and with one another to grapple with the vicissitudes of psychoanalytic training as these also parallel other sites of systemic breakdown when confronted with diverse identities that come to represent a threat to the status quo. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which erotic dimensions of cross-generational dynamics may get obscured by more conflictual and destructive enactments. \nBy interrogating and exploring the complex sociocultural and generational dynamics that are enacted in psychoanalytic training and in psychoanalytic treatment\, these presentations will invite learners to reflect on their own training experiences – both as student and teacher\, supervisee and supervisor – in order to think more critically about how this impacts the clinical care they provide to their patients\, including with respect to therapeutic interventions that may be overlooked due to unconscious allegiances to figures on whom learners depend. \nBrian Ngo-Smith\, LCSW\, BCD-P\, FABP is a psychoanalyst and clinical social worker in Denver\, CO. He received his MSW from the University of Iowa and completed analytic training at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis\, where he is now on faculty. Brian has worked in the mental health field for over 20 years in residential\, hospital\, community mental health\, and private practice settings. He is a Past President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and he was the recipient of the 2024 Ernst and Gertrude Ticho Memorial Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association. \nTeresa Méndez\, LCSW-C\, LICSW is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst practicing in Baltimore\, MD. She earned her AB in Anthropology from Princeton University and MSW from the Smith College School for Social Work\, and completed psychoanalytic training at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis\, where she serves on the Diversities\, Scholarship\, and Ombuds committees. A former journalist\, Teresa has presented and published widely on the mixed-race experience and edited a special issue on race and psychoanalysis for Psychoanalytic Social Work\, where she is on the editorial board. She is a past President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work\, and served as a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Holmes Commission on Racial Equity. \nEthan Grumbach\, PhD\, FIPA is a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles where he teaches the Infant Observation Course and courses on Gender and Sexuality. He is a training and supervising analyst\, in 2014 becoming only the 5th openly LGBT APsaA TA/SA . He presents and teaches nationally and internationally on aspects of psychoanalytic and psychotherapy work with Queer individuals as well as infants and their families. Dr. Grumbach is a member of APsaA’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality which he has previously chaired. At the New Center for Psychoanalysis\, he is a member of the Diversities and Sociocultural Issues Committee\, the Education Committee and the Strategic Advisory Committee. Dr. Grumbach is a member of the Psychoanalytic Center of Northern California. He has completed training in Tavistock Method Infant Observation. He maintains a private practice in Los Angeles where he does Infant Psychoanalysis in addition to analysis and psychotherapy with individuals\, families and couples. Most recently he received the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award in 2025.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/hoarding-the-future-generational-anxieties-and-their-implication-for-psychoanalytic-training-and-treatment/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T131500
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SUMMARY:Impact of Medication on the Psychotherapeutic Situation
DESCRIPTION:How do psychoanalysts work with medication? What is the significance to both patient and analyst of an analyst prescribing medication? \nDr. Garza will address these topics and provide clinical examples from his psychoanalytic practice. \nAbout Our Speaker.\nLuis Garza\, MD\nDr. Luis Garza graduated from the University of Texas-Houston School of Medicine. He completed his psychiatry residency training at NYU in 2002. Upon completion of his residency\, he enrolled in and graduated from the two-year Adult Psychodynamic Psychotherapy training program at PANY. Dr. Garza then pursued his analytic training at PANY\, from which he graduated in 2011. For twelve years\, Dr. Garza worked at the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital adult outpatient psychiatry clinic treating HIV and AIDS patients. While at Columbia\, he served as the psychopharmacologist for all of the Columbia Psychology interns and provided the interns with teaching and supervision regarding issues related to medication and psychotherapy. Dr. Garza was also a staff psychiatrist at the NYU Medical Student Health Services\, where he evaluated medical students and provides short term treatment and referrals. In addition to his academic positions\, Dr. Garza has been in private practice for the past twenty one years.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/impact-of-medication-on-the-psychotherapeutic-situation/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-person (1 Park Ave 8th Fl\, New York\, NY 10016) & Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T100000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070010
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SUMMARY:The Moral Defense: Nietzsche in the Clinic (Hybrid)
DESCRIPTION:Given that we can detect in the canonical work of many psychoanalytic thinkers the philosophical influences of Kant\, Schopenhauer\, Hegel\, and Heidegger this presentation explores this point of connection between philosophy and psychoanalysis. Few thinkers have matched Friedrich Nietzsche’s psychological insights—a fact Freud acknowledged when he admitted to avoiding Nietzsche’s work to preserve the originality of his own ideas—yet the value of these insights for our clinical practice remains to be explored. \nIn this presentation\, Philosophers and Psychoanalysts\, Allison Merrick\, PhD\, PsyD\, RP\, FIPA and Dr. Rochelle Godbout\, PhD\, RP\, will focus on one of Nietzsche’s most clinically resonant insights: that morality is frequently employed as a psychological defense\, shielding individuals from intolerable emotions such as shame and helplessness. Through detailed clinical examples and a conversation with Rochelle Godbout\, Merrick will demonstrate how to identify moral defenses in therapeutic work and offer strategies for helping patients access the defended-against affects beneath them.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-moral-defense-nietzsche-in-the-clinic-hybrid/
ORGANIZER;CN="San Diego Psychoanalytic Center":MAILTO:events@sdpsychoanalytic.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T113000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070010
CREATED:20251205T142623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T230437Z
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SUMMARY:Kramer Mahler Forum: The Use of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Adolescents (TFP-A) to Treat a Teenager with Narcissistic Personality Disorder
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Kramer-Mahler Forum for a compelling case presentation demonstrating the use of TFP-A in working with a 17-year-old patient with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/kramer-mahler-forum-the-use-of-transference-focused-psychotherapy-for-adolescents-tfp-a-to-treat-a-teenager-with-narcissistic-personality-disorder/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T090000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070010
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SUMMARY:Escaping Exploitative Control
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Steve Hassan Must-Have Tools to Help Clients Disengage from Online Conspiracies\, Radical Political Organizations\, Cults & More
URL:https://apsa.org/event/escaping-exploitative-control/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T220000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T000000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070010
CREATED:20251210T134729Z
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SUMMARY:Hoarding the Future:  A Panel with Brian Ngo-Smith and Teresa Méndez
DESCRIPTION:In this panel\, Brian Ngo-Smith will share a paper entitled Canceling Oedipus\, or A Plea to Share the Future\, reflecting on a period in his work with a young man in analysis in which a hateful and regressive impasse brought both analyst and analysand into contact with the dangers of the pursuit of hope. Drawing on the 2019 film The Lighthouse\, Ngo-Smith will invite attendees to become immersed in this dynamic to highlight its implications for cross-generational treatment dyads\, as well as for our broader professional institutions and communities. \nTeresa Méndez will present Training Terminable and Interminable\, a personal reflection on her experiences and observations of psychoanalytic training. Attending to intergenerational and institutional anxieties\, she will focus on endings – whether of a supervision or of the training process as a whole – asking what makes it so difficult to allow candidates to graduate. \nBrian Ngo-Smith\, LCSW\, BCD-P\, FABP is a psychoanalyst and clinical social worker in Denver\, CO. He received his MSW from the University of Iowa and completed analytic training at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis\, where he is now on faculty. Brian has worked in the mental health field for over 20 years in residential\, hospital\, community mental health\, and private practice settings. He is a Past President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and he was the recipient of the 2024 Ernst and Gertrude Ticho Memorial Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association. \nTeresa Méndez\, LCSW-C\, LICSW is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst practicing in Baltimore\, MD. She earned her AB in Anthropology from Princeton University and MSW from the Smith College School for Social Work\, and completed psychoanalytic training at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis\, where she serves on the Diversities\, Scholarship\, and Ombuds committees. A former journalist\, Teresa has presented and published widely on the mixed-race experience and edited a special issue on race and psychoanalysis for Psychoanalytic Social Work\, where she is on the editorial board. She is a past President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work\, and served as a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Holmes Commission on Racial Equity. \nModerator:\nEthan Grumbach\, PhD\, FIPA is a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles where he teaches the Infant Observation Course and courses on Gender and Sexuality. He is a training and supervising analyst who in 2014 became the 5th openly LGBT APsA TA/SA. He presents and teaches nationally and internationally on aspects of psychoanalytic and psychotherapy work with Queer individuals as well as infants and their families. Dr. Grumbach is a member of APsA’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality which he previously chaired. At NCP\, he is a member of the Diversities and Socio-cultural Inequities Committee\, the Education Committee\, and the Strategic Advisory Committee. Dr. Grumbach is a also member of the Psychoanalytic Center of Northern California and has completed training in Tavistock Method Infant Observation. He maintains a private practice in Los Angeles where he does Infant Psychoanalysis in addition to analysis and psychotherapy with individuals\, families\, and couples. Most recently he received the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award in 2025.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/hoarding-the-future-a-panel-with-brian-ngo-smith-and-teresa-mendez/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T223000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070010
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SUMMARY:Diagnosis and its torments
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Nancy McWilliams\, PhD\nDr. McWilliams will reflect on contemporary diagnostic conventions in mental health\, emphasizing the unintended negative consequences for both patients and clinicians of diagnostic practices that focus solely on symptoms and observable behaviors. She will describe alternative taxonomies intended to remedy the weaknesses of the DSM and ICD for guiding treatment\, and she will mention other efforts to pursue a diagnostic sensibility that privileges inference\, dimensionality\, context\, and meaning. She will discuss the new edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual\, focusing on its relevance to contemporary clinical practice.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/diagnosis-and-its-torments/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260118T130000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
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SUMMARY:OPUS Book Launch Event: Amy Levy & Susie Orbach
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting opportunity to hear Susie Orbach in conversation with Amy Levy about Amy’s new book The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive.  \nThis book is a meditation on a technology that manifests all the hallmarks of human relating\, human needs\, and human complexities in its interactions with another subject. Amy Levy’s approach applies the psychoanalytic clinical attitude\, with its sensitivity to enactment\, into the investigation of AI. She makes use of her encounters with AI via media\, research\, personal usage\, and traces woven into her day-to-day relations with people to apprehend the essence of what humanity is enacting. Levy retains an inquisitive\, factual stance while noting her emotional reactions\, using such tension to best perceive the Other. This intelligent book is our guide to a future of unprecedented psychological complexity.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/opus-book-launch-event-amy-levy-susie-orbach/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T140000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20251024T182527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T224455Z
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SUMMARY:Addressing Defenses with Leon Hoffman\, MD
DESCRIPTION:“Addressing Defenses: A Core Mechanism of Change in Psychodynamic Treatments “
URL:https://apsa.org/event/leon-hoffman-md/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T133000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20251008T220546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T154544Z
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SUMMARY:The I in You
DESCRIPTION:Explore the pervasive narcissism of our culture and attempt to re-define the concepts of Self\, Narcissism and Well-Being with Jeffry Luria\, PhD
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-i-in-you/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person at New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T130000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20260102T205605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T224251Z
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SUMMARY:Advances in the Neuroscience of Memory and Emotion and Their Implications for Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Richard Lane presents recent advances in neuroscience have the potential to reposition psychoanalysis on a stronger empirical footing and facilitate improvements in its efficiency and effectiveness.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/advances-in-the-neuroscience-of-memory-and-emotion-and-their-implications-for-psychoanalysis-and-psychodynamic-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Dallas Psychoanalytic Center & Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260117T003000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20251024T182942Z
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SUMMARY:Film & Mind: The Fall
DESCRIPTION:Tarsem Singh’s THE FALL (2006) explores themes of trauma\, healing\, storytelling as therapy\, and the complex relationship between a hospitalized stuntman and a young immigrant girl in 1920s Los Angeles. The movie is an illuminating example of transference and countertransference within a dyad\, and that it illustrates the interesting effect of the immutable presence of the living other in the room which leads to transformation. It also illustrates the phenomenon of “Reverie” within the shared story telling that demonstrates the useful and revealing nature of that less understood concept of reverie in analytic technique. \nThe film appeared on several critics’ top ten lists of the best films of 2008. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film four stars out of four and wrote\, “You might want to see [it] for no other reason than because it exists. There will never be another like it.” He later named it among his top 20 films of 2008. \nGerard Sobnosky\, LMFT\, is a psychoanalyst and licensed marriage and family therapist in Los Angeles\, CA. He is on the Admissions Committee and the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Committee at the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP). He teaches in NCP’s Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy program and Adult Psychoanalytic Training program\, for which he was named Instructor of the Year. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association and former Vice President for North America for the International Psychoanalytic Studies Organization. He enjoys participating regularly in the Mind and Film series. \nLuis Vallejo\, MD is a psychiatrist whose private practice Great Oak Psychiatry is based out of Beverly Hills. Beyond managing his practice of multiple clinicians in different states\, he is a post seminar psychoanalytic candidate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis with interests in broadly applying psychodynamic/psychoanalytic theory to business and the arts. He has a burgeoning youtube channel called Wild Man Psychiatry and collaborates with multiple colleagues in the media industry to evolve creative dimensions of his career which are largely philanthropic in intent.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-the-fall/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T130000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20260126T035819Z
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SUMMARY:Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program (CAPP)
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URL:https://apsa.org/event/child-and-adolescent-psychotherapy-program-capp/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T125000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
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SUMMARY:“A Fantasy I Didn’t Know I Had”: Sexual Fantasy as Turning-point in a Psychoanalytic Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Derek Hook\, PhD – Obsessional neurotic analysands are notoriously good at neutralizing a psychoanalytic treatment. They annul the role of the analyst\, avoid the dimension of the Other’s desire (or lack)\, deny the relevance of parapraxes\, and use free association as a means of defense. Given then that the obsessional\, for Lacan\, is never where they say they are\, that their intellectual engagement with a treatment often occurs at the expense of their participation at the level of being\, then what is it that makes change possible? This paper responds to this question with a vignette drawn from a lengthy piece of clinical work with an analysand who suffered from a series of urinary symptoms. A turning-point in the work came when the analysand\, started speaking\, free associatively\, about a fictional scene in a novel (a scene of an illicit sexual encounter). This (mis-remembered) scene suddenly jarred a repressed sexual memory\, which in turn posed for them a question of desire they did not know they had. Three Freudian and Lacan conceptualizations help illuminate the vignette: Freud’s account of beating fantasies; ‘aphanisis’ (or\, the fading of the subject); and the idea of urinary flow as object a.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-fantasy-i-didnt-know-i-had-sexual-fantasy-as-turning-point-in-a-psychoanalytic-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260116T120000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20260126T035819Z
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SUMMARY:NPI Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging opportunity to learn more about NPI! Meet the Dean and President for an introduction to the programs offered\, connect with current candidates\, experience a live class in action\, and participate in a Q&A session to explore all our program offerings.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/npi-open-house-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20251205T142608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T221547Z
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SUMMARY:Complex Case Consultation Group When Talk Therapy Isn't Enough... or Is It?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Lisa Madsen\, MD\nThis consultation group will focus on complex cases which have reached an impasse with little forward movement or even a regression on the part of the patient. We will consider systemic or environmental factors impinging on the dyad\, the patient’s comorbid conditions\, intrapsychic variables (i.e.\, personality\, resources\, defenses)\, interpersonal issues\, and the clinician’s defenses\, expectations\, and reactions. We will explore various treatment options such as intensifying the existing treatment\, discontinuing it\, or utilizing ancillary treatments such as couples/family therapy\, group therapy\, somatic experiencing\, EMDR\, etc.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/complex-case-consultation-group-when-talk-therapy-isnt-enough-or-is-it/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260113T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260113T213000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20251117T201907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251119T211028Z
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SUMMARY:2025 Fred Pine Paper Award Presentation
DESCRIPTION:***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.*** You must register to attend the virtual event. \nThe recipients of the 2025 Fred Pine Ph.D. Award for a Paper Contributing to Psychoanalytic Theory\, Technique\, or Development will present the work on January 13\, 2026 from 8:00-9:30pm at an event to be hosted by NYPSI and co-sponsored by APsA and the NYU Postdoc program. Register for this event through NYPSI. \nThe winning paper\, “Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious” by Kenneth Feiner\, Psy.D. and Deborah Waxenberg\, Ph.D. suggests that time and timelessness are coexistent\, interrelated dimensions of experience\, rather than binaries. They delineate ways that temporality infiltrates unconscious processes\, including in language production\, date marks\, anniversary reactions\, unconscious fears of death\, and compromise formation. They draw on the psychoanalytic literature\, contemporary chronobiological and developmental research\, recent work in neuroscience as well as clinical observations. \n  \nKenneth Feiner\, Psy.D. a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst\, is the coauthor (with Danielle Knafo) of the book\, Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World. He is a clinical consultant at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He has published articles on child development\, empathy\, unconscious fantasy\, and sexual abuse. He is in private practice in New York City where he sees adults\, teenagers and couples. \n  \nDeborah Waxenberg\, Ph.D.\, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is Teaching Faculty\, Clinical Consultant\, and served for 6 years as Co-Chair of the Relational Track at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Faculty at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and the National Training Program of NIP. She maintains an office practice in NYC working with individuals and couples.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/2025-fred-pine-paper-award-presentation/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260112T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260112T143000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20251210T134711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T221329Z
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SUMMARY:Literature as Psychoanalysis\, Psychoanalysis as Literature: A Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by: Erica Ehrenberg\, Licensed Psychoanalyst\, MFA\nWhat do the great writers have to teach us about psychoanalysis\, and in what ways do some of the most powerful psychoanalytic texts function as poetry? This writing workshop is predicated on the idea that creative writers have crucial contributions to make to how we conceptualize psychological experience\, and that some of the great psychoanalytic texts lift off the page beyond theory and into poetry. Through writing exercises designed in response to texts like Kafka’s “The Country Doctor\,” Celan’s poetry from and beyond trauma\, Toni Morrison’s Beloved\, Virginia Woolf’s “On Being Ill\,” D. W. Winnicott’s “Fear of Breakdown\,” Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams\, and Barbara Guest’s essay on the creative unconscious\, “Invisible Architecture\,” we will meet at the place where psychoanalytic thinking and poetry not only overlap\, but feed on and become each other. The goal will be to generate creative work that emerges from this exploration — a seed for both creative and clinical work. We will share it in a workshop format\, with discussion that mines the relationship between form and content in the works we read and in each participant’s particular voice.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/literature-as-psychoanalysis-psychoanalysis-as-literature-a-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20260102T205603Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T221155Z
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SUMMARY:Marianne Goldberger: A Mold-breaking Psychoanalyst in Her Time and\, Importantly\, for Ours
DESCRIPTION:PRESENTER: Dorothy Evans Holmes\, PhD\nThis lecture will demonstrate the various ways in which Dr. Marianne Goldberger was a pioneer in psychoanalysis. The paper will draw on multiple sources of data: Dr. Holmes’ experiences as Marianne’s supervisee\, student\, mentee\, collaborator in writing\, and friend; a review of commemorations of Marianne upon her death\, and reflections on a sampling of Dr. Goldberg’s scholarship.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/marianne-goldberger-a-mold-breaking-psychoanalyst-in-her-time-and-importantly-for-ours/
LOCATION:Hybrid: In-Person (NYU Langone Health – 1 Park Ave 8th Floor\, NY\, NY) & Virtual\, 1 Park Ave 8th Floor\, New York\, NY\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T141500
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20251205T142607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T213414Z
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SUMMARY:Risk in the Psychoanalytic Process: Ethics\, Exposure\, Eroticism
DESCRIPTION:This conference on risks involving ethics\, exposure\, and eroticism in the psychoanalytic process features talks by two authors and clinicians\, Charles Levin\, PhD and Avgi Saketopoulou\, PsyD\, who have numerous publications on these important topics. Commentary will be offered by Elizabeth Wallace\, MD\, who has published papers about the immediate and long-term effects of losing an analyst due to sexual boundary violations.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/risk-in-the-psychoanalytic-process-ethics-exposure-eroticism/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T200000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20251009T155527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T155747Z
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SUMMARY:The Question of Unworthy Life: Eugenics and Germany's Twentieth Century
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Dagmar Herzog\, PhD \nThese days\, the topic of intellectual disability seems frequently to function as a conversation stopper\, and yet studying its history can teach us much we need to know about the seductive appeal of fascisms both past and present. The Question of Unworthy Life resituates the hundredthousandfold Nazi coercive “eugenic” sterilizations and “euthanasia” murders of people with cognitive impairments and psychiatric diagnoses in a longer history of lethal malice toward the vulnerable that was erotically charged already since the 1890s and inseparable from the promise of libidinal pleasures that facilitated the Nazi ascent to political power. On the basis of a wealth of rare archival evidence\, Dr. Dagmar Herzog revisits this grim history\, exploring also the ambivalent enmeshment of those professionals in medicine\, religious charity\, and pedagogy principally responsible for provision of supports. But she recovers as well singularly courageous counter-voices at every step and\, taking the story into the 2020s\, chronicles the uneven\, protracted battles to establish a revolutionary new image of the human and novel practices of education and care.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-question-of-unworthy-life-eugenics-and-germanys-twentieth-century/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T143000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20251024T182524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T211741Z
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SUMMARY:Alumni Roundtable Discussion - Middle School Latency
DESCRIPTION:Middle School Latency
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-roundtable-discussion-middle-school-latency/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20251205T142607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T211525Z
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Sandplay Therapy\, Study Group
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is appropriate for psychotherapists of all levels\, interested in learning more about sandplay technique\, its underlying theory\, utility\, and interpretation. It is a 10-session study group and workshop on Friday mornings from January 9 to April 10\, 2026. Presented by Joann Ponder\, PhD.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/introduction-to-sandplay-therapy-study-group/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T220000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20250820T175921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T170747Z
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SUMMARY:An Uncommon View of Common Factors in Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Jon Allen\, PhD \nDecades of research shows that factors common to various therapies contribute more to their effectiveness than the differences among them. These common factors pertain largely to the quality of the patient-therapist relationship. Prototypical are the Rogerian triad (empathy\, positive regard\, and genuineness) and the extensively researched therapeutic alliance. These factors are commonly understood in an instrumental fashion: establish a good relationship to facilitate the real work of the therapy (whatever that might be). Contrarily\, we might view cultivating relational capacities as the essential work and optimal outcome of the therapy insofar as these capacities generalize to other relationships—current and future. This presentation illustrates with four uncommonly considered factors: attachment\, mentalizing\, trust\, and care—and a fifth factor that is both common and unique to each therapy\, the therapist. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/an-uncommon-view-of-common-factors-in-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T214500
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20251024T182542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T211234Z
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SUMMARY:American Slavery & Psychoanalytic Reflection
DESCRIPTION:Spreaker: Volney Gay\, PhD. We explore American slave owners who embodied the existential contradiction of American values (individual liberty) with human bondage. We focus on their struggles to defend themselves against that contradiction. We locate those struggles within the biographies of famous persons\, such as President Washington\, and unknown persons who claimed to be both adamantly for liberty AND yet were adamantly pro slavery. Psychoanalysis offers unique insights into those struggles and the national crime they engendered. Credits: 3.75
URL:https://apsa.org/event/american-slavery-psychoanalytic-reflection/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260106T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260106T213000
DTSTAMP:20260709T070011
CREATED:20260102T205601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T205904Z
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SUMMARY:Beating an Undead Horse: Toward a Conceptualization of Nuisance in the Analytic Process
DESCRIPTION:Winnicott brilliantly grasped the child’s nuisance-making as a bid for assurance of the parent’s reliability. Some adult patients continue their patterns of nuisance-making in ways that can be annoying to others\, including the analyst. Dr. Cooper explores the work that the analyst must do on behalf of his patient to transform countertransference annoyance into meaningful interpretive responsiveness. This work requires the analyst to metabolize the affects expressed that are challenging for the patient to contain. Together\, patient and analyst live for periods of time in a nuisance-making climate\, one that is demanding for both patient and analyst. \nSteven H. Cooper\, PhD\, is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Columbia Univ. Psychoanalytic Center. He holds Clinical Professorships at Columbia P&S and at New York Univ. Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis. He has recently been the Visiting Erik Erikson Senior Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center. Dr Cooper is the author or editor of eight books in psychoanalysis. His most recent books: Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis\, (2023) and Psychoanalysis in Play: Expanding Psychoanalytic Concepts from a Play Perspective\, (2025); and Winnicott’s Letter to Bion: Playing and Dreaming and Beyond\, co-edited with Christopher Lovett (2025). \nMatthew Shaw\, PhD\, is an adult\, child and adolescent psychoanalyst\, teaches at the Yale Univ. School of Medicine and is a training and supervising analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis in New Haven\, CT\, where he chairs the child and adolescent training program. He has published broadly\, including a book on Hans Loewald. He gave the plenary at the Association for Child Psychoanalysis and the Beata Rank Lecture at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/beating-an-undead-horse-toward-a-conceptualization-of-nuisance-in-the-analytic-process/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person at Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine and Virtual)\, New York\, NY
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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