American Psychoanalytic Association

Attachment, Separation-Individuation, Love, and Intimacy: Adaptation Over the Life Cycle
2023-04-22 04:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual, via Zoom
Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
This event addresses: This program will focus on how experiences of love and aggression affect attachment, separation-individuation and intimate relationships across the lifespan.
Presenters: Wendy Olesker, PhD, Miriam Steele, PhD, Robert Waldinger, MD
Discussants: Diana Diamond, PhD, Otto Kernberg, MD
Moderator: Lawrence D. Blum, MD
This program will focus on how experiences of love and aggression affect attachment, separation-individuation and intimate relationships across the lifespan. The presenters and discussants are leading clinical researchers on attachment, separation-individuation, and child and adult development. The program will appeal to mental health professionals of all disciplines, including psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors, as well as trainees in all of these fields. The central topics of attachment, individuation, love, and intimate relationships are human universals, important to all clinicians.

Symposium 2023: Love and Empathy
2023-04-22 04:45 - 16:45 | In-person & Virtual
Symposium 2023: Love and Empathy, hosted by Mount Sinai Medical Center, will take place virtually and in person on April 22, 2023 from 8:45 am to 4:30 pm.
Jonathan Lear will be the keynote speaker.
Brochure: https://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Symp-2023-Brochure-FIN-9R.pdf

Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives on Analyst Boredom: Deadness, Aliveness, and the Spaces in Between
2023-04-22 06:00 - 13:00 | Virtual, via Zoom
Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas
This event addresses: Clinician boredom
Presented by Steven Kuchuck, DSW, this presentation will explore traditional as well as much more contemporary thinking about the meaning of clinician boredom. Dr. Kuchuck argues that boredom can of course indicate dissociated or otherwise inaccessible patient and/or therapist affect. But there may be something about the normative clinical encounter that engenders these states more often than we care to admit. The deadened analyst’s resultant shame, guilt and other complex feelings will be explored via extensive theory and clinical material.

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific meeting
2023-04-22 08:00 | Virtual, via Zoom
Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society
This event addresses: Unconscious Relstionship with Psychoanalytic Theory
Our Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory. *****Our David Black Memorial Lecturer***** this year, Dr. Gretchen Schmutz, uses clinical material to explore the role of the unconscious in relationship to psychoanalytic theory. She find theory allows the analyst to have experience that contain important unconscious thinking which in turn contributes to new understandings about theory.

Our Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory
2023-04-22 08:00 | Virtual, via Zoom

Annual Karen Horney Lecture: Rage and Creativity: How Feminism Sparked Psychoanalysis
2023-04-28 14:30
The American Institute for Psychoanalysis (329 East 62nd Street, New York, NY 10065)
This event addresses: How Feminism Sparked Psychoanalysis
Rage and Creativity: How Feminism Sparked Psychoanalysis – presented by Dr. Arlene Kramer Richards

The Provisional Psychoanalyst
2023-04-29 08:00 | Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Rockland East Fairmount Park – 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr, Philadelphia, PA, 19121, United States
Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
This event addresses: International Scholar Forum.
Dr. Leopold Nosek, Sao Paulo, Brazil, will discuss his ideas about how analysts participate in an analysis with a particular theoretical ensemble, an ethical conception, and an aesthetic development. He will explore how the analyst’s entire being is mobilized by the analytic encounter and how this initiates a never-ending reflection that is permanently renewed, even in its most secure convictions. Dr. Nosek intends to present a brief moment in his trajectory as an analyst in order to demonstrate his conceptualization of the analyst’s transformation. He will explain his belief that “treating such moments as merely spontaneous, does not remove them from the field and creates the potential emergence of prejudiced convictions…[and he will address his ideas about how] “the unconscious, the object of our practice, may only be presented metaphorically, and this always requires the renewal of the constructions intended to account for its presence…we cannot use old metaphors for new loves, just as we cannot send a new bunch of flowers with the same card.”

The 2023 Grotstein Memorial Lectures: Part 2
2023-04-29 08:00 | Virtual, via Zoom
New Center for Psychoanalysis
This event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory
Bion’s Analytic Technique
Joseph Aguayo, PhD — Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of California; Faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis; Honorary Member, British Psychoanalytical Society
For this presentation, Joseph Aguayo takes up how Bion came to his Kleinian training as a seasoned psychiatrist who had worked intensively with groups. Maintaining that his group work informed the kind of Kleinian analyst he subsequently became, specific attention will be paid to how he instigated variations on Kleinian technique by emphasizing that all analysis occurs in the ‘here and now,’ and need not rely on making past-to-present Freudian or Kleinian transference links. Bion’s taking up of the wider notion of countertransference work, which allowed the analyst to be equally informed by the patient’s subjective reactions—as well as his own—will also be addressed. While Bion fundamentally remained Kleinian in his clinical practices, he did so in his own distinctive way.

A Musical Model for Psychoanalysis
2023-04-30 06:00 | Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Rockland East Fairmount Park – 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr, Philadelphia, PA, 19121, United States
Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
This event addresses: Dr. Leopold Nosek will discuss his unique interdisciplinary approach for understanding how musical language contains a syntax that can be used to think about psychoanalysis.
Dr. Leopold Nosek will join us in person, on Sunday, April 30th, for an intimate program that will focus on his unique interdisciplinary approach for understanding how musical language contains a syntax that can be used to think about psychoanalysis. This program will involve playing the last movement of Beethoven’s Sonata 32. Dr. Nosek will use literature references as well to consider T. W. Adorno’s argument and the Frankfurt School’s Critical Theory. Dr. Nosek will develop the argument that dreams configure a synthesis of opposites belonging to the past, being substituted today by the identification of a moment of thought. In this presentation, Dr. Nosek will explore the qualities of musical language as distinct from ordinary speech, show how understanding musical language facilitates psychoanalytic work, and furthers the analyst’s capacity to empathize with patients who have musical talents and interests.

Meet the Author: Steven Cooper
2023-05-01 15:30 - 17:00 | Live via Zoom
Join us Monday, May 1, 2023, from 7:30 – 9:00 pm EST for a virtual Meet the Author with Steven Cooper, PhD, presenting his new book Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis. The discussion will be moderated by Rita Teusch, PhD. The online audience will have a chance to ask questions via a Q&A chat or “on camera”.

Study Group – Collisions and Uncomfortable Countertransference in the Clinical Encounter
2023-05-02 16:00 | Live via Zoom
Houston Psychoanalytic Society
This event addresses: Collisions and Uncomfortable Countertransference in the Clinical Encounter
Facilitated by Cynthia Mulder, LCSW-S and Nancy Warren, PhD
Collisions and uncomfortable countertransference in the clinical process may have both conscious and unconscious contributions. The patient’s and therapist’s histories, character structure, wishes, and expectancies may clash, often fueled by external stresses and events, and these factors may cause the treatment to flounder, stagnate, or end altogether. We will begin by considering Joyce Slochower’s notion of psychoanalytic collisions in the consulting room. Slochower, who is a relational analyst influenced by Winnicott, examines situations in which the clinician’s personal and professional wishes clash with the realities of everyday clinical work. We will explore ways that psychoanalytic collisions can be productively engaged even if they cannot be fully resolved, which generally requires a maintenance of therapeutic hopefulness along with an acceptance of the therapist’s human fallibilities.
We will then undertake a closer examination of countertransference, specifically, Irwin Hirsch’s notion of coasting in the countertransference. Hirsch is relational analyst and intersubjectivist whose writings over the years have focused largely on countertransferential issues. Coasting refers to the clinician persisting in certain behaviors even after becoming aware of them, behaviors indicating our apparent willingness to sacrifice the patient’s interest for our own comfort and equilibrium. As such, we will examine how clinicians’ character structure and situational stresses influence their preference for certain types of patients and their clinical participation. We will consider how theory, however helpful and necessary, can also become a crutch. Finally, we will examine how money complicates the therapist-patient relationship.
This study group is appropriate for beginning and seasoned clinicians with an intermediate level of knowledge about psychoanalytic theory. We will utilize readings with case examples, which will hopefully stimulate open discussions about our own practices and patients. Study group participants must obtain a copy of the 2 textbook that we will use: Psychoanalytic Collisions (Slochower, 2012) and Coasting in the Countertransference (Hirsch, 2008).

ACP 2023 Annual Meeting
2023-05-05 07:00 | Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina 333 W Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina 333 W Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA, San Diego, United States
Association for Child Psychoanalysis
This event addresses: Child Analysis
The Annual Meeting is open to ACP members and includes three days of workshops, panel presentations, breakout groups, special lectures, and sessions for Candidate members. CE credits are available. Non-members are welcome to join and then register for the Annual Meeting.

Alumni Group: Psychoanalysis – Beyond the Individual
2023-05-05 08:30 | Live via Zoom
Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006)
This event addresses: Views beyond the intrapsychic approach towards interpersonal formulations, dyadic and group aspects of human mental functioning
Presenter: M Sagman Kayatekin MD – This session is targeted to help the treaters to have a multilayered, psychoanalytically informed systemic formulation of the patient, and strategize the treatment within that complicated formulation. Dr. Kayatekin has extensive experience in Psychoanalytic individual, family, group, milieu and hospital teamwork. These contexts, with their regressive/progressive capabilities on the person and the psychopathology, provide a unique window to the fascinating interrelatedness of intra-psychic and interpersonal matrices of human minds. Clinical vignettes and publication from psychoanalytically informed multiple treater settings and discussion will expand participants’ understanding beyond the intrapsychic/dyadic psychoanalytic approaches that dominate the psychoanalytic theory.

Entering Night Country: Lessons from Orpheus with Stephanie Brody, PsyD; Elisa Cheng, MD; Salman Akhtar, MD; Dionne R. Powell, MD; and Alan Pollack, MD
2023-05-06 05:30 | In-person & Virtual
Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
This event addresses: COVID-19, Mortality
Death haunts human life. We cope by seeking a tolerable place between denial and terror. COVID, and overlapping existential threats, bring this struggle to the surface. Psychoanalysis believes that truth offers freedom. But how do we look at the truth of death, when our own mortality, and that of those we hold dear, feels intolerable?
This panel offers a space to share this dilemma together, clinically and personally. Our theme is set by Orpheus, for whom not looking was to be the means of undoing the loss of his beloved Eurydice. But this isn’t a panel about mythology. Our use of Orpheus is merely to follow him into the territory of death and loss, of looking at and simultaneously denying our truth.

Film and Mind Online: ~ DOUBLE FEATURE ~ Ted K and Good Luck, Leo Grande
2023-05-12 19:30 | Virtual, via Zoom
New Center of Psychoanalysis
This event addresses: Suppressed Familial Truths
Join NCP’s Film and Mind series online! A once a month psychoanalytic discussion of a topical film!
On May 12, Film & Mind explores what makes a transformative movie with a doubleheader of two films of vastly different subject matter—Ted K (“The Unabomber”) and Good Luck to You, Leo Grande. We will consider how each illustrates the art of universalist filmmaking while exploring specific and psychoanalytically important themes.
Ted K, (2022, 2 hours, directed by Tony Stone) is a remarkably interesting film about the pathological idealism of domestic terrorist Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber of the late 20th Century. Utilizing a spare voiceover (culled from Kaczynski’s voluminous “Manifesto” ) and shot in the remote mountainous area of Montana where the Unabomber was arrested, the film invites us into the autistic mind of Kaczynski and his 17 year long battle with technology and environmental devastation. With careful handling by director Stone and sensitive portrayal by Shallot Copley, we are able to identify with the Unabomber’s rationalizations and his building fury and frustration. The subjective perspective spares the audience the bloody horror of the actual bombings, and brilliantly leaves us pondering the extent to which the madman was a monster.
Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022, directed by Sophie Hyde, 97 minutes). A young sex worker with the skills of a psychotherapist + an older, widowed school teacher (Emma Thompson) who has never experienced an Orgasm = Mutual Maturation in four sessions.

Trauma: Developmental and Psychodynamic Views, Then and Now
2023-05-13 04:00 - 13:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Denver Psychoanalytic Society
This event addresses: Trauma
The program is targeted at all levels of practitioners of mental health services and will discuss the effects of relational trauma, misdiagnosis and misunderstanding of the effects on development and the necessity of genuine relationship in the healing process. We will look at progress and the ongoing struggle to understand experiences of early trauma on development and implications for treatment.
Dr. Annita Sawyer will trace her journey as a suicidal adolescent in 1960, mistakenly diagnosed with schizophrenia and treated with ECT and lengthy hospitalizations over nearly 6 years. Using herself as a case study, Annita speaks to lifetime consequences of childhood trauma, harmful effects of fads in psychiatric diagnosis and treatment, the enduring impact of stigma and shame, and the power of human connection to heal.

Dynamics of Maternal Narcissism | Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia
2023-05-13 10:30 - 13:30 | Virtual, via Zoom
“In this latest installment of our case conference series, targeted at early career clinicians and those curious to learn more about psychodynamic approaches to therapy, PCOP psychotherapy student Nicole Flibbert Laurino, LPC, will present from her work with an adult patient treated in a community mental health setting, who struggles with feeling “”not good enough”” and self critical tendencies, and a fraught relationship with her critical mother.
Discussant Barbara Gray, Ph.D., psychoanalyst, and PCOP faculty member, will provide insight into how the dynamics of maternal narcissism contributed to this patient’s conflicts and shaped her development, and how to understand them in the present via transference feelings in the therapy relationship. The discussion will focus on clinical interventions and case formulation, including concrete examples of “what to say, when” from a psychodynamic lens that attendees can apply to their own clinical work. In the question and answer period that follows, attendees will have an opportunity to discuss the case with Ms. Flibbert Laurino and Dr. Gray.”
jseixas@philanalysis.org

Karen J. Maroda, PhD, ABPP: The analyst’s vulnerability: How our early childhood experiences impact our choice of theory and technique.
2023-05-13 11:30 | Virtual, via Zoom
Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis
This event addresses: The Analyst’s Vulnerability
It has long been recognized that therapists have a history of being caretakers in their families of origin. Yet we have not pursued how that role impacted our own personal growth, values, ideas and limitations. What are the vulnerabilities and strengths that we share as a result of being precociously assigned the responsibility for others’ happiness or even their psychic survival? What role does the resulting guilt, shame and desire to rescue and be rescued play in the creation of both our theories and preferred interventions? And do we tend to be excessively passive as a result of not having any real power as children when faced with the daunting responsibility of being soother, peacemaker, mediator and even entertainer?
In the spirit of expanding the conversation about the dynamics in the therapeutic dyad, this presentation focuses on three topics: the therapist’s early experiences and how they impact both our theory and practice, the natural human limits of empathy, and the role of enactment in the therapeutic process. This program is designed for working clinicians, focusing heavily on clinical examples and opening up conversation about the ways we work and how we might creatively enhance our interventions with clients.

How Neuromodulation and Psychedelics are Revolutionizing Psychiatry
2023-05-17 21:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
This talk will cover the recent advances in psychiatry for treating many mental illnesses. It will particularly focus on specialized treatments such as ketamine therapy and TMS, as well as other types of treatments in advanced stages of development, such as psychedelics.
Presenter: Dr. Feifel earned a B.Sc., master’s, Ph.D. (neurobiology) and MD from the University of Toronto, Canada. He then completed an Internal Medicine internship followed by Psychiatry residency training at the University of California, San Diego. Upon finishing his training, he joined the faculty of UCSD Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Feifel has specialty certification in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry. At UCSD, Dr. Feifel was Director of the psychiatry inpatient unit. He established and headed the UCSD Adult ADHD program, and he created the Department of Psychiatry’s Center for Advanced Treatments where he introduced several novel treatments such as Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Ketamine. He was one of the first providers in the country to utilize those treatments. At UCSD, Dr. Feifel also regularly taught undergraduate and medical students, resident doctors and postdoctoral fellows and he headed a NIMH-funded translational research program focused on developing new treatments for psychiatric disorders. He has published more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific papers. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Time magazine, National Public Radio (NPR), New England Journal of Medicine, USA Today, Scientific America, among others. Dr. In 2017 Dr. Feifel established Kadima Neuropsychiatry Institute, a private institute in La Jolla, focusing on innovative treatments such as ketamine therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and psychedelic assisted therapy for mental illness.

Psychedelic Drugs: Perception and Psychodynamics
2023-05-18 20:00 - 22:00 | Live via Zoom
NCP Manifest Mind Series welcomes cognitive neuroscientist and philosopher of mind Link Swanson, PhD.
For his lucid work on understanding the psychology of psychedelic drug effects, Dr. Swanson has already received international early-career recognition. Swanson updates the rationalist tradition of Sigmund Freud’s “Project for a Scientific Psychology” discussing the implications of his research into the perceptual effects of the psychedelic drug psilocybin.
In his talk, Dr. Swanson will lay out the connections springing from prescient observations by both Sigmund Freud and Aldous Huxley on mental “filtration.” He will describe those empirical findings and theoretical concepts of mind that help explain how psychedelic medicine participates in the therapeutic process.
Dr. Swanson will appear by Zoom from Minnesota.

Ferenczi’s Secret Life: Mutual Analysis as a Relational Paradigm
2023-05-19 19:00 - 21:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., LCSW, will join us via Zoom on Friday, May 19th to discuss his ideas on how Ferenczi and Freud exemplify divergent models of psychoanalytic identity. He will discuss Ferenczi’s mutual analysis with Elizabeth Severn in a biographical, historical, and theoretical context with the goal of rehabilitating Severn as an original thinker and partner in the work of Ferenczi’s final phase.

Promoting Social Emotional Development Post-COVID in Children From Birth to Five
2023-05-20 05:30 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
This event addresses: COVID-19, Children
The global pandemic has had a devastating impact on the social and emotional development of young children and their caregivers in early educational settings. Children at different developmental levels experience the multiple stresses caused by the pandemic and its disruptions in different ways. How do we differentiate between developmental symptoms and necessary adaptations of young children in an educational setting? This program will emphasize the power of relationships as a tool to move development forward. It will offer helpful strategies for clinicians and early educators to address the developmental lag we observe in this post-COVID era.

The 2023 Grotstein Memorial Lectures: Part 3
2023-05-20 08:00 | Virtual, via Zoom
New Center for Psychoanalysis
This event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory
Klein’s Analytic Technique
Professor Robert Hinshelwood, MD — Professor Emeritus of University of Essex; Member, British Psychoanalytical Society; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK
In the final part of our series, Robert Hinshelwood takes us back to Klein’s original psychoanalytic technique with children and adults—and establishes how she innovated analytic technique by reversing Freud’s emphasis on reconstructing the infantile/conflictual past of his patients as based on their adult psychopathology. Klein instead emphasized early infantile mechanisms of projection and defense—and how they informed the subsequent pathology of the mature patient.
In the third hour of this presentation, Hinshelwood makes comparison between Klein, Winnicott and Bion, attempting to tease out what the substantive differences were between these three analytic pioneers in terms of technique.

The Observational Studies Program: Open House
2023-05-20 10:00

Adaptation in Clinical Practice. Robert Langs and Carl Jung | Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center
2023-05-25 17:00 | Virtual, via Zoom
Presented by John R. White, Ph.D., LPC
This presentation compares the clinical concepts of “adaptation” in Robert Langs and Carl Jung, examining their central similarities and differences.
Our presenter, John R. White, PhD, LPC is a practicing Jungian psychoanalyst in Pittsburgh PA and Coordinator of the C. G. Jung Institute Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh. He has more than forty publications in both philosophy and psychoanalysis. His book Adaptation and Psychotherapy. Langs and Analytical Psychology, was published by Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.Though adaptation is a concept internal to all psychoanalytic theory and practice, perhaps no one in the psychoanalytic tradition emphasized adaptation more than Robert Langs. This presentation compares the clinical concepts of “adaptation” in Robert Langs and Carl Jung, examining their central similarities and differences as well as deriving clinical implications from this comparison.
administration@pghpsa.org

Connections and Conversation
2023-05-25 22:00 | Live via Zoom
Free zoom event open to all on the topic of Psychoanalysis as a Means of LiberationWith Debra J. Myers, MD, PsyD.
Individuals engage in psychoanalysis motivated by dissatisfaction with life as they experience it. In psychoanalytic training, we spend a great deal of time preparing to understand family of origin, relationship, and developmental discontinuities. Too often, socio-cultural discontinuities do not receive significant emphasis as warranted. I intend to analyze my personal biography using eclectic psychoanalytic theories to demonstrate the potential to use psychoanalysis in the service of personal liberation. Mentalization, as well as, Developmental and Attachment psychoanalytic theories may be used in an emancipatory effort by those currently oppressed or marginalized in our society when trained psychoanalysts are accessible. I believe the history of anti-Black racism is relevant to the psychoanalysis of patients regardless of race. The concept of ‘Racial Battle Fatigue’ will be described and applied to the analysis of myself, a person of African descent.

Psychoanalytic Takes on the Cinema: Discussion of the Film "The Maid"
2023-06-02 16:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
This talk will use the events in the film as the basis for a discussion of the deadening effects of social inequality and emotional deprivation. The film depicts the relationship of a middle-aged woman who has served one family as a maid for more than half her life. While she might seem embedded in the life of the family, and they are portrayed as loving her, in a way, it is clear that she is more object than person to them. The effect of this, and what seems to be her emotionally depriving relationship with her mother, results in a person who is isolated, manipulative, and both sadistic and masochistic. Is such a person redeemable? What can it take to help such a deadened character come back to life?

Shame and The Cover-Up of Individuality: Social and Clinical Implications
2023-06-03 12:00
In this presentation, I will explore the social and clinical implications of covering up our exposed vulnerability as unique individuals. Given that shame is characterized by doubts about our fundamental adequacy, we attempt to live in the world by covering up our shame as individuals by taking refuge under the umbrella of external authority. Loyalty to a strong leader or social conformity to group norms derive often from the need to cover oneself. In this sense, a primary aim of psychoanalytic psychotherapy is to help patients accept their own uniqueness as individuals. I will explore the importance of respecting the agency of patients and modeling an ethic of curiosity, inquiry, and understanding in interacting with patients. I will conclude by showing how self-acceptance is also related to the process of mourning the original disillusionments that led to one’s shame.
Bio: Peter Shabad, PhD is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at
Northwestern University Medical School. He is on the Teaching
and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis
(CCP) and the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Chicago
Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is also Supervising and Training
Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis He is an
Associate Editor on the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic
Dialogues. Dr. Shabad is co-editor of The Problem of Loss and
Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (IUP, 1989) and is the
author of Despair and the Return of Hope: Echoes of Mourning in
Psychotherapy (Aronson, 2001). Dr. Shabad is currently working
on a new book entitled Seizing The Vital Moment: Passion, Shame,
and Mourning to be published by Routledge.

Psychoanalysis, Creativity, and the Arts: Meditation, Creativity and Psychoanalysis:Meeting at the Well
2023-06-04 11:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
During this presentation we will describe and discuss the processes that take place during meditation experiences, the differences between mindfulness and meditation, what happens during meditation in our brain and bodies, how meditation can be synergic with psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic practices and with creative processes, and how countertransference and idealization are present in meditation experiences as well.

Aging and Dying and the Analytic Process
2023-06-08 20:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
The topic of this meeting is of great importance for both the psychoanalyst and patient. There is a reciprocal interest between analyst and patient concerning these vital issues. Currently, there are more analysts and patients living to an advanced age with problems and conflicts concerning health, vitality, cognition, and affect regulation. The panelists will explore the critical conflicts and therapeutic issues that are inevitably involved in the aging process.
Panelists:
Wendy Olesker, Ph.D., Henry Nunberg, M.D., Harold Blum, M.D., Otto Kernberg, M.D. & Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. (moderator)
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