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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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CREATED:20250820T175921Z
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251219T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251219T135000
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SUMMARY:Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Stephen E. Finn\, PhD \nPsychological assessment is typically viewed as something one does to diagnose psychological disorders or to plan for or evaluate an intervention. In this Grand Rounds\, Dr. Finn will discuss Therapeutic Assessment\, a brief intervention during which psychological testing is used collaboratively with clients to help them develop new self-narratives that are more coherent\, accurate\, useful\, and compassionate. Dr. Finn will summarize more than 30 years of research on Therapeutic Assessment and its implication for other forms of psychological interventions. He will also discuss the core values underlying Therapeutic Assessment. He will also present a case with a video of an actual client.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/therapeutic-assessment-using-psychological-testing-as-brief-therapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
CREATED:20251205T142622Z
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SUMMARY:PANY Candidate Organized Scientific Meeting: "Meeting the Beginning Analyst's Unconscious Through Writing"
DESCRIPTION:Beginning and senior candidates will present vignettes from their early encounters with analytic patients\, illustrating the ways our experience of writing helped us to understand ourselves as budding analysts. Discussants Jennifer Stuart\, Ph.D. and Mark Moore\, Ph.D. will respond\, drawing from their own expertise in clinical writing and experience teaching psychoanalytic trainees.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/pany-candidate-organized-scientific-meeting-meeting-the-beginning-analysts-unconscious-through-writing/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T130000
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SUMMARY:Clinical Perspectives on the Psychoanalytically-Informed Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
DESCRIPTION:Using both psychoanalytic writing and a case conference format\, participants will examine psychoanalytic perspectives on SUDs and deepen their understanding of the psychodynamic underpinnings of their own cases. Presented by Dr Holly Han\, Psy.D.\, LMFT.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/clinical-perspectives-on-the-psychoanalytically-informed-treatment-of-substance-use-disorders/
LOCATION:Virtual
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T114500
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
CREATED:20251205T142622Z
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SUMMARY:Home\, Homelessness\, and Immigration
DESCRIPTION:What might contribute to our subjectively feeling at home in the world? What leads to the loss of one’s psychic sense of home which in turn results in us feeling psychically unmoored in the world? These are some of the questions we will ponder together. Focus will be on the psychic loss of home even though the structural (literal) loss of home will be addressed by looking at the impact of immigration on the sense of belonging.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/home-homelessness-and-immigration/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251212T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251212T200000
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
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SUMMARY:Film & Mind: The Big Lebowski
DESCRIPTION:The Coen Brothers 1998 film THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) is a post-modern fever-dream\, now a classic. As a comic retelling of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep\, the film wiggles through multiple genres with an underlying message that narrative spins as communication is distorted by desire and expectation. \n Discussants:\nSeth Alt\, PhD is an independent cultural theorist and interdisciplinary researcher who explores the intersections of museums\, digital technology\, and audience studies. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University\, with a dissertation titled\, “The Pervert’s Guide to the Museum.” In 2025\, Seth published with Oxford University Press inside their forthcoming volume\, Videogames For Mental Health. Seth has curatorial and archival experience from working for both The Autry Museum of the American West and the California Botanic Garden. He is a member and the current delegate of the California Forum of the Lacanian Field— the west coast anglophone chapter of the international school of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Paris. \nJoseph Aguayo\, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of California in West Los Angeles. He is a Guest Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society in London and holds UC LA doctorates in both Clinical Psychology and European History. He specializes in publishing in Bionian and Kleinian studies. His most recent projects are co-edited publications\, including Wilfred Bion: Los Angeles Seminars and Supervision\, (Karnac Books\, 2013).
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-the-big-lebowski/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251212T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251212T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
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SUMMARY:Dream Interpretation and Empirical Dream Research
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Christian Roesler\, PhD \nDreams have been used in psychotherapy since Freud’s publication\, The Interpretation of Dreams. First\, the prominent dream interpretation theories of Freud and Jung are presented in comparison\, as well as the resulting therapeutic approach. These concepts are then compared with the results of empirical dream research\, which has developed since the discovery of REM sleep in the 1950s. An important finding here is that the central assumptions of Freudian dream theory need to be reconsidered\, while many elements of Jung’s understanding of dreams are supported. The results of this research have also led to further development of the concepts of psychotherapeutic work with dreams within psychodynamic schools\, which today can be formulated as a general psychodynamic model of dream work. In addition\, there is now comprehensive clinical dream research in the context of various therapeutic schools. In summary\, it can be said that it has now been convincingly proven that dreams have meaning\, are related to problems in the dreamer’s waking life\, that they deal with these problems in a targeted manner\, and that the use of dreams in psychotherapy is helpful and effective. The overview of clinical dream research is rounded off with an overview of the results of the lecturer’s research program Structural Dream Analysis\, in which the close connection between the client’s unconscious psychological issues\, conflicts\, and complexes\, the course of psychotherapy\, and the structure and symbolism of dreams could be demonstrated. This is illustrated by example cases with very large dream series (over 1000 dreams). It has been demonstrated here that dream series from psychotherapy follow a typical phase model and that typical motifs actually appear at the phase transitions (which can also be understood as turning points). Overall\, it can be said that working with dreams in psychotherapy today enjoys broad scientific support\, and that these findings can be used to derive a coherent\, practice-oriented concept for working with dreams in psychotherapy. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/dream-interpretation-and-empirical-dream-research/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T193000
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
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SUMMARY:I.H. Cohn Lecture: What Bion Meant by "Dying"
DESCRIPTION:What is a baby trying to say when it is crying? For British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion\, cries are more than a call for food or assistance. They are expressions of an all-consuming fear: of dying. Understanding this fear\, and responding to it empathically was\, for him\, essential to the work of parenting—and analysis. But what does it mean that Bion placed dying at the beginning—not the end—of life? And how does his use of this term relate to both his early work on linking and thinking\, as well as his later explorations of mysticism? This lecture will answer these question by exploring what Bion meant by “dying” and why it matters for clinicians and psychoanalytic theorists today.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/i-h-cohn-lecture-what-bion-meant-by-dying/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T200000
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
CREATED:20251205T142607Z
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SUMMARY:Complex Cases and Treatment Planning: Does It Take a Village to Revive the Treatment?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Lisa Madsen\, MD\nThis special presentation will focus on complex cases which have reached an impasse with little forward movement or even a regression on the part of the patient. What do you recommend when a patient is no longer progressing in weekly psychotherapy? What do you do when a patient needs more? Do you intensify the individual therapy\, or do you reach out to the community to expand the treatment team? What intrapsychic and interpersonal factors inform your treatment recommendation in these cases? This presentation will explore these questions and more as we reflect on the decision-making process involved in treatment planning.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/complex-cases-and-treatment-planning-does-it-take-a-village-to-revive-the-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251207T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251207T160000
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
CREATED:20251008T220532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T153812Z
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SUMMARY:Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference: Analyst Losses: Illness and Life-Changing Events and Their Effects on Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference \nPlease join us for a panel discussion on\nAnalyst Losses: Illness and Life-Changing Events and Their Effects on Treatment \nPresented by: Paula L. Ellman\, PhD\, Marc S. Levine\, MD\, and Harvey J. Schwartz\, MD\nModerated by: Sandra S. Lashley\, PsyD \nSunday\, December 7\, 2025\n1:00 – 4:00 pm\nPresentation and Discussion Via Zoom \nPresentation: This conference will address illness in the analyst and unexpected life changing events that impact treatment are not widely covered in literature. This is changing. More recent writings have brought this topic to the forefront\, with greater appreciation of the complex factors that impede on the analyst and make thinking about these unexpected events difficult. Ethical issues in regard to this area abound and include issues surrounding denial\, disclosure\, abstinence\, competence\, transference and impact on the treatment. This conference will be presented by three seasoned analysts\, all of whom experienced serious illness while in clinical practice. Integrating theoretical\, ethical and deeply personal experiences combined with their own writings\, issues surrounding disclosure\, defenses\, abstinence and the Transference/countertransference matrix will be explored. \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_stacia_ethics_12-7-25#/ \nFull Program Flyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/Stacia%20I%20Super%20Memorial%20Ethics%20flyer%2012-7-25.pdf
URL:https://apsa.org/event/stacia-i-super-memorial-ethics-conference-analyst-losses-illness-and-life-changing-events-and-their-effects-on-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T114500
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
CREATED:20251205T142622Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251205T142622Z
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SUMMARY:THE TRUMAN SHOW DELUSION:  REVISITING THE PSYCHOANALYTIC ATTITUDE TOWARD PSYCHOSIS
DESCRIPTION:This talk will endeavor to address appropriate concerns while also revisiting the utility of a psychoanalytic approach toward patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic illness. We will review of the history of the seminal contributions of psychoanalytic thinkers to theories of psychosis\, as well as their applications. The benefits\, limitations and dangers of psychoanalytic treatments of psychosis will be addressed.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-truman-show-delusion-revisiting-the-psychoanalytic-attitude-toward-psychosis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T130000
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
CREATED:20250902T151850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T170354Z
UID:20000635-1765015200-1765026000@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Revisiting the Concept of the Working Alliance. Applying it to Teaching and Learning and Exploring the Ethical Considerations: A Relational Model.
DESCRIPTION:The working alliance or the therapeutic alliance is the strongest predictor for the success of psychotherapy. The presentation explores the origins of these concepts and raises the question whether the working alliance can be applied to teaching and learning. Academics educators have already begun to do this. Their findings are presented which also inform us further about the use of the concept in psychotherapy. The ethical principles of the teacher student engagement are reviewed along with strategies for repairing strains and ruptures in the relationship. A relational model is explored based on the work of the noted educator Parker Palmer. Controversies around applying this important psychodynamic concept to teaching are also taken up. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/revisiting-the-concept-of-the-working-alliance-applying-it-to-teaching-and-learning-and-exploring-the-ethical-considerations-a-relational-model/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T090000
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
CREATED:20251205T142605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251205T142605Z
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SUMMARY:Ethics Workshop: Revisiting the Concept of the Working Alliance. Applying it to Teaching and Learning and Exploring the Ethical Considerations: A Relational Model.
DESCRIPTION:Gerald Melchode\, MD\nThe working alliance or the therapeutic alliance is the strongest predictor for the success of psychotherapy. The presentation explores the origins of these concepts and raises the question whether the working alliance can be applied to teaching and learning. Academics educators have already begun to do this. Their findings are presented which also inform us further about the use of the concept in psychotherapy. The ethical principles of the teacher student engagement are reviewed along with strategies for repairing strains and ruptures in the relationship. A relational model is explored based on the work of the noted educator Parker Palmer. Controversies around applying this important psychodynamic concept to teaching are also taken up.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ethics-workshop-revisiting-the-concept-of-the-working-alliance-applying-it-to-teaching-and-learning-and-exploring-the-ethical-considerations-a-relational-model/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251205T200000
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
CREATED:20251008T220546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T153432Z
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SUMMARY:Sun\, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Brin Grenyer\, PhD \nThe Sheila Hafter Gray Memorial Lecture is underwritten by ACPEinc and honors Dr. Gray’s role in advancing the importance of psychoanalytic education. \nThe mechanisms of patient change have been described in detail by prominent psychoanalytic thinkers over the last 130 years. These descriptions form the basis for analytic training and are often grounded in the wisdom learnt from single case studies. Along with these papers on technique is a growing set of empirical research studies demonstrating psychoanalytic psychotherapy across multiple groups of patients is an effective treatment for mental health disorders. In parallel to these traditional therapy descriptions and outcome studies\, has been another form of research: psychotherapy process research. Process-outcome studies aim to discover if patient changes observed in treatment can be understood in more detail using validated research measures applied to empirical data – usually transcripts of audio or video from therapy sessions. This talk overviews 30 years of studies from the author’s and other research groups that includes studies of transference\, attachment\, mastery of self-understanding and self-control\, and emotional and cognitive change. Recent work will be highlighted describing changes in Erikson’s psychosocial maturity conflicts – particularly the resolution of Mistrust and Constraint and growth of Industry and Affiliation studied over 5 years of treatment for patients meeting criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder. A final reflection will be learnings from a subsample of patients who do not improve over time.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/sun-soil-and-rain-research-on-patient-growth-in-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T190000
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
CREATED:20251205T142605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251205T142605Z
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SUMMARY:A Symbol and Sandplay Presentation: Castles in the Sand and Psyche
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: JoAnn Ponder\, PhD\nThis special presentation will examine castles as historical structures in reality and as symbols that may appear in sandplay therapy with children or adults. Castles are magnificent structures that capture our collective imagination. My own fascination with them began when I was a young child living in Darmstadt\, Germany. From the third-floor balcony of my family’s apartment\, I could see the ruins of Frankenstein’s Castle atop a nearby mountain. There are ruins of these medieval structures all over Europe\, originally built by wealthy barons as fortified residences to defend against attack. While castles are not endemic to the U.S.\, their distinctive architectural features have been revered and copied. As such\, there are even a few castles in Austin\, Texas\, the city where I currently reside. Based on the history and purpose of these structures\, they have come to symbolize power\, protection\, refuge\, wealth\, and status. They also serve as metaphors for the mind\, for example\, its defenses and resources. Not surprisingly\, castles may appear in clients’ sandplay scenes.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-symbol-and-sandplay-presentation-castles-in-the-sand-and-psyche/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T220000
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
CREATED:20250926T222305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T153301Z
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SUMMARY:Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens
DESCRIPTION:Diana Moga\, MD\, PhD and Robert Glick\, MD\nThis presentation explores how the framework of neuroqueering—a concept rooted in neurodiversity and queer theory—invites a radical reconsideration of foundational psychoanalytic concepts such as identity\, subjectivity\, normativity\, and development. By centering lived experiences of neurodivergent and queer individuals\, this talk interrogates the implicit assumptions of the analytic frame and challenges psychoanalysis to reexamine its historical investments in normative development\, binary gender theory\, and the medicalization of difference. \nDrawing on clinical material\, literary theory\, and contemporary scholarship\, the speaker will propose a reorientation of psychoanalytic thinking that embraces multiplicity\, nonlinearity\, and neurodivergent epistemologies. The discussant will offer reflections on clinical implications\, including how neuroqueering perspectives may reshape our understanding of transference\, diagnosis\, and therapeutic goals. \nThis session aims to provoke rich interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of psychoanalysis\, disability studies\, queer theory\, and contemporary clinical practice.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/neuroqueering-the-psychoanalytic-lens-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T220000
DTSTAMP:20260604T102157
CREATED:20250902T151851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T170218Z
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SUMMARY:Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens
DESCRIPTION:This presentation explores how the framework of neuroqueering—a concept rooted in neurodiversity and queer theory—invites a radical reconsideration of foundational psychoanalytic concepts such as identity\, subjectivity\, normativity\, and development. By centering lived experiences of neurodivergent and queer individuals\, this talk interrogates the implicit assumptions of the analytic frame and challenges psychoanalysis to reexamine its historical investments in normative development\, binary gender theory\, and the medicalization of difference. \nDrawing on clinical material\, literary theory\, and contemporary scholarship\, the speaker will propose a reorientation of psychoanalytic thinking that embraces multiplicity\, nonlinearity\, and neurodivergent epistemologies. The discussant will offer reflections on clinical implications\, including how neuroqueering perspectives may reshape our understanding of transference\, diagnosis\, and therapeutic goals. \nThis session aims to provoke rich interdisciplinary dialogue at the intersection of psychoanalysis\, disability studies\, queer theory\, and contemporary clinical practice. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/neuroqueering-the-psychoanalytic-lens/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (APM) (NY)":MAILTO:admin@theapmnewyork.org
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