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SUMMARY:Journey: Race Riot 1919-Racial Enactment 2006-Racial Reparations Beginning 2023
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Therese Ragen\, PhD  \nThis lecture will present the journey of a descendant of one of the leaders of the 1919 Chicago race riot in which dozens of people were killed\, hundreds wounded and some thousand homes of Black people were burned down. The journey traced in the presentation is from the 1919 race riot to a racial enactment between a White psychologist/psychoanalyst and a Black patient in 2006 to the presenter’s involvement (since 2023) in racial reparations in the Chicago neighborhood in which the riot occurred. \nRegistration is required. Event will not be recorded.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/journey-race-riot-1919-racial-enactment-2006-racial-reparations-beginning-2023/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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SUMMARY:Ryan Nolen
DESCRIPTION:An Introduction to Applications of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Medical Settings: The Successful Resolution of a Conversion Symptom by Psychoanalytic Technique in the ER Presented by Micah Knobles
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ryan-nolen/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T140000
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SUMMARY:Stephen Seligman\, MD - Holding and Containing
DESCRIPTION:“Holding and Containing: The Metaphor of the Baby in Winnicott\, Bion\, and Klein
URL:https://apsa.org/event/stephen-seligman-md/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T120000
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis Creativity and the Arts: Session 2: “Creativity and Resiliency”
DESCRIPTION:Session 2 of 3 \n“Creativity and Resiliency” \nPresented by\nRosa Aurora Chavez\, MD\, PhD\, FABP \nSaturday\, November 15\, 2025\,\n12:00 – 2:00pm (2 CME/CE)\nPresentation and Discussion via Zoom \nPresentation:\nIn this seminar (in English) we will discuss the evolutionary relevance of creativity for resiliency form psychodynamic and neuropsychoanalytic perspectives. \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_psy_creativity_arts_25-26#/ \nFlyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/Psychoanalysis%20Creativity%20and%20the%20Arts%202025_26%20flier%20Multi-Session%20program%20%28B%29.pdf
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalysis-creativity-and-the-arts-session-2-creativity-and-resiliency/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T100000
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DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
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SUMMARY:The Body Keeps the Score: Trauma\, Attachment\, and Neuroscience
DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-body-keeps-the-score-trauma-attachment-and-neuroscience/
LOCATION:In-Person: North Carolina State University\, Raleigh\, NC\, Raleigh\, NC\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T230000
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SUMMARY:Film & Mind: Nickel Boys
DESCRIPTION:RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys (2024) is based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two African-American boys sent to an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida. Shot entirely from first-person perspective\, the film explores institutional trauma\, systemic racism\, friendship\, resilience\, and the long-term psychological effects of childhood abuse. The story is inspired by the real Dozier School for Boys\, where extensive abuse occurred for over a century. \nThe film vividly portrays the brutality and dehumanization experienced by Black boys at Nickel Academy\, a fictional institution inspired by real-life abuses in reform schools in the Jim Crow South. This experience reflects a pervasive and ongoing racial trauma that continues to impact individuals and communities. Examining the psychological toll on the main characters can help in understanding how systemic racism inflicts lasting wounds on the psyche\, impacting development\, interpersonal relationships\, and a sense of self and belonging. \nThe narrative also highlights contrasting approaches to surviving and resisting oppression. Analyzing their individual and combined journeys helps recognize the diverse ways individuals navigate trauma and maintain self-worth amidst systemic injustice. \nFinally\, the Nickel Academy operates as a microcosm of larger societal structures\, revealing how power can be wielded to perpetuate racial hierarchies and maintain secrecy around abuse. Examining these power dynamics sheds light on the interplay between individual experiences and the broader societal forces that shape them. \nDiscussants:\nDebra J. Myers\, MD is a graduate of Harvard Medical School. She has a private practice in psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in West Los Angeles\, serving adults and adolescents. She was a biology major at Stanford University and did a residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford Medical Center. Her training in Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine was at UCSF. While on the faculty at Wayne State University School of Medicine\, she earned an MS in Biostatistics and Clinical Research Design at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She trained in Psychoanalysis at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles. There she combined medical training with her humanistic interests and lifelong interest in the human mind. During her psychoanalytic training\, she spent five years as a volunteer telephone counselor at the Didi Hirsch Suicide Crisis Line. She spent two years as an intern therapist at the Valley Community Clinic\, a facility serving the underserved. \nChauncey K. Robinson is an award-winning journalist and film critic. Born and raised in Newark\, New Jersey\, she has a strong love for storytelling and history. She believes narrative greatly influences the way we see the world\, which is why she’s all about dissecting and analyzing stories and culture to help inform and empower the people. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-nickel-boys-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T203000
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SUMMARY:The Pseudo-Self
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Gila Ashtor\, PhD\, LP – There is a type of patient who haunts psychoanalysis from the margins\, never settling into existing diagnostic categories but never completely disappearing either. Variously referred to as “normotic” (Bollas\, 1987\, McDougall\, 1978\, 1985)\, “false self” (Winnicott\, 1960)\, and the “as if” personality (Deutsch\, 1942)\, this patient confounds conventional classificatory schemas because while ostensibly high-functioning\, verbal\, cooperative\, with reality-testing intact and not necessarily any major trauma history\, it eventually emerges that something fundamental – the capacity to feel their feelings – is missing\, dysfunctional\, non-existent. It can be nearly impossible to detect the problem\, not least because an “absence” is its defining feature\, but also because the patient rarely complains about the problem (of not feeling their feelings) either. Whereas under ordinary circumstances\, the patient’s emotional dissatisfactions are the engine propelling treatment forward\, however ambivalently and inconsistently (Freud\, 1937)\, in these cases\, the patient suffers from a mechanical problem of precisely this kind – a disconnection from authentic feelings – that makes the awareness of dissatisfaction elusive and unlikely. \nIn what follows\, I focus on the “pseudo-self” – a particular variation of dissociative organization in which normality and functionality camouflage the absence of emotional authenticity. I explore the connection between this unique personality organization and today’s neoliberal regime where disconnection\, speed\, and efficiency are hailed as the optimal features of successful personhood. Our field’s continued inability to reckon with the pervasive problems of the “pseudo-self” makes us complicit with a damaged culture that is dehumanizing and disconnected.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-pseudo-self/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T173000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Takes On Cinema: Session 1 of 3: Discussion of the film “The Thing”
DESCRIPTION:Session 1 of 3 \n*** Film must be viewed prior to event. *** \nDiscussion of the film “The Thing” \nFriday\, November 14\, 2025\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm\nVia Zoom \n1982 (109 min)\nDirector: John Carpenter\nDiscussant: Alex Smith\, Psy.D. \nA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. \nPresentation: At surface level fantastical\, appalling\, and occasionally comical\, horror renders that which is unthinkable or unspeakable into inhuman\, slimy\, or spectral forms\, presenting the taboo or the overwhelming at a safe\, controllable distance from the self. In horror\, unthinkable and unspeakable aspects of the “self” can be experienced as the monstrous “other” and exorcised with flamethrowers. The horror movie generates credibility through performance\, photography\, and effects that ground the viewer in a “reality” that can then become credibly unreal. This magical reality evokes archaic experiences of the self as unbounded and vulnerable\, taking on challenging\, unsettling thoughts and feelings while allowing for the suspension of the neatly boundaried “I” of the viewer. \nJohn Carpenter’s The Thing belongs to a rich tradition of paranoia and body horror in the uncanny narrative and horror cinema. The self\, here under the condition of isolation and environmental confusion\, becomes vulnerable to external corruption. The un-integrable impulse is cast off\, producing a disintegrated state. Then\, in the presence of an alien “other”\, the once familiar body is usurped. The mind is subsumed. The “me” becomes a “me” copy that is at once terrifying and terrified\, its sole purpose being to consume additional “others.” The Thing is an allegory for the mental mechanisms of unbounded consciousness: not only the body\, but also the psychological boundaries constituting the self\, are at risk. \nIn working on this allegory\, we will briefly touch on horror cinema’s enduring interest in paranoia and the unbounded consciousness. We will consider Clara Keane’s clairvoyant work on existential permeability and Andre Green’s psychic envelopes as regards their explanatory power for experiences of unbounded consciousness\, paranoia\, and uncanny encounters. We will see how The Thing\, as an apex of creeptastic cinema\, resonates with our own experiences—both archaic and present-day—of the fragility of our distinct\, boundaried sense of a “me”\, and why it matters. \nDiscussant: Alex Smith\, PsyD\, is the Director of the Psychology Department at the Psychiatric Institute of Washington. He completed his MFA at the New School for Social Research\, his PsyD at the George Washington University\, and his internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Alex is the author of the novella HIVE\, and his stories and poems have appeared in various small publications and anthologies\, the most recent being The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg. \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 Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/11-14-25%20Psychoanalytic%20Takes%20on%20the%20Cinema%20-%20The%20Thing.pdf
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-takes-on-cinema-session-1-of-3-discussion-of-the-film-the-thing/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T190000
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SUMMARY:Borderline Personality Disorder: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
DESCRIPTION:In this book discussion\, we will discuss Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder (Beacon Press\, 2024)\, authored by Alexander Kriss\, PhD. The presentation will consist of a conversation between the author and J. Christopher Fowler\, PhD. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory\, patient narratives\, and shifts in psychiatric authority from antiquity to present day\, the book explores how BPD emerged as a diagnostic concept and what its persistence reveals about the changing boundaries of identity\, suffering\, and care. The discussion will reflect on the tensions between diagnosis and personhood\, the role of psychoanalysis in shaping and responding to BPD\, and the ethical stakes of treating a condition so often marginalized—even within mental health systems.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/borderline-personality-disorder-the-biography-of-a-personality-disorder/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251108T140000
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SUMMARY:APsA Candidates' Council Seminar: The Power of Music in "Peter and the Wolf"
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Julie Jaffee Nagel\, Ph.D.\, psychologist\, psychoanalyst & musician \nThe Power of Music as Heard in Peter’s Psychological Development in “Peter and the Wolf” (Sergei Prokofiev\, Composer) \nThis presentation will emphasize through both words and music the power of music in our lives by discussing both words and music about how Prokofiev told a story about a young boy developing into a late confident adolescent. It includes a performance of Prokofiev’s beloved composition “Peter and the Wolf” as a musical illustration. \nWe will explore how music and psychoanalytic concepts inform and enrich each other and “speak” to all of us about growing up. \nClick to view the Flyer  |  Click to Register \nRegistration is required. Sessions will not be recorded. \nSaturday\, November 8\, 2025\, 12 – 2 PM ET \nThe Candidates Online Seminar Series events are a benefit of APsA Membership for its In-Training Members.\nNot an APsA In-Training Member? To learn more & join\, visit apsa.org/in-training \n 
URL:https://apsa.org/event/apsa-candidates-council-seminar-the-power-of-music-in-peter-and-the-wolf/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251107T143000
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SUMMARY:Alumni Group Roundtable Discussion - Child Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Child Analysis
URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-group-roundtable-discussion-child-analysis/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T213000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
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SUMMARY:How the Sense of Self Breaks Down and Recovers in Neurosis and Psychosis with Andrew Lotterman\, MD
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation Dr. Lotterman documents the extensive overlap between the symptoms and psychology of neurotic and psychotic patients. He portrays the way the sense of self falls apart\, and its possible recovery in psychological therapy. Areas of convergence between neurosis and psychosis include: the fragmenting of the sense of self\, the sense of aloneness in the world\, the loss of identity\, the presence of an internal and often hostile inner figure and the creation of a camouflaged surrogate self to draw the fire of attackers. Dr. Lotterman also highlights the essential supports of the self’s resilience: the acceptance by caregivers of what is genuine about the self\, and the appreciation of the value of the love given by the self. He discusses Winnicott’s and Fairbairn’s contributions to these ideas. He also describes paranoid psychology in terms of a fear of being seduced into the experience of annihilation. Finally\, he emphasizes that understanding the areas of common psychology shared by both neurosis and psychosis can lead to better informed treatments of each.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/how-the-sense-of-self-breaks-down-and-recovers-in-neurosis-and-psychosis-with-andrew-lotterman-md/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T200000
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SUMMARY:Model Minority and Its Discontents: Understanding the Asian American Experience
DESCRIPTION:Model Minority and Its Discontents: Understanding the Asian American Experience\nThis presentation offers a psychoanalytic exploration of the Asian American experience.? Asian Americans comprise 7% of the total US population; yet\, they remain largely invisible and unknown to Americans and American psychoanalysis\, except for being perceived as a Model Minority. ?The Model Minority myth leads to the illusion that Asian Americans are successfully folded into the American national fabric.? \nWe will examine how this illusion of inclusion obscures the othering of Asian Americans and explore the psychological effects of dissociating from experiences of othering. \nWe will discuss the trauma origins of the Model Minority position\, from anti-Asian racism\, past and present (i.e.\,?the incarceration of 120\,000 Japanese American individuals during WWII)\, to the unresolved historical and cultural traumas (i.e.\, genocides\, wars\, poverty\, authoritarian governments) carried by immigrants from Asia and intergenerationally transmitted to their Asian American children. Some immigrants unconsciously attempt to resolve their historic traumas carried from Asia by a manic pursuit of the American Dream.? \nThe presentation concludes with a discussion of the legacy of cultural dissociation among the psychoanalytic founders on contemporary racial minority patients\, including Asian Americans. \nKris Yi\, PhD\, PsyD is a psychoanalyst and a clinical psychologist in Pasadena\, California\, with over thirty years of clinical\, teaching\, and supervisory experience. She is a faculty member and training/supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Newport Psychoanalytic Institute. Her scholarship focuses on the intersections of psychoanalysis\, race\, and culture\, with particular attention to Asian American subjectivity and racial trauma. Dr. Yi is a frequently invited speaker at national conferences and a committed advocate for culturally responsive psychoanalysis. She serves as an Associate Editor of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA). Under her initiative\, JAPA is publishing a special issue on Asian American experiences\, due out in December of 2025. As a Korean American who immigrated to America in her teens\, she is pleased to be part of an emerging discourse in Asian American experiences within American psychoanalysis. \nDiscussant:\nTina Nguyen\, MD is currently an Advanced Clinical Associate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. Graduating from Temple University at the early age of 18\, she continued at Temple University School of Medicine to obtain her medical degree. Dr. Nguyen completed residency in General Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City\, where she was actively involved in research\, receiving state-wide recognition for her work as a resident. She then completed her Child & Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn\, NY\, and had the honor of serving as a chief resident. Dr. Nguyen has had faculty appointments at 2 academic institutions\, including Mount Sinai Beth Israel and USC Keck School of Medicine.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/model-minority-and-its-discontents-understanding-the-asian-american-experience/
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:20251101T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T164500
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SUMMARY:Observational Studies Program Conference: Exploring the Links: Moving from Observation to Transformative Interventions – Jeanne Magagna\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the Links: Moving from Observation to Transformative Interventions \nWe are excited to announce our upcoming conference with\nJeanne Magagna\, PhD\,\nTavistock Centre-trained Child\, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist\nLondon\, UK \nSaturday\, November 1\, 2025\nGeorge Washington University Hospital Auditorium\n8:45 am – 4:45 pm ET\n6 CME/CE \nDr. Magagna’s work emphasizes the transformative power of observing babies\, a skill she has taught worldwide based on the Tavistock Clinic model. This approach has profound implications for enhancing our understanding of children and their families\, illustrating how early observation can deepen parents’ comprehension of their children. Her commitment to this method led to the development of a specialized nursery in Rome. She teaches and publishes internationally. Jeanne is the Joint Editor of various books including Intimate Transformations: Babies with their Families\, Psychotherapy with Families\, Being Present for Your Nursery Age Child and The Silent Child: Communication without Words\, Creativity and Psychotic States and Contemporary Child Psychotherapy. She is also the author of The Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Children and Adolescents with Eating Difficulties. \nHer most impactful work\, “The Silent Child: Communication Without Words\,” explores the challenges of treating 19 comatose non-verbal children in talking therapies. Magagna’s approach to psychotherapy is grounded in her early life experiences and the inspiration she drew from Esther Bick\, the originator of infant observation. Her journey from learning the craft under Bick’s tutelage to becoming a globally recognized educator and clinician underscores her passion and dedication to child mental health. \nClick the link for a personal invitation from Dr. Magagna and learn more about the upcoming conference: https://youtu.be/WIaCjK9V1ag \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_osp_conference_11-1-25 \nProgram Flyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/OSP%20Conference%2011-1-25.pdf
URL:https://apsa.org/event/observational-studies-program-conference-exploring-the-links-moving-from-observation-to-transformative-interventions-jeanne-magagna-phd/
LOCATION:In Person; George Washington Hospital Auditorium: 900 23rd St NW\, Washington\, DC 20037\, 900 23rd St NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20037\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T213000
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SUMMARY:The Persistence of Patriarchy: How Did We Get Here?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Carol Gilligan\, PhD \nIn a special presentation for HPS\, renowned social psychologist and feminist Carol Gilligan\, PhD will explore the roots of patriarchy and its persistence in contemporary American political and social life. She is best known for her groundbreaking book\, In a Different Voice\, published in 1982 and described by Harvard University Press as “the little book that started a revolution.” The book challenged traditional views of moral development\, asserting that women tend to prioritize an “ethic of care” focusing on relationships and responsibility\, whereas men typically favor an “ethic of justice” based on rights and rules. In subsequent publications\, Gilligan connected her developmental research with Bowlby’s studies of attachment to describe how gender roles of patriarchal masculinity and femininity are internalized and upheld (Gilligan & Snider\, 2017). She asserted that females sacrificed their voices as the price of maintaining relationships\, and their silence and men’s violence perpetuated a patriarchal order (Gilligan\, 2018). Forty years after the publication of In a Different Voice\, its gendered assumptions seem outdated. Gilligan subsequently revised her ideas\, presented in her new book In a Human Voice (2023). She asserts that the gender binary and its construction of human capacities as either masculine or feminine is a distortion of reality that is foundational to patriarchy. Though care ethics were initially construed as feminine\, Gilligan now views them as a human voice of resistance to patriarchy and an act of liberation. \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-persistence-of-patriarchy-how-did-we-get-here/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251027T133000
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SUMMARY:Writing Workshop - Poets\, Artists\, and Analysts
DESCRIPTION:6 Mondays | Oct 27 – Dec 8 | Presented by: Erica Ehrenberg\, Licensed Psychoanalyst\, MFA \nIn this course we will discuss\, respond to\, and write together from the work of artists\, writers\, and analysts in order to explore the connections between their work\, and the creative forces behind psychic change. What does it mean to gain insight— into the world\, into ourselves—and what happens after the insight is articulated\, in therapy\, and in everyday life? How do we translate insight into transformation\, how do we find insight through transformation\, and how might the creative process be a way to make space for these questions? How might the imaginative terrain provide a key to accessing the unconscious and to understanding how change is enacted? Poets\, artists\, and analysts we will consider include Philip Guston\, Louise Bourgeois\, Christopher Bollas\, Joyce McDougall\, Francesca Woodman\, Agnes Martin\, Emily Dickinson\, and Sigmund Freud. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/writing-workshop-poets-artists-and-analysts/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T160000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
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SUMMARY:Can Psychoanalysts Listen to Each Other?
DESCRIPTION:The 2 recent explosions within the Program Committee and then within the American Psychoanalytic Association are examined\, from an insider’s perspective\, as analysts’ difficulties with listening to each other. Analysts’ anxiety with erotic excitement\, especially with racial erotics\, even when used for self-affirmation\, is discussed. So too is the need for Othering and the need for those who have been Othered to validate themselves\, using anger for self-affirmation. Not primarily psychoanalytic ethics\, ethics for psychoanalysts\, but human ethics\, valuing of the other\, of our relationship with the other\, becomes the pathway for psychoanalysts to listen to the other. Emmanuel Levinas and his psychoanalytic elaborator\, Viviane Chetrit-Vatine\, are seen as triumphing over their own personal Holocaust trauma via their model of ethical behavior with others. Frantz Fanon\, Albert Memmi\, Edward Said\, Mahmoud Darwish\, Judith Butler\, and Stephen Frosh help us get there. The author emphasizes our failures\, including his own.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/can-psychoanalysts-listen-to-each-other/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251025T140000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20251008T220527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T135304Z
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SUMMARY:“Case of Infantile Trauma and Resilience" (Nancy Kulish. Ph.D.)
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Kulish Ph.D\nEducational objectives:\n1. Describe how early infantile trauma can be expressed in bodily symptoms or replayed in a person’s behavior.\n2. Identify how the manifestations and symptoms of early infantile trauma appear in the transference and countertransference in psychotherapy or psychoanalysis.\n3. Discuss how to relate to and empathize with traumatized patients. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/case-of-infantile-trauma-and-resilience-nancy-kulish-ph-d/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T125000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251024T135000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20251008T220546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T135043Z
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SUMMARY:The AI Pharmakon in Psychoanalytic Care: Ambivalence\, Augmentation\, and Psychoanalytic Futures
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Todd Essig\, PhD – The AI revolution is here—and by “here\,” I mean right here in our consulting rooms. Interactive self-help tools are now marketed as AI psychotherapy\, and for many\, they’ve become a viable treatment option. Augmentation technologies for clinicians are readily available\, reshaping aspects of clinical practice in real time. Meanwhile\, patients are forming relationships with AI entities that range from instrumentally useful\, to emotionally resonant and companionable\, to psychologically destabilizing—even destructive. This Grand Rounds will explore the clinical state of play amid these rapidly accelerating developments\, with a focus on how psychoanalytic sensibilities can help us think\, feel\, and act in response.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-ai-pharmakon-in-psychoanalytic-care-ambivalence-augmentation-and-psychoanalytic-futures/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T213000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20250902T151828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T165724Z
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SUMMARY:Book Discussion: Early Women Psychoanalysts and Their Marginalized Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Book Editor: Klara Naszkowska\, PhD | Discussant: Rosemary Balsam\, MD \nThis book discussion is dedicated to filling a hole in the history of women pioneers of psychoanalysis. Their groundbreaking contributions to the nascent field notwithstanding\, their biographies have been largely and systematically erased from the historical narrative. Klara Naszkowska will draw on the anthology that she edited\, Early Women Psychoanalysts: History\, Biography\, and Contemporary Relevance (Routledge\, 2024)\, to provide an introduction to their lives and legacies as a collective force. Her lecture will be illuminated by an in-depth exploration of the story of Sabina Spielrein. The emphasis is on the sociopolitical circumstances and historical developments that affected these women psychoanalyst’s lives\, career choices\, and paths\, centering on the themes of gender\, Jewishness\, women’s education\, the rise of autocracies\, and forced migration. Following the lecture\, commentary will be provided by Rosemary Balsam\, a psychiatrist-psychoanalyst who has written extensively about gender\, early women psychoanalysts\, and their contributions. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/book-discussion-early-women-psychoanalysts-and-their-marginalized-legacies/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T193000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20250902T151836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T165306Z
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SUMMARY:Defense Mechanisms: Hierarcy\, Adaptation and Change - Dr. Chris Perry
DESCRIPTION:Defense Mechanisms: Hierarcy\, Adaptation and Change – Dr. Chris Perry
URL:https://apsa.org/event/defense-mechanisms-hierarcy-adaptation-and-change-dr-chris-perry/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251022T210000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20250820T175845Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250820T185505Z
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SUMMARY:Growing Up Through the Life Cycle: A Revised Psychoanalytic Framework for Adult Development
DESCRIPTION:Please join PCOP in welcoming Dr. Steve Axelrod from NYC to speak about some of the most recent considerations of adult psychological development in our field. \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/growing-up-through-the-life-cycle-a-revised-psychoanalytic-framework-for-adult-development/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Rockland – East Fairmount Park 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr. Philadelphia\, PA & via Zoom)\, 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19121\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T213000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20250902T151835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T165549Z
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SUMMARY:Patriarchy and Misogyny: Manifestations in Our Culture\, Theory & Consulting Rooms
DESCRIPTION:6 Tuesdays | Oct 21 – Dec 9 | Facilitated by JoAnn Ponder\, PhD \nWe have recently witnessed brazen displays of patriarchy\, oppressive behavior toward women\, attempts to control their bodies\, and threats or acts of violence toward them in American political and social life. Given the longstanding roots of patriarchy and misogyny in our culture\, it is not surprising that patriarchal and misogynistic attitudes and beliefs have found their way into psychoanalytic theory\, organizations\, and consulting rooms. HPS will offer a study group consisting of 6 meetings to explore these issues. While volumes have been written on these issues\, we will read and discuss only a sample of relevant articles authored by contemporary relational psychoanalysts as well as earlier articles by a social psychologist and analysts who have devoted a major portion of their careers to thinking and writing about these topics. Our study group will explore the cultural basis and psychodynamics of patriarchy/misogyny and its effects on people of various gender identities and sexual object choices. We will consider how these biases may be enacted and addressed in our clinical work with patients in individual and couples treatment. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/patriarchy-and-misogyny-manifestations-in-our-culture-theory-consulting-rooms/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T180000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20250926T222307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250926T225200Z
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SUMMARY:Childhood Bereavement: An Analysis of a Six-Year-Old Girl Who Experienced Loss
DESCRIPTION:Felecia Powell-Williams\, Ed.D.\, LPC-S\, RPT/S presents a case presentation with a focus on clinical material of a four-year analysis that has continued therapeutically from childhood into adulthood\, and her early attachment disruptions in relationship with her mother and father.  The presentation will illustrate the internal conflicts concerning a difficulty with aggression surrounding traumatic loss of the maternal object and explore the relationship throughout the analytic process.  \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/childhood-bereavement-an-analysis-of-a-six-year-old-girl-who-experienced-loss/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
ORGANIZER;CN="Western New England Psychoanalytic Society":MAILTO:arodems@wneps.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T150000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20250918T200147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T202638Z
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SUMMARY:Radical Histories of Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an illuminating exploration of the hidden narratives and alternative histories that have shaped psychoanalytic practice from Los Angeles to the broader therapeutic landscape. \nHannah Zeavin will open our program by examining the overlooked histories of psychoanalysis and psychiatry\, revealing how these forgotten chapters continue to inform and illuminate contemporary therapeutic practice. Her presentation will challenge therapists and scholars to reconsider their current knowledge base through the lens of these radical historical perspectives. \nFollowing Zeavin\, David James Fisher will focus specifically on Los Angeles’s unique psychoanalytic heritage\, presenting his research “California Dreamin’: On the History of Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles With Special Emphasis on the Merger of 2005.” Fisher’s presentation will uncover the distinctive developments that made LA a crucial yet underexamined center of psychoanalytic innovation. \nPerwana Nazif will moderate a lively discussion between our presenters\, facilitating dialogue about how these historical insights reshape our understanding of psychoanalytic theory and practice today. \nThis program offers a rare opportunity to discover the untold stories that have influenced modern therapeutic approaches while exploring the specific cultural and institutional forces that made Los Angeles a unique laboratory for psychoanalytic thought. \nPRESENTERS: \nHannah Zeavin\, PhD is Assistant Professor of the History of Science in the Department of History and the Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (MIT Press) and Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the 20th Century (MIT Press). She is the Founding Editor of Parapraxis and cofounded The Psychosocial Foundation in 2021. She is at work on her third book\, All Freud’s Children: A Story of Inheritance (US: Penguin Press; UK: Fern Press). \nDavid James Fisher\, PhD is Senior Faculty at the New Center for Psychoanalysis and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of contemporary Psychoanalysis. He specializes in the history of psychoanalysis\, the convergence of cultural history within psychoanalysis\, and psychoanalytic applications to politics\, movies\, literature\, and works of art. Dr. Fisher’s background is in European Cultural and Intellectual History. He has published four books: The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis (Routledge\, 2025)\, Bettelheim: Living and Dying (2008)\, Cultural Theory and Psychoanalytic Tradition (2009)\, and Romain Rolland and the Politics of Intellectual Engagement (1988\, 2011). He has been practicing psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Los Angeles for 45 years. \nModerator:\nPerwana Nazif\, PhD is the Art Director of the Los Angeles Review of Books and a contributing editor at Parapraxis. She recently edited Institutional Psychotherapy as a Resistance Movement by François Pain (Semiotext(e)\, 2025) and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/radical-histories-of-psychoanalysis-in-los-angeles-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual and In Person – address sent upon registration)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T140000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20250918T235842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T160333Z
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SUMMARY:APsA Candidates' Council Seminar: Psychoanalysis and Identity Formation in Fashion
DESCRIPTION:Instructor: Golzar Selbe Naghshineh\, LP\, CGP \nThis seminar explores how fashion influences identity through the lens of heritage— how it’s either embraced or rejected in both cultural fashion and in what is passed down/inherited in families. What is inherited can be both a gift and a burden; heirlooms and inherited wardrobes carry meanings and identifications that create the opportunity to keep loved ones alive. The superego demands limitations on aesthetic presentation while culture offers norms that are often reinvented. \nPersonal narrative will guide the discussion of how the landscape of projections and identifications can contextualize the importance of fashion creating an opportunity to escape mortality. Participants are invited to bring their own fashion story\, recollections\, and heirlooms that shaped their identity with – or rejection of – fashion to deepen the conversation. \nRegistration is required. Sessions will not be recorded. \nSaturday\, October 18\, 2025\, 12 – 2 PM ET \nThe Candidates Online Seminar Series events are a benefit of APsA Membership for its In-Training Members.\nNot an APsA In-Training Member? To learn more & join\, visit apsa.org/in-training \nClick to view the Flyer  |  Click to Register \n 
URL:https://apsa.org/event/apsa-candidates-council-seminar-psychoanalysis-and-identity-formation-in-fashion/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T193000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20250729T194225Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250729T205536Z
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SUMMARY:Bodies on the Edge: De/constructing the Ideal
DESCRIPTION:This hybrid conference offers clinicians and psychoanalytic practitioners an opportunity to deeply engage with how social positionality\, embodiment\, and therapeutic practices intersect—equipping attendees with reflection tools\, case-based learning\, and strategies to foster more inclusive\, body-conscious therapy. \nPresented by Jamie Steele\, LMFT\, Molly Merson\, LMFT\, and Laura Westmoreland\, LMFT.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/bodies-on-the-edge-de-constructing-the-ideal/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: The Chicago School 2400 E Katella Ave\, Ste 1200 Anaheim\, CA 92806 or Virtual)\, Anaheim\, California\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251010T230000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T003000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20250918T200147Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T201637Z
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SUMMARY:Film & Mind: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
DESCRIPTION:THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (2024) written\, co-produced and directed by Mohammad Rasoulof won them Special Jury Prize of 2024 Cannes Int’l Film Festival. The film centers on a family thrust into the public eye when the father is appointed as an investigating judge in Tehran\, as political unrest erupts in the streets. When the judge’s gun mysteriously disappears\, he suspects his wife and daughters\, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties. \nWe will discuss themes of paranoid psychology\, psychological splitting\, intergenerational trauma\, and the implications of the title which refers to a species of fig that spreads by “wrapping itself around another tree and eventually strangling it.” From a psychodynamic perspective\, the father’s psychological deterioration represents the internalization of state paranoia\, where external political threats become projected onto intimate family relationships. \nThe film is particularly relevant as it was filmed in secret over 70 days from late December 2023 to March 2024 with real TikTok and Instagram videos of the bedlam interwoven with the narrative connecting individual psychological drama to actual political resistance movements in Iran. \nWhere to watch:\nHulu and Disney+ (subscriptions)\, AppleTV\, Amazon Prime\, and others \nDiscussants:\nJack Brennan\, LMFT is an advanced candidate in psychoanalysis at the New Center\, Los Angeles\, and a licensed marriage and family therapist with a private practice in LA. Jack is a community sociologist by education and training in rural northern California and Vermont\, and holds two masters degrees including practicing sociology and counseling psychology with an emphasis on community mental health. In addition to his work in LA\, Jack is involved in Lacanian psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic formation at large — as a collaborator with SPIIRAL and training participant in Lacanian Psychoanalysis at the École Freudienne of Quebec\, as well as a long term member and co-facilitator of the seminar series “Lacanian Thought in the Nonprofit and Public Clinic” in collaboration with the SF Bay Area Lacanian School. Jack was an MFT consortium MHSA award recipient in 2016 for culturally sensitive and dedicated work with underserved and marginalized populations in community mental health settings\, and in 2024\, was awarded the Elyn Saks scholarship from the New Center for his work in applications of psychoanalysis to the study and treatment of psychosis and severity. \nShahin Sakhi\, MD\, PhD is a psychiatrist in private practice\, and an assistant clinical professor at UCLA psychiatry department from 2007 to 2024. He supervises therapists and psychiatrists internationally. He is a certified consultant from AK Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems. He has directed experiential group relations conferences on decision-making while dealing with biases and uncertainty. He also holds a graduate certificate from Human Complex Systems program at UCLA. He did his PhD studies in molecular neurobiology at the University of Southern California\, Los Angeles\, studying genetic expressions during a specific neuronal death called neuronal apoptosis. He is interested in raising consciousness about the link between mental health\, lifestyle\, and global effort in transforming our socioeconomic life in a way that our children could enjoy life in a child centered culture of peace. \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-the-seed-of-the-sacred-fig/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T220000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20250820T175907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250820T185235Z
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SUMMARY:Traces of Memory\, Structures of Resilience: Encounters Between Architecture and Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Elizabeth Danze\, FAIA \nThis presentation examines the concept of resilience in both architecture and human experience through the shared metaphor of the palimpsest—a form that retains traces of its past while adapting to the present. Drawing on Vitruvius’s notion of firmitas and extending it through the study of buildings\, we explore how architecture responds to time\, material change\, and shifting cultural\, political\, and spiritual forces—including the impact of war and destruction. The architectural palimpsest\, through visible layers\, erasures\, and reinterpretations\, serves as a model for the layered nature of human consciousness\, where memory\, trauma\, and transformation accumulate rather than disappear. Analogies between built form and psychological depth show how both architecture and the mind bear history not as static inheritance\, but as evolving potential. Just as buildings undergo adaptive reuse to remain meaningful\, psychotherapy offers tools for internal resilience. Ultimately\, architecture and psychoanalysis illuminate each other\, revealing how we build upon the visible and invisible structures of the past to navigate change and pursue a fuller\, more integrated life.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/traces-of-memory-structures-of-resilience-encounters-between-architecture-and-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T210000
DTSTAMP:20260710T111717
CREATED:20251008T220531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T134750Z
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SUMMARY:Dreamweavers: Children who Dream & Wonder
DESCRIPTION:Speaker Linda Horrell\, MDiv\, MSW\, LCSW. This course is for anyone curious about child development and for experienced psychotherapists who are interested in the psychoanalytic insights into the dreams of children and adolescents. We will have fun discussing the animation\, Dream Productions\, a Pixar-created mini-series from the creators of Inside Out.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/dreamweavers-children-who-dream-wonder/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: 7700 Clayton Rd.\, Suite 200\, St. Louis\, MO 63117 & Virtual)
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