Name: Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy
Start: 2025-12-19T12:50:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-19T13:50:00-05:00
Location: Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)

Oct 2025
- Wed 8
  - 7:30pm - 9:00pm EDT
    
    Dreamweavers: Children who Dream & Wonder
- Thu 9
  - 8:30pm - 10:00pm EDT
    
    Traces of Memory, Structures of Resilience: Encounters Between Architecture and Psychoanalysis
- Fri 10
  - 11:00pm - 12:30am EDT
    
    Film & Mind: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
- Sat 11
  - 11:00pm - 12:30am EDT
    
    Film & Mind: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
  - 12:00pm - 7:30pm EDT
    
    Bodies on the Edge: De/constructing the Ideal
- Sat 18
  - 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
    
    APsA Candidates’ Council Seminar: Psychoanalysis and Identity Formation in Fashion
  - 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
    
    Radical Histories of Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and Beyond
  - 4:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
    
    Childhood Bereavement: An Analysis of a Six-Year-Old Girl Who Experienced Loss
- Tue 21
  - 8:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
    
    Patriarchy and Misogyny: Manifestations in Our Culture, Theory & Consulting Rooms
- Wed 22
  - 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
    
    Growing Up Through the Life Cycle: A Revised Psychoanalytic Framework for Adult Development
- Thu 23
  - 6:00pm - 7:30pm EDT
    
    Defense Mechanisms: Hierarcy, Adaptation and Change – Dr. Chris Perry
  - 8:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
    
    Book Discussion: Early Women Psychoanalysts and Their Marginalized Legacies
- Fri 24
  - 12:50pm - 1:50pm EDT
    
    The AI Pharmakon in Psychoanalytic Care: Ambivalence, Augmentation, and Psychoanalytic Futures
- Sat 25
  - 12:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
    
    “Case of Infantile Trauma and Resilience” (Nancy Kulish. Ph.D.)
  - 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
    
    Can Psychoanalysts Listen to Each Other?
- Mon 27
  - 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
    
    Writing Workshop – Poets, Artists, and Analysts
  - 8:00pm - 9:30pm EDT
    
    The Persistence of Patriarchy: How Did We Get Here?
Nov 2025
- Sat 1
  - 8:45am - 4:45pm EDT
    
    Observational Studies Program Conference: Exploring the Links: Moving from Observation to Transformative Interventions – Jeanne Magagna, PhD
  - 5:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
    
    Model Minority and Its Discontents: Understanding the Asian American Experience
- Tue 4
  - 8:00pm - 9:30pm EST
    
    How the Sense of Self Breaks Down and Recovers in Neurosis and Psychosis with Andrew Lotterman, MD
- Fri 7
  - 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST
    
    Alumni Group Roundtable Discussion – Child Analysis
- Sat 8
  - 12:00pm - 2:00pm EST
    
    APsA Candidates’ Council Seminar: The Power of Music in “Peter and the Wolf”
- Thu 13
  - 7:00pm - 7:00pm EST
    
    Borderline Personality Disorder: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
- Fri 14
  - 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
    
    Psychoanalytic Takes On Cinema: Session 1 of 3: Discussion of the film “The Thing”
  - 6:00pm - 8:30pm EST
    
    The Pseudo-Self
  - 11:00pm - 12:30am EST
    
    Film & Mind: Nickel Boys
- Sat 15
  - 11:00pm - 12:30am EST
    
    Film & Mind: Nickel Boys
  - 10:00am - 10:00am EST
    
    The Body Keeps the Score: Trauma, Attachment, and Neuroscience
  - 12:00pm - 2:00pm EST
    
    Psychoanalysis Creativity and the Arts: Session 2: “Creativity and Resiliency”
  - 12:00pm - 2:00pm EST
    
    Stephen Seligman, MD – Holding and Containing
- Tue 18
  - 7:00pm - 7:00pm EST
    
    Ryan Nolen
- Thu 20
  - 7:00pm - 7:00pm EST
    
    Journey: Race Riot 1919-Racial Enactment 2006-Racial Reparations Beginning 2023
  - 8:30pm - 10:00pm EST
    
    When the risk of targeted violence enters the psychotherapeutic relationship
- Fri 21
  - 12:50pm - 1:50pm EST
    
    Working with Infertility Patients through a Psychoanalytic Lens
- Sat 22
  - 10:00am - 1:00pm EST
    
    Cultural Competence Conference: Misogyny Then and Now: Implications for Psychoanalytic Perspectives
  - 11:45am - 11:45am EST
    
    Sadomasochism; Understanding and Working ?with the Self-Defeating Patient
Dec 2025
- Tue 2
  - 8:00pm - 10:00pm EST
    
    Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens
  - 8:00pm - 10:00pm EST
    
    Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens
- Thu 4
  - 7:00pm - 7:00pm EST
    
    A Symbol and Sandplay Presentation: Castles in the Sand and Psyche
- Fri 5
  - 6:30pm - 8:00pm EST
    
    Sun, Soil and Rain: Research on Patient Growth in Psychotherapy
- Sat 6
  - 9:00am - 9:00am EST
    
    Ethics Workshop: Revisiting the Concept of the Working Alliance. Applying it to Teaching and Learning and Exploring the Ethical Considerations: A Relational Model.
  - 10:00am - 1:00pm EST
    
    Revisiting the Concept of the Working Alliance. Applying it to Teaching and Learning and Exploring the Ethical Considerations: A Relational Model.
  - 11:45am - 11:45am EST
    
    THE TRUMAN SHOW DELUSION: REVISITING THE PSYCHOANALYTIC ATTITUDE TOWARD PSYCHOSIS
- Sun 7
  - 1:00pm - 4:00pm EST
    
    Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference: Analyst Losses: Illness and Life-Changing Events and Their Effects on Treatment
- Wed 10
  - 8:00pm - 8:00pm EST
    
    Complex Cases and Treatment Planning: Does It Take a Village to Revive the Treatment?
- Thu 11
  - 7:30pm - 7:30pm EST
    
    I.H. Cohn Lecture: What Bion Meant by “Dying”
- Fri 12
  - 12:30pm - 2:00pm EST
    
    Dream Interpretation and Empirical Dream Research
  - 8:00pm - 8:00pm EST
    
    Film & Mind: The Big Lebowski
- Sat 13
  - 11:45am - 11:45am EST
    
    Home, Homelessness, and Immigration
  - 1:00pm - 1:00pm EST
    
    Clinical Perspectives on the Psychoanalytically-Informed Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
  - 2:00pm - 2:00pm EST
    
    PANY Candidate Organized Scientific Meeting: “Meeting the Beginning Analyst’s Unconscious Through Writing”
- Fri 19
  - 12:50pm - 1:50pm EST
    
    Therapeutic Assessment: Using Psychological Testing as Brief Therapy

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