Treating Suicidality in Children and Adolescents
2024-02-22 08:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Child Psychotherapy and Child Analytic program faculty host this one day event focused on dealing with suicidality in child and adolescent patients.
6 CEs $180

Secret Passageways Into the Unconscious: Interpsychic Experience, Dreaming as Experience, and Titrating the Dosage of “Non-self” in Treatment
2024-02-23 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-02-23 09:30 - 18:30 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Stefano Bolognini is our keynote speaker for February’s Psychodynamic Weekend Conference. February 23-25, 2024
Participants will learn about aspects of the mind that they may not have considered before, including the way productive connections between patient and therapist can and do occur at the preconscious level, bypassing the “border guards” that might otherwise turn them away. Using his theory of the interpsychic as a background, Dr. Bolognini will highlight aspects of the unconscious mind that are beyond the limits of the repressed.

Nancy McWilliams - Clinical Supervision: Old Controversies and New Dilemmas
2024-02-24 12:00 - 15:30 | Hybrid (In-Person: University of San Diego, Kroc Peace & Justice Theater), 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, CA, 92110, United States
Nancy McWilliams Clinical Supervision: Old Controversies and New Dilemmas.
Event Description: National organizations of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and counselors have recently advocated specific courses in supervision for trainees their respective clinical disciplines. They have tended to frame supervision in terms of specific competencies or progressive skill sets, often measured via symptom reduction in the supervisee’s clients. They have also emphasized the importance of adapting supervision, like treatment, to areas of diversity. But there has been less attention to general developmental goals such as the supervisee’s overall professional and personal growth, and to areas of maturation that constitute progress in both therapist and patient. This workshop will contextualize clinical supervision historically, in light of empirical, clinical, and theoretical literature on the topic. It aims to be relevant to the practical and professional needs of both supervisors and supervisees.
CE Credits.

Magdalena Fosse: Non-monogamous Patterns of Intimacy
2024-02-28 09:45 - 11:45 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Magdalena Fosse presents in our ongoing couple and family videoconference series.
2 CEs $60

Oppression Monopoly
2024-02-29 20:00 - 22:00 | St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, 7700 Clayton Rd Ste 200, Saint Louis, MO, 63117, United States
Presented by Richard D. Harvey, PhD.
The Oppression Monopoly experience is quickly becoming widely known as a fun, yet deeply impactful simulation of the dynamics of oppression. The overriding theme of the experience is that the lived experience of minorities is systemic and intersectional and requires systemic and intersectional solutions. The experience has many learning takeaways, perhaps the most impactful is that virtually all participants leave with a deep appreciation for the need for deliberate and overt interventions and that “equity” rather than “equality” should be the focus of those interventions.

I Want You to Want Me: Understanding Desire in the Treatment of an Eating Disorder
2024-03-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presented by Amy H. Olson, LCSW, CEDS-S

Gender without Identity, Trauma as Resource
2024-03-02 12:00 - 19:30 | Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
Presented by Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D.
At a time of unprecedented legislative attacks on LGBTQ+ people, with gender-affirming care for trans youth being banned in multiple states, psychoanalysts are increasingly confused about how to approach gender complexity. Is gender a core part of the self that just needs to be discovered and granted recognition? Is it the scar tissue of an individual’s trauma or the outcome of a traumatic intergenerational transmission? And what do its origins have to do with how we work with trans individuals?
Arguing for the importance of abandoning the fiction of “core gender identity”, Saketopoulou urges us to relinquish the fantasy that there is something true or authentic about any gender. Gender, as she will discuss, is something all subjects (not just trans and queer subjects) acquire. Trauma, she proposes, may sometimes have a share in that acquisition. Conceptualizing trauma alongside diverse genders and sexualities is not about invalidating transness and queerness, but about illuminating their textures so that clinical work may enable the flourishing of queer and trans patients.

The Pastor and The Analyst: Internal Splitting and External Polarization An Interactive Discussion of the Connection between Divided Intrapsychic and External Worlds
2024-03-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Splitting and Polarization are two common phenomena in the intrapsychic and social world. Yet, in recent years, with heated and polarized divisions in various contexts breaking further apart, the topic is particularly on point. The program will offer participants an environment to explore the emotionally highly charged dynamics of splitting and polarization, which are occurring in American Society, classrooms, religious communities, and the consultation room. Different manifestations of polarization in the world and society relate to internal splitting in therapist and patient, clergy and congregant, teacher, and student. They are often repressed, making them hard to identify and contain. It is one of the goals of this program to discover creative ways for nurturing a Kleinian Depressive Position with enough structure to hold tensions without breaking apart. Ideally, participants will take an enriched sensitivity for these dynamics back into their professional context.
The program will be based on creating a shared definition of splitting as well as polarization, their distinction, and interrelation. Case examples will be welcomed to illustrate specific dynamics of splitting and polarization in individuals, groups, and society. This program is an interdisciplinary invitation into dialogue and mutual learning to all who are interested in exploring the intrapsychic phenomenon of splitting and the social phenomenon of polarization, psychoanalysis, and/or religion, including, but not limited to psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, social workers, medical professionals, clergy, and teachers.
CE Credits.

Writing & Creativity: A Psychoanalytic Retreat
2024-03-06 19:00 - 20:30 | St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute, 7700 Clayton Rd Ste 200, Saint Louis, MO, 63117, United States
Presented by Nikki Karalekas, PhD, MSW, LCSW and Harold Braswell, MSW, PhD.
How do we write psychoanalytically? How does psychoanalysis inform and enhance our writing practice? What role does writing have in clinical work? What is the relationship between writing, revision, and free association? How might we develop a psychoanalytically-informed understanding of—and treatment for—“writer’s block?” This retreat will start with a two hour class exploring these questions. Then we will pre-circulate our own short writing and engage in a process of peer review, attuned to the larger question of what it might mean to workshop writing psychoanalytically.
No previous writing experience required.

Evening Presentation - Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma
2024-03-07 20:30 - 22:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
When catastrophic events overtake adult lives, they can often scar the psyche in ways that psychodynamic clinicians struggle to understand. The adult survivor of a catastrophe–whether a life-threatening assault, a serious accident, an act of terrorism, or a natural disaster- experiences a near fatal disruption of fundamental aspects of self experience. Many who have physically survived catastrophic trauma are uncertain that they have psychologically survived the ordeal. Integrating recent findings in the neurobiology of stress and developmental psychology with relational psychoanalytic concepts, Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD, shall describe the phenomenology of Adult Onset Trauma and suggest ways in which to work with it.

Jonathan Slavin: The Innocence of Sexuality
2024-03-08 09:00 - 11:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Jonathan Slavin presents as part of our ongoing videoconference series on The Erotic in Psychoanalysis.
2 CEs $60

I Want it All and I Want it Now
2024-03-08 12:30 - 14:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presenter: Denia Barrett, LCSW
Description: This presentation will illustrate analytic work with a patient during late latency and prepuberty, followed by periods of psychotherapy in mid- and late- adolescence/emerging adulthood. Old problems find new solutions as development unfolds; exploring gender is one area that may lead to unpredicted outcomes.

Nancy McWilliams, PhD and Michael Garrett, MD Spring 2024 Scientific Conference
2024-03-09 10:00 - 17:00 | Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
Dr. McWilliams will present “Vital Signs of Clinical Progress and Psychological Wellness” in the morning session and Dr. Garrett will present “Disguised Memories of Traumatic Experiences in Childhood and Adolescence that Appear in Psychotic Symptoms” in the afternoon session.
CE Credits

Steven Stern, PsyD. “Needed Relationships: A Complexity-Based Organizing Principle”
2024-03-09 12:00 - 14:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Psychoanalytic theories are needed to sense, understand and connect with our patients but they can limit the analyst’s participation in terms of theoretical and technical categories. Using his concept of needed relationships, Dr. Stern offers a more holistic view of the analyst-patient relationship in all its therapeutic complexity. He invites the therapist to work creatively within the evolving therapeutic space with each patient.

Revisiting Soul Murder with Paul Williams, PhD
2024-03-09 12:00 - 16:00 | Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
Soul Murder is a crime, not a diagnosis, Leonard Shengold argues. It comprises a particularly toxic combination of chronic abuse (sexual, physical or emotional), and extreme neglect of a child’s healthy developmental needs. In this presentation, the history of soul murder will be considered together with clinical accounts and examples from literature. It will be proposed that the soul murderer is continually murdering themselves, and imposes on the infant this identification with a murderous internal part-object. So powerful is the projective identification and the introjection that the child yields their true self to a form of death by brainwashing. Less dramatic but similarly debilitating versions of this can occur in perverse relationships in which sadism is a feature. Rehabilitation of a soul murdered individual requires acceptance and recognition of murder, the absence of a true self and the growth of a self from ashes. This clinical picture provides analysts with an unusual set of circumstances, which may or may not include psychosis, but will reveal trauma at multiple levels of experience. How to think about, and modify analytic technique, particularly in the countertransference, in order to listen to a soul murdered person, will be emphasized.

Connections and Conversation: Analytic Love, Self-Compassion and the Growth of Internal Secure Attachment – Daniel Shaw, LCSW
2024-03-09 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Free zoom event with Daniel Shaw, LCSW: Contemporary relational psychoanalytic theories have emphasized the therapeutic action of both empathy and mutuality. Trauma theories build on the establishment of relational safety and trust to focus on promoting the patient’s self-reflection and self-regulation skills, and the development of self-compassion in the service of healing self-alienation. The author discusses his integration of both approaches and resultant shifts in his clinical work.

Elizabeth Palacios: Interventions with Families in Need
2024-03-13 09:45 - 11:45 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Elizabeth Palacios presents in our ongoing couple and family videoconference series.
2 CEs $60

Increasing Adaptive Racial Socialization for Black Boys: A Culturally Competent Psychodynamic Analysis
2024-03-14 20:30 - 22:30 | Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
Presented by Huey Hawkins Jr., PhD, LCSW.
Black men living in America have been designated as an “endangered species” for a variety of reasons, namely the targeting and violence done to young Black men by police. Such experiences leave the parents of young Black boys to worry on a constant basis about the safety of their sons. Few scholars, however, have examined the unconscious effects of such worry on the young Black child’s experience of the holding environment and the subsequent identifications that inform his sense of self in relation to others.
Inspired by a recent qualitative research study, this program explores the implicit and explicit psychological effects of cultural trauma. It aims to prepare the clinician: (1) to understand normative psychological experiences of racism for Black boys; (2) to cultivate a positive racial identity for Black boys; and (3) to teach Black boys ways to navigate safety in harmful racist environments.

When Secrets Emerge: Uncanny Impact in Analysis and Therapy on the Clinician’s Body & Mind
2024-03-15 19:00 - 21:00 | Hybrid (Rockland – East Fairmount Park 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr. Philadelphia, PA & via Zoom), 3810 Mt Pleasant Dr, Philadelphia, PA, 19121, United States
Listening to secrets is part of the everyday work of a psychodynamic clinician. Despite its importance, this topic has not received extensive attention in the analytic literature. The impact on the clinician in unexpected emotional and physical ways deserves greater scrutiny than has generally occurred in training. It can be experienced as uncanny and disturbing. This lecture describes how guilt and shame, no-entry defenses, and somatic countertransference reactions take root when ‘what has been hidden, but in plain sight’ emerges seemingly out of the blue in analysis or psychotherapy. Countertransference reactivity of the therapist when treating patients who keep secrets and the role this plays in the development of dissociated somatic reactivity and burnout will be demonstrated in clinical examples of patients with eating disorders, addictions, life transitions, and bereavement. Emphasis will be placed on how to attend to the therapist’s self-care needs and how to enhance resilience as secrets emerge, are contained, and worked through in the therapeutic dialogue.
CE Credits

Film and Mind Online: Joyland
2024-03-15 23:00 - 2024-03-16 00:30 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Joyland (2022, 2 hr 1 min, from Pakistan) is a romantic tragedy written, directed and co-edited by Saim Sadiq. Beyond the plot line, the film shows what happens to “self” when societal roles prevent individuals from realizing identities. As a family drama, Joyland raises the deeper identity problem of self-obliteration when the self isn’t seen by parental eyes. Joyland is an engaging but challenging film, bringing new perspective to issues of “third gender.”
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this session, participants should be able to:
Identify ways in which patriarchal expectations result in the stifling of characters’ vision for their life and consequently lead to unrealized potential
Apply understanding of the multilayered psychodynamic impact of colonialism and criminalization on the “third gender” community in Pakistan in psychotherapy with their U.S.-based transgender patients and clients
Discuss the developmental cost of “emotional enslavement to a self-object” as presented in Joyland when experienced by patients/clients
Joshua C. Richmond, MPW, is a vested member of the Writers Guild of America West and has written for film and television for over twenty years, writing scripts for Ron Howard, Universal, Disney etc., and has created TV shows for Fox and Disney. Currently he teaches screenwriting and sitcom writing at Cal State Fullerton and is a psychoanalytic studies candidate at the New Center for Psychoanalysis.
Manal Khan, MD, is a pediatric and adult psychiatrist at UCLA. Dr. Khan completed her residency training in general psychiatry at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she served as the chief resident of recruitment and wellness. She then completed her child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at UCLA and served as the inaugural justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion child psychiatry chief. After completing training, she joined UCLA as faculty and now serves as the Associate Program Director for the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship.
CE credits.

The Unseen: Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges in Psychoanalysis: Community Psychoanalysis into the Future
2024-03-16 11:00 - 17:30, 2024-03-17 11:00 - 16:00 | University Club, Washington, DC and Virtual
2-Day Conference – *Early-bird Registration Ends February 1, 2024*
Presenters: Francisco J. González, MD; Kimberlyn Leary; PhD, ABPP; Daniel Gaztambide, PsyD; Paula Christian-Kliger, PhD, ABPP
Our world is on fire! Global crises necessitate a proactive response from psychoanalysts and psychodynamic therapists. The wars around the world, COVID-19 pandemic, climate crisis, mass displacement of refugees, economic and political turbulence and historical racial injustices, challenge us to leverage our expertise, resources, and ethical responsibilities for the betterment of society.
In this two-day conference, featured speakers will explore the intersection of the personal and social unconscious, and how psychoanalysts must engage with the socio-political world. The conference will offer a liminal space for participants to immerse themselves in dialogue about contemporary society. A short-film “We Are Human First,” will serve as a catalyst for deeper conversations about psychoanalytic applications beyond the consulting room. Through small and large group experiences, participants will have opportunities to share reflections in a reciprocal learning environment. We will delve into theoretical discourse and clinical material with the aim of legitimizing community psychoanalysis as a vital component of psychoanalytic institutional training.
APsA Department of Psychoanalytic Education: Psychoanalyst in the Community Section
Cosponsors: Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Contemporary Freudian Society, Harlem Family Institute, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, Oregon Psychoanalytic Center, Community Psychoanalysis Track at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis.
10 CE credits (Cultural Competence credits)

An Unlived Life: Finding Hope In Complex Trauma (ICP-LA Open House)
2024-03-16 17:00 - 20:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Join us for a live case presentation and discussion that will highlight the diversity of contemporary relational psychoanalytic approaches to clinical work available within the training programs at ICP.
Candidate, Mia Goldman, MA, LMFT will present an evocative case of trying to find hope with a patient struggling with the impact of chronic and complex developmental trauma. ICP members Estelle Shane, Ph.D.; Leena Chaugule, Psy.D., FRANZCP, MBBS; and William J. Coburn, Ph.D., PsyD. will provide commentary on the case and engage in a discussion of Mia’s case material. Audience members will also have the opportunity to discuss and ask questions about the case.
Following the program, you will have the opportunity to meet our instructors, candidates and members and to hear about ICP’s unique training opportunities in psychoanalysis. You will experience why ICP and its members are leaders in the psychoanalytic community as respected educators, scholars, clinicians, and clinical supervisors. We hope that you will be inspired by our rich and dynamic display of some of the offerings the ICP.

Leora Benioff, Ph.D.: Projection, Otherness, Difference: A Contemporary Approach to Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy
2024-03-22 21:00 - 22:30 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Leora Benioff, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and couple therapist based in Berkeley, California. This presentation will examine contemporary methods in psychoanalytic couples therapy, with a special focus on the approach developed by the Tavistock Clinic, as well as modern Bionian and object relations techniques. It may also explore additional theories, including link theory and attachment theory. To illustrate these approaches, clinical vignettes will be shared and analyzed during the discussion.
CE credit.

Psychoanalytic Frame – a Straight Jacket or a Safe Playground?
2024-03-23 11:45 - 13:15 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Questions about the psychoanalytic frame will be discussed during the talk; clinical vignettes will be used to illustrate the points addressed.
CE credit.

Morris Eagle Lectures - Recognition and Disturbances of Recognition in Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Contributions of Video Microanalysis
2024-03-23 12:00 - 16:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
NCP Presents the Morris Eagle Psychoanalytic Research Lectures: Honoring the life and work of distinguished member Morris Eagle.
This event honors Morris N. Eagle, PhD, a renowned psychologist and psychoanalyst who has significantly contributed to our understanding of human behavior and the therapeutic process. He is a professor emeritus of the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies at Adelphi University and a former president of the Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association. Eagle has published numerous books and articles on a wide range of psychoanalytic topics, and he is considered one of the leading authorities on ego psychology and attachment theory. Here are some of his most notable accomplishments:
Developed a revised and expanded ego psychology that provides a strong foundation for a unified psychoanalytic theory.
Emphasized the importance of empathy and the process of working through empathic failures in therapeutic action.
Integrated attachment theory into psychoanalytic theory and practice.
Authored numerous books and articles that have made significant contributions to the field of psychoanalysis.
Dr. Eagle’s work has been highly influential, and he is widely respected by his colleagues. He is a recipient of the Sigourney Award for lifetime contribution to psychoanalysis and the New York Attachment Consortium Award for contribution to the interface between attachment theory and psychoanalysis.
Speakers include: NYU Professor and author Jerome Wakefield; Editor-in-Chief of the journal Psychoanalytic Psychology, Chris Christian, PhD.
In addition to honoring Dr. Eagle, we will also honor and present an award to Dr. Beatrice Beebe.
For this lecture, Dr. Beatrice Beebe will present “Recognition and Disturbances of Recognition in Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Contributions of Video Microanalysis.”
Beatrice Beebe will discuss her revolutionary contributions to psychoanalytic understanding and treatment. Her work explores the early recognition process from birth: infants perceive the similarity of expressions and gestures in the parent, and they can imitate. Her research uses video microanalysis of 4-month infant-mother face-to-face interaction to predict 12-month attachment, in which they identified 4-month disturbances of maternal recognition, particularly at moments of infant distress, in dyads where the infant was classified as disorganized (versus secure) attachment at one year. The video studies will illustrate sensitive maternal recognition of infant distress vs. disturbances in this key process. This work is used to describe nonverbal aspects of the recognition process in adult treatment, also through video microanalysis.
CE credits

Saturday Salon: Tending The Unborn
2024-03-23 13:00 - 16:10 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
This is the chronical of a journey taken by patient and therapist into the black abyss of insanity, formlessness, and desperation. This is the story of how the analyst “found” his patient, and how she became psychologically born.
This course is taught by Dr. David Wayne.
CE Credits

The Untold Story of Sabina Spielrein: Healed and Haunted by Love
2024-03-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
The unpublished Russian diary and letters of Sabina Spielrein represent a milestone for academics, scholars, historians, and psychoanalysts whose interest in the most enigmatic woman to have pioneered psychoanalysis and developmental psychology in the first part of the 20th century has never ceased to grow after she was rediscovered in the mid-1970s. These Primary sources, which include unreleased drawings and notes, were patiently exhumed and translated by Lothane from New York to Russia and across Europe over two decades, with the collaboration of Spielrein’s grandnephew, Vladimir Shpilrain.

Dreaming of an Inclusive Psychoanalysis
2024-03-27 14:00 - 17:00 | Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
Presented in partnership with Casa de Salud’s Mental Health Collaborative with Patricia Gherovici, PhD; Harold Braswell, MSW, PhD
and Juliana Varela, LCSW.
Patricia Gherovici will compare two films documenting actual cures that push the boundaries of traditional psychoanalysis with two maverick psychoanalysts: Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, a 2013 French film by Arnaud Desplechin and Adieu Lacan a 2022 film by Richard Ledes. We will see how classical psychoanalytic concepts can open up to absorb radically different cultural modes: Blackfoot myth, AfroBrazilian legend, and Arabic narratives.
