Denver Psychoanalytic Society

Based on the work of Bion, Avner Bergstein, MA, FIPA, will address violent emotions and violent retaliation against the mind to protect itself from overwhelming excitation, which may result from an inability to mentally formulate or adaptively contain painful excitation. Examples of unrecognized collusions between patients and analysts blindsiding themselves against recognition of massive emotional […]

Presented by Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD. At this moment in time, conversations about gender are at the epicenter of heated debate and passionate conversation. At stake is gender's status as a concept (does gender matter, and if so, how?) and matters relating to gender development. Is gender an innate part of the self or one that […]

Guest Speaker: Mary Jo Peebles, PhD, ABPP, ABPH Achieving tangible, structural change isn't easy. Four skill areas, frequently missing from psychodynamic curricula, help change stick: Goal-setting, Right-Hemispheric processing, enhancing Absorption, and actively developing Internalization. This workshop describes and illustrates these four skill areas to psychotherapists of all experience levels and theoretical orientations, using lecture, slides, […]

During this conference, four presenters (one biodiversity scientist and three psychoanalysts) will each present their perspective on the complexity of humans’ relations to the natural world and how these multifaceted relations contribute to and might mitigate today’s climate catastrophe. Presenters: Lindsay L. Clarkson, MD; W. John Kress, PhD; Donald B. Moss, MD; Lynne Zeavin, PsyD