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SUMMARY:Book Discussion - Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Lauren Levine\, PhD\nDiscussion by: Janine de Peyer\, LCSW \nPlease join us whether or not you have read the book. Some people want to read and discuss the book; others want to learn more before deciding if they want to read it. All are welcome! \nIn this presentation\, Dr. Levine examines the transformative power of storytelling and witnessing in creating shared symbolic meaning and coherence from ungrieved trauma. She explores creativity as a transformative force that emerges within the clinical process\, drawing on film\, dance\, literature\, and dreams as frames for experiences that exceed what language alone can capture. As both an analyst and a writer\, Dr. Levine is especially interested in the stories individuals and communities tell\, the interstitial gaps created by unmetabolized trauma\, and the potential of an intimate psychoanalytic process to help patients reclaim memory\, creative agency\, and authorship of their own lives.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/book-discussion-risking-intimacy-and-creative-transformation-in-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T220000
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Freedom and The Loving Gaze
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Shir Shanun\, PhD \nCivitarese (2024) writes we have a need to exist in the eyes of others\, it is what makes relationships meaningful. Such loving connections and freedom in complex analytic system and the positive relationship between them are at the center of this paper. I will argue that restriction or expansion of one impacts the other. I define freedom—as an emergent component within the analytic complex system that reflects an increase in perspectives a person has and experiences; and the loving gaze—as an integral constituent of the conditions that support recognition and an indicator of movement toward or away from recognition and connection. The use of Giuseppe Civitarese’s model of Post Bionian Field Theory (BFT) and Daniel Goldin’s Storying\, supports the emergence of both loving gaze and freedom including more freedom to address the socio-political and transform our experience into a loving gaze experience. \nIn this paper a clinical example will demonstrate a moment of restricted freedom in the context of socio-political impingement. We will explore its transformation into a loving gaze experience using BFT and storying techniques. It will exemplify how when our loving gaze is restricted toward the other and toward ourselves\, our freedom is restricted. Whereas we might feel a more intimate connection when we experience more freedom in our relatedness. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-freedom-and-the-loving-gaze/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T141500
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SUMMARY:Conference - Clinical and Theoretical Considerations in Telehealth vs. In-person Psychoanalytic Treatments
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Arthur Niesser\, Dr. Med.\, Derek Hook\, PhD & Leora Trub\nDiscussion by: Todd Essig\, PhD\nThis conference will consider some clinical and theoretical considerations in telehealth versus in-person psychoanalytic treatments. Dr. Niesser will explore if there might be groups of patients for whom online analysis might be advantageous compared to the traditional in-person setting. The potential for a ‘safe space’ is examined\, especially in view of erotic transference and countertransference. Furthermore\, the preferred choice of setting might depend in part on the therapist’s personality. \nRather than immediately designating teletherapy (or for that matter\, in-person therapy) as the inferior form\, Dr. Hook suggests we might pause and ask: how have ‘distanced’ forms of treatment (analysis via phone\, teletherapy\, etc.) drawn our attention to certain facets of the ‘original’ form of psychoanalysis that often go unremarked upon? For example\, in Lacanian psychoanalysis with neurotic analysands\, a degree of anxiety is often considered necessary\, just as a degree of personal distance (following the imperative to work rather in the symbolic than in the imaginary). I will note the role of a type of ‘minimal uncanny’ effect in teletherapy\, highlight a few points in respect of differing forms of transference\, and consider what interpretative potentials arise from a combining the two forms of psychoanalytic work. \nAccording to Dr. Trub\, digital culture increasingly conflicts with longstanding assumptions about psychoanalytic practice. This tension was sharply amplified by the abrupt\, unprepared shift to telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contemporary clinical practices suggest that certain traditional analytic ideals may have exceeded their explanatory and regulatory usefulness. As a result\, these ideals may no longer function reliably as markers of deviations from the analytic frame or as guides for reestablishing idealized technique under digitally-mediated conditions. This presentation argues for a new paradigm for conceptualizing the analytic ideal\, as one which is rooted in the paradoxes that exist at the heart of digital experience. \nThe Illusion of Equivalence. Telehealth requires us to act as if in-person and remote modalities are equivalent in order to function\, while knowing clinically that they are not. The paradox lies in sustaining continuity of care without collapsing meaningful differences in embodiment\, proximity\, and shared space. \nHolding at a Distance: Maintaining Presence in Absence. Telehealth asks the therapist to provide holding and presence in the absence of shared physical space\, requiring presence to be actively produced rather than passively given. What is usually sustained by co-location must now be symbolically\, relationally\, and technologically assembled. \nHealing without Resolution. In a fractured and technologically mediated world\, psychotherapy cannot promise wholeness without acknowledging brokenness—including its own. Telehealth becomes therapeutic not by resolving contradiction\, but by modeling how psychic life can be held together in the presence of inconsistency\, loss\, and limits.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/conference-clinical-and-theoretical-considerations-in-telehealth-vs-in-person-psychoanalytic-treatments/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T220000
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation - Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma Part II: Group Therapy with Chronic Shame and Abject States
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Kathleen Adams\, PhD\nDiscussion by: Robert Grossmark\, PhD\nIn Part II of this two-part special presentation\, author Kathleen Adams\, PhD\, discusses her book Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused\, High Functioning People Living Outside of Time. \nGroup and individual therapists who frequently encounter patients with characters organized around melancholy\, anxiety\, entitlement\, and rage may be caught off guard by patients who developed autistic defenses to manage terror\, shame\, and powerlessness. We will explore the abject self as an enacted manifestation of relentless despair. My group work centers primarily on high functioning\, non-abused individuals with disorganized attachment and mild dissociation. Judith Herman suggests that along with terror\, shame is linked to the development of disorganized attachment. Relentless despair and abject states are complex enactments that contribute to failed individual and group therapy experiences because they are difficult to recognize and manage effectively. We will focus tonight on abject states: a neural network which leads to enactment of worthlessness and despair about connection.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/special-presentation-attuned-treatment-of-developmental-trauma-part-ii-group-therapy-with-chronic-shame-and-abject-states-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T200000
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SUMMARY:Special Presentation: Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma Part I Non-abused\, High-functioning People Living Outside of Time
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Kathleen Adams\, PhD\nIn Part I of this two-part special presentation\, author Kathleen Adams\, PhD\, discusses her book Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused\, High Functioning People Living Outside of Time. \nMany therapists don’t even think of their patients as “trauma patients” despite descriptions of early neglect\, abuse\, separations and loss\, and dysfunctional families without enough love to go around. Two years ago\, I was invited to give a presentation on preverbal trauma in group therapy to a group of seasoned group clinicians. Only two out of the 50 present believed they had a single patient with preverbal trauma in their practices. Instead we diagnose them in the fashion most familiar to us and insert them into our therapeutic practices\, undertaking defense analysis\, tackling characterological issues\, exploring underlying conflicts and fantasies. That’s what we do. This protocol fails to permit our trauma patients to unfold and reveal who they really are unless we broaden our scope and think trauma\, listen for vertical splits\, subtle Me and Not-Me states\, (Chefetz and Bromberg\, 2004) and look underneath their surface presentation for the depth within. \nThe goal of this presentation is to sensitize you to the presence of subtle dissociative states\, preverbal trauma\, long term attachment distress\, and chronic shock in your patients. I also hope to change your approach as a group therapist to incorporate a hard look at how attachment and neglect are handled in your groups. When patients approach us with stories of early deprivation\, neglect and abuse\, we tend to interpret “upward\,” focusing on conflict and character\, and then go home to our full lives and families without a clue that we are missing the point. The point\, as you shall see\, is that we are working with people who are falling down into an abyss\, and we are making polite conversation about their defenses and fantasies while they continue to fall\, shatter\, and shake. Meanwhile our patients with developmental trauma are so desperate for a secure attachment experience that they collude with our roadmaps\, willingly fantasize\, earnestly explore conflicts\, and stolidly work on their character flaws. We will discuss assessment issues for developmental trauma and explore the management of these states in your group and individual treatments.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/special-presentation-attuned-treatment-of-developmental-trauma-part-i-non-abused-high-functioning-people-living-outside-of-time/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T133000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T184145Z
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SUMMARY:Online Study Group: Exploring Sources of Liminal Data in Psychoanalytic Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by J. Christopher Fowler\, PhD & Stuart Weir\, PsyD \nA foundational premise of psychoanalysis is Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and uncovering the meaning of latent content from dreams\, parapraxes\, and unintentional actions such as forgetting. This 6-week seminar will explore sources of latent (liminal) data from the analysand\, as well as the analyst. We will traverse classical Freudian approaches to liminal data including Freud’s Psychopathology of Everyday Life and Paul Gray’s notion of close process analysis captured in A brief didactic guide to analysis of the ego in conflict. We will then move to modern ideas of paralinguistic communication with a deep dive into John Gedo’s The Languages of Psychoanalysis. Throughout the seminar\, participants are encouraged to share clinical material bearing on how we utilize liminal data to discern meaning (whether shared or held as an internal formulation) and how we convey our understanding in ways that are meaningful to the analysand.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/online-study-group-exploring-sources-of-liminal-data-in-psychoanalytic-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260409T220000
DTSTAMP:20260809T005036
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T171006Z
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SUMMARY:Thinking Where We Are Not: Interpellation\, Dissociative Enactment\, and the Social
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Donnel Stern\, PhD \nIn the interest of integrating the social and the individual in psychoanalysis\, Dr. Stern examines the relation of Althusser’s concept of interpellation and the psychoanalytic idea of dissociative enactment. Interpellation is a way of conceptualizing the creation of subjectivity via individual participation in the ideological tropes of power. Dissociative enactment is a relational psychoanalytic way of referring to unconscious participation in relatedness. In interpellation\, one person is “hailed” by another in a way that inducts the person so addressed\, without the awareness of either party\, into a relational pattern that includes both. Dr. Stern argues that we can see the same process in dissociative enactment. Clinical process is illuminated by the recognition of the continuity of the social and the individual that is modeled by the relation of these two dissociative processes. New meaning–the formulation of unformulated experience–comes about unbidden\, sometimes slipping the traces of ideology. Paraphrasing an aphorism from Lacan: We think where we are not. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/thinking-where-we-are-not-interpellation-dissociative-enactment-and-the-social/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260330T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260330T163000
DTSTAMP:20260809T005036
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SUMMARY:Study Group - Exploring Sources of Liminal Data in Psychoanalytic Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by: J. Christopher Fowler\, PhD & Stuart Weir\, PsyD \nA foundational premise of psychoanalysis is Freud’s discovery of the unconscious and uncovering the meaning of latent content from dreams\, parapraxes\, and unintentional actions such as forgetting. This 6-week seminar will explore sources of latent (liminal) data from the analysand\, as well as the analyst. We will traverse classical Freudian approaches to liminal data including Freud’s Psychopathology of Everyday Life and Paul Gray’s notion of close process analysis captured in A brief didactic guide to analysis of the ego in conflict. We will then move to modern ideas of paralinguistic communication with a deep dive into John Gedo’s The Languages of Psychoanalysis. Throughout the seminar\, participants are encouraged to share clinical material bearing on how we utilize liminal data to discern meaning (whether shared or held as an internal formulation) and how we convey our understanding in ways that are meaningful to the analysand. \nClass logistics: All reading materials are supplied. Facilitators will provide a frame and summary of the week’s reading then invite discussion. This is intended to be a fulsome seminar.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/study-group-exploring-sources-of-liminal-data-in-psychoanalytic-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260305T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260305T220000
DTSTAMP:20260809T005036
CREATED:20250820T175922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T170853Z
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SUMMARY:Dissociative Attunement: Rhythm and Resonance in Therapeutic Process
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Karen Hopenwasser\, MD \nWhile moments of attunement with individuals manifesting dissociated self-states are often confusing\, dissociative attunement can be used as a valuable tool in therapeutic process. Attunement is a synchronized awareness of implicit knowing that is nonlinear and bidirectional. It is an embodied rhythmic encounter that can be understood\, in part\, through the science of entrainment\, a natural process by which our biological and psychophysiological systems synchronize within an environment. It is not necessary to understand the complex science of rhythmic entrainment to notice and appreciate the felt sense of being in rhythm. However\, some knowledge of the neuroscience and the physics of information flow can help us listen to intuition in an informed and critical way. It takes effort to move beyond concepts of transference and countertransference so embedded in our philosophy and training as therapists. Attunement with dissociated self-states is often mistaken as countertransference and mis-attunement. When that happens\, we lose an opportunity to think differently\, to understand more about the experience of dissociated self-states and ultimately to appreciate how humans are enmeshed within the deep ecology of complex systems. \nCE
URL:https://apsa.org/event/dissociative-attunement-rhythm-and-resonance-in-therapeutic-process/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T140000
DTSTAMP:20260809T005036
CREATED:20251210T134714Z
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SUMMARY:Dissociation vs. Repression A New Neuropsychoanalytic Model for Psychopathology
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Clara Mucci\, PhD\nDr. Mucci will use neurobiology of attachment and affect regulation theory (Allan Schore)\, developmental psychopathology (Giovanni Liotti) and contemporary relational psychoanalysis to illustrate her own contribution to the field through what she terms the “three levels of trauma of human origin” and what she indicates as “embodied witnessing” as a complex multi-dimentional interventional in which the mind\, the body and the brain of both subjects implied in the treatment are engaged in order to repair the destructiveness on body and mind (on self and other) created by interpersonal trauma and in particular by the internalized victim-persecutor dyad at intergenerational levels (Mucci\, 2013\, 2018\, 2022).
URL:https://apsa.org/event/dissociation-vs-repression-a-new-neuropsychoanalytic-model-for-psychopathology/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T213000
DTSTAMP:20260809T005036
CREATED:20251210T134714Z
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SUMMARY:Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Lauren Levine\, PhD\nDiscussion by: Janine de Peyer\, LCSW \nIn this presentation\, Dr. Levine examines the transformative power of storytelling and witnessing in creating shared symbolic meaning and coherence from ungrieved trauma. She explores creativity as a transformative force that emerges within the clinical process\, drawing on film\, dance\, literature\, and dreams as frames for experiences that exceed what language alone can capture. As both an analyst and a writer\, Dr. Levine is especially interested in the stories individuals and communities tell\, the interstitial gaps created by unmetabolized trauma\, and the potential of an intimate psychoanalytic process to help patients reclaim memory\, creative agency\, and authorship of their own lives.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/risking-intimacy-and-creative-transformation-in-psychoanalysis-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260203T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260203T223000
DTSTAMP:20260809T005036
CREATED:20251210T134712Z
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Diagnosis to Conceptualize Cases and Guide Interventions\, a study group
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by: Barton Jones\, LCSW & Lindsey Hogan\, PhD\nA collegial companion to Dr. Nancy McWilliams’ lecture\, Diagnosis and Its Torments \nThis seven-week\, all-level study group invites clinicians to engage deeply with Nancy McWilliams’ widely respected and clinically invaluable text\, Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process. Co-facilitated by Barton Jones\, LCSW and Lindsey Hogan\, PhD\, the group offers a collegial space to explore McWilliams’ foundational contributions to psychoanalytic thought.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-diagnosis-to-conceptualize-cases-and-guide-interventions-a-study-group/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T210000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T223000
DTSTAMP:20260809T005036
CREATED:20251210T134711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T224625Z
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SUMMARY:Diagnosis and its torments
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Nancy McWilliams\, PhD\nDr. McWilliams will reflect on contemporary diagnostic conventions in mental health\, emphasizing the unintended negative consequences for both patients and clinicians of diagnostic practices that focus solely on symptoms and observable behaviors. She will describe alternative taxonomies intended to remedy the weaknesses of the DSM and ICD for guiding treatment\, and she will mention other efforts to pursue a diagnostic sensibility that privileges inference\, dimensionality\, context\, and meaning. She will discuss the new edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual\, focusing on its relevance to contemporary clinical practice.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/diagnosis-and-its-torments/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260114T213000
DTSTAMP:20260809T005036
CREATED:20251205T142608Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T221547Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260112T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260112T143000
DTSTAMP:20260809T005036
CREATED:20251210T134711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T221329Z
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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)
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T141500
DTSTAMP:20260809T005036
CREATED:20251205T142607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T213414Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260809T005036
CREATED:20251205T142607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T211525Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T220000
DTSTAMP:20260809T005036
CREATED:20250820T175921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250902T170747Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251212T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251212T140000
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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:20251210T200000
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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:20251204T190000
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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:20251120T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T220000
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SUMMARY:When the risk of targeted violence enters the psychotherapeutic relationship
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: J. Reid Meloy\, PhD \nAlthough criminal violence in the United States has been incrementally decreasing for the past forty years\, the incidence of targeted mass attacks has been increasing during the past decade. How can the psychoanalyst or psychotherapist assess the risk of such an attack by their patient–or when should the patient be referred for an evaluation–in the course of treatment? In this presentation\, Dr. Meloy will teach the proximal warning behaviors for targeted attacks that he and his group have been researching for the past 15 years\, and are now widely used by both members of law enforcement and mental health communities within North America\, Europe\, and Australia. Research has validated these efforts\, and such proximal warning behaviors reflect both the importance of empiricism and psychodynamic formulations in the assessment of such risks. \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/when-the-risk-of-targeted-violence-enters-the-psychotherapeutic-relationship/
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: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:20251023T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T213000
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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:20251021T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T213000
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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:20251009T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251009T220000
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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:20251004T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T153000
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SUMMARY:The Parent-Child Relationship\, Applications to Adult Treatment\, Part II
DESCRIPTION:Selma Fraiberg and colleagues’ seminal article\, “Ghosts in the Nursery\,” brought our attention to the infant-parent relationship and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Since the publication of the article in 1975\, infant observations and empirical studies have continued to elucidate the developmental consequences of the parent-child relationship and implications for adult treatment. In Part II of this conference\, we will have the opportunity to learn more about these issues from two renowned scholars\, Beatrice Beebe\, PhD and Arietta Slade\, PhD. Both of them have researched\, theorized\, and written about these topics over the course of their distinguished careers. \nIn her presentation\, How Can We See What We Don’t See: Face-to-Face Communication in Infant Research and Adult Treatment\, Dr. Beebe asserts that face-to-face communication is essential to intimacy across the life-span. In infancy\, face-to-face communication predicts social and cognitive development. Subtle nonverbal behavior during face-to-face communication is rapidly moving\, multi-modal\, and too fast to fully capture with the naked eye – in both adult-adult and infant-adult interaction. Because it is so rapid\, much of our nonverbal communication is largely out of awareness – but it has tremendous communicative power. \nDr. Slade will present The Relational Foundations of Reflection: Enhancing Attachment and Reflective Parenting. She describes a framework for clinical work that grew out of her decades of work directing Minding the Baby\, an interdisciplinary home visiting program. The program is aimed at enhancing attachment and mentalizing in parents with histories of complex trauma\, adversity\, and extreme stress. A history of severely disrupted attachments poses unique challenges to mentalizing and thus to parenting\, insofar as threat and dysregulation preclude intimacy and attunement. \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-parent-child-relationship-applications-to-adult-treatment-part-ii/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251003T150000
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SUMMARY:The Parent-Child Relationship\, Applications to Adult Treatment\, Part I
DESCRIPTION:This conference will feature Peter Fonagy\, PhD\, and Ed Tronick\, PhD — distinguished researchers and scholars who have had long academic careers studying and theorizing about the clinical processes that contribute to human growth and therapeutic change. The clinical processes in the psychoanalytic treatment of adult patients have long been viewed as sharing similarities with the parent-child relationship. While psychoanalysis began with a focus on the patient’s drives and conflicts\, the emphasis shifted to intersubjective processes with the emergence of object relations theory\, self-psychology\, and interpersonal psychoanalysis. With the relational turn in psychoanalysis\, we have expanded our interest in infant observations and empirical studies of the parent-child relationship to illuminate the dyadic processes that shape therapeutic change. \nIn his presentation Epistemic Trust and Trauma: Pernicious Impact and Therapeutic Solutions\, Professor Fonagy introduces the concept of epistemic trust—the fundamental human capacity enabling us to learn from others who are trustworthy and collectively establish shared beliefs and ideas\, which we recognize as ‘culture’. The talk will highlight emerging evidence underscoring the critical role of epistemic trust in social learning and examine research demonstrating its vulnerability to adversity\, particularly during childhood. \nDr. Ed Tronick’s presentation is titled How the Qualities of Infant-Parent Interaction and Meaning-Making Shed Light on the Analytic Relationship. Tronick asserts that the processes driving development of the child\, primarily those embedded in the parent-child relationship\, are the most striking mechanism of human change.  Therapy\, too\, works to change the meanings individuals make of themself in the world.  The suggestion is advanced that the qualities of the parent-child relationship that promote change and growth can aid our understanding of the success or failure of the analytic relationship to create change. \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-parent-child-relationship-applications-to-adult-treatment-part-i/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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