BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//American Psychoanalytic Association - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://apsa.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for American Psychoanalytic Association REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T143000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20251210T134729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T054415Z UID:20000723-1773666000-1773671400@apsa.org SUMMARY:NCP's Virtual Open House 2026 DESCRIPTION:Join us online for a lively discussion with students and faculty from each of our programs who will share how their training at NCP has fostered personal growth\, a deeper understanding of their patients’ experiences\, and opportunities to build professional networks. \nYou’ll also have an opportunity to meet our program directors and Dean\, learn more about our multi-year training programs\, and ask any questions you may have. \nWhether you are considering training this year or in the near future\, all are welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you! URL:https://apsa.org/event/ncps-virtual-open-house-2026/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260301T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260301T170000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20251210T134715Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T050740Z UID:20000722-1772373600-1772384400@apsa.org SUMMARY:NCP Open House 2026 DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lively discussion with students and faculty from each of our programs who will share with you how their training at NCP has fostered personal growth\, a deeper understanding of their patients’ experiences\, and opportunities to build professional networks. \nAs you partake of refreshments with us\, you’ll also have an opportunity to meet our program directors and Dean\, learn more about our multi-year training programs\, and ask any questions you may have. \nWhether you are considering training this year or in the near future\, all are welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you! URL:https://apsa.org/event/ncp-open-house-2026/ LOCATION:New Center for Psychoanalysis\, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T190000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20251210T134730Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T225539Z UID:20000725-1769259600-1769281200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Hoarding the Future: Generational Anxieties and Their Implication for Psychoanalytic Training and Treatment DESCRIPTION:Through panel presentations and large and small group discussions\, this program will address the nature of generational anxieties (parricidal\, filicidal\, and siblicidal) as these emerge in the varying aspects of psychoanalytic institutions. \nPresenters Brian Ngo-Smith and Teresa Méndez will share reflections from their clinical work as well as from supervisory and other collegial relationships\, to address the impact of these anxieties as they lead to resistances to progression\, succession\, and diversification of learning opportunities. \nAttendees will be invited to engage with the presenters and with one another to grapple with the vicissitudes of psychoanalytic training as these also parallel other sites of systemic breakdown when confronted with diverse identities that come to represent a threat to the status quo. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which erotic dimensions of cross-generational dynamics may get obscured by more conflictual and destructive enactments. \nBy interrogating and exploring the complex sociocultural and generational dynamics that are enacted in psychoanalytic training and in psychoanalytic treatment\, these presentations will invite learners to reflect on their own training experiences – both as student and teacher\, supervisee and supervisor – in order to think more critically about how this impacts the clinical care they provide to their patients\, including with respect to therapeutic interventions that may be overlooked due to unconscious allegiances to figures on whom learners depend. \nBrian Ngo-Smith\, LCSW\, BCD-P\, FABP is a psychoanalyst and clinical social worker in Denver\, CO. He received his MSW from the University of Iowa and completed analytic training at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis\, where he is now on faculty. Brian has worked in the mental health field for over 20 years in residential\, hospital\, community mental health\, and private practice settings. He is a Past President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and he was the recipient of the 2024 Ernst and Gertrude Ticho Memorial Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association. \nTeresa Méndez\, LCSW-C\, LICSW is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst practicing in Baltimore\, MD. She earned her AB in Anthropology from Princeton University and MSW from the Smith College School for Social Work\, and completed psychoanalytic training at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis\, where she serves on the Diversities\, Scholarship\, and Ombuds committees. A former journalist\, Teresa has presented and published widely on the mixed-race experience and edited a special issue on race and psychoanalysis for Psychoanalytic Social Work\, where she is on the editorial board. She is a past President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work\, and served as a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Holmes Commission on Racial Equity. \nEthan Grumbach\, PhD\, FIPA is a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles where he teaches the Infant Observation Course and courses on Gender and Sexuality. He is a training and supervising analyst\, in 2014 becoming only the 5th openly LGBT APsaA TA/SA . He presents and teaches nationally and internationally on aspects of psychoanalytic and psychotherapy work with Queer individuals as well as infants and their families. Dr. Grumbach is a member of APsaA’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality which he has previously chaired. At the New Center for Psychoanalysis\, he is a member of the Diversities and Sociocultural Issues Committee\, the Education Committee and the Strategic Advisory Committee. Dr. Grumbach is a member of the Psychoanalytic Center of Northern California. He has completed training in Tavistock Method Infant Observation. He maintains a private practice in Los Angeles where he does Infant Psychoanalysis in addition to analysis and psychotherapy with individuals\, families and couples. Most recently he received the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award in 2025. URL:https://apsa.org/event/hoarding-the-future-generational-anxieties-and-their-implication-for-psychoanalytic-training-and-treatment/ LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T220000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260123T000000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20251210T134729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T224848Z UID:20000724-1769119200-1769126400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Hoarding the Future: A Panel with Brian Ngo-Smith and Teresa Méndez DESCRIPTION:In this panel\, Brian Ngo-Smith will share a paper entitled Canceling Oedipus\, or A Plea to Share the Future\, reflecting on a period in his work with a young man in analysis in which a hateful and regressive impasse brought both analyst and analysand into contact with the dangers of the pursuit of hope. Drawing on the 2019 film The Lighthouse\, Ngo-Smith will invite attendees to become immersed in this dynamic to highlight its implications for cross-generational treatment dyads\, as well as for our broader professional institutions and communities. \nTeresa Méndez will present Training Terminable and Interminable\, a personal reflection on her experiences and observations of psychoanalytic training. Attending to intergenerational and institutional anxieties\, she will focus on endings – whether of a supervision or of the training process as a whole – asking what makes it so difficult to allow candidates to graduate. \nBrian Ngo-Smith\, LCSW\, BCD-P\, FABP is a psychoanalyst and clinical social worker in Denver\, CO. He received his MSW from the University of Iowa and completed analytic training at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis\, where he is now on faculty. Brian has worked in the mental health field for over 20 years in residential\, hospital\, community mental health\, and private practice settings. He is a Past President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and he was the recipient of the 2024 Ernst and Gertrude Ticho Memorial Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association. \nTeresa Méndez\, LCSW-C\, LICSW is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst practicing in Baltimore\, MD. She earned her AB in Anthropology from Princeton University and MSW from the Smith College School for Social Work\, and completed psychoanalytic training at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis\, where she serves on the Diversities\, Scholarship\, and Ombuds committees. A former journalist\, Teresa has presented and published widely on the mixed-race experience and edited a special issue on race and psychoanalysis for Psychoanalytic Social Work\, where she is on the editorial board. She is a past President of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work\, and served as a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Holmes Commission on Racial Equity. \nModerator:\nEthan Grumbach\, PhD\, FIPA is a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles where he teaches the Infant Observation Course and courses on Gender and Sexuality. He is a training and supervising analyst who in 2014 became the 5th openly LGBT APsA TA/SA. He presents and teaches nationally and internationally on aspects of psychoanalytic and psychotherapy work with Queer individuals as well as infants and their families. Dr. Grumbach is a member of APsA’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality which he previously chaired. At NCP\, he is a member of the Diversities and Socio-cultural Inequities Committee\, the Education Committee\, and the Strategic Advisory Committee. Dr. Grumbach is a also member of the Psychoanalytic Center of Northern California and has completed training in Tavistock Method Infant Observation. He maintains a private practice in Los Angeles where he does Infant Psychoanalysis in addition to analysis and psychotherapy with individuals\, families\, and couples. Most recently he received the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award in 2025. URL:https://apsa.org/event/hoarding-the-future-a-panel-with-brian-ngo-smith-and-teresa-mendez/ LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T200000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20251024T182743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T201145Z UID:20000693-1762016400-1762027200@apsa.org 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 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T150000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20250918T200147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T202638Z UID:20000643-1760792400-1760799600@apsa.org 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) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251010T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T003000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20250918T200147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T201637Z UID:20000642-1760137200-1760142600@apsa.org 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) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T150000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20250918T200147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T200653Z UID:20000641-1759579200-1759590000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Morris Eagle Psychoanalytic Research Award & Lecture: Introducing the Revised Standard Edition of Freud’s Psychological Works DESCRIPTION:The Morris Eagle Psychoanalytic Research Lecture is an annual NCP Lecture in honor of the career and contributions of Morris Eagle. \nIntroducing the Revised Standard Edition of Freud’s Psychological Works: \nCan the existing English translation by James Strachey of Freud’s Psychological Works be salvaged and updated\, or is a completely fresh start called for?\nThis is the question that confronted Mark Solms\, the editor of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud\, when he began his massive task thirty years ago. In this presentation\, Solms will provide the answers that he came to and explain why. This will entail an interesting consideration of the widespread accusation that Strachey ‘falsely scientized’ Freud. \nSolms clarifies Freud’s concepts\, updating them and putting them into perspective with his revisions\, offering nuanced meanings of core psychoanalytic concepts and terms through clarification of the multiple languages (German\, Latin\, Greek) the text went through to arrive at Strachey’s English\, as well as examination of the cultural and national roots of the author and his contemporaries. The revisions include previously untranslated or omitted works by Freud\, such as new letters\, lectures\, essays\, and case studies\, some of which shed new light on Freud’s views on women\, homosexuality\, and his early neuroscience research. The talk will entail a birds-eye overview of the many ways in which the Revised Standard Edition differs from the old one\, focusing on Solms’ experience\, insights\, reflections\, and the potential implications for psychoanalytic education\, treatment and research. \nSecond Annual NCP Eagle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Psychoanalytic Research 2025 Honored Awardee: Mark Solms\nWith this award\, we honor Mark Solms’ reframing Freud’s Legacy: Newly included works and corrected translations by Solms reveal Sigmund Freud as more progressive and complex than previously recognized. Solms’ integration of Freud’s neuroscientific writings and psychoanalytic theory in the new edition fosters fresh interdisciplinary dialogue between neuroscience\, psychology\, philosophy\, and the humanities. \nPresenter\nMark Solms\, PhD\,?is Director of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town.?He is also Honorary Lecturer in Neurosurgery at the St Bartholomew’s Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists. He is a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and the American and South African Psychoanalytic Associations. He is director of training\, as well a training analyst\, of the South African Psychoanalytical Association and director of the Science Department American Psychoanalytic Association. He is co-chair of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society\, and was founding editor of its journal\, Neuropsychoanalysis. He was previously research chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has received numerous honors and awards\, including the Sigourney Prize and the Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award of the IPA. He has published?350 scientific papers\, and?eight?books\, the latest being The Hidden Spring (Norton\, 2021). He is the authorized editor and translator of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 volumes) and the forthcoming Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 volumes). In early 2026\, he will publish The Only Cure – a neuroscientific defense of psychoanalysis in this era of biological psychiatry. His research interests have spanned the brain mechanisms of dreaming and those of consciousness and emotion (which prove to be deeply entwined). The major focus of his current research is the quest for an artificial consciousness. \nDiscussants\nLois Oppenheim\, PhD\, is University Distinguished Scholar\, Professor of French\, and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Montclair State University where she also teaches Medical Humanities. Dr. Oppenheim is Scholar Associate Member\, on the faculty\, and Chair of the Program Committee of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute\, and Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute. She has authored or edited fifteen books\, including Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion – awarded the Courage to Dream Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association – and co-authored For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art\, Psychoanalysis\, and Neuroscience. Other titles include Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor; A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis; and The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett’s Dialogue with Art. Dr. Oppenheim is currently completing a book on neuroaesthetics and the intersection of art and science under contract with Routledge. In addition\, she has published over 100 book chapters and papers\, is the co-creator of two documentary films on mental health\, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Psychoanalytic Horizons series of Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. \nRiccardo Steiner\, is a distinguished psychoanalyst\, historian\, and author based in London\, recognized for his substantial contributions to the understanding of psychoanalytic theory\, history\, and its sociopolitical context. Born and educated in Italy\, Steiner relocated to England in the 1970s to complete his psychoanalytic training\, subsequently becoming a full member and Distinguished Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He has also served as the Society’s Honorary Archivist and as Secretary of the International Psychoanalytical Association’s committee on Archives. Steiner’s scholarly work is especially noted for illuminating the intellectual and organizational controversies that shaped British psychoanalysis during and after the Second World War. He co-edited\, with Pearl King\, the landmark volume The Freud-Klein Controversies 1941–45\, which meticulously documents the debates between Kleinian\, Viennese\, and “middle group” analysts. This work has been acclaimed internationally\, earning nominations for Book of the Year by both the American Association of Psychoanalysis and the Paris Association of Psychoanalysis. \nModerator\nBarton J. Blinder MD\, PhD\, is an active member of the NPC Senior Faculty in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis and Chair of the NPC Research Committee. He is an active member of APsA and IPA and a Distinguished Life Fellow of APA and AAPAC. He is a Clinical Professor and past Director of Eating Disorder Treatment Research at UC Irvine and additionally on the teaching faculty at the University of Washington and USC. At APA\, in addition to leadership\, Dr. Blinder participated in the establishment of Practice Guidelines\, Commission and Caucus on Psychotherapy in Psychiatry\, and editing a major text on Integrating Psychotherapy and Pharmacotherapy. His active research interests include Autobiographical memory\, Neuropsychoanalysis\, Spontaneous Thought\, and Free Association in Psychoanalysis and relation to Neuroscience Contributions\, and Treatment Resistant Depression and Early Life Trauma\, Response to psychoanalytic/psychodynamic treatment\, psychodevelopmental and neurobiologic roots of somatization\, embodiment and eating disorders. He is in private practice of Adult and Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in Newport Beach. \nCE. URL:https://apsa.org/event/morris-eagle-psychoanalytic-research-award-lecture-introducing-the-revised-standard-edition-of-freuds-psychological-works/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250606T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T003000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20250501T214248Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250507T191919Z UID:20000582-1749250800-1749256200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Film & Mind: All We Imagine As Light DESCRIPTION:All We Imagine As Light is a psychological journey of revelation\, a film of connection\, memory\, and the intricate emotional landscapes that bind human experience. Set in the vibrant\, complex world of contemporary Mumbai\, the film weaves an intimate narrative that delves deep into the inner worlds of two women navigating the delicate intersections of personal desire\, societal expectations\, and inner emotional truth. \nEach character becomes a landscape of unspoken longings\, suppressed memories\, and quiet rebellions against the invisible boundaries that circumscribe their lives. Director Payal Kapadia crafts a meditation on the inner self—showing how our memories\, dreams\, and unacknowledged desires create invisible architectures that both constrain and liberate us. \nVisually poetic and emotionally intricate\, “All We Imagine As Light” transforms personal narrative into a universal exploration of human consciousness. It suggests that our most profound connections—to ourselves\, to each other\, to the world around us—are built not on grand gestures\, but on the subtle\, almost imperceptible moments of genuine emotional recognition. URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-all-we-imagine-as-light-2/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250517T210000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20250501T214230Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250507T175532Z UID:20000574-1747483200-1747515600@apsa.org SUMMARY:The Decentered Self in Psychedelic States DESCRIPTION:This is a two-day program which is being presented in person and on Zoom. \nMANIFEST MIND CONFERENCE III:\nThe Decentered Self in Psychedelic States\nWhat actually is the altered reality of psychedelic experience? Is there more… or less… of ones self? \nThe experience of subjective dimensionality is a key scientific conundrum of our age. Sensed but ungraspable\, how do you measure that which is beyond measurement? Can such a mystery be explained in naturalistic terms? \nThe conundrum is personal. In the physical world there is no “self” center in your brain. Who are you if there is no place of YOU (“self”) in your brain? Is “myself” a distributed function in your brain\, or is “myself” an emergent property from another dimension? Is your existence fantasy? How real is the “you” that remains to experience an intense psychedelic experience after the ego-attachments of self are dissolved? \nAnd what do we make of the next step\, the mystical revelation of everything being connected? Of contact with a transcendent power\, creativity\, ever-ness and beyond-ness? \nWhat are mind and consciousness that emerge from brain function? What distinguishes a human mind from a fish mind? What is meaning\, that emotional core of relationship…and the stuff of psychotherapy? \nThese and other questions will be considered in NCP’s MANIFEST MIND CONFERENCE\, May 17-18\, 2025. \nThis conference promises to be both world-class and intimate. It will provide a thoughtful immersion into group process further examining the decentered self in phenomena that arise in the group-as-a-whole to which each individual contributes. Before closing afternoon on Saturday\, Isabella Sledge and Cat Jenson offer a meditative soundbath for integration. Saturday evening we are offering an in-person concert illustrating the “decentered self” theme. The concert will feature PARTCH Ensemble and composer Anne LeBaron\, with excerpts of her opera Huxley’s Last Trip (previously titled LSD: The Opera). URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-decentered-self-in-psychedelic-states/ LOCATION:Hybrid (Virtual & Inperson: New Center for Psychoanalysis – LA)\, 2014 Sawtelle Bvld\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250329T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250329T160000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20250320T212649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T220015Z UID:20000554-1743249600-1743264000@apsa.org SUMMARY:The Never-Ending Challenge of Reinventing Psychoanalysis for the Unknown with Ofra Eshel (2-Day Event) DESCRIPTION:During this two-day conference\, Ofra Eshel will present two works\, which will be evaluated and discussed by contemporaries Charles Levin\, Aner Govrin\, and Mary Tennes\, as well as a clinical case presentation by Margaret Rubin. The works focus on recognition of the paradox of learning uncertainty and multiplicity of knowledge as well as helping clinicians withstand the Unknown while building capacity to contain psychodynamic dislocation. The discussions of Dr. Eshel’s papers will focus on the brilliantly creative and fundamental quality of her psychoanalytic work\, which draws deeply on the analytic tradition\, particularly Winnicott and Bion; but also on how she helps us to think beyond them. \nThis is a two-day program (both March 29th and 30th) which is being presented on Zoom only. Pre-registration is required. You will receive confirmation and details by email. \n8 CE/CME credits are offered for this program. Attendance both days is required for credit. Signature is required (in the meeting Chat) for credit. URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-never-ending-challenge-of-reinventing-psychoanalysis-for-the-unknown-with-ofra-eshel/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250321T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250322T003000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20250320T212649Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T213832Z UID:20000553-1742598000-1742603400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Film & Mind: Blink Twice DESCRIPTION:Blink Twice (2024\, Zoe Kravitz director & co-screenwriter\, 1 hr 42 min) tells the story of a dream-perfect island retreat turned sinister\, where guests become entangled in a web of memory manipulation and psychological control. Set against the alluring backdrop of wealth and exclusivity\, the film traces themes of power\, complicity\, and the struggle to reclaim personal identity in the face of cyclical abuse. \nIn this session\, we will use a psychoanalytic lens to unpack the film’s central conflicts\, focusing on questions of repression\, traumatic reenactment\, and the role of group dynamics in facilitating or resisting harm. Note that Atlantic Magazine called Blink Twice “the movie that mattered most in 2024.” URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-mind-blink-twice/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T213000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250320T233000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20250320T212648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T212956Z UID:20000552-1742506200-1742513400@apsa.org SUMMARY:NCP's Virtual Open House DESCRIPTION:Join us online for a lively discussion with students and faculty from each of our programs who will share how their training at NCP has fostered personal growth\, a deeper understanding of their patients’ experiences\, and opportunities to build professional networks. \nYou’ll also have an opportunity to meet our program directors and Dean\, learn more about our multi-year training programs\, and ask any questions you may have. \nWhether you are considering training this year or in the near future\, all are welcome to attend. We look forward to seeing you! URL:https://apsa.org/event/ncps-virtual-open-house/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240323T160000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20240229T171204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240229T174131Z UID:20000302-1711195200-1711209600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Morris Eagle Lectures - Recognition and Disturbances of Recognition in Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Contributions of Video Microanalysis DESCRIPTION:NCP Presents the Morris Eagle Psychoanalytic Research Lectures:  Honoring the life and work of distinguished member Morris Eagle. \nThis 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: \nDeveloped a revised and expanded ego psychology that provides a strong foundation for a unified psychoanalytic theory.\nEmphasized the importance of empathy and the process of working through empathic failures in therapeutic action.\nIntegrated attachment theory into psychoanalytic theory and practice.\nAuthored numerous books and articles that have made significant contributions to the field of psychoanalysis.\nDr. 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. \nSpeakers include: NYU Professor and author Jerome Wakefield; Editor-in-Chief of the journal Psychoanalytic Psychology\, Chris Christian\, PhD. \nIn addition to honoring Dr. Eagle\, we will also honor and present an award to Dr. Beatrice Beebe. \nFor this lecture\, Dr. Beatrice Beebe will present “Recognition and Disturbances of Recognition in Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Contributions of Video Microanalysis.”\nBeatrice 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. \nCE credits URL:https://apsa.org/event/morris-eagle-lectures-recognition-and-disturbances-of-recognition-in-infant-research-and-adult-treatment-contributions-of-video-microanalysis/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240112T233000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240113T010000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20240105T225512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240105T225815Z UID:20000252-1705102200-1705107600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Film and Mind Online: The Master Gardener DESCRIPTION:The Master Gardener (2022\, 2 hr\, 25 minutes)\, directed by Academy Award® nominee Paul Schrader\, continues Schrader’s long filmic exploration of the psychology of redemption. Here\, a former skinhead gang enforcer lives an apparently monastic life as he tends the grounds of a beautiful estate until others’ needs impinge on his ascetic resolve.\nLearning Objectives:\nAs a result of attending this session\, participants should be able to: \nSummarize three forms/stages of Eros-Thanatos dynamics as demonstrated in The Master Gardener\nDescribe power dynamics in opportunistic sexual relations as portrayed in this film\nDescribe/discuss the place of psychoanalytic treatment in social change toward eradicating racism \nDiscussants: \nElena Bezzubova\, PhD\, is a research psychoanalyst. She teaches at UCI and NCP. Dr. Bezzubova has published a wide range of chapters and articles as well as has organized and presented at numerous conferences around the world. She maintains a private practice in Newport Beach. \nGerard Sobnosky\, LMFT\, is a Psychoanalyst and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in San Pedro\, CA. He holds two Master’s degrees in Psychology and is an active member at the New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP) in Los Angeles. He is on the Board of Directors of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)\, serves on the APsA Finance Committee\, and the American Psychoanalytic Foundation\, and is Treasurer of the APsA Candidates Council. In addition\, he is Vice President for North America for the International Psychoanalytic Studies Organization. URL:https://apsa.org/event/film-and-mind-online-the-master-gardener/ LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T180000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20231023T215717Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T222358Z UID:20000225-1699099200-1699120800@apsa.org SUMMARY:A Day with Carol Gilligan - In a Human Voice: A Story That Goes Beyond Gender DESCRIPTION:Carol Gilligan joins NCP to discuss her newly released book In a Human Voice.\nIt has been over forty years since the publication of Gilligan’s revolutionary book In a Different Voice (1982)\, when she amplified women’s voices on self and moral development\, helping them to be heard in their own right\, and with their own integrity. With In a Human Voice\, she argues that human voices go beyond gender and speak for an ethics of integrity\, respect\, and loyalty. The human voice is a voice of resistance\, direct and compassionate\, a requisite for love\, and an advocate for democracy. Gilligan is now Professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology at New York University and a Principal Investigator for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity. She is a widely sought-after speaker\, and we are thrilled that she has come to Los Angeles to have a dialogue with us. \nDr. Susan Hekman\, Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas\, will also share her thoughts about Gilligan’s writings. Hekman’s 1995 book Moral Voices\, Moral Selves examines key problems in moral theory. \nIn the afternoon session\, Clare Knudson\, a Candidate in the Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at NCP\, will present a clinical case and invite the audience to discuss identity\, self\, and morality\, and the ways women continue to prioritize an “ethics of care.” \n5 CE/CME Credits \n***Registration will close at 4:00 PM the day before the event. No registrations are possible after this time\, no exceptions.*** URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-day-with-carol-gilligan-in-a-human-voice-a-story-that-goes-beyond-gender/ LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230518T220000 DTSTAMP:20260615T050815 CREATED:20230428T012159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230515T171407Z UID:20000098-1684440000-1684447200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Psychedelic Drugs: Perception and Psychodynamics DESCRIPTION:NCP Manifest Mind Series welcomes cognitive neuroscientist and philosopher of mind Link Swanson\, PhD.\nFor his lucid work on understanding the psychology of psychedelic drug effects\, Dr. Swanson has already received international early-career recognition. Swanson updates the rationalist tradition of Sigmund Freud’s “Project for a Scientific Psychology” discussing the implications of his research into the perceptual effects of the psychedelic drug psilocybin. \nIn his talk\, Dr. Swanson will lay out the connections springing from prescient observations by both Sigmund Freud and Aldous Huxley on mental “filtration.” He will describe those empirical findings and theoretical concepts of mind that help explain how psychedelic medicine participates in the therapeutic process. \nDr. Swanson will appear by Zoom from Minnesota. URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychedelic-drugs-perception-and-psychodynamics/ LOCATION:Live via Zoom END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR