BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//American Psychoanalytic Association - ECPv6.18.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:American Psychoanalytic Association
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: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:20261112T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261112T220000
DTSTAMP:20261014T163316Z
CREATED:20260921T165107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T163316Z
UID:20000877-1794515400-1794520800@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Cohn Lecture: Tattoos as Artistic Expression and Psychic Phenomena in Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Through an extended case study of a tattoo artist in psychoanalytic treatment\, this lecture explores tattooing as a legitimate artistic expression. This point of departure shifts the psychoanalytic perspective away from viewing tattoos as a pathological and masochistic external solution to internal unconscious conflicts. What emerges is a dynamic perspective on tattoos\, viewing them as part of patients’ creative fantasies and defenses. This imbues tattoos with the capacity to change over time\, rather than viewing them as permanently inscribed on a statically conceived body and psyche.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/cohn-lecture-tattoos-as-artistic-expression-and-psychic-phenomena-in-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute\, 7700 Clayton Rd Ste 200\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63117\, United States
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T211500
DTSTAMP:20261014T144845Z
CREATED:20260921T165051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T144845Z
UID:20000872-1791921600-1791926100@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Why Can't We Want Anything Anymore? Desire\, Burnout\, Identity\, and the Hidden Costs of Modern Life
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Alison Feit: We are living through a strange cultural moment. People have never had more freedom\, more choices\, more opportunities for self-expression\, or more language for understanding themselves. Yet everywhere we look\, people are reporting some version of the same experience: burnout\, numbness\, indecision\, loneliness\, endless scrolling\, a loss of direction\, a loss of meaning\, a loss of desire. What happened? \nIn this three-part live course\, psychoanalyst Dr. Alison Feit explores one of the defining psychological questions of our time: not simply why we stop wanting\, but why so many of us seem to have lost the capacity to want at all. Drawing on psychoanalysis\, contemporary culture\, philosophy\, literature\, and clinical work\, we will examine the hidden ways desire disappears—not only through disappointment and trauma\, but through success\, adaptation\, identity\, self-improvement\, certainty\, and the pressure to become someone.\nThis is not a course about finding your passion. It is a course about understanding what happened to it.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/why-cant-we-want-anything-anymore-desire-burnout-identity-and-the-hidden-costs-of-modern-life/
LOCATION:Virtual
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T190000
DTSTAMP:20260921T165049Z
CREATED:20260921T165049Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260921T165049Z
UID:20000870-1791399600-1791399600@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Windows into Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:For clinicians or mental health students who are curious about what it is that psychodynamic therapists actually do\, we offer a “window” into the process and a chance to connect an introduction to theory with actual clinical material. Each class will begin with a brief theoretical description of a core clinical concept\, followed by the presentation and discussion of material from a long-term psychotherapy process. We welcome lively discussion\, dialogue\, and debate.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/windows-into-psychotherapy-3/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T110000
DTSTAMP:20260921T165048Z
CREATED:20260921T165048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260921T165048Z
UID:20000867-1790420400-1790420400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Illness in the Analyst-30 Years Later
DESCRIPTION:A presentation of an analyst’s illness and how he understood and addressed it when it occurred over 30 years ago; and how he has reconsidered it in face of greater clinical and life experience. Dr. Schwartz discusses his reflections on his original thinking and shares how he engages around it currently.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/illness-in-the-analyst-30-years-later/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260822T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260822T100000
DTSTAMP:20260831T181448Z
CREATED:20260831T181016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260831T181448Z
UID:20000848-1787392800-1787392800@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Ethics for Social Workers: How can we be Ethical in a Chaotic World?  Or how to work in the midst of chaos\, madness\, and evil.
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Phoebe Cirio\, MSW\, LCSW\nThe NASW Code of Ethics is based on a set of core values: service\, social justice\, dignity and worth of the person\, importance of human relationships\, integrity\, and competence. These values are stated in the affirmative as something we clinicians should strive for. Yet\, at present\, these core values seem too often to be absent from our public discourse\, and are not demonstrated by leadership. In place of an emphasis on the worth of persons\, we have the demonization of immigrants\, toleration for the abuse of women\, and the display of greed\, avarice\, and the use of high office for personal enrichment. \nMany people are discouraged and alienated. These conditions create a perverse moral climate where there is no discernment of right and wrong\, instead there is an elevation of narcissistic desire\, and manic triumph which supplants creative interpersonal intercourse and mutuality. These conditions foster evil and offer no counter to it\, which leads to a state of madness and chaos. Evil manifests\, creating “an emotional distance and a deep insincerity\, which does not allow for meaningful contact with others\,” and “the hatred of and tendency to destroy the emotional meaning of life\, itself” (Migliozzi). One remedy to these conditions is to speak honestly and clearly about it in a group setting where we can explore how we feel; we will examine these conditions through a psychoanalytic lens.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ethics-for-social-workers-how-can-we-be-ethical-in-a-chaotic-world-or-how-to-work-in-the-midst-of-chaos-madness-and-evil/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T213000
DTSTAMP:20260126T055146Z
CREATED:20251024T182742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T055146Z
UID:20000692-1775678400-1775683800@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Multicultural Competency in Psychodynamic Practice
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alicia Naveas\, LPC\, MEd. This course will explore foundational concepts of cultural competency within psychodynamic frameworks. Emphasizing the work of authors such as Tummala-Narra\, Salman Akhtar\, and Patricia Gherovici will integrate multicultural awareness into psychoanalytic thinking. For instance\, Tummala-Narra (2025) conceptualizes multicultural competence as a reflective capacity to shift perspectives and understand the patient’s lived experience. Credits: 4.5
URL:https://apsa.org/event/multicultural-competency-in-psychodynamic-practice/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: 7700 Clayton Rd.\, Suite 200\, St. Louis\, MO 63117 & Virtual)
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T200000
DTSTAMP:20260126T052429Z
CREATED:20251205T142604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T052429Z
UID:20000699-1772564400-1772568000@apsa.org
SUMMARY:The Independent Tradition in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rudy Oldeschulte\, MA\, JD\, MACP. This is an introductory course on the evolution of the Independent Tradition (British in origin) applied to our work with children and adolescents. This tradition (or approach) is developmentally appropriate to our work with younger populations\, as it moves from the more epistemological (knowing) approach\, with its emphasis on interpretation and insight\, to a more ontological framework (being and becoming). The emphasis is on the child talking through their play and the adolescent exploring who they are through discussions of music\, films\, sports\, inter alia. This results in the child and the parents beginning to understand their child’s emotional struggles and how they are to be managed. Credits: 3.0
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-independent-tradition-in-child-adolescent-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T220000
DTSTAMP:20260126T045712Z
CREATED:20251024T182742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T045712Z
UID:20000691-1772137800-1772143200@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Fingert Lecture: The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Enactment\, Trauma\, and Time
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert Grossmark\, PhD\, ABPP. Unrepresented and yet-to-be-suffered trauma and neglect announce themselves in the language of symptoms\, absence and emergent enactments in the treatment field. This lecture will address the challenges when working with patients whose trauma does not avail itself to symbolization and mentalization. In this lecture I will outline how the analyst can unobtrusively create the safe and robust space within which the fullness of the patient’s internal world and trauma can be realized and companioned such that the patient can be known in the register of illusion\, fragmentation and non-relatedness that are the signature of the residue of trauma and neglect. The emphasis is on companioning and being-with the patient in their particular idiom and register rather than seeking to bring the patient into the analyst’s reality and understanding. This unique therapeutic relationship offers the space for the instantiation of time such that trauma can be located in memory and the past. This involves the un-telling and un-doing of prior “translations”\, personality structures and relational patterns such that being and time can be re-assembled and re-integrated. Credits: 1.5
URL:https://apsa.org/event/fingert-lecture-the-unobtrusive-relational-analyst-enactment-trauma-and-time/
LOCATION:Virtual
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T213000
DTSTAMP:20260102T232142Z
CREATED:20251024T182742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T232142Z
UID:20000690-1770840000-1770845400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Falling in Love (with Nikki Karalekas\, PhD\, LCSW)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nikki Karalekas\, PhD\, LCSW. \nLove is both mysterious and a psychoanalytic term of art. Despite worrying that love was beyond the scope of scientific inquiry\, Freud developed several different theories of love. Perhaps most famously\, in the Three Essays on Sexuality\, he writes\, “The prototype of every love relationship is the child sucking at his mother’s breast. The finding of the love object is in fact a refinding” (p. 222). More recently\, psychoanalysis has drawn on and expanded beyond Freud’s theories of love as a repetition compulsion\, a narcissistic projection\, or an atonement for loss. Contemporary thinkers have developed theories of yearning and desire; mature and immature love; and love as an achievement. But what are all of those often maddening\, explosive\, and tingling feelings of falling in love\, really? This Valentine’s Day\, I invite you to put cynicism aside and join us for a psychoanalytic exploration of falling in love. \nCredits: 4.5
URL:https://apsa.org/event/falling-in-love-with-nikki-karalekas-phd-lcsw/
LOCATION:Virtual
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T201500
DTSTAMP:20260102T231654Z
CREATED:20251024T182742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T231654Z
UID:20000689-1770231600-1770236100@apsa.org
SUMMARY:A Psychodynamic Approach to Working with Adolescents & Their Parents
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: John Lucas\, LPC. Many clinicians are hesitant to begin working with adolescents\, although there is a significant need for adolescent therapists. This course will serve as a primer on working with adolescents and their parents/caregivers from a psychodynamic framework. We will cover both theoretical and clinical perspectives. The course will highlight the contributions of psychoanalysts to the field of adolescent psychotherapy and parent work. Credits: 5.0
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-psychodynamic-approach-to-working-with-adolescents-their-parents/
LOCATION:Virtual
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T214500
DTSTAMP:20260102T211234Z
CREATED:20251024T182542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T211234Z
UID:20000688-1767817800-1767822300@apsa.org
SUMMARY:American Slavery & Psychoanalytic Reflection
DESCRIPTION:Spreaker: Volney Gay\, PhD. We explore American slave owners who embodied the existential contradiction of American values (individual liberty) with human bondage. We focus on their struggles to defend themselves against that contradiction. We locate those struggles within the biographies of famous persons\, such as President Washington\, and unknown persons who claimed to be both adamantly for liberty AND yet were adamantly pro slavery. Psychoanalysis offers unique insights into those struggles and the national crime they engendered. Credits: 3.75
URL:https://apsa.org/event/american-slavery-psychoanalytic-reflection/
LOCATION:Virtual
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T193000
DTSTAMP:20251024T182542Z
CREATED:20251024T182542Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251024T182542Z
UID:20000687-1765481400-1765481400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:I.H. Cohn Lecture: What Bion Meant by "Dying"
DESCRIPTION:What is a baby trying to say when it is crying? For British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion\, cries are more than a call for food or assistance. They are expressions of an all-consuming fear: of dying. Understanding this fear\, and responding to it empathically was\, for him\, essential to the work of parenting—and analysis. But what does it mean that Bion placed dying at the beginning—not the end—of life? And how does his use of this term relate to both his early work on linking and thinking\, as well as his later explorations of mysticism? This lecture will answer these question by exploring what Bion meant by “dying” and why it matters for clinicians and psychoanalytic theorists today.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/i-h-cohn-lecture-what-bion-meant-by-dying/
LOCATION:Virtual
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR