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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
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SUMMARY:A Psychoanalytic Town Hall: Controversial Issues in the 2024 Election
DESCRIPTION:A Psychoanalytic Town Hall:\nControversial Issues in the 2024 Presidential Election  \nPanel of Psychoanalysts: Michael Diamond\, PhD\, David James Fisher\, PhD\, Mark Fisher\, MD\, Debra Myers\, MD\, Peter Wolson\, PhD \nTown Hall Moderator: Peter Wolson\, PhD \nOn the cusp of this hotly contested presidential elections with radical differences between the party platforms and candidates and American democracy in question\, Dr. Wolson will moderate a Town Hall discussion of the most pressing\, controversial issues\, from a psychoanalytic perspective. This forum provides an opportunity for mental health practitioners to express their opinions about the election as well as a professional space to analyze the unconscious psychodynamics embedded in the issues and affecting the candidates. Dr. Wolson and a distinguished panel of psychoanalysts will speculate about the psychodynamic trends that emerge from the discussion. Participants of every political persuasion are encouraged to attend.  \nThe presenters along with the audience will actively participate in a discussion\, moving from opinions\, feelings and beliefs to a more objective state with greater understanding of psychodynamic implications. The purpose of this workshop is to raise awareness about “the political issues” and how it impacts us as professionals\, as well as our client population. The program will aid the clinician in identifying and addressing the psychodynamic mechanisms underlying current political issues and parties\, helping us with our clients and our own countertransference issues that may be evoked in the clinical setting.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-psychoanalytic-town-hall-controversial-issues-in-the-2024-election/
LOCATION:New Center for Psychoanalysis\, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231202T120000
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SUMMARY:"Note To Self: It's Time to Learn Lacan!" - An Introduction to Lacanian Clinical Theory and Practice
DESCRIPTION:Bruce Fink joins NCP to discuss Lacan’s Clinical Theory”Analysts on the whole imagine that to understand is an end in itself… To think\, it is often better not to understand; and one can gallop along\, understanding for miles and miles\, without the slightest thought being produced.” – Lacan\, 1958 \nThis meeting is designed for analytically oriented therapists interested in learning how Lacan’s ideas translate into clinical practice. Lacan’s clinical theory will be spelled out in detail; attendees need not be pre-acquainted with Lacan’s work. Attendees should come away with a solid grasp of the reasoning behind the Lacanian emphasis on bringing about four specific change-producing clinical events. The goal of this program is to challenge preconceived notions about how therapy works–particularly\, the belief that psychic change chiefly results from a conveyance of the analyst’s knowledge about the patient to the patient—typically in the form of interpretations. The program is structured as a dialogue between student (Richard Tuch) and teacher (Bruce Fink). \nLacan emphasized the task of creating a facilitating environment favoring the emergence of sequestered psychic content that comes forth unwittingly when free association reveals to the patient things he barely knew he knew until he heard himself say as much out loud. Lacanians also facilitate a patient’s use of symbolic (meaningful) speech and tolerance of uncertainty and states of unknowing. \nA study of Lacan’s clinical theory calls for nothing less than a thoughtful reconsideration of psychoanalysis’ most basic assumptions about how therapy effects change: \nWhether the unconscious can be made conscious.\nWhether improving a patient’s tolerance of uncertainty and the unknown is a clinically vital goal.\nWhether deconstructing (calling into question) a patient’s core assumptions and prevailing beliefs about who he is as a person is as centrally important as Lacanians claim it to be.\nWhether treatment is better served when the analyst is less forthcoming and less clear about his ideas about the patient.\nWhether it is important to conduct treatment in a fashion that emphasizes the patient’s responsibility for his suffering and for the lion’s share of the clinical work.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/note-to-self-its-time-to-learn-lacan-an-introduction-to-lacanian-clinical-theory-and-practice/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
ORGANIZER;CN="New Center for Psychoanalysis":MAILTO:byrdb@n-c-p.org
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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)
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SUMMARY:Maternal Erotic Transferences and the Fate of Feminine Signifiers
DESCRIPTION:New Center For Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: Maternal Erotic Transferences and the Fate of Feminine Signifiers \nThis program is designed to address clinically relevant theorizing and its clinical applications on a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives revolving around transferences\, states of being and the place of love in the analytic setting. \nThe day’s program will be divided into two parts. The morning program will involve a clinically based presentation of maternal erotic transferences with verbatim clinical process. Bringing her special gift for freshly communicating clinical and theoretical perspectives\, Dr. Celenza will clarify “maternal eroticism\,” differences in related concepts\, and how femininity and femaleness are internalized at different levels. \nThe afternoon program will involve a selection of Andrea Celenza’s evocative musings on transference\, love and being. A rich audience discussion is invited as we think through each brief reading.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/maternal-erotic-transferences-and-the-fate-of-feminine-signifiers/
LOCATION:New Center for Psychoanalysis\, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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SUMMARY:Scientific Meeting: Embodiment and the Perversion of Desire
DESCRIPTION:New Center for Psychoanalysis \nThis event addresses: Embodiment and the Perversion of Desire \nDr. Celenza presents the case of Laura\, who considers her sexual desire to be perverse\, to illustrate ways in which subjective positions and affective\, embodied states can be defended against\, split off or otherwise dissociated\, reflecting a perverse intra-subjective position. A schematic is offered that depicts various subjective positions (The Embodied Subject\, The Reflective Self or “I\,” The Subjective Object or “Me\,” The Objectified Self or “It\,” and Unconscious Processes or “Not Me”). These positions are conceived as phenomenal subjective states that are universal potentials. The schematic also depicts the extent to which each position is integrated and interpenetrates with other positions. In addition\, a modification of this schematic is proposed to illustrate perverse modes of intra-subjective functioning where the position of the Embodied Subject is split off or dissociated\, resulting in a deadening of affective experience. The case of Laura is presented to illustrate an example of the latter mode of functioning.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/scientific-meeting-embodiment-and-the-perversion-of-desire/
LOCATION:New Center for Psychoanalysis\, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90025\, United States
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