Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)

Scott Koeneman, PsyD & Paul Hoard, PhD, LMHC will consider how interactions with AI chatbots/LLM’s are reshaping our emotional, relational & experiential lives. Topics such as smart phone cult like grooming, rising anxieties about the future, AI psychosis & the epidemic of loneliness will be considered. The presenters will promote an ethical imperative around the […]

Sebastian Leikert, The Donald Meyers International Scholar Lecture. Somatic narration is a method of working that focuses the shared perception of traces of traumatization inscribed in the body-self. A clinical example will show how the working-through of these bodily traces of trauma changes the pathology of the superego and allows it to overcome the death […]

This half-day conference offers a psychoanalytic examination of racialization as it is lived, felt, and structured within psychic life. Ramya B. Iyer, LCSW, introduces societal racial introjection, a proposed mechanism by which social racial logics become constitutive of psychic structure. Gabriel Ruiz, LCPC, explores racialized transference and countertransference in the treatment relationship, and Molly Witten, […]