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Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006) This event addresses: Views beyond the intrapsychic approach towards interpersonal formulations, dyadic and group aspects of human mental functioning Presenter: M Sagman Kayatekin MD – This session is targeted to help the treaters to have a multilayered, psychoanalytically informed systemic formulation of the patient, and […]

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Collisions and Uncomfortable Countertransference in the Clinical Encounter Facilitated by Cynthia Mulder, LCSW-S and Nancy Warren, PhD Collisions and uncomfortable countertransference in the clinical process may have both conscious and unconscious contributions. The patient’s and therapist’s histories, character structure, wishes, and expectancies may clash, often fueled by external stresses […]

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Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006) This event addresses: Renewed focus on women in today’s world Presenters: Sylvia Gonzalez, MD, PLLC and Adriana Martinez Crane, LCSW – The current socio-political climate has forced a renewed focus on women in today’s world. We see women of all ages, ethnicities, socio-economic status and […]

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Compromised Analyses: On the Failure to Productively Use Difficult Countertransference Experience Presented by Irwin Hirsch, PhD Psychoanalysts have long questioned the relative value of insight as a mutative factor in psychoanalytic treatment. Currently, most analysts believe that insight has value, but is not sufficient in and of itself to […]

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Study Group – Conflict: Various Psychoanalytic Perspectives From its beginning, psychoanalysis has been defined as a psychology of conflict. As such, conflict is considered ubiquitous and unavoidable, central to the formation of human character and maladaptive symptoms. Freud’s tripartite structure of id, ego, and superego, and the subsequent development […]

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Ethics Presented by Nancy McWilliams, PhD Beginning therapists tend to go to supervisors with ethical questions at a very high frequency, and most experienced therapists know they need to seek consultation when facing ethical dilemmas. Because the literature on psychoanalytic supervision, especially in the domain of ethics, is quite […]

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Gender Adrienne Harris and Abby Pariser will each give a brief discussion of the movie, followed by an open conversation with the audience. We look forward to your participation. The discussion will focus on the importance of abortion being legal and of women fighting for their rights.

The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists This event addresses: Gender Identity PRESENTER: SUSAN McNAMARA, MD At a time when various states are criminalizing transgender care, it is important for clinicians to be well-educated about gender identity and gender expression, as […]

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Psychological Complexity in Shakespeare Richard Waugaman, MD will present excerpts from his chapter on “Psychological Complexity in Shakespeare,” to be published by Routledge in a book on psychoanalytic approaches to Shakespeare. Psychoanalysis has helped illuminate the astonishing complexity of Shakespeare, arguably the greatest creative writer in history. […]

The American Institute for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: On the aspects of Western psychoanalysis and Eastern meditative traditions Interest in blending Eastern meditative and Western psychotherapeutic traditions is burgeoning, yet we have only begun to realize what these rich traditions can teach each other. In this presentation—a combination of lecture, meditation practice, and dialogue with […]

Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia This event addresses: Conscious and Unconscious Guilt, Religion, Psychoanalysis Co-Facilitators Sonja Ware, TH.M.,M.DIV. & David Sachs, MD. present THE PASTOR AND THE ANALYST: An Interactive Discussion of Conscious and Unconscious Guilt, Religion, and Psychoanalysis. Guilt is part of the emotional spectrum of human life. As a function of the superego, it […]

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006) This event addresses: Challenges of Emergent Adulthood Presenter: B. James Bennett, MD – In recent years there has been an increasing understanding of emergent adulthood as a distinct developmental stage from late adolescence through mid to late twenties. In this discussion, we will explore some […]

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies (900 Lovett Blvd, Houston, TX 77006) This event addresses: Woman’s powerful process of getting to know her authentic self after coming into therapy following an affair. Presenter: Jennifer Gardner, LCSW – In this talk we will aim to explore these concepts, in addition to using a case to demonstrate a woman’s […]

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: “The Maternal Death Drive” Lisa Baraitser in conversation with Katie Gentile, and Lynne Zeavin, moderator This “conversation” will focus on Lisa Baraitser’s understanding of a ‘maternal death drive’. This supplements Freud’s death drive by accounting for the temporality of repetition that retains a relation to the future […]

Western New England Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Gender variances Speaker: Eve Watson, PhD Discussant: Oren Gozlan, PsyD Sexuality for children and adolescents is a site of intense curiosity, brooding, and fluidity and it is not unusual for an intensive questioning of subjectivity to be supported by a gender-based identity query. Transitioning out of childhood […]

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Conflicts and Ethics in Psychoanalytic Consultation and Supervision Nancy McWilliams, PhD will present this Ethics Conference. 3 CE/CMEs Beginning therapists tend to go to supervisors with ethical questions at a very high frequency, and most experienced therapists know they need to seek consultation when facing ethical dilemmas. Because the […]

Houston Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Almost Half a Century Since it Was Expelled From the DSM, Why is Psychoanalytic Thought Still in the Wilderness? Professor Hannah Decker’s presentation will illustrate the strength of the anti-psychiatry movement, a part of the Vietnam era’s many protests. The anti-psychiatry’s influence became so deep that the APA continues […]

Center for Psychoanalytic Studies This event addresses:  Borderline Personality Disorders Presenter: Robert E. Feinstein MD – The literature on evidence-based treatment of borderline personality disorders (BPDs) has exploded in the last 50 years.