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This lecture will consider the importance but also the puzzles of gratitude in human life. Why is gratitude so important to our flourishing, yet why is it also so elusive? Attention will be paid to special issues concerning gratitude and its place in the psychoanalytic situation. Jonathan Lear, PhD

Kathryn Zerbe

Presenter: Arnold Richards, MD | This memoir describes the relationship between Richards' personal life and professional life inside and outside of psychoanalysis. The influence of his Russian Jewish father, an early Bolshevik who emigrated to America in the 1920s, contributed to his efforts for fairness and inclusion in psychoanalytic training.

Relating Racially: Shifting Between We, They, and I Senses of Self - Michelle Stephens, LP, PhD (Live) 2024-25 Friday Night Guest Lecture Series Psychoanalysts and psychotherapists are currently showing considerable interest in, and concern over, the relevance of different forms of racism to psychological suffering and to the development of the field of psychoanalysis itself. […]

Presented by Christie Hunnicutt, PhD, LCSW

Part of the 2024 Virtual Roundtable Series, Minding the Gaps: Addressing Mental Health Through the Life Cycle Erik Erikson outlined specific tasks associated with developmental stages across the life cycle. In Erikson’s model generativity, stagnation, ego integrity, and despair are all potential aspects of development in the second half of life. Aging brings a crisis […]

Presented by Dr. Avedis Panajian, Ph.D., ABPP in Clinical Psychology Dr. Panajian will discuss the differences between neurotic, borderline, and psychotic mental functioning. Personality disorders with severe and not-so-severe psychotic functioning will be reviewed. The impact of psychiatry, culture, and some analytic practice that views suffering as destructive for our patients will be discussed. Destructive […]

Session 3: In Her Own Voice: Challenging Theories of Women’s Development Participants: Nancy Kulish and Catherine Mallouh Registration Deadline: December 11, 2024 For additional information including the program flyer, speaker bios, and information about future sessions please visit the informational program page: https://www.wbcp.org/cowap-women-the-longest-revolution-presenter-biographies/ Description: Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the […]

Presented by Dr. Lawrence Hedges, Ph.D., Psy.D., ABPP: Over the past two decades, it has become increasingly clear that the earliest of life’s experiences have left “pockets” of primitive relational patterns in many otherwise well-developed people. Hedges will discuss the nature of early relational experience and how early experiences of distress often leave marks on […]

Speaker: Elizabeth Brett, PhD Discussant: Alfred Margulies, MD From his first publications, Hans Loewald presents a model of mother?infant unity, in which psychic development takes place in the tension systems of an interpersonal field. He outlines the almost undetectable and emergent processes in the psyche as psychological functioning begins to form and evolve in its […]

2024-25 Grand Rounds Series Dr. Theodore Fallon will present ongoing work illuminating a developmental perspective on working with adult patients in talk therapy. This perspective focuses on three different stages in child development: Developing a core sense of self which in “normative” chronology takes place during the first 18 months of life; The psychic equivalent […]

The Online TOPP is an ADVANCED course for clinicians who are already working interpersonally or relationally and wish to deepen their clinical work. Most students in the program are psychoanalysts or have extensive clinical experience. Currently, the topic is “Luminaries of the Interpersonal Tradition” and includes the work of Edgar Levenson, Jay Greenberg, Philip Bromberg, […]

The Online IPPP is designed for working clinicians who wish to learn the Interpersonal psychoanalytic perspective.The 28 week curriculum is divided into 4 modules: Consultation and Beginning a Treatment, Key Concepts in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Child Development and Adult Psychotherapy and Listening, Formulating and Intervening. Each class consists of two parts, lectures in theory and clinical […]

This series of ten bimonthly meetings is designed to meet the needs of clinicians interested in incorporating psychodynamic concepts and techniques into their clinical practice. This course will have a clinical focus and will provide an opportunity for participants to hear and discuss case material e will apply the technique of free association as a […]

The Work of Christopher Bollas

Presenter: Glen O. Gabbard, MD | Psychoanalysis, which at its core is a search for truth, stands in a subversive position vis-a-vis the contemporary therapeutic culture that places a premium on symptomatic "cure." In this communication I am tracing the evolution of Freud's thinking about the relationship between the aims of psychoanalysis and the alleviation […]

Presented by Anne Alvarez, PhD

Perrine Moran

Aisha Abbasi, MD: Homesickness is a commonly used term, and a feeling that has been studied with interest, in psychoanalysis. The connection and distinction between homesickness and nostalgia has been noted in many analytic papers. Normal and pathological forms of both have been described. In this paper, Dr. Abbasi discusses the theoretical framework that informs […]

Donald Campbell

Description: The current extension of the concept of the unconscious to different levels, configurations, and functioning of the mind is the result of decades of collective reflection on the clinic and on theory. Analysts today have a broader, more refined and complex knowledge of defensive and transformative processes, and this has also led to an […]

Dr. Roger Frie asks: What does it mean to be both a social critic and a practicing psychotherapist? In this talk he draws on the early work of Erich Fromm to answer this and other questions.

Wendy Katz, PhD. Silence, Second Skin, and the Unrepresented.  Dr. Katz uses the concepts of microdialect and secondskin to to explore the patient's silence in session and how it may function on multiple levels of psychic and relational organization. Using this as a vehicle for moving between levels, it provides a potential avenue to access and creatively transform unrepresented experience.

From the start, the craft of filmmaking has been intertwined with psychoanalysis. Both were developed around the turn of the 20th century, and both involve, in practice, a fair amount of art as well as science. Perhaps most importantly, film and psychoanalysis share preoccupations with creativity, viewing and listening, primal desires, and primal fears. In […]

Chris Clulow

Presented by Dr. Lauren Levine, Ph.D. In this presentation, Dr. Lauren Levine will reflect on the power of stories to create shared symbolic meaning and coherence out of ungrieved trauma. Through evocative clinical stories, she will explore creativity as transformative, emergent in the clinical process, drawing on film, dance, and literature and dreams as frames […]

Presenter: Sean Fitzpatrick, PhD, LPC | We live in a liminal moment in which mental health stigma is crumbling, in great part because of increasing psychological struggle triggered by the pandemic and recent social unrest.

Dina Oren and Israeli research group

Ronny Jaffe

Pierre Cachia

Tyia Grange Isaacson, PhD. Daring to Hope: A Couple's Journey from Trauma to Connection.  Dr. Isaacson presents her treatment of a deeply traumatized, high conflict couple that is massively overwhelmed by multiple stressors. She delineates how she uses concepts from self psychology within a systems treatment framework to demonstrate how to invite traumatized partners to […]

Arthur Leonoff

Jeanne Magagna

Presenter: Jon G. Allen, PhD | This presentation will include discussion of the developmental trajectory of relationships informed by attachment theory and research; empirical findings from a study of the connections between therapists’ personal relationships and the quality of their relationships with patients; and recent findings regarding what patients value in psychotherapy.

Howard Levine, MD: Psychoanalysis is ‘the talking cure,’ but the problems raised by language are complex, paradoxical, and perhaps unsolvable. At their most effective, words play a vital role in psychic homeostatic regulation and the psychoanalytic process that is analogous to the architecturally structural role played by the keystone of an arch. The problem, however, […]

Kate Scharff & David Scharff

David Scharff & Kate Scharff

Alessandra Lemma

Presenter: Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. | In this presentation, Dr. Tummala-Narra will explore how personality is shaped by sociocultural context, and how experiences of one’s sociocultural context rely on personality, family dynamics, and trauma.

Dr. Clara Mucci presents the three levels of interpersonal traumatizations with all the consequences at the level of attachment styles, interpersonal neurobiology, and affect regulation and personability dynamics up to the point of developing complex PTSD and personality disorders.

Daniel Shaw, LCSW. Understanding Traumatizing Narcissism and Its Clinical Utility.  Mr. Shaw presents a way of understanding the traumatic impact of narcissism as it is engendered developmentally and as it is enacted relationally. Here, he focuses on the "traumatizing narcissist's" need for control, describes the internal needs and developmental narrative of the traumatizing narcissist, the […]

Presenter: M. Sagman Kayatekin, MD | Psychoanalytic discipline is in the process of broadening its theory, practitioners and applications. We welcome contributions from different psychoanalytic approaches and related disciplines in social sciences, humanities and neuro-psychoanalysis.

Michael Langlois

Todd Essig

Dr. Hannah Wallerstein address the recent shift towards was has been termed an “ontological” approach to psychoanalysis (Ogden 2019), in which experiencing and becoming oneself more fully are seen as the goals of treatment, with the generation of knowledge taking a back seat.