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Free zoom event with Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA: Our psychotherapy practices do not exist in a vacuum and in these last few years we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the areas of politics, social justice, the natural world, and public health. It is vitally important for our practices and communities to be informed about what […]

Free zoom event with Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.: In this talk, I consider Ferenczi’s groundbreaking work on sexual abuse in conjunction with other projects he undertook, in which trauma, regression, and destructiveness clearly preoccupied him. In addition to attention to the landmark paper on sexual abuse, “The Confusion of Tongues” (1929/32), I will draw on his […]

Psychoanalytic Fellowship Saturdays, 11:45 am - 1:45 pm September 7, 2024 – April 2025 Psychoanalytic principles find application in a variety of fields and disciplines and can provide advanced students, psychiatric residents, and graduate mental-health practitioners with valuable fundamental insights in their professional development and careers. In this tuition-free program, fellows learn through exposure to […]

Free zoom event with Robin Cohen: Using the works of Fairbairn, Guntrip, Bowlby, Mitchell, Benjamin, and others, Dr. Cohen examines the dynamics involved in toxic, destructive relationships. If you treat people who are enmeshed in abusive relationships, you may feel frightened and frustrated as they edge closer to self-destruction. Some may withstand physical and emotional […]

Combined Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program and Candidate Seminar Mondays, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm September 9, 2024 – April 28, 2025 Via Zoom Program Flyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/fellowships/24-25%20Child%20and%20Adolescent%20Fellowship%20FLYER.pdf For additional academic details please visit our program page: https://www.wbcp.org/combined-child-and-adolescent-psychoanalytic-fellowship-program-and-candidate-seminar/ The Combined Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program and Candidate Seminar is a tuition-free program for advanced […]

The Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis online application portal for the 2024-2025 Community Psychoanalysis Certificate Program (CPCP) is now open. Expand and enrich your clinical work by engaging in a two-year journey that melds didactic learning, experiential reflective groups, and hands-on placements in community agencies or nonprofits. Fridays, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm September 20, […]

Free zoom event with Koichi Tagashi, Ph.D., L.P.: Are you able to cure your patient? In this presentation, I like to pose this question, without defining what a “cure” might look like, in order to get at your initial instinctive feeling. This presentation is intended to be an ethical question. I am not examining whether […]

Free zoom event with Veronica D. Abney, Ph.D.: This paper presents a description of the analysis of an African-American patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder. It will focus primarily on one year of the analysis when the transference was extremely negative resulting in the analyst moving from a very empathic and loving countertransference position to feeling […]