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SUMMARY:IPA COWAP NA and APSA COSWAG Film Series: Discussions on Gender COWAP North America Presents: Discussion of the film “Marie Langer: Desire and Revolution” (2025) by Marcelo Haber co-produced by Horacio Legras and  Belen de Martino
DESCRIPTION:Discussants: Virginia Ungar\, Marcelo Haber\, Horacio Legras\, and Belen de Martino \nModerator: Margarita Cereijido\, PhD \nFriday\, July 10\, 2026\n6:00 pm – 7:30 pm ET\nVia Zoom\nNOTE: a link to view the film will be sent out 2 weeks prior to the event. \nNo CME/CE\nDiscussion of the film: Marie Langer: Desire and Revolution (2025) \nA gender-focused discussion of Marcelo Haber’s film on Marie Langer\, with the participation of Virginia Ungar and the filmmaker. \nDrawing on Langer’s autobiography From Vienna to Managua\, the film interweaves fiction and documentary to trace a life shaped by war\, exile\, and political upheaval. From her training in interwar Europe to her foundational role in Argentine psychoanalysis and later work in Mexico\, Langer reimagined psychoanalysis as deeply embedded in social and political life. \nA committed feminist\, she challenged traditional psychoanalytic views of femininity and\, in 1951\, published Motherhood and Sexuality\, a pioneering work on the psychodynamics of femininity. Her break from institutional psychoanalysis foregrounds tensions between neutrality and ethical responsibility\, while her turn toward community mental health reflects her enduring commitment to bringing psychoanalysis beyond the consulting room and into collective life. \nThe film invites reflection on the analyst’s role in times of crisis\, positioning psychoanalysis as both a clinical practice and a transformative presence within communities. \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_cowap_ipa_film_7-10-26#!/ \nFlyer: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/assets/docs/PR/25-26/7-10-26%20COWAP%20Film%20Series-%20Discussions%20on%20Gender.pdf
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ipa-cowap-na-and-apsa-coswag-film-series-discussions-on-gender-cowap-north-america-presents-discussion-of-the-film-marie-langer-desire-and-revolution-2025-by-marcelo-haber-co-pr/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Margaret S. Mahler Symposium on Child Development: Optimizing Early Development
DESCRIPTION:Leading researchers and clinicians will present and compare the latest findings as to how to best facilitate successful early relationships and most successfully interrupt the intergenerational transmission of trauma.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/margaret-s-mahler-symposium-on-child-development-optimizing-early-development/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260308T140000
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SUMMARY:2025 Holtzman Essay Prize Presentation
DESCRIPTION:“Buried in the Future Which Has Not Happened” Non-linear Time\, Non-logic and the Ultimate Reality of the Session\nSaturday\, March 8\, 2025\n2:00 to 4:00 pm\nReception following presentation\n2 CME and CE Credit Hours\nHYBRID\nMichigan Psychoanalytic Institute\n32841 Middlebelt Rd.\, Farmington Hills\nOr join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/my/michiganpsychoanalysis\nAbout the presenter: Avner Bergstein is a training and supervising psychoanalyst and faculty member of the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. He has authored numerous papers elaborating on the clinical implications of the writings of Bion and Meltzer and is the author of the 2018 book Bion and Meltzer’s Expeditions into Unmapped Mental Life: Beyond the Spectrum in Psychoanalysis. He is a visiting lecturer at several psychoanalytic institutes and conducts reading seminars focusing on the writings of W.R. Bion. He is also the recipient of the IPA 2021 Elizabeth Young-Bruehl Prejudice Award. \nPractice Gap/Need and Course Description: Facilitating one’s ability for truthfully apprehending reality is at the heart of psychoanalytic work. And yet\, Bion’s radical contribution to psychoanalysis\, and its affinity with contemporary insights from Quantum Theory\, highlights the ungraspable complexity of reality that does not conform to what is comprehensible to the human mind. Expanding on Bion’s mode of listening extends the work of analysis beyond uncovering unconscious thoughts buried in the past\, to cultivating a psychically alive mind capable of generating novel thoughts\, oriented toward the future and the unknown. The presenter brings clear explanations of Bion’s ideas that can expand our therapeutic approaches and theoretical understandings. \nAfter attending this presentation\, participants will be able to: \n1: Discuss Bion’s idea of the inherent unknowability of the human mind and reality \n2: Apply Bion’s ideas about tolerating the unknown and ambiguity to better listen to their patients to help them become more tolerant about the unknown and oriented toward the future. \nPlease call Monica Evans at 248-851-3380 for additional information \nCONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION \nACCME Accreditation Statement \nThis activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. \nAMA Credit Designation Statement \nThe American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. \nDisclosure Statement \nThe APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore\, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification\, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support. \nCONTINUING EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL WORK \nThe Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative. \nCONTINUING EDUCATION FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS \nThe Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/2025-holtzman-essay-prize-presentation/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260113T200000
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SUMMARY:2025 Fred Pine Paper Award Presentation
DESCRIPTION:***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.*** You must register to attend the virtual event. \nThe recipients of the 2025 Fred Pine Ph.D. Award for a Paper Contributing to Psychoanalytic Theory\, Technique\, or Development will present the work on January 13\, 2026 from 8:00-9:30pm at an event to be hosted by NYPSI and co-sponsored by APsA and the NYU Postdoc program. Register for this event through NYPSI. \nThe winning paper\, “Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious” by Kenneth Feiner\, Psy.D. and Deborah Waxenberg\, Ph.D. suggests that time and timelessness are coexistent\, interrelated dimensions of experience\, rather than binaries. They delineate ways that temporality infiltrates unconscious processes\, including in language production\, date marks\, anniversary reactions\, unconscious fears of death\, and compromise formation. They draw on the psychoanalytic literature\, contemporary chronobiological and developmental research\, recent work in neuroscience as well as clinical observations. \n  \nKenneth Feiner\, Psy.D. a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst\, is the coauthor (with Danielle Knafo) of the book\, Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World. He is a clinical consultant at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He has published articles on child development\, empathy\, unconscious fantasy\, and sexual abuse. He is in private practice in New York City where he sees adults\, teenagers and couples. \n  \nDeborah Waxenberg\, Ph.D.\, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is Teaching Faculty\, Clinical Consultant\, and served for 6 years as Co-Chair of the Relational Track at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Faculty at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and the National Training Program of NIP. She maintains an office practice in NYC working with individuals and couples.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/2025-fred-pine-paper-award-presentation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T130000
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SUMMARY:Clinical Perspectives on the Psychoanalytically-Informed Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
DESCRIPTION:Using both psychoanalytic writing and a case conference format\, participants will examine psychoanalytic perspectives on SUDs and deepen their understanding of the psychodynamic underpinnings of their own cases. Presented by Dr Holly Han\, Psy.D.\, LMFT.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/clinical-perspectives-on-the-psychoanalytically-informed-treatment-of-substance-use-disorders/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251213T114500
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SUMMARY:Home\, Homelessness\, and Immigration
DESCRIPTION:What might contribute to our subjectively feeling at home in the world? What leads to the loss of one’s psychic sense of home which in turn results in us feeling psychically unmoored in the world? These are some of the questions we will ponder together. Focus will be on the psychic loss of home even though the structural (literal) loss of home will be addressed by looking at the impact of immigration on the sense of belonging.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/home-homelessness-and-immigration/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T200000
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SUMMARY:Complex Cases and Treatment Planning: Does It Take a Village to Revive the Treatment?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Lisa Madsen\, MD\nThis special presentation will focus on complex cases which have reached an impasse with little forward movement or even a regression on the part of the patient. What do you recommend when a patient is no longer progressing in weekly psychotherapy? What do you do when a patient needs more? Do you intensify the individual therapy\, or do you reach out to the community to expand the treatment team? What intrapsychic and interpersonal factors inform your treatment recommendation in these cases? This presentation will explore these questions and more as we reflect on the decision-making process involved in treatment planning.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/complex-cases-and-treatment-planning-does-it-take-a-village-to-revive-the-treatment/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251206T090000
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SUMMARY:Ethics Workshop: Revisiting the Concept of the Working Alliance. Applying it to Teaching and Learning and Exploring the Ethical Considerations: A Relational Model.
DESCRIPTION:Gerald Melchode\, MD\nThe working alliance or the therapeutic alliance is the strongest predictor for the success of psychotherapy. The presentation explores the origins of these concepts and raises the question whether the working alliance can be applied to teaching and learning. Academics educators have already begun to do this. Their findings are presented which also inform us further about the use of the concept in psychotherapy. The ethical principles of the teacher student engagement are reviewed along with strategies for repairing strains and ruptures in the relationship. A relational model is explored based on the work of the noted educator Parker Palmer. Controversies around applying this important psychodynamic concept to teaching are also taken up.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/ethics-workshop-revisiting-the-concept-of-the-working-alliance-applying-it-to-teaching-and-learning-and-exploring-the-ethical-considerations-a-relational-model/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T190000
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SUMMARY:A Symbol and Sandplay Presentation: Castles in the Sand and Psyche
DESCRIPTION:Presented by: JoAnn Ponder\, PhD\nThis special presentation will examine castles as historical structures in reality and as symbols that may appear in sandplay therapy with children or adults. Castles are magnificent structures that capture our collective imagination. My own fascination with them began when I was a young child living in Darmstadt\, Germany. From the third-floor balcony of my family’s apartment\, I could see the ruins of Frankenstein’s Castle atop a nearby mountain. There are ruins of these medieval structures all over Europe\, originally built by wealthy barons as fortified residences to defend against attack. While castles are not endemic to the U.S.\, their distinctive architectural features have been revered and copied. As such\, there are even a few castles in Austin\, Texas\, the city where I currently reside. Based on the history and purpose of these structures\, they have come to symbolize power\, protection\, refuge\, wealth\, and status. They also serve as metaphors for the mind\, for example\, its defenses and resources. Not surprisingly\, castles may appear in clients’ sandplay scenes.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-symbol-and-sandplay-presentation-castles-in-the-sand-and-psyche/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T114500
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SUMMARY:Sadomasochism; Understanding and Working  ?with the Self-Defeating Patient
DESCRIPTION:Self-defeating behaviors are present to some degree in every psychodynamic treatment. We will explore ways in which sadomasochism manifests\, particularly in the transference/countertransference arena. The developmental roots and psychodynamic underpinnings will be illuminated through clinical examples. A contemporary understanding via Neuropsychoanalysis will explore self-defeating behavior as a problem with the PLAY instinct\, leading to impairment in the ability to collaborate. The goal will be to fortify practitioners for what are often long and difficult treatments.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/sadomasochism-understanding-and-working-with-the-self-defeating-patient-2/
LOCATION:Virtual
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T190000
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SUMMARY:Borderline Personality Disorder: The Biography of a Personality Disorder
DESCRIPTION:In this book discussion\, we will discuss Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder (Beacon Press\, 2024)\, authored by Alexander Kriss\, PhD. The presentation will consist of a conversation between the author and J. Christopher Fowler\, PhD. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory\, patient narratives\, and shifts in psychiatric authority from antiquity to present day\, the book explores how BPD emerged as a diagnostic concept and what its persistence reveals about the changing boundaries of identity\, suffering\, and care. The discussion will reflect on the tensions between diagnosis and personhood\, the role of psychoanalysis in shaping and responding to BPD\, and the ethical stakes of treating a condition so often marginalized—even within mental health systems.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/borderline-personality-disorder-the-biography-of-a-personality-disorder/
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