• Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind (Second Section)

    Virtual

    An intensive reading group on Fred Busch’s book, Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind. Busch, an influential ego psychologist, writes complex psychoanalytic ideas in an unusually clear, usable way. This seminar cultivates a Busch-informed clinical stance and technique, with close attention to reverie, countertransference as an instrument, timing of interpretation, symbolization, working through trauma and splitting, and […]

  • Desire and the AI Revolution: Companion or Transgressor? The Ethics of Discovery, Engagement, and Activism

    Virtual

    The ubiquitous chatter of AI has flooded the imagination of the clinician with depictions of irrelevancy, despair, captivation, and trepidation. This 3-hour ethics seminar led by psychoanalyst, Scott Koeneman, PsyD, and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, Paul Hoard, PhD, LMHC, is an incitement within the promises and perils of AI and psychoanalysis. As the AI revolution gains momentum, […]

  • Sleeping with the Enemy: AI, Grief, and the Shadow of the Analyst

    Virtual

    When Dr. Valerie Frankfeldt lost her analyst in 2024, she turned to an unexpected companion: ChatGPT. What began as a cursory attempt at coping with grief became a profound reckoning with her own ambivalence about AI, a journey she has since turned into an unflinching and deeply personal paper. Dr. Frankfeldt used ChatGPT to help […]

  • Film & Mind: Don’t Look Up

    Virtual

    “This administration has lost it’s f-ing mind and we are all going to die!” bellows a vein popping Leonardo DiCaprio. Don’t Look Up (2021) captures the dangerous emotional crosscurrents when human nature is confronted with existential terror. Astronomers — Dr. Randall Mindy (DiCaprio) and Kate Dibiasky (Jennifer Lawrence), his doctoral student — discover a comet […]