Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy Program – 2 Year Program begins September 2023

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Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute This event addresses: Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy The goal of the Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program (CAPP) is to provide participants with exposure to concepts that inform psychodynamic therapy with children and adolescents. The program includes an in-depth exposure to concepts from psychoanalytic understandings of development and psychopathology as they apply to […]

Adaptation in Clinical Practice. Robert Langs and Carl Jung | Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center

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 Presented by John R. White, Ph.D., LPC This presentation compares the clinical concepts of “adaptation” in Robert Langs and Carl Jung, examining their central similarities and differences. Our presenter, John R. White, PhD, LPC is a practicing Jungian psychoanalyst in Pittsburgh PA and Coordinator of the C. G. Jung Institute Analyst Training Program of Pittsburgh. […]

The 2023 Grotstein Memorial Lectures: Part 3

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New Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory Klein’s Analytic Technique Professor Robert Hinshelwood, MD — Professor Emeritus of University of Essex; Member, British Psychoanalytical Society; Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK In the final part of our series, Robert Hinshelwood takes us back to Klein’s original psychoanalytic […]

Karen J. Maroda, PhD, ABPP: The analyst’s vulnerability: How our early childhood experiences impact our choice of theory and technique.

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Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis This event addresses: The Analyst’s Vulnerability It has long been recognized that therapists have a history of being caretakers in their families of origin. Yet we have not pursued how that role impacted our own personal growth, values, ideas and limitations. What are the vulnerabilities and strengths that we share as […]

Dynamics of Maternal Narcissism | Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia

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"In this latest installment of our case conference series, targeted at early career clinicians and those curious to learn more about psychodynamic approaches to therapy, PCOP psychotherapy student Nicole Flibbert Laurino, LPC, will present from her work with an adult patient treated in a community mental health setting, who struggles with feeling ""not good enough"" […]

Film and Mind Online: ~ DOUBLE FEATURE ~ Ted K and Good Luck, Leo Grande

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New Center of Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Suppressed Familial Truths Join NCP’s Film and Mind series online! A once a month psychoanalytic discussion of a topical film! On May 12, Film & Mind explores what makes a transformative movie with a doubleheader of two films of vastly different subject matter—Ted K (“The Unabomber”) and Good […]

The 2023 Grotstein Memorial Lectures: Part 2

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New Center for Psychoanalysis This event addresses: James Grotstein’s work in comparative psychoanalytic theory Bion’s Analytic Technique Joseph Aguayo, PhD — Training and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Center of California; Faculty, New Center for Psychoanalysis; Honorary Member, British Psychoanalytical Society For this presentation, Joseph Aguayo takes up how Bion came to his Kleinian training as a […]

Our Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory

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Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Unconscious Relstionship with Psychoanalytic Theory Our Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory. *****Our David Black Memorial Lecturer***** this year, Dr. Gretchen Schmutz, uses clinical material to explore the role of the unconscious in relationship to psychoanalytic theory. She find theory allows the analyst to have experience that contain important unconscious […]

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific meeting

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Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Unconscious Relstionship with Psychoanalytic Theory Our Unconscious Relationship with Psychoanalytic Theory. *****Our David Black Memorial Lecturer***** this year, Dr. Gretchen Schmutz, uses clinical material to explore the role of the unconscious in relationship to psychoanalytic theory. She find theory allows the analyst to have experience that contain important unconscious […]

Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives on Analyst Boredom: Deadness, Aliveness, and the Spaces in Between

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Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas This event addresses: Clinician boredom Presented by Steven Kuchuck, DSW, this presentation will explore traditional as well as much more contemporary thinking about the meaning of clinician boredom. Dr. Kuchuck argues that boredom can of course indicate dissociated or otherwise inaccessible patient and/or therapist affect. But there may be something […]

Attachment, Separation-Individuation, Love, and Intimacy: Adaptation Over the Life Cycle

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Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia This event addresses: This program will focus on how experiences of love and aggression affect attachment, separation-individuation and intimate relationships across the lifespan. Presenters: Wendy Olesker, PhD, Miriam Steele, PhD, Robert Waldinger, MD Discussants: Diana Diamond, PhD, Otto Kernberg, MD Moderator: Lawrence D. Blum, MD This program will focus on how […]

Film and Mind Online: C’mon, C’mon

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New Center of Psychoanalysis This event addresses: Racism Join NCP’s Film and Mind series online! A once a month psychoanalytical discussion on a topical Film! This month we analyze C’mon, C’mon (2021, 108 minutes) which is an emotionally rich film from writer-director Mike Mills starring Joaquin Phoenix and Woody Norman. One of the salient and […]

Connections and Conversation: Power and Vulnerability in Supervision: a exploration for both supervisors and supervisees

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The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis LA This event addresses: Elaborating psychoanalytic thoughts and creating community Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting, cultivating creativity and freedom of thought and feeling. We invite you to engage with our presenters and community as they share their interests and passions in conversation on current topics in […]

The Virus U.S. Psychoanalysis Needed

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Western New England Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: COVID-19 Speaker: Paola Contreras, PsyD The presenter will describe how Ogden’s description of two forms of thinking ––dream thinking and transformative thinking–– are preceded by the Magical of the session. Drawing on her external and internal experiences amidst the unrest experienced in response to the COVID pandemic, […]

Seizing the Vital Moment

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Greater Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: How the active freedom of healthy development becomes inhibited by trauma. In this workshop, Dr. Peter Shabad will use a psychoanalytic-existential framework to describe how the active freedom of healthy development becomes inhibited by trauma and its aftermath of shame. He will describe the origins of shame […]

Owing and Being Owed: Shame and Responsibility Toward the Other

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San Diego Psychoanalytic Center This event addresses: Shame and Guilt In the aftermath of relational disruptions to giving of oneself and being received, shame inverts the passionate movement of responsibility toward and for others into an enclosed self-focused preoccupation. Through the filter of omnipotence and omniscience, shame transforms the helplessness of one’s suffering into punishment […]

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Meeting

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Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society This event addresses: Working with a hard to reach patient Writing and Righting and Selling the Cow for Beans: The Case of Tad, Psychoanalysis, Self and Context. Dr. Jeffrey Stern recounts his work with Tad, a difficult to reach patient, with whom treatment stalls. Dr. Stern turns to writing to reach an […]