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In this conference, Donna Roth Smith, LCSW & Hilda Catz, Ph.D offer a new way to talk about clinical work. They will talk together through the year about ongoing treatments and then bring participants into the conversation they have been having. Clinical work performed in isolation or within only a small group of colleagues risks […]

Alexandra Leonardo

This is an introductory course on the evolution of the Independent Tradition (British in origin) applied to our work with children and adolescents. This tradition (or approach) is developmentally appropriate to our work with younger populations, as it moves from the more epistemological (knowing) approach, with its emphasis on interpretation and insight, to a more […]

Presenter: Ellen Safier, LCSW | Our intimate partnerships are the places where we are most vulnerable. It is of course these relationships that have the potential to provide the greatest sense of safety and security and comfort that are also the relationships where we can experience the greatest hurt and be most easily wounded.

Presented by Dr. Mauricio Salvador Garza Villalobos Psychiatric medication is surrounded by myths and fears both by patients and even from professionals in the mental health world. Being able to detect when the threshold for a referral to the psychiatrist is an essential skill for everyone who works in psychotherapy. But the work is not […]

Presented by Donnel B. Stern In my first model of unformulated experience (Stern, 1983, 1997), my intention was to study our capacity to reflect on our own experience; and that meant that the boundary between formulated and unformulated experience needed to be defined by verbal language: My first model held that if you can think […]

Nestor Kapusta

Asteroid City (2023) has been described by writer-director Wes Anderson as a“poetic meditation on the meaning of life”. Set in the 1950’s, Asteroid City is a young girl’s coming-of-age story that deviates from one simple narrative line. Asteroid City leaves the comfortable and familiar setting of a summer camp/and opens up to a line of […]

Mary Jo Peebles: When we feel stuck in psychotherapy, we feel inadequate, ashamed, and hide our confusion. A common reaction is to blame and feel irritated with the patient, but then we blame ourselves for being irritated. This workshop will address how to break this cycle, which requires a shift from seeing stuckness as a […]

During this conference, four presenters (one biodiversity scientist and three psychoanalysts) will each present their perspective on the complexity of humans’ relations to the natural world and how these multifaceted relations contribute to and might mitigate today’s climate catastrophe. Presenters: Lindsay L. Clarkson, MD; W. John Kress, PhD; Donald B. Moss, MD; Lynne Zeavin, PsyD

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 […]

Caroline Sehon

Presented by Lawrence Hedges, PhD, PsyD, ABPP. Technologically driven research during the last three decades in the fields of neuroscience, infant research, and relational psychotherapy has made clear the importance of the ongoing impact of experiencing and processing the relationship in psychotherapy. In this course Dr. Hedges will review the ways that psychotherapists of all […]

Jana K. Edwards, LCSW. Shame and Reunions: A New Look at the Compulsion to Repeat.  Ms. Edwards frames the repetition compulsion in her work with adult partners as a path to healing previously unmetabolized wounds, traumas and losses. In their repetitive conflicts, she sees couples accessing historically dissociated affects. Ms. Shaw illustrates her ideas by […]

Hanni Mann-Shalvi

Talia Hatzor

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Chris Clulow

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.

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