Dreaming of an Inclusive Psychoanalysis

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Presented in partnership with Casa de Salud’s Mental Health Collaborative with Patricia Gherovici, PhD; Harold Braswell, MSW, PhD and Juliana Varela, LCSW. Patricia Gherovici will compare two films documenting actual cures that push the boundaries of traditional psychoanalysis with two maverick psychoanalysts: Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian, a 2013 French film by Arnaud […]

The Untold Story of Sabina Spielrein: Healed and Haunted by Love

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The unpublished Russian diary and letters of Sabina Spielrein represent a milestone for academics, scholars, historians, and psychoanalysts whose interest in the most enigmatic woman to have pioneered psychoanalysis and developmental psychology in the first part of the 20th century has never ceased to grow after she was rediscovered in the mid-1970s. These Primary sources, […]

Saturday Salon: Tending The Unborn

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This is the chronical of a journey taken by patient and therapist into the black abyss of insanity, formlessness, and desperation. This is the story of how the analyst “found” his patient, and how she became psychologically born. This course is taught by Dr. David Wayne. CE Credits

Morris Eagle Lectures – Recognition and Disturbances of Recognition in Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Contributions of Video Microanalysis

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NCP Presents the Morris Eagle Psychoanalytic Research Lectures:  Honoring the life and work of distinguished member Morris Eagle. This event honors Morris N. Eagle, PhD, a renowned psychologist and psychoanalyst who has significantly contributed to our understanding of human behavior and the therapeutic process. He is a professor emeritus of the Derner Institute of Advanced […]

Leora Benioff, Ph.D.: Projection, Otherness, Difference: A Contemporary Approach to Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy

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Leora Benioff, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and couple therapist based in Berkeley, California. This presentation will examine contemporary methods in psychoanalytic couples therapy, with a special focus on the approach developed by the Tavistock Clinic, as well as modern Bionian and object relations techniques. It may also explore additional theories, including link theory and attachment […]

An Unlived Life: Finding Hope In Complex Trauma (ICP-LA Open House)

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Join us for a live case presentation and discussion that will highlight the diversity of contemporary relational psychoanalytic approaches to clinical work available within the training programs at ICP. Candidate, Mia Goldman, MA, LMFT will present an evocative case of trying to find hope with a patient struggling with the impact of chronic and complex […]

Film and Mind Online: Joyland

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Joyland (2022, 2 hr 1 min, from Pakistan) is a romantic tragedy written, directed and co-edited by Saim Sadiq. Beyond the plot line, the film shows what happens to “self” when societal roles prevent individuals from realizing identities. As a family drama, Joyland raises the deeper identity problem of self-obliteration when the self isn’t seen […]

Connections and Conversation: Analytic Love, Self-Compassion and the Growth of Internal Secure Attachment – Daniel Shaw, LCSW

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Free zoom event with Daniel Shaw, LCSW: Contemporary relational psychoanalytic theories have emphasized the therapeutic action of both empathy and mutuality. Trauma theories build on the establishment of relational safety and trust to focus on promoting the patient’s self-reflection and self-regulation skills, and the development of self-compassion in the service of healing self-alienation. The author […]

Steven Stern, PsyD. “Needed Relationships: A Complexity-Based Organizing Principle”

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Psychoanalytic theories are needed to sense, understand and connect with our patients but they can limit the analyst's participation in terms of theoretical and technical categories. Using his concept of needed relationships, Dr. Stern offers a more holistic view of the analyst-patient relationship in all its therapeutic complexity. He invites the therapist to work creatively […]

I Want it All and I Want it Now

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Presenter: Denia Barrett, LCSW Description: This presentation will illustrate analytic work with a patient during late latency and prepuberty, followed by periods of psychotherapy in mid- and late- adolescence/emerging adulthood. Old problems find new solutions as development unfolds; exploring gender is one area that may lead to unpredicted outcomes.

Jonathan Slavin: The Innocence of Sexuality

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Jonathan Slavin presents as part of our ongoing videoconference series on The Erotic in Psychoanalysis. 2 CEs $60

Evening Presentation – Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma

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When catastrophic events overtake adult lives, they can often scar the psyche in ways that psychodynamic clinicians struggle to understand. The adult survivor of a catastrophe--whether a life-threatening assault, a serious accident, an act of terrorism, or a natural disaster- experiences a near fatal disruption of fundamental aspects of self experience. Many who have physically […]

The Pastor and The Analyst: Internal Splitting and External Polarization An Interactive Discussion of the Connection between Divided Intrapsychic and External Worlds

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Splitting and Polarization are two common phenomena in the intrapsychic and social world. Yet, in recent years, with heated and polarized divisions in various contexts breaking further apart, the topic is particularly on point. The program will offer participants an environment to explore the emotionally highly charged dynamics of splitting and polarization, which are occurring […]

Secret Passageways Into the Unconscious: Interpsychic Experience, Dreaming as Experience, and Titrating the Dosage of “Non-self” in Treatment

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Stefano Bolognini is our keynote speaker for February's Psychodynamic Weekend Conference. February 23-25, 2024 Participants will learn about aspects of the mind that they may not have considered before, including the way productive connections between patient and therapist can and do occur at the preconscious level, bypassing the “border guards” that might otherwise turn them […]

Secret Passageways Into the Unconscious: Interpsychic Experience, Dreaming as Experience, and Titrating the Dosage of “Non-self” in Treatment

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Stefano Bolognini is our keynote speaker for February's Psychodynamic Weekend Conference. February 23-25, 2024 Participants will learn about aspects of the mind that they may not have considered before, including the way productive connections between patient and therapist can and do occur at the preconscious level, bypassing the “border guards” that might otherwise turn them […]

Treating Suicidality in Children and Adolescents

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Child Psychotherapy and Child Analytic program faculty host this one day event focused on dealing with suicidality in child and adolescent patients. 6 CEs $180

Violent Emotions and the Violence of Life

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Based on the work of Bion, Avner Bergstein, MA, FIPA, will address violent emotions and violent retaliation against the mind to protect itself from overwhelming excitation, which may result from an inability to mentally formulate or adaptively contain painful excitation. Examples of unrecognized collusions between patients and analysts blindsiding themselves against recognition of massive emotional […]

Treating Children and Teens with Developmental Trauma in a Community Context

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FREE (licensed clinicians only) 5 part series starting Feb 16, Fridays from 11am--Noon Feb. 16: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Developmental Trauma - Janine Wanlass, PhD Mar. 1: Working with Parents and Families after Trauma - Jill Scharff, MD Mar. 8: Engaging with Schools & Human Services Agencies as Community Partners - Garrick Fuller, LCSW Mar. […]

Gay and Lesbian Couples as Parents

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Colleen Sandor presents as part of our ongoing Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Videoconference series.

Film and Mind Online: Past Lives

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Past Lives (2023, 2hr, 23 min) written and directed by Celine Song. The film follows the line of connection/disconnection over 24 years of a Korean boy and girl who are separated when her family moves to Canada. From the opening moments, we wonder how that friendship will affect her American marriage, which we are shown […]

The Therapeutic Importance of Screwing Up-and Owning It: Repair, Epistemic Trust and the Active Ingredients of Effective Therapy

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Presenter: Efrain Bleiberg, MD Description: This presentation will discuss the acquisition of trust and social learning in normal development and in psychotherapy and success that such acquisition is facilitated by the therapist’s ability to model repair by taking responsibility for one’s inevitable mistakes and misattunements and the impact they have on the patient. Examples of […]

Evening Presentation – Trauma and Shame: Clinical Implications

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In this presentation, Dr. Peter Shabad describe how shame results from traumatic ruptures in human relationships. I will describe the developmental trajectory of shame in self-pity, resentment, entitlement, and regret for missed opportunities. I will illustrate shame with a clinical example, and talk more generally of my clinical values and principles in working with people […]

Donnel Stern, PhD. Interpretation: “Voice of the Field”

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For patients, it's seldom the content of the analyst's interpretation that's memorable but rather the feeling of being understood. Within the interpersonal field, the analyst's interpretation gives voice to field shifts that are jointly created between analyst and patient and make way for a new freedom to think and feel.

Children’s Defenses Against Painful Affect: The Case of Philip and an Introduction to Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children

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Psychoanalytic interventions occur in manualized short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy through the Regulation Focused Psychotherapy approach. In this presentation, Drs. Leon Hoffman and Timothy Rice will review the history of the psychoanalytic technique of interpreting defenses against painful affect with children, demonstrate its effectiveness in the case history of Philip, a six-year-and-five-month old boy who was felt […]

COWAP Film Series: Discussions on Gender

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Discussants: Oren Gozlan and Willa France.   Moderators: Margarita Cereijido and Anne Adelman The discussion will focus on issues pertaining to transgender people and society’s prejudices against them. We encourage audience participation. Participants should view the film beforehand. It is available on Netflix and Hulu.

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (2-day program)

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This is a two-day program. Registration is only available for the full two days. Check in starts at 8 AM each day. The program presentation is from 8:30 AM to 5 PM  See below for full schedule. The New Center for Psychoanalysis and TFP New York present a two-day training in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy NCP, in […]

Couples as Parents

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Damian McCann presents on Couples as Parents as part of our ongoing Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Videoconference series.

Scientific Program: A Heart Shattered, the Impenetrable Self, and a Life Unlived: An Existential-Humanistic Approach to Relentless Despair

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Presented by Martha Stark, MD Highlights the primary difference between relentless hope and relentless despair, elaborate upon the patient’s intense ambivalence about entering the world of objects, explains the relevance of the concept of dreading surrender to resourceless dependence upon another, expounds upon the importance of moments of authentic meeting as offering opportunity for restoring […]

Expanding Psychoanalytic Passion: A Conference In Memory Of And Inspired By Christina Emanuel

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Participants will explore challenging places of analytic work from different theoretical perspectives of working in the psychoanalytic field: Autism is the Treatment: Suturing the Rupture Between Body and Mind by Leon Brenner, Ph.D; Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Substance Use and Mis-use by D. Bradley Jones, Psy.D, LCSW; Placement, Displacement, Replacement: Where the Social and the Unconscious […]

Saturday Morning Case Conference: On Stranger Waves: Orienting One(s) Self in the “I Don’t Know”

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The word “stranger” comes from the Latin word extraneus, meaning “one who is on the outside.” In this latest installment of our case conference series, targeted to early career clinicians and those curious to learn more about psychodynamic approaches to therapy, PCOP Psychotherapy Associate Member, Jasmine Gibson, LCSW, will present from her work with a […]

Film and Mind Online: The Master Gardener

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The Master Gardener (2022, 2 hr, 25 minutes), directed by Academy Award® nominee Paul Schrader, continues Schrader’s long filmic exploration of the psychology of redemption. Here, a former skinhead gang enforcer lives an apparently monastic life as he tends the grounds of a beautiful estate until others’ needs impinge on his ascetic resolve. Learning Objectives: […]

Anne Alvarez – Erotic Transferences in Children

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Anne Alverez presents on erotic transference as part of our Master Speaker Series videoconference.

Family Reconciliation-A Case Study

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David Scharff, MD presents a case study on Family Reconciliation as part of our ongoing Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Videoconference series.

Meet the Author: Shari Thurer, Sc.D.

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Join Shari Thurer, Sc.D., and a panel of discussants as she discusses her new book, Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender with Dan Jacobs, MD, and the online audience.

Connections and Conversation with George Bermudez, Ph.D.: Towards a Socio-centric Psychoanalysis Contributing to Deliberative Democracy: Social Dreaming, Community Psychoanalysis, & Reflective Citizenship

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Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting. The core thesis, threading through several publications is that if contemporary psychoanalysis aspires to contribute to addressing our socio-political and ecological challenges, we must develop an enlarged repertoire of theory and practice. The distinguished Harvard Law School Professor, Lawrence Lessig has eloquently argued that repairing our […]

Core Principles of Treating the Suicidal Adult

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Presenter: J. Christopher Fowler, PhD Description: We are acutely aware of the fear and dread of losing a patient to suicide. Unlike other medical crises, there are no biologic tests to accurately determine the level of suicide risk, nor metrics for determining when a suicidal crisis may occur (Fowler, 2012; Franklin et al., 2017). It […]

Generating Psychic Structure – 8 session course

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Learn how interpersonal processes become internalized and create the structure of the conscious and unconscious mind. Through readings, discussions, and case presentations you will gain a deeper understanding of core object relations concepts including internalization, identification, mentalization, splitting, repression, projective identification, and containment.

Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society Meeting

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Donald Moss, MD. “The Traumatizing Disorder of Everyday Life”.  

Otto Fenichel’s Rundbriefe for the Present Moment: Community Psychoanalysis in the United States

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From 1934 until 1945, Otto Fenichel and a small group of left-leaning psychoanalysts were forced to flee the rise of Nazism in Germany. As refugees, they furtively shared their ideas about the politics of institutional psychoanalysis through a series of private Rundbriefe (circulating letters, or circulars), and discussed in the exchange of letters the possibility […]

Connections and Conversation with Miri Abramis, Ph.D.: Culture and the Texture of Experience: Multiple Systems Perspective from an Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Lens

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Connections and Conversation is a free monthly Zoom meeting. From the first contact with our patients, we begin to engage the question: who is this person who has sought out our help? How do we understand their suffering? The maverick founders of interpersonal school of psychoanalysis, originally known as the cultural school, each in his/her […]

2023 Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference

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Conflicts and Ethics in Psychoanalytic Consultation and SupervisionPresenter: Nancy McWilliams, PhD Discussant: Kit MacLean, PsyD Program Description: This ethics conference aims to be of practical value to supervisors and their supervisees. Utilizing vignettes from the presenter and participants, we will look at recurrent controversies in psychoanalytic supervision, the “vital signs” that supervisors monitor that go […]

Potential Space and Organizational Trauma

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Presented by M. Gerard Fromm, PhD In January, 2002, an annual Group Relations Conference was held as it had been for many years, and one of its large-group events began ordinarily enough. But, four months after 9/11/2001, members could not stay in the room to do the work of that session. Even though the recent […]