BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//American Psychoanalytic Association - ECPv6.17.3.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:American Psychoanalytic Association X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://apsa.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for American Psychoanalytic Association REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261013T211500 DTSTAMP:20261014T144845Z CREATED:20260921T165051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T144845Z UID:20000872-1791921600-1791926100@apsa.org SUMMARY:Why Can't We Want Anything Anymore? Desire\, Burnout\, Identity\, and the Hidden Costs of Modern Life DESCRIPTION:Dr. Alison Feit: We are living through a strange cultural moment. People have never had more freedom\, more choices\, more opportunities for self-expression\, or more language for understanding themselves. Yet everywhere we look\, people are reporting some version of the same experience: burnout\, numbness\, indecision\, loneliness\, endless scrolling\, a loss of direction\, a loss of meaning\, a loss of desire. What happened? \nIn this three-part live course\, psychoanalyst Dr. Alison Feit explores one of the defining psychological questions of our time: not simply why we stop wanting\, but why so many of us seem to have lost the capacity to want at all. Drawing on psychoanalysis\, contemporary culture\, philosophy\, literature\, and clinical work\, we will examine the hidden ways desire disappears—not only through disappointment and trauma\, but through success\, adaptation\, identity\, self-improvement\, certainty\, and the pressure to become someone.\nThis is not a course about finding your passion. It is a course about understanding what happened to it. URL:https://apsa.org/event/why-cant-we-want-anything-anymore-desire-burnout-identity-and-the-hidden-costs-of-modern-life/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T180000 DTSTAMP:20260904T180547Z CREATED:20260805T151747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T180547Z UID:20000843-1791563400-1791568800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Dreams on the Couch Pt. 2 DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald\, Psy.D.\, LMFT. This consultation group invites therapists into an ongoing exploration of dreams as living expressions of the unconscious. Drawing from the full arc of psychoanalytic thought\, participants will bring clinical material and engage in a collaborative process of listening\, reverie\, and meaning-making. URL:https://apsa.org/event/dreams-on-the-couch-pt-2/ LOCATION:Virtual ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261007T213000 DTSTAMP:20260904T180404Z CREATED:20260805T151747Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260904T180404Z UID:20000842-1791403200-1791408600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Integrating Knowing and Being: Toward a Psychoanalytic Identity DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Paul Koehler\, LCSW & Michelle Pfeifer\, LMHP \nWhether you are an early career clinician or a seasoned analyst this course will help you create and solidify your personal-professional identity. \nIn recent decades there has emerged a strand of psychoanalytic theorizing and practice that distinguishes between what has been designated as the epistemological approach to psychoanalysis\, which emphasizes the facilitation of the patient’s gaining a fuller understanding of himself or herself (explicated in the writings of Freud and Klein)\, and the ontological approach\, which emphasizes the facilitation of the patient’s more fully becoming himself or herself (as explicated in the writings of Winnicott and Bion).\nThis course will consider how this distinction operates in the other half of the analytic dyad: i.e.\, how we as psychoanalytic practitioners allow for and integrate our understanding and mastery of psychoanalytic theory and technique with who we are continually becoming as human beings and evolving practitioners; or\, in other words\, how we internalize and hold true to established psychoanalytic knowledge and tradition while at the same time working as practitioners in our own distinctive and deeply personal ways. URL:https://apsa.org/event/integrating-knowing-and-being-toward-a-psychoanalytic-identity/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T120000 DTSTAMP:20260902T203833Z CREATED:20260811T201111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T203833Z UID:20000847-1790413200-1790424000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Amy Levy\, Psy.D. presents “You are my creator\, but I am your master” -Exploring the fantasies and realities of Artificial Intelligence DESCRIPTION:Scientific Meeting \nThis presentation will be held virtually via Zoom. Register at the host website.  \nPresentation Summary: \nAs AI systems take up residence in the consulting room\, classroom\, bedroom\, nursery\, hospital and battlefield\, humanity faces an unprecedented challenge: how do we respond to this new other that is both native inhabitant and intruder? Born of human desires and fears\, fantasized about for centuries\, AI is a longstanding transference figure\, while current generative AI models are unmistakable aliens among us. In this seminar Dr. Amy Levy will unpack the human desire for AI\, how that desire is interfacing with the all too real AI systems upending our way of life\, the implications for the field and practice of psychoanalysis\, and she will offer some useful guidance on how we in psychoanalysis might respond. There will be ample time for discussion\, including opportunities to unpack the ideas presented as well as clinical material from audience members. \nAmy Levy\, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She chairs the American Psychoanalytic Association’s (APsA) Commission on Artificial Intelligence (CAI)\, serves on the subcommittee “Artificial Intelligence” for the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) committee\, “Psychoanalysis and Technology\,” serves on the editorial board of  The Psychoanalytic Quarterly\, and she is Editor of the Substack series\, “AI in My Mind\,” for The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is author of the book\, The New Other: Alien Intelligence and the Innovation Drive. Dr. Levy lectures internationally on the intersection of psychoanalysis and artificial intelligence and maintains a private practice in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nDiscuss 2 reasons why human beings desire AI companions.\nDescribe three ways AI is showing up in the clinical situation.\nIdentify 2 ways to respond to the rise of AI into psychoanalytic practice and training.\n\n  \n3 CME/CEU credits available\nAll are welcome to attend. \nEarly Bird Special by August 31st. URL:https://apsa.org/event/amy-levy-florida-psychoanalytic-center/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260919T140000 DTSTAMP:20260902T203551Z CREATED:20260805T151746Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T203551Z UID:20000841-1789819200-1789826400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Supervision (Second Section) DESCRIPTION:Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This series of 4 classes introduces an approach to supervision that emphasizes developing supervisory alliance\, parallel process\, working with countertransference\, and the supervisor-supervisee dynamic. Both didactic and experiential learning will be equally emphasized. This class is designed for those who supervise graduate students\, interns\, postdocs\, and associates at multiple levels of training in academic\, community\, and private practice settings. URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-supervision-second-section/ LOCATION:Virtual ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T123000 DTSTAMP:20260902T135526Z CREATED:20260805T151744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T135526Z UID:20000839-1789124400-1789129800@apsa.org SUMMARY:A Consultation Group on Zoom for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists DESCRIPTION:Shoshana Shapiro Adler\, PhD and Anita Schmukler\, DO are offering a consultation group for psychotherapists and psychoanalysts who wish to engage in sustained\, thoughtful dialogue about clinical work within a psychoanalytic and psychodynamic framework. \nThe group will provide a confidential and collegial setting in which participants may present clinical material and reflect together on the complexities of therapeutic process. Particular attention will be given to transference and countertransference\, the analytic frame\, unconscious communication\, and moments of uncertainty or impasse that arise in treatment. \nParticipation is intended for practicing clinicians who are interested in maintaining an ongoing reflective space for the exploration of analytic work. URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-consultation-group-on-zoom-for-psychoanalysts-and-psychotherapists/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260904T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260904T135000 DTSTAMP:20260902T135257Z CREATED:20260413T194952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260902T135257Z UID:20000804-1788526200-1788529800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Out of Sight\, Still in Mind: Intersession Processes and Suicidal Ideation in Psychodynamic Treatment DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series \nSpeaker: Mareike Ernst\, PhD \nThis presentation introduces the concept of intersession processes—patients’ thoughts\, feelings\, fantasies\, and internalized experiences of therapy and therapist between sessions—and examines their relevance from a contemporary psychodynamic perspective. Drawing on psychodynamic theory and empirical research\, the talk will discuss how intersession processes may illuminate clinically meaningful fluctuations in suicidal ideation\, including both protective and risk-related dynamics in outpatient treatment. Particular attention will be given to recent findings showing how both between-person and within-person variation in intersession experience can deepen our understanding of suicidal processes beyond symptom severity alone. It will further consider how the study of intersession life may open new avenues for clinically sensitive routine monitoring\, smartphone-based assessment\, and personalized interventions\, while also inviting a critical discussion of the conceptual and methodological limitations of integrating intersession-focused assessment into care. URL:https://apsa.org/event/out-of-sight-still-in-mind-intersession-processes-and-suicidal-ideation-in-psychodynamic-treatment/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260807T135000 DTSTAMP:20260706T194122Z CREATED:20260413T194952Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T194122Z UID:20000803-1786107000-1786110600@apsa.org SUMMARY:How We Conceptualize Disability and Why it Matters Clinically DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series \nSpeaker: Rhoda Olkin\, PhD \nClients come to therapy with entrenched ideas about illness\, health\, and disability. How they conceptualize disability impacts all aspects of therapy\, including goals\, acceptable interventions\, and the therapeutic relationship. These conceptualizations\, called Models of Disability in the literature\, are one aspect of Disability Affirmative Therapy. The models are Moral\, Medical\, Social and Biopsychosocial models. Most clients have some combination of each model and its positive and negative connotations. This presentation covers the four models of disability and gives examples of how clients talk within their model\, and how that affects their responses to microaggressions. The relationship of models to mental health will be discussed. URL:https://apsa.org/event/how-we-conceptualize-disability-and-why-it-matters-clinically/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260724T135000 DTSTAMP:20260706T193931Z CREATED:20260402T183020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T193931Z UID:20000791-1784897400-1784901000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Resolving Therapeutic Dilemmas in Suicidal Clients Using Principles of Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy - Robert J. Gregory\, MD DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Robert J. Gregory\, MD \nEngaging suicidal clients in treatment and recovery is intense and challenging. Clients may state: “I just want to die”\, “Nothing is going to help”\, or “If you discharge me\, I’m going to kill myself”. Therapists can sometimes feel helpless\, hopeless and trapped in the responsibility of holding their client’s life in their hands. In this presentation\, Dr. Gregory will share principles and techniques grounded in Dynamic Deconstructive Psychotherapy theory\, research\, and extensive front-line experience to shed light on complex cases and common therapeutic dilemmas\, offering a path forward for both therapists and clients. URL:https://apsa.org/event/resolving-therapeutic-dilemmas-in-suicidal-clients-using-principles-of-dynamic-deconstructive-psychotherapy-robert-j-gregory-md-webinar-live-online/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260717T135000 DTSTAMP:20260402T214418Z CREATED:20260402T183009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T214418Z UID:20000790-1784292600-1784296200@apsa.org SUMMARY:Links Between Childhood Trauma\, Psychosis\, the Bayesian Predictive Processing Model of Brain Function\, Transference\, and the Mind Conceived as a Self-Organizing System - Michael D. Garrett\, MD DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Michael D. Garrett\, MD \nResearch in the last four decades has shown a strong correlation between childhood adversity (e.g.\, sexual abuse\, physical abuse\, emotional neglect) and psychosis\, which recasts chronic psychosis as a trauma-related/stress/related disorder requiring psychotherapy as well as medication. This presentation will describe how psychotic symptoms can be understood as meaningful expressions of a psychotic person’s past history and current state of mind\, manifestations of a person’s subjective world that provide invaluable guides to a person’s emotional ailments. The talk will show how transference in psychotherapy can be understood as an inevitable consequence of the Bayesian predictive processing model of brain function and how delusions and other psychological defenses emerge as a natural consequence of the neuroscientific conception of the mind as a self-organizing system. URL:https://apsa.org/event/links-between-childhood-trauma-psychosis-the-bayesian-predictive-processing-model-of-brain-function-transference-and-the-mind-conceived-as-a-self-organizing-system-michael-d-garrett-md/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260710T135000 DTSTAMP:20260706T191948Z CREATED:20260514T210435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260706T191948Z UID:20000820-1783687800-1783691400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Authenticity: An Ethical Core for Clinical Practice DESCRIPTION:The ethical codes for mental health professionals are guided by internationally recognized standards centered around core principles: respect for others\, competence\, integrity\, and responsibility to society. Central to these standards is our integrity as a human being\, a professional\, and a member of society\, based on principles of fairness\, justice\, and respect for difference. These codes also recognize the value of community service; ways in which our training demands a certain level of social responsibility. We are called upon to know our field well enough to make choices that have integrity\, and to engage in ongoing trainings that support our own development within a changing world. And yet\, countering these standards is the anxious insecurity that threatens to make us lose our minds rather than build them\, and to turn to rules that\, in the absence of our reflective capacity\, can become dangerously mindless. We see this\, for example\, in the turn towards using diagnoses\, not to organize our understanding\, but as reified entities that demand specific treatments that may harm more than they help. In that turn\, we lose touch with the most basic principle guiding our ethics: to do no harm. The price of objectifying persons rather than assisting them in enlarging their own subjective capacities is highlighted in this era of AI. In such an era\, we need to locate our ethics within a foundation that does not betray us – or those we work with – by masquerading behind a veneer of ‘truth’ that has no authentic\, ethical\, human core. Using clinical illustrations\, I discuss the values of authenticity and respect for difference as crucial grounding points for ethical clinical practice. URL:https://apsa.org/event/authenticity-an-ethical-core-for-clinical-practice/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260613T154500 DTSTAMP:20260422T212019Z CREATED:20260327T173409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T212019Z UID:20000778-1781353800-1781365500@apsa.org SUMMARY:Saturday Salon: My Analyst Has Dementia\, I Might Need a Donut DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald\, PsyD\, MFT\, Training and Supervising Analyst. \nIn this Saturday Salon\, Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald invites participants into an intimate exploration of a 10-year analytic relationship reframed through an unexpected reversal as the analyst’s mind is slowly overtaken by dementia. Through a series of vivid clinical and relational moments\, she reflects on the unfolding experience of remaining in analytic dialogue while the analyst’s capacity for coherence becomes increasingly compromised. \nThis experience both challenges and illuminates the foundations of psychoanalytic work. Together\, participants are invited to explore vulnerability\, asymmetry\, and the deeply human dimensions of analytic work. URL:https://apsa.org/event/saturday-salon-my-analyst-has-dementia-i-might-need-a-donut/ LOCATION:Virtual ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T213000 DTSTAMP:20260402T213946Z CREATED:20260402T183020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T213946Z UID:20000792-1781294400-1781299800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Xenophobia\, War\, and the Problem of Social Disorder - George Makari\, MD DESCRIPTION:Keynote of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Rapaport-Klein Study Group\nhosted by the Erikson Institute for Education\, Research\, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center \nSpeaker: George Makari\, MD \nIn Of Fear and Strangers\, George Makari\, MD\, considered how different psychological models – behaviorist\, cognitive\, phenomenological – accounted for xenophobia\, and in the end\, considered psychoanalytic theories of projection to most clearly define the most intractable form of this problem. With ethnonationalism and militarism on the rise around the world\, Dr. Makari wanted to explore the social conditions that fostered such projected hatred. For that\, he turned to Einstein and Freud’s 1932 exchange\, “Why War?”. In Freud’s brief letter\, he proposed a model for collectives\, in which the problem of self-defense and the risk of social disintegration were central. How\, we might ask\, does this model apply to our present? URL:https://apsa.org/event/xenophobia-war-and-the-problem-of-social-disorder-george-makari-md/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T173000 DTSTAMP:20260514T214916Z CREATED:20260514T210435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T214916Z UID:20000821-1781280000-1781285400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Reading Group: A People's History of Psychoanalysis: From Freud to Liberation DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dr. Holly Han\, Psy.D.\, LMFT & Ivy Zequeira\, LMFT. This 6-week course explores psychoanalysis as a living\, political\, and decolonial practice through Daniel José Gaztambide’s A People’s History of Psychoanalysis. We’ll trace the field from Freud’s early formulations through its entanglement with race\, class\, and empire\, to contemporary liberation psychology and decolonial movements. Students will critically examine how psychoanalytic ideas have been used to both reinforce and resist oppression\, and consider what a liberatory\, community?oriented psychoanalysis can look like today. URL:https://apsa.org/event/reading-group-a-peoples-history-of-psychoanalysis-from-freud-to-liberation/ LOCATION:Virtual ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T143000 DTSTAMP:20260422T205828Z CREATED:20260402T183008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260422T205828Z UID:20000787-1780664400-1780669800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Dreams on the Couch: A Consultation Group for Therapists DESCRIPTION:This consultation group presented by Kathleen Fitzgerald\, invites therapists into an ongoing exploration of dreams as living expressions of the unconscious. Drawing from the full arc of psychoanalytic thought\, participants will bring clinical material and engage in a collaborative process of listening\, reverie\, and meaning-making. \nTogether\, we will explore how dreams emerge within the intersubjective field\, how they speak to unconscious communication\, and how they may be used clinically to deepen the relationship between the patient\, the therapist\, and the analytic relationship itself. This is a space for clinicians who wish to think deeply\, work imaginatively\, and remain in contact with the mystery and vitality of the unconscious. URL:https://apsa.org/event/dreams-on-the-couch-a-consultation-group-for-therapists/ LOCATION:Virtual ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T130000 DTSTAMP:20260501T155307Z CREATED:20260501T155307Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T155307Z UID:20000813-1780664400-1780664400@apsa.org SUMMARY:A Consultation Group for Therapists: Dreams on the Couch DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald\, PsyD\, MFT\, Training and Supervising Analyst. This consultation group invites therapists into an ongoing exploration of dreams as living expressions of the unconscious. Drawing from the full arc of psychoanalytic thought\, participants will bring clinical material and engage in a collaborative process of listening\, reverie\, and meaning-making. \nTogether\, we will explore how dreams emerge within the intersubjective field\, how they speak to unconscious communication\, and how they may be used clinically to deepen the relationship between the patient\, the therapist\, and the analytic relationship itself. URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-consultation-group-for-therapists-dreams-on-the-couch/ LOCATION:Virtual ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T135000 DTSTAMP:20260402T203130Z CREATED:20260402T183008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T203130Z UID:20000789-1780663800-1780667400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Matrix\, Environment\, Atmosphere: How Mother Became a Medium DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Hannah Zeavin\, PhD \nFrom the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond\, class\, race\, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature in pediatric psychological studies of Bad Mothers. Newly codified diagnoses of aloof “refrigerator mothers” and overstimulating “hot mothers” were inseparable from midcentury conceptions of stimulation\, mediation\, domesticity\, and race\, including Marshall McLuhan’s theory of hot and cool media\, as well as maternal absence and (over)presence\, echoes of which continue in the present in terms like “helicopter parent.” Whereas autism and autistic states have been extensively elaborated in their relationship to digital media\, this talk attends to attributed maternal causes of “emotionally disturbed\,” queer\, and neurodivergent children. The talk thus elaborates a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” URL:https://apsa.org/event/matrix-environment-atmosphere-how-mother-became-a-medium-hannah-zeavin-phd/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T180000 DTSTAMP:20260402T195158Z CREATED:20260402T182959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T195158Z UID:20000782-1780156800-1780164000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis and Artificial Intelligence DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Todd Essig\, Phd and Oscar Hills\, MD. Generative AI\, especially chatbots\, presents psychoanalysis with tremendous promise and significant peril. While some benefit tremendously from their AI relationships\, others sink into delusion\, and for most they threaten to flatten inner life\, externalizing what has always been internal. Plus\, so called “therapy-bots” are on the near horizon with both promise and peril. Overall\, if you’re not at least a little anxious about AI’s transformations to self-experience\, intimate relationships and professional life\, you’re not paying enough attention. But anxiety need not lead to denial\, retreat\, panic or paralysis. This presentation offers a path toward active\, informed\, and hopeful engagement on the side of human needs\, psychoanalytic values\, and affirming life. It argues that hope\, not fear\, should drive our response. Active participation combined with critical\, contemplative\, and deeply psychoanalytic engagement can secure not just survival but a thriving psychoanalysis for the AI age. Three dimensions of this AI-age psychoanalytic activism will be explored. First\, why hope provides the essential foundation for AI-age psychoanalytic activism in our moment of accelerating technological transformation. Second\, how to develop the procedural knowledge necessary for authentic psychoanalytic engagement with these technologies so one can move beyond abstract fantasies to embodied understanding. Finally\, a new framework of “techno-subjunctivity” for understanding the unique qualities of chatbot intimacies will illustrate what it looks like to practice hopeful\, AI-age psychoanalytic activism. URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalysis-and-artificial-intelligence/ LOCATION:Virtual ORGANIZER;CN="Western New England Psychoanalytic Society":MAILTO:arodems@wneps.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T220000 DTSTAMP:20260327T174929Z CREATED:20260327T173406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T174929Z UID:20000774-1779566400-1779573600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Book Discussion - Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Lauren Levine\, PhD\nDiscussion by: Janine de Peyer\, LCSW \nPlease join us whether or not you have read the book. Some people want to read and discuss the book; others want to learn more before deciding if they want to read it. All are welcome! \nIn this presentation\, Dr. Levine examines the transformative power of storytelling and witnessing in creating shared symbolic meaning and coherence from ungrieved trauma. She explores creativity as a transformative force that emerges within the clinical process\, drawing on film\, dance\, literature\, and dreams as frames for experiences that exceed what language alone can capture. As both an analyst and a writer\, Dr. Levine is especially interested in the stories individuals and communities tell\, the interstitial gaps created by unmetabolized trauma\, and the potential of an intimate psychoanalytic process to help patients reclaim memory\, creative agency\, and authorship of their own lives. URL:https://apsa.org/event/book-discussion-risking-intimacy-and-creative-transformation-in-psychoanalysis/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T130000 DTSTAMP:20260413T194948Z CREATED:20260413T194948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T194948Z UID:20000798-1779454800-1779454800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Queering Classical Psychoanalytic Concepts Through the Subaltern DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tiffany Hale\, LMFT & Jamie Steele\, LMFT \nBring your cases that are outside of normative bounds. We will draw in our well-worn and well-loved analytic concepts to explore clinical material together. If you have found that your thinking\, your lived experience and/or that of your patients has not quite been thinkable within analytic theory\, join us. We’ll stretch the limits and make room together. Each week we will center a classical concept with the intention of queering it through the lens of case material from the group. URL:https://apsa.org/event/queering-classical-psychoanalytic-concepts-through-the-subaltern/ LOCATION:Virtual ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T135000 DTSTAMP:20260402T193550Z CREATED:20260402T183008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260402T193550Z UID:20000788-1778849400-1778853000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Psychological Assessment and Access: A Multidisciplinary Population Health Approach - Hadas Pade\, PsyD DESCRIPTION:2026 Grand Rounds Series\nSpeaker: Hadas Pade\, PsyD \nThis session highlights the need to address the current inequitable access to psychological assessment services by acknowledging and embracing different levels of assessment versus a more traditional comprehensive assessment approach\, and the potential role of various health care providers other than psychologists. While comprehensive assessments are highly valued\, they are costly\, often not adequately covered by insurance\, and not readily available for many individuals\, especially those from minoritized groups. In addition\, one must be highly qualified to complete such an assessment; thus\, supply is short. The current alternatives of a lengthy waitlist or simply bypassing an assessment are unacceptable and in direct opposition to social justice values. Instead\, applying a population health model including a multidisciplinary approach that systematically and thoughtfully offers universal screenings and targeted assessments rather than primarily comprehensive ones along with overall promotion of health and emotional well-being is the way forward. This multi-tiered approach utilizes preventative tools and early detection and intervention applied to more or even all people that can be completed by a range of mental health and health trained individuals. Although not new\, a population health approach has yet to be widely applied to psychological assessment. The different levels will be described including purpose\, scope\, type of providers considered\, and resources necessary as well as advantages and limitations. URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychological-assessment-and-access-a-multidisciplinary-population-health-approach-hadas-pade-psyd/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T203000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T220000 DTSTAMP:20260327T150225Z CREATED:20250820T175922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T150225Z UID:20000624-1778790600-1778796000@apsa.org SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Freedom and The Loving Gaze DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Shir Shanun\, PhD \nCivitarese (2024) writes we have a need to exist in the eyes of others\, it is what makes relationships meaningful. Such loving connections and freedom in complex analytic system and the positive relationship between them are at the center of this paper. I will argue that restriction or expansion of one impacts the other. I define freedom—as an emergent component within the analytic complex system that reflects an increase in perspectives a person has and experiences; and the loving gaze—as an integral constituent of the conditions that support recognition and an indicator of movement toward or away from recognition and connection. The use of Giuseppe Civitarese’s model of Post Bionian Field Theory (BFT) and Daniel Goldin’s Storying\, supports the emergence of both loving gaze and freedom including more freedom to address the socio-political and transform our experience into a loving gaze experience. \nIn this paper a clinical example will demonstrate a moment of restricted freedom in the context of socio-political impingement. We will explore its transformation into a loving gaze experience using BFT and storying techniques. It will exemplify how when our loving gaze is restricted toward the other and toward ourselves\, our freedom is restricted. Whereas we might feel a more intimate connection when we experience more freedom in our relatedness. \nCE URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-freedom-and-the-loving-gaze/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T163000 DTSTAMP:20260501T155502Z CREATED:20260413T194948Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260501T155502Z UID:20000801-1777723200-1777739400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Laplanche Part II - Special Topics DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Levin Psy.D. \nThis conference will continue exploring aspects of Laplanche’s work that we did not have time to cover during the February presentation. It will include a case presentation to facilitate further clinical discussion and learning. \nTopics covered will include: \n• Laplanche’s view of the metapsychology of psychotic and dissociative disturbances \n• Laplanche’s view of loss\, mourning\, and human temporality \n• Laplanche’s theory of gender \n• A closer look at Laplanche’s view of the psychoanalytic clinical method\, process\, and aims of treatment \n• Laplanche’s view of the relationships between psychoanalysis\, ideology\, and human freedom URL:https://apsa.org/event/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-laplanche-part-ii-special-topics/ LOCATION:Virtual ORGANIZER;CN="Newport Psychoanalytic Institute":MAILTO:admin@npi.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T141500 DTSTAMP:20260327T174747Z CREATED:20260327T173407Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T174747Z UID:20000777-1777719600-1777731300@apsa.org SUMMARY:Conference - Clinical and Theoretical Considerations in Telehealth vs. In-person Psychoanalytic Treatments DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Arthur Niesser\, Dr. Med.\, Derek Hook\, PhD & Leora Trub\nDiscussion by: Todd Essig\, PhD\nThis conference will consider some clinical and theoretical considerations in telehealth versus in-person psychoanalytic treatments. Dr. Niesser will explore if there might be groups of patients for whom online analysis might be advantageous compared to the traditional in-person setting. The potential for a ‘safe space’ is examined\, especially in view of erotic transference and countertransference. Furthermore\, the preferred choice of setting might depend in part on the therapist’s personality. \nRather than immediately designating teletherapy (or for that matter\, in-person therapy) as the inferior form\, Dr. Hook suggests we might pause and ask: how have ‘distanced’ forms of treatment (analysis via phone\, teletherapy\, etc.) drawn our attention to certain facets of the ‘original’ form of psychoanalysis that often go unremarked upon? For example\, in Lacanian psychoanalysis with neurotic analysands\, a degree of anxiety is often considered necessary\, just as a degree of personal distance (following the imperative to work rather in the symbolic than in the imaginary). I will note the role of a type of ‘minimal uncanny’ effect in teletherapy\, highlight a few points in respect of differing forms of transference\, and consider what interpretative potentials arise from a combining the two forms of psychoanalytic work. \nAccording to Dr. Trub\, digital culture increasingly conflicts with longstanding assumptions about psychoanalytic practice. This tension was sharply amplified by the abrupt\, unprepared shift to telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contemporary clinical practices suggest that certain traditional analytic ideals may have exceeded their explanatory and regulatory usefulness. As a result\, these ideals may no longer function reliably as markers of deviations from the analytic frame or as guides for reestablishing idealized technique under digitally-mediated conditions. This presentation argues for a new paradigm for conceptualizing the analytic ideal\, as one which is rooted in the paradoxes that exist at the heart of digital experience. \nThe Illusion of Equivalence. Telehealth requires us to act as if in-person and remote modalities are equivalent in order to function\, while knowing clinically that they are not. The paradox lies in sustaining continuity of care without collapsing meaningful differences in embodiment\, proximity\, and shared space. \nHolding at a Distance: Maintaining Presence in Absence. Telehealth asks the therapist to provide holding and presence in the absence of shared physical space\, requiring presence to be actively produced rather than passively given. What is usually sustained by co-location must now be symbolically\, relationally\, and technologically assembled. \nHealing without Resolution. In a fractured and technologically mediated world\, psychotherapy cannot promise wholeness without acknowledging brokenness—including its own. Telehealth becomes therapeutic not by resolving contradiction\, but by modeling how psychic life can be held together in the presence of inconsistency\, loss\, and limits. URL:https://apsa.org/event/conference-clinical-and-theoretical-considerations-in-telehealth-vs-in-person-psychoanalytic-treatments/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T143000 DTSTAMP:20260213T155935Z CREATED:20251024T182527Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T155935Z UID:20000680-1777640400-1777645800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Alumni Roundtable - Working with Shame DESCRIPTION:Working with the Unspeakable: Shame\, Self-hatred\, and Relational Repair\nPresenter: Cynthia Mulder\, LCSW-S URL:https://apsa.org/event/alumni-roundtable-3/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T125000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T135000 DTSTAMP:20260213T155115Z CREATED:20260126T035852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T155115Z UID:20000755-1777035000-1777038600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Race\, Fear\, and the American Way DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Lisa L. Moore\, PhD\, LICSW – The deployment of racialized fear as a political strategy has a profound impact on the individuals and communities who are targeted as objects of fear. In our current climate the use of fear as a tool of racialization is an important site for practitioners to consider in their work not solely with clients who are targets\, but also when considering the work of clinical practice. \nThis presentation will consider the framework of fear and racialization as conceived in the historic work of Frantz Fanon through the work of Afro Futurists who offer language and framing for holding sites of possibility in the Black imaginary in the midst of oppressive conditions of the present. While Blackness is an origin site of this discussion of fear\, understanding the application of these concepts may be of significant utility in our current climate to individuals\, practices\, and spaces who may be targeted as objects of fear. This presentation will center the significance of understanding what fear can do to people\, while identifying the necessity of holding autonomous sites of possibility for both the client\, practitioner\, and communities in which people reside. URL:https://apsa.org/event/race-fear-and-the-american-way/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260423T220000 DTSTAMP:20260327T174535Z CREATED:20260327T174535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260327T174535Z UID:20000780-1776974400-1776981600@apsa.org SUMMARY:Special Presentation - Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma Part II: Group Therapy with Chronic Shame and Abject States DESCRIPTION:Presented by: Kathleen Adams\, PhD\nDiscussion by: Robert Grossmark\, PhD\nIn Part II of this two-part special presentation\, author Kathleen Adams\, PhD\, discusses her book Attuned Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Non-abused\, High Functioning People Living Outside of Time. \nGroup and individual therapists who frequently encounter patients with characters organized around melancholy\, anxiety\, entitlement\, and rage may be caught off guard by patients who developed autistic defenses to manage terror\, shame\, and powerlessness. We will explore the abject self as an enacted manifestation of relentless despair. My group work centers primarily on high functioning\, non-abused individuals with disorganized attachment and mild dissociation. Judith Herman suggests that along with terror\, shame is linked to the development of disorganized attachment. Relentless despair and abject states are complex enactments that contribute to failed individual and group therapy experiences because they are difficult to recognize and manage effectively. We will focus tonight on abject states: a neural network which leads to enactment of worthlessness and despair about connection. URL:https://apsa.org/event/special-presentation-attuned-treatment-of-developmental-trauma-part-ii-group-therapy-with-chronic-shame-and-abject-states-2/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T195007Z CREATED:20260413T195007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T195007Z UID:20000810-1776614400-1776614400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Shakespeare’s Hamlet A mini-course presented by James W. Stone DESCRIPTION:This mini-course explores Shakespeare’s Hamlet through the lens of psychoanalytic theory\, examining the psychological dimensions of the play’s characters\, themes\, and dramatic structure. Drawing on classical and contemporary psychoanalytic frameworks\, the course investigates issues such as mourning and melancholia\, repression\, desire\, family dynamics\, and the unconscious motivations that shape Hamlet’s actions.\nParticipants will gain a deeper understanding of how psychoanalytic criticism illuminates Hamlet’s enduring complexity and relevance\, while also engaging broader questions about subjectivity\, identity\, and interpretation in literature and clinical thought.\nAt the conclusion of this activity\, participants should be able to:\nApply psychoanalytic concepts to the interpretation of Hamlet.\nAnalyze key themes in Hamlet such as grief\, repression\, and ambivalence through a psychoanalytic framework.\nEvaluate the relevance of psychoanalytic literary criticism to clinical thinking and practice.\nIntegrate insights from psychoanalytic readings of literature into broader understandings of human behavior and internal conflict.\nJames W. Stone is a lecturer on Shakespeare and early modern literature at American University and on Shakespeare at the Osher Institute at Johns Hopkins University. He taught at the American University in Cairo and at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Crossing Gender in Shakespeare: Feminist Psychoanalysis and the Difference Within (Routledge\, 2010) and articles on Shakespeare\, Milton\, the Renaissance Ovid\, film theory\, and contemporary Egyptian art. In 2024 James Newlin and he co-edited the essay collection New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains (Routledge). He and Catherine Bates are the editors of Shakespeare and Psychoanalysis: Method in the Madness (forthcoming in Spring 2026 from Palgrave Macmillan). URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-perspectives-on-shakespeares-hamlet-a-mini-course-presented-by-james-w-stone-2/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T160000 DTSTAMP:20260413T194951Z CREATED:20260413T194951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260413T194951Z UID:20000802-1776614400-1776614400@apsa.org SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Shakespeare’s Hamlet A mini-course presented by James W. Stone DESCRIPTION:The Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine is pleased to announce the latest in our recent series of mini courses\, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Shakespeare’s Hamlet\, to be held with Professor James Stone during the upcoming months via Zoom. \nThe classes will be held on Sunday April 19th\, Sunday May 31st\, and Sunday June 28th\, from 4-5:30 pm EST\, and will be open to all APM members free of charge. Registration is required. URL:https://apsa.org/event/psychoanalytic-perspectives-on-shakespeares-hamlet-a-mini-course-presented-by-james-w-stone/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T140000 DTSTAMP:20260213T154901Z CREATED:20251024T182542Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260213T154901Z UID:20000685-1776513600-1776520800@apsa.org SUMMARY:Anthony Bass\, PhD DESCRIPTION:“Unconscious Communication Between Therapist and Patient: The Ordinary Uncanniness of Everyday Psychoanalytic Life-Back to the Future of Psychoanalysis” URL:https://apsa.org/event/anthony-bass-phd/ LOCATION:Virtual END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR