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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

Psychedelics in an Age of Freud and Pharmacology: What Happened Before, What is Happening Now, Why it Matters

Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center 2460 Fairmount Blvd #312, Cleveland, OH, United States +1 more

Presenter: Anne Harrington, Ph.D. In the 1940s, the drug company Sandoz sponsored a study of LSD at the University of Zurich which came to the conclusion that this was a drug that made normal people temporarily schizophrenic. Sandoz subsequently decided to promote LSD as a research drug for experimental investigations of schizophrenia, and especially its […]

Andrea Celenza: Embodied Countertransference

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Andrea Celenza presents in our ongoing videoconference series on The Erotic in Psychoanalysis. 2 CEs $60

Where Is Psychoanalysis in the Psychotherapy Jungle?

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Presenter: Jon G. Allen, PhD Description: After its dominance in American psychotherapy in the first half of the twentieth century, psychoanalysis was marginalized in the healthcare system in the latter part of the century. This marginalization resulted from the confluence of academic scientism and tailoring of psychotherapies to DSM diagnoses in psychiatry.

Connections and Conversation: Belonging and its Discontents – Eyal Rozmarin Ph.D.

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Free zoom event Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D: For a long time, I have been interested in the relations between individuals and collectives: the groups they are, and feel, part of; the groups they identify with, and in the act of identifying, becoming who they are. In other words, I’ve been interested in belonging: in how we […]

Truth, Reconciliation, and Reparation

Hybrid (virtual and in-person)

Presented by Paula Christian Kliger, PhD. Taking the position that a road paved with truth, reconciliation, and reparation is the road less traveled in our racial and sociocultural healing and our search for human resonance, this presentation seeks to face our toxic history and asks the question “How do we heal?” It also asks the […]

Howard Levine: The Unstructured Unconscious and the Repressed Unconscious: A Clinical Paradigm for the 21ST Century

Rockville, Maryland Hilton or Virtual 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockland, MD, United States

Dr. Levine will present the following papers throughout the weekend: Freud and Metapsychology, as Seen from the Perspective of The Ego and the Id The Analyst’s Absence and Symbolization (based on André Green’s 1975 paper ‘The Analyst, Symbolization and Absence in the Analytic Setting”) Unrepresented States and Psychic Regulation Interpretation in a Contemporary Context Weekend […]

“Observer and Lens of Patient-Analyst Match”

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A Scientific Meeting presented by Judy Kantrowitz, PhD In this presentation, we will consider the importance of an outside observer in clinical work after the end of formal training. This includes but is not limited to the importance of peer supervision, supervision groups where cases can be shared confidentially, and other forms of clinical consultation. […]

Gender Without Identity, Development Without Developmentalism

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Presented by Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD. At this moment in time, conversations about gender are at the epicenter of heated debate and passionate conversation. At stake is gender's status as a concept (does gender matter, and if so, how?) and matters relating to gender development. Is gender an innate part of the self or one that […]

Understanding Issues of Dual Roles and Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Practice

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Dr. Judy Kantrowitz presents Understanding Issues of Dual Roles and Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Practice. In this workshop, we will consider the Ethical issues presented by Dual Roles and Conflicts of Interest in clinical practice. Dr. Kantrowitz will come prepared with 3 formal case vignettes for discussion. In addition, she will invite vignettes from […]

Glen Gabbard, MD. “The Elusive Construct of Therapeutic Action”

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Clinicians and researchers find it difficult to adequately describe how the patient changes and what roles the clinician has in facilitating change. What approaches have been developed to help us understand how patients can expand their understanding of the source of the difficulties and what they can do to improve their lives? Dr. Gabbard will […]

Psychoanalytic Substance Use Treatment: Reducing Harm Through Attuned Responsiveness

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D. Bradley Jones, PsyD, LCSW and Darren Haber, PsyD, MFT demonstrate how a relational psychoanalytic approach that engages the subjective experience of the patient and contextualizes emotional pain can facilitate developmental growth for two patients on the “continuum of change,” not yet ready for abstinence. Heather Ferguson, LCSW, faculty from The Institute for the Psychoanalytic […]

Mark Solms – A Neuroscientific Perspective on Freudian Dream Theory

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Mark Solms is a psychoanalyst, neuropsychologist and a professor in Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). His lecture begins with a discussion on the series of discoveries about the dreaming brain between the 1950s and 1980s that suggested that Freudian theory was scientifically disproven. Less well known is the fact that a […]

Saturday Salon: I Can Do It All Myself: Working With Self Sufficient Patients

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This salon, taught by Glenda Corstorphine, will focus on our patients who have a hard time letting us help them. From a very young age they are used to figuring everything out on their own. When these patients enter therapy there is a longing for help, a hope that someone can come along side of […]

Conference Day 1: Vicissitudes of a Clinical Career: From Self-Discovery to Profound Impact

Virtual Event

Join us at the 55th Annual Education Conference (Live Online) hosted by the Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of New York State Society for Clinical Social Work (NYSSCSW)– a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to supporting the professional development of licensed mental health professionals, including psychodynamic and psychoanalytic practice. Two Virtual Saturdays: April 20th 2024 […]

Visiting Scholars Weekend: “A new perspective on Freud’s thinking on truth, it’s foundational role in psychoanalysis, and its contemporary relevance”

Baker Nord Center for the Humanities on Case Western Reserve University Campus Clark Hall Room 206, 11130 Bellflower Rd, Cleveland, OH, United States

Rachel Blass presents “A new perspective on Freud’s thinking on truth, it’s foundational role in psychoanalysis, and its contemporary relevance." At the foundation of Freud’s thinking is the idea that psychopathology is the result of denial. Truths denied lead to a distorted reality and accordingly coming to know these truths, discovering the true meanings underlying […]

Conference Day 2: Vicissitudes of a Clinical Career: From Self-Discovery to Profound Impact

Virtual Event

Join us at this 2nd Conference Day for the 55th Annual Education Conference (Live Online) hosted by the Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of New York State Society for Clinical Social Work (NYSSCSW) – a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to supporting the professional development of licensed mental health professionals, including psychodynamic and psychoanalytic practice. […]

Trauma of Human Agency, Transmission of Trauma through Generations, & Reparation through Embodied Witnessing: A New Vision for Diagnosis & Treatment of Trauma with Clara Mucci, PhD

Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)

Tapping the roots of mental health history, Dr. Clara Mucci continues the pioneering work begun in 1919 at The Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas with her masterful and highly accessible synthesis of psychoanalytic theorists, such as Freud, Ferenczi, and more, with contemporary perspectives on neurobiology and attachment disturbances. Cultivating refined skills in diagnosis and treatment, […]

Connections And Conversation: Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Treatment of Eating Disorders – Tom Wooldridge PsyD, ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-S

Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)

Free zoom event with Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-S : Psychoanalytic thinking offers valuable insights to clinicians working with eating disorders and body image concerns. In a field that increasingly emphasizes rapid symptom reduction, treatment providers risk neglecting less overt, and less easily measurable, aspects of the patient’s experience. This presentation will bring together […]

Visiting Scholar Weekend: On the special nature of Kleinian transference interpretation, and why it is essential to analytic cure”

Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center 2460 Fairmount Blvd #312, Cleveland, OH, United States

Rachel Blass presents “On the special nature of Kleinian transference interpretation, and why it is essential to analytic cure." The idea that transference interpretation plays an important role in the analytic process is a familiar one. Underlying the London Kleinian approach is the idea that it is not only essential to the process but that […]

Visiting Scholar Weekend: “On the Kleinian View of Narcissism: self-love, perfection and idealization as forces of destruction”

Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center 2460 Fairmount Blvd #312, Cleveland, OH, United States

Rachel Blass presents “On the Kleinian view of narcissism: self-love, perfection and idealization as forces of destruction." In this course we will examine the Kleinian approach to narcissism, focusing on the works of Melanie Klein, Joan Riviere and Herbert Rosenfeld. We will see how and why in this approach narcissism and the self-love, sense of […]

Alessandra Lemma: The Erotic Body in Psychoanalysis

Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)

Alessandra Lemma presents the final session of our ongoing videoconference series on the Erotic in Psychoanalysis. 2 CEs $60

Here I’m Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis with Adam Blum, PsyD, Peter Goldberg, PhD, & Michael Levin, PsyD

Hybrid (virtual and in-person) +1 more

This panel will explore how music comprises the forms of collective living in which the body finds its place in psychical life. The presentations will describe the ways that the vitality of the psychoanalytic clinical process depends at all times on this background quality of shared music, and how many of the contemporary maladies we […]

What is Effective in Psychoanalytic Treatments?

Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)

Presenter: M. Sagman Kayatekin, MD Description: 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. Within this changing psychoanalytic scenery, a clearer articulation of the therapeutic potentialities and limitations of psychoanalytic approach is an important […]

Traumatophilia: Notes on Libidinal Fugitivity

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Presented by Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D. Psychoanalytic thinking teaches us that trauma leaves the subject fractured, less agentic, more subject to iterative, stalled revisitations of the traumatic event. With the help of Jean Laplanche’s metapsychology, Saketopoulou will discuss how significant possibilities for psychic transformation and for contact with experience are courted when we make ourselves passible […]

Connections And Conversation: Cupid’s Hour: The Transformative Potential of Female Erotic Countertransference – Janine De Peyer, LCSW-R

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Free zoom event with Janine de Peyer, LCSW-R: Why has so little been written about the female analyst’s sexual desire? Is sexual arousal during clinical work such a rarity, or is it a natural response that has simply been relegated to the unmentionable? This workshop will explore cultural and gender prohibitions against the acknowledgement of […]

Connections And Conversation: An Exploration of Psychosis Through the Schreber Case – Charles Turk

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Free zoom event with Charles Turk M.D. By means of a metapsychologic elaboration of certain psychoanalytic concepts “Le388” a psychoanalytic treatment program for psychotic young adults in Quebec City has achieved a 60% cure rate among those engaged in that program. Those cured have been guided to dismantle their delusion and to find satisfying activity […]

Connections And Conversation: Going Beneath the Surface: What People Want From Therapy – Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA

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Free zoom event with Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA: Our psychotherapy practices do not exist in a vacuum and in these last few years we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the areas of politics, social justice, the natural world, and public health. It is vitally important for our practices and communities to be informed about what […]

Connections And Conversation: Ferenczi on Gender and Sexuality: Prelude To Laplanche – Adrienne Harris, PhD

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Free zoom event with Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.: In this talk, I consider Ferenczi’s groundbreaking work on sexual abuse in conjunction with other projects he undertook, in which trauma, regression, and destructiveness clearly preoccupied him. In addition to attention to the landmark paper on sexual abuse, “The Confusion of Tongues” (1929/32), I will draw on his […]

Connections And Conversation: Attachments: Clinging to Bad Objects – Understanding Attachment & Relational Trauma – Dr. Robin S. Cohen

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Free zoom event with Robin Cohen: Using the works of Fairbairn, Guntrip, Bowlby, Mitchell, Benjamin, and others, Dr. Cohen examines the dynamics involved in toxic, destructive relationships. If you treat people who are enmeshed in abusive relationships, you may feel frightened and frustrated as they edge closer to self-destruction. Some may withstand physical and emotional […]

Connections And Conversation: Can You Cure Your Patient? – Koichi Tagashi, PhD, LP

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Free zoom event with Koichi Tagashi, Ph.D., L.P.: Are you able to cure your patient? In this presentation, I like to pose this question, without defining what a “cure” might look like, in order to get at your initial instinctive feeling. This presentation is intended to be an ethical question. I am not examining whether […]

Connections And Conversation: The Analyst’s Search for Empathy In the Face of Hate – Veronica D. Abney, Ph.D

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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 […]