Save The Date: Annual Conference 2025

Saturday, November 8, 2025  |  9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Transference Revisited: How Neurotic and Psychotic Patients Use Us Differently

Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies 
Annual Conference
This will be a hybrid conference 
(limited in-person seating and online via Zoom)

Keynote Speaker
Bruce Fink, PhD

Discussant
Siamak Movahedi, PhD

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One-Semester Introduction to Modern Psychoanalysis (survey course open to the public)

Ten Wednesdays (In-person): 7:05 - 8:35 PM, September 10 – November 19

15 CE CREDITS FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS

This popular course offers the fundamentals of modern psychoanalytic theory and technique to those considering psychoanalytic training. Topics include transference, resistance, countertransference, and emotional communication. Open to clinicians and the public.

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Violence, Destruction, Survival: British Independent Theory in the Analytic Treatment of a Schizophrenic Patient (Online Presentation)

Saturday, April 26, 2025  |  9:30–11:30 AM (Eastern)  |  via Zoom

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation describes the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient, previously diagnosed as schizophrenic, who at times was severely regressed.  [Read more]

Presenter: Jonathan Sklar

CANCELED: A Fanonian Perspective on the Analyst's Experience of Skin Color Difference: One of the Last Frontiers in Multicultural Discourse

Saturday, March 22, 2025  |  1:00 – 3:00 PM (Eastern)

Hybrid Presentation: In-Person and via Zoom
Cosponsored by The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis

Fanon views sociocultural influences on the unconscious as integral to psychic formation and central to all aspects of every individual’s experience of oneself in the world. [Read More]

Presenter: Annie Lee Jones

Misogyny in Psychoanalysis (​Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

In psychoanalysis misogyny hides in plain sight, seemingly above the usual conventions of workplace etiquette or even a vague awareness of sexism.  [Read more]

Presenter: Michaela Chamberlain, MA, MSc

CANCELED: Working with Sexuality in Couple Therapy (Online Presentation)

POSTPONED, DATE TBD SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2024  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation will discuss how to address sexual problems in couple therapy using a narrative approach in which therapists help partners identify and transform narratives that negatively affect their erotic lives. [Read more]

Presenterr: Suzanne Iasenza, PhD

CMPS Annual Conference: Leaning into the Message

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2024  |  9:30 AM - 4:00 PM (Eastern)

Three Perspectives on Working with Psychosis

5 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Limited In-Person Seating at CMPS, 16 West 10th Street, New York City and Online via Zoom

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Admission: 0 | Students with ID:

Speakers:

Danielle Knafo, PhD

Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP

Josie Oppenheim, PsyaD

“Can’t go on. Will go on.” Learning From Therapeutic Failure (Online Presentation)

Saturday, October 5, 2024  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation addresses an oft-experienced but less frequently discussed phenomenon in psychoanalysis: failure in clinical work.  [Read more]

Instructor:  Nilofer Kaul, PhD

One-Year Program (In-Person Survey Course Open To The Public)

Begins Monday, September 29, 2025, 5:30 - 8:40 PM

30 CE credits per semester for Licensed Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

The One-Year Program in Modern Psychoanalysis offers a solid foundation in modern psychoanalytic theory and technique.  [Read more . . .]

June Workshop: Clinical Approaches to Working With Child and Adolescent Grief

Thursdays, June 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024, 10:00–11:30 AM
Location: 16 West 10^th Street

4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

The Childhood Bereavement Estimation Model indicates that approximately 6 million American children and adolescents (1 in 12, or 8%) will experience the death of a parent or sibling by the age of 18.  [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Diane H. Tracey, EdD