Annual Conference 2025

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

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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Working with Sexuality in Couple Therapy (Online Presentation)

[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]

Presenter: Suzanne Iasenza, PhD

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 . . .]

Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Muslim Relationship (Online Presentation)

Saturday, October 11, 2025  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]

Presenter: Ashis Roy, PhD

In India, Hindu-Muslim relationships have had a history of togetherness and conflict over centuries. [Read more . . .]

Materiality in the Psychic Encounter (Online Presentation)

[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]

Presenter: Nini Kerr, DPsych, MBACP, FHEA

This presentation explores the interobjective dimension of psychic life through the lens of Fairbairn’s object relations theory, positioning it as an extension to the more traditionally applied intersubjective approaches in psychoanalysis. [Read more . . .]

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