“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

Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2024 • 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Since the 1990s, doctors and patients have argued in favor of dropping the stigmatizing S-word, schizophrenia, while introducing alternative terms. [read more . . .]

Presenter: Orna Ophir

Maternal Eroticism in the Analytic Setting (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2024 • 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
REGISTRATION ENDed FRIDAY, 12:00 NOON, APRIL 19.

This program will involve a clinically based presentation of maternal erotic transferences and how these are addressed in verbatim clinical process. [read more . . .]

Preseneter: Andrea Celenza

Beyond Platitudes and Party Lines: Trauma as Generative Resource in Queer Life (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2024 • 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

A particular epistemology of trauma now wields an outsized hold over psychoanalytic theory and practice: trauma, we have come to accept, is of destructive, if not catastrophic, effects. But what if we got this wrong? [read more . . .]

Presenter: Avgi Saketopoulou

Between Remembering and Forgetting: Reckoning with Racialized Transmissions (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2024 • 1:00 – 3:00 PM (Eastern)

Hybrid Presentation (In-Person and Zoom) Cosponsored by The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, Social Workers, and Mental Health Counselors*

*CE Credits for MHCs Provided by BGSP

The backdrop for this presentation is the recent upsurge in racial violence, such as the murder of George Floyd, that underscores the enduring destructiveness of racism and white supremacy in the US. Salberg argues that we are currently witnessing a return of transgenerationally transmitted, inherited racial hatred that had been repressed, denied, and refused.

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The Missed Encounter Between Psychoanalysis and the Black Radical Tradition

Saturday, December 16  |  1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

2 CE credits are available for this event.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS) and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (BGSP)

This event is a hybrid format and will be offered on Zoom as well as in-person at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies at 16 W 10th St, New York, NY 10011.

Part of BGSP’s Department of Continuing Education Events’ Fall 2023 speaker series, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Race, Racism and Culture

Series Coordinator:  Allen Chukwuhdi

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Supplementing Fanon's Psychoanalysis: Fantasy, Jouissance, and Drive In Relation to the “European Collective Unconscious” (Online Presentation)

Saturday, December 2, 2023  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

There is, within psychoanalysis, an increased interest in the psychoanalytically inspired work of the decolonial thinker Frantz Fanon.  [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Derek Hook

CMPS Annual Conference (In-Person)

Saturday, November 4, 2023  |  9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Destruction and Fantasy:  The Other Without, The Other Within 

Featuring Masha Gessen and Eyal Rozmarin

Conference Location: John Jay College of Criminal Justice

524 West 59th Street, New York City

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