June Workshop: Transgenerational Trauma: Through a Modern Psychoanalytic Lens

Dates:  Mondays, June 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023  |  12:00 noon–1:30 PM

4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

IN-PERSON AT 16 WEST 10th STREET

Transgenerational trauma theory expands psychodynamic and unconscious exploration to include grandparents, great-grandparents, historic ancestry, and social phenomena.

Presenter:  Dr. Diane H. Tracey  

When Deadness Breaks In: On the Struggle to Remain Alive in Psychoanalytic Treatment

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2023  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Presentation via Zoom

Contemporary psychoanalytic approaches extend the reach of psychoanalytic treatment to more disturbed patients. Working analytically with non-neurotic patients and traumatic states challenges traditional theory and practice. Read more [. . .]

Presenter: Ofra Eshel, PsyD

Clinical Writing—Expanding the Parameters

SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2023  |  9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Eastern)

4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Workshop via Zoom

In this workshop participants will learn to write richer, more accessible and creative clinical narratives, including vignettes, case studies, and clinical papers. Read more [. . .]

Presenter: Terese Ragen, PhD

Bion: Using the Analyst's Emotional Experience to Work with Unrepresentable and So-called Psychotic States in Analytic Patients

THREE SATURDAYS: FEBRUARY 4, MARCH 4, APRIL 1, 2023 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

6 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Mini-Course via Zoom

In this three-part seminar we will read some of Bion’s texts closely to elucidate his thinking about working with unrepresentable emotional experience often related to psychotic functioning. Read More [. . .]

Instructor: Avner Bergstein

The Pandemic as an Après-Coup: Helplessness and Uncertainty (Presentation via Zoom)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2022  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation will focus on the work of Loewald to conceptualize our reaction to the contemporary pandemic as an après-coup, a traumatic recreation of conditions of early helplessness. [Read more]

Presenter: Adrienne Harris, PhD

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Lacanian Diagnosis (Presentation via Zoom)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

Registration Closed
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Unlike many other analytical traditions, Lacanian psychoanalysis gives a special importance to diagnostic questions. [Read more]

Presenter: Darian Leader

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2022 Annual Conference

Via Zoom

A Conspiracy of Silence:  Identifying Racism in the Consulting Room and Analytic Institute

Featured Speakers: 
Beverly Stoute and Anton Hart

5 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

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CANCELED: Transference: Neurotic and Psychotic

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022  |  9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Eastern)

4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers and Social Workers

This workshop will broaden the notion of transference from the Freudian view of it as a repetition of a past situation, which fits work with neurotics perfectly well, to an understanding of how it manifests with psychotics, which is quite different. [Read more]

Presenter: Bruce Fink, PhD

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Self-Criticism as a Lifeline (Presentation via Zoom)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

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

There is a type of patient one sees in psychoanalysis who is surrounded by criticism like a cloud.  Since Freud’s paper on Mourning and Melancholia various authors have addressed this issue. [Read more]

Presenter: Fred Busch, PhD

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Talking About Sex (Online Workshop)

Tuesdays, June 7 and 14, 2022  |  12:00–1:00 PM via Zoom

CE Credits:  2 CE credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Description: When sex becomes an issue in treatment, it can provoke strong countertransference reactions. Talking about sex can bring up a variety of uncomfortable feelings in the therapist, including shame, fear, disgust, anxiety, attraction, and arousal. [read more . . .]

Presenter:  Juliane Maxwald