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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
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
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
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
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
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
Psychoanalysis and Psychotic States (Online Presentation)
SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2022 | 12:00 Noon – 2:00 PM (Eastern), via Zoom
An event link will be emailed the Monday before the event.
Registration Closed
2 CE credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
The presentation will begin with the question “What is Psychosis?” and examine ways it is defined from medical and psychiatric perspectives. [Read more . . .]
Presenter: Brian Koehler, PhD
“Out of the Depths I Cry to You”: On Working Analytically Within the Throes of Breakdown and Mental Catastrophe (Online Presentation)
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2022 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom
An event link will be emailed the Monday before the event.
2 CE credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
In this presentation, Eshel delineates a fundamental dimension of analytic work created by the analyst’s “presencing” (being there) within the patient’s experiential world and the ensuing patient-analyst states of oneness, an interconnectedness or “withnessing” that may deepen into “at-one-ment” with the patient’s innermost emotional reality. [Read more . . .]
Presenter: Ofra Eshel, PsyD
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