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

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“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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The Analyst's Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice (Online Presentation)

SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2022  |  12:00 Noon – 2:00 PM (Eastern), via Zoom

An event link will be emailed the Monday before the event.

2 CE credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Registration is Closed

This presentation will address the psychoanalyst's basic desiring position, a topic that within the history of analytic theory (with the exception of Lacan) has been left at the doorstep of the analyst's office. [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Mitchell Wilson, MD

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"Truth shall spring out of the earth": The Analyst as Gatherer of Sense Impressions (Online Presentation)

Saturday, December 11, 2021  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom

Registration Closed

2 CE credits for Licensed 
Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, ​and Social Workers

In this presentation, Avner Bergstein will reflect on our attempt to approach the unknowable, ultimate reality of the psychoanalytic experience and the unrepressed unconscious. [Read more]

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Some Observations on the Psychodynamics of Race, Caste, Class, and Ethnic Differences in the Analytic Dyad (Online Presentation)

Friday, December 3, 2021  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM, (Online via Zoom)

Registration is closed.

2 CE credits for Licensed 
Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, ​and Social Workers

Annie Lee Jones explores the shifting meanings of racialized experiences in the psychoanalytic dyad as differences along the lines of caste, class, race, and ethnicity emerge in the treatment. [Read more]

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Internal Racism: The Vicissitudes of Out-Group Hostility (Online Presentation)

Saturday, November 13, 2021  |  9:30–11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom

Zoom links have already been distributed. The last round will go out late tonight for last minute registrations.

Registration closed:

2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

In this presentation, M. Fakhry Davids will describe the model of internal racism, which is a clinically based account of the othering mechanisms employed in relation to the out-group. [Read more]

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Echoes from the Front Lines: Pandemics, Wars, Traumas, and Literature (Online Mini-Course)

​Saturdays, 10/16, 10/23, 11/06, 11/20/21  |  10:00–11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom

Registration closes at 9 PM on Friday, October 15, 2021.

6 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

In this four-session seminar, Françoise Davoine will explore transferences related to trauma-inducing catastrophic events, first studied by Freud, such as wars and plagues, including the current pandemic. [Read more]

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DISTANCE LEARNING Two-Year Program in Modern Psychoanalysis

September 7 through November 9, 2021  |  Tuesdays, 5:00 – 6:30 PM (Eastern)

Applications Now Being Accepted

ONLINE COURSE FOR STUDENTS FROM
OUTSIDE THE NYC METROPOLITAN AREA

15 CE Credits per Semester
for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Fall 2021:  Countertransference

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Transference and the Moment of Catastrophe

SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2021  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM

2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

During this pandemic there have been catastrophic moments for many of us. A specific form of transference has been observed in the moment of catastrophe when time stops and speech becomes impossible. [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Françoise Davoine, PhD

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