Event Canceled: Some Observations on the Psychodynamics of Race, Caste, Class, and Ethnic Differences in the Analytic Dyad

FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2021  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts 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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On the Analyst’s Shame

FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2021  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Although it is common to discuss the dynamics of a patient’s shame, what is often not discussed is the analyst’s shame, which remains secret and taboo. Doing so would reveal vulnerability and risk the judgment of others, yet it is the very thing we encourage in the consulting room. [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Jon Mills, PsyD, PhD, ABPP

Clinical Writing: Expanding the Parameters (Online Workshop)

SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 2021  |  9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

WORKSHOP FULL - No Longer Taking Registration

4 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

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: Therese Ragen, PhD

CMPS Annual Conference: Dreaming the Session

Saturday, March 20, 2021  |  9:30 AM - 4:00 PM ET via Zoom

Event video is in 2 parts.
Part 1 of the recording is embedded on the event page.
Part 2 may be viewed on the CMPS vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/676804841

5 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Keynote Speaker: Giuseppe Civitarese

Featured Speakers: Lawrence Brown, Barbara D’Amato

Dreaming the Session: Field Theory Perspectives On Hallucinosis, Dreaming, and Reverie In Daily Clinical Work

The theory of dreams has changed fundamentally since Freud's time, when their primary function was seen as protecting sleep by distorting and hiding repressed material from consciousness. [Read more . . .]

Traumatic Experiences of Normal Development: A Trauma-Based Listening Perspective

MONDAYS, FEBRUARY 1 – APRIL 26, 2021  |  1:00 – 2:30 PM (Eastern), via Zoom

THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO PARTICIPANTS IN NEW YORK AS WELL AS THOSE OUTSIDE THE METROPOLITAN AREA

15 CE Credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

This course presents psychoanalytic perspectives on the treatment of trauma. [Read more . . .]

The Limits of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Limits in Psychoanalytic Work (Online Presentation)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2020  |  7:30 — 9:30 PM, VIA ZOOM

2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Steven Cooper will explore how internal bad objects (Fairbairn’s term) are released in the process of analytic work. [Read more . . .]

The Reckoning of Psychoanalysis: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Social Class (Online Workshop)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020  |  9:00 AM — 1:00 PM, VIA ZOOM

4 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

This workshop will examine aspects of human experience that have historically been neglected in psychoanalytic theory and practice–race, social inequality, and gender identity. [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Patricia Gherovici, PhD

Clinical Writing: Expanding the Parameters (Online Workshop)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2020  |  9:00 AM — 1:00 PM, VIA ZOOM

4 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

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: Therese Ragen, PhD

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The Psychoanalytic Instrument: Possibility, Form, and Risk (Online Presentation)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2020  |  7:30 — 9:30 PM, VIA ZOOM

2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Historically, psychoanalysis has underestimated, watered down, even denied the inherent risks of the clinical situation. This combustible arrangement invites the patient’s passionate attachment and desire, with the abstinent analyst functioning as a deliberately incendiary human lure. [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Ellen Pinsky, PsyD

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Reading Recent Psychoanalytic Literature on Racism (Online Survey Course Open To The Public)

Tuesdays, September 22–December 1, 2020  |  3:30 – 5:00 PM (Eastern)

15 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS 
AND SOCIAL WORKERS

THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO PARTICIPANTS IN NEW YORK 
AS WELL AS THOSE OUTSIDE THE METROPOLITAN AREA