Distance Learning Weekend Seminar/Workshop Via Zoom: Dreaming 24

FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2021 | 2:30 - 6:15 PM

SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 2021 | 8:45 AM - 4:10 PM

8.5 CE Credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Freud believed that a dream is a disguised wish fulfillment, one function of which is to protect the continuation of sleep. Karl Abraham, in contrast, theorized that “it is not only during sleep that we dream.” The idea that we are continuously dreaming will be the focus of this Weekend Intensive. [Read more . . .]

Freud’s Wolf-Man From a Drive-Theory Perspective

Mondays, June 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2021  |  7:00–8:30 PM

4 CE credits for licensed psychoanalysts and social workers

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED 

Description:  The case of the Wolf Man was the last that Freud analyzed from the perspective of libido theory.  Freud diagnosed the Wolf Man’s central problem as an “infantile neurosis,” which, from a contemporary perspective, is insufficient to understand the complexities of the case.  [Read more . . .]

Presenter:  Raúl A. Garcia, PhD

Talking About Sex

Tuesdays, June 1 and 8, 2021  |  12:00–1:00 PM

2 CE credits for licensed psychoanalysts 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

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