Extension Division
The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, founded in 1971, holds an absolute charter from the State of New York to offer a Certificate in Psychoanalysis and is recognized by the State of New York as a licensure qualifying institute for those seeking licensure in psychoanalysis.
Modern Psychoanalysis rests on the theoretical framework and clinical approach of Sigmund Freud and the innovative techniques of Hyman Spotnitz and Phyllis W. Meadow. Its cornerstone is emotional communication, the practice of which allows for the loosening of repetitive and rigid patterns of thinking and behavior. This technique along with others has revolutionized the psychoanalytic field, expanding treatment to the full range of emotional disorders. These interventions have proven valuable to those working in the varied fields of social work, mental health, education, the law, business, and the arts among others.
2021 Spring Extension Division Brochure [download print version]
Upcoming
One-Semester Introduction to Modern Psychoanalysis (survey course open to the public)
Ten Wednesdays at 7:05 PM: Begins, January 28, and ends April 22 (class does not meet February 18, April 1 and 8)
15 CE CREDITS FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS
This popular course offers the fundamentals of modern psychoanalytic theory and technique to those considering psychoanalytic training. Topics include transference, resistance, countertransference, and emotional communication. Open to clinicians and the public.
Creative Clinical Writing Workshop (Online Presentation)
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2026 | 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM (Eastern)
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts,Psychologists, and Social Workers
In this workshop, participants will learn to write richer, more accessible, and creative clinical narratives. [Read more]
Presenter: Therese Ragen
The Generative Power of Living Through Death in States of At-Onement (Online Presentation)
Saturday, March 28, 2026 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts,Psychologists, and Social Workers
Working within a Winnicottian model of deep mutual regression, Ofra Eshel describes reaching back emotionally to a moment of early traumatic breakdown when the patient psychically confronted extinction. [Read More]
Presenter: Ofra Eshel
Discussant: Dan Gilhooley
A Long Road to Clinical Discovery: Bion and Psychosis (Online Presentation)
Saturday, April 18, 2026 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
This presentation builds on and goes beyond Bion’s rich reflections on psychosis to a consideration of more recent investigations into the nature of this form of psychopathology. [Read more]
Presenter: Franco De Masi
Shame and the Erotic Mind: A Psychoanalytic Lens on Sexuality, Desire, and the Therapeutic Relationship (Online Presentation)
Saturday, May 9, 2026 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)
Presentation via Zoom - Registration OPENS 1/20/2026
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts,Psychologists, and Social Workers
This workshop explores the complex role of shame in erotic life and the therapeutic process. Drawing from her book, Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality (Routledge, 2026), Juliane Maxwald integrates psychoanalytic, relational, and somatic frameworks to illuminate how sexual symptoms often conceal unspoken shame, attachment longing, and the fear of exposure. [Read more]
Presenter: Juliane Maxwald
Past
Materiality in the Psychic Encounter (Online Presentation)
[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]
Presenter: Nini Kerr, DPsych, MBACP, FHEA
This presentation explores the interobjective dimension of psychic life through the lens of Fairbairn’s object relations theory, positioning it as an extension to the more traditionally applied intersubjective approaches in psychoanalysis. [Read more . . .]
Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Muslim Relationship (Online Presentation)
Saturday, October 11, 2025 | 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]
Presenter: Ashis Roy, PhD
In India, Hindu-Muslim relationships have had a history of togetherness and conflict over centuries. [Read more . . .]
Working with Sexuality in Couple Therapy (Online Presentation)
[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]
Presenter: Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
This presentation will discuss how to address sexual problems in couple therapy using a narrative approach in which therapists help partners identify and transform narratives that negatively affect their erotic lives. [Read more . . .]
Violence, Destruction, Survival: British Independent Theory in the Analytic Treatment of a Schizophrenic Patient (Online Presentation)
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 9:30–11:30 AM (Eastern) | via Zoom
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
This presentation describes the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient, previously diagnosed as schizophrenic, who at times was severely regressed. [Read more]
Presenter: Jonathan Sklar
CANCELED: A Fanonian Perspective on the Analyst's Experience of Skin Color Difference: One of the Last Frontiers in Multicultural Discourse
Saturday, March 22, 2025 | 1:00 – 3:00 PM (Eastern)
Hybrid Presentation: In-Person and via Zoom
Cosponsored by The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
Fanon views sociocultural influences on the unconscious as integral to psychic formation and central to all aspects of every individual’s experience of oneself in the world. [Read More]
Presenter: Annie Lee Jones
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