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]
Past
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
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
Online: The Madness of Racism
Wednesdays, June 17 and 24, 2020 | 7:00–8:30 PM
3 CE credits for licensed psychoanalysts and social workers
with Tracy D. Morgan, Jacqueline Ambrosini, and Lexa Rosean
Registration is closed
CANCELED: Modern Psychoanalysis: Beyond the Interpretation Principle
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM
Seven Actors, Sixty Analysts, One Conversation
2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
Christopher Russell’s presentation is a staged reading. A cast of seven, led by Hyman Spotnitz, Phyllis Meadow, and Sigmund Freud, engage in a spirited discussion about the theory and practice of modern psychoanalysis. [Read more. . .]
CANCELED: The Limits of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Limits in Psychoanalytic Work
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM
2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
Steven Cooper will explore how internal bad objects are released (Fairbairn’s term) in the process of analytic work. [Read more . . .]
CANCELED: Who Speaks from the Site of Trauma? Death and Life at the Site of Address
FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM
An announcement and posting will be made for rescheduling.
Tancred unwittingly kills his beloved Clorinda in a duel while she is disguised in the armour of an enemy knight. After her burial he makes his way to a strange magic forest which strikes the Crusaders’ army with terror. [Read more . . .]
With Cathy Caruth, PhD
Anna Freud and ‘The Conscience of Society’
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2020 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM
2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
Out of the cultural and political ferment of inter-war Vienna emerged the Hietzing School, founded in the 1920s by Anna Freud and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham. [Read more . . .]
Presenter: Elizabeth Ann Danto
On Having Whiteness
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2020 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM
2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
Donald Moss will discuss whiteness as a condition one first acquires and then one has--a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility. [Read more . . .]
Distance Learning Course: Ecopsychoanalysis and the Psychology of Climate Change
WEDNESDAYS, FEBRUARY 5 – APRIL 15, 2020 | 10:00 – 11:30 AM (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 Psychoanalysis and Social Workers
Taught by Joseph Dodds, PhD
Tuition: 0
Repetition and Reception
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2019 | 7:30 — 9:30 PM
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ACAP
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New Books in Psychoanalysis