Supplementing Fanon's Psychoanalysis: Fantasy, Jouissance, and Drive In Relation to the “European Collective Unconscious” (Online Presentation)

Saturday, December 2, 2023  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

There is, within psychoanalysis, an increased interest in the psychoanalytically inspired work of the decolonial thinker Frantz Fanon.  [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Derek Hook

CMPS Annual Conference (In-Person)

Saturday, November 4, 2023  |  9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Destruction and Fantasy:  The Other Without, The Other Within 

Featuring Masha Gessen and Eyal Rozmarin

Conference Location: John Jay College of Criminal Justice

524 West 59th Street, New York City

[Read more . . .]

June Workshop: Transgenerational Trauma: Through a Modern Psychoanalytic Lens

Dates:  Mondays, June 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023  |  12:00 noon–1:30 PM

4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

IN-PERSON AT 16 WEST 10th STREET

Transgenerational trauma theory expands psychodynamic and unconscious exploration to include grandparents, great-grandparents, historic ancestry, and social phenomena.

Presenter:  Dr. Diane H. Tracey  

The Pandemic as an Après-Coup: Helplessness and Uncertainty (Presentation via Zoom)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2022  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation will focus on the work of Loewald to conceptualize our reaction to the contemporary pandemic as an après-coup, a traumatic recreation of conditions of early helplessness. [Read more]

Presenter: Adrienne Harris, PhD

Download Flier

2022 Annual Conference

Via Zoom

A Conspiracy of Silence:  Identifying Racism in the Consulting Room and Analytic Institute

Featured Speakers: 
Beverly Stoute and Anton Hart

5 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

[Read more . . .]

Download flier

CANCELED: Transference: Neurotic and Psychotic

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022  |  9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Eastern)

4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers and Social Workers

This workshop will broaden the notion of transference from the Freudian view of it as a repetition of a past situation, which fits work with neurotics perfectly well, to an understanding of how it manifests with psychotics, which is quite different. [Read more]

Presenter: Bruce Fink, PhD

Download Flier

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 . . .]

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

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 . . .]