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    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

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    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 . . .]

    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

    The Dream Screen: Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Online Survey Course Open To The Public)

    Mondays September 14–November 16, 2020  |  10:00 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

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

    Instructor: Joseph Dodds, PhD

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    Psychoanalysis and Art (Online Survey Course Open To The Public)

    ​Wednesdays, September 9–November 11, 2020  |  10:00 – 11:30 AM (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

    Instructor: Joseph Dodds, PhD

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    Distance Learning Weekend Seminar/Workshop Via Zoom: Countertransference

    FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2020 |  2:30 – 6:15 PM
    SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2020  |  8:45 AM – 4:10 PM

    8.5 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

    Clinicians understand that countertransference reactions to patients can give rise to an array of feelings. These can range from admiration, delight, and joy to the darker experiences of terror, dread, or numbness that can forestall treatment. [Read more . . .]

    Presenters:  Faye Newsome, David Rosenthal , Richard Sacks, William Sharp

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    Online: Talking About Sex

    Tuesdays, June 2 and 9, 2020  |  12:00–1:00 PM

    2 CE credits for licensed psychoanalysts and social workers

    with Juliane Maxwald

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