Past Events
Maternal Eroticism in the Analytic Setting (Online Presentation)
SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2024 • 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
REGISTRATION ENDed FRIDAY, 12:00 NOON, APRIL 19.
This program will involve a clinically based presentation of maternal erotic transferences and how these are addressed in verbatim clinical process. [read more . . .]
Preseneter: Andrea Celenza
Beyond Platitudes and Party Lines: Trauma as Generative Resource in Queer Life (Online Presentation)
SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2024 • 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
A particular epistemology of trauma now wields an outsized hold over psychoanalytic theory and practice: trauma, we have come to accept, is of destructive, if not catastrophic, effects. But what if we got this wrong? [read more . . .]
Presenter: Avgi Saketopoulou
One-Semester Introduction to Modern Psychoanalysis (survey course open to the public)
Ten Wednesdays (In-person): 7:00 - 8:30 PM, February 7 to May 1
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.
Between Remembering and Forgetting: Reckoning with Racialized Transmissions (Online Presentation)
SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2024 • 1:00 – 3:00 PM (Eastern)
Hybrid Presentation (In-Person and Zoom) Cosponsored by The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, Social Workers, and Mental Health Counselors*
*CE Credits for MHCs Provided by BGSP
The backdrop for this presentation is the recent upsurge in racial violence, such as the murder of George Floyd, that underscores the enduring destructiveness of racism and white supremacy in the US. Salberg argues that we are currently witnessing a return of transgenerationally transmitted, inherited racial hatred that had been repressed, denied, and refused.
The Missed Encounter Between Psychoanalysis and the Black Radical Tradition
2 CE credits are available for this event.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS) and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (BGSP)
This event is a hybrid format and will be offered on Zoom as well as in-person at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies at 16 W 10th St, New York, NY 10011.
Part of BGSP’s Department of Continuing Education Events’ Fall 2023 speaker series, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Race, Racism and Culture
Series Coordinator: Allen Chukwuhdi
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
The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference (Online Presentation)
Saturday, October 14, 2023 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern) via Zoom
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
In contrast to exploring the patient's mind from a safe distance, the clinician’s feelings, subjective experiences, and history all impact the intersubjective space of the therapeutic encounter.
Instructor: Dhwani Shah
One-Year Program (Online Survey Course Open To The Public)
Begins Monday, October 2, 2023, 6 – 9:10 PM
30 CE credits per semester for Licensed Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
The One-Year Program in Modern Psychoanalysis offers a solid foundation in modern psychoanalytic theory and technique. [Read more . . .]
CANCELED: June Workshop: When the Body Speaks Louder Than Words: Sexual Symptoms as Unconscious Communication (Online Workshop)
Tuesdays, June 20 and 27, 2023 | 1:00 –2:00 PM
Description: This workshop will explore how sexual symptoms can carry unconscious meaning. Read more [. . .]
Presenter: Juliane Maxwald
CMPS & NYGSP Open Houses
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CMPS & NYGSP Open HousesJoin us for an informational session, led by a faculty member and student, about the programs of study offered at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis [Click here for our Master's program webpage]. |
Spring 2024 Online Virtual Open Houses CMPS: Sat, May 18, 2024, 11:00 AM NYGSP: Sat, May 18, 2024, 1:00 PM For more information about the program and to have your questions answered by an admissions advisor, click here. |
Film Screening: Cured
Thursday, June 8, 2023, 8:00 PM (Eastern), In-Person and Via Zoom
Five years in the making, Cured illuminates a critical chapter in the struggle for LGBTQ equality: the campaign that led the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
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
When Deadness Breaks In: On the Struggle to Remain Alive in Psychoanalytic Treatment
SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2023 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
Presentation via Zoom
Contemporary psychoanalytic approaches extend the reach of psychoanalytic treatment to more disturbed patients. Working analytically with non-neurotic patients and traumatic states challenges traditional theory and practice. Read more [. . .]
Presenter: Ofra Eshel, PsyD
Clinical Writing—Expanding the Parameters
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2023 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Eastern)
4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
Workshop via Zoom
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: Terese Ragen, PhD
Book Launch: Triskele by Barbara D'Amato
Sunday, March 19, at 1:00 pm
Dr. D’Amato will read excerpts from the novel and sign copies for attendees. RSVP to richardjsacks@hotmail.com
Bion: Using the Analyst's Emotional Experience to Work with Unrepresentable and So-called Psychotic States in Analytic Patients
THREE SATURDAYS: FEBRUARY 4, MARCH 4, APRIL 1, 2023 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)
6 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
Mini-Course via Zoom
In this three-part seminar we will read some of Bion’s texts closely to elucidate his thinking about working with unrepresentable emotional experience often related to psychotic functioning. Read More [. . .]
Instructor: Avner Bergstein
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
Lacanian Diagnosis (Presentation via Zoom)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)
Registration Closed
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
Unlike many other analytical traditions, Lacanian psychoanalysis gives a special importance to diagnostic questions. [Read more]
Presenter: Darian Leader
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
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
Self-Criticism as a Lifeline (Presentation via Zoom)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers and Social Workers
There is a type of patient one sees in psychoanalysis who is surrounded by criticism like a cloud. Since Freud’s paper on Mourning and Melancholia various authors have addressed this issue. [Read more]
Presenter: Fred Busch, PhD
Talking About Sex (Online Workshop)
Tuesdays, June 7 and 14, 2022 | 12:00–1:00 PM via Zoom
CE Credits: 2 CE credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, 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
Psychoanalysis and Psychotic States (Online Presentation)
SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2022 | 12:00 Noon – 2:00 PM (Eastern), via Zoom
An event link will be emailed the Monday before the event.
Registration Closed
2 CE credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
The presentation will begin with the question “What is Psychosis?” and examine ways it is defined from medical and psychiatric perspectives. [Read more . . .]
Presenter: Brian Koehler, PhD
“Out of the Depths I Cry to You”: On Working Analytically Within the Throes of Breakdown and Mental Catastrophe (Online Presentation)
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2022 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom
An event link will be emailed the Monday before the event.
2 CE credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
In this presentation, Eshel delineates a fundamental dimension of analytic work created by the analyst’s “presencing” (being there) within the patient’s experiential world and the ensuing patient-analyst states of oneness, an interconnectedness or “withnessing” that may deepen into “at-one-ment” with the patient’s innermost emotional reality. [Read more . . .]
Presenter: Ofra Eshel, PsyD
The Analyst's Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice (Online Presentation)
SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2022 | 12:00 Noon – 2:00 PM (Eastern), via Zoom
An event link will be emailed the Monday before the event.
2 CE credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
Registration is Closed
This presentation will address the psychoanalyst's basic desiring position, a topic that within the history of analytic theory (with the exception of Lacan) has been left at the doorstep of the analyst's office. [Read more . . .]
Presenter: Mitchell Wilson, MD
"Truth shall spring out of the earth": The Analyst as Gatherer of Sense Impressions (Online Presentation)
Saturday, December 11, 2021 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom
Registration Closed
2 CE credits for Licensed
Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
In this presentation, Avner Bergstein will reflect on our attempt to approach the unknowable, ultimate reality of the psychoanalytic experience and the unrepressed unconscious. [Read more]
Some Observations on the Psychodynamics of Race, Caste, Class, and Ethnic Differences in the Analytic Dyad (Online Presentation)
Friday, December 3, 2021 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM, (Online via Zoom)
Registration is closed.
2 CE credits for Licensed
Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, 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]
Internal Racism: The Vicissitudes of Out-Group Hostility (Online Presentation)
Saturday, November 13, 2021 | 9:30–11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom
Zoom links have already been distributed. The last round will go out late tonight for last minute registrations.
Registration closed:
2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
In this presentation, M. Fakhry Davids will describe the model of internal racism, which is a clinically based account of the othering mechanisms employed in relation to the out-group. [Read more]
Echoes from the Front Lines: Pandemics, Wars, Traumas, and Literature (Online Mini-Course)
Saturdays, 10/16, 10/23, 11/06, 11/20/21 | 10:00–11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom
Registration closes at 9 PM on Friday, October 15, 2021.
6 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
In this four-session seminar, Françoise Davoine will explore transferences related to trauma-inducing catastrophic events, first studied by Freud, such as wars and plagues, including the current pandemic. [Read more]
DISTANCE LEARNING Two-Year Program in Modern Psychoanalysis
September 7 through November 9, 2021 | Tuesdays, 5:00 – 6:30 PM (Eastern)
Applications Now Being Accepted
ONLINE COURSE FOR STUDENTS FROM
OUTSIDE THE NYC METROPOLITAN AREA
15 CE Credits per Semester
for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
Fall 2021: Countertransference
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
Transference and the Moment of Catastrophe
SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2021 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM
2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
During this pandemic there have been catastrophic moments for many of us. A specific form of transference has been observed in the moment of catastrophe when time stops and speech becomes impossible. [Read more . . .]
Presenter: Françoise Davoine, PhD
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 . . .]
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 . . .]
Expanding the Limits of Analytic Theory and Technique: The Work of André Green
SATURDAYS: 1/16, 1/23, 2/6, and 2/20, 2021 | 9:45-11:45 AM
8 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
Continuing Education Course for CMPS, NYGSP, BGSP, and ACAP faculty, students, and alumni
The death of André Green in 2012 marked an enormous loss for psychoanalysis. A brilliant thinker, Green was a leading voice in French psychoanalysis, his contributions lying at the crossroads where the work of Lacan, Klein, Winnicott, and Bion meet the still-generative insights of Freud, many of which, Green reminds us, have yet to be fully appreciated and developed. [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
Clinical Writing: Expanding the Parameters (Online Workshop)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2020 | 9:00 AM — 1:00 PM, VIA ZOOM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: $500
Repetition and Reception
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2019 | 7:30 — 9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS
Working with Vicarious Trauma
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2019 | 7:30 — 9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS
Trauma is contagious; its powerful affect and frequently unformulated memories can be transmitted—sometimes nonverbally and often mysteriously—within families, across generations, and from patient to clinician; in the latter case it is commonly referred to as vicarious trauma. [Read more]
Presenter: Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD
Psyche Singing-Weeping: Partnering Soul Hunger and our Amazing Beings
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2019 | 7:30 — 9:30 PM
SOLD OUT -- Dr. Eigen will explore the themes of his two latest books, The Challenge of Being Human and Dialogues With Michael Eigen: Psyche Singing. The phrase “psyche singing” gives expression to one aspect of psyche-hunger, a dimension of universal soul hunger. [Read more]
Joining: More Than a Technique
FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2019 • 2:30 - 6:15 PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2019 • 8:45 AM - 4:10 PM
Intensive Clinical Weekend
8.5 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS
Patients with narcissistic and personality disorders are often among the most difficult to treat, as they do not respond favorably to direct input from the analyst, such as interpretation. [Read more . . .]
Modern Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding and Treating Addictive Disorders
WEDNESDAYS, MAY 22 – JUNE 26, 2019 | 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Short Course
9 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND CASACS
6 CLASSES: $300
Into the Mind of the Psychoanalyst: When the Personal Becomes Professional
FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2019 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS and SOCIAL WORKERS
In this workshop, Steven Kuchuck will explore the impact of the therapist’s life experience and psychological makeup on the treatment. By expanding psychoanalytic study to include an examination of events in the clinician’s childhood and adult life as well as related psychodynamic issues, Dr. Kuchuck will focus on the ways the practitioner’s experiences, crises, and dynamics affect both clinical choices and the tenor of the therapist’s presence in the consulting room. [Read more]
Transference and Countertransference Revisited
SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2019 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS and SOCIAL WORKERS
This seminar will revisit key moments in the theoretical evolution of two critical, intertwined psychoanalytic concepts: transference and countertransference. Important questions will be highlighted and contextualized, and their implications for clinical work will be examined. [Read more]
with M. Gerard Fromm PhD
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“I Am Alive Because I Do Not Own a House”: Psychoanalytic Work with Homeless Patients
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2019 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
Is homelessness an expression of breakdown — as is commonly believed — or is it a defense against breakdown? This presentation challenges the common assumption that treatments derived from psychoanalytic theories are appropriate only for people of means. [read more]
With Deborah Anna Luepnitz, PhD
The Trauma of Being Alive: Perspectives from Buddhism and Psychoanalysis
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2019 | 7:30 — 9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS.
with Mark Epstein, MD [read more]
Contemporary Psychoanalysis and the Legacy of the Third Reich: History, Memory, Tradition
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2018 | 7:30 — 9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
with Emily Kuriloff, PsyD [read more]
Annual Conference
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Us, Them, and #MeToo:
Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Legacy of History
The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
“The aim of harassment isn’t just to control women’s bodies but also to invade their minds: ‘You will think about me.’ Harassment brings mental life to a standstill. It destroys the mind’s capacity for reverie”.
— Jacqueline Rose, 2018
4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
Jacqueline Rose, one of the most influential and provocative scholars working in the humanities today, has written extensively on a range of topics including feminism, motherhood, politics, and psychoanalysis. [read more . . .]
Using Countertransference in Treatment and Supervision
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2018 | 7:30 — 9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
with Faye Newsome, MA, LP [read more]
Parsing the Poetics of Place in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2018 | 7:30 — 9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
with Billie A. Pivnick, PhD [read more]
Our Difficulties with Otherness: Cultivating Curiosity in Psychoanalytic Treatment and Organizations
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2018 | 9:00 AM — 1:00 PM
4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
with Anton H. Hart [read more]
Intensive Weekend Clinical Seminar: Emotional Communication
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2018 • 2:30 - 6:30 PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2018 • 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM
7.5 CE Credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, and Psychologists
This intensive clinical seminar will focus on the theory and practice of using emotional communication in treatment. [read more . . .]
Networking: A Skill for Life
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 | 6:00-7:30 PM
June Workshop
Being able to meet people, form a connection, and build a relationship is central to professional, business, and personal life. This workshop will provide practical advice on how to overcome both fear of failure and fear of success.
With Ernest Brod
Short Course: Modern Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding and Treating Addictive Disorders
WEDNESDAYS, MAY 23 – JUNE 27, 2018 • 7:00–8:30 PM
9 CE CREDITS FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND CASACS
This course will focus on understanding addiction as a form of self-medication, a maladaptive defense for managing unacceptable thoughts and feelings, and will emphasize treatment methods that combine psychoanalytic theory and technique with harm-reduction approaches. Case studies will be used to illustrate the theoretical material.
From the “Child Woman” to “Wonder Woman”: Progress and Misogyny in Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Work
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018 • 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
The way we listen to our patients and formulate their problems in the areas of sex and gender depend on the guiding theories of the therapist. The place and function of sex and gender in that theory will reveal its biases about female development in particular. [Read more]
Rosemary H. Balsam, MD, presents
Pace, Space, and the Other in the Making of Fiction
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2018 • 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
The turn toward an embodied metaphorical understanding of human thought in the cognitive sciences and other disciplines has reconfigured the idea that narrative is a purely linguistic phenomenon that begins with language acquisition. [Read more]
Siri Hustvedt, PhD presents
D. W. Winnicott and the Middle School of British Psychoanalysis
SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2018 • 9:00 AM–1:00 PM
4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
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Donald Winnicott was one of the most original thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis. His conceptualizations—of transitional objects and the false self, for example—are now embedded within psychoanalytic discourse; [Read more]
M. Gerard Fromm, PhD, presents
Trans* Psychoanalysis: A New Discipline?
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2018 • 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
“I had no choice. I would be dead if I hadn’t transitioned—I would have killed myself.” This clinical vignette is no longer exceptional. We are living a “transgender moment,” as headlines across the United States have called it, that is radically changing our notions of sex and gender. [Read more]
Patricia Gherovici, PhD, presents
Freud's Tin Ear: On His Aversion to Music
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 • 7:30 - 9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
Joel Whitebook will speak on the significance of Freud’s strong aversion to music, which was especially unusual in Vienna.
Facing Race and Racism in Psychoanalysis
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2017 • 7:30 - 9:30 PM
PLEASE ARRIVE ONTIME, THE PRESENTATION WILL COMENCE WITH A FILM SEGMENT.
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
Michael Moskowitz will discuss the problem of institutional racism in psychoanalysis. He will address the need for greater openness to and understanding of the roles of history and culture in psychoanalytic training, transference, and countertransference, and their implications for making psychoanalytic education more accessible and relevant to people of color.
Love is Giving What You Don't Have: A Commentary on Lacan's Reading of Plato's Symposium
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2017 • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
What is love and what part does it play in psychoanalysis? Where are the analyst and the analysand situated in relation to the roles defined as “lover” and “beloved”?
Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor who trained in France at the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris.
To Have and to Hold: Understanding and Treating the Compulsive Hoarder
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2017 • 9:30 - 11:30 AM
2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
This workshop will give an overview of hoarding and the diagnostic categories in which it may be a factor. We will examine the beliefs commonly held by hoarders and will explore the syndrome’s underpinnings, including neurological factors and psychodynamics.
Patrice La Mariana, MA, LP, is on the faculty of CMPS and NYGSP.
June Workshop: Can Love Last? Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Couples Therapy and Sexuality
Tuesdays: June 6, 13, 20, 27, 2017 | 7:00 - 8:30 PM
6 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
What makes it so difficult to keep the flame alive? Is mature love a myth? How do unconscious conflicts dampen desire?
June Workshop: Sex in the Consulting Room: Decoding the Hidden Meanings of Erotic Transference
Thursdays: June 1, 8, 22, 29, 2017 | 7:00- 8:30 PM
6 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
The taboo on—as well as the inevitability of—sexual feelings in the treatment room has been an issue inpsychoanalysis since its inception, and the challenge of working with these feelingsis an integral part of its fabric.
Cisgender/Transgender: Bye-Bye, Binary
FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2017 • 7:30–9:30 PM
Agender, Bigender, Cisgender, FTM, MTF, Genderqueer, Other, Neither, and Two-Spirit; these are a few of the 58 gender options that Facebook offers. Whatever happened to him and her? We are confronting twenty-first-century conceptions of gender with a nineteenthcentury mind-set.
Introducing Bion: Some Basic Dimensions
FRIDAY, MAY 5 • 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
James Ogilvie will introduce an aspect of Bion’s psychoanalytic engagement with the “primitive mind,” focusing on some of the basic turns through which he engages us. Bion has a remarkable ability to bring us into a more immediate, “from the inside” contact with areas of psychic fragmentation and rebirth.
On Subjective Space
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2017 • 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
Practitioners and General Public: $20; Students: Free
Paola Mieli, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is a founding member and president of the Freudian-Lacanian Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association (New York).
Social Workers' Luncheon: Is Psychoanalytic Training for You?
Friday, April 28, 2017, 12:00–2:00 PM
Join us for lunch to explore the ways that modern psychoanalytic training can expand your clinical insight and strengthen your clinical and supervisory skills. Complimentary lunch with RSVP.
The Contributions of Gaetano Benedetti to the Psychoanalytic Therapy of Persons Experiencing Distressing Psychotic States, in the Light of Contemporary Affective and Social Neuroscience
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2017 • 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
Practitioners and General Public: $20; Students: Free
Gaetano Benedetti has been working psychoanalytically with schizophrenic patients for over 50 years at the Burghölzli, the psychiatric hospital of the University of Zürich. Brian Koehler will review Benedetti’s contributions to the psychoanalytic therapy of persons experiencing distressing psychotic states.
Holding, Humor, and Shame: Some New Ideas About an Old One
Friday, December 2, 2016, 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
When does Winnicott’s concept of holding fit within a contemporary relational frame? Can we invoke a parental metaphor without thinning the work we do? If so, what is holding’s underlying therapeutic function? Reviewing the evolution of the parental metaphor and its current place in our thinking, Slochower theorizes about holding’s dynamic function.
Joyce Slochower, PhD, APBB, presents
Modern Psychoanalytic Approaches to Compulsive Gambling
Friday, December 2, 2016, 10:00 AM–12 NOON – $40
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND CASACS
This workshop will focus on gambling as an expression of narcissistic pathology rooted in the preverbal period of development. We will explore the conditions necessary for gambling addiction to occur and what our clients or loved ones may be communicating via their addictive and compulsive behaviors.
Raul A. Plasencia, LCSW, leads this workshop.
The Psychoanalysis of Madness: A Fight Against Perversion
Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 1:00–3:00 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
Françoise Davoine has published two books on Don Quixote and the psychoanalysis of madness. She views this “greatest of all novels” as Cervantes’ attempt to find his way out of madness with his “son,” Don Quixote, as his guide. He has been a guide for Davoine as well in her own work with madness and trauma.
Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
Thursday, October 13, 2016, 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
Dr. George Makari will discuss his new book, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. The book takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of the inner life of people.
Free Speech, Hate Speech: Can Talking Cure?
Friday, September 16, 2016, 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
As globalization and metastasizing conflicts drive us into ever closer encounters with the Other, a siege mentality spreads. Those who represent the public voice—politicians, professional and “citizen” journalists, pundits, academics—respond to real and imagined violence with conflicted reappraisals of free speech and its limits, especially “hate speech.”
Jill Gentile, PhD, presents
June Workshop: Cutting Through the Chaos
Tuesdays, June 21 and 28, 2016 • 7:00–9:00 PM
Understanding Couples Treatment via a Developmental Lens While Utilizing Modern Psychoanalytic Techniques
4 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
This workshop will introduce the developmental stages of a couple from the standpoint of attachment theory, illustrated with brief clinical vignettes, and will present some of the methods used to assess where the couple may be fixated.
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June Workshop: Loss and Separation
Wednesdays, June 8 and 15, 2016 • 6:00–8:00 PM
Separation and loss can be experienced in many ways, such as loss of significant others, functioning, trust, job, and homeland. Anxiety and depression may result. This workshop will focus on interventions that can be used to address the suffering of patients who have experienced such destabilizing events.
June Workshop: Words as a Window to the Unconscious
Tuesdays, June 7 and 14, 2016 • 6:00–8:00 PM
The words we use reflect our unconscious thoughts and feelings. The things we say can enhance our relationships or undermine them. We will look at Freudian slips, accidental puns, and word associations to demonstrate the consequences of allowing our feelings to control our words. Are our words helping us achieve our goals or are they gratifying destructive feelings?
CMPS and NYGSP Student Associations' Acclaimed Student Paper Series:
Friday, May 13, 2016, 7:30–9:30 PM
Listening to One’s Self: An Innovative Approach to Studying the Free Associative Process
Free association isn’t an aimless wandering — it is driven by the yearning of new and unformulated thoughts to be put into a structure that resonates with the inner experience of the self. This drive for synchrony — to fit our sense of who we are with new thoughts, feelings, and memories — is a restless passion; there is nothing neutral or passive about it.
How to Shame Candidates
Friday, May 6, 2016, 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
This talk examines how shame is inculcated in analytic training. Two fundamental sources of shame are discussed: [read more . . .]
Psychoanalytic Interpretation and Literature
Friday, March 18, 2016, 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
This is an introduction to the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, beginning with Freud’s integration of literary references (e.g., the Oedipus myth) into the development of his theories. RSVP by email.
Annual Conference 2016
A Conversation with Adam Phillips NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, 1216 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY MAP Registration: ONLY AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR - ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED General Admission: $150.00 Student Admission with ID: $65.00 3.5 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS The New York Times has called Adam Phillips “one of the most engaging writers in the world on analysis and the analytic movement.” From the publication of his first book, Winnicott, in 1988, to his latest, Unforbidden Pleasures, in 2015, Phillips has demonstrated that he is one of the foremost writers on psychoanalysis today. Phillips has described psychoanalysis as an exploratory conversation with someone you enjoy talking to. In conversation, thoughts and feelings can be metabolized by the analyst in ways that can counteract the repetitions of solitary thinking and allow us to surprise ourselves with new ideas. Most people come to psychoanalysis simply wanting relief from their suffering, but Phillips asserts that they often discover something more important than the alleviation of psychic pain, the joy of a dialogue that offers an opportunity to translate and redescribe troublesome impulses, thoughts, and feelings in the moment. Phillips will begin the day by presenting a paper, “CONVERSION HYSTERIA,” which explores the idea of conversions in a broad context. This will be followed by a Conversation between Phillips and CMPS President, Mimi Crowell, on both this and a wide range of ideas. The afternoon will be devoted to a conversation between Phillips and the audience about not only the morning’s presentation but also the wealth of interesting ideas that Phillips has presented in his twenty books. Given Phillips’ deep love and intensive study of literature and philosophy, this conference should be of interest not only to psychoanalysts and students of psychoanalysis but also to students and teachers of English literature and philosophy, as well as a general audience. To make the conference a richer experience, it is suggested that those attending acquaint themselves with Phillips’ work. A bibliography of recommended readings is available and linked here. “Conversion Hysteria” Psychoanalysis began with the treatment of so-called hysterical conversion symptoms, and psychoanalysis itself has always been an inquiry, one way or another, into the nature of conversion experiences, whether psychological, somatic, secular, or religious. Phillips’ paper investigates the uses and abuses of the idea of conversion in psychoanalytic theory and practice. Adam Phillips was formerly Principal Child Psychologist at London's Charing Cross Hospital. He is now a writer and a psychoanalyst in private practice in London. Mimi Crowell, PhD, LP, is President of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and Program Director of the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, where she serves on the faculty and is a training analyst and supervisor. She is in private practice in New York City. Lucy Holmes, PhD, LCSW, LP, Conference Chair, is a CMPS and NYGSP faculty member and training analyst, and is in private practice in New York City. She is the author of two books, The Internal Triangle and Wrestling with Destiny. MORNING SESSION 9:00 - 9:45 AM - REGISTRATION 9:45 - 10:00 AM - WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERS, LUCY HOLMES, CONFERENCE CHAIR 10:00 - 11:00 AM - ADAM PHILLIPS, KEYNOTE SPEAKER: “CONVERSION HYSTERIA” 11:00 - 12:00 AM - A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM PHILLIPS AND MIMI CROWELL AFTERNOON SESSION 12:00 - 1:30 PM - LUNCH BREAK 1:45 - 3:15 PM - A CONVERSATION BETWEEN ADAM PHILLIPS AND THE AUDIENCE MODERATED BY LUCY HOLMES 3:30 - 5:00 PM - WINE-AND-CHEESE SOCIAL Tickets purchased after March 1, 2016 will be held at the door. Download flier Download brochure DIRECTIONS TO CONFERENCE The New York Academy of Medicine is located at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street (entrance on 103rd). By Subway Take the 6 train to 103rd Street. Walk across 102nd Street to Fifth Avenue. Alternatively, take the 6 train to 96th Street and walk up Fifth Avenue to 103rd Street. By Bus Heading uptown: Take the Madison Avenue bus (M1, M2, M3, or M4) to 102nd Street. Heading downtown: Take the Fifth Avenue bus (M1, M2, M3, or M4) to 102nd Street. LUNCH RECESS There is a selection of restaurants with a range of cuisines at various price points in the immediate vicinity of the New York Academy of Medicine. Printed information about the choices will be provided on site to conference attendees.
Psychoanalysis: Seduction, Repression, and the Enigmatic Signifier
Friday, March 4, 2016, 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
This talk will first give a quick overview of Laplanche’s thought — emphasizing the General Theory of Seduction, the Translational Theory of Repression, and the distinctions between instinct and drive [read more] RSVP by email
Modern Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding Compulsive Gambling
Friday, December 4, 2015. 9:30 – 11:30 AM
This workshop focuses on gambling, “the hidden addiction,” as an expression of narcissistic pathology rooted in the preverbal period of development. It explores conditions necessary for this addiction to occur and what clients and patients may be communicating with such behaviors. RSVP by email.
Modern Psychoanalysis in Russia
Sunday, November 22, 2015, Noon-2:00PM
In 1991, Dr Harold Stern was invited to address a group of psychiatrists and psychologists in St Petersburg. Hungry for psychoanalytic training, they persuaded him to devise an ongoing training program for them. Under the auspices of the East European Institute of Psychoanalysis in St Petersburg, he has traveled to Russia for over 20 years to teach modern psychoanalysis. RSVP by email.
Dancing with the Locos: A Comparative Study of Argentine Tango and Psychoanalysis
Friday, November 20, 2015. 7:30–9:30PM
It takes two to tango and two to form the analytic pair. While both Argentine tango and psychoanalysis were born in 1881, what else do they have in common? RSVP by email.
A Kind of Alaska
Friday, November 6, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM
Sam Schacht edits and directs Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska, first performed on a London stage in 1982, based on Oliver Sacks’ (1973) compelling book [. . .] RSVP by email.
Social Workers: Is Psychoanalytic Training for You?
Friday, November 6, 2015. 9:30-11:00 AM
Join us for breakfast and explore of the ways that modern psychoanalytic training can expand your clinical insight and strengthen your clinical and supervisory skills. Kindly RSVP
The Iron Law of Oligarchy: Can Psychoanalysis Escape It?
Friday, October 30, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM
This paper addresses the current crisis in psychoanalysis – its fall from public favor and its shrinking patient and student base. It considers the ideological commitments of the European founding analysts, the impact of Marxist ideology, and the optimism of these early analysts regarding personal and societal change. RSVP by email.
Seminar: Senior Modern Psychoanalysts: Modern Psychoanalysis: Past, Present, and Future
Friday, October 23, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM
This panel takes a Janus-like view of modern psychoanalysis. Like the two-faced Roman deity who stood as the guardian to doorways, passages, and transitions, this illustrious group, chaired by Stanley Hayden, one of CMPS’s founders, examines modern psychoanalysis, its prior accomplishments and future promise. RSVP by email.
Countertransference
Friday, October 16, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM
Distinguishing between countertransference and countertransference resistance occupies much of what we study in treatment. Arousals that occur when we work with narcissism are particularly intense and require us to confront and work through the narcissism in our own personalities. RSVP by email.
Educators' Workshop
Friday, October 2, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM
Managing students’ behavior (and administrators’ demands) is a constant concern of most teachers, dominating our thoughts, feelings, and conversations. Join this group of psychoanalytically trained NYC teachers, as we describe our experiences in the classroom and the strategies that help us secure successful outcomes for our students.
Emancipated Woman or Femme Fatale? Bizet's Carmen
Friday, September 25, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM
This multimedia lecture examines Carmen, the first operatic femme fatale, dismissed by contemporary critics as a “wild animal” and “cynical harlot.” Through excerpts from the staged opera, the presentation explores the behaviors and underlying motivationsof this female protagonist. RSVP by email.
An Evening with Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin
Friday, May 15, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM
Dr Garcia will introduce Pushkin; describe the significance of Eugene Onegin to Russian literature and culture; and provide an update on the current state of his research on his work in progress, A Psychoanalytic Study of Evgenii Onegin in Pushkin’s Aesthetic and Emotional Development. RSVP here.
New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding and Treating Addictive Disorders (course)
Six Thursdays: April 9 through May 14, 7:00‑ 8:30 PM. $200
This course will focus on understanding addiction as a form of self-medication, a maladaptive defense for managing unacceptable thoughts and feelings, and will emphasize treatment methods that combine psychoanalytic theory and technique with harm-reduction approaches. Case studies will be used to illustrate the theoretical material. Register now.
Against Sublimation: How Proust Became a Writer
Friday, April 24, 2015, 7:30-9:30 PM
What could Marcel Proust teach us about infantile sexuality? Does one become a writer with the help of, or in spite of, our primitive unconscious drives? Does Freud’s concept of sublimation explain this process? What if sublimation were only a myth, as rarely observed in the artist's creative process as it is in the so-called latency period to which sublimation is linked? Register now.
Transformation of Trauma in Art
Friday, April 17, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM
This exhibition offers insight into artistic creativity as a process. The release of imagery, memory, and feeling buried in the unconscious mind and body is fundamental to the psychoanalytic conception of cure. Three curators explore the intimate connection between the creative and the therapeutic process as exemplified in the work of these extraordinary artists. RSVP here.
Informational Lunch Seminar: Is Psychoanalytic Training for You?
Friday, April 10, 2015. 1:30-3:00 PM
Join us for an exploration of the ways that Modern Psychoanalytic training can expand and strengthen your clinical insights and supervisory skills. We will discuss any questions you may have about psychoanalytic training to help you determine whether this may be a path you want to follow. Lunch is provided. RSVP here.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Modern Psychoanalysis—Informal group conversations with distinguished leaders in the field.
Sunday, March 15, 2015 Noon–2:00 PM
Our next guest in the series is Theodore Laquercia, PhD, LP.
Modern Conflict Theory, Compromise Formation, Patient's Stories and Metaphor
Sunday, March 8, 2015 Noon–2:00 PM
Modern conflict theory and compromise formation focus on the multiple determinants of all mental activity and reject Freud’s structural model of conflict between id, ego, and superego. Because each patient exhibits highly complex compromise formations, treatment requires an individualized approach, with special attention to the affects contained in patients’ stories and their metaphors. RSVP here.
Drawing: A Study in Meaningful Coincidence
Friday, March 6, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM
Four people, who are otherwise unconnected, come together and begin to interact in ways that appear to be based on a common traumatic past. Unknown to each other, three of them are recovering from the suicide of a loved one. The story of their interactions raises the question of what (other than chance) could draw them together. Themes of unconscious communication, premonition, and possession are discussed and scientific attempts to account for meaningful coincidence are considered. RSVP here.
Brain and Mind in Borderline and Related Conditions
Friday. January 9th. 2015 7:30-9:30 PM CLICK HERE TO RSVP
Dr. Stone talks about the etiology and clinical diversity found in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) stemming from combinations of genetic and environmental factors. BPD is always accompanied by traits of other personality disorders and various symptom-conditions. His Power Point presentation shows brain changes and similarities in the diverse manifestations of BPD and related conditions. Download flier.
Violence and Virginia Woolf: Grappling with the Root Causes of War
Friday. December 19, 2014 7:30-9:00 PM CLICK HERE TO RSVP
This lecture explores the ways in which Woolf’s responses to violence and war were formative in constructing definitions of “positive” peace and in establishing an intellectual climate in which the discipline of Peace Studies and peace research have prospered. Download flier.
Siblings of Schizophrenics: I Am My Brother's Keeper
Friday. December 12th 7:30–9:30 PM CLICK HERE TO RSVP
It is widely recognized that the schizophrenic patient is unable to tolerate strong emotions. How does the schizophrenic person’s adult sibling, manage these challenges? Describing their distinctive qualities, examining current studies, presenting clinical vignettes from her psychoanalytic interview study, Dr. Melnik discusses her research findings and attempts to understand the intrapsychic experience of these siblings. Download flier
Annual Conference 2014
Saturday, December 6, 2014
60 Washington Square South, across from Washington Square Park, New York City
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The Layered Self
Linking Motivation and Intervention in Modern Analytic Technique
Freud found that “the psychical mechanism comes into being by a process of stratification, with successive registrations representing the psychical achievements of successive epochs…” A layered self is thus created in which various developmental mental states are more or less permeable and accessible to each other. Psychic development is not a journey in which one destination is left behind to be replaced by another. The various levels of organization remain available and provide the basis for regression throughout life. Even within a fifty-minute hour, different levels of emotional and psychic development may be activated. Patients can regress to autistic and narcissistic states, be dominated by hostility, or experience the need for a loving connection.
Lucia di Lammermoor -- The Fragile Mind In Extremis -- A Multimedia Opera Lecture
Friday. Nov. 21st 2014 7:30–9:30 PM
Against the backdrop of a foreboding Scottish landscape, Lucia’s story of despair and mental torment unfolds. Donizetti’s opera is steeped in blood feuds, forbidden love, incestuous desire, murder, insanity, death, and suicide. It is a rich case study of psychosis and the tragedy that often accompanies such extremes in literature. Dowload flier
Forrest Bess: Art, Sex, and Madness
Friday. November 14th 2014 7:30–9:30 PM
Forrest Bess (1911-1977) lived most of his life as a bait fisherman in a
remote bayou on the Texas Gulf Coast. His art, discovered by New York City art dealer, Betty Parsons, was exhibited alongside prominent 20th century artists, including: Pollack and Rothko. This talk, based on the forthcoming e-book, Though This Be Madness, presents Bess's art, his life, and his progression from obsession to delusional insanity. CLICK HERE TO RSVP
What's Love Got to Do With It? Exploring the Uses and Misuses of Love in the Countertransference
Friday. November 14th 2014 9:30-11AM Complementary breakfast w/RSVP
This workshop focuses on the uses and misuses of the countertransference love that frequently arises in the consulting room, and the dangers that may occur if the therapist is unaware or inhibited by these feelings. We highlight the importance of the practitioner’s self-knowledge. Participants are invited to bring case material. CLICK HERE TO RSVP
"The Chairs"
Friday. November 7th 2014 7:30–9:30 PM
Sam Schacht edits and directs this famous, absurdist, two-character play by Eugene Ionesco, who referred to The Chairs, written and debuted in 1952, as a tragic farce. It is a bleak yet comedic metaphor for human existence, much like the genre of Chaplin films. Renowned actors Rita Gardner and Ken Kimmins return to the CMPS stage to star in this production. CLICK HERE TO RSVP.
Seducing Unbelievers: Psychoanalytic Interventions in the Public Sphere
Friday. October 24th 2014 7:30 pm-9:30 pm
Today psychoanalysis is on the defensive, yet there remains an unflagging desire for its continuance. This presentation engages analysts to consider political and cultural influences, obstacles to the practice, and our own resistances to engaging on behalf of psychoanalysis in the broader society. Download flier.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Modern Psychoanalysis
Friday. October 10th, 2014. 7:30-9:30 PM CLICK HERE TO RSVP
A Series of Informal Group Conversations with Distinguished Leaders in the Field.
Our guest, Robert Marshall, PhD, has two books and 35 articles to his credit. He is currently writing an autobiographical anthology, Reading, Writing, and Rhythm: The Excitement of Being a Psychoanalyst, and a paper, The Influence of Hungarian Psychoanalysts on Hyman Spotnitz. Sara Sheftel, PhD, LP moderates. There are two readings for this event: reading 1, reading 2.
To Have and to Hold: The Compulsive Hoarder
Monday. October 6th 2014 9:30–11AM Complementary breakfast w/RSVP
In an overview of hoarding behavior, we will examine the neuro-psychiatric aspects and deficits of hoarders, the beliefs commonly held, and the diagnostic categories where hoarding may be a factor. In viewing My Mother’s Garden, we will consider the psychic solutions sought by hoarders. Download brochure.
Using the Induced Feelings
Four Wednesdays: June 4, 11,18, 25 5:30-7:00PM
One of the distinguishing aspects of modern psychoanalytic education is its emphasis on training candidates to use their emotions as the primary tools in crafting patient interventions. Theory and technique are studied, but through the process of classroom discussion they are understood viscerally so the lesson is digested by both heart and mind. A key to understanding the inner life of the patient is to recognize and work with the feelings induced in the analyst. Recognizing these feelings, what we call the countertransference, is not always so simple. This workshop will explore how to distinguish between the countertransference that gives us information about the patient and countertransference that has more to do with our own issues. Being able to recognize the difference is crucial to becoming a successful therapist. Participants are invited to join this four-week practicum to develop their ability to use the induced feelings in their work with patients, as well as in relationships in their daily lives. Bring case material, and we’ll consider it in the light of assigned readings. Jennifer Wade, LCSW, LP, CGP is a training analyst, supervisor, and faculty member at CMPS, as well as a Certified Group Psychotherapist. She also serves as a fellow at the CMPS Consultation and Referral Service. Ms Wade has written numerous article on adoption and art and maintains a private practice in Greenwich Village and Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. $160 Download flier
HBO Documentary Film Showing and Discussion
Wednesday evening. June 11th 7:00-8:30 PM
“The Living Museum at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center” “The Living Museum” is a 1998 HBO documentary made by Academy Award winning filmmaker Jessica Yu. This superb film features Dr. Janos Marton, Co-founder and Director of The Living Museum, an art asylum created in an abandoned building on the grounds of Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens, NY. Filmed on location, the film features in-depth interviews with a number of the artists in the current CMPS exhibition, ID-EGO-SUPEREGO, including David Waldorf, John Tursi, and Issa Ibrahim. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and went on to win numerous awards. We will screen the film in its entirety, followed by a discussion with the audience. Clinicians and the public are welcome. Janos Marton, PhD, is the co-founder of the Living Museum at Creedmoor Psychiatric Center and has served as its director for more than 25 years. The Living Museum is the first successful model of an Art Asylum in the United States, where patients thrive as artists in a self-run creative environment. Steven Poser, PhD, is a CMPS faculty member and training analyst. He was a psychotherapy intern for two years on the female ward for chronic schizophrenia at Hudson River Psychiatric Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. An exhibiting artist for more than 20 years, he is currently writing a book about the artist, Forrest Bess, and has published numerous article on psychoanalysis and the arts. $40 Download flier
Modern Group Analysis - The Power of the Group: Four Stories
4 Fridays 7:30-9:30pm: 3/15/2014, 4/12/2014, 5/3/2014, 5/17/2014
Group treatment is a cornerstone in the practice of modern psychoanalysis. When combined with individual treatment, it makes for a powerful and effective therapeutic intervention. This series of four stories is designed to invite discussion of the role group has played in the development of four senior faculty members— all of whom employ group in their work. The dialogues also provide an overview of the dynamic work that is accomplished in group analysis. Presenters are faculty in CMPS’s Group Psychoanalysis Training Program.
Computers and Psychoanalysis
Friday, May 16th 2014 7:30-9:30 pm
If the main focus of analysts is the unconscious, then the idea that there is a correct, objectively verifiable interpretation tends to close down analysts’ ability to allow their unconscious to speak to them. Mr Katz proposes to open analysts to their unconscious, using a computer program, based on Freud’s works, developed for his Master’s thesis.
Before Analysis Can Begin: Treating Pre-Analytic Patients
Sunday, April 27th, 2014,12pm-2pm
Patients often enter treatment with real problems but little if any interest in free-associating. They seek relief from their psychic suffering but for some, years may pass before they become curious and strong enough to explore their unconscious for the underlying motivations of their behaviors. In this seminar we will explore what helps pre-analytic patients to stay in treatment and begin a psychoanalysis. Presentation will be followed by refreshments and a social gathering.
Treating Adolescents: There is Always a Mother
Friday. March 21st, 2014 7:30 PM-9:30 PM
Distinct from psychoanalysis with adults, clinical work with teens has specific pitfalls and predictable resistances. Defining typical adolescent behaviors, examining current neuroscience findings about the developing teenage brain and its concomitant relationship to seemingly maladaptive behavior, and presenting clinical examples of the crucial inclusion of parents, specifically the patient’s mother, in the treatment, Dr D’Amato hopes to outline a general framework in which to understand and treat adolescents. Barbara D’Amato, PsyaD, LP, has been treating adolescents, children, and families for over 30 years. She is on the faculty of CMPS, NYGSP, and BGSP and is Director of the CMPS Extension Division.
Don Giovanni or the Penis in Unrest
Friday, March 7th 2014, 7:30PM – 9:30PM
Don Giovanni, protagonist of Mozart’s opera by the same name, is the anti-hero, the debaucher, and the libertine, whose unremitting hypersexual behavior courts his own destruction yet he is never is satisfied. Has his search for sexual indulgence become an obligation? Does Don Giovanni suffer from a narcissistic personality disorder, or is he a mirror of our unleashed selves, the id unrestrained? We will explore these questions using multi media. Refreshments and a social follow the lecture.
An Evening with New Books in Psychoanalysis
Friday, November 22nd 2013, 7:30-9:30 PM
This promises to be an evening of ecumenical delights. Lewis Aron and Karen Starr, both from the NYU-Post-Doc—the birthplace of relational thinking in many respects—come to CMPS, the home of Spotnitz and all things modern psychoanalytic, to speak about their most recent publication, A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2013). Karen Starr, PsyD, is the author of Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Starr is Adjunct Faculty and Clinical Supervisor at The Graduate Center, CUNY and Long Island University at CW Post. Lewis Aron, PhD, is the Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Aron has served as President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association. Tracy D. Morgan, LCSW-R, MPhil, is producer and host of the Gradiva Award winning webcast: New Books in Psychoanalysis, now in its third year. She is a research candidate at CMPS and maintains a private practice in NYC.
In So Many Words
Friday, October 18th, 2013 7:30–9:30 PM
This film documents the life of Dr. Lucy Daniels — her struggles with anorexia nervosa, the trauma of the brutal treatment methods in the 1950s, and the saving grace of her creative work and psychoanalysis. In telling the story of Daniel’s life, this experimental documentary takes the viewer on an intense psychic journey. The first of its kind, it weaves together “relational” recreations, animated dream sequences, constructed worlds, and intimate interviews to tell a story of survival and creativity filtered through the eyes of subject and filmmaker. Daniels joins Dr. Barbara D’Amato in an audience Q&A following the 69-minute screening. This 2013 film is directed and produced by Elisabeth Haviland James. Lucy Daniels, PhD is a prolific writer, working in private practice and in her foundation to help other creative individuals overcome emotional conflicts, often through an analysis of their dreams. In 1956, less than a year after her release from a hospital, a novel she had written there, Caleb, My Son, became a best seller and won her a Guggenheim Fellowship in literature. Daniels went on to publish several other novels. In 1991, she was named a Distinguished Friend of Psychoanalysis by The American Psychoanalytic Association, in 1995, an Honorary Colleague of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis, and in 2003 an honorary member of the North Carolina Psychoanalytic Society.
Standing Where the Towers Fell: A Study of Psychic and Physical Collapse and Reconstruction
Friday, March 8th 2013 from 7:30–9:30 PM
This talk examines the evolution of a research project in terms of the interplay between emerging clinical material, relevant literature, and the writing process. A profound terror of annihilation formed the nucleus of this case and over the span of treatment, the patient began to contextualize death and move toward life. It addresses the author’s experiences in conducting the analysis, with a focus on how the research itself became an effective tool in treating this primitive patient.
When the Body Does the Talking
November 20, 2010
In examining the varieties of somatization and their function in psychic organization, Dr Rothman attempts to shed light on the patient’s specific methods in managing tension and maintaining psychic equilibrium. Patients appear to use the body as protection against threats coming from both internal and external sources.
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