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

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  

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

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

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

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

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 . . .]

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