Events and Public Courses

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Working With Infertility Patients Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2026 • 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Alumni Association Event Open to the Public

Doors Open at 6:30 PM

While addressing behavioral needs and surface-level fears and anxieties is essential in helping patients who struggle with infertility, it is also important that we help patients process their deeper unconscious (and often conflicting) feelings around treatment, failure, loss, inadequacy, and successful pregnancy. [Read more]

Presenters: Golzar Selbe Naghshineh, and Nancy Kaufman

CMPS Open House

Saturday, May 16, 2025 11:00 AM Sign Up Now

CMPS & BGSP-NY Open Houses

Join us for an informational session about the programs of study offered at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis-New York, forrmerly the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. [Click here for our Master's program webpage].

Spring 2026

CMPS: Sat, May 16, 11:00 AM Sign Up Now

BGSP-NY: Sat, May 16, 1:00 PM Sign Up Now

For more information about the program and to have your questions answered by an admissions advisor, click here.

BIPOC Student Panel—Why Psychoanalysis?

Sunday, May 17, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Public Event: Online (via Zoom)

Join us for an informal virtual discussion among students of color studying at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, a New York State licensure-qualifying psychoanalytic training institute, and its sister school, the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis—New York, which offers the Master of Arts in Psychoanalytic Studies. Students will talk about what led them to psychoanalysis and their experiences as BIPOC students at a white majority school. [Read more]

Moderator: Nardia Brooks

Panelists: Danielle Ocampo, Jeremiah Stewart, Victoria Cuellar, and Michael Martinez

One-Semester Introduction to Modern Psychoanalysis (survey course open to the public)

Ten Thursdays at 7:10 PM – 8:40 PM
September 17 – November 19

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.

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