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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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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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

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