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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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

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“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

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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

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"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]

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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]

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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]

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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 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 . . .]