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

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CANCELED: Modern Psychoanalysis: Beyond the Interpretation Principle

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

Seven Actors, Sixty Analysts, One Conversation

2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Christopher Russell’s presentation is a staged reading.  A cast of seven, led by Hyman Spotnitz, Phyllis Meadow, and Sigmund Freud, engage in a spirited discussion about the theory and practice of modern psychoanalysis.  [Read more. . .]

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

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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 . . .]

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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

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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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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]

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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

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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]