Please come in person or attend online a very special event sponsored by the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society. We have 2 wonderful speakers: Dionne Powell and Beverly Stoute who are highly credentialed scholars in the field of race and culture and eminently knowledgeable about working with race in the consulting room. We are very pleased to […]

53rd Annual Margaret S. Mahler Symposium on Child Development:  This program draws from approaches to clinical research and practice that are aligned with the work and legacy of Anni Bergman, PhD, a pioneer in developmental theory and in working with high-risk and at-risk individuals and families. Each presentation, and each discussant, builds on Dr. Bergman’s […]

Join us at the 55th Annual Education Conference (Live Online) hosted by the Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of New York State Society for Clinical Social Work (NYSSCSW)– a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to supporting the professional development of licensed mental health professionals, including psychodynamic and psychoanalytic practice. Two Virtual Saturdays: April 20th 2024 […]

Treating people suffering with trauma disorders present the clinician with several challenges and dilemmas. How does one diagnose and treat a trauma survivor from a psychodynamic or psychoanalytic perspective? How does the clinician understand changes in self-states, moods, and shifting affective states? Are we treating developmental trauma, or the kind of trauma that leads to […]

The Dancer's Voice: Performance, Psychoanalysis and the South Asian Experience $15 (minimum donation) will benefit South Asian Americans For Change, a mental health non-profit. In this discussion, University of Georgia professor of music and women's studies, Rumya S. Putcha, PhD, and Chicago psychoanalytic candidate and psychiatrist Indrany Datta-Barua, MD, will be integrating their respective social […]

This course will offer an introduction to Community Psychoanalysis, with a focus on the experiences of clinicians working in community settings in the midst of sociocultural changes. The course aims to foster mutual dialogue and learning between community-based clinicians and leaders and members of the psychoanalytic community. CE.

Rachel Blass presents “A new perspective on Freud’s thinking on truth, it’s foundational role in psychoanalysis, and its contemporary relevance." At the foundation of Freud’s thinking is the idea that psychopathology is the result of denial. Truths denied lead to a distorted reality and accordingly coming to know these truths, discovering the true meanings underlying […]

Join us at this 2nd Conference Day for the 55th Annual Education Conference (Live Online) hosted by the Advanced Clinical Education (ACE) Foundation of New York State Society for Clinical Social Work (NYSSCSW) – a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to supporting the professional development of licensed mental health professionals, including psychodynamic and psychoanalytic practice. […]

Tapping the roots of mental health history, Dr. Clara Mucci continues the pioneering work begun in 1919 at The Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas with her masterful and highly accessible synthesis of psychoanalytic theorists, such as Freud, Ferenczi, and more, with contemporary perspectives on neurobiology and attachment disturbances. Cultivating refined skills in diagnosis and treatment, […]

Free zoom event with Tom Wooldridge, PsyD, ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-S : Psychoanalytic thinking offers valuable insights to clinicians working with eating disorders and body image concerns. In a field that increasingly emphasizes rapid symptom reduction, treatment providers risk neglecting less overt, and less easily measurable, aspects of the patient’s experience. This presentation will bring together […]

Marilia Aisenstein will lead us on a journey inside the mind of the newborn infant to demonstrate how human beings develop the capacity for waiting, a state that involves a pleasurable experience that paves the way for desire. Referencing Freud’s concept of “primary masochism” Ms. Aisenstein shows that having a “good enough mother”-- who through […]

Rachel Blass presents “On the special nature of Kleinian transference interpretation, and why it is essential to analytic cure." The idea that transference interpretation plays an important role in the analytic process is a familiar one. Underlying the London Kleinian approach is the idea that it is not only essential to the process but that […]

Marilia Aisenstein will show how the psychoanalytical approach and the writing of fiction share the power to transform human psychological experience, to change the very essence of our being in the world. By referencing masterpieces of literature and presenting clinical vignettes, Ms. Aisenstein will demonstrate the intersubjective processes that are based in the unconscious. She […]

Rachel Blass presents “On the Kleinian view of narcissism: self-love, perfection and idealization as forces of destruction." In this course we will examine the Kleinian approach to narcissism, focusing on the works of Melanie Klein, Joan Riviere and Herbert Rosenfeld. We will see how and why in this approach narcissism and the self-love, sense of […]

Angelika Mellema presents a case for discussion in our ongoing family and couple therapy videoconference series. 2 CEs $60

One of the most damaging sequelae of trauma is the loss of trust and security in interpersonal relationships (Fonagy & Allison, 2014.) When encountering a patient with traumatic interpersonal experiences, we cannot assume a capacity to trust or to form a safe, secure attachment. Nor can we assume the capacity to learn or benefit from […]

In the seventh installment of "Lost Classics," we will be taking a close look at Rene Roussillon's "Primitive Agony and Symbolization. " How are archaic experiences present in the adolescent and adult mind? What role does "interpretation" play in making contact with these primitive parts of ourselves? Does symbolization help? How might we think about […]

Alessandra Lemma presents the final session of our ongoing videoconference series on the Erotic in Psychoanalysis. 2 CEs $60

Presented by Charles E. Parks, PhD

Guest Speaker: Mary Jo Peebles, PhD, ABPP, ABPH Achieving tangible, structural change isn't easy. Four skill areas, frequently missing from psychodynamic curricula, help change stick: Goal-setting, Right-Hemispheric processing, enhancing Absorption, and actively developing Internalization. This workshop describes and illustrates these four skill areas to psychotherapists of all experience levels and theoretical orientations, using lecture, slides, […]

This panel will explore how music comprises the forms of collective living in which the body finds its place in psychical life. The presentations will describe the ways that the vitality of the psychoanalytic clinical process depends at all times on this background quality of shared music, and how many of the contemporary maladies we […]

Dr. Gilbert Kliman will present on his preschool Reflective Network Therapy. He will address how children can resiliently emerge from trauma and the adult aftermath of childhood trauma in foster care. CE.

Presenter: M. Sagman Kayatekin, MD Description: Psychoanalytic discipline is in the process of broadening its theory, practitioners and applications. We welcome contributions from different psychoanalytic approaches and related disciplines in social sciences, humanities and neuro-psychoanalysis. Within this changing psychoanalytic scenery, a clearer articulation of the therapeutic potentialities and limitations of psychoanalytic approach is an important […]

In this 90 minute offering, Dr. Attwell will introduce the class to the didactic similarities and differences between individual and group psychoanalysis as well as how they can work in effective tandem. CE.

The speaker will be Dr. Mary Morgan. In this course we will look at some of the theories and clinical technique in working psychoanalytically with couples developed at Tavistock Relationships. Central to the clinical approach is a ‘couple state of mind’. This is seen as an intrinsic part of the couple therapist’s internal setting. CE.

Winnicott's concept of primary maternal preoccupation highlighted an altered mental state presumed essential to a mother's transition to parenthood. This presentation will review how Winnicott's is relevant to more contemporary understanding of the psychological transition of adults to parenthood, what are the challenges to adults becoming parents, and how do individual differences in adults' development […]

Presented by Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D. Psychoanalytic thinking teaches us that trauma leaves the subject fractured, less agentic, more subject to iterative, stalled revisitations of the traumatic event. With the help of Jean Laplanche’s metapsychology, Saketopoulou will discuss how significant possibilities for psychic transformation and for contact with experience are courted when we make ourselves passible […]

Presented by Marco Posadas, PhD, MSW, RSW, FIPA

Evil is grounded in an effort to correct the errors of Creation– to define, categorize and eliminate what it designates as sources of threat and pain. This logic of elimination distinguishes evil from sadism’s logic of excitement. Stressing personal reactions and leaning on the work of Freud, Primo Levi and Hannah Arendt, the text takes […]

Free zoom event with Janine de Peyer, LCSW-R: Why has so little been written about the female analyst’s sexual desire? Is sexual arousal during clinical work such a rarity, or is it a natural response that has simply been relegated to the unmentionable? This workshop will explore cultural and gender prohibitions against the acknowledgement of […]

Application Deadline: May 31, 2024 The Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis online application portal for the 2024-2025 Community Psychoanalysis Certificate Program (CPCP) is now open. Expand and enrich your clinical work by engaging in a two-year journey that melds didactic learning, experiential reflective groups, and hands-on placements in community agencies or nonprofits. Fridays, 12:00 pm […]

Scientific Program presented by Dwarakanath G. Rao, MD. CE.  

During this interactive workshop, Jonathan Lebolt, PhD, LCSW-R, CGP, will address the following questions: What do we mean by LGBTQ+ (especially the +)? How can we work effectively with patients with a different gender identity or sexual orientation from our own? Drawing on Gray’s intersubjective, improvisational approach to psychoanalytic treatment, Dr. Lebolt will also illustrate […]

At some point between the heyday of the mixtape and the infinite scroll of the app-based feed, the music playlist found its place in history, as a new form of history. With the human touch of curation, the playlist captures a moment, selecting some tracks over others, but breathing with the polymorphous possibility of continuous […]

Free zoom event with Charles Turk M.D. By means of a metapsychologic elaboration of certain psychoanalytic concepts “Le388” a psychoanalytic treatment program for psychotic young adults in Quebec City has achieved a 60% cure rate among those engaged in that program. Those cured have been guided to dismantle their delusion and to find satisfying activity […]

Free zoom event with Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA: Our psychotherapy practices do not exist in a vacuum and in these last few years we have witnessed unprecedented upheaval in the areas of politics, social justice, the natural world, and public health. It is vitally important for our practices and communities to be informed about what […]

Free zoom event with Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.: In this talk, I consider Ferenczi’s groundbreaking work on sexual abuse in conjunction with other projects he undertook, in which trauma, regression, and destructiveness clearly preoccupied him. In addition to attention to the landmark paper on sexual abuse, “The Confusion of Tongues” (1929/32), I will draw on his […]

Free zoom event with Robin Cohen: Using the works of Fairbairn, Guntrip, Bowlby, Mitchell, Benjamin, and others, Dr. Cohen examines the dynamics involved in toxic, destructive relationships. If you treat people who are enmeshed in abusive relationships, you may feel frightened and frustrated as they edge closer to self-destruction. Some may withstand physical and emotional […]

The Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis online application portal for the 2024-2025 Community Psychoanalysis Certificate Program (CPCP) is now open. Expand and enrich your clinical work by engaging in a two-year journey that melds didactic learning, experiential reflective groups, and hands-on placements in community agencies or nonprofits. Fridays, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm September 20, […]

Free zoom event with Koichi Tagashi, Ph.D., L.P.: Are you able to cure your patient? In this presentation, I like to pose this question, without defining what a “cure” might look like, in order to get at your initial instinctive feeling. This presentation is intended to be an ethical question. I am not examining whether […]

Free zoom event with Veronica D. Abney, Ph.D.: This paper presents a description of the analysis of an African-American patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder. It will focus primarily on one year of the analysis when the transference was extremely negative resulting in the analyst moving from a very empathic and loving countertransference position to feeling […]