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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The Storm Has Arrived: Psychoanalysis Faces a Human Emergency Can the Social Dreaming Matrix Provide a Generative, Creative Path Forward? (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2026  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

As global crises of dehumanization and meta-dehumanization—political, ecological, and moral—intensify, psychoanalysis faces an ethical reckoning and a paradigmatic opportunity. 

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Presenter: George Bermúdez

One-Year Program (In-Person Survey Course Open To The Public)

Begins Monday, September 28, 2026, 5:30 - 8:40 PM

30 CE credits per semester for Licensed Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

The One-Year Program in Modern Psychoanalysis offers a solid foundation in modern psychoanalytic theory and technique.  [Read more . . .]

Systemic Re-Transmission of Trauma: Defending Against the Lost and Found (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2026  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This case presentation will discuss the ongoing societal intrusions that emotionally handicapped the interracial therapeutic relationship of the psychoanalyst and the patient. 

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Presenter: Felecia Powell-Williams

Psychoanalysis as a Form of Play: Considering Interpretation and Mourning in Relation to Play (Online Presentation

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2026 • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Winnicott’s (1968) assertion that all psychoanalytic treatment is a highly specialized form of play implies that a central aspect of analytic work is helping patients to hold paradoxical realities. For example, experiencing the transference involves holding the analyst as real and unreal at the same time.

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Presenter: Steven H. Cooper

A Long Road to Clinical Discovery: Bion and Psychosis (Online Presentation)

Saturday, April 18, 2026  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation builds on and goes beyond Bion’s rich reflections on psychosis to a consideration of more recent investigations into the nature of this form of psychopathology.  [Read more]

Presenter: Franco De Masi

Shame and the Erotic Mind: A Psychoanalytic Lens on Sexuality, Desire, and the Therapeutic Relationship (Online Presentation)

Saturday, May 9, 2026  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)

Presentation via Zoom - Registration OPENS 1/20/2026
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts,Psychologists, and Social Workers

This workshop explores the complex role of shame in erotic life and the therapeutic process.  Drawing from her book, Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality (Routledge, 2026), Juliane Maxwald integrates psychoanalytic, relational, and somatic frameworks to illuminate how sexual symptoms often conceal unspoken shame, attachment longing, and the fear of exposure. [Read more]

Presenter: Juliane Maxwald

The Generative Power of Living Through Death in States of At-Onement (Online Presentation)

Saturday, March 28, 2026  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts,Psychologists, and Social Workers

Working within a Winnicottian model of deep mutual regression, Ofra Eshel describes reaching back emotionally to a moment of early traumatic breakdown when the patient psychically confronted extinction.  [Read More]

Presenter: Ofra Eshel

Discussant: Dan Gilhooley

Creative Clinical Writing Workshop (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2026  |  10:00 AM – 12:30 PM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts,Psychologists, and Social Workers

In this workshop, participants will learn to write richer, more accessible, and creative clinical narratives.  [Read more]

Presenter: Therese Ragen

The Psychoanalytic Frame (Online Course)

February 19 through May 7, 2026  |  Thursdays, 5:30 – 7:00 PM (Eastern)

[15 CE Credits for Psycoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]

This course will examine the elements of the psychoanalytic frame – the ground rules that make treatment possible – and examine how the frame is created in the initial sessions, including establishing the contract, the frequency, the hour, and the fee, and addressing regulation of stimulation and use of the couch.  [Read more]

Instructor: Lexa Roséan