One-Semester Introduction to Modern Psychoanalysis (survey course open to the public)

Ten Wednesdays at 7:05 PM: Begins, January 28, and ends April 22 (class does not meet February 18, April 1 and 8)

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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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 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

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

Materiality in the Psychic Encounter (Online Presentation)

[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]

Presenter: Nini Kerr, DPsych, MBACP, FHEA

This presentation explores the interobjective dimension of psychic life through the lens of Fairbairn’s object relations theory, positioning it as an extension to the more traditionally applied intersubjective approaches in psychoanalysis. [Read more . . .]

Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Muslim Relationship (Online Presentation)

Saturday, October 11, 2025  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]

Presenter: Ashis Roy, PhD

In India, Hindu-Muslim relationships have had a history of togetherness and conflict over centuries. [Read more . . .]

Annual Conference 2025

Saturday, November 8, 2025  |  9:30 AM – 4:00 PM (Eastern)

Transference Revisited: How Neurotic and Psychotic Patients Use Us Differently

Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies 
Annual Conference
This will be a hybrid conference 
(limited in-person seating and online via Zoom)

Keynote Speaker
Bruce Fink, PhD

Discussant
Siamak Movahedi, PhD

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Working with Sexuality in Couple Therapy (Online Presentation)

[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]

Presenter: Suzanne Iasenza, PhD

This presentation will discuss how to address sexual problems in couple therapy using a narrative approach in which therapists help partners identify and transform narratives that negatively affect their erotic lives.  [Read more . . .]

Violence, Destruction, Survival: British Independent Theory in the Analytic Treatment of a Schizophrenic Patient (Online Presentation)

Saturday, April 26, 2025  |  9:30–11:30 AM (Eastern)  |  via Zoom

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation describes the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient, previously diagnosed as schizophrenic, who at times was severely regressed.  [Read more]

Presenter: Jonathan Sklar