Maternal Eroticism in the Analytic Setting (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2024 • 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
REGISTRATION ENDed FRIDAY, 12:00 NOON, APRIL 19.

This program will involve a clinically based presentation of maternal erotic transferences and how these are addressed in verbatim clinical process. [read more . . .]

Preseneter: Andrea Celenza

Beyond Platitudes and Party Lines: Trauma as Generative Resource in Queer Life (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2024 • 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

A particular epistemology of trauma now wields an outsized hold over psychoanalytic theory and practice: trauma, we have come to accept, is of destructive, if not catastrophic, effects. But what if we got this wrong? [read more . . .]

Presenter: Avgi Saketopoulou

Between Remembering and Forgetting: Reckoning with Racialized Transmissions (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 2024 • 1:00 – 3:00 PM (Eastern)

Hybrid Presentation (In-Person and Zoom) Cosponsored by The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, Social Workers, and Mental Health Counselors*

*CE Credits for MHCs Provided by BGSP

The backdrop for this presentation is the recent upsurge in racial violence, such as the murder of George Floyd, that underscores the enduring destructiveness of racism and white supremacy in the US. Salberg argues that we are currently witnessing a return of transgenerationally transmitted, inherited racial hatred that had been repressed, denied, and refused.

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The Missed Encounter Between Psychoanalysis and the Black Radical Tradition

Saturday, December 16  |  1:00 pm – 3:00 pm

2 CE credits are available for this event.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies (CMPS) and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (BGSP)

This event is a hybrid format and will be offered on Zoom as well as in-person at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies at 16 W 10th St, New York, NY 10011.

Part of BGSP’s Department of Continuing Education Events’ Fall 2023 speaker series, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Race, Racism and Culture

Series Coordinator:  Allen Chukwuhdi

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Supplementing Fanon's Psychoanalysis: Fantasy, Jouissance, and Drive In Relation to the “European Collective Unconscious” (Online Presentation)

Saturday, December 2, 2023  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

There is, within psychoanalysis, an increased interest in the psychoanalytically inspired work of the decolonial thinker Frantz Fanon.  [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Derek Hook

CMPS Annual Conference (In-Person)

Saturday, November 4, 2023  |  9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Destruction and Fantasy:  The Other Without, The Other Within 

Featuring Masha Gessen and Eyal Rozmarin

Conference Location: John Jay College of Criminal Justice

524 West 59th Street, New York City

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The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference (Online Presentation)

Saturday, October 14, 2023  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern) via Zoom

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

In contrast to exploring the patient's mind from a safe distance, the clinician’s feelings, subjective experiences, and history all impact the intersubjective space of the therapeutic encounter.

Instructor:  Dhwani Shah

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June Workshop: Transgenerational Trauma: Through a Modern Psychoanalytic Lens

Dates:  Mondays, June 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023  |  12:00 noon–1:30 PM

4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

IN-PERSON AT 16 WEST 10th STREET

Transgenerational trauma theory expands psychodynamic and unconscious exploration to include grandparents, great-grandparents, historic ancestry, and social phenomena.

Presenter:  Dr. Diane H. Tracey  

When Deadness Breaks In: On the Struggle to Remain Alive in Psychoanalytic Treatment

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2023  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Presentation via Zoom

Contemporary psychoanalytic approaches extend the reach of psychoanalytic treatment to more disturbed patients. Working analytically with non-neurotic patients and traumatic states challenges traditional theory and practice. Read more [. . .]

Presenter: Ofra Eshel, PsyD

Clinical Writing—Expanding the Parameters

SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2023  |  9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Eastern)

4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Workshop via Zoom

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

Presenter: Terese Ragen, PhD