Bion: Using the Analyst's Emotional Experience to Work with Unrepresentable and So-called Psychotic States in Analytic Patients

THREE SATURDAYS: FEBRUARY 4, MARCH 4, APRIL 1, 2023 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

6 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Mini-Course via Zoom

In this three-part seminar we will read some of Bion’s texts closely to elucidate his thinking about working with unrepresentable emotional experience often related to psychotic functioning. Read More [. . .]

Instructor: Avner Bergstein

The Pandemic as an Après-Coup: Helplessness and Uncertainty (Presentation via Zoom)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2022  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation will focus on the work of Loewald to conceptualize our reaction to the contemporary pandemic as an après-coup, a traumatic recreation of conditions of early helplessness. [Read more]

Presenter: Adrienne Harris, PhD

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Lacanian Diagnosis (Presentation via Zoom)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2022  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

Registration Closed
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Unlike many other analytical traditions, Lacanian psychoanalysis gives a special importance to diagnostic questions. [Read more]

Presenter: Darian Leader

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2022 Annual Conference

Via Zoom

A Conspiracy of Silence:  Identifying Racism in the Consulting Room and Analytic Institute

Featured Speakers: 
Beverly Stoute and Anton Hart

5 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

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CANCELED: Transference: Neurotic and Psychotic

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022  |  9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Eastern)

4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers and Social Workers

This workshop will broaden the notion of transference from the Freudian view of it as a repetition of a past situation, which fits work with neurotics perfectly well, to an understanding of how it manifests with psychotics, which is quite different. [Read more]

Presenter: Bruce Fink, PhD

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Self-Criticism as a Lifeline (Presentation via Zoom)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2022  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

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

There is a type of patient one sees in psychoanalysis who is surrounded by criticism like a cloud.  Since Freud’s paper on Mourning and Melancholia various authors have addressed this issue. [Read more]

Presenter: Fred Busch, PhD

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Talking About Sex (Online Workshop)

Tuesdays, June 7 and 14, 2022  |  12:00–1:00 PM via Zoom

CE Credits:  2 CE credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Description: When sex becomes an issue in treatment, it can provoke strong countertransference reactions. Talking about sex can bring up a variety of uncomfortable feelings in the therapist, including shame, fear, disgust, anxiety, attraction, and arousal. [read more . . .]

Presenter:  Juliane Maxwald

Psychoanalysis and Psychotic States (Online Presentation)

SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2022  |  12:00 Noon – 2:00 PM (Eastern), via Zoom

An event link will be emailed the Monday before the event.

Registration Closed

2 CE credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

The presentation will begin with the question “What is Psychosis?” and examine ways it is defined from medical and psychiatric perspectives. [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Brian Koehler, PhD

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“Out of the Depths I Cry to You”: On Working Analytically Within the Throes of Breakdown and Mental Catastrophe (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 2022  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom

An event link will be emailed the Monday before the event.

2 CE credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

In this presentation, Eshel delineates a fundamental dimension of analytic work created by the analyst’s “presencing” (being there) within the patient’s experiential world and the ensuing patient-analyst states of oneness, an interconnectedness or “withnessing” that may deepen into “at-one-ment” with the patient’s innermost emotional reality. [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Ofra Eshel, PsyD

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The Analyst's Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice (Online Presentation)

SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2022  |  12:00 Noon – 2:00 PM (Eastern), via Zoom

An event link will be emailed the Monday before the event.

2 CE credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Registration is Closed

This presentation will address the psychoanalyst's basic desiring position, a topic that within the history of analytic theory (with the exception of Lacan) has been left at the doorstep of the analyst's office. [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Mitchell Wilson, MD

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