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    Online: Talking About Sex

    Tuesdays, June 2 and 9, 2020  |  12:00–1:00 PM

    2 CE credits for licensed psychoanalysts and social workers

    with Juliane Maxwald

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    CANCELED: Modern Psychoanalysis: Beyond the Interpretation Principle

    FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

    Seven Actors, Sixty Analysts, One Conversation

    2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

    Christopher Russell’s presentation is a staged reading.  A cast of seven, led by Hyman Spotnitz, Phyllis Meadow, and Sigmund Freud, engage in a spirited discussion about the theory and practice of modern psychoanalysis.  [Read more. . .]

    CANCELED: The Limits of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Limits in Psychoanalytic Work

    FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2020  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

    2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

    Steven Cooper will explore how internal bad objects are released (Fairbairn’s term) in the process of analytic work.  [Read more . . .]

    CANCELED: Who Speaks from the Site of Trauma? Death and Life at the Site of Address

    FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

    An announcement and posting will be made for rescheduling.

    Tancred unwittingly kills his beloved Clorinda in a duel while she is disguised in the armour of an enemy knight. After her burial he makes his way to a strange magic forest which strikes the Crusaders’ army with terror. [Read more . . .]

    With Cathy Caruth, PhD

    Anna Freud and ‘The Conscience of Society’

    FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2020  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

    2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

    Out of the cultural and political ferment of inter-war Vienna emerged the Hietzing School, founded in the 1920s by Anna Freud and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham. [Read more . . .]

    Presenter: Elizabeth Ann Danto

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    On Having Whiteness

    FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2020  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

    2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

    Donald Moss will discuss whiteness as a condition one first acquires and then one has--a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility.  [Read more . . .]

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    Distance Learning Course: Ecopsychoanalysis and the Psychology of Climate Change

    WEDNESDAYS, FEBRUARY 5 – APRIL 15, 2020  |  10:00 – 11:30 AM (Eastern), Via Zoom

    THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO PARTICIPANTS IN NEW YORK AS WELL AS THOSE OUTSIDE THE METROPOLITAN AREA

    15 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysis and Social Workers

    Taught by Joseph Dodds, PhD

    Tuition: 0

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    Repetition and Reception

    FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2019  |  7:30 — 9:30 PM

    2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS

    This talk will be about the power of creative transformation found in Freud’s observation of his 18-month-old grandson’s fort/da game, which is not simply about mastery. [Read more]
     
    Presenter: Bruce Reis, PhD, FIPA
     
     

    Working with Vicarious Trauma

    FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2019  |  7:30 — 9:30 PM

    2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS

    Trauma is contagious; its powerful affect and frequently unformulated memories can be transmitted—sometimes nonverbally and often mysteriously—within families, across generations, and from patient to clinician; in the latter case it is commonly referred to as vicarious trauma. [Read more]

    Presenter: Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD

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    Joining: More Than a Technique

    FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 2019 • 2:30 - 6:15 PM
    SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 2019 • 8:45 AM - 4:10 PM

    Intensive Clinical Weekend

    8.5 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS

    Patients with narcissistic and personality disorders are often among the most difficult to treat, as they do not respond favorably to direct input from the analyst, such as interpretation. [Read more . . .]

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