Our Difficulties with Otherness: Cultivating Curiosity in Psychoanalytic Treatment and Organizations

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2018  |  9:00 AM — 1:00 PM

4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

with Anton H. Hart [read more]

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Intensive Weekend Clinical Seminar: Emotional Communication

FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2018 • 2:30 - 6:30 PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2018 • 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

7.5 CE Credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, and Psychologists

This intensive clinical seminar will focus on the theory and practice of using emotional communication in treatment. [read more . . .]

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Short Course: Modern Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding and Treating Addictive Disorders

WEDNESDAYS, MAY 23 – JUNE 27, 2018 • 7:00–8:30 PM

9 CE CREDITS FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND CASACS

​This course will focus on understanding addiction as a form of self-medication, a maladaptive defense for managing unacceptable thoughts and feelings, and will emphasize treatment methods that combine psychoanalytic theory and technique with harm-reduction approaches. Case studies will be used to illustrate the theoretical material.

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From the “Child Woman” to “Wonder Woman”: Progress and Misogyny in Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Work

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018 • 7:30–9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

The way we listen to our patients and formulate their problems in the areas of sex and gender depend on the guiding theories of the therapist. The place and function of sex and gender in that theory will reveal its biases about female development in particular. [Read more]

Rosemary H. Balsam, MD, presents

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Pace, Space, and the Other in the Making of Fiction

FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2018 • 7:30–9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

The turn toward an embodied metaphorical understanding of human thought in the cognitive sciences and other disciplines has reconfigured the idea that narrative is a purely linguistic phenomenon that begins with language acquisition. [Read more]

Siri Hustvedt, PhD presents

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D. W. Winnicott and the Middle School of British Psychoanalysis

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2018 • 9:00 AM–1:00 PM

4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

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Donald Winnicott was one of the most original thinkers in the history of psychoanalysis. His conceptualizations—of transitional objects and the false self, for example—are now embedded within psychoanalytic discourse; [Read more]

M. Gerard Fromm, PhD, presents

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Trans* Psychoanalysis: A New Discipline?

FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2018 • 7:30–9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS 

“I had no choice. I would be dead if I hadn’t transitioned—I would have killed myself.” This clinical vignette is no longer exceptional. We are living a “transgender moment,” as headlines across the United States have called it, that is radically changing our notions of sex and gender. [Read more]

Patricia Gherovici, PhD, presents

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Freud's Tin Ear: On His Aversion to Music

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 • 7:30 - 9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

Joel Whitebook will speak on the significance of Freud’s strong aversion to music, which was especially unusual in Vienna.

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Facing Race and Racism in Psychoanalysis

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2017 • 7:30 - 9:30 PM

PLEASE ARRIVE ONTIME, THE PRESENTATION WILL COMENCE WITH A FILM SEGMENT.

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

Michael Moskowitz will discuss the problem of institutional racism in psychoanalysis. He will address the need for greater openness to and understanding of the roles of history and culture in psychoanalytic training, transference, and countertransference, and their implications for making psychoanalytic education more accessible and relevant to people of color.

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Love is Giving What You Don't Have: A Commentary on Lacan's Reading of Plato's Symposium

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2017 • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

What is love and what part does it play in psychoanalysis? Where are the analyst and the analysand situated in relation to the roles defined as “lover” and “beloved”?

Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor who trained in France at the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris.

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