Events and Public Courses

Book Event: Girlhood, Translated: Understanding YoungWomen in the Age of Therapy Speak and Self-Diagnosis

Friday, October 9, 2026  |  7:00-8:30 PM
Doors Open at 6:30 PM

ADHD. OCD. Toxic. Unwell. Over the past decade, psychiatrist Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell noticed that girls were coming to her office with an increasingly long list of psychiatric diagnoses, often pulled from the internet and social media. It seemed like it was becoming impossible for young women to talk about their feelings without using "therapy speak" or connecting them to mental illnesses. 

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Author: Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell, MD

Systemic Re-Transmission of Trauma: Defending Against the Lost and Found (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2026  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This case presentation will discuss the ongoing societal intrusions that emotionally handicapped the interracial therapeutic relationship of the psychoanalyst and the patient. 

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Presenter: Felecia Powell-Williams

CMPS Open House

Saturday, October 31, 2025 11:00 AM Sign Up Now

CMPS & BGSP-NY Open Houses Join us for an informational session about the programs of study offered at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies and the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis-New York, forrmerly the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. [Click here for our Master's program webpage].

Fall 2026  CMPS Sat, Oct 31 11:00 AM BGSP-NY Sat, Oct 31 1:00 PM For more information about the program and to have your questions answered by an admissions advisor, click here.

CMPS Annual Conference: Being-with Nothingness

Saturday, November 14, 2026  |  9:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Analytic Oneness, And Modern Psychoanalysis

Keynote Speaker: Ofra Eshel, PsyD
Discussants: Aner Govrin, PhD and Dan Gilhooley, PsyaD

This will be a hybrid conference
(limited in-person seating and online via Zoom)

Conference Location:

Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, 16 West 10 th Street, New York City

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Psychoanalysis as a Form of Play: Considering Interpretation and Mourning in Relation to Play (Online Presentation

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2026 • 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Winnicott’s (1968) assertion that all psychoanalytic treatment is a highly specialized form of play implies that a central aspect of analytic work is helping patients to hold paradoxical realities. For example, experiencing the transference involves holding the analyst as real and unreal at the same time.

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Presenter: Steven H. Cooper