Extension Division
The Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, founded in 1971, holds an absolute charter from the State of New York to offer a Certificate in Psychoanalysis and is recognized by the State of New York as a licensure qualifying institute for those seeking licensure in psychoanalysis.
Modern Psychoanalysis rests on the theoretical framework and clinical approach of Sigmund Freud and the innovative techniques of Hyman Spotnitz and Phyllis W. Meadow. Its cornerstone is emotional communication, the practice of which allows for the loosening of repetitive and rigid patterns of thinking and behavior. This technique along with others has revolutionized the psychoanalytic field, expanding treatment to the full range of emotional disorders. These interventions have proven valuable to those working in the varied fields of social work, mental health, education, the law, business, and the arts among others.
2021 Spring Extension Division Brochure [download print version]
Past
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
“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
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
"Truth shall spring out of the earth": The Analyst as Gatherer of Sense Impressions (Online Presentation)
Saturday, December 11, 2021 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom
Registration Closed
2 CE credits for Licensed
Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
In this presentation, Avner Bergstein will reflect on our attempt to approach the unknowable, ultimate reality of the psychoanalytic experience and the unrepressed unconscious. [Read more]
Some Observations on the Psychodynamics of Race, Caste, Class, and Ethnic Differences in the Analytic Dyad (Online Presentation)
Friday, December 3, 2021 | 7:30 – 9:30 PM, (Online via Zoom)
Registration is closed.
2 CE credits for Licensed
Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
Annie Lee Jones explores the shifting meanings of racialized experiences in the psychoanalytic dyad as differences along the lines of caste, class, race, and ethnicity emerge in the treatment. [Read more]
Internal Racism: The Vicissitudes of Out-Group Hostility (Online Presentation)
Saturday, November 13, 2021 | 9:30–11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom
Zoom links have already been distributed. The last round will go out late tonight for last minute registrations.
Registration closed:
2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
In this presentation, M. Fakhry Davids will describe the model of internal racism, which is a clinically based account of the othering mechanisms employed in relation to the out-group. [Read more]
Echoes from the Front Lines: Pandemics, Wars, Traumas, and Literature (Online Mini-Course)
Saturdays, 10/16, 10/23, 11/06, 11/20/21 | 10:00–11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom
Registration closes at 9 PM on Friday, October 15, 2021.
6 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
In this four-session seminar, Françoise Davoine will explore transferences related to trauma-inducing catastrophic events, first studied by Freud, such as wars and plagues, including the current pandemic. [Read more]
Transference and the Moment of Catastrophe
SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2021 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM
2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
During this pandemic there have been catastrophic moments for many of us. A specific form of transference has been observed in the moment of catastrophe when time stops and speech becomes impossible. [Read more . . .]
Presenter: Françoise Davoine, PhD
Freud’s Wolf-Man From a Drive-Theory Perspective
Mondays, June 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2021 | 7:00–8:30 PM
4 CE credits for licensed psychoanalysts and social workers
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
Description: The case of the Wolf Man was the last that Freud analyzed from the perspective of libido theory. Freud diagnosed the Wolf Man’s central problem as an “infantile neurosis,” which, from a contemporary perspective, is insufficient to understand the complexities of the case. [Read more . . .]
Presenter: Raúl A. Garcia, PhD
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