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
CMPS Annual Conference (In-Person)
Saturday, November 4, 2023 | 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Destruction and Fantasy: The Other Without, The Other Within
Featuring Masha Gessen and Eyal Rozmarin
Conference Location: John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th Street, New York City
The Analyst’s Torment: Unbearable Mental States in Countertransference (Online Presentation)
Saturday, October 14, 2023 | 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern) via Zoom
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
In contrast to exploring the patient's mind from a safe distance, the clinician’s feelings, subjective experiences, and history all impact the intersubjective space of the therapeutic encounter.
Instructor: Dhwani Shah
CANCELED: June Workshop: When the Body Speaks Louder Than Words: Sexual Symptoms as Unconscious Communication (Online Workshop)
Tuesdays, June 20 and 27, 2023 | 1:00 –2:00 PM
Description: This workshop will explore how sexual symptoms can carry unconscious meaning. Read more [. . .]
Presenter: Juliane Maxwald
June Workshop: Transgenerational Trauma: Through a Modern Psychoanalytic Lens
Dates: Mondays, June 5, 12, 19, 26, 2023 | 12:00 noon–1:30 PM
4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
IN-PERSON AT 16 WEST 10th STREET
Transgenerational trauma theory expands psychodynamic and unconscious exploration to include grandparents, great-grandparents, historic ancestry, and social phenomena.
Presenter: Dr. Diane H. Tracey
Clinical Writing—Expanding the Parameters
SATURDAY, MAY 6, 2023 | 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (Eastern)
4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
Workshop via Zoom
In this workshop participants will learn to write richer, more accessible and creative clinical narratives, including vignettes, case studies, and clinical papers. Read more [. . .]
Presenter: Terese Ragen, PhD
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
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
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
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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