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]
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Networking: A Skill for Life
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 | 6:00-7:30 PM
June Workshop
Being able to meet people, form a connection, and build a relationship is central to professional, business, and personal life. This workshop will provide practical advice on how to overcome both fear of failure and fear of success.
With Ernest Brod
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.
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
CANCELLED: The Business of Psychoanalytic Practice: Strategies for Success
This June Workshop has been cancelled
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
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
Registration is closeD.
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
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
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.
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.
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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