The Storm Has Arrived: Psychoanalysis Faces a Human Emergency Can the Social Dreaming Matrix Provide a Generative, Creative Path Forward? (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2026  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

As global crises of dehumanization and meta-dehumanization—political, ecological, and moral—intensify, psychoanalysis faces an ethical reckoning and a paradigmatic opportunity. 

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Presenter: George Bermúdez

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

Annual Conference 2025

Saturday, November 8, 2025  |  9:30 AM – 4:00 PM (Eastern)

Transference Revisited: How Neurotic and Psychotic Patients Use Us Differently

Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies 
Annual Conference
This will be a hybrid conference 
(limited in-person seating and online via Zoom)

Keynote Speaker
Bruce Fink, PhD

Discussant
Siamak Movahedi, PhD

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CMPS Annual Conference: Leaning into the Message

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2024  |  9:30 AM - 4:00 PM (Eastern)

Three Perspectives on Working with Psychosis

5 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Limited In-Person Seating at CMPS, 16 West 10th Street, New York City and Online via Zoom

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Speakers:

Danielle Knafo, PhD

Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP

Josie Oppenheim, PsyaD

June Workshop: Clinical Approaches to Working With Child and Adolescent Grief

Thursdays, June 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024, 10:00–11:30 AM
Location: 16 West 10^th Street

4 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

The Childhood Bereavement Estimation Model indicates that approximately 6 million American children and adolescents (1 in 12, or 8%) will experience the death of a parent or sibling by the age of 18.  [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Diane H. Tracey, EdD

Supplementing Fanon's Psychoanalysis: Fantasy, Jouissance, and Drive In Relation to the “European Collective Unconscious” (Online Presentation)

Saturday, December 2, 2023  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

There is, within psychoanalysis, an increased interest in the psychoanalytically inspired work of the decolonial thinker Frantz Fanon.  [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Derek Hook

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

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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  

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

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2022 Annual Conference

Via Zoom

A Conspiracy of Silence:  Identifying Racism in the Consulting Room and Analytic Institute

Featured Speakers: 
Beverly Stoute and Anton Hart

5 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

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