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

Working With Infertility Patients Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2026 • 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Alumni Association Event Open to the Public

Doors Open at 6:30 PM

While addressing behavioral needs and surface-level fears and anxieties is essential in helping patients who struggle with infertility, it is also important that we help patients process their deeper unconscious (and often conflicting) feelings around treatment, failure, loss, inadequacy, and successful pregnancy. [Read more]

Presenters: Golzar Selbe Naghshineh, and Nancy Kaufman

A Long Road to Clinical Discovery: Bion and Psychosis (Online Presentation)

Saturday, April 18, 2026  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation builds on and goes beyond Bion’s rich reflections on psychosis to a consideration of more recent investigations into the nature of this form of psychopathology.  [Read more]

Presenter: Franco De Masi

Shame and the Erotic Mind: A Psychoanalytic Lens on Sexuality, Desire, and the Therapeutic Relationship (Online Presentation)

Saturday, May 9, 2026  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)

Presentation via Zoom - Registration OPENS 1/20/2026
2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts,Psychologists, and Social Workers

This workshop explores the complex role of shame in erotic life and the therapeutic process.  Drawing from her book, Psychoanalytic Sex Therapy: Exploring the Unconscious Life of Sexuality (Routledge, 2026), Juliane Maxwald integrates psychoanalytic, relational, and somatic frameworks to illuminate how sexual symptoms often conceal unspoken shame, attachment longing, and the fear of exposure. [Read more]

Presenter: Juliane Maxwald

The Generative Power of Living Through Death in States of At-Onement (Online Presentation)

Saturday, March 28, 2026  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts,Psychologists, and Social Workers

Working within a Winnicottian model of deep mutual regression, Ofra Eshel describes reaching back emotionally to a moment of early traumatic breakdown when the patient psychically confronted extinction.  [Read More]

Presenter: Ofra Eshel

Discussant: Dan Gilhooley

The Psychoanalytic Frame (Online Course)

February 19 through May 7, 2026  |  Thursdays, 5:30 – 7:00 PM (Eastern)

[15 CE Credits for Psycoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]

This course will examine the elements of the psychoanalytic frame – the ground rules that make treatment possible – and examine how the frame is created in the initial sessions, including establishing the contract, the frequency, the hour, and the fee, and addressing regulation of stimulation and use of the couch.  [Read more]

Instructor: Lexa Roséan

Materiality in the Psychic Encounter (Online Presentation)

[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]

Presenter: Nini Kerr, DPsych, MBACP, FHEA

This presentation explores the interobjective dimension of psychic life through the lens of Fairbairn’s object relations theory, positioning it as an extension to the more traditionally applied intersubjective approaches in psychoanalysis. [Read more . . .]

Intimacy in Alienation: A Psychoanalytic Study of Hindu-Muslim Relationship (Online Presentation)

Saturday, October 11, 2025  |  10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

[2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers]

Presenter: Ashis Roy, PhD

In India, Hindu-Muslim relationships have had a history of togetherness and conflict over centuries. [Read more . . .]

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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