Save The Date: Annual Conference 2025

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

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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Violence, Destruction, Survival: British Independent Theory in the Analytic Treatment of a Schizophrenic Patient (Online Presentation)

Saturday, April 26, 2025  |  9:30–11:30 AM (Eastern)  |  via Zoom

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation describes the psychoanalytic treatment of a patient, previously diagnosed as schizophrenic, who at times was severely regressed.  [Read more]

Presenter: Jonathan Sklar

Misogyny in Psychoanalysis (​Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2025  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

In psychoanalysis misogyny hides in plain sight, seemingly above the usual conventions of workplace etiquette or even a vague awareness of sexism.  [Read more]

Presenter: Michaela Chamberlain, MA, MSc

CANCELED: Working with Sexuality in Couple Therapy (Online Presentation)

POSTPONED, DATE TBD SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2024  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation will discuss how to address sexual problems in couple therapy using a narrative approach in which therapists help partners identify and transform narratives that negatively affect their erotic lives. [Read more]

Presenterr: Suzanne Iasenza, PhD

“Can’t go on. Will go on.” Learning From Therapeutic Failure (Online Presentation)

Saturday, October 5, 2024  |  9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

This presentation addresses an oft-experienced but less frequently discussed phenomenon in psychoanalysis: failure in clinical work.  [Read more]

Instructor:  Nilofer Kaul, PhD

Schizophrenia: An Unfinished History (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2024 • 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

Since the 1990s, doctors and patients have argued in favor of dropping the stigmatizing S-word, schizophrenia, while introducing alternative terms. [read more . . .]

Presenter: Orna Ophir

Maternal Eroticism in the Analytic Setting (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2024 • 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers
REGISTRATION ENDed FRIDAY, 12:00 NOON, APRIL 19.

This program will involve a clinically based presentation of maternal erotic transferences and how these are addressed in verbatim clinical process. [read more . . .]

Preseneter: Andrea Celenza

Beyond Platitudes and Party Lines: Trauma as Generative Resource in Queer Life (Online Presentation)

SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 2024 • 9:30 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

2 CE Credits for Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, and Social Workers

A particular epistemology of trauma now wields an outsized hold over psychoanalytic theory and practice: trauma, we have come to accept, is of destructive, if not catastrophic, effects. But what if we got this wrong? [read more . . .]

Presenter: Avgi Saketopoulou

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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