Internal Racism: The Vicissitudes of Out-Group Hostility (Online Presentation)

Saturday, November 13, 2021  |  9:30–11:30 AM (Eastern), via Zoom

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2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

In this presentation, M. Fakhry Davids will describe the model of internal racism, which is a clinically based account of the othering mechanisms employed in relation to the out-group. [Read more]

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CMPS Annual Conference: Dreaming the Session

Saturday, March 20, 2021  |  9:30 AM - 4:00 PM ET via Zoom

Event video is in 2 parts.
Part 1 of the recording is embedded on the event page.
Part 2 may be viewed on the CMPS vimeo page: https://vimeo.com/676804841

5 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Keynote Speaker: Giuseppe Civitarese

Featured Speakers: Lawrence Brown, Barbara D’Amato

Dreaming the Session: Field Theory Perspectives On Hallucinosis, Dreaming, and Reverie In Daily Clinical Work

The theory of dreams has changed fundamentally since Freud's time, when their primary function was seen as protecting sleep by distorting and hiding repressed material from consciousness. [Read more . . .]

The Limits of Intimacy and the Intimacy of Limits in Psychoanalytic Work (Online Presentation)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2020  |  7:30 — 9:30 PM, VIA ZOOM

2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Steven Cooper will explore how internal bad objects (Fairbairn’s term) are released in the process of analytic work. [Read more . . .]

The Psychoanalytic Instrument: Possibility, Form, and Risk (Online Presentation)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2020  |  7:30 — 9:30 PM, VIA ZOOM

2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Historically, psychoanalysis has underestimated, watered down, even denied the inherent risks of the clinical situation. This combustible arrangement invites the patient’s passionate attachment and desire, with the abstinent analyst functioning as a deliberately incendiary human lure. [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Ellen Pinsky, PsyD

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CANCELED: Modern Psychoanalysis: Beyond the Interpretation Principle

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2020  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

Seven Actors, Sixty Analysts, One Conversation

2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Christopher Russell’s presentation is a staged reading.  A cast of seven, led by Hyman Spotnitz, Phyllis Meadow, and Sigmund Freud, engage in a spirited discussion about the theory and practice of modern psychoanalysis.  [Read more. . .]

CANCELED: Who Speaks from the Site of Trauma? Death and Life at the Site of Address

FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 2020  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

An announcement and posting will be made for rescheduling.

Tancred unwittingly kills his beloved Clorinda in a duel while she is disguised in the armour of an enemy knight. After her burial he makes his way to a strange magic forest which strikes the Crusaders’ army with terror. [Read more . . .]

With Cathy Caruth, PhD

Anna Freud and ‘The Conscience of Society’

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2020  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Out of the cultural and political ferment of inter-war Vienna emerged the Hietzing School, founded in the 1920s by Anna Freud and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham. [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Elizabeth Ann Danto

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On Having Whiteness

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2020  |  7:30 – 9:30 PM

2 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

Donald Moss will discuss whiteness as a condition one first acquires and then one has--a malignant, parasitic-like condition to which “white” people have a particular susceptibility.  [Read more . . .]

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Working with Vicarious Trauma

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2019  |  7:30 — 9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS AND SOCIAL WORKERS

Trauma is contagious; its powerful affect and frequently unformulated memories can be transmitted—sometimes nonverbally and often mysteriously—within families, across generations, and from patient to clinician; in the latter case it is commonly referred to as vicarious trauma. [Read more]

Presenter: Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD

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Transference and Countertransference Revisited

SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2019  |  9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS and SOCIAL WORKERS
 

This seminar will revisit key moments in the theoretical evolution of two critical, intertwined psychoanalytic concepts: transference and countertransference. Important questions will be highlighted and contextualized, and their implications for clinical work will be examined. [Read more]

with M. Gerard Fromm PhD

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