“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi
Past Events
Committed to increasing the knowledge and application of
psychoanalytic theory
See a listing of our past events below.
September 22, 2024: Michael O'Loughlin, PhD: “Giving an Account of Oneself: the Interplay of Genealogy and Autobiography in the Clinic.”
May 19, 2024: Martha Stark, MD, “The Psychodynamic Synergy Paradigm: An Integration of Multiple Modes of Therapeutic Action”
March 3, 2024: Danielle Magaldi, PhD, “Unbecoming: Social Media and the Fracturing of Adolescent Development”
January 21, 2024: Sarah L. Hedlund, Ph.D., “Psychoanalytic Psychology’s Failure to Mentalize: Reckoning With the Denigration of the Autistic Community”
November 5, 2023: Louis Rothschild, Ph.D., “Exploring Breakdowns and Recoveries In and Between Fathers and Sons: Implications for Treatment”
September 24, 2023: Clark J. Hudak, Jr., Ph.D., “Counter-transference and Impingements on the Containing Function in Working with Trans Patients.”
May 21, 2023: J Unterberg, Ph.D. and Aekta Malhotra, M.D., “Personal and Collective Mourning in Transgender/Non-Binary Transitions”
March 26, 2023: Clara E. Hill, Ph. D., “Psychotherapy Skills and Methods: Empirical Evidence”
January 22, 2023: Sandor (Alex) Szollos, Ph.D., “Clinical and Ethical Challenges of Money, the ‘Last Taboo’ in Psychotherapy, Part II”
November 13, 2022: Martha Stark, M.D., “The Art and The Science of Interpretation”
September 18, 2022: George Strutt, Ph.D., “The Future of Psychoanalysis, Redux: Views from the Past and Present.”
May 15, 2022: Justine Kalas Reeves, LICSW, D. Psych (England), “The Centrality of Child Psychoanalytic Theory to the Psychoanalytic Corpus as a Whole”
March 20, 2022: Sharon Alperovitz, LICSW, Teaching Analyst, WBCP, “Treating Couples and Families from a British Object Relations and an American Relational Theories Perspective”
February 6, 2022: Richard M. Waugaman, M. D., “What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Psychology”
November 14, 2021: Clara E. Hill, Ph.D., “Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach”
September 19, 2021: Fonya Lord Helm, Ph.D., ABPP & Maurine K. Kelly, Ph.K., P.A., “Altered States of Awareness: Telepathic Dreaming”
March 21, 2021: Joseph P. Collins, Jr., D.O., “Trauma, Perversity and Sexual Activity: A Psychoanalytic Perspective”
January 31, 2021: Samuel T. Goldberg, M.D., DFAPA, “Perspectives on Tragedy, with a Discussion of Shakespeare’s King Lear”
November 8, 2020: Michael Stadter, Ph.D., “Time, Focus, and Relationship: An Object Relations Perspective on Brief Therapy”
September 27, 2020: Clark J. Hudak, Jr., Ph.D., “Addictive Behaviors and Trauma: Psychoanalytic Considerations”
March 22, 2020: Clara E. Hill, Ph.D., “Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach”
January 19, 2020: Gerald P. Perman, M.D., “Jacques Lacan: An Introduction to His Work with Applications for Your Practice”