Psychoanalytic Events & News

Clinical Thinking, Ethical Thinking: Making Sense of Two Different Lines of Development in Clinical Work (6 CE for ethics). Thoughtful discussions of ethics in mental health work often find that the lines between clinical issues and ethical issues in therapy are hard to draw, and hard to manage. Perhaps clinical dynamics and ethical issues in [...]

WSPP- MAY 8:  WHO’S SHAMING WHOM?  SHAMING AND ASHAMED IN THE THERAPY OFFICE

May 8, 2009 9:30am-12:30pm
Presenter:  Michael Stadter, PhD

This seminar will focus on the powerful and, at times, debilitating emotion of shame. We will especially look at the inner world of shaming objects and ashamed selves and consider the various ways this is manifested [...]

Friday evening, May 1, 2009
5:30 – 7:30 PM
at the Washington School of Psychiatry
5028 Wisconsin Ave., N.W. Suite 400
Washington, DC 20016
Come join Clinical Program on Psychotherapy Practice faculty, students, alumni and prospective students as we visit, share refreshments, talk about the Clinical Program, and think together about pivotal moments in [...]

Following up on Sally\’s post and including a downloadable brochure with registration information.
“Using One’s Whole Self as a Group Therapist” is the theme of this year’s Spring, two-day psychodynamic group psychotherapy conference. Jerome Gans, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School is the guest presenter. The conference will include experiential small process [...]

“Using One\’s Whole Self as a Group Therapist” is the theme of this year\’s Spring, two-day psychodynamic group psychotherapy conference. Jerome Gans, MD, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School is the guest presenter. The conference will include experiential small process groups and be held on the Rockville campus of Johns [...]

IPI is presenting a Saturday morning lecture by Anthony Bass, Ph.D., “Loving Patients: Intimacy, Personal Growth, Sex, Guilt, Betrayal, Murder and a Life Worth Living,” Saturday April 25, followed by an optional small group discussion, 9:00 a.m. - Noon, Rockville Hilton Hotel. These events are part of a full weekend conference “The Therapeutic Relationship [...]

Jonathan Lear, Ph.D., will present “Technique and Freedom in Psychoanalysis” at the Baltimore Washington Center for Psychoanalysis’  Psychoanalytic Forum on Saturday, April 18th, (5:00 - 6:30 p.m.) Jonathan Lear is the John U. Nef  Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. Please [...]