Psychoanalytic Events & News

The American Psychoanalytic Association will hold its 99th Annual Meeting at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel from June 9-13, 2010. The Meeting will offer a rich lineup of discussion groups, panels and symposia on a medley of psychoanalytic topics. Registrants will also be able to take advantage of two off-site special events: a display [...]

Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis 16th Annual Conference Countertransference Dilemmas: On Knowing and Being Known with Steven Cooper, PhD – Terror and Inhibition of Negative Countertransference Karen Maroda, PhD – Self-disclosure and Advice: Understanding How and When the Therapist’s Disclosures Are Therapeutic Saturday, May 8, 2010 9:00am – 4:15pm (coffee and registration begins at [...]

Hanna Segal reminds us that our counter-transference reactions can be our wisest guide or our worst enemy in our therapeutic work with others. Figuring out who’s who and what’s what is hard enough when working with individual patients but when working with couples – it often feels impossible. Janet Malcolm was wrong when she wrote [...]

The Baltimore Society for Psychoanalytic Studies is pleased to present: Working with Dreams – A Self Psychological Perspective Elizabeth M. Carr, APRN, MSN, BC will present a contemporary self psychological model of dream analysis. In this approach, dreams are viewed as revealing (rather than disguising) unconscious organizing processes. Thus, dream images are viewed as potentially [...]