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This presentation will focus on the work of Loewald to conceptualize our reaction to the contemporary pandemic as an après-coup, a traumatic recreation of conditions of early helplessness.  Loewald, who was an important influence on the relational perspective, especially the work of Mitchell, Bromberg, and Ghent, viewed the emergence of the self in the context

MINI-COURSE VIA ZOOM In this three-part seminar we will read some of Bion’s texts closely to elucidate his thinking about working with unrepresentable emotional experience often related to psychotic functioning. At the center of our work will be the paper "Language and the Schizophrenic," supplemented by excerpts from other works. Our focus will be on the

WORKSHOP VIA ZOOM In this workshop participants will learn to write richer, more accessible and creative clinical narratives, including vignettes, case studies, and clinical papers. We will explore how clinical

PRESENTATION VIA ZOOM Contemporary psychoanalytic approaches extend the reach of psychoanalytic treatment to more disturbed patients. Working analytically with non-neurotic patients and traumatic states challenges traditional theory and practice. Ofra

In contrast to exploring the patient's mind from a safe distance, the clinician’s feelings, subjective experiences, and history all impact the intersubjective space of the therapeutic encounter. Thus, the analyst’s authentic

There is, within psychoanalysis, an increased interest in the psychoanalytically inspired work of the decolonial thinker Frantz Fanon.  However, Fanon's engagement with psychoanalysis is partial: there are a great many other

CO-SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR MODERN PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES (CMPS) AND THE BOSTON GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS (BGSP) Click here to sign up! This event is a hybrid format and will be offered on Zoom

HYBRID PRESENTATION (IN-PERSON AND ZOOM) COSPONSORED BY CMPS AND THE BOSTON GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS PRACTITIONERS AND GENERAL PUBLIC: $40 BGSP/NYGSP/CMPS FACULTY AND STAFF: $25 STUDENTS w/ID: FREE Register now -

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

This program will involve a clinically based presentation of maternal erotic transferences and how these are addressed in verbatim clinical process. An accompanying PowerPoint will help explicate associated theorizing that

Since the 1990s, doctors and patients have argued in favor of dropping the stigmatizing S-word, schizophrenia, while introducing alternative terms. ISPS was one of the leaders in this effort. To

The New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis is for people whose highest degree at the time of admission is a bachelor’s degree and are interested in obtaining an MA in