Raphling Memorial Lecture presents LGBTQIA+ Workshop Remapping the Symbolic: On Poetic Cartographies of Gender and Erotic Life Sunday, October 4, 2026 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET Via Zoom Presenters Fernanda Magallenes, Ph.D. and Marco Posadas, R.S.W, M.S.W, Ph.D. About the Workshop This workshop brings together the work of Fernanda Magallanes and Marco Posadas in […]
WBCP presents The Thomas and Julia Saltz Annual Adult Seminar Workshop Professional Will Boot Camp: An Emotional, Ethical, and Practical Workshop Saturday, October 24, 2026 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET Lunch will be provided for all attendees. In-Person Workshop George Washington University Student Center 800 21st Street, NW Washington, DC 20052 Room 308 7 […]
Discussion of the film "The Backrooms" 2025 (110 mins) Director: Kane Parsons After a therapist’s patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him. Friday, October 30, 2026 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm ET Via Zoom *Film must be viewed before event Discussant: Alex Smith, PsyD Presentation: Horror […]
November 6 @ 12:00 am - November 8 @ 12:00 am Caged Bodies, Freed Minds Under what conditions are we free to think? To open ourselves to relating across boundaries of class, color, and experience? To fully give of ourselves to others and to fully realize our own potential? This weekend, we will focus on these and other core questions of […]
Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference Sunday, December 6, 2026 More Information Coming Soon
Discussion of the film "Till Death" 2025 (20 mins) Director: Yana Billé-Chung When a kind young couple is offered the chance of a lifetime to purchase their dream house from an ailing octogenarian at a fraction of its asking price, they eagerly accept. However, the deal comes with a significant catch: the older woman must […]
Discussion of the film "Before Dawn (Перед Світанком)" 2024 (11 mins) Director: Yuliia Haleta This is not supposed to happen in your twenties, but you embrace the emptiness. A spacious apartment on […]
2027 National Meeting Mayflower Hotel Washington D.C. Tuesday, February 2 to Friday, February 5, 2027
February 5 @ 12:00 am - February 7 @ 12:00 am The New Directions weekend will explore forms of human relating that are not reducible to speech, that exceed and sometimes undo what can be said. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, the arts, and embodied practice, we will consider how people affect and transform one another through affective qualities such as tone, […]
April 30 @ 12:00 am - May 2 @ 12:00 am To Apply: https://newdirectionsinwriting.com/apply/
Discussion of the film "The Substance" 2024 (141 mins) Director: Coralie Fargeat A fading celebrity takes a black-market drug: a cell-replicating substance that helps her create a younger, better version of herself. Friday, April 30, 2027 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm ET Via Zoom *Film must be viewed before the event. Discussant: Jamie Steele, LMFT Presentation: The […]
November 5, 2027 @ 8:00 am - November 7, 2027 @ 5:00 pm Imagine for a moment a place that you frequented, or that had special meaning to you as a child – it might […]
