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SUMMARY:2025 APsA National Meeting
DESCRIPTION:2025 National Meeting\, February 4 – 9\, 2025\nPalace Hotel\, San Francisco\nVisit https://apsa.org/meetings-events/ for more information.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/2025-apsa-national-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Art & Creativity,Clinical Psychotherapy Program,Film Series,Public Program,Scientific Conferences,Washington Case Conference and Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250222T123000
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SUMMARY:COWAP: “Women\, The Longest Revolution”: Session 5: Material Body
DESCRIPTION:Session 5: The Female Body:  Passion and Peril \nParticipants: Rosemary H. Balsam\, MD\, Rachel Boué-Widawsky\, PhD\, Jeri Isaacson\, PhD\, Chair \nDate: February 22\, 2025 \nTime: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 \nClick Here to View the Program Flyer \nRegistration Deadline: February 19\, 2025 \nDescription: Why do we pay so little attention to the role that the female natal body plays in the development of the psyche?  This contrasts with how the birthing body holds psychic meaning that resonates throughout society.  A graphic example is the fight for legal control over the female body in recent conflicts about abortion.  Yet the procreative body remains relatively unexplored in psychoanalytic literature.  In this discussion\, Drs. Rosemary Balsam and Rachel Boué-Widawsky will consider ways of thinking psychoanalytically about the female body.  Dr. Balsam will talk about the meaning of this absence in our field\, and its impact for our understanding of psychological development.   Dr. Boue-Widawsky will elaborate on this topic by discussing Julia Kristeva’s ideas about the maternal body as an object that is often experienced unconsciously – and consciously – with horror.   What might we add to our understanding of internal\, interpersonal\, and sociocultural dynamics if we were to more fully incorporate these ideas into the larger body of psychoanalytic thought?   We will consider societal dynamics that reflect internal psychic experience\, particularly in light of the burgeoning misogyny we face today. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/cowap-women-the-longest-revolution-6/
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250223T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250223T170000
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Zoom Open House
DESCRIPTION:February 23\, 2025 \nTime: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm \nRegistration Link: Click Here \nProgram Flyer: Click Here \n  \nDear WBCP Members and Friends\, \nI am writing on behalf of the Washington Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute to let you know that our annual Zoom Open House this year will be held on February 23rd from 3pm to 5:00pm.  This is an exciting opportunity for people to learn more about our Psychoanalytic Studies program (PSP) and Psychoanalytic training. \nDuring the open house\, participants will be provided an overview of the psychoanalytic studies program and psychoanalytic candidacy.  The open house will also provide time for participants to ask their own specific questions about these training opportunities. \nThe PSP and Psychoanalytic Training programs are open to licensed mental health professionals including licensed psychiatrists\, psychologists\, social workers\, and professional counselors. Academic scholars interested in psychoanalytic theory are also invited to apply to these programs. If you supervise or work with someone who might be interested in the programs\, please do forward this flyer to them. \nMany of you have already generously committed to passing along this flyer to either a training institution\, alumni group\, colleagues\, classes\, supervisees\, community programs\, listservs\, and more.  Thank you so much for your participation in recruitment and helping to continue to keep our programs lively and growing. \nFor those who might be interested in this training\, we look forward to meeting you and are excited to learn more about your interest in psychodynamic therapy and analysis. \nBest Regards\, \nThe Recruitment Committee \nJennifer A. Babcock\, Psy.D. (Chair)\nMary FitzGerald\, LCSW-C\nKatrin J. Haller\, MSW\nShari Matray\, Ph.D.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/psychoanalytic-open-house/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Member Gathering,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T160000
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Takes on the Cinema: Discussion of the Film: "American Fiction"
DESCRIPTION:2023 (117 mins)\nDirectors: Dean Fleischer Camp A novelist disheartened by the literary industry profiting from the use of Black authors and narratives uses a pen name to craft a story that earns him acclaim while propelling him into hypocrisy.\nDate: February 27\, 2025 \nTime: 1:00pm – 4:00pm \nPresenter: Katherine Marshall Woods\, PsyD \nWhere: (Hybrid Event) \nThe Textile Museum\n701 21st St NW\, Washington\, DC 20052 \nand  \nVia Zoom \nRegistration Link: Here\n \nProgram Flyer: Here \nRegistration Deadline: February 25\, 2025 \nPresentation Description: \nThis presentation will consider how racially crafted stereotypes located in literary and film works have permeated artistic mediums over the last century. Jefferson’s American Fiction depicts an esteemed scholar and novelist frustrated by the narratives published in the literary world that perpetuates racial stereotypes influencing the ways in which people of color are imagined and understood in the world.  Within this presentation\, racial stereotypes frequently depicted are examined understanding that their insidious residue exist within quotidian dynamics\, including therapy rooms.  This film carefully examines the roles artists and audiences have to uphold racial stereotypes within present day artistic expressions\, while challenging one to consider how minority artists have contended with these stereotypes and navigated systems that depict their identity as the other. American Fiction directly confronts these systemically racially charged dynamics while being curious regarding whose voices and narratives are silenced and whose are celebrated.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/psychoanalytic-takes-on-the-cinema-discussion-of-the-film-american-fiction/
LOCATION:(Hybrid) The Textile Museum and Via Zoom\, 701 21st St. NW\, Washingon\, DC\, 20052\, United States
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Film Series,Professional Development,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250308T123000
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SUMMARY:COWAP: “Women\, The Longest Revolution”: Session 6: Women and Literature
DESCRIPTION:“Women’s Lives in Transition: Novelists Amy Bloom and Lisa Gornick in Conversation” \nDate: March 8\, 2025 \nTime: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET \n  \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 \nClick Here to View the Program Flyer \nRegistration Deadline: March 5\, 2025 \nDescription: The presentation “Women’s Lives in Transition: Novelists Amy Bloom and Lisa Gornick In Conversation” provides a unique opportunity for participants to gain insights from two authors who are also psychotherapists. Their conversation offers dynamically rich and complex perspectives on women’s lives across various developmental stages\, encompassing themes such as family dynamics\, love\, work\, and mental health. By exploring the intersection of literature and psychology through the lens of these authors’ works\, participants can deepen their understanding of women’s experiences over time and across the developmental spectrum\, including birth and death\, love and loss\, work and home\, and the complexity of women’s mental health concerns. \nAnne Adelman\, PhD\, will facilitate a conversation between authors/psychotherapists Amy Bloom (In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss\, 2022; I’m Right Here\, forthcoming Summer 2025) and Lisa Gornick (Ana Turns\, 2023). As therapists and authors\, they each have unique\, dynamically rich and complex perspectives on women’s lives across the developmental spectrum\, navigating the pulls of family\, love\, work\, body and mind.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/cowap-women-the-longest-revolution-7/
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250329T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250329T140000
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SUMMARY:Echoes of Change: Adapted Reflective Citizens Event
DESCRIPTION:Echoes of Change: Adapted Reflective Citizens Event\nThe APsA Department of Education (DPE) Section:\nThe Psychoanalyst in the Community\nand the Contemporary Freudian Society invite you to\nSAVE THE DATE for this upcoming community event\nSaturday\, March 29\, 2025 | 11:00am – 2:00pm ET\nVenue: Virtual “Zoom” Room hosted by Therapist Beyond Borders \nRegistration Link: https://contemporaryfreudiansociety.org/event/echoes-of-change-adapted-reflective-citizens-event/ \nWhat is a “Reflective Citizens” event? \nA “Reflective Citizens” event aspires to co-create a reflective space with\nand for citizens to enable a free sharing of thoughts\, feelings\, fantasies\,\ndreams\, drawings and hypotheses. It seeks to open minds to a variety of\ndiscourses and / or paradigms that may emerge. It also seeks to make\nvisible the uncontrollable unconscious ‘beneath the surface of communities.\nIt does so through mutually respectful conversations. Reflective Citizens is founded in\nthe psychoanalytic traditions (psychoanalysis\, group analysis\, group relations\,\ntherapeutic communities\, social dreaming\, listening posts\, and operative groups). \nWho is this event for? \nThis event is open to all community members. It is enhanced by the participation of\npeople from a wide range of diverse backgrounds including but not limited to ways of\nliving\, our experiences\, our different socio-political histories and narratives\, ethnicity\,\ngender\, class\, age\, occupation\, cultures.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/echoes-of-change-adapted-reflective-citizens-event/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-sponsored Event,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250404T220000
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SUMMARY:The Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival- American Fiction - Dr. Marilyn Martin
DESCRIPTION:The Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival\nMovie: American Fiction\nPresented by: Dr. Marilyn Martin\nDate: April 4\, 2025\nTime:  7:00pm - 10:00 pm \nWhere: Baltimore Museum of the Arts\n10 Art Museum Drive\, Baltimore\, MD 21218\n\nPresentation Description:\nMonk\, a struggling novelist\,tries to point out how ridiculous the publishing world is by writing a Black book To his astonishment\, the more far out he becomes.\, the more financial success he has and must explore how much of himself he will compromise. Humor and tragedy are intertwined.\nRegistration Link:  CLICK HERE\n\nProgram Flyer:  CLICK HERE\n\nRegistration Deadline: April 1\, 2025
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/baltimore-leon-levin-film-festival/
LOCATION:10 Art Museum Drive\, Baltimore\, MD 21218
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Film Series,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T140000
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SUMMARY:Washington Case Conference
DESCRIPTION:April 11\, 2025:\nVia Zoom \nImplications of Linguistic Identity for the Psychotherapeutic Process\nPresented by: Maria Lima \nWhile our globalized world has increased the prevalence of multilingual patients and therapists\, multilingualism seems to be a topic that remains unspoken in psychotherapy training programs as well as in institutions that provide psychotherapy to the wider community. The lack of awareness about the specificities of the multilingual experience can cause therapists to misunderstand their patients’ emotional functioning and to misdiagnose them. This presentation aims to provide a means to reflect on how language is at the core of the individual’s identity – their sense of self and mode of being in the world. It also aims to address the implications of multilingualism for psychotherapeutic practice by using clinical material from psychotherapy sessions with monolingual and bilingual patients. In this presentation we will delve into the particularities of the subjective experience of people who make sense of themselves and the world in more than one language\, and it will be argued that an awareness of the linguistic characteristics of each patient promotes better psychotherapeutic practice\, whether conducted by monolingual or multilingual therapists. We will then extend this exploration to monolingual therapeutic dyads\, emphasizing that even in such dyads\, there may be “different languages” being spoken\, as the same words can have distinct emotional connotations depending on each person’s lived experience. \nRegister at CFS: https://contemporaryfreudiansociety.org/calendar-of-events/public-events/ \nFor any questions/concerns regarding the Washington Case Conference please contact Connie Stroboulis at connies3@aol.com
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/washington-case-conference-3/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-sponsored Event,Continuing Education (CE/CME),Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250411T220000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20241030T135717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250304T145854Z
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SUMMARY:The Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival- CODA - Dr. Kevin Popp
DESCRIPTION:The Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival\nCODA\nDate: April 11\, 2025\nPresented by: Dr. Kevin Popp\nTime:  7:00pm - 10:00 pm\nWhere: Baltimore Museum of the Arts\n10 Art Museum Drive\, Baltimore\, MD 21218\n\nPresentation Description:\nRuby is the only hearing member of a deaf family from Gloucester\, Massachusetts. At 17\, she works mornings before school to help her parents and brother keep their fishing business afloat. But in joining her high school’s choir club\, Ruby finds herself drawn to both her duet partner and her latent passion for singing. These duel pulls between being the family interpreter and striving for her own autonomy make for a drama filled with powerful moments as it (according to one review) ‘spins and burbles and flows with sincerity and precision. \nRegistration Link:  CLICK HERE\n\nProgram Flyer:  CLICK HERE\nRegistration Deadline: April 8\, 2025
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/baltimore-leon-levin-film-festival-2/
LOCATION:10 Art Museum Drive\, Baltimore\, MD 21218
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Film Series,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250412T123000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20240319T140719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250214T184917Z
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SUMMARY:COWAP: “Women\, The Longest Revolution”: Session 7: Juliet Mitchell
DESCRIPTION:Session 7: Conversation with Juliet Mitchell \nJuliet Mitchell\, Margarita Cereijido\, and Jill Gentile \nDate: April 12\, 2025 \nTime: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET \nRegistration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 \nClick Here to View the Program Flyer \nRegistration Deadline: April 9\, 2025 \nDescription: Juliet Mitchell will reflect on her iconic book\, “Women “Women: The longest revolution\,” considering the ongoing changes in different feminine scenarios in conversation with Margarita Cereijido and Jill Gentile. Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades and this is reflected in how women perceive themselves\, how they are perceived by society\, and how they are understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Inspired by the title of her book\, Juliet Mitchell will reflect on the impact of feminism\, and the ongoing changes in different feminine scenarios. The audience will reflect with the presenters about how our thinking has changed.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/cowap-women-the-longest-revolution-8/
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250502T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T170000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20241011T181955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241011T182028Z
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SUMMARY:New Directions: Maternity And Its Upheavals
DESCRIPTION:Weekend Conference \nMaternity — from pregnancy\, to childbirth\, to parenting a newborn introduces  psychic dislocation and strain in the mother and upheaval in the couple.  Idealizations of pregnancy and early motherhood can constrain our recognition of the potential for depression\, loss\, trauma\, and breakdown that disrupt this topsy-turvy time of life.  This weekend will explore the psychic topography of this central developmental period.  We will consider the potential for emotional disturbance as well as for transformation in new parents. \nCoordinator: Elizabeth Fritsch\, Ph.D. \nGUEST FACULTY: \nJennifer Babcock\, Psy.D. is a child and adult psychologist and adult psychoanalyst with a clinical and assessment practice in Old Town Alexandria\, Virginia. Dr. Babcock is an analyst with the Washington-Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Dr. Babcock is a member of the Steering Committee for the SPRING Project. She has a long-standing interest in working with women and their partners during the perinatal period and a specialty in maternal mental health. She has presented to psychoanalytic groups on the permeability of mental health during the perinatal period as well as the impact of IVF and intergenerational trauma on a new mother. \nYael Goldstein-Love is the author of the novels The Passion of Tasha Darsky\, described as “showing signs of brooding genius” by The New York Times\, and The Possibilities\, a speculative thriller about the psychological transition to motherhood. A PEOPLE pick of the week (“a powerful page-turner with deep wisdom”) and Good Morning America recommendation for summer reading (“taps into those primal feelings every nurturer feels — and fears”)\, The Possibilities grew out of Goldstein-Love’s own rocky transition to motherhood as well as her clinical passion for working with people during this fraught and potentially generative period. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Boston Globe\, and Slate\, among other places. A graduate of Harvard University and The Wright Institute\, she lives with her son in Berkeley\, CA. \nRachel Yoder is the author of Nightbitch\, her debut novel selected as an Indie Next Pick and best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture\, and recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction. She is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. With Mark Polanzak\, she is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process. Recent essays and stories have appeared in Harper’s\, The Paris Review\, and Guernica.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-maternity-and-its-upheavals/
CATEGORIES:New Directions,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250504T133000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
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SUMMARY:WBCP In-person Social Gathering in Washington\, DC
DESCRIPTION:WBCP In Person Social Gathering in Washington\, DC\nSunday\, May 4th 2025\nSocializing and Hors D’oeuvres\n(11:30am – 1:30pm)\nAll members of the WBCP community along with their guests are welcome.\n\nParthenon Restaurant\n5510 Connecticut Ave\, NW\nWashington\, DC 20015\n\n$35 per person (Includes hors d’oeuvres\, soda\, coffee\, tea\, water.  Cash bar for alcohol.) \nNo charge for students and candidates. \n Online Registration is required. \nThere is a minimum of 10 guests and a maximum of 60 guests. Register early. \nDeadline for Reservations: April 22\, 2025 \nUnless the event is cancelled or there is a therapeutic conflict\, all registration fees are non-refundable.\n\nClick Here to Register
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/wbcp-in-person-social-gathering-in-washington-dc/
LOCATION:Parthenon Restaurant 5510 Connecticut Ave\, NW Washington\, DC 20015\, 5510 Connecticut Ave\, NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20015\, United States
CATEGORIES:Member Gathering,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250509T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250509T140000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20250326T143441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250326T144849Z
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SUMMARY:Washington Case Conference
DESCRIPTION:May 9\, 2025:\nVia Zoom\nTopic: To Be Or Not To Be: The Existential Sensibility and Psychodynamic Therapy \nPresented by:  Jane Prelinger\, MSW and Michael Stadter\, PhD\n\n An existential sensibility focuses on fundamental themes of being human and the joys and suffering inherent in existence. This sensibility is not prescriptive nor is it a pathology model. It is individual for therapist and patient. Important themes include\, for example\, life\, death\, joy\, vitality\, absurdity\, serious illness or disability\, trauma\, isolation\, loss\, aging\, identity\, and the search for meaning. The conference will include contributions from existential philosophy and existential therapists. During the seminar\, we will briefly discuss some of these themes\, our own clinical work\, and invite participants to offer their own clinical vignettes\n\n\nRegister at CFS: https://contemporaryfreudiansociety.org/calendar-of-events/public-events/ \nFor any questions/concerns regarding the Washington Case Conference please contact Connie Stroboulis at connies3@aol.com
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/washington-case-conference-4/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-sponsored Event,Continuing Education (CE/CME),Public Program,Washington Case Conference and Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T133000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20250312T183208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250402T182101Z
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SUMMARY:A Day in Conversation with Beverly J. Stoute\, MD
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Together Without Falling Apart \nA Day in Conversation with  \nBeverly J. Stoute\, MD \n \nSaturday\, May 10\, 2025 \n 11:00 am – 1:30 pm \nE pluribus unum: An American Fantasy?\nPresentation Open to the Community\nGeorge Washington University Hospital Auditorium\n 2.5 CE  \nLive Presentation Only Must be able to attend in person. No Zoom option is available Limited Space Available – Register Today!  \nPresenter Bio:  \nBeverly J. Stoute\, MD\, DFAPA\, DFAACAP\, FABP\, a child\, adolescent\, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst\, leadership advisor and organizational consultant\, is an internationally recognized scholar\, educator\, and leader in the field of psychoanalysis. A Training and Supervising Analyst at Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute and a Child and Adolescent Supervising Analyst at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute\, Dr. Stoute is on the faculty of the Emory University and Morehouse Schools of Medicine and has taught in the Leadership Fellows Program of the Emory Goizueta Business School. A Distinguished Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry\, she has received many awards in many areas. Dr. Stoute has developed\, moderated\, and presented over 150 panels and programs nationally and internationally. Her scholarly work\, featured in the archives of the Freud Museum in London\, has been translated into German\, Spanish\, and Portuguese. She has held multiple leadership positions\, including on the Executive Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association and as a Co-Chair of The Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis. Drawing on thirty years of experiences as an educator\, clinician\, consultant and executive coach and leadership advisor\, Dr. Stoute has collaborated with professionals at all stages of career and professional development in not-for-profit organizations\, academic medical centers\, universities\, mental health training programs\, community mental health\, boards of education\, business\, and the law. Her 2023 book\, co-edited with Michael Slevin is entitled The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter. She maintains a full-time private practice of child\, adolescent and adult psychiatry\, psychotherapy\, psychoanalysis\, family therapy\, supervision\, organizational consultation\, and leadership advising in Atlanta\, GA. \nAbstract:  \nCultural and historical attitudes about race and gender shape our perceptions of ourselves. The psychodynamic process of “Othering” occurs when our cultural and historical identities organize our perceptions of whom we define as the in group (“us”) and the out-group (“them”). The need to see the world as “us” versus “them” undermines the advantages that pluralism brings. Understanding how othering enactments play out requires us to reflect on the question\, as Fanon did\, how does culture seep into our minds? What can psychoanalysis offer us in understanding these dynamics? When othering dominates and polarizing interactions occur between individuals and groups\, what does E pluribus unum\, “out of many one” mean? Can a shared group identity ever become a reality? Case examples will be used to illustrate how we can think together about these questions. \nRegister Here: CLICK HERE\nProgram Flyer: CLICK HERE
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/beverly-j-stoute-presentation/
LOCATION:George Washington University Hospital Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250609T170000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20240603T151912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240603T153053Z
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SUMMARY:2025 APsA 113th Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:APsA 113th Annual Meeting \nJune 7th – June 9th\, 2025 \nVirtual \nVisit https://apsa.org/meetings-events/ for more information.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/2025-apsa-113th-annual-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Art & Creativity,Clinical Psychotherapy Program,Film Series,Public Program,Scientific Conferences,Washington Case Conference and Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250607T120000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20250602T173758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T175546Z
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SUMMARY:Observational Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm \nLocation: \nThe Colonnade Party Room\n2801 New Mexico Ave. NW\nLobby Floor\nWashington\, DC 20007\n\n\nLocation at the intersection of New Mexico Ave\, Fulton Street and Tunlaw Rd.\n\n\nThe Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis is offering a  \ntwo-year training program in Observational Studies. \nThe Program is conducted by a multidisciplinary faculty of child\, adult\, couple\, and family psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. This two-year training follows the model of Infant and Young child observation pioneered and developed by Esther Bick at the Tavistock Clinic in London. \nThis course enhances awareness and understanding of human development and interaction in all cultures and ethnic groups. Sharpening the ability to look closely at and attribute meaning to what is happening before one’s eyes strengthens the observer’s emotional and intellectual receptivity and capacity for professional work whether that work is in the field of social work\, psychology\, psychiatry\, nursing\, midwifery\, teaching\, child care\, or any other allied profession. \nAn experiential seminar will be shared with the participants. \nComments will be very welcome. \nBreakfast will be offered at 9.30 am \nFor more information or to RSVP please contact: \nSilvana Kaufman kaufmansilvana@yahoo.com or \nDeborah Blessing Deborahblessing1@gmail.com
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/observational-studies-open-house/
CATEGORIES:Member Gathering,Observational Studies,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250620T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250620T180000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20250325T160457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250527T153833Z
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Takes on the Cinema - Will & Harper: Jamie Steele\, LMFT
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalytic Takes on the Cinema: Discussion of the Film: “Will & Harper”\n\n2024 (114 mins)\nDirectors: Josh Greenbaum\nWhen Will Ferrell finds out his close friend of 30 years is coming out as a trans woman\, the two decide to embark on a cross-country road trip to process this new stage of their relationship in an intimate portrait of friendship and transition.\nDate: June 20\, 2025 \nTime: 4:00pm – 6:00pm \nPresenter: Jamie Steele\, LMFT \nWhere: Via Zoom \nRegistration Link: Here\n \nProgram Flyer: Here \nRegistration Deadline: June 16\, 2025\nNote: Registration will be closing early due to the office closure on June 19\, 2025\n \nPresentation Description: \nIn this screening and presentation\, Jamie will review the film’s conversation about the role of gender exploration in the construction of the self and the therapeutic process. Jamie will review Lynn Layton’s conceptualization of “normative unconscious processes” as a way of conceptualizing the push and pull within the consulting room between gender exploring patients and the resistant therapist.  Additionally\, filmmaker Hunter Adams will join the conversation and a brief screening of his film CRUSH will add to the texture of this discussion. \nPresenter Bio:  \nJamie Steele\, LMFT\, is a licensed marriage and family therapist and psychoanalytic candidate in private practice in Washington\, DC. Jamie is deeply interested in questions of justice\, and the ways in which systems of oppression are woven into the core of psychic reality and normative unconscious processes\, including how these deeply entrenched organizing structures play out in clinical and social processes. Jamie serving on the Committee on Gender and Sexuality (COGS) at APSA and as the Diversities Committee co-chair at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/psychoanalytic-takes-on-the-cinema-will-harper-jamie-steele-lmft/
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Film Series,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250621T200000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20241015T144929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250602T173415Z
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SUMMARY:2025 WBCP Graduation and Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:2025 Annual Graduation and Awards Ceremony \nDate: June 21\, 2024 \nTime: 6;00 pm \nWhere: Hogan Lovells \nDue to the announcement of a military parade and fireworks event in Washington\, DC on June 14\, we have decided it is best to move the date of the annual graduation and award ceremony to avoid issues with heavy traffic and road closures. \nThe Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis Graduation and Award Ceremony will now be held the following Saturday\, June 21\, at Hogan Lovells Law Firm (555 13th Street\, NW). \nWe hope you can still join us and please register yourself and any guests using the link and instructions below: \nhttps://wbcp.memberclicks.net/graduation2025#!/ \nInvitation: HERE \nInstructions: \n\nFirst click REGISTER YOURSELF and complete the form that drops down.\nScroll to the bottom and click REGISTER GUEST and complete the form for the first guest.\nContinue to click REGISTER GUEST for any additional guests.\nWhen you are done registering attendees\, scroll to the very bottom of the form and click NEXT.\nReview your choices – (see example below):\n\nTo make changes click PREVIOUS\nTo continue to payment click NEXT
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/2025-wbcp-graduation-and-awards-ceremony/
LOCATION:Hogan Lovells
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Member Gathering,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250920T133000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20241009T194948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T171322Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens - Katherine Marshall Woods\, PsyD
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nBlack Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens \nPresented by: Katherine Marshall Woods\,PsyD\nDiscussants: Sarah Hedlund\, PhD and Youyang Wang\, MA \nDate: September 20\, 2025 \nTime: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm ET \nWhere: Via Zoom\nNo CME/CE \nRegistration Link: CLICK HERE \nRegister by September 17\, 2025\, at 4:30 pm \nDescription: \nBlack Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens delves into the nuanced character\ndevelopment and narrative themes within the struggles and successes presented in\nBlack films over the last five decades. \nIn this pioneering book\, Katherine Marshall Woods looks at Black cinema from a\npsychological and psychoanalytic perspective. Focusing on a decade at a time\, she\ncharts the development of representation and creative output from the 1980s to the\npresent day. She deftly moves from analyzing depictions of poverty and triumphs to\nhighlighting the importance of cinema in shaping cultural identity while considering\nracial prejudice and discrimination. Adopting theoretical viewpoints from Freud to bell\nhooks\, Marshall Woods examines the damaging effect on cultural psychology as a\nresult of stereotypical racial tropes\, and expertly demonstrates the healing that can be\nfound when one sees oneself represented in an honest light in popular art. \nFrom Do The Right Thing\, The Color Purple and Malcolm X to contemporary classics\nlike 12 Years a Slave\, Black Panther and American Fiction\, this book is an essential\nread for those interested in the intersection between Psychology\, Psychoanalysis\, Film\nTheory and African American cultural identity.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/book-talk-black-film-through-a-psychodynamic-lens/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T160000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20250829T143719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250925T045657Z
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SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis Creativity and the Arts: Session 1: "Lo creativo y lo vital"
DESCRIPTION:Session 1 of 3 \nLo creativo y lo vital \nPresented by \nAlfredo Panceira\, MD\, Jani Santamaria\, PhD\, Ariel Liberman\, PhD\, and Rosa Aurora Chavez\, MD\, PhD\, FABP \n\nSaturday\, October 4\, 2025\n2:00 pm – 4:00 pm (2 CME/CE)\nPresentation and Discussion via Zoom \n\n\n*This first session will be conducted in Spanish with Closed Caption translation available through Zoom. The other two sessions will be in English\n \n\n\nPresentation: \nIn this panel presentation we will discuss how creativity is linked from early ages to vitality\, and how both are creativity and vitality are activated through psychoanalysis. This seminar will be in Spanish. English translations and related materials will be shared. This will be our first event in Spanish acknowledging the vast community of Spanish speaking psychotherapists and psychoanalysts throughout the USA and providing the opportunity to also invite important contributors to the field of psychoanalysis from Latinoamerica and Spain. \nFlyer: HERE\nRegistration Link: HERE
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/psychoanalysis-creativity-and-the-arts-seminar/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art & Creativity,Continuing Education (CE/CME),Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T160000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20250806T142014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T171110Z
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SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ Monstrousness and Aliveness: Engaging Gender in Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:LGBTQ+ Workshop\nPlease join us as\nSien Rivera\, MD and Justin Shubert\, PsyD\, PhD\npresent\nMonstrousness and Aliveness: Engaging Gender in Psychoanalysis\nSunday\, October 5\, 2025\nPublic Session:\n1:00 – 4:00 pm\n3 CME/CE\nPresentation and Discussion Via Zoom\n\n  \nPresentation: This workshop seeks to explore a range of engagements with gender in the psychoanalytic encounter. One portion of the workshop will explore how contemporary anti-trans legislation and cultural narratives of monstrosity distort the analytic space for trans and gender expansive patients\, threatening their capacity for playful work\, while highlighting how trans survival and creativity might persist in the face of annihilating projections. The other portion turns to aliveness: how loosening gender constraints in the consulting room allows for the exploration and re-avowal of certain\, gendered parts and ultimately can lead to a unique\, profound experience of feeling alive. Together\, these presentations underscore psychoanalysis as both refuge and crucible—where both monstrousness and aliveness might meet. \nPresenter: Sien Rivera\, MD\, is Assistant Program Director of the Prisma Health Midlands/University of South Carolina General Psychiatry residency program\, and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia\, SC. They received their medical degree from SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and completed their general psychiatry residency and child adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Prisma Health Midlands/University of South Carolina. They are a former fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a winner of the Ralph Roughton Paper Award. They are the former co-chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality and they present nationally and internationally on topics related to gender\, sexuality\, and new technologies. \nPresenter: Justin Shubert\, PsyD\, PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst working in private practice in Los Angeles\, where he is the founder and director of a psychodynamic private practice group called Silver Lake Psychotherapy. He is the former chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality\, the past Diversity Editor of The American Psychoanalyst\, a founding member of the Committee for Diversities and Sociocultural Issues at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles\, and has been a faculty member at the Los Angeles Institute of Psychoanalytic Studies\, The Wright Institute of Los Angeles\, and the New Center for Psychoanalysis. He is endlessly fascinated by the mystery and wonder contained in gender & sexuality. \nRegistration Link: CLICK HERE\nFlyer: CLICK HERE
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/lgbtq-monstrousness-and-aliveness-engaging-gender-in-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251005T174500
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20250910T200457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T180811Z
UID:12587-1759681800-1759686300@www.wbcp.org
SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ Post-Workshop Meeting for Students/Candidates with Sien Rivera\, MD and Justin Shubert\, PsyD\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Post-LGBTQ+ Workshop Discussion  \nWBCP PSP Students and Institute Candidates \nPlease join us as \nSien Rivera\, MD and Justin Shubert\, PsyD\, PhD present \nMonstrousness and Aliveness: Engaging Gender in Psychoanalysis \nSunday\, October 5 \n4:30-5:45pm Discussion \nVia Zoom \n1.25 CME/CE \nWBCP STUDENTS AND CANDIDATES ONLY\nPlease note: Registration for this event is separate from the public session. If you plan to attend both\, you must complete a registration for each event individually. \nRegistration Link: CLICK HERE\nProgram Flyer: CLICK HERE \nPresentation: WBCP students and candidates will meet with the presenters to discuss the workshop and clinical material. This discussion seeks to explore a range of engagements with gender in the psychoanalytic encounter. One portion of the workshop will explore how contemporary anti-trans legislation and cultural narratives of monstrosity distort the analytic space for trans and gender expansive patients\, threatening their capacity for playful work\, while highlighting how trans survival and creativity might persist in the face of annihilating projections. The other portion turns to aliveness: how loosening gender constraints in the consulting room allows for the exploration and re-avowal of certain\, gendered parts and ultimately can lead to a unique\, profound experience of feeling alive. Together\, these presentations underscore psychoanalysis as both refuge and crucible—where both monstrousness and aliveness might meet.\n\nPresenter: Sien Rivera\, MD\, is Assistant Program Director of the Prisma Health Midlands/University of South Carolina General Psychiatry residency program\, and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Columbia\, SC. They received their medical degree from SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine and completed their general psychiatry residency and child adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Prisma Health Midlands/University of South Carolina. They are a former fellow of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a winner of the Ralph Roughton Paper Award. They are the former co-chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality and they present nationally and internationally on topics related to gender\, sexuality\, and new technologies.Presenter: Justin Shubert\, PsyD\, PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst working in private practice in Los Angeles\, where he is the founder and director of a psychodynamic private practice group called Silver Lake Psychotherapy. He is the former chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Gender and Sexuality\, the past Diversity Editor of The American Psychoanalyst\, a founding member of the Committee for Diversities and Sociocultural Issues at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles\, and has been a faculty member at the Los Angeles Institute of Psychoanalytic Studies\, The Wright Institute of Los Angeles\, and the New Center for Psychoanalysis. He is endlessly fascinated by the mystery and wonder contained in gender & sexuality.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/lgbtq-post-workshop-meeting-with-sien-rivera-md-and-justin-shubert-psyd-phd/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Professional Development,Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T123000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20250630T151249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T170150Z
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SUMMARY:24th Annual Saltz Grand Rounds
DESCRIPTION:Saltz Grand Rounds\nWednesday\, October 29\, 2025 \n\n11 am-12 pm\nvia Zoom\n\nPlay in Psychoanalytic Child Therapy\nSpeaker: Dr. Jill Scharf\, MD\, FABP\n\n\nThe Saltz Grand Rounds is sponsored by a grant to honor Thomas and Julia Saltz\, parents of Ellen Kolansky\, artist and wife of Dr. Kal Kolansky\, an active member of our Center.  The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. \n\nZoom: https://childrensnational.zoom.us/j/92901100687\nMeeting ID: 929 0110 0687\nPasscode: 3932
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/24th-annual-saltz-grand-rounds/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Co-sponsored Event,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251102T170000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20241011T182329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241011T182357Z
UID:10991-1761897600-1762102800@www.wbcp.org
SUMMARY:New Directions: The Poetics of Mourning: Eulogy\, Elegy\, Epic\, Epitaph
DESCRIPTION:Weekend Conference \nWe are living in a time of great dying. Climate change is drying up our water and destroying vulnerable species; a pandemic is claiming the lives of over a million people worldwide and changing much about our ways of life. How do we register the magnitude of these losses? \nWhen we lose individuals\, we eulogize them to help keep them in memory.  When we lose great people\, we elegize them to contextualize their importance to society.  When we lose not just individuals and heroes but an entire way of life\, we craft epics to register the sweep of history and mourn change on a grand scale. When we lay people to rest\, we locate them in psychic as well as physical space through inscribed epitaphs\, processions\, and music. This weekend will help us grasp mourning on a scale beyond those we are accustomed to managing. The uses of imagination\, myth\, memorial\, ritual\, music\, and literature will be considered\, as will the interplay between the mourners’ personal experience and that of the mourned. \nCoordinator: Billie Pivnick\, Ph.D. \nGUEST FACULTY: \nSpyros D. Orfanos\, PhD\, ABPP\, is Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. A Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)\, he is past president of the Society of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP) of the APA\, and the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is on the Advisory Board of the Sigmund Freud Museum of Vienna. In 2016\, he was co-editor with Eliot Jurist of the special supplement of Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA) on “Psychoanalysis and the Humanities.” In 2017\, he founded the NYU Human Rights Work Group. In 2023\, year he received the SPPS Award for International Activism for Social Justice. He practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy and runs creativity study groups.
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/new-directions-the-poetics-of-mourning-eulogy-elegy-epic-epitaph/
CATEGORIES:New Directions,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251101T164500
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20250407T161307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250915T114813Z
UID:11578-1761986700-1762015500@www.wbcp.org
SUMMARY:Observational Studies Program Conference: Exploring the Links: Moving from Observation to Transformative Interventions - Jeanne Magagna\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:Observational Studies Program Conference\nExploring the Links: Moving from Observation to Transformative Interventions \n\nWe are excited to announce our upcoming conference with Jeanne Magagna\, PhD\,  Tavistock Centre-trained Child\, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist\nLondon\, UK \n \n\nSaturday\, November 1\, 2025\nGeorge Washington University Hospital Auditorium\n8:45 am – 4:45 pm ET\n6 CME/CE\nDr. Magagna’s work emphasizes the transformative power of observing babies\, a skill she has taught worldwide based on the Tavistock Clinic model. This approach has profound implications for enhancing our understanding of children and their families\, illustrating how early observation can deepen parents’ comprehension of their children. Her commitment to this method led to the development of a specialized nursery in Rome. She teaches and publishes internationally. Jeanne is the Joint Editor of various books including Intimate Transformations: Babies with their Families\, Psychotherapy with Families\, Being Present for  Your Nursery Age Child and The Silent Child: Communication without Words\, Creativity and Psychotic States and Contemporary Child Psychotherapy. She is also the author of The Psychotherapeutic Understanding of Children and Adolescents with Eating Difficulties.   \nHer most impactful work\, “The Silent Child: Communication Without Words\,” explores the challenges of treating 19 comatose non-verbal children in talking therapies. Magagna’s approach to psychotherapy is grounded in her early life experiences and the inspiration she drew from Esther Bick\, the originator of infant observation. Her journey from learning the craft under Bick’s tutelage to becoming a globally recognized educator and clinician underscores her passion and dedication to child mental health. \nClick here for a personal invitation from Dr. Magagna and learn more about the upcoming conference. \nRegistration Link: CLICK HERE\nProgram Flyer: CLICK HERE
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/observational-studies-program-conference-exploring-the-links-moving-from-observation-to-transformative-interventions-jeanne-magagna-phd/
LOCATION:George Washington University Hospital Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Observational Studies,Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T173000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20250922T152029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251003T182542Z
UID:12644-1763136000-1763141400@www.wbcp.org
SUMMARY:Psychoanalytic Takes On Cinema: Session 1 of 3: Discussion of the film "The Thing"
DESCRIPTION:*** Film must be viewed prior to event.*** \nDiscussion of the film “The Thing”\n \nFriday\, November 14\, 2025\n4:00 pm – 5:30 pm\nVia Zoom \n1982 (109 min)\nDirector: John Carpenter\nDiscussant: Alex Smith\, Psy.D. \nA research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. \n  \nPresentation At surface level fantastical\, appalling\, and occasionally comical\, horror renders that which is unthinkable or unspeakable into inhuman\, slimy\, or spectral forms\, presenting the taboo or the overwhelming at a safe\, controllable distance from the self. In horror\, unthinkable and unspeakable aspects of the “self” can be experienced as the monstrous “other” and exorcised with flamethrowers. The horror movie generates credibility through performance\, photography\, and effects that ground the viewer in a “reality” that can then become credibly unreal. This magical reality evokes archaic experiences of the self as unbounded and vulnerable\, taking on challenging\, unsettling thoughts and feelings while allowing for the suspension of the neatly boundaried “I” of the viewer. \nJohn Carpenter’s The Thing belongs to a rich tradition of paranoia and body horror in the uncanny narrative and horror cinema. The self\, here under the condition of isolation and environmental confusion\, becomes vulnerable to external corruption. The un-integrable impulse is cast off\, producing a disintegrated state. Then\, in the presence of an alien “other”\, the once familiar body is usurped. The mind is subsumed. The “me” becomes a “me” copy that is at once terrifying and terrified\, its sole purpose being to consume additional “others.” The Thing is an allegory for the mental mechanisms of unbounded consciousness: not only the body\, but also the psychological boundaries constituting the self\, are at risk. \nIn working on this allegory\, we will briefly touch on horror cinema’s enduring interest in paranoia and the unbounded consciousness. We will consider Clara Keane’s clairvoyant work on existential permeability and Andre Green’s psychic envelopes as regards their explanatory power for experiences of unbounded consciousness\, paranoia\, and uncanny encounters. We will see how The Thing\, as an apex of creeptastic cinema\, resonates with our own experiences—both archaic and present-day—of the fragility of our distinct\, boundaried sense of a “me”\, and why it matters. \nDiscussant: Alex Smith\, PsyD\, completed his postdoctoral fellowship and additional trainings in psychoanalytic theory\, psychotherapy\, and supervision at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Washington School of Psychiatry. He is an Associate Professor at George Washington University. He has led classes in psychological assessment\, psychotherapy\, ethics\, and the writing of the horror story. Alex has a private practice in Washington\, DC.\n \nPre-registration is required via the WBCP website at http://wbcp.org. If you do not have an account on the WBCP website\, you will need to create a “guest account” to register and view/print your CME/CE credit certificate after the seminar. For registration assistance\, contact the WBCP at 301-470-3635/ 410-792-8060 / 202-237-1854 or admin@wbcp.org \nRegistration Link: CLICK HERE \nProgram Flyer: CLICK HERE \nREGISTRATION DEADLINE: Wednesday\, November 12\, 2025\, at 4:30 pm \n 
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/psychoanalytic-takes-on-cinema-session-1-of-3-discussion-of-the-film-the-thing/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Film Series,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251115T140000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20250829T150503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250829T150538Z
UID:12546-1763208000-1763215200@www.wbcp.org
SUMMARY:Psychoanalysis Creativity and the Arts: Session 2: “Creativity and Resiliency”
DESCRIPTION:Session 2 of 3 \n“Creativity and Resiliency”\n \nPresented by\nRosa Aurora Chavez\, MD\, PhD\, FABP \n\nSaturday\, November 15\, 2025\,\n12:00 – 2:00pm (2 CME/CE)\nPresentation and Discussion via Zoom \n\n\nPresentation:\nIn this seminar (in English) we will discuss the evolutionary relevance of creativity for resiliency form psychodynamic and neuropsychoanalytic perspectives.\n \n\n\nFlyer: HERE\nRegistration Link: HERE
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/psychoanalysis-creativity-and-the-arts-session-2-creativity-and-resiliency/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Art & Creativity,Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251122T130000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20250829T144209Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T165500Z
UID:12543-1763805600-1763816400@www.wbcp.org
SUMMARY:Cultural Competence Conference: Misogyny Then and Now: Implications for Psychoanalytic Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Misogyny Then and Now: Implications for Psychoanalytic Perspectives \nPresented by\nSpecial Guest: Filmmaker Jennifer Reeves\,\nMargarita Cereijido\, PhD\, Paula Ellman\, PhD\, David Joseph\, MD\, Janice Lieberman\, PhD \n\nSaturday\, November 22\, 2025\n10:00 am – 1:00 pm (3 CME/CE)\nPresentation and Discussion via Zoom \n\n\nPresentation: \nNotions of the feminine and misogyny have changed significantly since the 1960s. These changes are reflected in how women perceive themselves and how they are understood and positioned in society.  \nIn this conference\, we discuss and compare the unconscious gender ideals and prejudices of the 1960s with those of today. We explore the evolution of the ethical treatment of women as well as developments in psychotherapy and psychoanalytic technique. \nOur discussion is framed by the classic documentary Approaches to Psychotherapy (1964) which has recently been reimagined in a new film\, The Gloria of My Imagination (2025)\, by the talented award-winning film-director Jennifer Reeves.  In her film\, Reeves explores the social context of Gloria’s life.  \nThe original film captured the work of three renowned figures—Carl Rogers\, Fritz Perls\, and Albert Ellis—in their sessions with Gloria\, a newly divorced patient. For decades\, it served as a cornerstone in the training of psychology students worldwide. \nAlong with Reeves’ reflections on her film through screening selected clips\, Margarita Cereijido\, Paula Ellman\, Janice Lieberman and David Joseph present and discuss changing perspectives on femininity\, misogyny\, and psychoanalytic theory and technique followed by engagement with the audience.  \nAttendees will have access to the complete film 2 weeks prior to the conference.  \nFLYER: HERE\nREGISTRATION LINK: HERE
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/cultural-competence-conference/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Professional Development,Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251207T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251207T160000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
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SUMMARY:Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference: Analyst Losses: Illness and Life-Changing Events And Their Effects on Treatment
DESCRIPTION:Stacia I. Super Memorial\nEthics Conference \n\n\nPlease join us for a panel discussion on\nAnalyst Losses: Illness and Life-Changing Events\nAnd Their Effects on Treatment \n\nPresented by: Paula L. Ellman\, PhD\, Marc S. Levine\, MD\, and Harvey J. Schwartz\, MD\nModerated by: Sandra S. Lashley\, PsyD \n\nSunday\, December 7\, 2025\n1:00 – 4:00 pm\nPresentation and Discussion Via Zoom\n3 CME/CE\n\nPresentation:This conference will address illness in the analyst and unexpected life changing events that impact treatment are not widely covered in literature. This is changing. More recent writings have brought this topic to the forefront\, with greater appreciation of the complex factors that impede on the analyst and make thinking about these unexpected events difficult. Ethical issues in regard to this area abound and include issues surrounding denial\, disclosure\, abstinence\, competence\, transference and impact on the treatment.This conference will be presented by three seasoned analysts\, all of whom experienced serious illness while in clinical practice. Integrating theoretical\, ethical and deeply personal experiences combined with their own writings\, issues surrounding disclosure\, defenses\, abstinence and the Transference/countertransference matrix will be explored. \nRegistration Link: CLICK HERE\nFlyer: CLICK HERE
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/stacia-i-super-memorial-ethics-conference-analyst-losses-illness-and-life-changing-events-and-their-effects-on-treatment/
LOCATION:Via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Continuing Education (CE/CME),Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260110T160000
DTSTAMP:20260506T202710
CREATED:20260105T155903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T155903Z
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SUMMARY:4th Annual Marianne Goldberger\, MD\, Memorial Lecture: Dorothy Evans Holmes\, PhD
DESCRIPTION:4th Annual Marianne Goldberger\, MD\, Memorial Lecture \n“Marianne Goldberger: A Mold-breaking Psychoanalyst in Her Time and\, Importantly\, for Ours” \nJanuary 10\, 2026 – 2:00PM – 4:00PM EST\nPresenter: Dorothy Evans Holmes\, PhD \nThis lecture will demonstrate the various ways in which Dr. Marianne Goldberger was a pioneer in psychoanalysis. The paper will draw on multiple sources of data: Dr. Holmes’ experiences as Marianne’s supervisee\, student\, mentee\, collaborator in writing\, and friend; a review of commemorations of Marianne upon her death\, and reflections on a sampling of Dr. Goldberg’s scholarship. \nRegistration: https://www.pany.org/events/175-events/138-4th-annual-marianne-goldberger-memorial-lecture
URL:https://www.wbcp.org/event/4th-annual-marianne-goldberger-md-memorial-lecture-dorothy-evans-holmes-phd/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Scientific Conferences
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