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Date: October 20, 2024 Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm Presenter: Sam Guzzardi, LCSW "Holding Laplanche Lightly: The Story of Two Queer Treatments" Via Zoom Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_lgbtq_workshop_oct_20_2024 Program Flyer: HERE Registration Deadline: October 10, 2024 Presentation Description: As psychoanalysis seeks to find new frontiers both for clinical work and engagement with the social, the work of Jean Laplanche is […]
23rd Annual Julia and Thomas Saltz Grand Rounds "Accidental Community Psychology and a Psychoanalytic View of the Impact of Trauma." Presenter: Roderick Hall, PhD When: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 Time: 11:00am -12:30pm Where: Zoom Fee: No Fee; Free to all No need to register just join the Zoom using the information below on October 23rd! https://childrensnational.zoom.us/j/98423316990 Meeting ID: 984 […]
1980 (144 mins) Directors: Stanley Kubrick A family relocates to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into episodes of violence while his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from the past and the future. Psychoanalytic Takes on the Cinema: Discussion of the Film: "The Shining" Date: October 25, 2024 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm […]
Session 2: What Ever Happened to Romance on the Revolutionary Road? Participants: Janice Lieberman, Chair, Danielle Knafo, Arlene Heyman, and Isaac Tylim Date: October 26, 2024 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 Click Here to View the Program Flyer Registration Deadline: October 23, 2024 Description: It has been observed by many that there seems to be an absence of […]
Weekend Conference November 1 @ 8:00 am - November 3 @ 5:00 pm The history of psychoanalysis demonstrates a profound mixture of struggles with race and racism. Founded in the hotbed of late Victorian racism and antisemitism, Freud made the then-radical argument that blood and genetics do not determine intellectual, moral, or emotional character. At the same […]
AI: Psychoanalytic Friend or Foe? Presented by: Todd Essig, PhD and Sherry Turkle Moderated by: Marc Levine, MD Date: December 1, 2024 Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm Where: Via Zoom* Presentation Description: Todd Essig and Sherry Turkle will discuss AI and its impact on psychoanalysis, and the ethical considerations for our professional work as well as daily […]
Session 3: In Her Own Voice: Challenging Theories of Women’s Development Participants: Nancy Kulish and Catherine Mallouh Date: December 14, 2024 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 Click Here to View the Program Flyer Registration Deadline: December 11, 2024 Description: Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades and this is reflected […]
NOTICE: Due to the risk of inclement weather, we have made the decision to shift the Colloquium to a Zoom-only format. All registrants will receive an email with the Zoom link and information. Registration will remain open until 12:00 PM on Friday, January 10th. If you have any questions, please contact the administrative office (202) […]
Session 4: Women's Role as Caregivers Through Their Lifespan Panel: Jessica Benjamin in conversation with Erika Lepiavka and Tracy Sidesinger Date: January 11, 2025 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 Click Here to View the Program Flyer Registration Deadline: January 8, 2025 Description: Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the […]
January 26, 2025 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm ET Via Zoom
Weekend Conference This weekend will explore the obstacles that stand in our way when we try to talk together about difficult topics. When strong pent-up emotions rise to the surface, whether anger, fear, grief, anxiety or rage, we easily get overheated, defensive or shut down. We turn away, defeated, shamed or vengeful. At this moment […]
2021 (89 mins) Directors: Dean Fleischer Camp A documentary maker struggling with finances decides to make to make his newest documentary about a mollusk shell he finds living in his Airbnb with his friends. Date: January 31, 2025 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Presenter: Jonathan Stillerman, PhD Where: Via Zoom Registration Link: Here Program Flyer: Here Registration Deadline: January 29, 2025 Presentation Description: […]
The Thomas and Julia Saltz Annual Adult Seminar Workshop Presents Something to Lose: Being in Dialogue About Difference When We Feel Like Leaving A special presentation by Dr. Anton Hart When: February 1, 2025 Time: 9:00 am - 11: 30 am Live Presentation Where: University Club of Washington DC 1135 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036 This event […]
2025 National Meeting, February 4 – 9, 2025 Palace Hotel, San Francisco Visit https://apsa.org/meetings-events/ for more information.
Session 5: The Female Body: Passion and Peril Participants: Rosemary H. Balsam, MD, Rachel Boué-Widawsky, PhD, Jeri Isaacson, PhD, Chair Date: February 22, 2025 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 Click Here to View the Program Flyer Registration Deadline: February 19, 2025 Description: Why do we pay so little attention to the role that the female […]
February 23, 2025 Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm Registration Link: Click Here Program Flyer: Click Here Dear WBCP Members and Friends, I 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 […]
2023 (117 mins) Directors: 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. Date: February 27, 2025 Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm Presenter: Katherine Marshall Woods, PsyD Where: (Hybrid Event) The Textile Museum 701 21st […]
“Women’s Lives in Transition: Novelists Amy Bloom and Lisa Gornick in Conversation” Date: March 8, 2025 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 Click Here to View the Program Flyer Registration Deadline: March 5, 2025 Description: The presentation "Women’s Lives in Transition: Novelists Amy Bloom and Lisa Gornick In Conversation" provides a unique opportunity for […]
Echoes of Change: Adapted Reflective Citizens Event The APsA Department of Education (DPE) Section: The Psychoanalyst in the Community and the Contemporary Freudian Society invite you to SAVE THE DATE for this upcoming community event Saturday, March 29, 2025 | 11:00am - 2:00pm ET Venue: Virtual "Zoom" Room hosted by Therapist Beyond Borders Registration Link: […]
The Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival Movie: American Fiction Presented by: Dr. Marilyn Martin Date: April 4, 2025 Time: 7:00pm - 10:00 pm Where: Baltimore Museum of the Arts 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 Presentation Description: Monk, a struggling novelist,tries to point out how ridiculous the publishing world is by writing a Black book […]
April 11, 2025: Via Zoom Implications of Linguistic Identity for the Psychotherapeutic Process Presented by: Maria Lima While 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 Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival CODA Date: April 11, 2025 Presented by: Dr. Kevin Popp Time: 7:00pm - 10:00 pm Where: Baltimore Museum of the Arts 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218 Presentation Description: Ruby is the only hearing member of a deaf family from Gloucester, Massachusetts. At 17, she works mornings before […]
Session 7: Conversation with Juliet Mitchell Juliet Mitchell, Margarita Cereijido, and Jill Gentile Date: April 12, 2025 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm ET Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 Click Here to View the Program Flyer Registration Deadline: April 9, 2025 Description: Juliet Mitchell will reflect on her iconic book, “Women “Women: The longest revolution,” considering the ongoing changes in […]
Weekend Conference Maternity — 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 […]
WBCP In Person Social Gathering in Washington, DC Sunday, May 4th 2025 Socializing and Hors D'oeuvres (11:30am - 1:30pm) All members of the WBCP community along with their guests are welcome. Parthenon Restaurant 5510 Connecticut Ave, NW Washington, DC 20015 $35 per person (Includes hors d’oeuvres, soda, coffee, tea, water. Cash bar for alcohol.) No […]
May 9, 2025: Via Zoom Topic: To Be Or Not To Be: The Existential Sensibility and Psychodynamic Therapy Presented by: Jane Prelinger, MSW and Michael Stadter, PhD 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. […]
Thinking Together Without Falling Apart A Day in Conversation with Beverly J. Stoute, MD Saturday, May 10, 2025 11:00 am - 1:30 pm E pluribus unum: An American Fantasy? Presentation Open to the Community George Washington University Hospital Auditorium 2.5 CE Live Presentation Only Must be able to attend in person. No Zoom option is […]
APsA 113th Annual Meeting June 7th - June 9th, 2025 Virtual Visit https://apsa.org/meetings-events/ for more information.
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm Location: The Colonnade Party Room 2801 New Mexico Ave. NW Lobby Floor Washington, DC 20007 Location at the intersection of New Mexico Ave, Fulton Street and Tunlaw Rd. The Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis is offering a two-year training program in Observational Studies. The Program is conducted by a multidisciplinary […]
Psychoanalytic Takes on the Cinema: Discussion of the Film: "Will & Harper" 2024 (114 mins) Directors: Josh Greenbaum When 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 […]
2025 Annual Graduation and Awards Ceremony Date: June 21, 2024 Time: 6;00 pm Where: Hogan Lovells Due 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 […]
Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens Presented by: Katherine Marshall Woods,PsyD Discussants: Sarah Hedlund, PhD and Youyang Wang, MA Date: September 20, 2025 Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET Where: Via Zoom No CME/CE Registration Link: CLICK HERE Register by September 17, 2025, at 4:30 pm Description: Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens […]
Session 1 of 3 Lo creativo y lo vital Presented by Alfredo Panceira, MD, Jani Santamaria, PhD, Ariel Liberman, PhD, and Rosa Aurora Chavez, MD, PhD, FABP Saturday, October 4, […]
LGBTQ+ Workshop Please join us as Sien Rivera, MD and Justin Shubert, PsyD, PhD present Monstrousness and Aliveness: Engaging Gender in Psychoanalysis Sunday, October 5, 2025 Public Session: 1:00 – 4:00 pm 3 CME/CE Presentation and Discussion Via Zoom Presentation: This workshop seeks to explore a range of engagements with gender in the psychoanalytic encounter. […]
Post-LGBTQ+ Workshop Discussion WBCP PSP Students and Institute Candidates Please join us as Sien Rivera, MD and Justin Shubert, PsyD, PhD present Monstrousness and Aliveness: Engaging Gender in Psychoanalysis Sunday, October 5 4:30-5:45pm Discussion Via Zoom 1.25 CME/CE WBCP STUDENTS AND CANDIDATES ONLY Please note: Registration for this event is separate from the public session. […]
Saltz Grand Rounds Wednesday, October 29, 2025 11 am-12 pm via Zoom Play in Psychoanalytic Child Therapy Speaker: Dr. Jill Scharf, MD, FABP The 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 […]
Weekend Conference We 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? When we lose individuals, […]
Observational Studies Program Conference Exploring the Links: Moving from Observation to Transformative Interventions We are excited to announce our upcoming conference with Jeanne Magagna, PhD, Tavistock Centre-trained Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist London, UK Saturday, November 1, 2025 George Washington University Hospital Auditorium 8:45 am - 4:45 pm ET 6 CME/CE Dr. Magagna's work emphasizes the transformative […]
*** Film must be viewed prior to event.*** Discussion of the film "The Thing" Friday, November 14, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Via Zoom 1982 (109 min) Director: John Carpenter Discussant: Alex Smith, Psy.D. A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. Presentation […]
Session 2 of 3 “Creativity and Resiliency” Presented by Rosa Aurora Chavez, MD, PhD, FABP Saturday, November 15, 2025, 12:00 - 2:00pm (2 CME/CE) Presentation and Discussion via Zoom Presentation: In […]
Misogyny Then and Now: Implications for Psychoanalytic Perspectives Presented by Special Guest: Filmmaker Jennifer Reeves, Margarita Cereijido, PhD, Paula Ellman, PhD, David Joseph, MD, Janice Lieberman, PhD Saturday, November 22, 2025 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (3 CME/CE) Presentation and Discussion via Zoom Presentation: Notions of the feminine and misogyny have changed significantly since the […]
Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference Please join us for a panel discussion on Analyst Losses: Illness and Life-Changing Events And Their Effects on Treatment Presented by: Paula L. Ellman, PhD, […]
*** Film must be viewed prior to event. *** Discussion of the film "Me Before You" Friday, January 30, 2026 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Via Zoom 2016 (120 min) […]
Weekend Conference What happens in the therapeutic dyad when regular reciprocal conversations are not possible, when our patients communicate with us in strange and at times incomprehensible ways? How we […]
*** Film must be viewed prior to event. *** Discussion of the film "Please Stand By" Friday, February 27, 2026 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Via Zoom 2023 (93 min) […]
Session 3 of 3 “The Mirage of AI Creativity, its Dangers and Limitations, a Psychoanalytic Perspective” Presented by Rosa Aurora Chavez, MD, PhD, FABP Saturday, March 14, 2026, 12:00 – […]
