Annual Colloquium (Members Only Event)
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 this seminar (in English) we will discuss the evolutionary relevance of creativity for resiliency form psychodynamic and neuropsychoanalytic perspectives. Flyer: HERE Registration Link: HERE
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, Marc S. Levine, MD, and Harvey J. Schwartz, MD Moderated by: Sandra S. Lashley, PsyD Sunday, December 7, 2025 1:00 – 4:00 pm Presentation and Discussion […]
4th Annual Marianne Goldberger, MD, Memorial Lecture "Marianne Goldberger: A Mold-breaking Psychoanalyst in Her Time and, Importantly, for Ours" January 10, 2026 - 2:00PM - 4:00PM EST Presenter: Dorothy Evans Holmes, PhD This lecture will demonstrate the various ways in which Dr. Marianne Goldberger was a pioneer in psychoanalysis. The paper will draw on multiple […]
*** 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 […]
Sunday, February 22, 2026 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Via Zoom* Learn more about the Psychoanalytic Studies Program, meet faculty, and ask questions about the curriculum, application process, and student experience. *Please note: The Psychoanalytic Studies and Institute Training Programs requires some in-person classes. It is recommended that students be local to the Greater Washington, […]
Sunday, April 19, 2026 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Via Zoom* Learn more about the Psychoanalytic Studies Program, meet faculty, and ask questions about the curriculum, application process, and student experience. *Please note: The Psychoanalytic Studies and Institute Training Programs requires some in-person classes. It is recommended that students be local to the Greater Washington, […]
*** 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) Director: Ben Lewin Discussant: Karen Weise, PhD A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her 500-page manuscript to […]
Saturday, February 28, 2026 9:00am–1:00pm In-person event Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville Founders Hall 100 Welsh Park Dr, Rockville, MD 20850 3.5 CME/CE 9:05am–10:30am Roundtable with Kevin Popp and PSP students Is Psychoanalysis a Science? A Roundtable on Their Relationship 11:00am–11:55am Sandra Hershberg "Personal and Psychoanalytic Influences on my Development as a Writer and the […]
Observational Studies Program for In-Person Students - Open House The Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis is offering a two-year training program in Observational Studies. The program is conducted by a multidisciplinary faculty of child, adult, couples, and family psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. This two-year training program follows the observational studies model pioneered and developed by Esther […]
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 – 2:00pm (2 CME/CE) Presentation and Discussion via Zoom Presentation: In this seminar (in English) we will discuss this panel will discuss the limitations and impossibilities of […]
The Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival Movie: Close (2023) Presented by: Katrin Haller, MSW Date: April 11, 2026 Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm Doors Open at 1:30pm Where: Baltimore Museum […]
Observational Studies Program Open House for Online Students Saturday, April 18, 2026 9:30 am - 11:30 am ET Location: Zoom No CME/CE A Two-Year Online Training Based on the Esther Bick Infant Observation Model Program Overview The Observational Studies Program at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis provides a unique, multidisciplinary training grounded in the Infant Observation […]
Click the image to view the flyer Sunday, April 19, 2026 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Via Zoom* Learn more about the Psychoanalytic Studies Program, meet faculty, and ask questions about the curriculum, application process, and student experience. *Please note: The Psychoanalytic Studies and Institute Training Programs requires some in-person classes. It is recommended that students […]
The Leon Levin Psychoanalytic Film Festival Movie: Speak Sunlight (La Voz Del Sol) (2023) Presented by: Noreen Honeycutt, PhD with Director Carol Polakoff Date: April 25, 2026 Time: 2:00pm […]
COWAP: Beauty and Gender: A Psychoanalytic Perspective Session 1: Beauty and the Maternal Body Speakers: Patricia Alkolombre, PhD and Catherine Mallouh, MD Saturday, May 9, 2026 11:00 am – 12:30 […]
Please join us Saturday, June 6, 2026 Rooftop reception: 6:00 pm Dinner and Awards: 7:00 pm Hogan Lovells Law Firm Columbia Square 555 Thirteenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20004 (Red Line Metro Station) Garage parking is availableJoin us to recognize the accomplishments of the graduates of the PSP and analytic training programs, along with teachers […]
COWAP: Beauty and Gender: A Psychoanalytic Perspective Session 2: Fashion from a Gender Psychoanalytic Perspective Speakers: Patricia Gherovici and Margarita Cereijido Saturday, June 27, 2026 11:00 am – 12:30 pm […]
COWAP North America Presents: Discussion of the film "Marie Langer: Desire and Revolution" (2025) by Marcelo Haber co-produced by Horacio Legras and Belen de Martino Discussants: Virginia Ungar, Marcelo Haber, Horacio Legras, and Belen de Martino Moderator: Margarita Cereijido, PhD Friday, July 10, 2026 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm ET Via Zoom NOTE: a link […]
COWAP: Beauty and Gender: A Psychoanalytic Perspective Session 3: Changing Notions of Beauty: The Importance of Culture and Technology: “Whose Face is it Anyway? "Beauty in the Age of High […]
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 3 CME/CE 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 the third floor is the only one with the lights on. It’s a warm island in the cold ocean of the outer world. The party […]
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. […]
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 23, 2027 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm ET Via Zoom *Film must be viewed before the event. Discussant: Jamie Steele, LMFT Presentation: The […]
April 30 @ 12:00 am - May 2 @ 12:00 am To Apply: https://newdirectionsinwriting.com/apply/
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 […]