Public Programs &
Professional Development
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Welcome to a vibrant source of education and community for individuals interested in psychoanalysis as a therapeutic model and as a lens for viewing individuals, culture, and society, along with stimulating conversation.
WBCP’s public programs include an array of high-caliber scientific meetings, case conferences, continuing education opportunities, and a unique 3-year writing program, as well as programs that highlight the arts, including two annual film festivals.
Continuing Education Units are not issued for partial attendance of one day programs.
Calendar
October
Sunday, October 4, 2026 | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
WBCP Annual Raphling presents LGBTQIA+ Workshop: Remapping the Symbolic: On Poetic Cartographies of Gender and Erotic Life
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 Presente…
Saturday, October 24, 2026 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
The Thomas and Julia Saltz Annual Adult Seminar Workshop: Professional Will Boot Camp: An Emotional, Ethical, and Practical Workshop – Jeffrey Axelbank, PsyD
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 Lunc…
Friday, October 30, 2026 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Psychoanalytic Takes on Cinema: “The Backrooms”: Alex Smith, PsyD
Discussion of the film “The Backrooms” 2025 (110 mins) Director: Kane Parsons After a therapist’s patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him. …
November
Friday, November 6, 2026 | 12:00 am – Sunday, November 8, 2026 | 12:00 am
New Directions Weekend Conference: Caged Bodies, Freed Minds
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 experienc…
December
Sunday, December 6, 2026 | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Save the Date: Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference
Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference Sunday, December 6, 2026 More Information Coming Soon
Friday, December 11, 2026 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Psychoanalytic Takes on Cinema: “Till Death”: Katherine Marshall Woods, PsyD & filmmaker Yana Billé-Chung
Discussion of the film “Till Death” 2025 (20 mins) Director: Yana Billé-Chung When a kind young couple is offered the chance of a lifetime to purchase their dream house from an ailing octogenarian at…
January
Friday, January 29, 2027 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Psychoanalytic Takes on Cinema: “Before Dawn (Перед Світанком)”: Oksana Yakushko, PhD & filmmaker Yuliia Haleta
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 spacio…
February
Tuesday, February 2, 2027 | 8:00 am – Friday, February 5, 2027 | 5:00 pm
2027 APsA National Meeting
2027 National Meeting Mayflower Hotel Washington D.C. Tuesday, February 2 to Friday, February 5, 2027
Friday, February 5, 2027 | 12:00 am – Sunday, February 7, 2027 | 12:00 am
New Directions Weekend Conference: What Moves Between Us: Embodiment and Relating Beyond Representational Speech
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. D…
April
Friday, April 23, 2027 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Psychoanalytic Takes on Cinema: “The Substance”: Jamie Steele, LMFT
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 ve…
Friday, April 30, 2027 | 12:00 am – Sunday, May 2, 2027 | 12:00 am
New Directions Weekend Conference: Spring 2027 Conference: TBA
April 30 @ 12:00 am – May 2 @ 12:00 am To Apply: https://newdirectionsinwriting.com/apply/
November
Friday, November 5, 2027 | 12:00 am – Sunday, November 7, 2027 | 12:00 am
New Directions Weekend Conference: Uncommon Bedfellows: Psychoanalysis, the Climate Crisis, and Environmental Bonds
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 be a beach on Cape Cod, or a s…