Scientific Conferences
Multiple topics, perspectives, and organizations.
About
We host conferences each year for WBCP members and interested clinicians, with CME/CE credits available. We also collaborate with other organizations to co-sponsor events.
Events are scheduled throughout the year, focusing on: Cultural Competency, hosted by COWAP to increase a clinician’s competency within various cultural topics; A variety of issues within the LGBTQ communities are presented at the LGBTQ Conference; Ethics Conferences discuss various issues around ethics from a psychoanalytic viewpoint; Restricted to members of WBCP, Colloquium presents original papers by members of the WBCP community; The Raphling Conference presents various topics within psychoanalytic technique; Community Psychoanalysis Colloquium considers topics related to community psychoanalysis.
Continuing Education Units are not issued for partial attendance of one day programs
Contact
For more information about the Scientific Conferences please contact Archana Varma Caballeo, MD at archana@archanavarmamd.com.
Upcoming
December
Sunday, December 7, 2025 | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference: Analyst Losses: Illness and Life-Changing Events And Their Effects on Treatment
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
Presentation and Discussion Via Zoom
3 CME/CE
Presentation: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.
Registration Link: CLICK HERE
Flyer: CLICK HERE
March
Saturday, March 14, 2026 | 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Psychoanalysis Creativity and the Arts: Session 3: “The Mirage of AI Creativity, its Dangers and Limitations, a Psychoanalytic Perspective”
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 AI for an authentic creative process from a psychoanalytic perspective, and its dangers.