Scientific Conferences

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 Otherness of Aging: Why I Decline to Decline”

12:05pm–1:00pm
Tarpley Long “No One Saved Me From the Monster Under the Bed”

Presenters:

Kevin Popp, PsyD, Kevin was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and has been in the DC area since 1994. A clinical psychologist since 1997, he trained at the old Washington School of Psychiatry before doing analytic training at the WBCP. His interests vary widely, including a panel discussion at the Krishnamurti Center in Ojai, California in 2024.

Sandra Hershberg, MD, Dr. Sandra Hershberg is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. She is an Associate Clinical Professor at Georgetown University Medical Center. Dr. Hershberg is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Inquiry and serves as Culture Editor of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context. Dr. Hershberg has published and presented papers on subjects including biography and psychoanalysis, art, pregnancy and creativity, therapeutic action, ethics, the mother/daughter relationship, and edited a recent volume of Psychoanalytic Inquiry entitled HOME. She is currently working on a book about women aging, a later developmental stage.

Tarpley Long, LCSW-C, received her MSW from Catholic University in 1977 and graduated from the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute in 1995. She was certified by the American Psychoanalytic Association in Adult Psychoanalysis in 1996 and maintained a practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis until 2015, when she retired from full time practice to spend extended periods of time living in other cultures. She continues to teach and supervise in the PSP program. As well, she has served as Editor of Psychbytes and on the Recruitment and Membership committees. She has presented 50 conference papers, published 10 articles in journals and has had numerous Letters to the Editor published in the Washington Post and The New Yorker magazine. She is also a 2005 graduate of Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory, Washington, DC, and continues to be involved in the theater community.

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