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 Nancy Ingraham, PsyD, Chair at nancyingraham4@gmail.com.
Upcoming
May
Saturday, May 18, 2024 | 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
OSP-Observational Studies Open House
The Observational Studies Program Open House: Seeing the Unseen in Clinical Work
Learn more about how our program sharpens clinical skills with any age group or population.
10:00am – 12:00pm
In-Person Event
Location:
The Colonnade Condominium
2801 New Mexico Ave NW
Washington, DC 20007
Lobby Floor Party Room
Street parking is available on Fulton Street, Tunlaw Road and New Mexico Avenue
Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration-osp-open-house-2024-2025
For more information please contact:
Deborah Blessing, LICSW, Co-Chair deborahblessing1@gmail.com
Silvana Kaufman, LICSW, Co-Chair Kaufmansilvana@yahoo.com
Observational Studies Program Description:
Observation has proven to significantly enrich clinical work with any age group or population. This program is for anyone who is interested in understanding psychodynamic ideas, the power of primitive anxieties, and how our earliest experiences stay with us over our lifetime.
Seeing the Unseen in Clinical Work is conducted by a multi-disciplinary faculty of child, adult, couple, and family psychotherapists and psychoanalysts. The training follows the model of infant observation pioneered and developed by Esterh Bick at the Tavistock Clinic in London in 1948.
Over two years, students engage with essential concepts designed to enhance awareness and understanding of human development and interaction across cultures and ethnic groups. Through a rich mix of theoretical, clinical, and experiential learning, students discover meaning in paying close attention to what is occurring in front of them and taking in as many details as possible, which are essential parts of observational training.
Students come from different areas of interest and training and explore the applications of what they are learning to their own practice and work, contributing to rich multidisciplinary exchange and understanding.
Applications are welcome from mental-health professionals, medical practitioners including nursing practitioners, teachers and educators, professionals working in protective services, prisons, and social and probation services, and case workers in public and private organizations.
Saturday, May 18, 2024 | 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
Don Moss, MD: Encountering Representations of Evil
Don Moss, MD Lecture: Encountering Representations of Evil
Presenter: Don Moss, MD
Time: 10:30 am – 12: 30 am
Date: May 18, 2024
| This will be an in-person event. There will be no zoom option. |
Program Description: Evil is grounded in an effort to correct the errors of Creation– to define, categorize and eliminate what it designates as sources of threat and pain. This logic of elimination distinguishes evil from sadism’s logic of excitement. Stressing personal reactions and leaning on the work of Freud, Primo Levi and Hannah Arendt, the text takes up pertinent issues raised by Israel/Gaza and by the Institute for Peace and Justice (the “lynching museum”) in Montgomery, Alabama.
Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_don_moss_public_5-18-24
September
Saturday, September 14, 2024 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
COWAP: “Women, The Longest Revolution”
When: Saturdays, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Dates:
2024: September 14, October 26, November 9, December 14,
2025: January 11, February 8, March 8, April 12
8 Sessions
October
Sunday, October 20, 2024 | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
LGBTQ+ Workshop (Registration Opening This Summer)
Date: October 20, 2024
Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Presenter: Sam Guzzardi, LCSW
“Holding Laplanche Lightly: The Story of Two Queer Treatments”
Via Zoom
More information coming soon. Registration opens in the Summer.
Saturday, October 26, 2024 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
COWAP: “Women, The Longest Revolution”
When: Saturdays, 11:00 am to 12:30 pm
Dates:
2024: September 14, October 26, November 9, December 14,
2025: January 11, February 8, March 8, April 12
8 Sessions