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
February
Saturday, February 28, 2026 | 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Save the Date: Annual Colloquium (Members Only Event)
Save the Date
Saturday, February 28, 2026
9:00am–1:00pm
In-person event
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville
9:05am–10:30am
Roundtable with Kevin Popp and PSP students “Has Psychoanalysis Been ‘Blinded With 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”
More Information Coming Soon
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.