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 6, 2026 | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Stacia I. Super Memorial Ethics Conference
“The Retiring Mental Health Professional: Ethical, Clinical, and Pragmatic Issues“
David Joseph, MD, Tarpley Long, MSW, LCSW-C, and Christie Platt, PhD
Moderated by Andrew Carrol, PsyD, and Sandra Lashley, PsyD
Sunday, December 6, 2026
1:00 – 4:00 pm ET
via Zoom
All fees are non-refundable.
3.0 CME/CE
Up until the last two decades, there has been little written about the psychoanalyst’s retirement process. Many analysts chose never to retire and worked into old age. Some became ill and continued to practice. Additionally, colleagues did not always respond favorably to those who were considered too young to retire.There was a stigma and it left younger analysts with very little insight and few guidelines into what is now considered an expected developmental progression. Freud himself never really retired and continued to take on and see longstanding patients up until the near end.
This program is an attempt to speak to the complexities of retirement as it is understood and lived out today. Three seasoned, retired psychoanalysts will address the ethical, clinical and personal factors that went into their decision to retire and how they navigated those issues. These include issues around how much notice to give their patients, how they managed a changing analytic identity, how they handled patients in distress, the benefits of retiring before one needs to and what they would change. By sharing their experiences, the hope is that this will assist other psychoanalysts in thinking through this important professional milestone. There will be an open question and answer period after each presenter to help facilitate discussion.