“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

Past Events

Committed to increasing the knowledge and application of
psychoanalytic theory

See a listing of our past events below.

March 3, 2024:  Danielle Magaldi, PhD, “Unbecoming:  Social Media and the Fracturing of Adolescent Development”

January 21, 2024: Sarah L. Hedlund, Ph.D., “Psychoanalytic Psychology’s Failure to Mentalize:  Reckoning With the Denigration of the Autistic Community” 

November 5, 2023: Louis Rothschild, Ph.D., “Exploring Breakdowns and Recoveries In and Between Fathers and Sons: Implications for Treatment”

September 24, 2023: Clark J. Hudak, Jr., Ph.D., “Counter-transference and Impingements on the Containing Function in Working with Trans Patients.”

May 21, 2023: J  Unterberg,  Ph.D. and  Aekta Malhotra, M.D., “Personal and Collective Mourning in Transgender/Non-Binary Transitions” 

March 26, 2023: Clara E. Hill, Ph. D., “Psychotherapy Skills and Methods:  Empirical Evidence”

January 22, 2023: Sandor (Alex) Szollos, Ph.D., “Clinical and Ethical Challenges of Money, the ‘Last Taboo’ in Psychotherapy, Part II”

November 13, 2022: Martha Stark, M.D., “The Art and The Science of Interpretation”

September 18, 2022: George Strutt, Ph.D., “The Future of Psychoanalysis, Redux: Views from the Past and Present.”

May 15, 2022: Justine Kalas Reeves, LICSW, D. Psych (England), “The Centrality of Child Psychoanalytic Theory to the Psychoanalytic Corpus as a Whole”

March 20, 2022: Sharon Alperovitz, LICSW, Teaching Analyst, WBCP, “Treating Couples and Families from a British Object Relations and an American Relational Theories Perspective”

February 6, 2022:  Richard M. Waugaman, M. D.,  “What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Psychology”

November 14, 2021:  Clara E. Hill, Ph.D., “Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy: An Integrative Approach”

September 19, 2021:  Fonya Lord Helm, Ph.D., ABPP & Maurine K. Kelly, Ph.K., P.A., “Altered States of Awareness: Telepathic Dreaming”

March 21, 2021:  Joseph P. Collins, Jr., D.O., “Trauma, Perversity and Sexual Activity:  A Psychoanalytic Perspective”

January 31, 2021:  Samuel T. Goldberg, M.D., DFAPA, “Perspectives on Tragedy, with a Discussion of Shakespeare’s King Lear”

November 8, 2020:  Michael Stadter, Ph.D., “Time, Focus, and Relationship: An Object Relations Perspective on Brief Therapy”

September 27, 2020:  Clark J. Hudak, Jr., Ph.D., “Addictive Behaviors and Trauma: Psychoanalytic Considerations”

March 22, 2020:  Clara E. Hill, Ph.D., “Working with Dreams in Psychotherapy:  An Integrative Approach”

January 19, 2020:  Gerald P. Perman, M.D., “Jacques Lacan:  An Introduction to His Work with Applications for Your Practice”