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Co-Sponsored by The Harlem Family Institute and Contemporary Freudian Society Program Description: The entire series will provide an extension of the psychoanalytic view of trauma, seen through a forensic lens. As an introduction Dr. Kliman will present a few babies and young children who were badly abused. In some cases the abuse went on for decades. Teachers, case workers and institutional …

Psychoanalytic Interviewing of Trauma Victims During Civil Litigation with Gilbert Kliman, MD Read More »

Co-Sponsored by The Harlem Family Institute and Contemporary Freudian Society Program Description: A series of continuing-education seminars, including parent-permitted videos of a senior psychoanalyst treating preschool patients. What is Reflective Network Therapy? Definition, manualized process, distinction from other methods of psychotherapy for this age group Treating preschoolers with traumatic disorders:  Video illustrations of traumatized preschoolers, with an emphasis on nonverbal memory, …

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Title: TBA Presenter: TBA

“It was not for a long time that I learned to appreciate the importance of phantasies and unconscious thought about life in the womb.  They contain an explanation of the remarkable dread that many people have of being buried alive; and they also afford the deepest unconscious basis for the belief in survival after death, which merely represents a projection into …

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The Washington Area Case Conference and Seminar Series is co-sponsored by the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and the Contemporary Freudian Society. This program is for DC and Baltimore area mental health clinicians and all WBCP/CFS members and students. Please join us for eight conferences and six seminars in the 2021-2022 academic year. This year you can register for and purchase each …

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Speakers: Patricia Gherovici, PhD and Jhuma Basak, PhD Discussant: Anne Adelman, PhD Opening and Closing remarks: Margarita Cereijido, PhD 3 CME/CE Cultural Competence Credits Sponsored by: The Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis (Cultural Competence Conference and Community Outreach Committee) Contemporary Freudian Society International Psychoanalytical Association’s Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) Presentations: Patricia Gherovici, PhD, “Poverty: Text or Context?” Using …

Psychoanalytic Understandings of Poverty: The Importance of Context and Gender Read More »

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Title: TBA Presenter: Liquori Etheridge

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This presentation will highlight four clinical vignettes, a small sample of the work discussed during an ongoing weekly supervision groups. We will hear from Kim Kleinman, Tina Marie Dale, Donna Roth Smith, Susan Siegeltuch and Chris Kido as they discuss the group and 4 cases, ranging in age from 5 to 12. At the start of the COVID lockdown in …

What the Children Taught Us Read More »

Title: TBA Presenter: David German, MD

VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE via Zoom Please join us to learn about our Two-Year Online Certificate Program in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Curriculum spans the life cycle and emphasizes development issues A clear approach to understanding technique and its application to clinical practice Weekly clinical supervision with highly trained CFS analyst is provided at no cost A senior analyst from the CFS will …

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program Open House Read More »

The panel will begin with a presentation of the analysis of a woman, the daughter of immigrants. The case presentation will focus on the impact of the patient’s early family dynamics with a focus on both dyadic- and triadic-level concerns. That is, those deriving from infancy and those related to infantile sexuality as defined by Freud. It will also focus …

Dyads, Triads, and the Impingement of Racism: A Case Presentation with Two Commentaries Read More »

Title: TBA Presenter: Ruth Edelman

  Please save the date for our inaugural Community Outreach Colloquium  Beyond the Couch: Community and Psychoanalysis Saturday, April 23, 2022 1:00-4:00 PM ET(Zoom) Keynote Speaker: Deborah Luepnitz, PhD Founder of I.F.A. - Insight for All, connecting psychoanalysts with the homeless population of Philadelphia andAuthor of "Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas" https://www.amazon.com/Schopenhauers-Porcupines-Intimacy-Dilemmas-Psychotherapy/dp/0465042872 *more details to come*

Reaching Across the Chasm: Trauma, Racism, War, and Resilience You are invited to a Recruitment Open House. We have been experiencing a steady stream of traumas related to our external world including the pandemic, acts of racism including the murder of George Floyd, and now the war in Ukraine.  We will engage with the question: How are we listening to cumulative traumas and …

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Title: TBA Presenter: Noa Ashman

Considering Analytic Training? Listen to a panel of candidates and members discussing training at the CFS Training with the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the  Contemporary Freudian Society features: Courses in psychoanalysis beginning in January Multiple contemporary perspectives in psychoanalysis Available financial aid Reduced-fee psychoanalysis Free and low-cost supervision Eligibility for International Psychoanalytical Association membership after graduation Certified by SEVIS for …

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Freud’s 1910 pathography of Leonardo da Vinci is the the point of origin for a common cliché of gay male development — enmeshed mother, absent father — that has had wide influence on psychoanalytic thinking about homosexuality for more than a century.  Despite the work’s prominence in our profession, it has never been the subject of a rigorous critique. This …

Reconsidering Freud’s “Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood” Read More »