• Parenting in Today’s World: Clinical Conversations

    2 CE HOURS NY Practitioners - LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs Fathers for Change (F4C) is a novel, individual clinical intervention for fathers who have been violent with their partners and/or children. F4C addresses 9 individually focused core topics, 4 co-parent topics, and 5 father-child focused topics in 60-minute individual therapy sessions […]

  • Maintaining Professional Boundaries in Psychotherapy (Ethics Course)

    This 3-Hour CE Course meets the NYSED Office of the Professions requirement for Ethics and Appropriate Boundaries for LCSWs, LMSWs, LMHCs, LMFTs, Licensed Psychoanalysts and Licensed Psychologists. 3 CE HOURS Presented by: Bruce V. Hillowe, JD, PhD The New York State Board of Regents mandated that effective April 1, 2023, psychologists, social workers and mental […]

  • The “Big Shot” Raises His Fee: Social Class in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

    The role of social class in the analytic encounter has been given little attention in our psychoanalytic literature and training institutes. This dimension of the treatment relationship tends to remain invisible most of the time. However, when the analyst raises the fee, it can become a catalyst for bringing social class concerns of both patient and analyst […]

  • Reclaiming the Power of Female Aggression, a Psychoanalytic Perspective

    2 CE HOURS NY Practitioners - LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs This presentation addresses the fraught relationship between women and aggression, one that is troubled by age-old patriarchal forces that disparage the ambitions, assertions and voices of women. Approached from a psychoanalytic perspective, the presentation details the sociocultural forces that infect a […]

  • WCSPP Film Night: “The Quiet Girl”

    2 CE Hours available to NYS LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, Psychologists and PsyDs This film is available for viewing on Kanopy, Amazon, Google Play and other Streaming Services Watch the Movie before the Event — then Join Us To Discuss! A discussion will be facilitated via ZOOM by Sarah Fisher, LCSW & Carter Thornton, LCAT, LP Co-Hosted […]

  • The Power to Heal

    2 CE HOURS NY Practitioners - LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs This clinical seminar offers an overview of neurodevelopmental disorders and learning differences that interfere with academic, social, emotional and behavioral development. Participants will learn how to incorporate a neurodevelopmental perspective in their ongoing diagnostic curiosity. A key component of the seminar […]

  • From Reverie to Play: Applying Psychoanalytic Principles in Work with Underserved Families

    This presentation describes a community-based psychoanalytic outreach program developed by the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program, which offers dyadic therapy to mothers and infants living in poverty. Drawing from two detailed clinical vignettes, the talk will illustrate how psychoanalytic principles—particularly those related to containment, maternal reverie, and the internal setting—can be applied flexibly beyond the traditional […]

  • Transformations of the Interpersonal Field

    On Coming into Possession of Oneself: Transformations of the Interpersonal Field is Donnel B. Stern's fifth authored book, and his latest contribution to the kind of understanding of psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic process offered by field theory. Stern's book is essential for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists wishing to understand how the analyst's interventions grow from the analyst's […]

  • Talking Against Each Other

    LIMITED TO 30 PARTICIPANTS! To allow for depth of clinical discussion and a true sense of our formal coursework, participation will be capped at 30 therapists. The writing of this paper was inspired by observations that public discourse, political policymaking, internet barking, and even conversation within psychoanalytic institutes too often relies on signaling affiliation at […]

  • Parenting in Today’s World: Clinical Conversations

    CONTINUING EDUCATION – 2 CE HOURS The intersection of parent therapy and couples therapy provides an opportunity for clinicians to engage with families to achieve substantial and lasting growth in parents and their children. This presentation will showcase the work of Dr. Ellen Wachtel who has been working at that intersection during her lengthy career […]