• 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 […]

  • A Shimmering Landscape: the Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life

    2 CE Hours available forNY Practitioners - LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs Why does the world feel one way when we are imaginatively alive to it and quite another when we are not? How does one both imagine and see things as they are? What happens when we cannot do so? In […]

  • Film Night: Clinical Perspectives on Remarkable Movies

    ADOLESCENCE: A four-part series available for viewing on Netflix. Watch the Series before the Event — then Join Us To Discuss! 2 CE Hours available to NYS LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, Psychologists and PsyDs A discussion will be facilitated via ZOOM by Janit Bliss, LCSW-R and Carter Thornton, LCAT, LP Adolescence is a British television psychological […]

  • Don’t Talk to Those People: Rhetoric, Polarization, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

    CE CREDITS AVAILABLE FOR NYS PRACTITIONERS Today’s divisive political climate has made the idea of talking to those on the “other side” an act of traitorous betrayal. At the same time psychoanalysis has a long history of attempting to bridge what can feel like irreconcilable differences and splits, as they appear in both individual and group dynamics. Rather than following the expectable, and often appropriate, tendency to […]