About Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) and its implications for the field of psychoanalysis! Earn 2 CE HOURS, approved for NY Practitioners - LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs. This program has been approved for Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal. 🗓️ Date: 9/8/2023 🕒 Time: […]

3 CE credits for most NY and CT Licenses (pending) OVERVIEW: WCSPP’s November 2023 Conference showcases two new papers by noted thinkers writing today about psychoanalysis and language, Donnel Stern and Jeanine Vivona, whose biographies, including the range of their published work, appear below. Language, imagination and the interpersonal Field Paper presented by Donnel B. Stern, PhD How should we describe the transformation of unformulated experience into language— not only into verbal language but also […]

Empathy, for Kohut, always involves an awareness of difference, of the distinction between the empathizing self and the empathized other. Since empathy is decidedly not sympathy, we can and must—Dr. Kohut argues—empathize with people we find decidedly unsympathetic. Dr. Kohut will demonstrate that history written from an empathic perspective, that is, from the perspective of the historical subject, is different from history written from the perspective of the observing historian. To illustrate this difference, he […]