2 CE Hours available to NYS LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, Psychologists and PsyDs This film is available for viewing on Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, or Google Play before the event A discussion will be facilitated via ZOOM by JANIT BLISS, LCSW-R & JANE BLOOMGARDEN, PhD About the movie “BEANPOLE”, FILMED IN 2019, BEGINS ITS STORY AT THE CLOSE OF WORLD WAR II IN RUSSIA. IT IS A STUDY OF PERVASIVE DESTRUCTION TO THE […]

Keynote Speakers: Billie Pivnick, PhD, and Katie Naftzger, LICSW 4 CE Credits for most NYS licenses; Connecticut Practitioners - LCSW Overview At their roots, adoption stories begin with elements of sorrow. The children, adolescents and parents whose lives together begin in loss often find their way into clinical settings, faced with challenges that are unique. Too often, that uniqueness is neglected and adopted children and families face their pain alone or with well-meaning clinicians who […]

2 CE Hours available for NY Practitioners - LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYD's Overview: Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy can be enriched through interdisciplinary studies that move beyond the confines of psychoanalysis itself.  This scientific meeting will look toward the contemporary sciences to provide new ideas, models, and metaphors that can both broaden and enrich psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.  Freud was very much influenced by the Newtonian paradigm of his times.  Contemporary science has undergone major paradigm shifts since Freud’s studies.  These presentations […]