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 […]

2 CE Hours available for: NY Practitioners - LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs About the event Psychoanalysis has traditionally emphasized the relationship with parents as central to identity formation and character development. Yet, as Juliet Mitchell puts it, "why should there be only one set of relationships which provide for the structure of our mind, or why should one be dominant in all times and places?" In this presentation, Dr.s Christian and […]