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. […]

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.  […]

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 […]