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UPCOMING EVENTS
If you have any questions or concerns about upcoming events, please contact Membership & Events Coordinator Julia Seixas at [email protected].
Upcoming Events!
Presenters:
- Bambi Chapin, PhD
- Gillian Gillison, PhD
- Alexandra M. Harrison, MD
- Edward Tronick, PhD
Moderator: Lawrence D. Blum, MDDate: Saturday, April 26, 2025Time: 8:45 AM - 1:00 PMLocation: Virtual via Zoom
4 CE/CMEs
Admission
- $100 for Admission
- $30 for Full-Time Students, Residents, & Candidates
About the Program
How infants and toddlers separate and individuate from their families has been formally studied largely from a Euro-American viewpoint. This conference aims to bring data from around the world to bear on the separation-individuation process. Separation-individuation occurs simultaneously, and intertwined with, the development of attachment patterns, but has received much less cross-cultural attention, a deficit this conference will attempt to address. Cultures are highly variable in how they influence early child development, and the presenters for this conference are leading experts in the influence of culture on development.
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Date: Saturday, May 3, 2025
Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 PM EDT
Workshop Leader: Charity Hume, PCOP Fellow, 2023-2025
Location: Virtual via Zoom
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PCOP MEMBERS ONLY(Limited space, RSVP required to secure your spot)Donations welcomed
Workshop Description:
In this 90 minute creative writing workshop, Charity invites participants to engage with their own creative identities, using writing as a bridge between conscious insight and the hidden layers of the psyche. Her extensive experience as an educator, private writing coach, and workshop facilitator, has shaped her belief that writing can unlock unconscious feelings, safely recall memories, and foster reflection—beneficial for therapists, teachers, patients and students. Drawing from psychoanalytic theory, depth psychology, and years of experience as a writing coach and educator, she will demonstrate how focusing on specific childhood objects can help us access memories, uncover hidden emotions, and discover an empowering creative practice of self reflection. Concepts from Jungian depth psychology, object relations theory, and narrative therapy will inform the discussion. Participants will participate in guided exercises designed to illustrate how writing can be a powerful tool for insight and transformation.
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International Speaker Forum
Presenter: Olga Santa Maria, PhD
Date: Saturday, May 17th, 2025 & Sunday, May 18th, 2025
Time:
- 5/17: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
- 5/18: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Virtual via Zoom & Rockland
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Psychotherapy Forum
Tragic Consciousness and Psychoanalytic Work
Presenter: Heather Ferguson, LCSW,
Date: Tuesday, May 27th, 2025
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM EDT
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Heather Ferguson, LCSW, is a faculty and supervisor at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, the National Institute for the Psychotherapies, the Wilhelm Reich Center for the Study of Embodiment, and the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. As a certified hypnotherapist and practitioner of EMDR, she integrates embodied techniques into her psychoanalytic practice. She writes and lectures about eating disorder treatment, the role of intergenerational transmission of trauma, and the use of embodied techniques to deepen psychotherapeutic engagement. She has chapters in Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis (Eds, Harris, Kalb, and Klebanoff) and Art, Creativity, and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives from Analyst-Artists (Ed., Hagman). She is an Associate Editor for Psychoanalysis, Self, and Context and a member of the Music Industry Therapist Collective (MITC). She has a private practice in New York City.
The program will focus on the concept of "Tragic Consciousness" and its application to psychoanalytic treatment with patient with eating disorders and histories of self-harm.
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Pearson Lecture
The Ubiquitousness and Intensity of Countertransference in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis
Presenter: Alan Sugarman, PhD
Date: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM EDT
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Dr. Alan Sugarman will be discussing some of his ideas regarding the prominent place that countertransference has in child and adolescent work. He notes the existence of a “Broader Field” or “Total Situation” when analyzing children and adolescents because of the various roles required of the child analyst i.e. analyst, developmental object, and real object; because of the child’s developmentally appropriate orientation to action; and the need to involve parents and others (siblings, nannies, teachers). The child or adolescent young age and action orientation often stimulates more intense and /or primitive feelings in the child analyst. In turn this may activate the child analyst’s internal conflicts much the way it does the child’s parents’ conflicts.
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2025 Year End Dinner & Graduation
Date: Thursday, June 26th, 2025
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM EDT
Location: Platform Thirty at Beat Street Station
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More Exciting Programming Coming in 2025!
Stay tuned for more updates on upcoming events and programs throughout the year. Check back regularly for the latest information. If you have any questions or concerns about upcoming events, please get in touch with Membership & Events Coordinator Julia Seixas at [email protected].
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