Staying in the Moment: The Ongoing Challenge
By Categories: Psychoanalysis

Dear Colleague.

We are pleased to announce this virtual 3-hour program – Staying in the Moment: The Ongoing Challenge, on Sunday June 22, 2025, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm ET
Here are the 3 presenters and their presentations:
Karen E. Baker, MSW
Reflections on Child Work During the Pandemic and Afterwards: A Case Presentation
Golnar A. Simpson, PhD, LCSW
Is There Really an “I” Without a “You”: Reclaiming “Otherness”

Janice Berry Edwards, PhD, MSW, LICSW, LCSW-C, BCD
The Body Remembers: How History is Written in the Psyche of the Descendants of the Enslaved
For the full program, CE information, and registration form, please click
https://aapcsw.org/events/2025/staying_in_the_moment_06-22-2025.html
Online Registration Form
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Dreaming The Future: 2025 AAPCSW Conference Call for Papers Deadline Extended
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

Call for Papers –  2025 AAPCSW – NIPER Conference  AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
IN CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK – AAPCSW

Sponsored by National Institute for Psychoanalytic Education & Research in Clinical Social Work, Inc. (NIPER)*

November 6-9, 2025, Austin, TX,  CALL FOR PAPERS , Deadline April 18, 2025, https://www.aapcsw.org

DREAMING THE FUTURE

As we move through unprecedented individual and collective pressures, our human capacity also allows us to experience joy amidst the turmoil. We can dream the future and feel, think, imagine, and even behave in different ways. Join us at this conference to examine how to go forward, applying multiple psychodynamic perspectives to what we are facing in the consulting room, in the broader world, and in ourselves – in the darkness and in the light.

For Guidelines, presentation categories, including student/ candidate papers, and submission information, go to:
Events Page: https://aapcsw.org/events/`

CALL FOR PAPERS  DEADLINE EXTENDED  to May 5, 2025

PDF Download:

https://aapcsw.org/pdf/events/2025/Call_for_Papers-2025.pdf

https://aapcsw.org/pdf/events/2025/Call_for_Student_Papers_2025.pdf

* NIPER, 501c3 educational arm of AAPCSW

Poetry Monday June 2025
By Categories: Poetry Monday

Good morning everyone,
I hope you enjoyed all the recent holidays and are looking forward to many more happy days to come.
Our poet today is one whose work I very much admire.

PD Pin received an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and worked as the Programs Director at The Mount, author Edith Wharton’s home, a National Historic Landmark and literary center in western Massachusetts. In partnership with the Straw Dog Writers Guild, where she serves as the Executive Consulting Director, Pin helped establish an Emerging Writers Residency at The Mount, now in its fifth year. Her favorite extracurricular activity is teaching kids (ages 5-12) karate–a practice in humility and stand-up comedy.

Below are three of her recent poems.
Perhaps, the World

~after Joy Harjo

The world begins with gravity, keeps our bodies and celestial objects
orbiting the sun. No matter, we must have gravity
to live.
The properties of gravity are invisible Continue reading Poetry Monday June 2025

‘The Grandparents’: Mysterious 3,000-year-old Mayan city unearthed in Guatemala.
By Categories: History

Click Here to Read: ‘The Grandparents’: Mysterious 3,000-year-old Mayan city unearthed in Guatemala. This ancient metropolis has been named “Los Abuelos” – Spanish for “The Grandparents.” by Mrigakshi Dixit on the Interesting Engineering website on   May 30, 2025.
Zona Arqueológica Calakmul Campeche México. Image: Norberto_Fotografía_Negrete. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

What Counts as Learning When AI Can Imitate It?
By Categories: General

Click Here to Read: What Counts as Learning When AI Can Imitate It? AI can mimic performance, but only humans learn through consequence and context  by Jarek Janio Ph.D. on his How We Learn blog on the Psychoanalysis Today blogs on May 17, 2025.

21st century robots. Seen from the future, they will just look cute. Image: Ralf Steinberger from Milan, Berlin + Munich, Italy + Germany Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Cécile Evans’ performance ‘Sprung a Leak’, seen in Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany.