Symposium 2026: PsychE/PsychAI: Artificial Intelligence
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Dear Colleagues and Friends: 
We’re excited to bring you Symposium 2026 titled “PsychE/PsychAI”. The meeting is Saturday, April 18 in Goldwurm Auditorium at Mount Sinai (live and virtual). Dr. Dennis Charney, MD will give the Plenary and receive the Freud Award. Dr. Todd Essig, PhD will give the Keynote. Distinguished faculty include David Forrest, MD, Amy Levy, PsyD and Heather Berlin, PhD among other leading experts.

Note: Please include your phone number in the bottom box. If you are interested in CEs for Social Workers, Psychologists, or Licensed Psychoanalysts, also state you license-type and write your license number in box provided as well.  Also, please remember to choose in-person or virtual from the drop down list when you choose your registration level. Continue reading Symposium 2026: PsychE/PsychAI: Artificial Intelligence

International Journal of Controversial Discussions Issue Volume #3 Issue # 2
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 Click Here to Read: The International Journal of Controversial Discussions Volume #3 Issue #2.  The theme of the issue is Primary Femininity: Discussions on a Central Identity, with a target paper by Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed.D and edited by M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D. There is also a paper entitled Psychoanalytic History—Sketches The Power of Exclusion (An Ode to Sheldon Bach and Sándor Ferenczi) by Carolyn Ellman with commentary by Ph.D. with a response by Giselle Galdi. This journal is supported by a generous grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation.
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THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION OPEN TO THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
THE CASE OF A NARCISSISTIC PATIENT: MORE COMPLICATED THAN AT FIRST GLANCE

A rich, 3 year-long treatment of a highly intelligent, charismatic and articulate 45 year old man, who sought services for depressive symptoms, illuminates the interplay of unmet early needs and religious and family dynamics. The patient’s defenses and the transference/countertransference matrix that developed led the therapist to conclude that the patient was narcissistically organized. The therapist will describe some narcissistic personality Continue reading

New From IPBooks: The End of Freud? by Edward Nersessian
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Click Here to Purchase: The End of Freud? by Edward Nersessian from IPBooks.

“A brilliant, easy-to-read, and provocative book by Ed Nersessian, a prominent psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and superb clinician, points to the elephant in the room and challenges key aspects of psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice. His arguments are compelling and hit the core of the problem: What is correct or should be revised about Freud’s contributions after about a century of psychoanalytic clinical work? This is a must-read for everyone.” —CRISTINA ALBERINI, PhD, LP, Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver & Enid Silver Winslow Professor, Center for Neural Science

“Edward Nersessian’s memoir, The End of Freud? is a fascinating personal story of early life in Continue reading New From IPBooks: The End of Freud? by Edward Nersessian

Psychotherapy with Neurodivergent Individuals: A Developmental and Relational Approach to Parent-Child Work at WCSPP
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Presented by WCSPP’s Child, Adolescent, Parent (CAPP) Psychotherapy Training Program:  Parenting in Today’s World: Clinical Conversations: Psychotherapy with Neurodivergent Individuals: A Developmental and Relational Approach to Parent-Child Work 2 CE Hours available for NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs

Presenter: Lauren Tobing-Puente, PhD Live on Zoom! Thursday, May 7, 2026 7 – 9 pm

Admission including CE: $45 CE CREDITS AVAILABLE FOR NYS PRACTITIONERS

As diagnoses and awareness of neurodivergence (including ASD, ADHD, etc.) have rapidly grown over the years, many psychotherapists wonder how to address neurodivergent clients’ unique Continue reading Psychotherapy with Neurodivergent Individuals: A Developmental and Relational Approach to Parent-Child Work at WCSPP

The Ties that Bind at CFS
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The Ties that Bind: The Necessity of Dependence for the Evolution of the Self Presenter:
Lesley Caldwell, MA, PhD, FIPA Sunday, April 12, 2026 10:00am-12:00pm EST Hybrid: In-person and Zoom 2 CEUs Available

This paper proposes that being the object of another’s concern in infancy, and later in analysis, is fundamental to the capacity for intimacy. If the initial encounter with the environment has been distorted in some way wishes for attachment and closeness may be subsumed into a fear o Continue reading The Ties that Bind at CFS

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861).
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Click Here to Read: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861).  Victorian visionary of passionate love and public justice by Robert Goodman on his Spoken Word Substack on March 4, 2026. 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Based on image found at http://www.noelcollection.org/noel/Duykinck/browning.html archive copy at the Wayback Machine  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Poetry Monday: Irene Willis
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Note from Arnold Richards, new editor of Poetry Monday: I am very sad to report that the poetry editor of International psychoanalytic blog, Irene Willis, has died. Irene Willis was a world class poet and for one year the poet laureate of New Jersey. She made a major contribution to this effort and she will be missed very much. We have decided to continue Poetry Monday and I will replace Irene Willis as the editor. We welcome contributions from other poets.  Pease send any poems for consideration to Psypsa@aol.com

Below, in keeping with Irene’s Poetry Monday format, are three of Irene’s own poems:

Tornado Watch

I don’t mean to make light of this
but when the first warning came Continue reading Poetry Monday: Irene Willis