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OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION OPEN TO THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING with MITPP
THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY:
OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION OPEN TO THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
HOW CAN EXPERIENCE IN ANOTHER PROFESSION BE DEEPENED AND INTEGRATED THROUGH PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING?
Psychoanalytic training changes how a person understands relationships, motivation, emotion, conflict, and development, allowing previous professional experience to take on new meaning. This presentation explores how my earlier work as a jury and trial consultant informs — and contrasts with — my current work as a therapist trained in psychoanalytic psychotherapy. In jury selection, consultants must form quick, high-stakes impressions about potential jurors’ biases and decision-making tendencies, often within minutes and under significant time pressure. Psychoanalytic treatment, by contrast, requires a disciplined slowing down: tolerating uncertainty, suspending premature conclusions, and allowing meaning to emerge over time. This presentation will discuss how the shift from rapid evaluative judgment to sustained analytic listening reshaped my clinical stance, especially during my early training. Learning not to approach therapy like a one-day jury selection process — but instead as a gradual, unfolding inquiry — required developing patience and comfort with ambiguity. Drawing on examples from both Continue reading OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION OPEN TO THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING with MITPP
SEEKING ASYLUM – TWICE AS LIKELY with MITPP
The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
A CEU- APPROVED ONLINE WORKSHOP SEEKING ASYLUM – TWICE AS LIKELY PRESENTER: SUSAN McNAMARA, MD
Freud fled from Vienna to London in 1938, terrified after the Gestapo picked up his daughter, Anna. It was not easy to get the Freuds the necessary immigration permits from the British government and even more difficult to extricate the Freuds from Nazi Vienna. Ernest Jones applied pressure through diplomatic channels and the Nazis needed to be bribed. Psychoanalysts from Austria and Germany fled to Britain, Switzerland, the United States, and Argentina, essentially anywhere they could gain Continue reading SEEKING ASYLUM – TWICE AS LIKELY with MITPP
ONLINE WORKSHOP: PREPARING FOR THE NEW YORK LP EXAM with MITPP
The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
ONLINE WORKSHOP: PREPARING FOR THE NEW YORK LP EXAM: A OCUSED, STEP-BY-STEP APPROACH TO PASSING WITH CONFIDENCE
PRESENTER: BRIAN KLOPPENBERG, LP, MFA
This workshop will teach participants a number of skills: It will help in writing case narratives for the New York State LP exam, prepare for the actual writing of each narrative at the testing site, and navigate the testing situation itself. We will begin with a close examination of the various sections of the LP exam, question by question, in order to build case narratives that eventuate in passing the exam. Each case narrative should have its own internal logic, and we will talk about how to find and develop that logic. Having helped a number of candidates from several different institutes to pass the exam, I have a strong sense of what the readers of the case narratives are looking for, as well as some common mistakes that can be avoided without too much trouble. Participants are welcome to submit some of their sample answers ahead of time and we can work on these during the workshop. Helpful advice will be offered for what to do next once the narrative has been written, both in the days leading up to the exam and when at the testing site. This interactive workshop will allow plenty of time for questions and answers with the participants.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will: 1) understand more effective ways to think about the format of the New York State LP exam, 2) begin to construct a case narrative according to an internal psychoanalytic logic, 3) identify various mistakes that are best avoided in order to obtain optimal results on the exam, and 4) identify various test-taking strategies both for the days leading up to the exam and while writing up the narrative at a testing site.
PRESENTER: BRIAN KLOPPENBERG, LP, MFA Certificate in Psychoanalysis, National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Faculty: Metropolitan Continue reading ONLINE WORKSHOP: PREPARING FOR THE NEW YORK LP EXAM with MITPP
The Only Cure with Presenter Professor Mark Solms at CFS
The Scientific Program Committee is pleased to present
The Only Cure Presenter:
Professor Mark Solms
Sunday, October 25, 2026 10:00am-12:00pm EST via Zoom
2 CEUs Available
Few figures in psychology have been as influential—or as controversial—as Sigmund Freud. For decades many of his ideas were dismissed as speculative and unscientific. Yet developments in modern neuroscience are prompting a surprising reassessment. Continue reading The Only Cure with Presenter Professor Mark Solms at CFS
Only 2 places left: One-Year Infant Observation Seminar: online daytime classes, Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program ’26-’27
ONE-YEAR INFANT OBSERVATION SEMINAR
offered by the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program of the Contemporary Freudian Society and the Institute of Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Tuesdays, 12-1:30pm, September 15, 2026-May 25, 2027
Online Format
This infant observation seminar is offered as an elective course to candidates in IPTAR’s Adult and Respecialization Programs and as a required course in IPTAR’s Adult and Child Integrated Track, and to candidates in The Contemporary Freudian Society Adult and Continue reading Only 2 places left: One-Year Infant Observation Seminar: online daytime classes, Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program ’26-’27
