Category: EVENTS

Summer Symposium: Reimagining Engagement at Psychoanalytic Institutions at APsA
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On June 13th, APsA brought together our community for the Summer Symposium: Reimagining Engagement at Psychoanalytic Institutions and the conversation did not disappoint.

Moderated by Dr. Jane Tillman (Austen Riggs Center), the panel featured six clinicians and educators at different career stages and institutional vantage points. Dr. Tillman’s opening questions, “what is a psychoanalytic institution for and what does it mean to belong to one” invited the panelists to think about what every potential member is asking. What unfolded was a candid and compelling exchange about what it means to belong. Here are six takeaways from the discussion:

1. THE REAL ENGAGEMENT CRISIS ISN’T APATHY
Brian R. Ngo-Smith reframed the question entirely and asked if institutions have learned to share their future. He left the room with a provocation: can we create institutions in which authority and affection coexist?

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An Intimate Exchange with Mark Solms
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis, Science

As we approach our 10th anniversary Gala celebration, we want to share something we are especially excited about.

On Wednesday, July 22, the evening before the Gala, ROOM will host an in-person event at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City. It is a rare opportunity to gather in the same room, to mark this milestone together, and to spend an evening in conversation with this year’s Coline Covington Award recipient, Professor Mark Solms. Tickets are available and presented upon registering for the ROOM 10th Anniversary Gala at the link below.

An Intimate Exchange with Mark Solms
July 22 | 8 pm | In-Person
IPTAR | 1651 3rd Ave #205, New York, NY 10128

In keeping with the theme of this year’s Gala, “What Drives Us”, Mark Solms will speak from his own experience, as a South African, a neuropsychoanalyst, and a landowner, Continue reading An Intimate Exchange with Mark Solms

CFS “Cain is Killing Abel: Intergenerational Killing Fields” 4/30
By Categories: EVENTS, Politics, Psychoanalysis

PSYCHOANALYTIC BROOKLYN: “Cain is Killing Abel: Intergenerational Killing Fields”  Presenter:  Tina Marie Dale, LSCSW Discussant: Kimberly S. Kleinman, MS, LCSW Thursday, April 30, 2026 8:00-9:30pm EDT Online via Zoom 1.5 CEUs Available

This paper will present clinical material in the form of brief narratives and vignettes while posing difficult questions for the analytic community to consider.  I hope that listeners can consider some, if not most, of these questions on a personal professional level.  A key question is whether emotional and professional confraternization occurs within the analytic community.  Throughout this paper, when I use the term confratricide, I am referring to the emotional and professional killing off of colleagues, rather than literal physical killing.  What is our part when such problems occur within psychoanalytic centers, institutes, and larger organizations?  Do we participate by increasing splitting?  Do we address the difficulties at deeper levels, asking what causes the collegial splitting?  Do all members at the local, national, and international levels participate in confratricide in varying degrees?  Continue reading CFS “Cain is Killing Abel: Intergenerational Killing Fields” 4/30

Online Information Series 4/1: Understanding the Austen Riggs Center Treatment Approach  w/ Drs. Samar Habl & Jeremy Ridenour
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f you or anyone you know has ever had questions about the Austen Riggs Center’s residential treatment for adults, this free online series may be of interest:

Online Information Series: Understanding the Austen Riggs Center Treatment Approach When outpatient therapy, hospitalization, PHP, IOP, or residential treatment has not led to lasting change, determining the next step can be difficult.

Hosted by Director of Admissions and Associate Medical Director Samar Habl, MD, and Associate Director of Admissions and Director of Psychological Testing Jeremy Ridenour, PsyD, ABPP, this session will provide an overview of:
Who Riggs is best suited for
How our open setting differs from locked or highly structured programs
How we approach safety, responsibility, and relational treatment
The admissions and evaluation process
Upcoming session:

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 

5:00–5:50 PM Eastern Continue reading Online Information Series 4/1: Understanding the Austen Riggs Center Treatment Approach  w/ Drs. Samar Habl & Jeremy Ridenour

WCSPP Presents: Jung’s Perspective on The Psychology of Aging, Presented by Harry Fogarty Online
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The Academic Events Committee Presents: A Wrinkle In Time: A Series that will Consider both the Psychic Challenges and Opportunities for Generativity and Transformation in Later Stages of Life

Jung’s Perspective on The Psychology of Aging Presenter: Harry Fogarty, MDiv, PhD, LP  Moderator: Pamela Siemon, LCSW Live on Zoom! 2 CE Hours available for NY Practitioners – LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs, PHDs, PSYDs Wednesday, April 29, 2026 7 – 9 pm Admission including CE: $45 2 CE CREDITS AVAILABLE FOR NYS PRACTITIONERS

Dr. Fogarty will explore aging as it arises in clinical process from a Jungian perspective.  For Jung our experience of embodied psychic life is purposive, not simply an extension of reductive Continue reading WCSPP Presents: Jung’s Perspective on The Psychology of Aging, Presented by Harry Fogarty Online

THE HUNGRY SELF: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS  AND THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO BINGE EATING DISORDER PRESENTER: KARI OLSON online with MITPP
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The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy:  A CEU- APPROVED ONLINE WORKSHOP
THE HUNGRY SELF: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS  AND THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO BINGE EATING DISORDER PRESENTER: KARI OLSON, Ph.D., LCSW

Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the most recently recognized eating disorder, becoming a diagnosis in the DSM in 2013.  It is also the most common eating disorder. Psychoanalytic theorists have relatively recently begun to focus attention on BED, linking it to early trauma and Continue reading THE HUNGRY SELF: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS  AND THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO BINGE EATING DISORDER PRESENTER: KARI OLSON online with MITPP

INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: INDIVIDUALS AND COUPLES: ONLINE WITH MITPP
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The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A CEU-APPROVED ONLINE WORKSHOP

INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: INDIVIDUALS AND COUPLES
PRESENTERS: VIVIAN ESKIN, PH.D. and DEBRA GILL, LCSW

This seminar explores how trauma is transmitted across generations—not through direct narratives or biological mechanisms, but through silence, repetition, narcissistic identification Continue reading INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA IN CLINICAL PRACTICE: INDIVIDUALS AND COUPLES: ONLINE WITH MITPP