Category: EVENTS

SEEKING ASYLUM – TWICE AS LIKELY with MITPP
By Categories: EVENTS, Politics, Psychoanalysis

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 
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

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
By Categories: EVENTS

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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
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

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

Summer Symposium: Reimagining Engagement at Psychoanalytic Institutions at APsA
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

 

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