Click Here to Read: A Call for Action as DHS Invades Protesters’ Privacy: Denial, Disavowal, and Distraction Tamper Reaction to DHS’s Intrusiveness (Vol. 6; Issue 7) by Alan Michael Karbelnig, PhD on his Journeys into the Unconscious Mind Newsletter on February 18, 2026.
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“Time is A Mother (and a Father): A Conversation about Oedipus” Sunday, February 22, 2026
10:00am – 11:30am EST Online via Zoom
Please join us for an exciting conversation about time, timelessness and identity in the context of Oedipus, based on the brilliant Broadway production by Olivier award-winning director Robert Icke. Joining Mr. Icke will be psychoanalysts Stephen Grosz (whose new book Love’s Continue reading “Time is A Mother (and a Father): A Conversation about Oedipus” at CFS
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OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION: FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING” THE CASE OF A NARCISSISTIC PATIENT: MORE COMPLICATED THAN AT FIRST GLANCE SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2026 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM
A rich, 3 year-long treatment of a highly intelligent, charismatic and articulate 45 year old man, Continue reading THE CASE OF A NARCISSISTIC PATIENT: MORE COMPLICATED THAN AT FIRST GLANCE at MITPP
PSYCHOANALYTIC BROOKLYN
“When a Child is Pulled from Therapy – An Elegy”
Presenters:
Barbara Sabbeth, PhD, Christopher Kido, LCSW and
Holly Johnston, PhD
Friday, March 6, 2026
2:00-3:30pm
Online via Zoom
1.5 CEUs Available
This panel discussion explores the impact of losing child patients. Discussion follows exploring the impact of these unique losses on the clinician and its counter transference and clinical reactions will be explored.
Barbara Sabbeth, PhD is a supervising and training analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Continue reading “When a Child is Pulled from Therapy – An Elegy” with CFS Brooklyn
Click Here to Read: Jacob Elordi, Heathcliff and the Controversy Over ‘Wuthering Heights’ The character’s racial identity is at the heart of accusations that the film’s casting is “whitewashing.” But what does the original novel really say? By Esther Zuckerman in The New York TImes on February 13, 2026.
Click Here To Read: “If you’re going to show us two freaks in love, show us two freaks in love” A “Wuthering Heights” roundtable with Elissa Suh, Radhika Jones, and Eliza Brooke on the Substack Post on February 16, 2026.
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THE SILENT PATIENT AND THE USE OF SILENCE IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY
PRESENTER: VERDA TUZER, MD, LP
Although psychoanalytic psychotherapy is grounded in dialogue, careful attention is focused on what unfolds beyond words. Silence is not simply the absence of speech but an integral form of communication that shapes the emotional field between patient and therapist. Tone, rhythm, pauses, bodily presence, and the atmosphere of the session all carry meaning. Silence may emerge as a moment of reflection, follow a therapist’s intervention, signal agreement or disagreement, or accompany tension and distress when experience feels difficult to articulate. Continue reading THE SILENT PATIENT AND THE USE OF SILENCE IN PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY WITH VERDA TUZER, MD, LP AT MITPP
