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Dreaming the Future – Plenary Speakers – Nov 2025 (AAPCSW/NIPER)


November 6-9, 2025
Austin, TX
 Omni Austin Hotel Downtown
700 San Jacinto Street, Austin, TX 78701

As we move through unprecedented individual and collective pressures, our human capacity also allows us to experience joy amidst the turmoil.  We can dream the future and feel, think, imagine, and even behave in different ways. Join us at this conference to examine how to go forward, applying multiple psychodynamic perspectives to what we are facing in the consulting room, in the broader world, and in ourselves – in the darkness and in the light.Dear Colleague,

We are delighted to announce the 3 plenary speakers and their presentations at the AAPCSW (NIPER) 2025 conference.Performing Empathy: How AI May Be Transforming Us and What It Means for Therapeutic Practice
Ricardo Ainslie, PhD

Never Look Away: Uvalde, American Patriarchy, and the Slaughter of Innocents
Carolyn M. Bates, PhD

Systemic Re-Transmission of Trauma: Defending Against the Lost and Found
Felecia Powell-Williams, EdD, LPC-S, RPT-S, FABP Here is the link detailing their presentations:
https://www.aapcsw.org/pdf/events/2025/Plenary-Program-AAPCSW-NIPER_Conference2025.pdf  The link for reservations at the Omni Austin Hotel downtown is:
https://bookings.omnihotels.com/event/austin-downtown/niper-aapcsw-2025-meeting

We are pleased to inform you that the 2025 Conference REGISTRATION FORMS (both online and mail-in) and conference information are posted on our website:

Conference 2015 – registration link
https://www.aapcsw.org/events/conference/online_registration.html

Link to Conference 2025:
https://www.aapcsw.org/events/conference/

There are also links to the Program, Biographies, Hotel Reservations, Restaurants, and Music Venues. Please note on the program schedule the social events, including the Austin Walking Tour and Meet Up on Thursday, November 6, the Reception at the hotel on Friday evening, November 7, and the Luncheon at the hotel on Saturday, November 8.

We look forward to your participation and welcoming you to an exciting and rich conference program.

Sincerely,
The AAPCSW/NIPER conference committee

Registration Contact information:
Larry Schwartz at: aapcsw@gmail.com

* Sponsored by the National Institute for Psychoanalytic Education & Research in Clinical Social Work, Inc. (NIPER), 501c3 educational arm of the American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW).
 
Note: Houston Psychoanalytic Society is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Houston Psychoanalytic Society maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

The Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago is approved to offer continuing education for this program. Cosponsored by the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center (PPSC).

Contact Info:
The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW)
P.O. Box 67, Boonsboro, MD 21713
(301) 799-5120
barbara.matos@aapcsw.org

* Conference sponsored by National Institute for Psychoanalytic Education & Research in Clinical Social Work, Inc. (NIPER)
Contact Info:The American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW)P.O. Box 67, Boonsboro, MD 21713(301) 799-5120barbara.matos@aapcsw.org