2024

Friday, April 12, 2024 - 2:00pm-4:30pm PST, The Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute Presents: Speaking Relationally:
From Interpretation to Complex Dialogue with Dr. Roy Barsness (2.5 CEUs) A Virtual Seminar

The course will focus on speaking to the analyst’s experience of their patients, the links and patterns that are emerging, the replications that are occurring and the working through and negotiating of the inevitable impasses and enactments that occur when the therapist chooses to enter into dialogue with their patients. The course will wrestle with the risks of relational speech as it considers courageous speech alongside disciplined spontaneity. It will address the need for the analyst’s radical openness of their own affective and unconscious states as the major artery to the patient’s own states of being. The course will address the art of metabolization and encourage the therapist to risk their thoughts, affects and experience on behalf of the patient entering into complex dialogue beyond the safety of transference and transference resistance interpretations.

Learn More and Register Today: https://www.psychodynamicinstitute.com/events

Saturday, April 20, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Eastern Standard time, Online Via Zoom, MITPP Workshop 4/20/24 Dr. Arnold Richards UNORTHODOX: MY LIFE IN AND OUTSIDE PSYCHOANALYSIS, A MEMOIR
Presenter: Arnold D. Richards, M.D.

This memoir describes the relationship between Richards' personal life and professional life inside and outside of psychoanalysis. The influence of his Russian Jewish father, an early Bolshevik who emigrated to America in the 1920s, contributed to his efforts for fairness and inclusion in psychoanalytic training. His independent and original psychoanalytic writings span Contemporary Freudian Conflict Theory, more recent theoretical developments, analysis of psychoanalytic institutions and their histories, and the development of the thought collectives that make up psychoanalysis. His life and its events are a fascinating look at an analyst's self-identity and prolific professional life.

For more information and to register: https://www.mitpp.org/events/

Friday, May 3,2024 - 2:00pm-4:30pm PST, The Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute Presents: Race, Culture, and the Therapeutic Relationship Amidst Social and Political Turmoil with Dr. Usha Tummala-Narra (2.5 CEUs) A Virtual Seminar
Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Director of Community-Based Education at the Albert and Jessie Danielsen Institute at Boston University. Her research and scholarship focus on immigration, trauma, race, and culturally-informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Her publications include over 90 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books. Recent research has explored the experience of and responses to sexual violence among racial minority immigrant communities, and the experience of racism and related stress faced by Asian Americans. Dr. Tummala-Narra is also engaged in theoretical and clinical scholarship examining sociocultural issues in psychotherapy from a psychodynamic perspective.

Learn More and Register Today: https://www.psychodynamicinstitute.com/events/ushatummalanarra-raceculture

Friday, May 10, 2024 - 8:30am-9:30am PST, Join us Online! The Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute Presents: An Informational Coffee Hour on the Relational Psychodynamic Therapy Post-Graduate Certificate Discussion

This free, online coffee hour will give you the chance to hear more about the foundations and curriculum of this two-year training program. You’ll have the opportunity to ask your own questions to the team including Dr. Roy Barsness, the Founder of the program, and the trainers Mandy Casurella, Clarissa Hill and Chris Roberts. This is meant to be an informal and interactive way to learn more about the certificate.

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October 17 - 19, 2024 IFPE’s 34th Interdisciplinary Conference: Friends, Enemies, Allies, Suspects. Mayflower Park Hotel, Seattle, Washington.