Mental health professionals are increasingly challenged by the accelerating adoption of Artificial Intelligence. The rapid pace of development as this technology races to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) means that professional best practices lag behind both the challenges and opportunities that…
Three senior analysts will share anecdotes from their illustrious careers. In describing their training, they will make recommendations for future psychoanalytic training. While looking back over their careers, they will comment on the changes that have come about in our…
This panel will illustrate a psychoanalytic response to the politics of the day. One panelist will describe how two immigrant analysts responded to political upheaval in America. A second will describe the response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980’s…
The Ralph Roughton Award is given to an unpublished manuscript that makes an original and outstanding contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding and or treatment of LGBTQ* people. This 2025 Roughton award winning paper brings into focus the similar ways in…
As independent psychoanalysts from the British Society, the presenters feel a distinctive identity and aim to articulate the important aspects of their theory and clinical technique and its roots. They have developed their way of working drawing on the contributions…
This 10-week virtual seminar will focus on critical concepts in systems psychodynamics and field theory such as the social unconscious, projective identification, splitting, social defenses, complex identities, and intersubjective processes. Widening our conceptual lens so that we can think of…
Underrecognized now, but yet in the early half of the twentieth century, these analysts made revolutionary contributions to socio-cultural theory in psychoanalysis and advanced efforts toward advocating societal reforms. Their seminal writing on psychiatric education, institute training models, community mental…
The Holmes Report reminds us that the basis of racism, what it flourishes on is the stance of “we and they”. This impacts almost all aspects of the organizational identity and structure, and there are thin margins from everyday microaggressions…
In an era that is increasingly conscious of race and diversity, analysts and therapists are seeking to identify their own biases in understanding other cultures. Freud (depth psychology) and Gandhi (psychosocial/mutual understanding) will be contrasted and explored in the context…
In 1974, Ernest Becker was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for “The Denial of Death”. Fifty years later, we will highlight its keen interdisciplinary contributions and theories it has spawned (Terror Management Theory) in synthesizing ideas from philosophy, anthropology, and religion,…
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