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Senior Analysts Reflect on the Field

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…

How Did Psychoanalysts Respond to the Politics of Their Day?

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…

Neuroqueering the Psychoanalytic Lens

The Ralph Roughton Award is given to an unpublished manuscript that makes an original and outstanding contribution to the psychoanalytic understanding and or treatment of LGBTQ* people.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…

Association of Medicine and Psychiatry (AMP) Webinar Series

The Association of Medicine & Psychiatry (AMP) hosts a monthly webinar series that serves as a platform for dual trained psychiatrists to discuss the intersection of medicine and psychiatry. These webinars cover a range of topics relevant to both fields,…

The Unremembered Contributions of Drs. William Alanson White, Harry Stack Sullivan, and Clara Thompson: Social Reformers and Clinical Innovators

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…

Dialogues With Holmes Report – Racism as a Central Definer Of Culture

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…

Freud, Gandhi, and South Asia: Historical, Philosophical and Clinical Perspectives

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…