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Technological Confusion: Demands Placed on the Ego By the Transition Between Reality and Virtual Reality Presenter: Bradley Murray Art Credits: Joaquín Sorolla  |  Reflections in a Pond  |  1918, Spain  |  Oil on canvas Rapidly advancing virtual reality technology makes this a confusing time for many. Patients may present as “addicted” to online games and […]

Writing Words That Touch: Tuning Our Psychoanalytic Voice I don’t know what I think until I write it down. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means, What I want and what I fear.– Joan Didion Touch me, astonish me, tear me to […]

Writing Words That Touch: Tuning Our Psychoanalytic Voice | 2024 I don’t know what I think until I write it down. I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means, What I want and what I fear.– Joan Didion Touch me, astonish me, tear […]

Ethics II: Ethical Issues In Clinical Supervision with Janine Wanlass, Ph.D. Photo Art credits: Artist: Richard M. Markus  |  Reach 2022 | Digital Image Lens, 16 mm 1/25 sec at f/7.1 ISO 100  Psychoanalytic supervision is a complex process, particularly when it takes place in an analytic training program within an analytic institution.  Ethical dilemmas […]

Intuition and The Ineffable: Listening in Body All journeys have secret dimensions of which the traveler is unaware.– Martin Buber Listen to me as one listens to the rain,Not attentive, not distracted,Light footsteps, thin drizzle, Water that is air, air that is time… Listen to me as one listens to the rain,Without listening, hear what […]

Psychoanalytic Basics … and Beyond The Course Committee of the Western Branch CPS is very pleased to announce a seminar series of 8 sessions to introduce basic psychoanalytic concepts and how they are used in everyday clinical practice. An historical survey from Freud to contemporary contributors will look at the epistemology of psychoanalytic ideas. The […]

“Confidentiality, Consent, and Moral Fallibility” with Bradford Cokelet, Ph.D. In this ethics training seminar, we will cover three main issues: confidentiality, consent, and moral improvement.  For confidentiality and consent, the instructor will begin by summarizing the typical standards and practices that apply in non-therapeutic medical settings.  We will then transition to group discussion about how […]

“Wayfinding in the underland of gender.” With Guest Speaker: Dr. Oren Gozlan Art credits: “Untitled” by Wallace Keck  |  photograph This presentation draws upon Robert MacFarlane’s (2021) notion of storytelling as the human’s mechanism for “wayfinding” and his concept of “deep time” to consider our stake in orienting ourselves within non-normative gender formations. My purpose […]

WBCPS 2022 ASM :  At the Frontier of Psychoanalytic Oneness: On Working analytically in the Throes of the Unthinkable Featured Speaker Dr. Ofra Eshel Dr. Eshel believes that contemporary psychoanalytic approaches can extend the reach of psychoanalytic treatment to more and the most disturbed patients, to more deeply disturbed aspects of all patients’ personalities and […]

WBCPS 2022 Quarterly Scientific Meeting #1:  How do we as psychoanalytic couple psychotherapists hold a place for the creative, aesthetic, and non-realistic qualities of experience as we also help couples develop capacities for mature, differentiated object relating? What are the technical implications that these considerations suggest? Building upon foundational Kleinian concepts regarding psychoanalytic work with […]