Institute, Society, and Foundation Events
2025 - 2026 Society Meeting Schedule
SOCIETY MEETINGS:
Saturday September 27th, 2025 11am-1pm CT via Zoom
Dr. Martha Stark, MD - CONFLICT STATEMENTS: Leveraging the Patient's Anxiety to Incentivize Transformation and Growth.
Dr. Stark takes a deep dive into the unspoken dynamics of neurotic conflict, namely, the tension between defiance and compliance. She proposes an optimally stressful, growth promoting "conflict statement" as an intervention that targets both sides of the patient's ambivalence. RSVP
Saturday October 25th, 2025 11am-1pm CT via Zoom
Nancy Kulish, PhD - Case of Infantile Trauma and Resilience
A woman analytic patient's early severe neglect come alive through bodily experiences on the couch. The treatment raises technical questions about recovery and reconstruction of early nonverbal memories as well as questions about psychoanalytic ideas of development and resiliency in a high functioning patient. RSVP
Saturday November 15th, 2025 11am-1pm CT via Zoom
Stephen Seligman, MD - Holding and Containing: The Metaphor of the Baby in Winnicott, Bion, and Klein
We often used the ideas of holding and containing to describe our clinical work with patients. What do we mean when we used these ideas? Winnicott and Bion developed distinctive images of infancy and the infantile from Melanie Klein's object relations. For Winnicott, holding conveyed a more mutual and harmonious arrangement while Bion's concept of containment implied something potentially disruptive to contain. Dr. Seligman explores the theoretical and clinical implications of these differences. RSVP
Saturday January 17th, 2026 11am-1pm CT via Zoom
Leon Hoffman, MD - Addressing Defenses: A Core Mechanism of Change in Psychodynamic Treatments
The papers presented to the Society have frequently focused on interpreting what a patient says or does. Dr Hoffman directs our attention to the process of addressing patient defenses. He will discuss the importance of observing and appropriately addressing how patients manage painful affects in the moment. This type of experience-near intervention focusing on defenses in the moment minimizes addressing issues far from the patient's consciousness and requiring conjecture by the therapist. Dr. Hoffman will describe the use of this technique developed for work with children and that has broader applications.. RSVP
Saturday March 7th, 2026 11am-1pm CT via Zoom
Michelle Harwell, PsyD, MFT. - When We Are Undone: Exploring Moments of Vulnerability, Surrender, and Creative Transformation Within the Analyst
What happens within a treatment when an analyst is overcome by her own primal pain, memory, and even trauma? Dr. Harwell offers a deeply personal look at the interiority of the analyst as she navigates the impossible entanglement of two traumas, her patient Lacy's and her own. Doors are opened within herself -ones she much preferred to keep closed - in the service of understanding Lacy and inevitably herself. Healing comes in spontaneous and ingenious ways by moving deeper into the traumas. RSVP
Saturday April 18th, 2026 11am-1pm CT via Zoom
Anthony Bass, PhD - Unconscious Communication Between Therapist and Patient: The Ordinary Uncanniness of Everyday Psychoanalytic Life - Back to the Future of Psychoanalysis
Dr. Bass considers uncanniness from two vantage points. The first is Freud's concept of the uncanny as an intrapsychic one-person phenomenon and familiar feeling as the unconscious becomes manifest in an individual. Dr. Bass then then looks at the special evocative power of two unconsciouses at play in the two-person field of an intersubjective or interpersonal therapy. Examples of both kinds of "uncanny" are considered both in and outside of the therapy experience. RSVP
Saturday September 27th, 2025 11am-1pm CT via Zoom
Dr. Martha Stark, MD - CONFLICT STATEMENTS: Leveraging the Patient's Anxiety to Incentivize Transformation and Growth.
Dr. Stark takes a deep dive into the unspoken dynamics of neurotic conflict, namely, the tension between defiance and compliance. She proposes an optimally stressful, growth promoting "conflict statement" as an intervention that targets both sides of the patient's ambivalence. RSVP
Saturday October 25th, 2025 11am-1pm CT via Zoom
Nancy Kulish, PhD - Case of Infantile Trauma and Resilience
A woman analytic patient's early severe neglect come alive through bodily experiences on the couch. The treatment raises technical questions about recovery and reconstruction of early nonverbal memories as well as questions about psychoanalytic ideas of development and resiliency in a high functioning patient. RSVP
Saturday November 15th, 2025 11am-1pm CT via Zoom
Stephen Seligman, MD - Holding and Containing: The Metaphor of the Baby in Winnicott, Bion, and Klein
We often used the ideas of holding and containing to describe our clinical work with patients. What do we mean when we used these ideas? Winnicott and Bion developed distinctive images of infancy and the infantile from Melanie Klein's object relations. For Winnicott, holding conveyed a more mutual and harmonious arrangement while Bion's concept of containment implied something potentially disruptive to contain. Dr. Seligman explores the theoretical and clinical implications of these differences. RSVP
Saturday January 17th, 2026 11am-1pm CT via Zoom
Leon Hoffman, MD - Addressing Defenses: A Core Mechanism of Change in Psychodynamic Treatments
The papers presented to the Society have frequently focused on interpreting what a patient says or does. Dr Hoffman directs our attention to the process of addressing patient defenses. He will discuss the importance of observing and appropriately addressing how patients manage painful affects in the moment. This type of experience-near intervention focusing on defenses in the moment minimizes addressing issues far from the patient's consciousness and requiring conjecture by the therapist. Dr. Hoffman will describe the use of this technique developed for work with children and that has broader applications.. RSVP
Saturday March 7th, 2026 11am-1pm CT via Zoom
Michelle Harwell, PsyD, MFT. - When We Are Undone: Exploring Moments of Vulnerability, Surrender, and Creative Transformation Within the Analyst
What happens within a treatment when an analyst is overcome by her own primal pain, memory, and even trauma? Dr. Harwell offers a deeply personal look at the interiority of the analyst as she navigates the impossible entanglement of two traumas, her patient Lacy's and her own. Doors are opened within herself -ones she much preferred to keep closed - in the service of understanding Lacy and inevitably herself. Healing comes in spontaneous and ingenious ways by moving deeper into the traumas. RSVP
Saturday April 18th, 2026 11am-1pm CT via Zoom
Anthony Bass, PhD - Unconscious Communication Between Therapist and Patient: The Ordinary Uncanniness of Everyday Psychoanalytic Life - Back to the Future of Psychoanalysis
Dr. Bass considers uncanniness from two vantage points. The first is Freud's concept of the uncanny as an intrapsychic one-person phenomenon and familiar feeling as the unconscious becomes manifest in an individual. Dr. Bass then then looks at the special evocative power of two unconsciouses at play in the two-person field of an intersubjective or interpersonal therapy. Examples of both kinds of "uncanny" are considered both in and outside of the therapy experience. RSVP
***Open to the Public***
Meetings are free for everyone
CE's are $35 for non-Society members
All meetings are held via Zoom
Meetings are free for everyone
CE's are $35 for non-Society members
All meetings are held via Zoom
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.