Public Programs &
Professional Development
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Welcome to a vibrant source of education and community for individuals interested in psychoanalysis as a therapeutic model and as a lens for viewing individuals, culture, and society, along with stimulating conversation.
WBCP’s public programs include an array of high-caliber scientific meetings, case conferences, continuing education opportunities, and a unique 3-year writing program, as well as programs that highlight the arts, including two annual film festivals.
Continuing Education Units are not issued for partial attendance of one day programs.
Calendar
January
Saturday, January 11, 2025 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Annual Colloquium (Members Only Event)
Please join us as Mekdes Asha Hope, PsyD presents “The Faces of Power: The Role of Language, Fairness, Choice, and Responsibility During the Course of Training and in the Clinical Consulting Room…
Saturday, January 11, 2025 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
COWAP: “Women, The Longest Revolution”: Session 4: Women as Caregivers Through Their Lifespan
Session 4: Women’s Role as Caregivers Through Their Lifespan Panel: Jessica Benjamin in conversation with Erika Lepiavka and Tracy Sidesinger Date: January 11, 2025 Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET Regi…
Friday, January 31, 2025 | 8:00 am – Sunday, February 2, 2025 | 5:00 pm
New Directions: Can We Talk?
Weekend Conference This weekend will explore the obstacles that stand in our way when we try to talk together about difficult topics. When strong pent-up emotions rise to the surface, whether anger, f…
Friday, January 31, 2025 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Psychoanalytic Takes on the Cinema: Discussion of the Film: “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”
2021 (89 mins) Directors: Dean Fleischer Camp A documentary maker struggling with finances decides to make to make his newest documentary about a mollusk shell he finds living in his Airbnb with his …
February
Tuesday, February 4, 2025 | 8:00 am – Sunday, February 9, 2025 | 5:00 pm
2025 APsA National Meeting
2025 National Meeting, February 4 – 9, 2025 Palace Hotel, San Francisco Visit https://apsa.org/meetings-events/ for more information.
Saturday, February 22, 2025 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
COWAP: “Women, The Longest Revolution”: Session 5: Material Body
Session 5: The Female Body: Passion and Peril Participants: Rosemary H. Balsam, MD, Rachel Boué-Widawsky, PhD, Jeri Isaacson, PhD, Chair Date: February 22, 2025 Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET Reg…
Thursday, February 27, 2025 | 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Psychoanalytic Takes on the Cinema: Discussion of the Film: “American Fiction”
2023 (117 mins) Directors: Dean Fleischer Camp A novelist disheartened by the literary industry profiting from the use of Black authors and narratives uses a pen name to craft a story that earns him…
March
Saturday, March 8, 2025 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
COWAP: “Women, The Longest Revolution”: Session 6: Women and Literature
“Women’s Lives in Transition: Novelists Amy Bloom and Lisa Gornick in Conversation” Date: March 8, 2025 Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registr…
April
Friday, April 4, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Baltimore Leon Levin Film Festival
WBCP is excited to announce the return of the Baltimore Leon Levin Film Festival! The program committee is currently welcoming new members and is also seeking a discussant. Do you have a film that has…
Friday, April 11, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Baltimore Leon Levin Film Festival
WBCP is excited to announce the return of the Baltimore Leon Levin Film Festival! The program committee is currently welcoming new members and is also seeking a discussant. Do you have a film that has…
Saturday, April 12, 2025 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
COWAP: “Women, The Longest Revolution”: Session 7: Juliet Mitchell
Session 7: Conversation with Juliet Mitchell Juliet Mitchell, Margarita Cereijido, and Jill Gentile Date: April 12, 2025 Time: 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net…
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Book Talk: Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens
Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens Presented by: Katherine Marshall Woods Date: April 26, 2025 Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am Where: Via Zoom Registration Link: Program Flyer: Registration Deadline:…
May
Friday, May 2, 2025 | 8:00 am – Sunday, May 4, 2025 | 5:00 pm
New Directions: Maternity And Its Upheavals
Weekend Conference Maternity — from pregnancy, to childbirth, to parenting a newborn introduces psychic dislocation and strain in the mother and upheaval in the couple. Idealizations of pregnanc…
June
Saturday, June 7, 2025 | 8:00 am – Monday, June 9, 2025 | 5:00 pm
2025 APsA 113th Annual Meeting
APsA 113th Annual Meeting June 7th – June 9th, 2025 Virtual Visit https://apsa.org/meetings-events/ for more information.
Saturday, June 14, 2025 | 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
2025 WBCP Graduation and Awards Ceremony
SAVE THE DATE 2025 Annual Graduation and Awards Ceremony Date: June 14, 2024 Time: TBA Where: TBA
October
Friday, October 31, 2025 | 8:00 am – Sunday, November 2, 2025 | 5:00 pm
New Directions: The Poetics of Mourning: Eulogy, Elegy, Epic, Epitaph
Weekend Conference We are living in a time of great dying. Climate change is drying up our water and destroying vulnerable species; a pandemic is claiming the lives of over a million people worldwide …
February
Friday, February 6, 2026 | 8:00 am – Sunday, February 8, 2026 | 5:00 pm
New Directions: Swimming In Space: Strange Conversations In The Therapeutic Dyad
Weekend Conference What happens in the therapeutic dyad when regular reciprocal conversations are not possible, when our patients communicate with us in strange and at times incomprehensible ways? How…