Annual Colloquium (Members Only Event)

George Washington University: Mt Vernon Campus Post Hall

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” and Tarpley Long, MSW presents "I Put a Spell on You"   Saturday, January 11, 2025 9:00 am – 12:00 pm ET In-Person […]

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 Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 Click Here to View the Program Flyer Registration Deadline: January 8, 2025 Description: Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the […]

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, fear, grief, anxiety or rage, we easily get overheated, defensive or shut down. We turn away, defeated, shamed or vengeful. At this moment […]

Psychoanalytic Takes on the Cinema: Discussion of the Film: “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On”

Via Zoom

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 friends. Date: January 31, 2025 Time: 4:00pm – 5:30pm Presenter: Jonathan Stillerman, PhD Where: Via Zoom Registration Link: Here Program Flyer: Here Registration Deadline: January 29, 2025 Presentation Description:  […]

2025 APsA National Meeting

2025 National Meeting, February 4 – 9, 2025 Palace Hotel, San Francisco Visit https://apsa.org/meetings-events/ for more information.

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 Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 Click Here to View the Program Flyer Registration Deadline: February 19, 2025 Description: Why do we pay so little attention to the role that the female […]

Psychoanalytic Takes on the Cinema: Discussion of the Film: “American Fiction”

(Hybrid) The Textile Museum and Via Zoom 701 21st St. NW, Washingon, DC, United States

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 acclaim while propelling him into hypocrisy. Date: February 27, 2025 Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm Presenter: Kathryn Marshall Woods, PsyD Where: (Hybrid Event) The Textile Museum 701 21st […]

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/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 Click Here to View the Program Flyer Registration Deadline: March 5, 2025 Description: The presentation "Women’s Lives in Transition: Novelists Amy Bloom and Lisa Gornick In Conversation" provides a unique opportunity for […]

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 moved you? We’d love to hear your suggestions! Whether it’s a classic, an indie gem, or a recent release, your […]

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 moved you? We’d love to hear your suggestions! Whether it’s a classic, an indie gem, or a recent release, your […]

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/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025 Click Here to View the Program Flyer Registration Deadline: April 9, 2025 Description: Juliet Mitchell will reflect on her iconic book, “Women “Women: The longest revolution,” considering the ongoing changes in […]

Book Talk: Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens

Via Zoom

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: April 23, 2025 Description:  Black Film Through a Psychodynamic Lens delves into the nuanced character development and narrative themes within the struggles and successes presented […]

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 pregnancy and early motherhood can constrain our recognition of the potential for depression, loss, trauma, and breakdown that disrupt this topsy-turvy time of life.  This weekend will explore […]

2025 APsA 113th Annual Meeting

APsA 113th Annual Meeting June 7th - June 9th, 2025 Virtual Visit https://apsa.org/meetings-events/ for more information.

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 and changing much about our ways of life. How do we register the magnitude of these losses? When we lose individuals, […]

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 we find footing while swimming in space and the extraordinary efforts we make to connect with these initially mystifying people is what this weekend will address. […]

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