Scientific Conferences

"Puberty as Threshold: Psychoanalytic Considerations Regarding Hormone Blocking and Cross-Sex Hormones in Work with Transgender Children" Presenter: Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD Registration Closes 10/19/22 Sunday, October 23, 2022   1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Presentation and Discussion Via Zoom (closed captions available) 3 CME/CEs (meets LGBTQI+ Cultural Competence and Diversities CME/CE requirements) REGISTER: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration-lgbtqi-conference   […]

Communication and Transformation in Infancy and Psychotherapy: Psychic Structure, Interaction and the Non-verbal Unconscious 8:00 - 9:30 PM ET via Zoom 1.5 CME/CE   Register Here: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration-2022-raphling Registration Deadline: Wednesday, November 2, 2022   Presenter: Stephen Seligman, DMH Stephen Seligman is Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of […]

The keynote speakers will be Dr. Christine Courtois and Carrie T. Ishee, LPCC and the discussant will be our own Dr. Richard Waugaman.  In keeping with Dr. Courtois' new book, Sexual Boundary Violations in Psychotherapy, she will be exploring various ethical considerations associated with sexual boundary transgressions made by therapists. The #MeToo movement, documenting sexual […]

with Lisa Baraitser This “conversation” will focus on Lisa Baraitser’s understanding of a ‘maternal death drive’. This supplements Freud’s death drive by accounting for the temporality of repetition that retains a relation to the future but remains distinct from a life drive. Maternity, and many other forms of care work that are traditionally assigned to […]

Presented by: Sally Weintrobe in conversation with Wendy Hollway Moderated by Lynne Zeavin Sally Weintrobe (UK) will discuss various elements of the environmental crisis, and the question of the future; Our survival depends upon care being sufficiently strong to hold uncare in check. Care requires a culture of care. Neoliberalism’s culture of uncare has waged […]

with Sandy Hershberg Mothering her child with Moebius Syndrome, congenital facial paralysis, in which the face appears visibly different from birth, sets the stage for Sandy Hershberg’s experience of mothering in which her sense of herself and sense of unfamiliarity within herself is intensified by the “the uncanny gaze” of others on her child, thus heightening […]

The Captive Maternal and Carceral Capitalism Joy James in conversation with Jackie Wang Moderated by Hannah Zeavin Date: April 22, 2023 Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm We live in a moment where the rights of incarcerated parents are once more increasingly contested. This insidious logic—that to produce stability, children must be torn from their […]

with Andrea Celenza The analyst’s vitalizing activity, as reflected in the analyst’s invitation to be, in the offer to take in the analyst as an object of love, to receive what the analyst transmits, and the taking in of other components implicit through nonverbal means (through gaze and displaced touch) are all components of a healthy analytic process. These are all aspects of healthy maternal eroticism as well. […]

Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 7:30pm - 9:00pm ET Discussants: Reverend Magora Kennedy and Patrick Sammon Via Zoom Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/cured_registration REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Friday, June 9, 2023 For a complete list of dates, presenters, learning objectives, and detailed CME/CE information see flyer on the registration page. Registration Fees: Registration Fees: (No CE’s) WBCP members $20 […]

with Ann Pellegrini and Tiffany Lethbo King In much of psychoanalytic theory, the maternal is intimately tied up in, and is understood to be, the grounds of sexual difference, if not gender. But following from approaches in feminist, queer, trans, and Black Study, the maternal can be understood to have no gender. In this presentation, […]

"From Silenced Narratives to Inclusive Dialogues: Addressing Sexuality in Psychoanalysis and Empowering Transgender and Non-Binary Individuals" Date: Sunday, September 10, 2023 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET Presenter: Susan C. Vaughan, MD Discussant: Jeffrey S, Akman, MD Presentation and Discussion Via Zoom Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_lgbtq_sept_10_2023-2024 REGISTRATION DEADLINE: September 6, 2023 For a complete list of dates, presenters, […]

Date: Saturday, January 20, 2024 9:00am - 12:30pm ET Katrin Haller, MSW Presents Remembrance: Theater Memory as a Perpetrator View And Jamie Steele, LMFT Presents Consciousness Raising: Social Justice as Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis as Social Justice In-Person Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Rockville 100 Welsh Park Rd. Rockville, MD 20850 This event will be held In-Person. There […]

COWAP Film North America Please Join Us as  Discussants: Oren Gozlan and Willa France  Present Discussion of the film  “A Fantastic Woman” (2017) Directed by: Sebastián Lelio Written by: Sebastián Lelio Gonzalo Maza Eliseo Altunaga Friday, January 26, 2024 TIME: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm ET, Presentation and Discussion Via Zoom Participants should view the […]

Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges in Psychoanalysis: Community Psychoanalysis into the Future Date: Saturday, March 16, 2024 11:00 am - 5: 30 pm Sunday, March 17, 2024 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Presenters: Francisco J.González, MD; Kimberlyn Leary; PhD, ABPP; Daniel Gaztambide, PsyD, Paula Christian-Kliger, PhD, ABPP Via Zoom & In-Person Registration is Closed LIVE REGISTRATION […]

Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges in Psychoanalysis: Community Psychoanalysis into the Future Date: Saturday, March 16, 2024 11:00 am - 5: 30 pm Sunday, March 17, 2024 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Presenters: Francisco J.González, MD; Kimberlyn Leary; PhD, ABPP; Daniel Gaztambide, PsyD, Paula Christian-Kliger, PhD, ABPP Via Zoom & In-Person Registration is Closed LIVE REGISTRATION […]

The Observational Studies Program Open House: Seeing the Unseen in Clinical Work Learn more about how our program sharpens clinical skills with any age group or population. 10:00am - 12:00pm In-Person Event Location: The Colonnade Condominium 2801 New Mexico Ave NW Washington, DC 20007 Lobby Floor Party Room Street parking is available on Fulton Street, Tunlaw Road […]

Don Moss, MD Lecture: Encountering Representations of Evil Presenter: Don Moss, MD Time: 10:30 am - 12: 00 pm Date: May 18, 2024 This will be an in-person event. There will be no zoom option. Program Description: Evil is grounded in an effort to correct the errors of Creation-- to define, categorize and eliminate what it designates […]

Session 1: The Female Psychoanalyst’s Longest Revolution Participants: Virginia Ungar, Margarita Valladares, and Margarita Cereijido, Chair Date: September 14, 2024 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: September 12, 2024 Description: Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades and this is reflected […]

Racial Rage, Racial Guilt: The Uses of Anger in Asian America Presenter: David Eng Date: October 6, 2024 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm In-Person Presentation Post Hall  George Washington University Mt. Vernon Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/reg_raphling_10-6-24 Program Flyer: HERE Registration Deadline: October 2, 2024 Description: Asian Americans are conventionally described as “middle-man minorities,” outside of […]

Date: October 20, 2024 Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm Presenter: Sam Guzzardi, LCSW "Holding Laplanche Lightly: The Story of Two Queer Treatments" Via Zoom Registration Link: https://wbcp.memberclicks.net/registration_lgbtq_workshop_oct_20_2024 Program Flyer: HERE Registration Deadline: October 10, 2024 Presentation Description: As psychoanalysis seeks to find new frontiers both for clinical work and engagement with the social, the work of Jean Laplanche is […]

Session 2: What Ever Happened to Romance on the Revolutionary Road? Participants: Janice Lieberman, Chair, Danielle Knafo, Arlene Heyman, and Isaac Tylim Date: October 26, 2024 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: October 23, 2024 Description: It has been observed by many that there seems to be an absence of […]

Session 3: In Her Own Voice: Challenging Theories of Women’s Development Participants: Nancy Kulish and Catherine Mallouh Date: December 14, 2024 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: December 11, 2024 Description: Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades and this is reflected […]