Scientific Conferences
Multiple topics, perspectives, and organizations.
About
We host conferences each year for WBCP members and interested clinicians, with CME/CE credits available. We also collaborate with other organizations to co-sponsor events.
Events are scheduled throughout the year, focusing on: Cultural Competency, hosted by COWAP to increase a clinician’s competency within various cultural topics; A variety of issues within the LGBTQ communities are presented at the LGBTQ Conference; Ethics Conferences discuss various issues around ethics from a psychoanalytic viewpoint; Restricted to members of WBCP, Colloquium presents original papers by members of the WBCP community; The Raphling Conference presents various topics within psychoanalytic technique; Community Psychoanalysis Colloquium considers topics related to community psychoanalysis.
Continuing Education Units are not issued for partial attendance of one day programs
Contact
For more information about the Scientific Conferences please contact Archana Varma Caballeo, MD at archana@archanavarmamd.com.
Upcoming
April
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/registration_cowap_women_revolution_2024-2025
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Registration Deadline: April 9, 2025
Description: Juliet Mitchell will reflect on her iconic book, “Women “Women: The longest revolution,” considering the ongoing changes in different feminine scenarios in conversation with Margarita Cereijido and Jill Gentile. Notions of woman and the feminine have changed dramatically over the last decades and this is reflected in how women perceive themselves, how they are perceived by society, and how they are understood from a psychoanalytic perspective. Inspired by the title of her book, Juliet Mitchell will reflect on the impact of feminism, and the ongoing changes in different feminine scenarios. The audience will reflect with the presenters about how our thinking has changed.
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 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 in
Black films over the last five decades.
In this pioneering book, Katherine Marshall Woods looks at Black cinema from a
psychological and psychoanalytic perspective. Focusing on a decade at a time, she
charts the development of representation and creative output from the 1980s to the
present day. She deftly moves from analyzing depictions of poverty and triumphs to
highlighting the importance of cinema in shaping cultural identity while considering
racial prejudice and discrimination. Adopting theoretical viewpoints from Freud to bell
hooks, Marshall Woods examines the damaging effect on cultural psychology as a
result of stereotypical racial tropes, and expertly demonstrates the healing that can be
found when one sees oneself represented in an honest light in popular art.
From Do The Right Thing, The Color Purple and Malcolm X to contemporary classics
like 12 Years a Slave, Black Panther and American Fiction, this book is an essential
read for those interested in the intersection between Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Film
Theory and African American cultural identity.
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.