Upcoming Events
Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute Speaker Series
Traumatophilia: Notes on Libidinal Fugitivity with Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D. on Friday, September 26th, 2025 from 1:00pm to 4:00pm PST.
Traumatophilia: Notes on Libidinal Fugitivity with Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D.
This seminar explores how trauma, rather than simply fracturing the psyche, can open pathways for transformation. Dr. Saketopoulou introduces the concept of traumatophilia—an alternative to repetition compulsion that focuses on what subjects do with their trauma, rather than how to resolve it. In this framework, returning to the site of trauma becomes a space of potential, a complex psychic zone where agency and constraint coexist. Using the enduring trauma of slavery and racism as a central case, this lecture challenges traumatophobic approaches and highlights how psychoanalysis must confront its own entanglements with racial violence.
Free Informational Coffee Hour (3)
This online coffee hour will give you the chance to hear more about the foundations and curriculum of this two-year training program. You’ll have the opportunity to ask your own questions to the team.
Free Informational Coffee Hour (2)
This online coffee hour will give you the chance to hear more about the foundations and curriculum of this two-year training program. You’ll have the opportunity to ask your own questions to the team.
Free Informational Coffee Hour (1)
This online coffee hour will give you the chance to hear more about the foundations and curriculum of this two-year training program. You’ll have the opportunity to ask your own questions to the team.
Emotional Inheritance with Dr. Galit Atlas, Ph.D - (2.5 CEU Hours optional add-on) - Saturday, March 8, 2025 - 9:30am-12:00pm PST
Emotional Inheritance with Dr. Galit Atlas
This talk will focus on Atlas’ book Emotional Inheritance. It will discuss the ways in which trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next and held in our minds and bodies as our own. We will talk about emotional material that we unknowingly carry with us: the memories, feelings, and traumas that we inherit from previous generations and the link between our parents and grandparents’ history, and our own emotional struggles.
Speaking Relationally: From Interpretation to Complex Dialogue with Dr. Roy Barsness, PhD - (2.5 CEU Hours optional add-on) - Friday, February 7, 2025 - 9:30am-12:00pm PST
This course will focus on speaking to the analyst’s experience of the patients, the links and patterns that are emerging, the replications that are occurring and the working through and negotiating of the inevitable impasses and enactments that are occur when the therapist chooses to enter into dialogue with their patients.
The Traumatic Narcissism Theory with Daniel Shaw, LCSW (2.5 CEU Hours optional add-on) - Friday, November 1, 2024 - 9:30am-12:00pm PST
Join Daniel Shaw, LCSW, for an innovative webinar on the topic of The Traumatic Narcissism Theory
Race, Culture, and the Therapeutic Relationship Amidst Social and Political Turmoil with Dr. Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD - Friday, May 3, 2024 - 2:00pm-4:30pm PST
Join Dr. Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. for an innovative seminar - Race, Culture, and the Therapeutic Relationship Amidst Social and Political Turmoil.
Speaking Relationally: From Interpretation to Complex Dialogue with Roy Barsness, PhD - Friday, April 12, 2024 - 2:00pm-4:30pm PST
This course will focus on speaking to the analyst’s experience of the patients, the links and patterns that are emerging, the replications that are occurring and the working through and negotiating of the inevitable impasses and enactments that are occur when the therapist chooses to enter into dialogue with their patients.
Dr. Karen Maroda - The Therapist’s Vulnerability: Exploring How Our Early Experiences Shape Our Theories and Clinical Choices (3.0 CEU Hours) - Friday, March 1, 2024 2:00pm-5:00pm PST
Join Dr. Karen Maroda for an innovative seminar - The Therapist’s Vulnerability: Exploring How Our Early Experiences Shape Our Theories and Clinical Choices.
Dr. Steven Kuchuck - A Seminar in Relational Psychology
Join Dr. Steven Kuchuck for an innovative seminar in Relational Psychology.
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