Upcoming Events & Speakers
Core Competencies in Relational Psychoanalysis
Roy Barsness, PhD with Bryan Nixon, MA, LPC
Using his extensive research, his own writings and writings of luminaries within the relational movement, Dr. Barsness, along with Nixon, will focus on the seven core competencies that evolved from Barness' own research: therapeutic outcome; therapeutic stance; deep listening/affective attunement; relational dynamics; patterning and linking; conflict; and courageous speech/disciplined spontaneity.
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Core Competencies in Relational Psychoanalysis
Roy Barsness, PhD with Clarissa Hill, LMHC
Using his extensive research, his own writings and writings of luminaries within the relational movement, Dr. Barsness, along with Hill, will focus on the seven core competencies that evolved from Barsness’ own research: therapeutic outcome; therapeutic stance; deep listening/affective attunement; relational dynamics; patterning and linking; conflict; and courageous speech/disciplined spontaneity.
Conceptualizing Culturally Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in a Divisive World
Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D. is a Professor of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College. Her research and scholarship focus on the psychology of immigration and trauma, and culturally informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She is also a clinical psychologist in Independent Practice. Dr. Tummala-Narra is a Consulting Editor for Psychoanalytic Dialogues and for the American Psychologist. She has served as a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association Holmes Commission on Racial Equality, and in several leadership roles in the American Psychological Association (APA), including the APA Presidential Task Force on Immigration, the APA Task Force on Re-envisioning the Multicultural Guidelines, and the APA Presidential Task Force on Trauma and Grief. She is the author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy (2016), the editor of Trauma and Racial Minority Immigrants: Turmoil, Uncertainty, and Resistance (2021), and co-author of Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines (2023), all published by the American Psychological Association. Dr. Tummala-Narra is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including being listed among the top 2% of Highly-Cited Scholars Worldwide (Stanford University Report).
Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of Fascism and Racism: Learning from Erich Fromm
Roger Frie, PhD, PsyD, RPsych, is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Education at the University of Vienna, Austria, and Faculty and Supervisor at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York. He is also Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and Emeritus Professor at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. His most recent visiting positions have been at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technical University of Berlin, Department of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and the Faculty of Education and Psychology at Kyoto University, Japan. He writes and lectures on the themes of historical trauma, memory and social responsibility. His newest books are Wounds of Silence: Legacies of Genocide and Racism (Oxford, in press), Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism and the Holocaust (Oxford, 2024), and Not in My Family: German Memory and Responsibility after the Holocaust (Oxford, 2017). His most recent edited book, with Pascal Sauvayre, is Culture, Politics and Race in the Making of Interpersonal Psychoanalysis: Breaking Boundaries (Routledge, 2022). He is co-editor of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, editorial board member of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychoanalytic Discourse, and a former editor of Psychoanalysis, Self and Context.
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Moving Away from Repair and Toward Traumatophilia with Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D.
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Moving Away from Repair and Toward Traumatophilia with Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D.
September 26, 1:00pm-4:30pm PST
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.
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Moving Away from Repair and Toward Traumatophilia with Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D. (Copy)
Sexuality Beyond Consent: Moving Away from Repair and Toward Traumatophilia with Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D.
September 26, 1:00pm-4:30pm PST
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.