PPSC Events Calendar
& Program Schedule 

Upcoming PPSC Events

PPSC event calendar entries include:

To register for our events,
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PPSC Program Schedule

The PPSC Course calendar for psychoanalytic candidates in our 3-year, 4-year, and license-qualifying programs, and for students in our 1-year Child & Adolescent Therapy and Clinical Journeys programs is as follow:

NOTE ABOUT CE CREDIT

The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for:

  • licensed psychoanalysts #P-0040

  • licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0166

  • licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0083

  • licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0119

We are recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for:

  • licensed social workers #0054

and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for:

  • licensed psychologists #PSY-0118

PPSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, national/ethnic origin, or analytic orientation in the administration of its admissions and education policies.

Past PPSC Events

    • 2017

      • PPSC Honors Sheldon Bach: “Anatomy of Betrayal: Some Thoughts on Trust and Betrayal”

    • 2014

      • PPSC Honors Fred Pine

    • 2013

      • PPSC Honors Edward Khantzian: “Understanding Addiction as Self-Medication”

    • 2012

      • PPSC Honors Frank Lachman

    • 2009

      • PPSC Honors Paul and Anna Ornstein

    • 2008

      • PPSC Honors Martin Bergmann: "Psychoanalysis Past, Present, and Future

    • 2007

      • False Self, Alcoholism & Anti-Semitism

      • PPSC Honors Lawrence Epstein: “The Talking Cure”

    • 2006

      • Hide & Seek: When Secrets Haunt the Treatment

    • 2005

      • Poetry & Psychoanalysis

      • Balint: His Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalysis

    • 2004

      • The Cushion & the Couch: Explorations in Buddhism & Psychoanalysis

    • 2003

      • Religion - Sexuality - Prejudice

    • 2002

      • Psychoanalytic Frame Issues

    • 2000

      • Storm Warning: Treating Mild to Moderate Forms of Manic Depression in Analytic Patients

    • 1996

      • The Many Faces of Infidelity

    • 1994

      • Whose Therapy Is It?

    • 1989

      • Alcoholism Treatment & Psychoanalysis: A Meeting of the Minds

    • 2009

      • Pornography & Anxiety: An Interdisciplinary Series

    • 2008

      • “Exploring the Role of Fatherhood in the 21st Century

      • “Let’s Talk About Sex”

    • 2001-2002

      • Idealization, Mourning & Masochism

      • Infecting the Treatment: HIV Disclosure & Dissociation

      • Configuring the Family

      • Body Language

    • 2000-2001

      • Cultural Hierarchies, Splitting & the Heterosexual Unconscious

      • How “Gay Friendly” Psychoanalysis?

      • Thinking Relationally about Desire

      • Lesbian Mothers: New Identities

      • Gender Performance and Transference & Countertransference

      • Ungendered Bodies & the Violated Self

    • 1999-2000

      • Gender & Intersubjectivity

      • Enhancing the Erotic in Lesbian Couple Relationships

      • Psychoanalysis & the Gay Man

      • Gender as a Luxury or Symptom

      • Thirty Years of Gender

      • Sex, Race & Gender

    • 1998-1999

      • Shame: A Hidden Dimension in Women's Ambition

      • The Politics of Passion

      • Reproductive Technologies & the “Post-Modern” Family

      • Exploration of Male Gender Identity

      • Racism & Its Repression in Freud's Theory of Sexuality

    • 1997-1998

      • Bodies, Acts & Sex: Thinking Through the Relational

      • Dare to Keep Your Kids Off Gender

      • Thoughts on (Post) Modernism & Pleasure

      • Erotic Transference-Countertransference

      • Dynamic Issues in Gay Male Development

    • 2018

      • Beyond Tough Love & Enabling: Helping Parents & Partners Respond to Substance & Other Addictive Disorders

    • 2017

      • Working with Shame States in Addictions Treatment

    • 2012

      • Countertransferential Dilemmas with Our Addicted Patients

    • 2011

      • Winner of the Caron Foundation Award for Educational Excellence

    • 2010

      • Addiction, Psychoanalysis and the Brain

    • 2008

      • Internet Pornography: Eroticized Addictions

      • Spirituality in Recovery

    • 2007

      • Disorganized Attachment, Trauma, & the Addictive Solution

      • Hidden Eating Disorders & Attachment Theory

    • 2006

      • Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Crystal Meth

      • Cutting: The Deliberate Dissociation

    • 2005

      • A Behavioral & Psychodynamic Approach to Treat Money

      • Risky Business: Patients Who Engage in Life-Threatening Behavior

    • 2004

      • Engaging the Whole Person in the Treatment of Substance Abuse

      • Sexual Compulsions Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

    • 2003

      • Relational Psychoanalysis & Chronic Substance Use

      • Multiple Meanings of Substance Abuse: A Psychodynamic Harm Reduction Approach