Fall 2025 Events
Getting Started with Klein and Bion: A Clinical Introduction
Presented by Dr. Timothy L. Hulsey
Saturday, September 6, 2025 from 4:00 - 6:00 pm ET
Will be held on Zoom.
CEs: 2
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals and graduate students
Instruction Level: Introductory
Working psychoanalytically means listening beneath content for unconscious communication
and internal object dynamics. But for many beginning clinicians the process of doing this can
feel overwhelming. Worse, the theories that guide this kind of listening can seem mysterious
and opaque. This talk offers an accessible introduction to the core concepts of Kleinian and
Bionian thinking, with an emphasis on their clinical relevance. Together, we’ll explore how
early object relations shape psychic life, what splitting and projective identification look like
in interactions with patients, and how Bion’s ideas on containment and interpretation can
deepen therapeutic work. This introduction will not be a theoretical survey but rather an
invitation into a way of being with patients that can hold complexity, explore unconscious processes, and facilitate change.
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Psychoanalysis and Suggestion
Presented by Dr. Robert Caper
Saturday, September 20, 2025 from 9:00 am - 12:30 pm ET
Will be held on Zoom.
CEs: 3
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals and graduate students
Instruction Level: Introductory & Intermediate
In this paper, Dr. Caper will formulate a psychoanalytic understanding of suggestion, then, using this perspective, will discuss the relationship between psychoanalysis and suggestion, as well as that between psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, in an attempt to clearly distinguish (insofar as possible) between disciplines that are often confused with each other. Audience comments and questions will be welcomed throughout the talk.
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Member - $75
Non-Member - $125
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Memory is a Verb Not a Noun – The Healing Power of Therapeutic Memory Reconsolidation
Presented by Dr. Martha Stark
Thursday, October 16, 2025 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm ET
Will be held on Zoom.
CEs: 2
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals and graduate students
Instruction Level: Introductory, Intermediate & Advanced
At the end of the day, is not memory merely an “illusion”? That is, memory is not a fixed entity, but a dynamic process – continuously shaped by every act of recall. Each time we remember, we create and re-create – altering the very essence of what we once knew. By the same token, however, each time we envision, we create and re-create – reshaping the very essence of what might yet be. Memory, in this sense, is, fortunately, not a noun but a verb – ever in flux – a living expression of who we are becoming, not of who we once were. My focus will be on Model 5 of THE STARK METHOD of PSYCHODYNAMIC SYNERGY – a brain-based, quantum-neuroscientific approach to shorter-duration, intensive, and focused treatments that juxtapose “paying attention” to “old bad” narratives with “setting intention” for “new good” ones, in order to rescript and update conditioned, disempowering storylines. Through the neuroplasticity of memory reconsolidation, memory becomes not just the record of what has been, but the catalyst for what might yet become.
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On Analytic Listening
Presented by Dr. Paola Mieli
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 from 7:30-9:30pm ET
Will be held on Zoom
CEs: 2
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals and graduate students
Instructional Level: Introductory & Intermediate
The fundamental rule requiring analysands to say whatever passes through their mind has a
crucial counterpart on the side of the analyst in the “evenly suspended attention,” where
having an ear finely tuned to unconscious processes, as Freud describes it, implies a
suspension of any acquired knowledge. We will explore the particularity of analytic listening, the temporality proper to the analytic interventions, the function of the preliminary sessions,
that of the length of sessions, as well as the establishment of the treatment’s frequency and
payment, studying the role of the drives in the unfolding of the cure.
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