Fall 2026 Events 

W.R. Bion's Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry

Presented by Joseph Aguayo, PhD

Saturday, September 26, 2026 from 1:00 pm - 4:00pm ET

(There will be a 15 minute break) 
Location: Zoom
CEs: 3.75
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals and graduate students 
Instructional Level: Early Professionals / Intermediate 

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 Is Dialogue Possible?

How to Talk Constructively About Politics, in Therapy and Our Personal Lives

Presented by Kenneth Barish, PhD

Saturday, Nov 7, 2026 from 9:30 am - 12:00pm ET

(There will be a 15 minute break) 
Location: Will be held on Zoom 
CEs: 2.25
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals and graduate students 
Instructional Level: Intermediate 

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Why We Need a Judge to Judge the Judge

Presented by Donald Carveth, PhD

Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026 
Location: This event will be on ZOOM. 
CEs: 
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals and graduate students 
Instructional Level: Graduate Students & Early Professionals

Building on his previous work (Carveth, 2013; 2015; 2016; 2023), which distinguishes persecutory from reparative guilt and the superego from the conscience, this paper explores how these distinctions can be applied in clinical practice. Dr. Carveth argues that, while we must avoid becoming “superegoish” with our patients, we are nonetheless tasked with carrying the conscience within the treatment until patients are able to internalize it themselves. Similarly, although the hostile superego cannot be simply “demolished,” it can be disempowered through ethical critique. This paper considers how that process unfolds in the clinical encounter.

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