2026
Friday, February 27, 2026, 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific Time, The Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute Presents: Conceptualizing Culturally Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in a Divisive World
Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D.
This seminar focuses on the therapist’s and patient’s dilemmas concerning sociocultural issues in the therapeutic relationship. Dr. Tummala-Narra will expand on her framework for culturally informed psychoanalytic therapy (Tummala-Narra, 2016), particularly in the context of the contemporary sociopolitical climate. This elaboration of the framework will include the interaction of personality and social context, complex subjectivity and relational stress implicated in race and culture, and the challenge of humanizing sociocultural difference. The seminar aims to deepen understandings of the splitting of good vs. bad and us vs. them in our broader social world, and related social isolation, fear, and mistrust. The format includes lecture, case material, and discussion.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM, MITPP Presents: THE CASE OF A NARCISSISTIC PATIENT: MORE COMPLICATED THAN AT FIRST GLANCE
ONLINE THROUGH ZOOM
Zoom instructions and meeting link will be emailed to participants prior to the workshop.
RSVP: There is no fee but you must reserve in advance. For reservations: please email info@mitpp.org.
A rich, 3 year-long treatment of a highly intelligent, charismatic and articulate 45 year old man, who sought services for depressive symptoms, illuminates the interplay of unmet early needs and religious and family dynamics. The patient’s defenses and the transference/countertransference matrix that developed led the therapist to conclude that the patient was narcissistically organized. The therapist will describe some narcissistic personality types and indicate which fits the patient’s narcissistic organization. Clinical vignettes will be offered to illustrate the course of treatment.
PRESENTER: FABIOLA HERNANDEZ, LMSW Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Member: Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists; National Association of Social Workers.
IFPE’s 36th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Subversion, October 1 - 3, 2026, Chicago, IL https://www.ifpe.org/2026-conference