2026
Saturday, May 9, 2026, 10:00 am - 1:15PM Pacific time, newport psychoanalytic institute presents:Dreaming the Unconscious Through Collage
Venue: 17821 E 17th Street, Suite 260 Tustin, CA 92780
Course Description:
This course will focus on the idea that we can access our unconscious thoughts and images through art, specifically collage. There will be an introduction to “dreaming while awake” referencing both Bion and Thomas Ogden’s thoughts. Participants will be invited to create a collage that represents work with a patient. There will be time to make more than one collage, as well as time to process what we create with the group. Art materials will be provided.
Course Objectives:
Define what Bion and Ogden mean by “dreaming while awake” or “dreaming the session.”
Create a collage that reflects transference or countertransference with a patient.
Describe how this creative experience influences clinical work.
3 CE Credits Awarded
Presented by Dr. Glenda Corstorphine, Psy.D
Please click here to register: https://www.npi.edu/continuing-education/
Fridays, May 22, 29, June 5, 12, 19, & 26. Newport psychoanalytic institute presents: Queering Classical Psychoanalytic Concepts Through the Subaltern
About the Course:
Bring your cases that are outside of normative bounds. We will draw in our well-worn and well-loved analytic concepts to explore clinical material together. If you have found that your thinking, your lived experience and/or that of your patients has not quite been thinkable within analytic theory, join us. We’ll stretch the
limits and make room together. Each week we will center a classical concept with the intention of queering it through the lens of case material from the group.
This course is a 6 part series. Classes will meet on Fridays at 10:00 am – 11:30 am PT via Zoom on May 22, 29, June 5, 12, 19, & 26.
Course Objectives:
Describe varying perspectives on aspects of the psychoanalytic frame including time, money, and setting.
Identify key ideas in Freud’s and White’s concepts of neutrality.
Discuss the evolution of the concepts of transference and countertransference.
Explore silence in the analytic setting as useful spaciousness versus an indicator of the unspeakable.
Use Kohut and Klein to think about the concepts of splitting and projection.
Consider symptoms as culturally embedded communication.
Apply classical concepts to case material.
Explain Anton White’s “white lie”.
Apply Dionne Powell’s concept of collective silence to silence in the clinical setting.
9 CE Credits Available!
Presented by Tiffaney Hale, LMFT & Jamie Steele, LMFT
Please click here to Register: https://www.npi.edu/events/queering-classical-psychoanalytic-concepts-through-the-subaltern/
SUNDAY, MAY 31, 2026, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM, Eastern Time, MITPP presents: SCIENTIFIC MEETING, THE CHILD IN MIND: WORKING WITH YOUNG CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS
Online through Zoom.
PRESENTER: KARLIE GOLDSTEIN, LCSW
Young children are referred to therapy for a myriad of reasons. Parents often seek help when they believe their child exhibits challenging or disturbing behaviors, or when they receive repeated complaints from teachers at the child’s daycare setting. Parents today have easy access to more “how to” parenting resources than ever before, but we can offer more than just parenting strategies. Our focus is on deepening the understanding of the child, the parent, and their relationship by revealing unconscious negative attributions, projections, and developmental expectation gaps. The ultimate goal is to foster reflective functioning and emotional regulation for both parent and child, allowing parents to connect more effectively and offer continuous support throughout the child's developmental journey. This presentation will provide an overview of how clinicians can work dyadically with parents and their young children. Pulling from diverse disciplines including psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, mentalization and affect theory, clinicians can make an impact on the child’s foundation, to strengthen parental knowledge, improve confidence and enable them to support their child in alignment with their current abilities.
For more information and registration, please visit: https://www.mitpp.org/events
Sunday, June 14, 2026, 10:00 A.m. - 11:30 A.m. Pacific Time / 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time, IFPE presents: Playing with Identity in an Age of Polarization
Presented by Adam Shechter
Via Zoom
This global moment has brought identity politics to a deafening pitch of us-them projection. Who can know who they are, where they belong, and what that belonging means in a sociopolitical climate of ever-threatening polarization. Yet Lacan tells us the therapist is the one who is supposed to know. Though, what does it mean to know, especially under fascist conditions. And more relevantly, what can the different schools of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis each uniquely bring to this knowing when identity groups claim to know everything about everyone? Come and bring your therapist self, your school of thought, your everyday self, any and all of your identity selves. Let’s see how they play in a workshop dedicated to knowing a little more about identity in an age of polarization.
IFPE 2026 Members: Free
Non-Members: $25
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.ifpe.org/june-14-zoom
SUNDAY, JULY 12, 2026 , 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT, MITPP presents: OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
LOOKING FOR A THERAPEUTIC WINDOW: NAVIGATING COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AND SEARCHING FOR OPPORTUNITIES WHILE WORKING WITH A NARCISSISTICALLY DISTURBED PATIENT
Online through Zoom.
PRESENTER: MICHAEL AMBROSINO, LMSW
For information and registration, please visit https://www.mitpp.org/events
IFPE’s 36th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Subversion, October 1 - 3, 2026, Chicago, IL https://www.ifpe.org/2026-conference