2026
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
Fridays from 10:00 am – 11:30 am PT via Zoom starting on June 5, 2026 and continuing through July 17, 2026, NPI presents: Dreams on the Couch: A Consultation Group for Therapists, Presented by Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald, Psy.D., LMFT
This consultation group invites therapists into an ongoing exploration of dreams as living expressions of the unconscious. Drawing from the full arc of psychoanalytic thought, participants will bring clinical material and engage in a collaborative process of listening, reverie, and meaning-making.
Together, we will explore how dreams emerge within the intersubjective field, how they speak to unconscious communication, and how they may be used clinically to deepen the relationship between the patient, the therapist, and the analytic relationship itself. This is a space for clinicians who wish to think deeply, work imaginatively, and remain in contact with the mystery and vitality of the unconscious.
Course Objectives:
1. Participants will be able to describe the role of dreams in clinical practice
2. Identify ways patient’s dreams communicate unconscious emotional dynamics
3. Evaluate how therapist’s reverie may inform therapeutic process
4. Apply concepts of transference and countertransference in the dream field
5. Participates will be able to recognize when the capacity to dream becomes restricted due to defensiveness in treatment
6. Utilize dream material to deepen clinical work
9 CE Credits Available!
Please click on this link for more information and to register: https://www.npi.edu/events/dreams_on_the_couch/
Saturday Salon, June 13, 2026, 9:30 am - 12:45 pm Pacific Time, My Analyst Has Dementia, I Might Need a Donut, Presented by Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald, Psy. D, MFT, Training and Supervising Analyst
Via Zoom
What happens when the analytic mind that hold us begins to disappear? In this Saturday Salon, Dr. Kathleen Fitzgerald invites participants into an intimate exploration of a ten-year analytic relationship reframed through an unexpected reversal as the analyst’s mind is slowly overtaken by dementia. Through a series of vivid clinical and relational moments, Dr. Fitzgerald reflects on the unfolding experience of remaining analytic dialogue while the analyst’s capacity for coherence becomes increasingly compromised. Moments of confusion, paranoia and altered reality coexist alongside unconscious depth and meaningful contact.
This experience challenges and illuminates the foundation of psychoanalytic work. Together we have the opportunity to explore vulnerability, asymmetry and the deeply human dimensions of analytic work. This curated conversation invites participants to explore how analytic meaning can emerge even at the edges of madness, loss and cognitive decline and find meaning in the midst of mortality, dependency and grief. Dr. Fitzgerald’s paper of the same title as this salon is published in Psychoanalytic Inquiry.
Course Objectives:
1. Describe how humanness is interwoven in the analytic relationship.
2. Identify the destabilization of the analytic frame and mutual vulnerability.
3. Discuss the psychological and ethical implications of the aging analyst/therapist.
3 CE Credits Available!
Please click here for more information and to register: https://www.npi.edu/events/saturday-salon-my-analyst-has-dementia-i-might-need-a-donut/
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
Saturday, junE 27, 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/
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