2026
Fridays, October 16, 2026 - November 20, 2026 - NPI presents: Psychoanalytic Supervision Consult Group
This group will meet on the following Fridays from 10:00 am – 11:30 am PT: 10/16, 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, & 11/20.
8 CE Credits Available
Presented by Dr. Holly Han & Dr. Cheryl Farole-Roman
Course Description:
Clinical supervision provides the foundation for ensuring patient care and professional development. This series is based on an approach to supervision that emphasizes developing supervisory alliance, parallel process, working with countertransference, and the supervisor-supervisee dynamic. Both didactic and experiential learning will be equally emphasized. This consult group is designed for those who supervise associates, graduate students, postdocs, and psychoanalytic candidates at multiple levels of training in academic, community, and private practice settings.
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.npi.edu/events/psychoanalytic-supervision-third-section/
Sunday, 10/18/26, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Eastern Time (Daylight Saving Time), MITPP CEU-Approved Online Workshop: SEEKING ASYLUM – TWICE AS LIKELY
VIA Zoom
PRESENTER: SUSAN McNAMARA, MD
2 Contact Hours
Freud fled from Vienna to London in 1938, terrified after the Gestapo picked up his daughter, Anna. It was not easy to get the Freuds the necessary immigration permits from the British government and even more difficult to extricate the Freuds from Nazi Vienna. Ernest Jones applied pressure through diplomatic channels and the Nazis needed to be bribed. Psychoanalysts from Austria and Germany fled to Britain, Switzerland, the United States, and Argentina, essentially anywhere they could gain entry, many times leaving behind family members who would be murdered in the camps. Over and over, we see people fleeing their countries for safety and struggling to gain legal status and avoid deportation to a certain death. We will discuss the psychodynamics of immigration, the physical and psychological trauma of those who emigrate, and the practicalities of how one might help new immigrants by providing objective assessments and essential documentation supporting legal claims for asylum, T Visas, and other forms of humanitarian relief and protection in the United States.
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.mitpp.org/events/
Saturday, October 24, 2026, 9:00 am - 4:30 pM, Pacific Time, NPI Fall Conference: Understanding Traumatic Narcissism Theory and Its Clinical Utility
6 CE Credits Available
Presented by Dan Shaw, LCSW
6 CE Credits Available
Venue: The Chicago School The Chicago School (2400 E Katella Ave, Ste 150 Anaheim, CA 92806)
Beginning in 1996 with the essay “Traumatic Abuse in Cults: A Psychoanalytic Perspective,” up to the release in 2026 of his latest book, Traumatic Narcissism Theory: A Contemporary Introduction, Daniel Shaw has studied the psychology of the individual he terms the “traumatizing narcissist,” and the specific ways that they seduce and then subjugate others. Trained extensively in relational psychoanalysis as well as in trauma-informed psychotherapies, Shaw uses his understanding of the psychology and the behavior of the traumatizing narcissist to provide tools for the therapeutic healing and recovery of victims of “subjugation trauma,” his term for the impact of the traumatizing narcissist’s coercive control of victims. The Traumatic Narcissism Theory summarizes Shaw’s work of the last thirty years, providing accessible, practical information and tools in support of both psychotherapists and their clients working toward healing from the traumatizing narcissist’s relational system of subjugation.
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.npi.edu/events/npi-fall-conference-understanding-traumatic-narcissism-theory-and-its-clinical-utility/
Saturday, October 25, 2026, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM EDT, MITPP presents:
ON THE + OF LGBTQ+: ADOLESCENCE AS THE FULCRUM OF SEXUAL IDENTITY
PRESENTER: PASCAL SAUVAYRE, Ph.D.
This presentation theorizes the “+” of LGBTQ+ not just as a place holder for sexual identities that do not fit into the five categories, but as an enigmatic call for the generation of new sexual identities. Conjugating Jean Laplanche’s concept of the “sexuel” with Harry Stack Sullivan’s concept of chumship, the thesis is that chumship provides the relational foundations for the undoing of the repression of gender by sex and for the translation of the “sexuel” residue into a sexual identity. This “translation,” facilitated by the tumultuousness of adolescence, is built on the framework of chumship, which restructures the asymmetrical relations and the primacy of the other of childhood. The clinical situation is then viewed as a movement between the asymmetrical parent/child relation (and the analysis of the implantation of enigmatic messages) and the symmetrical relationship of chumship (and the collaborative construction of meaning).
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.mitpp.org/events
LOCATION: ONLINE on ZOOM
NO FEE
Registration deadline: October 23, 2026
The New York State Education Department has approved this online workshop for 2 contact hours (CEUs) for LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, LMFTs, LPs and Licensed Psychologists. A certificate will be emailed to those who sign in at the beginning of the session, stay until the end of the session, complete an emailed evaluation and pay a $20 fee. Full session must be attended to be eligible for CEUs/Contact hours. There is no charge for those affiliated with MITPP, MCMH or MSPP.
Tuesdays, (starting) November 3, 2026, 3:30 – 5:00 pm PT., on Zoom, NPI presents: Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind (Second Section)
This is a 5 session course meeting on November 3, 10, 17, 24 & December 1, 2026 (Tuesdays). Classes will take place from 3:30 – 5:00 pM, pacific time.
Presented by: Deborah Farnsworth, Psy.D., LMFT, FIPA
Course Description:
An intensive reading group on Fred Busch’s book, Creating a Psychoanalytic Mind. Busch, an influential ego psychologist, writes complex psychoanalytic ideas in an unusually clear, usable way. This seminar cultivates a Busch-informed clinical stance and technique, with close attention to reverie, countertransference as an instrument, timing of interpretation, symbolization, working through trauma and splitting, and fostering analytic creativity and ethical presence. Ideal for clinicians and training, psychoanalytic candidates, advanced psychotherapy trainees, early-career therapists, and clinical graduate students.
This is a Zoom event.
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.npi.edu/events/creating-a-psychoanalytic-mind-2/
saturday, november 7, 2026, 10:00 am - 1:15 pm (pacific time) Newport Psychoanalytic Institute presents:The Basics of Psychoanalytic Group Psychotherapy, Presented by Cheryl Farole-Roman, Psy.D., MFT, CGP
This introductory course provides an overview of the fundamental principles and practices of psychoanalytic group psychotherapy, integrating contemporary group analytic perspectives. Participants will explore how unconscious processes, transference and countertransference, resistance, interpersonal feedback, and emotional immediacy emerge within the dynamic interpersonal field of the group. The course will emphasize the here and now experience of the group as a way of understanding relational patterns and promoting psychological change. We will also discuss practical considerations in starting a psychotherapy group, including group composition, member selection, and establishing the therapeutic frame.
3 CE CREDITS
Register today: https://www.npi.edu/events/the-basics-of-psychoanalytic-group-psychotherapy/
Friday, November 20, 2026 | 9:30-12 PM PST | Live via Zoom, The Contemporary Psychodynamic Institute presents: Reimagining the Core Competencies of Contemporary Psychoanalytic Therapy: From Freudian Foundations to Fanonian Fundamentals
In light of the Holmes Commission Report, contemporary psychoanalysis faces a divide between traditional clinical neutrality and emerging relational paradigms. In his presentation designed for practicing clinicians, Dr. Daniel José Gaztambide bridges that gap by connecting Freud’s original clinical notes with Frantz Fanon’s vision of therapy as a collective science. Through real-world case studies and practical principles, participants will learn how political and interpersonal dynamics naturally intersect within everyday treatment.
General admission price: $135. Student pricing available with .edu email.
CEU: 2.5 (pending approval), available as add-on to admission pricing.
What to Expect: This interactive, clinically-oriented presentation bridges historical inquiry and contemporary practice, moving beyond traditional debates to offer a integrated model of psychoanalytic work. Participants will engage with historical evidence, theoretical synthesis, and practical applications designed for immediate relevance in the consulting room.
All registrants will receive a copy of the recommended pre-reading via email, prior to the event:
Gaztambide, D. J. (2025). Un(Thinking) Race, Resisting Knowing, Restoring the Social Third. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 35(6), 779–789. doi.org
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.psychodynamicinstitute.com/our-events/11202026