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/
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
TUESDAYS, JUNE 16, 23, 30, JULY 7, 14, 21, 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Eastern Time, MITPP 2026 SUMMER INSTITUTE
INFANT DEVELOPMENT AND ATTACHMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Instructor: Susana Martinez, Ph.D., LP
Over the past fifty years, there have been important findings in the areas of attachment and infant development, as well as on how such findings can better inform treatment with children and adults. In this six-week course, we will study some of these findings and examine how they contribute to psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy.
9 Contact Hours
FEE: $225
For more information and registration, please visit: https://www.mitpp.org/events
SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 27, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eastern Time, MITPP presents TREATING THE REGRESSED PATIENT: A TWO-SESSION CLINICAL WORKSHOP
Instructor: Alma Ismailgeci, LMSW
This workshop will examine the treatment of regressed patients predominantly through focusing on clinical work with a woman in her mid-forties who entered therapy with communications that were primarily non-verbal. The patient presented herself as if she were a young child, analogous to the time when she actually was a small child and had wishes for a union with her mother. These wishes included the desire to cut off from the world, and to reconnect with her mother in the womb. The instructor will demonstrate how transference, countertransference and resistance were at play. In this workshop, she will illustrate the techniques she used and how she managed the treatment of this regressed patient as she considers its general implications. Participants will: 1) understand techniques that were used to address patient's primarily non-verbal communication, 2) learn how a therapist can provide a mirroring experience and maintain neutrality, and understand the transference, countertransference and resistance in treatment, 3) understand patient’s feeling of omnipotence, and her intertwined picture with self, family and others related to sex and money.
4 Contact Hours
FEE: $100
For more information and registration, please visit: https://www.mitpp.org/events
MONDAYS, JUNE 22, 29, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Eastern Time, MITPP presents TREATING NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER: THERAPY STRATEGIES FOR NARCISSISTIC DEFENSES Instructor: Anthony Mazzella, Ph.D., LCSW
This mini-course is designed to provide a theoretical framework and clinical techniques for mental health professionals who are interested in, currently working with, or planning to work with patients struggling with the hallmark features of Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). The course offers a close examination of the developmental and relational factors that give rise to narcissistic defenses, with particular attention to how early unmet emotional needs and defensive adaptations shape self-experience and patterns of relating. Participants will gain insight into the role of grandiosity as an affect-regulating defense against feelings of inadequacy, loneliness, and shame. The course will also provide participants with specific, effective, and empirically validated therapeutic strategies for engaging patients and working with narcissistic vulnerabilities and defensive patterns as they emerge in treatment.
3 Contact Hours
FEE: $75
For more information and registration, please visit: https://www.mitpp.org/events
WEDNESDAYS, JUNE 24, JULY 1, 8, 15, 22, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Eastern Time, MITPP presents EMBODIMENT AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
Instructor: Susan McNamara, MD, FAPA
We are experts on bodies; we all have one. This seminar takes up the topic of the body and the significance of our bodies to ourselves and others. Why is there a mind-body duality? How do bodies collect anxiety and fear? How are bodies gendered? Why does psychoanalysis struggle with the corporeal? This mini-course will consider embodiment from different perspectives and deepen our understanding of how perceptions of the body crisscross and resonate. We will explore the epistemology of the body from various psychoanalytic perspectives by examining the work of Kathryn Zerbe, Alexandra Harrison, Ed Tronick, Andrzej Werbart, Daria Columbo, and Griffin Hansbury. We will examine our assumptions about the body and its relationship to the mind, assess how psychoanalytic, biological, anthropological, and medical concepts intersect with cultural and political ideas about embodiment, and describe somatic countertransference.
7.5 Contact Hours
FEE: $185
For more information and registration, please visit: https://www.mitpp.org/events
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/
SATURDAY, JULY 11, 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM Eastern Time, MITPP presents BUILDING AND MAINTAINING A PRIVATE PRACTICE IN CHALLENGING TIMES
Instructors: Barbara L. Reichenthal, LCSW, BCD, and Ruby R. Benjamin, Ed.D., LP
This workshop is designed to help clinicians who are thinking about building a private practice in this challenging time. Rules and issues clinicians face around whether or not to participate in managed care panels or maintain an out of network insurance profile, what to consider in setting a fee especially in this period of growing unemployment and financial uncertainty, active competition for the available pool of patients posing immediate and longer term decisions about the hidden costs of private practice, and the risk assessment involved in joining programs that feed your referral base. In this workshop, we will also focus on the mechanics of starting and maintaining a practice, such as assessment of office space needs, rental costs, locating an office, determining whether or not to participate on managed care panels, issues in fee settings, marketing, developing a referral network, HIPAA (Privacy Law) requirements, licensing restrictions, keeping notes and documentation, and developing collegial and supervisory supports. The clinical dimensions involved are also considered. Special attention will be paid to the “frame issues” that arise where aspects of clinical phenomena get ”lost” in insurance rules and regulations around the frequency of sessions, payments for missed appointments, use of telehealth, note-keeping, and other such matters. Names of insurance panels and information on how to contact them will also be discussed. Participants will be able to identify two reasons to set up private practice and how to do so; two obstacles in setting it up and how to navigate those challenges; two frame issues that are clinical dimensions that need to be considered in private practice.
Contact Hours: N/A
FEE: $75
For information and registration, please visit https://www.mitpp.org/events
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
WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Eastern Time, MITPP presents WORKING WITH ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE
Instructor: Caroline Sloane, LMSW
This seminar will integrate relevant psychoanalytic theory and literature with clinical case material to explore the treatment of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Particular attention will be given not only to the enduring psychological impact of sexual trauma on patients, but also to the ways in which clinicians’ own resistance to confronting the unthinkable may shape the therapeutic process and countertransference experience. The seminar will examine unconscious dynamics related to identification with the aggressor as they emerge within treatment and consider their adaptive function within the patient’s psychic organization. Drawing upon betrayal trauma theory, a clinical vignette will be presented to illustrate these concepts and facilitate discussion of their application in clinical practice.
1.5 Contact Hours
FEE: $55
For information and registration, please visit https://www.mitpp.org/events
TUESDAYS, AUGUST 4, 11, 18, 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM Eastern Time, MITPP presents PROTECTING THERAPEUTIC DEPTH: REFLECTIVE CAPACITY IN THE FACE OF RACIAL AND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
Instructor: Kim Arrington, Psy.D.
This workshop examines the therapist’s internal functioning in the presence of clinically and culturally charged material. While therapeutic depth is often assumed, it may narrow when difference evokes psychological activation that is not recognized or metabolized. Participants will explore subtle forms of internal retreat, defensive certainty, and the impact of these processes on treatment. Through didactic instruction, structured reflection, case-based discussion, and guided practice, participants will develop increased capacity to sustain psychological presence during difficult or activating clinical moments. Emphasis will be placed on strengthening reflective pause skills, differentiating defensive reactions from reflective processing, and protecting the conditions under which patients can feel seen, accompanied, and understood.
6 Contact Hours
FEE: $150
For information and registration, please visit https://www.mitpp.org/events