2026
Saturday, May 2, 2026, 9:00 am - 1:30 PM Pacific time, newport psychoanalytic institute presents: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Laplanche Part II: Special Topics
Course Description:
This program will pick up where the 2/26/26 NPI Program, Everything you always wanted to know about Laplanche (but were afraid to ask) left off, and continue exploring Jean Laplanche’s work in accessible terms. This program will also include a case presentation and discussion. Topics covered will include: A closer look at Laplanche’s view of the psychoanalytic clinical process and aims of treatment, including his concepts of the Fundamental Anthropological Situation, full and hollow transference, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, “the tub’, interpretation, translation, psychoanalytic sublimation and inspiration, Laplanche’s view of human temporality, loss, and mourning, Laplanche’s psychoanalytic theory of gender, sex, and the infantile sexuality, and Laplanche’s view of the relationship between psychoanalysis, political or other forms of ideology, and human freedom.
Course Objectives:
Participants will be able to discuss:
Laplanche’s view of the psychoanalytic clinical process and aims of treatment.
Laplanche’s view of human temporality, loss and mourning.
Laplanche’s psychoanalytic theory of gender, sex, and the sexual.
Laplanche’s view of the relationship between psychoanalysis, political or other forms of ideology and human freedom.
4 CE Credits Available
This conference will be held on Zoom.
9:00 am – 1:30 pm PT
NOTE: If you attended Dr. Mike Levin’s conference on 2/26/2026, you are eligible for a 15% discount on ticket prices. Please contact adminassistant@npi.edu to register if this is the case.
please click here to register: https://www.npi.edu/continuing-education/
SATURDAY, MAY 2, 2026 , 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM DST ON ZOOM, MITPP presents:
THE HUNGRY SELF: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS AND THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO BINGE EATING DISORDER
PRESENTER: KARI OLSON, Ph.D., LCSW
For details and registration:
https://www.mitpp.org/events
Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is the most recently recognized eating disorder, becoming a diagnosis in the DSM in 2013. It is also the most common eating disorder. Psychoanalytic theorists have relatively recently begun to focus attention on BED, linking it to early trauma and attachment issues, dissociated self-states, and alexithymia. Concepts including “the hungry self”, “body-states” and “not-body/not-self” have arisen to help define the phenomenological experiences of BED, as well as effective treatment approaches. This workshop will consider the psychoanalytic theories that explore the developmental origins of binge eating disorder that link it to childhood experiences, as well as societal ideals of body image. Resulting symptoms of binge eating and accompanying dissociation, including the dire need to suppress and avoid difficult emotions and bodily sensations, will also be reviewed through examples from clinical cases. Treatment approaches that emphasize the therapist’s need to tune into, not only patients’ unique histories and different self- and body states that emerge, but also our own emergent self- and body-states in and out of the therapeutic setting, will be explored.
Learning Objectives: Participants will:
1) define and recognize the common underlying self-structure and defensive mechanisms and how they are related to the symptoms of patients with Binge Eating Disorder.
2) identify how insecure attachment and trauma histories can lead to Binge Eating Disorder.
3) learn therapeutic approaches to patients with BED from a relational/interpersonal perspective.
PRESENTER: KARI OLSON, Ph.D., LCSW Certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Certificate in Eye Movement Sensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), EMDR Institute, Inc. Supervisor: Metropolitan Center for Mental Health. Member: Metropolitan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists.
LOCATION: ONLINE THROUGH ZOOM
FEE: $60 or $40 for students (with proof of student status)
NO FEE FOR MCMH STAFF THERAPISTS
Registration deadline: April 30, 2026
Saturday, May 9, 2026, 10:00 am - 1:15 PM 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