Past PPSC Annex™ Workshops and Events
2022
“Siblings, Psychoanalysis and Disability in the Family System”
— Johanna Dobrich, LCSW
“The Incredible Lightness of Becoming Erotic in Later Life”
— Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
“Emotionally Focused Therapy, EFT, A Real Map for Helping Couples”
— Carolyn McIntyre, LCSW-R
“The Elephant (not) in the Room: Will Psychoanalysis Survive the Screen?”
— Leora Trub, PhD
“When Racialized Ghosts Refuse to Become Ancestors: Tasting the 'Blood of Recognition' in Racial Melancholia and Mixed-Race Identities”
— Dhwani Shah, MD
“The Analyst’s Negation of Self and “Other”: Sex and Love on the Upper East Side”
— Steven Kuchuck, DSW
“The Development of Psychoanalytic Theory: Where the Science, the Art and the Personal Converge”
— Lucy Holmes, PhD
“Intersectionality and Therapeutic Neutrality: An Interrogation”
— S.J. Langer, LCSW
“Sexual Trauma Play: Repetition Compulsion, Erotic Excitement, and Traumatophilia”
— Avgi Saketopoulou, PsyD
“Trauma to the Earth and Unearthed Trauma: An Eco-Psychoanalytic Engagement with Climate Distress”
— Elizabeth Allured, PsyD, and Wendy Greenspun, Phd
“Living to Die, Dying to Live: Another Look at Suicidality”
— Michelle Shubin, LCSW, BCD
2021
“WHEN THE WORLD IS CONSUMED BY CHAOS, Whither the Frame?:
Patient and Analyst Involvement in Protests During the Pandemic”— Valerie Frankfeldt, PhD
“Body Talk: Identifying and Working with Body Narratives in Sex Therapy”
— Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
“The Psychiatric Consultation: What You Need to Know When You Don’t Know”
— Dickson Jean, MD
“Enhance Your Clinical Toolbox with Internal Family Systems”
— Benjamin Seaman, BFA, LCSW
“Race and Ethnicity within the Transference/Countertransference Matrix”
— Chanda Griffin, LCSW
“Repairing the Irreparable, Bearing the Unbearable: Clinical Work with Formerly Incarcerated People who Have Served Life-Sentences”
— Elizabeth Kita, Ph.D., LCSW
“Feeling and Being Felt with, Adult Version: Learning Humility, Taming Tyrants, and Introducing Daylight Between Fact and Feeling”
— Renée Obstfeld, PhD, LP, NCPsyA, LCAT
“Reconsidering Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of his Childhood”
— David Pauley, LCSW
“Using Mentalization-Based Interventions in Psychotherapy with Substance-Affected Individuals and their Families”
— Christine Fewell, PhD, F.I.P.A., CASAC
“Understanding the Meaning of Sexual Fantasies in Psychotherapy”
— Michael Bader, DMH
“Trauma and Dissociation Informed Psychotherapy: The Dissociated Self-States Model in Clinical Thinking and Treatment from Janet to Freud to the Present”
— Elizabeth Howell, PhD
2020
“An Integrative Harm Reduction Approach to Working with Out of Control Sexual Behavior (OCSB):
Helping men become who they want to be sexually.”— Wendy E. Miller, PhD and Andrew Tatarsky, PhD
“The Impact of Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma on Adult Sexual Intimacy”
— Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
“Dissociation and Counterdissociation: Nuanced and Binary Perceptions of Good And Evil”
— Richard Gartner, PhD
“Digital Communication Conundrums in Psychoanalysis and COVID Complications:
Case problems, mistakes, and solutions”— Valerie Frankfeldt, PhD
“The Precedent of Good-Enough Therapy During the Unprecedented Time of COVID-19”
— Panthea Saidipour, LCSW
“Shopping Addictions: Beyond the Primal”
— Riccardo Rieppi, PhD
“It's About the Money, And It's Not About the Money”
— Barbara Mitchell, LCSW
“Cutting Out Her Tongue: The Impact of of Silencing Treatment Through a Non-Disclosure Agreement”
— Leah Lipton, LCSW
“The Works of Sabina Spielrein: One of the Little Known Greats of Psychoanalysis”
— Natalie Riccio, PhD
2019
“Psychoanalytically Informed Treatment with Children Affected by the Trauma of Early Loss”
— D.D. Friedman, PhD, LCSW
“Alcoholics Anonymous Through the Lens of Attachment Theory”
— Judith A. Jordan, PhD, LCSW, CASAC
“Beyond Patriarchy: The Elusive Feminine, #MeToo and the Eros of Free Speech”
— Jill Gentile, PhD
“Trauma and Countertrauma, Resilience and Counterresilience”
— Richard B. Gartner, Ph.D.
“Ketamine Therapy for Major Depressive Disorder: 2019 Treatment Guidelines”
— Nico Grundmann, MD
“The Trouble with Lust -- Deborah Berry, PhD Childhood Trauma and the Drive to Attain Greatness”
— Sue Erikson Bloland, LCSW
“Embodied Sexuality: Helping Sexually Traumatized Clients Reclaim Healthy Intimacy”
— Sharlene Bird, PhD
“Temperamental Bridges and Boundaries Between Parents and Children”
— Frances LaBarre, PhD
“Sexual Rupture & Repair: An Approach for Healing Sexual Betrayal”
— Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
“Bisexuality as Map and Mirror”
— David Pauley, LCSW
“The Third Rail: Working with Shame in Addiction Treatment”
— Renee Obsfeldt, LCSW
“Accountability, Love, and Repair: Psychotherapy with Men After #MeToo"
— Avi Klein, LCSW
2018
“Woman is Perfect: An Analysis of Hilda Dolittle and Close Reading of her Poem: The Master”
— Paul Geltner, PhD & Mary Wallach, LCSW
“The Present in Couples Therapy: Moments of Transformation”
— Mary-Joan Gerson, PhD
“The Changing Face of Empathy: Working with Unconscious Resonance in the Countertransference”
— Janine de Peyer, LCSW
“A Trans-Psychoanalyst Questioning Harris’s Gender a Soft Assembly in Men’s Locker Rooms:
The Re-birth of Shame”— Luc Olivier Charlap, PhD
“On Safari with Blue Gazelle: Encouraging Dialogue with Ego and Unconscious”
— Michael Jenkins, LCSW
“Emails, Texts and Beyond: Communicating Analytically in the Digital Age”
— Valerie Frankfeldt, PhD
“Attachment Trauma and Split Off Sexual Lives In Systemic Sex Therapy”
— Sari Cooper, LCSW
“Angry White Men: Men’s Rights Activists, Incels, and White Nationalists”
— Michael Kimmel, PhD
“‘I am…’: Intersections of Addiction and Transgender Experience”
— S.J. Langer, LCSW-R
“When Words Falter: What Hypnotic-Related Techniques Can Do for Talk Therapy”
— Gerard Sunnen, MD
“The Interpersonal Psychoanalytic Approach to Working with Veterans”
— Andrew S. Berry PhD with Discussant Captain Nate Emery
“Sexual Sequelae of Childhood Sexual Shame”
— Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
“When the Body Speaks: An Introduction to Somatic Experiencing”
— Amy Gladstone, PhD
“Mother-Son Incest: The Unthinkable Broken Taboo”
— Hani Miletski, PhD
“Incongruent Countertransference: A Mismatch between Patient and Analyst, or Not?”
— Valerie Frankfeldt, PhD
“Understanding Somatic Countertransference Reactions”
— Jerold Nashban, LP
“Applying AEDP to Couple Therapy”
— Gil Tunnell, PhD
“The Negative Transitional Object: A Winnicottian Model of Addiction and Recovery”
— David Pauley, LCSW
“The Mental Health of Bisexual Men”
— Ritch Savin-Williams, PhD
2017
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Couple Therapy But Were Afraid to Ask — Valerie Frankfeldt, PhD
Cherishment: A Psychology of the Heart — Faith Bethelard, PsyD
Emmy Grant: As Trauma and as Potential Space —Veronica Csillag, LCSW
Mostly Straights: Who They Are and What They Tell Us About Sexual Orientation
— Zhana Vrangalova, PhD
Mutual Recognition in Illness: Finding a Relational Pulse
— Fran Dillon, LCSW and Fran Conway, RN
East Meets West: Integrating Eastern Healing Methods in Modern Psychotherapy
— Danielle Benvenuto, LCSW
Understanding Bestiality and Zoophilia — Hani Miletski, PhD
A Field Study on Vulnerability in the Creative Process
— Debra Gitterman, MFA and Jay McInenery, LCSW
Sexual Fluidity in Women and Men — Lisa Diamond, PhD
Modern Psychoanalysis…Relational Psychoanalysis: A Lot Closer than You Think
— Judy Levitz, PhD
EMDR: Why and When — Amy Rosenthal, LCSW
Six Tools to Improve Outcomes in Couples Counseling & Sex Therapy
— Marty Klein, PhD
Don’t Touch Me!: Understanding Sexual Aversions — Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
EFT for Analysts: Translating Relational Work into Emotionally Focus Therapy for Couples — Benjamin Seaman, LCSW
He/She…Me?: Understanding Gender & Shame in the Therapeutic Dyad
— Cathy Siebold, DSW
Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy — Tammy Nelson, PhD
2016
Medical Transition Without Social Transition: Flexible Treatment with Transgender, Transsexual and Gender Nonconforming Individuals
— Katherine Rachlin, PhD
Versing the Analyst and Patient in Sound and Silence: Deadness, Aliveness and Transformative Truth — Mary Wallach, LCSW
Mind to Mind: Clinical Encounters with the Uncanny — Janine de Peyer, LCSW
Finding The Sex You Lost: Transforming Limiting Beliefs
— Sylvia Rosenfeld, LCSW
Beyond Sex Addiction: Expanding Our Understanding and Treatment of Problematic Sexual Behavior — Nathan Rice, LCSW, S-PSB
Engaging the Extremely Dissociated Mind: Working With Anger, Aggression and Self-Harm
Sexual Intelligence: A New View of Sexual Function & Satisfaction
— Sheldon Itzkowitz, PhD
Promoting Optimal Erotic Intimacy — Marty Klein, PhD
Developmental Moments: The Look, Sound and Feel of Connection
— Judy Levitz, PhD
Modern Psychoanalysis: Its Past, Present, and Future — Paul Geltner, PhD
Cyber Infidelity: Understanding And Management
— Marlene Wasserman, M., Clinical Social Work, PhD
Embodied Intimacy, Emotional Closeness, and Erotic Pleasures A Neurobiological-Relational Integration of Couples & Sex Therapy — Stella Resnick
FREUD, INC.: The Psychoanalytic Origins of Modern Advertising
— Juliet Heeg, LCSW
S/He’s Just Not into You: Understanding Lost Sexual Attraction in Couples
— Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
Don’t Tell Anyone: How We (Don’t) Deal with Sexual Boundary Violations
— Joyce Slochower, PhD
Sex and the Millennial Man: Why Are So Many Males Sexually Avoidant in Relationships? —Sharna Striar, PhD, PMHCNS-BC and Leora Manishewitz, PsyD
Integrating Psychoanalytic Ideas into Harm Reduction Therapy for Substance Misuse — Debra Rothschild, PhD
2015
Normality, Perversion and Countertransference — William Picker, PhD
Why EMDR? — Amy Rosenthal, LCSW
Projective Identification: Blind Foresight — Elizabeth Howell, PhD
The Embodied Analyst: An Experiential Demonstration — Jon Sletvold, PsyD
Couples and Money — Barbara Mitchell, LCSW
Psychotherapy and Couples Counseling When Pornography is an Issue
— Marty Klein, PhD
Nostalgia for the Light: A Meditation on the Consciousness of Healing
— Juliet Heeg, LCSW-R
Sexual Desire in Committed Relationships — Suzanne Iasenza, PhD
Intimate Partner Violence as Transgenerational Trauma and the Creative Role of Activism in Healing — Katie Gentile, PhD
Relationships: What is the Glue that Holds People Together, For Better and for Worse? — Valerie Frankfeldt, PhD
Therapeutic Writing: Memoir As a Tool for Reflection, Processing, and Discovery
— Sarah Saffian, LCSW
2014
Clinical Encounters with Polyamory
Psychoanalysis Through the Lens of Transgender Experience
Calming Couples
Mixing Metaphors
2013
Psychotherapy with Style (in Mind)
Conducting a Relapse Analysis
Making Sense of Clients' Stories: A Narrative Approach to Therapy
2012
There Are Two Bodies in the Room: Expanding Clinical Capacity Through Body Awareness
The Newest Wave in CBT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) for the Psychodynamically Trained Professional
Understanding the Stages of Change: Motivational Work in Mental Health Treatment
The Pleasures and Perils of Porn: A Clinical Perspective
Money, Money, Money, I Have a Plan! The Fundamentals of Money and Financial Planning for Psychotherapists Building a Private Practice
2011
How to Succeed in Business...By Trying!
Using Attachment Theory and Neurobiology with “AEDP”
Working with Challenging Couples
The Growing Mind: Working with Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
Helping Parents and Children with the Child's Angry Feelings: A Modern Analytic Perspective
Sexless Marriage: It Takes Two...or Maybe Not
An Exploration into the Lives of Adoptive Parents and Adoptees
2010
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
Speaking from the Body – Somatic Experiencing
Using DBT to Treat the Multi-Problematic and Suicidal Individual
CBT: Bridging Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies
Sexual Issues in Couple's Therapy
Restore the Trust: How to Treat Infidelity in Couples
2009
Four Approaches to Working with Couples: EFT, Imago, Systems and Psychoanalytic Theory