Continuing Education Webinars on Zoom Sponsored by the PPSC Annex™

The PPSC Annex Friday night Zoom webinars provide 2 CEs for LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMHCs, LCATS, and licensed psychologists. The PPSC Annex is also collaborating with Modern Sex Therapy Institutes to provide 2 AASECT CE credits for presentations focusing on sexuality. Our webinar events cost $60 for Regular Admission and $40 for Students.  


PPSC Annex Spring 2023 events include:

  • 1/6 - “Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery” with Jordan Osserman, PhD

  • 2/24 - “The Legacy of a Nazi Past: Memory, Silence and Inhabiting Responsibility” with Roger Frie, PhD

  • 3/10 - “Trauma, Truth and Care: Opportunities for Psychoanalysis” with Betty Teng, LCSW

  • 3/24 - “Blooming in December: Trauma and Growth in the Psychodynamic Treatment of Older Adults” with Amy Schaffer, PhD

  • 4/21 - “Intersectional and Ideological Impasses in Treatment” with Joan Berzoff, EdD

  • 5/12 - “On Learning to Heal or What Medicine Doesn’t Know” with Ed Cohen, PhD


We look forward to seeing you on Zoom this spring!

Judith Jordan, PPSC Annex Chair and APAT Coordinator
Bruce Berman, PPSC Annex Coordinator on Couples and Sexuality
Janet Pearlman, PPSC Annex Coordinator on Psychoanalytic Papers and Addiction
Julie Hyman, PPSC Annex Coordinator for Race, Class and Culture in Psychoanalysis
Claudia Krugovoy, PPSC Annex Coordinator
Joshua Brancheau, PPSC Annex General Operations Manager

 About the PPSC Annex™

The PPSC Annex™ provides opportunities for mental health practitioners to augment their core clinical training with seminars and workshops on complementary modalities, theories and techniques as well as other areas of mental health education. PPSC Annex™ classes are both practical and affordable, offering exposure to new areas of practice without requiring the commitment of a full training program.

Look for training in a wide variety of areas including: sex therapy, couple’s therapy, addiction, parenting, creative arts therapies, body-centered therapies, and more.

For information about our upcoming workshops, please visit our ticketing page at: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/the-ppsc-annex-575950629

*Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0040, licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0166 and licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0083. We are recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0054 and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0118. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center maintains responsibility for its program and its content.

PPSC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender or gender identification, marital status, national or ethnic origin in the administration of its admissions and educational policies.

2023 PPSC Annex Webinars (2 CEs)

“Circumcision on the Couch: The Cultural, Psychological, and Gendered Dimensions of the World's Oldest Surgery”

Jordan Osserman, PhD

Friday, January 6, 2023

6:30PM to 8:30PM

This talk provides 2 hours of continuing education credits for LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMHCs, LCATs, and licensed psychologists. 2 AASECT-approved CEs will also be provided to sex therapists by Modern Sex Therapy Institutes.


“The Legacy of a Nazi Past: Memory, Silence and Inhabiting Responsibility” (Click Here)

Roger Frie, PhD

Friday, February 24, 2023

6:30PM to 8:30PM

This talk provides 2 hours of continuing education credits for LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMHCs, LCATs, and licensed psychologists.


“Trauma, Truth and Care: Opportunities for Psychoanalysis”

Betty Teng, LCSW

Friday, March 10, 2023

6:30PM to 8:30PM

This talk provides 2 hours of continuing education credits for LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMHCs, LCATs, and licensed psychologists.


“Blooming in December: Trauma and Growth in the Psychodynamic Treatment of Older Adults”

Amy Schaffer, PhD

Friday, March 24, 2023

6:30PM to 8:30PM

This talk provides 2 hours of continuing education credits for LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMHCs, LCATs, and licensed psychologists.


“Intersectional and Ideological Impasses in Treatment”

Joan Berzoff, EdD

Friday, April 21, 2023

6:30PM to 8:30PM

This talk provides 2 hours of continuing education credits for LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, and licensed psychologists.


“On Learning to Heal or What Medicine Doesn’t Know”

Ed Cohen, PhD

Friday, March 12, 2023

6:30PM to 8:30PM

This talk provides 2 hours of continuing education credits for LCSWs, LMSWs, LPs, and licensed psychologists.

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