.Casa Pueblo is a community led self managed organization working for a sustainable solidarity economy. They have been helping people install solar power for years and will provide important services to many in the days, weeks, and months to come. Donate to them! #Fiona

When we're listening and being with another human, sharing their experiences with them, that counts as action, as doing something. Scott Grabow, LCSW (CFS Candidate) interviewed on Voices From ROOM. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/voi…

EXPLORING EMERGING ACCOMMODATIONS TO THE PSYCHOANALYTIC FRAME: A PANEL DISCUSSION FRIDAY 4/14 3-4:30 ET Zoom contemporaryfreudiansociety.org/event/explorin… Current accommodations to the traditional analytic frame beg the question: how do we handle communications from patients outside sessions?

Congratulations to the newly elected President and Vice President Elect of the International Psychoanalytical Association: Heribert Blass (German Psychoanalytical Association) Katy Bogliatto (Belgian Psychoanalytical Society) More results: buff.ly/42qktBz #psychology

the dead . . . can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is a question of ghosts. Jacques Derrida, 1994

Autistic State of Mind and Body Across the Human Life Cycle Oct 7 and Oct 8 On Zoom Cosponsored by CFS and the Psychoanalytic Center of California *Maria Rhode *Joshua Durban *Margaret Rustin *Shelley Rockwell contemporaryfreudiansociety.org/event/autistic…

Autistic State of Mind and Body Across the Human Life Cycle Oct 7 and Oct 8 On Zoom Cosponsored by CFS and the Psychoanalytic Center of California *Maria Rhode *Joshua Durban *Margaret Rustin *Shelley Rockwell contemporaryfreudiansociety.org/event/autistic…

In this interview, Dr. Roa Harb speaks about how, in writing about the role of food for her family in Beirut, psychoanalytic thinking has helped her to recognize the meaning and affect that lay beneath the quotidian, beneath the ostensibly comical. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sha…

The analyst must be prepared to bear strain without expecting the patient to know anything about what he is doing, perhaps over a long period of time. To do this he must be easily aware of his own fear and hate. D.W. Winnicott Hate in the Countertransference, 1947

Save the Date at The Contemporary Freudian Society REMEMBERING HENRI REY: Michael Feldman and John Steiner in Dialogue Sunday, January 28, 2024 10:00am-12:00pm EST Online via Zoom 2 CEUs Available contemporaryfreudiansociety.org/event/remember…

"Investigation, that is, implementing curiosity no matter the potential for unwelcome conclusions, lies at the heart of Freud's opus." David Tuckett, 2023

The Contemporary Freudian Society presents: FORMS OF ADDICTION AND DISORDERED EATING Presenters: Andrea Greenman, Ray Hoffman, Pamela Polizzi & Barbara Falk Sabbeth 10/13/23 2-4:30 ET via Zoom 2 CEUs Available To Register: contemporaryfreudiansociety.org/event/forms-of…

Today is International Podcast Day! We celebrate our illustrious IPA podcasts: Talks On Psychoanalysis: in the voices of the original authors. buff.ly/3Jfghez Psychoanalysis On and Off The Couch: beyond the couch​ buff.ly/3ZFcW1W Harvey Schwartz Gaetano Pellegrini

NEW DATE The Contemporary Freudian Society presents: FORMS OF ADDICTION AND DISORDERED EATING Presenters: Andrea Greenman, Ray Hoffman, Pamela Polizzi & Barbara Falk Sabbeth 12/15/23 2-4:30 ET via Zoom 2 CEUs Available To Register: contemporaryfreudiansociety.org/event/forms-of…

NEXT WEEKEND: OCT 7 & 8 BY ZOOM We at PCC and CFS are very excited to announce a very special program we are co-sponsoring on psychoanalytic perspectives on autism and autistic states.  The lineup includes some of the most important thinkers on the subject in the world.

"I think it is of utmost importance that in the countertransference the analyst should be able to bear the anxiety of not knowing and even not knowing that he does not know." Haydée Faimberg, The Telescoping of the Generations, 2005

This weekend

Psychotherapy is not making clever and apt interpretations; by and large it is a long-term giving the patient back what the patient brings. D.W. Winnicott, 1967