Diversity & Social Justice Initiative

The Diversity and Social Justice Initiative aims to create space within the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis to reconsider our psychoanalytic understandings of prejudice, discrimination and structural injustice in order to address the inequities in psychoanalytic practice and training programs, both our own and in general. To inaugurate this initiative, we propose launching a multi-year program for the entire CCP membership, so that we can learn, discuss, and implement change together. The mission statement we will create together will be an evolving document addressing aspects of social inequities in the light of which organizational and clinical practice and theory should be re-examined. The Holmes Commission Report provides an initial blueprint that can both provide a template for addressing endemic racism and guide inquiry into other structural barriers to care, theory-building and training in psychoanalysis...

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2024-2025 Lecture Series

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    • 18 Oct 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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    Please join us for an inaugural meeting of a multi-year project devoted to

    BUILDING RACIAL EQUITY AT CCP

    A Project of CCP's Diversity and Social Justice initiative

    OCTOBER 18, 2024 on Zoom

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    Presented by the CCP Steering Committee for Racial Equity:

    Celia Brickman

    Zak Mucha

    Max Beshers

    with the assistance of Libby Bachhuber

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    The CCP Steering Committee for Racial Equity invites all CCP members to join us in launching a multi-year program for building racial equity at CCP. This program will provide a framework for us to grapple with the dynamics of racism embedded in our psychoanalytic practices, and to forge recommendations for a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive psychoanalysis. At this inaugural meeting on October 18, the steering committee will present a step-by-step proposal for how we can work together towards such changes, and CCP members will be invited to discuss their ideas, hopes and concerns related to these issues.

    In the summer of 2020, APsaA convened The Holmes Commission on Racial Equality to investigate racism within American psychoanalysis. The resulting Holmes report, which appeared a year ago, offers a comprehensive view of and detailed recommendations for the many dimensions of psychoanalytic life that are impacted by racism. The publication of this report provides us with an historic opportunity to develop more equitable psychoanalytic practices. 

    For the first year of our program, we will be inviting CCP members to read the Holmes report as a community and to join together in small reading groups that will meet monthly. The reading groups will discuss each chapter and will make suggestions based on their discussions.  There will be a sign-up page on the CCP website for everyone to join a group; and CEU’s will be available for each of these meetings. By the end of the year, we hope to constitute a variety of CCP committees to implement recommendations based on the suggestions resulting from these meetings.

    Further instructions for the reading groups will be given at this meeting. If you would like to sign up for a reading group right now, please go to: https://ccpsa.org/Holmes-Commission-Reading-Grps

    We believe that aligning our psychoanalytic commitments more clearly with our ideals of racial equity will be inspiring work that will deepen our shared sense of community. We look forward to seeing you on Oct. 18.


    • 1 Nov 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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    Hedda Bolgar Series

    Friday, November 1, 2024

    Claude Barbre, Ph.D., L.P.

    (Chicago, Il)

    Come Planting Time the Ploughs Turn Bones: The Psychology of Vigilantism

    7-9pm (CST): ZOOM

    NO RECORDING


    About the Presentation: A vigilante is often defined as a “civilian or organization acting in a law enforcement capacity (or in pursuit of self-perceived justice) without legal authority”.  Thus, “vigilante justice” is “often rationalized by the concept that proper legal forms of criminal punishment are either nonexistent, insufficient, or inefficient. Vigilantes normally see the government as ineffective in enforcing the law; such individuals often claim to justify their actions as a fulfillment of the wishes of the community” (Harris, 2001) As Sagall (2013) notes, in societies where there is a loss of external, central control twinned with the rise of multiple conflicts between various communities,  there is a declining ability of customs to regulate conflict: “In sum, in a society where the threats of danger appears on all sides, and the legal system retreats before these dangers, violent trauma is likely to promote a never-ending spiral of aggression…The result is a great rise in post-traumatic stress disorder, and the consequent increase of institutionalization of vigilante behavior.” In this presentation we will explore the causes of vigilantism, in particular the psychosocial roots and intrapsychic forces that forge these destructive frames of social character. As Stephen Frosh writes, “The potential value of psychoanalysis for people concerned with politics lies in its ability to provide an account of subjectivity which links the ‘external’ structures of the social world with the ‘internal’ world of each individual (Frosh, 1987). Drawing from the writing of Vamik Volkan, Sabby Sagall, Judith Kestenberg, D.W. Winnicott and Heinz Kohut, we will explore not only the political and economic influences that divide communities and activate vigilante justice, but also the links between psychology and culture, the objective and subjective reasons for vigilantism, exploring the causes of despair and humiliation that seeks its own justice through murderousness and self-hate, as well as the forces of irrational dehumanization of the other that often emerges from intergenerational conflict and unresolved, unspeakable suffering and injustice. 


    Claude Barbre, Ph.D., L.P., is Distinguished Full Professor, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. He is Course-Lead Coordinator of the Psychodynamics Orientation, and lead faculty in Child and Adolescent Studies. He is also a Vice-President of the Board and Faculty Supervisor at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, Chicago IL. Dr. Barbre served for 12 years as Executive Director of The Harlem Family Institute, a New York City school-based, psychoanalytic training program. Author of prize-winning articles, books, and poetry, Dr. Barbre is a five-time recipient of the international Gradiva Award for “outstanding writing in psychoanalysis and the arts.” He is also the recipient of the 2022 Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator Award from IFPE for “outstanding contributions to psychoanalytic education,” and the 2022 Joanna K. Tabin practice in Chicago Award for Exceptional Public Service, presented by CCP. He is in private practice in Chicago, IL.

    Learning Objectives


    This is a beginning and Intermediate, level presentation  with areas of interest for Advanced. 


    Fees

    CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

    Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    New / Ongoing Fellows: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

    Non-CCP members, single admission: $50


    Continuing Education

    This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

    Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by October 31, 2024 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

    References/Suggested Readings

    1. Sagall, S. (2013). Final solutions: human nature, capitalism, and genocide. London: Pluto Press.
    2. Varvin, S. and Volkan, S. D. (2003). Violence or dialogue: Psychoanalytic insights on terror and terrorism. London: International Psychoanalytical Association.

    Presented by

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW


    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.

    • 6 Dec 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago IL and via Zoom
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    Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series


    Jamieson Webster

    (New York, NY)

    Friday, December 6, 2024

    The Most Hysterical Psychoanalyst

    7-9pm (CST)

    Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

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    Zoom

    About the presentation:  In order to introduce Lacan’s thinking on neurosis, how it takes shape through Freud, I will then focus on hysteria and its place of prominence in his system. Lacan lauds hysteria as the neurosis in direct dialog with a given historical moment, shifting with the dominant discourse, and thus teaching the psychoanalyst where we are in the struggle between neurosis and civilization. He returned to the case of Dora throughout his seminars to refine his understanding of hysteria. He saw analysis as the progressive “hystericization” of the patient and even depicted himself as a hysteric attempting to teach the psychoanalysts.

    Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is the author of Disorganisation & Sex (Divided, 2022), The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Karnac, 2011) and Conversion Disorder (Columbia University Press, 2018); she also co-wrote, with Simon Critchley, Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (Pantheon, 2013). She contributes regularly to Artforum, The New York Times and the New York Review of Books.

    Learning Objectives

    Participants will be able to understand Lacan’s Reading of Freud’s Dora Case

    Participants will be able to understand how Lacan worked with Dora over twenty years.


    This is an Intermediate Level of Presentation.

    Fees

    CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

    Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

    Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

    Continuing Education

    This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

    Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by December 5, 2024 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

    References/Suggested Readings

    LAcAn, J. (1954–1955). Seminar: Book II. The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, transl. A. Sheridan. New York: Norton,1991.


    LAcAn, J. (1955–1956). Seminar: Book III. The Psychoses, transl. R. Grigg).New York: Norton, 1993.


    LAcAn, J. (1956–1957). Seminar: Book IV. The Object Relation, transl. A.R.Price. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2020.


    LAcAn, J. (1957–1958). Seminar: Book V. Formations of the Unconscious,transl. R. Grigg. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2017.


    LAcAn, J. (1962–1963). Seminar: Book X. Anxiety, transl. A.R. Price. Malden,MA: Polity Press, 2014.


    LAcAn, J. (1966). Écrits, transl. B. Fink. New York: Norton, 2007.


    LAcAn, J. (1969–1970). Seminar: Book XVII. The Other Side of Psychoanalysis,

    transl. R. Grigg. New York: Norton, 2007.


    Presented by

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.


    • 12 Jan 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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    Sundays @ CCP

    Sunday, January 12, 2025

    Gohar Homayounpour, Ph.D 

    (Teheran, Iran)      

    Resurrecting the erotic: Towards an ethics of life through “the” subversive feminist revolt of our times in Iran.

    12-2 (CST): ZOOM



    • 17 Jan 2025
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago IL and via Zoom
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    Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series


    Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D

    (New York, NY)

    Friday, January 17, 2025

    INTERPRETATION:  Time, Timing, Loss & Recovery

    7-9pm: (CST):Presentation & Discussion

    Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

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    Zoom


    About the presentation: In the paper the author argues for the contemporary and ongoing relevance of interpretation and suggests that it serves a crucial linking function between patient and analyst . In addition, interpretation provides an important link with temporalities; the time of the analytic hour and the time of the patient’s history as it unfolds in the present.  Analysis, the author argues. is bounded by time and by loss.   Writing from a Kleinian perspective, the paper includes two case vignettes that exemplify these propositions.

    Dr. Lynne Zeavin is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in full time practice in New York City.  She is a training and supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, where she chairs the Curriculum.   An Associate Editor at JAPA, she is the author of papers that have explored idealization, the status of the object, neutrality,interpretation and the various aspects of Kleinian theory.  Dr. Zeavin supervises widely from a contemporary Kleinian perspective.  She is  co-founder of the Rita Frankiel Memorial Fellowship funded by the Melanie Klein Trust and a founder of Second Story, a non-institutional psychoanalytic space in New York City.The co-editor, with Donald Moss, of Hating, Abhoring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Contemporary Moment, Dr. Zeavin is currently working on a co-edited book, with Sally Weintrobe, on Clinical Conversations surrounding the Climate Emergency.

    Learning Objectives

    1.  Participants will be able to describe the temporal dimension of psychoanalytic treatment and its relationship with mourning and loss.

     2.  Participants will be able to identify the role of interpretation in the here and now of the analytic session


    This is an All Level Presentation


    Fees

    CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

    Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

    Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

    Continuing Education

    This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

    Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by January 16, 2025 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

    References/Suggested Readings

    Baraitser, L. (2017). Enduring Time. London: Bloomsbury Press.
Bion, W.r. (1962). Learning from Experience. London: Karnac Books, 1984. 

    Britton, R & Steiner, J. (1994). Interpretation: Selected fact or overvalued idea? International Journal of Psychoanalysis 75:1069–1078. 

    Feldman, M. (1993). The dynamics of reassurance. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 74:275–285.

    Klein, M. (1940). Mourning and its relation to manic-depressive states.  In Love, Guilt and Reparation and Other Works, 1921–1945. London.

    Presented by

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.


    • 7 Feb 2025
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago IL and via Zoom
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    Fridays @CCP

    Friday, February 7, 2025

    Alan Levy, PhD

    (Chicago, Il)

    Mourning the Never Was

    Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

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    Zoom


    • 7 Mar 2025
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago IL and via Zoom
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    Fridays @CCP

    Friday, March 7, 2025

    Howard Levine MD

    (Brookline, MA)

    Minding the Gap

    7-9pm (CST)

    Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

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    Zoom


    • 23 Mar 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL and viaZoom
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    Sundays @ CCP

    Sunday, March 23, 2025

    Matt Hiller, A.M., LCSW

    The Return to Janet: How is Dissociation Being Conceptualized as a Therapeutic Modality in Ketamine Treatments?     

    12-2pm (CST)

    Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

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    Zoom




    • 4 Apr 2025
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago IL and via Zoom
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    Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series


    Don Carveth, PhD

    (Toronto, ON)

    After a 45 year long journey and three psychoanalysis: where am I now


    Friday, April 4, 2025

    7-9pm (CST)

    Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

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    Zoom


    About the presentation: I graduated in 1985 from TIP trained, largely in ego psychology. I spent the next 15 years acquiring clinical experience and educating myself in American and British object relations theory, self psychology, relational, psychoanalysis, intersubjectivity theory, attachment theory and even Laconian theory.  But by the time of the new millennium, I was turning back to earlier Freudian concepts: the structural theory, the sadistic, superego, the unconscious sense of guilt, the unconscious need for punishment, etc. But as I was turning back to the psychoanalytic psychology of guilt, and the superego, much of our field was moving further and further away from this. In so doing psychoanalysis  was conforming to the wider culture of narcissism produced by neoliberal consumer capitalism . Like the wider society psychoanalysis has been in flight from guilt since the late 1950s. Time to overcome our social amnesia and turn back.

    Dr. Donald L. Carveth is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Social and Political Thought and Senior Scholar at York University in Toronto. He is a training and supervising analyst in the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis and current Director of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis. After completing a doctorate (1977) comparing and contrasting sociological and psychoanalytic theories of human nature (a summary of which was awarded the annual Theory Prize of the American Sociological Association in 1984), he undertook clinical psychoanalytic training, graduating from the Toronto Institute in 1985. With Dr. Eva Lester and others he helped found the Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis/Revue Canadienne de Psychanalyseof which he is a past Editor-in-Chief. He has published some fifty papers in this and other journals. Over the past decade his work has concentrated on issues of guilt, guilt-substitutes, and the differentiation of conscience as a fourth component of the structural theory of the mind in addition to id, ego and superego. He is in private practice in Toronto.

    Learning Objectives

    Participants will be able to explain the difference between persecutory and reparative guilt.

    Participants will be able to explain the difference between the super ego and the conscience and the origins of each


    This is an Intermediate to Advanced Level of Presentation


    Fees

    CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

    Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    New Fellows / Ongoing: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

    Non-CCP members, single admission: $50


    Continuing Education

    This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

    Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by April 3, 2025 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

    References/Suggested Readings

    Carveth, D. (2013). “The Still Small  Voice: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Guilt and Conscience,” London: Karnac.

    Carveth, D. (2023). “Guilt: A Contemporary Introduction.” London: Routledge. 

    Carveth, D. (2023). Marching under the Banner of the Superego: Notes on the Mania for Reproaching. Paper presented as part of “The Political Mind” program of the British Psychoanalytic Society, May 30, 2023.  Online here: https://www.doncarveth.com/_files/ugd/8ad211_dd32806eb3bc4e2ea8866bfd08e0cee9.pdf

    Frattaroli, E. (2013). Reflections on the absence of morality in psychoanalytic theory and practice. In S. Akhtar (Ed.), Guilt: Origins, Manifestations, and Management (pp. 83–110). New York: Jason Aronson.

    Freud, S. (1916). Some character-types met with in psycho-analytic work.. S.E., 14: 311–333. 

    Presented by

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee: Toula Kourliouros Kalven, Alan Levy, PhD, Zak Mucha, LCSW

    The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.

    • 25 Apr 2025
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Zoom
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    Fridays @CCP

    April 25, 2025

    Peter Shabad, PhD

    (Chicago, Il)

    Is it Better to Love and Lose Or Never Love At All    

    7-9pm (CST) : Zoom



    • 4 May 2025
    • 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL & via Zoom
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    Sundays @ CCP

    Sunday, May 4, 2025

    Howard Ruan, MDiv, AM, LSW

    (Chicago, Il) 

    One Continuous Mistake: Desiring Zen and Psychoanalysis

    12-2pm (CST)

    Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

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    Zoom



    • 23 May 2025
    • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago IL and via Zoom
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    Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series


    Annie Reiner, Ph.D., Psy.D., LCSW

    (Los Angeles, CA)

    Friday, May 23, 2025

    Bion’s Basics and Beyond

    What Language Is This Patient Speaking: Limitations of Language in the Psychic Realm

    7-9pm (CST)

    Haymarket House, 800 W Buena Ave, Chicago, IL

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    Zoom


    Dr. Annie Reiner will describe some of W.R. Bion’s fundamental ideas, including his thoughts about the challenges of using verbal language to communicate primitive, often non-verbal states of mind. Bion spoke frequently in Los Angeles about the challenge of using everyday language, created for the physical world of the senses, but which psychoanalysts must adapt and apply to the metaphysical world of the mind.

    As knowledge of primitive mental states increases, so does this challenge of finding ways to speak to deeper levels of the mind. Dr. Reiner examines our use of language, and how psychoanalysts communicate with their patients, as well as their colleagues. Others of Bion’s clinical theories will also be discussed, including the “selected fact,” an innovative clinical technique, as well as his most controversial concept of O.  Clinical examples will be used to illustrate these ideas.

    Annie Reiner has written five psychoanalytic books, as well as numerous articles in journals, and anthologies. She lectures extensively about psychoanalysis throughout the world, and  Dr. James Grotstein ranked her “...high among Bion scholars.”   In addition to her psychoanalytic writings, she has written four books of poetry, a book of short stories, plays, and is the author/illustrator of six children’s books.

    Dr. Annie Reiner is a senior faculty member and training analyst at The Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) in Los Angeles. Her work was greatly influenced by Wilfred Bion, with whom she studied in the 1970's.  She lectures throughout the world, is published in numerous journals and anthologies, and is the author of four psychoanalytic books, including—The Quest for Conscience & The Birth of the Mind (Karnac 2009), Bion and Being: Passion and the Creative Mind (Karnac 2012), Of Things Invisible to Mortal Sight: Celebrating The Work of James S. Grotstein (Karnac, 2017, and most recently, W.R. Bion’s Theories of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2022). Based on these writings, Dr. James Grotstein ranked her “...high among Bion scholars.”  Her latest book, The Poetry, Art, and Science of Psychoanalysis in Bion’s O (Routledge, projected publication date, January 2025).

    Dr. Reiner is also a poet, painter, and a singer, and in addition to her psychoanalytic writings, she is the author of a book of short stories, four books of poems, and six children=s books which she also illustrated. She supervises and maintains a psychoanalytic practice in Beverly Hills, California. 

    Learning Objectives:

    1. Participants will be able to distinguish between the language of everyday life, and the language of emotional life   necessary in psychoanalytic work.

    2. Participants will be able to observe the limitations in communicating about the metaphysical aspect of inner life.

    3. Participants will be able to identify Bion’s concept of ‘O’ as a symbol for absolute truth and a sense of the infinite.

    This is an All Level Presentation

    Fees

    CCP members: free with annual $195 membership, payable at registration.

    Students:free with annual $175 membership, payable at registration.

    New / Ongoing Fellows: free with annual $250/$300 membership, payable at registration.

    Non-CCP members, single admission: $50

    Continuing Education

    This program is sponsored for Continuing Education Credits by the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. There is no commercial support for this program, nor are there any relationships between the continuing education sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants or other funding that could be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If the program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program and its content. CCP is licensed by the state of Illinois to sponsor continuing education credits for Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors, Licensed Professional Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Counselors and Licensed Clinical Psychologists (license no. 159.000941 and 268.000020 and 168.000238 Illinois Dept. of Financial and Professional Regulation).

    Professionals holding the aforementioned credentials will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits a completed evaluation form must be turned in at the end of the presentation and licensed psychologists must first complete a brief exam on the subject matter. No continuing education credit will be given for attending part of the presentation. Refunds for CE credit after the program begins will not be honored. If a participant has special needs or concerns about the program, s/he/they should contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven by May 22, 2024 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

    References/Suggested Readings

    Bion, W. R. (1962). Learning From Experience. New York: Basic Books.

    Bion, W. R. (1970).  Attention and Interpretation. London, Karnac

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