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Seminar: The Urge toward Unity: Envisioning the Future of Community Psychoanalysis (Elizabeth Danto & Nancy Burke)

  • 10 Oct 2026
  • 11 Oct 2026
  • 2 sessions
  • 10 Oct 2026, 9:00 AM 4:30 PM (CDT)
  • 11 Oct 2026, 9:00 AM 1:00 PM (CDT)
  • Zoom
  • 15

Registration

  • Registration for audit (active candidates only):
    You are not committed to seminars which you plan to audit. You may audit a seminar-- for no credit and for a reduced fee of $200 per course -- if you are a current candidate and have not yet completed the required seminar component of the training, provided that you are registered for the minimum required number of seminars(three)and case conference per academic year. You may register to audit a course at any time during the academic year. If you decide to audit a seminar, please contact Toula Kourliouros-Kalven at tkalven@ccpsa.org.
  • Community Psychoanalysis Track - As our CPT program is a pilot project with limited availability, please send queries to info@ccpsa.org
  • Once you submit the registration form, you will be considered committed to the seminars for which you register for full credit and at full fee. With good reason, you may later substitute another seminar for one you are unable to take, but this must take place within the current academic year. Any changes must be discussed with and approved by Toula Kourliouros-Kalven (tkalven@ccpsa.org).
  • Registration for half-fee:
    If you have already completed the required 30 elective seminars and the clinical case conference requirement, and wish to take additional elective seminars and/or case conferences, you may do so at a reduced fee: one-half the tuition of a full credit seminar. You do not need to register in advance, but if you can, please do so. To register during the academic year, please contact Toula Kourliouros Kalven (tkalven@ccpsa.org).

    CCP Graduates and board members may also take elective seminars for 1/2 the full fee.

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Elizabeth Danto & Nancy Burke

The Urge toward Unity: Envisioning the Future of Community Psychoanalysis

   October 10-11, 2026

 ZOOM


In the second decade of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud’s writings on Community and Psychoanalysis formed the backdrop for his followers to implement his concept of practice in a democratic society. Community Psychoanalysis will form the core of this inaugural course, a collaborative effort of CCP/Pulsion/FCP.

Our three-part course will allow participants to evaluate the structure and scope of this multi-dimensional practice, to appreciate its historic mission and to clarify its increasingly relevant service role in society today.  In the interest of practitioners, the study of community psychoanalysis will highlight the interaction between interior and environmental dynamics: between those cultures and constructions that organize human experience.

The Friday October 9 lecture is open to CCP/Pulsion candidates and FCP members. This public lecture covers the earliest iterations of community psychoanalysis in clinic settings and in psychoanalytic theory and clarifies its inherent revolutionary impact. On Saturday October 10, participants will explore the mission and vision of the contemporary community clinic and attend the presentation of a detailed psychoanalytic community treatment case. On Sunday October 11 they will participate in an open discussion based on their own experience and readings, and prompting a deeper set of questions: What is community psychoanalysis today?  What would constitute the ideal psychoanalytic clinic? Sunday’s class will draw on Saturday’s presentation to initiate a generative dialogue between the two words at the core of our ongoing project: “Community” and “Psychoanalysis.”


Required Reading

Sigmund Freud (1918/19) “Lines of Advance in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy” in J. Strachey (ed. and trans.)The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud(Vol. 17:167), The Hogarth Press

Sigmund Freud (1929/30)Civilization and Its Discontents
Maggie Doherty (April 2025) “The Social Turn in Psychoanalysis” Harper’s
Anna Freud (Feb. 22, 1961) “Letter to John Schmale”
Elizabeth Ann Danto (2005)Freud’s Free Clinics – Psychoanalysis & Social Justice, 1918-1938, Columbia University Press

Suggested Reading
Emília Estivalet Broide andJorge Broide (2025)Territorial Listening
and Psychoanalysis in Critical Social Situations: Constructing Clinical Dispositifs
The 1968 Press (free download)

Elizabeth Ann Danto and Raul Araujo (2024) “Freud in the Favela”https://www.cccacommunity.com/freudinthefavela

Anna Freud (1966) “The Ideal Psychoanalytic Institute” inThe Writings of Anna Freud, Volume 7, 1966-1970,International Universities Press: 87-93

Russell Jacoby (1986)The Repression of Psychoanalysis - Otto Fenichel and the political Freudians. University of Chicago Press


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