Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Joyce Slochower, PhD

(New York, NY)

Psychoanalytic Endings

Friday, November 20, 2026

7-9pm (CST)

1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago

& ZOOM

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Reception: 6:30 - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins at 7 :00 PM(CST)

We look forward to welcoming you—whether in person or via Zoom.

About this presentation:  I consider the place of termination in contemporary psychoanalytic practice. A more flexible approach to therapeutic endings represents one dimension of a broader paradigm shift away from rule-boundedness and toward clinical flexibility. I first describe the broader move toward flexibility within the field and then explore its complex implications for psychoanalytic endings. Ironically, despite the power of our termination ideal, less-than-final, and absent goodbyes have always been part of psychoanalytic reality. While traditional psychoanalytic endings do exist, it’s my sense that they are far rarer than is believed. Our discussion will address the role of dyadic and individual dynamics on the decision to end, the impact of early experience of endings—ordinary and traumatic—on the termination process.  We’ll also address the effect of real-world constraints (time limits, institutional pressures, pandemics, etc.) on termination.  Finally, we explore the dynamics and implications of the decision not to end at all.

Joyce Slochower Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Psychology at CUNY; Faculty, NYU Postdoctoral Program, Steven Mitchell Center, National Training Program, & PINC in San Francisco.  Second edition of her books, Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective and Psychoanalytic Collisions were released in 2014.  Her latest book, Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken, was released by Routledge in 2025. She is co-Editor, with Lew Aron and Sue Grand, of De-idealizing Relational Theory: A Critique From Within and Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique (2018, Routledge) both of which received the Gradiva award in 2019. She is in private practice in New York City where she sees individuals and couples and runs supervision and study groups.  

Learning Objectives

After the lecture participants will be able to describe

1. The traditional psychoanalytic theory of termination 

2. How contemporary thinking has changed our understanding of termination and its many shapes

This is an Intermediate to Advanced 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  November 19, 2026 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

1. Bass, A. Ph.D. (2009): “It ain't over ‘til it's over”: Infinite conversations, imperfect endings, and the elusive nature of termination.   Psychoanalytic Dialogues: The International Journal of Relational Perspectives, 19:6, 744-759.

2. Bergmann, M.S. (1997). Termination: The Achilles heel of psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Psychology 14(2) 172-174.

3. Loewald, H.W. (1988). Termination analyzable and unanalyzable. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 43:155-166. 

 

4. Salberg, J., ed. (2010). Good Enough Endings: Breaks, Interruptions, and Terminations from Contemporary Relational Perspectives. New York: Routledge 

  

5. Slochower, J. (2022). Sequels.  J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 70(5): 845-873. 

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The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Jill Gentile, PhD

(New York, NY)

The Gender of Object Use: What the Phallus Cannot Hold 

Friday December 11, 2026

7-9pm (CST)

ZOOM ONLY 

About the presentation: Must the object become phallic to become real? Winnicott's ostensibly ungendered theory of object use may conceal a sexual politics of subjectivation: the maternal object, initially useful as an abject receptacle for what the emerging subject cannot bear, becomes recognizable as a subject only upon surviving destruction and acquiring phallic standing. But what must be repudiated for the object to stand? And what if the feminine is not merely what escapes phallic signification, but what makes signification itself possible?

Reading Winnicott alongside Lacan, Kristeva, and Irigaray, this paper interrogates the phallic economy of object use. Lacan's feminine not-all disrupts phallic totalization, while feminine jouissance intimates an enjoyment beyond its measure. Yet insofar as the feminine remains designated through its excess over phallic logic, does it acquire symbolic agency—or remain captive to the very economy it exceeds?

I propose the vaginal signifier as an intervention into this predicament: neither a rival master signifier nor a recuperation of feminine plenitude, but a symbolic form of generative space, a boundary that opens, a limit that enables passage. The maternal object's enigmatic desire already introduces alterity within the supposedly pre-Oedipal dyad, unsettling the paternal monopoly on law and difference. Feminine law does not displace paternal prohibition; it makes non-possession something other than exile.

The surviving object need not renounce permeability to acquire standing. Beyond abjection and phallic mastery emerges the heart-object, whose capacity to stand and open transforms the meaning of object use. Love becomes possible not through the overcoming of lack or difference, but through sustaining a relation to what exceeds possession, knowledge, and symbolic capture.

Jill Gentile,PhD, Jill Gentile, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, writer, and faculty member at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She serves as Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

She is the author, with Michael Macrone, of Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire, and more than fifty scholarly essays exploring agency, desire, democracy, free speech, and the feminine. Her work has received the Gradiva Award, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association Prize, and the Maurice Burke Paper Prize. She also served as an advisor to the acclaimed film The Tale.

Gentile has trained in ketamine-assisted therapy and psychedelic integration, and her explorations extend to master plant dietas in the Peruvian Amazon and shamanic and spiritual traditions of healing. Alongside her New York City analytic practice, she leads study groups exploring the evolving possibilities of psychoanalysis in dialogue with expanded states of consciousness, spiritual agency, and collective transformation.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to articulate a developmental movement from use of the abject to use of the phallic object as a newly theorized dimension of object use.

Participants will be able to explain how a gendered reinterpretation of Winnicott's theory of object use opens a developmental pathway beyond gender polarity toward mutual recognition, democratic relatedness, and love.

This is an Intermediate 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  September 17, 2026 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Gentile, J. (2022). The missing signifier and a malfunctioning paternal law: On the feminine third as vital portal for sexual difference and emancipatory democracy. In A. Govrin & T. Caspi (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (pp. 494–506). Routledge.

Gentile, J. (2023). The democratic significance of anatomical difference. In J. Petrucelli, S. Schoen, & N. Snider (Eds.), Patriarchy and its discontents (pp. 110–131). Routledge.

Kristeva. J. (1982). Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, trans. L. Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.

Seligman, S. (2006) The Analyst's Theoretical Persuasion and the Construction of a Conscientious Analysis: Commentary on Paper by Meira Likierman. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 16:397-405 

Winnicott, D. W. (1969). The use of an object. International Journal of Psycho- Analysis, 50: 711–716

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The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Patricia Gherovici, PhD 

(New York, NY)

“More Powerful than Hate: Freud, Lacan, Fanon, and Bad Bunny.”

Friday January 29, 2027

7-9pm (CST)

ZOOM

About the presentation:This public lecture addresses psychoanalysis in the barrio to ask how hatred shapes subjects, communities and the culture they create. Hatred, Lacan argued, is one of the three passions of being, alongside love and ignorance. It does not rest with the other’s disappearance but seeks their degradation and erasure. Freud showed how love of a leader and hatred of an enemy can bind a crowd beyond the reach of reason, and Lacan went further, calling ours a “civilization of hatred,” one driven by segregation, the objectification of the subject and a capitalist discourse that sets aside “the things of love.” Hate seeks degradation and total negation, an endless pursuit that Lacan described as “consistent.” 

Frantz Fanon, psychiatrist and theorist of colonialism, gives these ideas a body and a history. He showed how colonial hatred is written into the psyche of the colonized: in language, in the gaze of the other, and in a self-image imposed from outside. Fanon also insisted that the clinic could not be separated from the social conditions that produce suffering, a conviction that runs through community psychoanalysis today.

Bad Bunny serves as a contemporary point of encounter. Born out of trap and reggaeton, genres once policed and dismissed as noise from the margins, his music speaks from Puerto Rico’s colonial condition, in Spanish, to a global audience. His work takes up displacement, gentrification, and the pleasures and wounds of the barrio, turning the place of exclusion into a place of enunciation. Treating his songs and public persona as cultural texts, the lecture asks what happens when those positioned as objects of contempt claim the right to speak, to desire, and to celebrate.

Bringing these four figures into conversation, the lecture explores how hatred and exclusion are lived, resisted and transformed, and what psychoanalysis can offer: a space where those pushed to the margins can speak as subjects rather than be managed as problems.

Patricia Gherovici, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and Sigourney Award recipient. Single-authored books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Gradiva Award and Boyer Prize),  Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference . With Chris Christian: Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious  (Gradiva Award and American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize); with Manya Steinkoler: Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can't  ;  Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy, and Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans* (Gradiva Award).

Learning Objectives:

Examine hate as a developmentally self-protective response to the other, one that is part of how identity is formed but can also become self-destructive.

Analyze, through a psychoanalytic lens, the seductiveness of racism and fascism and the interpersonal, institutional, and structural violence they produce.

Explore how community psychoanalysis responds to hate as a lived reality for people marked by poverty, migration, racism, and institutional neglect, and reflect on their own position as clinicians, including how they deal with their own hate.

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 28, 2027 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

Suggested Reading

Bass, A. (2021). “Murderous Racism as Normal Psychosis: The Case of Dylann Roof”. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69(2), 291-313.

Euripides. Medea. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35451/35451-h/35451-h.htm

Ghent, Emmanuel. “Masochism, Submission, Surrender – Masochism as a Perversion of Surrender” (1990). Contemporary Psychoanalysis, (26):108-136.

 

Weiland, C. (2015). Chapter 7 "The Homogenized Group" and Chapter 8 "Masculinity and the Fascist State of Mind". The Fascist State of Mind and the Manufacturing of Masculinity. (pp 109-140). 

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Marilyn Charles, PhD

(Pittsfield, MA)

Re-Finding the Feminine: Forgotten Threads of Meaning in Psychoanalysis

Friday February 12, 2027

7-9pm (CST)

1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago

& ZOOM

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Reception: 6:30 - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins at 7 :00 PM(CST)

We look forward to welcoming you—whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the presentation: Psychoanalysis has been grounded in Freud’s discovery of the profound impact of unconscious processes on human being and meaning.  And yet, his theories and technique pushed towards the more rational realms of meaning-making.  He recognized the extent to which female development remained a “dark” and unexplored “continent” but seemed to turn a deaf ear to those women, such as Karen Horney, who had a seat at the table as psychoanalysis was forming.  One hundred years later, Horney’s theorizing about what impedes our ability to recognize more fully the capacities and vulnerabilities inherent in the feminine remains relevant.  In this paper, I explore some of the forgotten, or under-valued threads from women who have made significant contributions to our field.  Through this effort, I hope to invite greater integration of those capacities marked, disparately male or female, qualities essential to our development as embodied, rational beings. (145).

This essay considers the largely unrecognized role of gender in the development of object use. It proposes a developmental continuum from the abject object to the phallic object, arguing that these mark successive organizations of gender within the symbolic. Read in this way, Winnicott's account of object use discloses a developmental logic that is coextensive with, yet extends beyond, his own formulation. What emerges is a conception of object use no longer organized by a phallic symbolic, but by a vaginal or feminine spatiality capable of holding paradox, difference, and transformation. The movement beyond gender polarity thus becomes both the precondition and the achievement of love and mutual recognition.

Marilyn Charles is a psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center, Co-Chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS), and Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council.  Affiliations include the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, Universidad de Monterrey, Harvard Medical School, Adelphi University, and the Association for Psychosocial Studies.  Research interests include creativity, metacognition, the intergenerational transmission of trauma, and the impact of devaluation on women and other marginalized groups. Books include: Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan; Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Echoes of Trauma: Meaning and Identity in Psychoanalysis; and a volume of poetry: Orphans of the Real: Reflections on Love and Loss. (109)

Learning Objectives

 Participants will be able to articulate a developmental movement from use of the abject to use of the phallic object as a newly theorized dimension of object use.

Participants will be able to explain how a gendered reinterpretation of Winnicott's theory of object use opens a developmental pathway beyond gender polarity toward mutual recognition, democratic relatedness, and love

This is an Intermediate 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  February 11, 2027 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Aulagnier, P. (2015). Birth of a body, origin of a history. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 96(5), 1371–1401. 

Charles, M. (2024). Somatization and symbolization. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 84:57-78.

Charles, M. (2025). Re-finding the feminine: Forgotten threads of meaning in psychoanalysis. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 85:531-553.  

Charles, M. (2025). Echoes of Trauma: Meaning and Identity in Psychoanalysis.  APA Books. 

Crociani-Windland, L., & Charles, M. (Eds.). (2022). Repositioning the maternal: An intimate pedagogy [Special issue]. Journal of Psychosocial Studies,15(2).

Leikert, S. (2021). Encapsulated body engrams and somatic narration – Integrating body memory into psychoanalytic technique.  International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 102(4):671-688.

Lombardi, R. (2025) Transference onto the Body: Beyond the Relational, the Symbolic, and Hystorical. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 35:719-732.

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

***A recording will NOT be available for this session***

Peter Reiner, PhD, LMFT

(Chicago, Il)

Psychoanalytic Essentials for Couple Therapists: Clinical Application of Core Concepts

Friday March 5 , 2027

7-9pm (CST)

1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago

& ZOOM

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Reception: 6:30 - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins at 7 :00 PM(CST)

We look forward to welcoming you—whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the presentation: This clinically-focused presentation will illustrate the central role of projective and introjective identification in bridging partners’ internal and external worlds, and in increasing role polarization or fostering empathic connection.  A videotaped consultation interview with a married couple will be interwoven with commentary on the integration of systems theory with key psychoanalytic processes:  splitting, projective identification, containment, and enactment.  

Excerpts from a consultation interview will be presented, including these:

1.An immediate, powerful, clinically-significant sequence of projective/introjective identification between spouses that reveals core relationship dynamics and issues, which are later the topic of heated discussion;

2.Sequences of projective/introjective identification that contribute to the polarization of the couple into “pursuer” and “distancer” roles (“splitting”), thus demonstrating their key role in mediating between the intrapsychic and the interpersonal (or systemic);

3.Examples of projective and introjective identification between the husband and the therapist, showing how these processes can either strengthen or weaken empathic connection and illustrating both the benefits and challenges of containment.

Peter Reiner, PhD, LMFT is faculty and former Vice-President of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis (CCP); faculty at The Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University; and faculty, and training and supervising analyst at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute (CPI).  He is adjunct clinical consultant in the Institute for Clinical Social Work’s (ICSW) Integrative Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy Program.

Peter was staff and clinical training coordinator at the Family Institute of Chicago, and Secretary of the Chicago Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology.  He is an award-winning teacher who has led more than 60 graduate and post-graduate classes or seminars in systemically-oriented couple and family psychotherapy, psychodynamically-oriented psychotherapy, and psychoanalytic technique.  

Dr. Reiner has written at length about the training and supervision of psychodynamically-oriented couple and family therapists, including “Training psychodynamic family therapists,” (in Lebow, Chambers, & Breunlin [Eds.] Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy, 2017) and “Systemic psychodynamic supervision,” (in Todd & Storm [Eds.], The Complete Systemic Supervisor:  Context, Philosophy, and Pragmatics [2nd ed.], 2014).  He is the author of “Psychoanalytic Essentials for Couples Therapists” (in Lebow, Chambers, & Breunlin [Eds.] Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy, revised edition; in press).

Peter is a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and marriage and family therapist who provides consultation to mental health professionals and maintains a private practice in Chicago and by telehealth of psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy with individuals, couples, and families.

Learning Objectives

1.Participants will be able to explain the key role of projective identification in connecting the intrapsychic and the interpersonal realms.

2.Participants will be able to identify interactive sequences in couples that increase polarization and splitting.

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 March 4, 2027 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Morgan, M. & Friend, J. (Eds.). (2027).  Love, its meaning and exploration in couple therapy.  London:  Routledge.

Nielsen, A. (2019).  Projective identification in couples.  Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 67(4), 593-624. 

Novakovic, A. & Reid, M. (Eds.). (2018).  Couple stories:  Application of psychoanalytic ideas in thinking about couple interaction.  London:  Routledge.  

Reiner, P. (2017).  Training psychodynamic family therapists.  In J. Lebow, A. Chambers, & D. Breunlin (Eds.), Encyclopedia of couple and family therapy, (DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_665-1).  Springer International Publishing AG.

Ringstrom, P. (2018).  Relational psychoanalytic perspective on couples psychotherapy.  Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 38(5), 399-408

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Friday March 26, 2027

7-9pm (CST)

ZOOM

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Sheldon George, PhD

(New York, NY)

The Sutured Subject of Race and the Obscene Pleasures of Racism

Friday April 16, 2027

7-9pm (CST)

1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago

& ZOOM

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Reception: 6:30 - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins at 7 :00 PM(CST)

We look forward to welcoming you—whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the presentation: In this talk, Sheldon George will engage race and racism through a focus on psychoanalytic theory, racial whiteness, and African American identity. He will deploy the Lacanian psychoanalytic concept of jouissance, or excessive, painful pleasure, to argue that race and racism structure contemporary subjectivity in relation to a jouissance of race.  This jouissance, he will suggest, sutures race to subjectivity, stitching race into the psyche of the modern subject.  While race mends the lack in white subjectivity to produce a fantasy of wholeness, racism aims at unraveling the psychic cohesion of black subjects. Through analysis of the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, a reading of creativity in African American culture and music, and an interpretation of Toni Morrison’s novel Paradise, George will suggest the means through which African Americans protect themselves psychically against the traumas that assail the black psyche.

Sheldon George is Chair and Professor of Africana Studies at University of Massachusetts Boston.  George’s scholarship focuses on race and racism through a study of culture, literature, and theory.  His book Trauma and Race, published in 2016, was the first to offer an extended Lacanian analysis of African American identity. George is coeditor of Reading Contemporary Black British and African American Women Writers (2020).  His publications include the pioneering collection of essays Lacan and Race: Racism, Identity and Psychoanalytic Theory (2021). His most recent book, published in 2024, is the collection Experimental Subjectivities in Global Black Women’s Writing: Race and Narrative Innovation. George is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society who has coedited two special issues of that journal and two special issues of Studies in Gender and Sexuality.  He is a former Chair of the Executive Committee of the Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature forum of the MLA, and he holds the title of Extraordinary Professor of English at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Learning Objectives

1.Participants will be able to understand the role of otherness in Lacanian theory

2.Participants will be able to apply key Lacanian concepts like Suture and Jouissance to a psychoanalytic understanding of race and racism

This is a Beginers  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  April 15, 2027 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Aulagnier, P. (2015). Birth of a body, origin of a history. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 96(5), 1371–1401. 

Charles, M. (2024). Somatization and symbolization. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 84:57-78.

Charles, M. (2025). Re-finding the feminine: Forgotten threads of meaning in psychoanalysis. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 85:531-553.  

Charles, M. (2025). Echoes of Trauma: Meaning and Identity in Psychoanalysis.  APA Books. 

Crociani-Windland, L., & Charles, M. (Eds.). (2022). Repositioning the maternal: An intimate pedagogy [Special issue]. Journal of Psychosocial Studies,15(2).

Leikert, S. (2021). Encapsulated body engrams and somatic narration – Integrating body memory into psychoanalytic technique.  International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 102(4):671-688.

Lombardi, R. (2025) Transference onto the Body: Beyond the Relational, the Symbolic, and Hystorical. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 35:719-732.

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Sandra Buechler, PhD

(New York)

Erich Fromm’s Clinical and Social Relevance Today

Friday April 30, 2027

7-9pm (CST)

1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago

& ZOOM

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Reception: 6:30 - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins at 7 :00 PM(CST)

We look forward to welcoming you—whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the presentation: Although Fromm wrote “The Heart of Man: It’s Genius for Good and Evil”  more than sixty years ago, I believe it is as relevant today as it was then. In this book, Fromm challenges us to live according to the values we profess: “Indeed, we must become aware in order to choose the good-but no awareness will help us if we have lost the capacity to be moved by the distress of another human being, by the friendly gaze of another person, by  the song of a bird, by the greenness of grass.” (Fromm, 1964, p.150). In this presentation I highlight Fromm’s contribution to my thinking as a clinician, citizen, human being.

Sandra Buechler, Ph.D. Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute; author of Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment, (Analytic Press, 2004),  Making a Difference in Patients’ Lives, (Routledge, 2008), Still Practicing: The Heartaches and Joys of a Clinical Career, (Routledge, 2012), Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from Literature, (Routledge, 2015)  Psychoanalytic Reflections: Training and Practice, (IPBooks, 2017) Psychoanalytic Approaches to Problems in Living, (Routledge, 2019), Poetic Dialogues (IPBooks, 2021) Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, 2025), and Languages of the Heart: Personal Essays on Poetry and Clinical Practice (Routledge, in preparation).

 Learning Objectives

1. Participants will be able to explain Fromm’s understanding of what makes a society healthy.

2. Participants will be able to describe Fromm’s conception of love as an activity.

This is a Beginers  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  April 29, 2027 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Buechler, S, (2004). Clinical Values: Emotions that Guide Psychoanalytic Treatment. The Analytic Press. 

Buechler, S. (2024). Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction. Routledge.

Fromm, E. (1955). The Sane Society. Henry Holt & Company.

Fromm, E.  (1956). The  Art of Loving. Harper & Row.

Fromm, E. (1976). To Have or To Be? Harper & Row. 

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Margery Kalb, PsyD

(New York)

On Ghosts, Underinternalizations, and the Interpsychic

Friday May 21, 2027

7-9pm (CST)

ZOOM

About the presentation: This paper builds upon Loewald’s ideas about ghosts, internalizations, interpsychic interactions, and therapeutic action by considering the perils of infantile hauntings and potential passageways toward the more fully internalized ancestors that enlarge our capacity to thrive.

Using Loewald's theory as touchstone, I propose that his iconic concept of “ghosts” (Loewald, 1960) can be understood to represent regressive (re)experiences of undermetabolized interactions. The intensity of internal experience that has little language or organization or representation becomes an enduring “underinternalization” – a potentially problematic blueprint – haunting self and relationships.

But ghostly experience also holds the potential for growth: Anticipating current interest in the intricacies of interaction, Loewald coined the term “interpsychic,” characterizing it simply as the unconscious or preconscious effect and influence we have upon one another. What is interpsychic communication? How does it develop and emerge in clinical interactions, and beyond? And how can it potentiate growth?

Loewald recognized that turning ghosts into “ancestors” does not mean banishing infantile ghosts. He sowed the seeds for understanding how interpsychic communications between analyst and patient can offer pathways toward laying inner hauntings to relative rest, thereby nurturing contact with wellsprings of creativity and vitality.

Margery Kalb, Psy.D,  is a Founder, as well as Chair of the Board of Directors, of The Hans W. Loewald Center. She is teaching Faculty and Supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, where she served as Chair of the Contemporary Freudian Track from 2016-2021. She is co-editor of two books: Ghosts in the Consulting Room and Demons in the Consulting Room, published in 2016, and author of numerous papers on ghosts, encompassing themes such as development and internalization, therapeutic action, therapeutic relationship, interpsychic and intersomatic communications, and loss/mourning. She is in private practice in NYC.

Learning Objectives

 1. Participants will have gained descriptive knowledge of psychoanalytic theories on psychic ghostly phenomena.

2. Participants will be able to define the clinical and theoretical meaning and utility of the term ghosts.

3. Participants will be able to recognize and discuss ways that psychic ghosts manifest in the clinical setting.

4. Participants will be able to define ways to intervene clinically when ghosts are prominent in the consulting room.

This is an Intermediate / Advanced 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  February 11, 2027 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Chodorow, N.J. (2019). The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition. London, UK: Routledge. 

Balsam, R., Brett, E. & Levenson L. (Eds.) The Emerging Tradition of Hans Loewald. London: Routledge. 

Freud, S. (1914). Remembering, repeating, and working-through. Standard Edition, Volume XII: pp. 145-156. London: Hogarth Press.

Kalb, M. (2015). Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Reluctant Ancestors. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 51(1):74-106. 

Kalb, M. (2025). Hans W. Loewald: Quiet Revolutionary, Creative Synthesizer, Inspiration for 21st Century Psychoanalysis (An Introduction to The Hans W. Loewald Center). In Balsam, R., Brett, E. & Levenson L. (Eds.) Hans Loewald: His Legacy and Promise. London: Routledge.  

Loewald, H.W. (1960). On the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis. In: Papers on Psychoanalysis, 221-256. Hagerstown, MD: University Publishing Group, Inc.

Loewald, H. (1962). Internalization, separation, mourning, and the superego. In: Papers on Psychoanalysis, 257-276. Hagerstown, MD: University Publishing Group, Inc.

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee

Fridays @ CCP Lecture Series

Kirkland Vaughans, PhD

(New York, NY)

The Cultural Inhibitions  to “Dig”  on Black Boys  ‘La Winnicott in Psychotherapy'

Friday June 4, 2027

7-9pm (CST)

1132 S. Wabash Ave., Suite 502, Chicago

& ZOOM

Join us for drinks and light appetizers before the lecture!

Reception: 6:30 - 7:00 PM (CST)

Lecture begins at 7 :00 PM(CST)

We look forward to welcoming you—whether in person or virtually via Zoom.

About the presentation: While it is abundantly clear that children and families of Hispanic origin are experiencing an overwhelming assault on their basic sense security and liberties in this nation, there seems to be little or no questioning as to how Black children in particular are experiencing what some consider to be a repudiation of the Civil Rights Movement. There are physical attacks against Asians and Anti-Semitic attacks against Jewish people, causing one to pause and label this era, as highly racially and religiously polarized.  My specific focus is on Black boys and how cultural and historical racial attitudes have become so embedded within our thought pattern as to make them, non-thoughts, but more of a way of seeing and understanding the world. Hence, our responsibility as psychoanalytic clinicians to examine their influence on us, our profession, and most definitely on our treatment.

Kirkland Vaughans, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. A Fellow-training and supervising analyst-on the faculty of IPTAR, he is also faculty and founder of the Adelphi  Derner/ Hempstead Child Clinic and Supervisor in the Child & Adolescent Program of the Derner Postgraduate Program and faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis and the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center. He is also the Honorary Institute Dean of the Harlem Family Institute. He is Founding Editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and the co-editor of the two-volume Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents. He has presented at over 125 conferences and panel discussions on issues pertaining to white racism, generational trauma among African Americans, and the school-to-prison pipeline for boys and girls of Color, and is a subject of the documentary, Your Mum and Dad. He Is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak and was a member of the Holmes Commission. In addition, he is a recipient of the 2024 Founder Award of SPPP. (Div. 39) APA.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will recognize how Black children are culturally portrayed as lacking innocence as opposed to White children
2. Participants will recognize how for Black youth this perceived  lack of innocence distorts the function of therapeutic empathy.

This is a Beginers  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  June 3, 2027 at: tkalven@ccpsa.org

References/Suggested Readings

Cushman, D,.(2025) Who gets to be a child? Clinical and cultural reflections on racism, White infantilization, and Kyle Rittenhouse .Psychoanalytic Dialogues. 35(4), 478-499.

Davids, M,F. (2020) Psychoanalysis and black lives. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 101(5), 1039-1047.

Schwebach, E. (2023) Racism, activity, and passivity in the analytic dyad: A Favonian mediation. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 70(4), 619-639.

Vaughans, K.C. (2021) Black boys in the eye of the storm. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 7(1), 47-58.

Vaughans, K.C. & Harris, L. (2016) The police, Black and Hispanic boys: A dangerous inability to mentalize. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 15(3), 171-178.

Presented by

The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis/CCP Program Committee