PCC is proud to announce its role as a participating sponsor in the 2018 COWAP LA Conference to be held November 9-10, 2018, at the Luxe Hotel Sunset.

COWAP, the Committee on Women & Psychoanalysis, was established by the IPA in 1998 to provide a framework for the exploration of topics relating to issues of concern to women, the relations between men and women, masculinity and femininity, as well as issues of concern to men.

COWAP conducts psychoanalytical research into problems concerning the complex relations between categories of sexuality and gender and their implications for psychoanalysis.

COWAP conferences have been held around the world and have delved into the socio-cultural viewpoints of these regions and work to link theoretical and clinical psychoanalytical thinking with the outside world and its problems.

The Los Angeles COWAP Conference will consider the topic of Psychic Survival In The Face Of Misogyny: The Dialectic Between The Internal & External Glass Ceiling.

The goal of this two-day conference is to expand awareness of this issue beyond what is social and political, and explore the personal and internal glass ceiling experience of persevering in the face of misogyny.

The distinguished Program Faculty is headed by Virginia Ungar, MD, the current and first female President of the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) who is a Training Analyst and Child and Adolescent Analyst at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Unger will be joined by:

Dana Calvo, Award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times. Her work in television draws together her interest in social activism, crime, drug trafficking, and sexual discrimination.

Stephen Kory Friedman, Emmy and Peabody award-winning creator of social impact campaigns and past president of MTV.

Adrienne Harris, PhD, Senior Faculty and Supervisor at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

Paula Ellman PhD, ABPP,Training and Supervising Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society, Washington DC (CFS) and overall Chair of COWAP.

Maureen Murphy, PhD,Training and Supervising Analyst as well as founding President of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

Katelyn Ohashi, Senior on the 2018 National Champion UCLA gymnastics team studying gender studies and four year US National Team member in gymnastics.

Continuing education credit will be provided by the Psychoanalytic Center of California,  accredited by the Institute for Medical Quality/California Medical Association (IMQ/CMA) and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT).

For more information and to register, please visit the COWAP conference website

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Andrea Kahn, PhD, FIPA

Chair, Los Angeles COWAP Planning Committee