PCC Member Dinner
2018-06-02 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Upstairs 2 Restaurant, 2311 Cotner Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90048
PCC members and their guests are invited to a dinner in honor of Margot Waddell on the occasion of the 29th Annual Melanie Klein Lecture. Register here

PCC Member Master Class
2018-06-03 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | PCC Office Classroom, 11500 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 445, Los Angeles, CA, 90064, United States
This master class with Dr. Margot Waddell is open to PCC members only. Register here

PCC Candidate Master Class
2018-06-03 13:30 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | PCC Office Classroom, 11500 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 445, Los Angeles, CA, 90064, United States
This master class with Dr. Margot Waddell is open to PCC candidates only. Register here

Mark Solms - Clinical Workshop on Neuropsychoanalysis
2018-07-21 08:00 - 2018-07-22 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
Licensed health professionals are invited to this 2 day event, A Practical Introduction to Neuropsychoanalysis: Clinical Implications, featuring Dr. Mark Solms of South Africa. Learn more…
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Gillian Isaacs Russell on Screen Relations
2018-09-15 13:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
Join us for our fall kick-off event, featuring Dr. Gillian Isaacs Russell talking about her book “Screen Relations: The Limitations of Computer-mediated Psychoanalysis and Therapy.” Learn more…

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COWAP Conference (Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis)
2018-11-09 18:00 - 2018-11-10 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Luxe Hotel, 11461 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90049
IPA’s Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP) joins PCC, NCP, and LAISPS in presenting this Los Angeles conference, “Psychic Survival in the Face of Misogyny: The Dialectic Betwen the Internal and External Glass Ceiling”, featuring IPA’s new president, Virginia Ungar. Learn more…

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30th Annual Melanie Klein Pre-Conference Workshop
2019-01-09 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | PCC Office Classroom, 11500 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 445, Los Angeles, CA, 90064, United States
The PCC Continuing Education Committee is pleased to offer this pre-conference workshop facilitated by Dr. Jennifer Langham. The event is open to PCC members, candidates, PPP students and graduates. In preparation for this exploration of Dr. Pick’s work, please read the introduction to Psychoanalysis in the Age of Totalitarianism as well as Chapters 11 and 12 in The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind. A link to these readings is provided below. Learn more.
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30th Annual Melanie Klein Lecture with Daniel Pick
2019-01-12 09:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | PCC Conference Center, 11500 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 505, Los Angeles, CA, 90064
London’s Daniel Pick will be exploring Hidden Persuasion: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Politics in an Age of Extremes at this year’s Klein Lecture. Join us! Learn more…
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30th Annual Klein Member Master Class w/Dr. Daniel Pick
2019-01-13 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | PCC Office Classroom, 11500 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 445, Los Angeles, CA, 90064, United States
This master class with Dr. Daniel Pick is open to PCC Members only. Learn more. Register Here.

30th Annual Melanie Klein Candidate Master Class
2019-01-13 13:30 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | PCC Office Classroom, 11500 W. Olympic Blvd., Suite 445, Los Angeles, CA, 90064, United States
This Master Class with Dr. Daniel Pick is open to PCC Candidates only! Learn more. Register Here.

Pre-Conference Reading Series
2019-02-27 19:30 - 21:00, 2019-03-06 19:30 - 21:00, 2019-03-13 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The four-session pre-conference reading group will take place on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, February 27, 2019, March 6, 2019 and March 13, 2019. This pre-conference reading group is open to PCC members, candidates, PPP students, and PPP graduates. We will discuss four papers selected by Dr. Civitarese in preparation for his presentations for the 9th Annual Wilfred Bion Conference on March 23, 2019

An Evening with Giuseppe Civitarese
2019-03-21 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
Join us for An Evening with Dr. Giuseppe Civitarese on Thursday, March 21, 2019 from 7:30pm-9:30pm”. Learn more.
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9th Annual Wilfred Bion Conference with Dr. Civitarese
2019-03-23 09:00 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
Join us for the 9th Annual Wilfred Bion Conference on Saturday, March 23, 2019 from 9:00am-3:15pm. Learn more.
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9th Annual Wilfred Bion Member Master Class (Members & Recent PCC Graduates only)
2019-03-24 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
The 9th Annual Wilfred Bion Member Master Class is open to PCC Members and recent graduates only!

Grotstein Memorial Lecture #1
2019-03-28 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
This series of 3 presentations in Los Angeles, the James Grotstein Memorial Lectures, honors his work in comparative psychoanalytic theory and is sponsored by NCP, PCC and LAIPS. Stay tuned for more details!

Grostein Memorial Lecture #2
2019-04-18 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States

Grotstein Memorial Lecture #3
2019-04-23 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States

The Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma: Between Intimacy and Separation in Interpersonal Relationships
2021-11-06 09:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom online
In this online continuing education conference, jointly sponsored by PCC and NCP, Dr. Weiss explores the space between closeness and abandonment— the claustro-agoraphobic dilemma of the patient who cannot escape from the position of feeling either trapped in intimate relationships or abandoned by them. He examines issues of how guilt and concrete thinking affect the analyst’s countertransference. Dr. Weiss illuminates how trauma is complicated with fear, shame, and rage, creating a tortuous path toward forgiveness and difficulty in easing a cruel superego.

Dialogue Across Difference: Sociocultural And Clinical Realms with Salman Akhtar, MD
2022-02-26 09:00 - 12:15 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom online
In this program, Dr. Salman Akhtar will discuss the Dialogue Across Difference: Sociocultural and Clinical Realms. Learn more.

Getting to Know Splitting as an Organizing Phantasy, Then and Today with Claudia Frank, MD and Deborah Bilder, Ph.D., Psy.D.
2022-04-30 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online
During the first half of the program, Dr. Frank will present a clinical paper including a detailed analysis of some drawings of one of Klein’s little patients, Erna. From the beginning, Melanie Klein was interested in the unconscious phantasies underlying the child’s different activities. As her career developed, she began to grasp more basic structural unconscious phantasies governing the psychic functioning of her small patients. In her paper, Dr. Frank shows us how Klein’s struggle to understand Erna’s movements in the analytic situation led her to formulate “the fragmentation of the personality into two parts” and to describe the dynamics of splitting for the first time (in a manuscript not published by Klein). In today’s analytic work we can build on that understanding of splitting as an early defensive maneuver. We experience it in the transference-countertransference situation. In interpreting and working it through with the patient, we can enable a process of getting to know one’s organizing/structuring unconscious phantasy, thus having the chance to transform (parts of) it. Dr. Frank will present a few vignettes from the analysis of an adult patient with an obsessive-compulsive disorder. During the second half of the program, PCC member Deborah Bilder will interview Dr. Frank about her commitments on the international level regarding psychoanalytic training including supervision of candidates, infant observation, and the Eitingon model. Learn more.

On the Nature of Transference Interpretation and Why only it Can Bring about Analytic Change: A Kleinian Perspective Grounded in Freud with Professor Rachel Blass and Dr. Jennifer Kunst
2022-05-14 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online
Professor Rachel Blass has published seminal papers on Kleinian theory and practice. Aware of the concerns as well as interest around certain Kleinian ideas, she outlines and develops the meaning of such analytic inquiries as the meaning of the dream, the desire for knowledge, doubt and conviction, the role of repetition, psychoanalytic ethics and morality. She develops her ideas grounded in theory and with arguments for and against her thoughts presented clearly and poignantly. She has an active analytic practice as well as a long teaching career in universities and analytic societies.

During the first half of our program, Dr. Blass will read a paper titled “On the nature of transference interpretation and why only it can bring about analytic change: A Kleinian perspective grounded in Freud” During the second half of the program, PCC member Jennifer Kunst will interview Dr. Blass about an article she wrote titled “The teaching of Klein: some guidelines for opening students to the heart of Kleinian thinking and practice. Learn more.

Transforming Ghosts into Ancestors: Un-silencing the Psychological Case for Reparations to Descendants of American Slavery with Dr. Bryan Nichols and Dr. Medria Connolly
2022-06-11 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online
Drs. Nichols and Connolly have been deeply involved with offering presentations about reparations from a psychological perspective for the past several years. Recently they have been tracking, and have presented in, California’s historic first ever state effort to offer reparations to African American residents for the state’s complicity and involvement in slavery, arguing in favor of the intensely contested idea of the legacies of slavery. “Eligibility” for reparations is a key theme in these discussions, as it has been since slavery ended in the United States. The core target is the moral injury which involves a call to action by institutions that should be able to use their theoretical expertise, including psychoanalysis, to understand and perhaps advocate for reparations, a suggestion for healing multigenerational harm. Learn more.

CE Conference with Fakhry Davids
2022-09-17 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online
More details to follow.

CE Conference with Dr. Annie Reiner
2022-10-08 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online

Infant Observation Conference with Dr. Persila Conversano
2023-02-11 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online

CE Conference with Dana Amir
2023-03-04 09:00 - 12:00 UTC | Zoom online
More details to follow.
Join us for a Continuing Education Conference titled, Psychoanalytic Explorations in Trauma Work: When Traumatic Lacuna Meets Language with Drs. Dana Amir and Eliane Hary. Learn more.

CE Conference with Avner Bergstein
2023-04-22 09:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom online
In this seminar, psychoanalyst Avner Bergstein will present a paper, “Buried in the future which has not happened: Non-linear time, ‘non-logic’ and the ultimate reality of the session.” In this paper, leaning on Bion’s writings, Bergstein emphasizes the close observation of the evolution of the emotional experience of the session as a way of approaching an infinitely complex and often unthinkable reality. This process extricates us from a hallucinatory grasp on the past and elaborates the capacity to tolerate the unknown and unknowable infinite stream towards the future. Hence, the work of analysis, as depicted in this paper, is not only revealing unconscious thoughts buried in the past, but also cultivating a psychically alive mind able to create and generate new thoughts, oriented toward the future and the unknown.
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Merav Roth In-Person: True Love as the Love of Truth
2023-07-15 08:30 - 15:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
This will be a welcome first in-person event for PCC since the pandemic! Or you can join by Zoom!
Dr. Roth will present two papers. The first paper explores the phantasies concerning, on the one hand, ideal connection and complete satisfaction and on the other, the defenses against a bad and frustrating object. The struggle between these two attitudes is at the root of true love. The second paper engages with a specific kind of pathological identification which Roth calls ‘raw’ object identification. This form of identification manifests as concrete physical phenomena which attempt to evade meaning and integration, generating massive splitting. Certain properties of the object are experienced as foreign bodies in the subject and are defensively identified with, resulting in stubborn bodily symptoms. There will be an opportunity for audience participation after each paper. Learn more.
