The Psychoanalytic Center of California

Meg Harris Williams presents "Aesthetic Conflict in Infant Observation: The Developing Baby and the Developing Observer"
2024-02-10 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom online
Join us for a conference with featured presenter Meg Harris Williams. In this program, Ms. Williams will focus on the use of the ideas and methods of W.R. Bion and Esther Bick as developed by Martha Harris in the training model she established for child psychotherapists at the Tavistock Clinic. Learn more.

PCC Open House 2024
2024-03-17 11:00 - 14:00 | Hybrid – In-Person and Virtual, 3200 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, 90034, United States
Join us for the PCC’s Annual Open House with with Featured Speaker Joseph Aguayo, Ph.D. Topic: Encountering the Primitive Mind: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Our Beginning. Learn more

Transgender Youth and "The Missing": Exploring the Use of Photographs in "Working Through" the Natal Body
2024-05-18 09:00 - 10:30 | Zoom online
Join us for a Presentation with Dr. Alessandra Lemma on Transgender Youth and “The Missing”: Exploring the Use of Photographs in “Working Through” the Natal Body. Learn more.

Toward a Jung/Bion Dialogue: W.R. Bion's Reading of C.G. Jung's Memories, Dreams and Reflections
2024-06-15 09:00 - 12:00 | Hybrid – In-Person and Virtual, 3200 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, 90034, United States
Join us for an engaging conference with featured speaker Dr. Joseph Aguayo titled; “Toward a Jung/Bion Dialogue: W.R. Bion’s Reading of C.G. Jung’s Memories, Dreams and Reflections“. Learn more.

Radical Rethinking: A Future for Psychoanalysis Beyond the Individual Unconscious
2024-09-14 09:00 - 12:00 | Hybrid – In-Person and Virtual, 3200 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, 90034, United States
In this program Dr. Francisco Gonzalez will discuss Radical Rethinking: A Future for Psychoanalysis Beyond the Individual Unconscious. Learn More

2024 Melanie Klein Lectureship, Melanie Klein's Narrative of an Adult Analysis
2024-10-26 09:00 - 15:00 | CA
PCC’s 2024 Annual Melanie Klein Lectureship will focus on Dr. Christine English’s new book, Narrative of an Adult Analysis (2023), which is an exploration of the first record of Melanie Klein’s long treatment of an adult patient, Mr. B. Learn more.

Melanie Klein Lectureship Brunch on Dinner
2024-10-26 18:00 - 21:00 | Lulu at the Hammer
PCC Members and Candidates are invited to join Christine English for an intimate and elegant dinner at Lulu at the Hammer, located in the courtyard of the Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Westwood, 90024. Free self -parking is available at the Hammer, with entrances on both Westwood Blvd and Lindbrook Blvd. Valet parking is $10. Learn more.

From Fear to Love: Revisioning the Oedipus Complex
2025-05-03 09:00 - 10:30 | Zoom online
In her lecture, “From Fear to Love: Revisioning the Oedipus Complex”, Dr. Kunst will explore the Oedipus complex by drawing from the ideas of Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and contemporary Kleinians. She will apply these models to the challenges of modern life and clinical work in an easily digestible and compelling way. Film clips and audience discussion will be utilized to enhance the learning experience. Learn more.

ICAPP Clinical Series with Dr. Patricia O'Brien and Jeffrey Eaton
2025-05-04 09:30 - 11:30 | CA
Working Analytically with Young People from Early Childhood to Adolescence and Understanding the Earliest Development of Primitive States of Psych-Soma. Learn More.

Jean Laplanche's Theory of the Unconscious and Why Gender Matters in Psychoanalysis
2025-09-27 09:00 - 12:00 | Zoom online
Join us for Jean Laplanche’s Theory of the Unconscious and Why Gender Matters in Psychoanalysis with Dr. Dominique Scarfone. Learn More.

An Advanced Ethical Framework for Psychoanalysis with Dr. Jennifer Kunst
2025-11-09 09:00 - 12:15 | Zoom online
Please join Dr. Jennifer Kunst as she presents “An Advanced Ethical Framework for Psychoanalysis“. Learn more

Infantile Trauma and Transformations: The Application of Infant Observation to Clinical Work with Children and Adults
2026-02-14 09:00 - 12:15 | New Center for Psychoanalysis, 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025, United States
PCC’s Infant Observation Committee has dedicated this year’s Infant Observation Conference to showcasing the work of Alessandra Cavalli, Ph.D. and her unique model of infant observation which integrates Jung, Klein and Bion’s thinking in analytic work with children and adults. Learn more.

Hope and the Machine: Thriving in, Not Just Surviving, the AI Revolution with Todd Essig, PhD
2026-03-14 09:00 - 12:15 | CA
Dr. Todd Essig will discuss Hope and the Machine: Thriving in, Not Just Surviving, the AI Revolution. Learn More.

PCC Open House 2026
2026-03-22 11:00 - 14:00 | Hybrid – In-Person and Virtual, 3200 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, 90034, United States
Join us for the PCC’s Annual Open House 2026. Dr. Jennifer Kunst will discuss, “Sowing and Reaping the Seeds of Change: Evolving Models from Freud to Klein and Beyond”. Learn More.

OUTSIDER.FREUD Fundraiser and Film Screening followed by a Discussion with the Director Yair Qedar and Christfried Togel, Freud Biographer
2026-04-19 10:00 - 13:30 | Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center at Vista Del Mar, 3200 Motor Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90034
Join us for a Film Screening of the “OUTSIDER. FREUD”, followed by a Discussion with Director Yaie Qedar and Christfried Toegel, Freud Biographer. Learn More.

A Cure Through Love? with Dr. Judy Eekhoff
2026-04-25 09:00 - 12:15 | Zoom online
Join the PCC for “A Cure Through Love?” half-day conference with Judy Eekhoff, Ph.D. Learn More.

The Psychoanalyst's Listening with Dr. Bruce Reis
2026-06-06 09:00 - 12:15 | Zoom online
Join us on Zoom on Saturday, June 6, 2026 for this enriching seminar, “The Psychoanalyst’s Listening: for, to, and with” featuring Dr. Bruce Reis. Learn more and register here
