Fall 2026 Events 

Bion's Implicit Method of Clinical Inquiry

Presented by Joseph Aguayo, PhD

October 24, 2026

1:00 pm -4:00 pm ET
Location: Zoom
CEs: 3
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals and graduate students 
Instructional Level: Early Professionals / Intermediate 

Student rate: $10
Member rate: $50
Non-member rate: $75

All Access member: Free

Not a member? Become one here for discounted event registration or you can sign up for this event at the full fee here. 

 Is Dialogue Possible?

How to Talk Constructively About Politics, in Therapy and Our Personal Lives

Presented by Kenneth Barish, PhD

Saturday, Nov 7, 2026 from 9:30 am - 12:00pm ET

(There will be a 15 minute break) 
Location: Will be held on Zoom 
CEs: 2.5
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals and graduate students 
Instructional Level: Intermediate 

Student rate: $15
Member rate: $80
Non-member rate: $120

All Access member: Free

Not a member? Become one here for discounted event registration or you can sign up for this event at the full fee here. 

Why We Need a Judge to Judge the Judge

Presented by Donald Carveth, PhD

Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026 

11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: This event will be on ZOOM. 
CEs: 2
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals and graduate students 
Instructional Level: Graduate Students & Early Professionals

Building on his previous work, which distinguishes persecutory from reparative guilt and the superego from the conscience, Dr. Carveth explores how these distinctions can be applied in clinical practice. Dr. Carveth argues that, while we must avoid becoming “superegoish” with our patients, we are nonetheless tasked with carrying the conscience within the treatment until patients are able to internalize it themselves. Similarly, although the hostile superego cannot be simply “demolished,” it can be disempowered through ethical critique. This paper considers how that process unfolds in the clinical encounter.

Student rate: $10
Member rate: $50
Non-member rate: $75

All Access member: Free

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Therapeutic Action and the Origin of Psychic Life

Presented by Howard Levine, MD

December 5, 2026

9:00 am - 11:00 am ET
Location: Cambridge Health Alliance

1493 Cambridge St, Cambridge MA 02139 (please read below about the virtual option) 
CEs: 2
Target Audience: Licensed mental health professionals and graduate students 
Instructional Level: Introductory / Intermediate 

Contemporary psychoanalysis has seen a shift in emphasis in therapeutic action and technique that has moved from a predominant focus on the uncovering or reintegrating of repressed, disguised or split off contents to include the intersubjective creation, development and strengthening of psychic processes and capabilities. The model or metaphor for the analyst’s role in this process has been analogized to that of the primary maternal object in the origins of psychic life. This paper explores that metaphor in the movement from unrepresented to represented psychic states and offers a clinical example from the analysis of a particularly withdrawn young adult.

Will be held in person in Cambridge, MA

This talk with Howard Levine is planned as an in-person event, and we warmly encourage everyone in Boston and the surrounding area to join us in the room. We value the conversation and connection that in-person gatherings make possible.

For international attendees, and for those outside the greater Boston area who are unable to travel, a Zoom option will be available. To attend virtually, please register for the event and then request a Zoom link. Links will not be distributed automatically.

Thank you for helping us keep this a vibrant in-person gathering.

Student rate: $25
Member rate: $75
Non-member rate: $125

All Access member: Free

Not a member? Become one here for discounted event registration or you can sign up for this event at the full fee here.