Connecticut Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology upcoming events

Clinical Conference: Beatrice Beebe, PhD: How Can We See What We Don't See? Infant Research and Adult Treatment (05 Dec 2026)

Sat, 05 Dec 2026 18:00:00 GMT

The Connecticut Society For Psychoanalytic Psychology

presents

Beatrice Beebe, PhD:

How Can We See

What We Don't See?

Infant Research and Adult Treatment

Clinical Conference

Saturday, December 5, 2026

Conference Check-In: 12:45pm (not CE Eligible)

Main Conference: 1pm-4pm (CE Eligible)

3 CE credits available

NASW/CT Continuing Education Credit Hours

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Please be sure to log into your CSPP account before registering.

Conference Location

Albertus Magnus College,

Behan Community Room, New Haven, CT

Directions and Photo

Map of Albertus Magnus College

(In person only)

The Talk

Face-to-face communication is too fast to fully capture with the naked eye. Video microanalysis slows down this powerful, largely out-of-awareness, moment-to-moment process and allows participants to see subtle, split second, complex patterns of relating that cannot otherwise be readily grasped. The program illustrates infant research through examples involving a gaze-avoidant infant and the origins of secure and disorganized infant attachment. It then applies the same microanalytic approach to adult treatment through examination of the first 30 seconds of an adult treatment session on Zoom.

Learning Objectives

As a result of this presentation, attendees will:

1. After this session, participants will be able to describe an example of split second coordination not visible to the naked eye in one mother-infant interaction.

2. After this session, participants will be able to describe an example of split second coordination not visible to the naked eye in one adult treatment session on Zoom.

3. After this session, participants will be able to describe an example of how microanalysis of the first 30 seconds of the session helped one therapist understand treatment themes that were sensed but not previously verbalizable.

Meet the Speaker

Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D., is a developmental/clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and Clinical Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center/New York State Psychiatric Institute. Her research program has focused for four decades on video and audio microanalysis of mother-infant face-to-face communication, including dyadic regulation, attachment, and the effects of maternal depression and anxiety. Her work has used microanalysis as a “social microscope” to identify patterns of contingent relating, and she has extended this perspective to clinical treatment and video-feedback work. These experiences directly support the program’s focus on split-second coordination in infant interaction and adult treatment.

Recommended Readings

Beebe, B., & Lachmann, F. (2020). Infant research and adult treatment revisited: Co-creating self- and interactive regulation. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 37, 313–323. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000305

Beebe, B., Messinger, D., Bahrick, L. E., Margolis, A., Buck, K. A., & Chen, H. (2016). A systems view of mother–infant face-to-face communication. Developmental Psychology, 52(4), 556-571. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0040085

Houghton, R., & Beebe, B. (2016). Dance movement therapy: Learning to look through video microanalysis. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 38(2), 334–357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10465-016-9226-0

Sandberg, L., & Beebe, B. (2020). A patient who does not look: A collaborative treatment with video feedback. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30, 479–498.

Participants

The conference is appropriate for professionals interested in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The instructional level of this conference is intermediate.

Continuing Education Credits

If continuing education credit is desired, please mark the appropriate box on the registration page, for our records. If continuing education credit is approved, 100% attendance and completion of the program evaluation will be required to receive continuing education credit.

No partial credit is available; you must be present for the duration of the program. There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for programs or instructors. AI was utilized to assist in the formatting of promotional materials.

The Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SPPP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

To Register and Pay

Members - remember to log in for member discount.

If you do not log in, you won't be recognized as a member.

All registrations must be made and paid for online.

You can pay with credit card and debit card.

If you are using a phone, you will need to register through the WildApricot app, which is designed for phone use and will allow you all the options. The app Wild Apricot for Members is available in your App Store for free. Just log in with your usual CSPP email and password.

Refunds will be given in full until the Monday before the conference. To receive a refund, cancel your registration online by going to your profile in the upper right corner, select "My Event Registrations" click on the event, then click on "Cancel Reservation." Questions/problems, please contact the registrar, Monique St. Paul.

Scholarship registrants: If you need the registration code, please contact Lisa Patrick, LCSW-R.

Members and Contacts - Need to update your information?

Please login to your profile, then click under your name at View Profile, to make any changes or additions, including changes of email addresses. If you have problems, please contact Kelly Butler.

CSPP Membership: Membership is open to all mental health professionals ($115 annual dues); early career (10 years or less since degree, $55 annual dues); retirees ($40 annual dues); and graduate students ($20 annual dues). For further information on CSPP membership, please click here.

Accessibility and Accommodations

If you require an accommodation to participate in this program, please contact Cheryl Cummin in advance so that we can make reasonable efforts to accommodate your needs.

Diversity and Non-Discrimination
CSPP is committed to diversity and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. Please see the Diversity Statement from CSPP’s Committee for Equity and Diversity Education and Action (CEDEA).

Registration

For registration questions, please contact Monique St. Paul.

Concerns or Complaints

Please contact Cheryl Cummin, Assistant Clinical Conference Committee Chair, regarding CSPP’s CE complaint process.

Program Questions

For questions about the program or its content, please contact Amanda Michael, PsyD, CGP, Clinical Conference Committee Chair.

Clinical Conference: Virginia Goldner, PhD: Romantic Bonds, Binds, and Ruptures: Couples on the Brink (06 Feb 2027)

Sat, 06 Feb 2027 16:00:00 GMT

The Connecticut Society For Psychoanalytic Psychology

presents

Virginia Goldner, PhD:

Romantic Bonds, Binds,

and Ruptures:

Couples on the Brink

Clinical Conference

Saturday, February 6, 2027

Conference Check-In: 10:45am

Main Conference: 11am-1pm

Held via Zoom

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Please be sure to log into your CSPP account before registering.

The Talk

Drawing on her influential article, Romantic Bonds, Binds, and Ruptures: Couples on the Brink, Virginia Goldner will explore the clinical challenges of treating couples caught in cycles of conflict, attachment injury, and relational impasse. Bridging psychoanalytic theory, feminist and queer theory, and systems theory, Goldner examines how intense emotional bonds can generate destructive enactments that threaten intimacy and mutual recognition. Through clinical material, she illustrates interventions that help therapists navigate escalating conflict, manage countertransference, and address underlying relational trauma. Participants will gain strategies for interrupting entrenched interactional patterns, facilitating emotional regulation, and creating opportunities for relational repair and therapeutic change.

Learning Objectives

As a result of this presentation, attendees will:

1. Identify at least two recurring relational enactments associated with attachment injury and escalating conflict in distressed couples, and describe corresponding clinical intervention targets.

2. Describe how to apply at least two relationally informed therapeutic interventions to interrupt destructive interactional cycles, reduce emotional escalation, and facilitate greater mutual recognition between partners.

3. Develop a clinical strategy for identifying and managing therapist countertransference during high-conflict couple sessions in order to maintain therapeutic engagement and support opportunities for relational repair.

Meet the Speaker

Dr. Virginia Goldner is an internationally recognized psychoanalyst and couples therapist whose work bridges psychoanalytic theory, feminist and queer theory, and systems theory. She has received awards from the American Family Therapy Academy and Division 39 of the American Psychological Association. She is a Clinical Professor at NYU's Post-doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, faculty at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, a supervisor at CUNY, and Emeritus Faculty at the Ackerman Institute of the Family. She teaches and supervises internationally, maintains a private practice, and serves as on-camera consultant to Orna Guralnik on Showtime's Couples Therapy. Founding Editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, she has authored more than 50 articles and book chapters.

References

Fonagy, P., Luyten, P., Allison, E., & Campbell, C. (2019). Mentalizing, epistemic trust and the phenomenology of psychotherapy. Psychopathology, 52(2), 94-103. https://doi.org/10.1159/000501526

Goldner, V. (2014). Romantic bonds, binds, and ruptures: Couples on the brink. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 24(4), 402-418. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2014.932209

Goldner, V., Levine, L., & Hartman, S. (2025). Après coup of "Romantic bonds, binds, and ruptures: Couples on the brink." Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 3592), 157-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2025.2470061

Sherlow-Levin, A., Shahar, B., Goldman, R., & Bar-Kalifa, E. (2024). Applying the Rupture Resolution Rating System to emotion-focused couple therapy. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 50(4), 801-820. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12723

Participants

The conference is appropriate for professionals interested in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The instructional level of this conference is intermediate.

Continuing Education Credits

To Register and Pay

Members - remember to log in for member discount.

If you do not log in, you won't be recognized as a member.

All registrations must be made and paid for online.

You can pay with credit card and debit card.

Scholarship registrants: If you need the registration code, please contact Lisa Patrick, LCSW-R.

Members and Contacts - Need to update your information?

Please login to your profile, then click under your name at View Profile, to make any changes or additions, including changes of email addresses. If you have problems, please contact Kelly Butler.

Accessibility and Accommodations

If you require an accommodation to participate in this program, please contact Cheryl Cummin in advance so that we can make reasonable efforts to accommodate your needs.

Registration

For registration questions, please contact Monique St. Paul.

Concerns or Complaints

Please contact Cheryl Cummin, Assistant Clinical Conference Committee Chair, regarding CSPP’s CE complaint process.

Program Questions

For questions about the program or its content, please contact Amanda Michael, PsyD, CGP, Clinical Conference Committee Chair.

Clinicial Conference: David Witten, LCSW & Jeffrey W. Katzman, MD: Expectations, Violations of Expectations and Playing with Expectations: Meeting the Moment with an Improv Sensibility (06 Mar 2027)

Sat, 06 Mar 2027 16:00:00 GMT

Clinical Conference

Saturday, March 6, 2027

The Connecticut Society For Psychoanalytic Psychology

presents

David Witten, LCSW & Jeffrey W. Katzman, MD

Expectations, Violation of Expectations and Playing with Expectations: Meeting the Moment with an Improv Sensibility

Albertus Magnus College

In-Person Only Event

More Information To Follow

Clinical Conference: Ken Corbett, PhD: Men and Children: The Impact of the Manosphere (03 Apr 2027)

Sat, 03 Apr 2027 15:00:00 GMT

Clinical Conference

Saturday, April 3, 2027

The Connecticut Society For Psychoanalytic Psychology

presents

Ken Corbett, PhD.

Men and Children:

The Impact of the Manosphere

Hybrid Event

Albertus Magnus College and Zoom

More Information To Follow

Clinical Conference: Steven Stern, PsyD - Airless Worlds, Needed Relationships, and Complex Selfobjects (01 May 2027)

Sat, 01 May 2027 04:00:00 GMT

The Connecticut Society For Psychoanalytic Psychology

presents

Steven Stern, PsyD

Airless Worlds,

Needed Relationships,

and Complex Selfobjects

Clinical Conference

When: Saturday, May 1, 2027

Where: Hybrid Event

Albertus Magnus College

Zoom

Event Details:

Conference check-in: 10:45am

Conference: 11am-1pm

A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants the day before the event.

The Talk

Building on his 2019 paper in Psychoanalytic Dialogues, “Airless Worlds: The Traumatic Sequelae of Identification with Parental Negation,” Steven Stern will get into the weeds of the kinds of clinical process through which patients suffering from airless world syndrome can be helped to liberate themselves from their psychic captivities. He will focus on five major principles or constructs as applied in two clinical examples. They are: the needed relationship; deconstruction; resubjectification; a complex selfobject connection; and breathing together. Though his theoretical scheme may seem complex and abstract, Stern is a psychoanalytic pragmatist whose goal with each patient is to achieve progressive “usability” (à la Winnicott) as an increasingly trusted, transformational other.

The Speaker

Dr. Steven Stern is a faculty member, training analyst and supervisor at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis (MIP) and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity (IPSS) in NYC; and is Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine and Maine Medical Center. His book, Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing: A Holistic Relational Perspective on the Therapeutic Process was published by Routledge in 2017 in the “Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series.” His second book, Airless Worlds and the Restoration of Psychic Breathing: Working Psychoanalytically with Early Relational Trauma, also with Routledge, was released in August, 2025. Dr. Stern practices in Portland, ME specializing in psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, couples therapy, clinical supervision and consultation.

Learning Objectives

1. At the conclusion of this talk, attendees will be better able to recognize patients suffering from airless world syndrome in their practices.
2. At the conclusion of this talk, attendees will be able to apply a clinical framework for treating patients suffering from some form or degree of airless world syndrome.
3. At the conclusion of this talk, attendees will understand, and be able to facilitate the development of, a complex selfobject connection with their patients who have experienced significant developmental trauma.

Recommended Reading

1. Stern, S. (2019). Airless worlds: The traumatic sequelae of identification with parental negation. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 29: 435-450.
2. Newman, K. M, et al. (1988). Countertransference: It’s role in facilitating the use of the object. Annual of Psychoanalysis, 16: 251-276.
3. Bollas, C. (1987). The self as object. Chapter 3 in C. Bollas (1987). The shadow of the object: Psychoanalysis and the unthought known. London: Free Association Books. Also published as: Bollas, C. (1982). On the relation to the self as object. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 63: 347-359.

Participants

The conference is appropriate for professionals interested in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The instructional level of this conference is intermediate.

Continuing Education

Continuing Education Credit Update: Due to recent changes to the Division 39 continuing education process, Division 39 continuing education credits will not be offered for this conference.

This program has been approved for Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and meets the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal. Please check with your state licensing board regarding the applicability of these credits to your own professional licensing requirements.

To Register and Pay

Members: Remember to log in to receive the member discount when registering. If you do not log in, the system will not recognize your membership status.

All registrations must be completed and paid for online.

If you are using a phone, you will need to register through the WildApricot app, which is designed for mobile use and provides access to all registration options. The app Wild Apricot for Members is available free through your App Store. Simply log in with your usual CSPP email and password.

Refunds will be given in full until the Monday before the conference. To receive a refund, cancel your registration online by going to your profile in the upper right corner, selecting "My Event Registrations” clicking on the event, then click on "Cancel Reservation." For questions or problems, please contact the registrar, Monique St. Paul.

Scholarship registrants: If you need the registration code, contact William Hartmann, MFT.

Members and Contacts - Need to update your information? Please login to your profile, then click under your name at View Profile, to make any changes or additions, including changes of email addresses. If you have problems, contact Kelly Butler.

CSPP Membership: Membership is open to all mental health professionals ($115 annual dues); early career (10 years or less since degree, $55 annual dues); retirees ($40 annual dues); and graduate students ($20 annual dues). For further information on CSPP membership, please click here: CSPP.

Accessibility and Non-Discrimination: CSPP is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its educational activities. Participants are asked to be aware of needs for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program. If program content becomes stressful, participants are encouraged to process these feelings during discussion periods. If participants have special needs, we will attempt to accommodate them.

Please address general conference program questions

or concerns to Amanda Michael, PsyD.