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Presentations are open to all those interested in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. MCPP uses a combination of virtual and hybrid, depending on the presenter. Location is indicated below. 

Two social work CEUs and psychology CE credits are available. There is a fee for non-members.

*The Michigan Council for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.  Click here to see our certificate. The Michigan Council for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.  

*The Michigan Council for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy is an approved provider with the Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative. Approved Provider Number: MICEC-0041.

* None of the planners and presenters of this continuing education program have any relevant financial relationship to disclose.

  • MCPP Spring Banquet

    • 7 Jun 2025
    • 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Paesano (3411 Washtenaw Ave, Ann Arbor)
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    Registration is now open for our annual MCPP Spring Banquet at Paesano in Ann Arbor. We are excited to connect over a wonderful meal and to celebrate the past year together. Please indicate food choice in the designated area on the registration form. A cash bar will be available.

    Registration ends June 2nd.


    We hope to see you there!

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  • Desiring Castration: A Reformulation of Castration Theory Illustrated with a Transgender Case. (Danielle Knafo, Ph.D., New York)

    • 21 Sep 2025
    • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Virtual.
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  • Won't Get Fooled Again: Differentiating Between Conscience and Superego for Greater Clinical Effectiveness. (Don Carveth, Ph.D., Toronto)

    • 19 Oct 2025
    • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Virtual
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  • Three Types of Change in Psychoanalytic Treatment: The Stages of Working Through (Robert Waska, Ph.D., M.F.T., L.P.C.C., San Francisco. ) 1:00-3:00 p.m.

    • 16 Nov 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • Virtual * Note time


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  • Risking Intimacy and Creative Transformation in Psychoanalysis (Lauren Levine, Ph.D., New York)

    • 11 Jan 2026
    • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Virtual


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  • On Coming into Possession of Oneself (Donnel Stern, Ph.D., New York)

    • 15 Feb 2026
    • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Virtual


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  • Dream Weaver/Dream Catcher: The Older Child and the Analyst at Work (Denia Barrett, L.C.S.W., Chicago)

    • 22 Mar 2026
    • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • In person/hybrid.


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  • When Empathy Opens: Grappling with the Resulting Therapeutic Dilemmas! (Peter Kaufmann, Ph.D., New York)

    • 19 Apr 2026
    • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Virtual


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  • An Allegiance to Absence: Fidelity to the Internal Void (Rachel Sopher, L.C.S.W., New York)

    • 17 May 2026
    • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
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Past events

18 May 2025 The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst and Psychoanalytic Companioning: Enactment and Narration in Psychoanalysis (Robert Grossmark, PhD., New York)
13 Apr 2025 Dynamics of power and privilege in psychotherapy (Dr. Malin Fors, Hammerfest, Norway) WORKSHOP
23 Mar 2025 Analytic Safety: Navigating the Shifting Sands - A Relational Perspective (Hazel Ipp, Ph.D., Toronto)
20 Mar 2025 MPI Visiting Professor E. Kirsten Dahl, PhD., Dinner and Presentation Event
23 Feb 2025 A Heart Shattered, The Private Self, and A Life Unlived: An Existential-Humanistic Approach to Nurturing Surrender to Moments of Authentic Meeting (Martha Stark, MD., Cambridge, MA)
19 Jan 2025 The Analyst's Torment: Unbearable Mental States in the Countertransference (Dhwani Shah, MD., PA)
17 Nov 2024 Unraveling Psychosis: The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis (Danielle Knafo, PhD., New York)
13 Oct 2024 Sexual Betrayal of Boys and Men: Meanings and Consequences. (Richard Gartner, Ph.D., New York)
15 Sep 2024 Lost & Found: The Decline and Resurgence of Cultural Psychoanalysis in Psychoanalytic Training and Practice (Chris Christian, Ph.D., New Haven CT)
8 Jun 2024 MCPP Annual Member Appreciation Banquet
19 May 2024 What if the patient-therapist relationship were (a bit) like infant-mother interactions? (Edward Tronick, Ph.D., Massachusetts)
28 Apr 2024 Passion and Melancholia, Red and Black: The Vicissitudes of the Sexual in an Analytic Process (Rosine Perelberg, Ph.D., London)
21 Mar 2024 Being Careful in Only a Perverse Way: The Use of Aesthetic Experience in Psychoanalytic Work. Presentation and Dinner with Dr. Steven Cooper, MPI's Visiting Professor
17 Mar 2024 Somatic Experiencing: Enhancing Psychoanalytic Holding and Containment for Complex Trauma and Dissociation (David Levit, Ph.D., ABPP, SEP, Amherst, MA )
18 Feb 2024 Relational Perspectives on Trauma: Brain- and Attachment-Based Expansions of Understanding (Estelle Shane, PhD., Los Angeles, CA)
21 Jan 2024 Nell--A Bridge to the Amputated Self: The Impact of Immigration on Continuities and Discontinuities of Self. (Hazel Ipp, Ph.D. Toronto)
12 Nov 2023 Working With Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting (David Celani, Ph.D., Burlington, VT)
22 Oct 2023 Slip Sliding Away: Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Practice (Stephanie Schechter, Psy.D., Cambridge, MA)
17 Sep 2023 The Fear of Immigrants: Xenophobia and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Usha Tummala-Narra, Ph.D., Boston, MA)
3 Jun 2023 MCPP Spring Banquet
21 May 2023 Irritating and Claustrophobic Objects: The Effect on Curiosity. (Anne Alvarez, Ph.D., London)
16 Apr 2023 Maternal Envy as Legacy: Search for the Unknown Lost Maternal Object (Jill Salberg, Ph.D., New York)
23 Mar 2023 Visiting Professor Dinner: Dr Howard Levine, MD., “The Necessity of Failure “
19 Mar 2023 Psychoanalytic Play: Improvising in the Emerging Dramatic Narrative of Treatment (Philip Ringstrom, Ph.D., Psy.D., Los Angeles)
19 Feb 2023 The Therapist as a Person:  How Our Early Experiences Determine Our Theory and Technique (Karen Maroda, Ph.D., Milwaukee)
22 Jan 2023 Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in a War Trauma Survivor: A Case Study (Sheldon Itzkowitz, Ph.D., New York)
6 Nov 2022 Challenging the Motherhood Mandate: Clinical Explorations of Desire, Agency, and Subjectivity (Hillary Grill, M.S.W., New York)
16 Oct 2022 “Where All the Ladders Start”: Object Relations Legacies, Dissociation, and Playing (Stuart A. Pizer, Ph.D., Cambridge, MA)
18 Sep 2022 “A Shimmering Landscape: The Imaginative and Actual in Psychic Life” (Dodi Goldman, Ph.D., New York)
15 May 2022 The Sounds of Silence: Working with Erotic Dimensions of the Analytic Field(Dianne Elise, PhD - Oakland, CA)
24 Apr 2022 Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll : The Tasks of Adolescence (Seth Aronson, PsyD - New York)
27 Mar 2022 How Playing with Babies Made Me a Better Therapist (Beatrice Beebe, PhD - New York)
20 Feb 2022 On the Limitations of Love: Romance and Loss in Psychoanalysis (Steven Kuchuck, DSW - New York)
16 Jan 2022 Radical Ethics in Times of Plague (Donna Orange, PhD - Claremont, CA)
21 Nov 2021 Falling Out of the World: Traumatic Shock, Strangeness, and Afterwards (Alfred Margulies, MD - Boston)
17 Oct 2021 Playing, Mourning, and Becoming in Psychoanalysis (Steven Cooper, PhD - Boston)
19 Sep 2021 Emotional Connection at a Physical Distance: Phone vs Screen Treatment During Covid and Beyond (Julia Davies, Ph.D - Ann Arbor)
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