Seminars

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders with Barry Stern PhD

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Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is an evidence-based psychoanalytic treatment for personality disorders. Although originally designed to treat patients with borderline personality disorder, the treatment has been extended to the range of patients with a "borderline personality organization," including narcissistic personality disorder, as well as for patients with higher-level personality pathology. Applications of TFP principles to clinical work with adolescent, inpatients, groups, and couples are currently in development.

NPSI OCTOBER 2026 Special Event: Ethical Uses of Countertransference Love: The Analyst's Embodied Presence

Important Schedule Change

New Date: Sunday, October 25, 2026

Time: 9:00–11:00 AM Pacific Time

Via Zoom

Due to unforeseen circumstances for the presenter, Dr. Andrea Celenza, this event has been rescheduled from Saturday, October 24, to Sunday, October 25, 2026, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Pacific Time

Exploring Transgender Identities: Clinical And Ethical Considerations From A Psychoanalytic Framework with Alessandra Lemma, PhD

In this seminar, Dr. Lemma will critically review how psychoanalysis has approached the question of transgender identities and the challenges that have been proposed to the classical psychoanalytic understanding. She will introduce some key ethical points that are important for therapists working in this area. Finally, she will share some of her own clinical work with this group of patients to illustrate some of the challenges and adaptations to technique.

A Seminar on Transference Through the Lens of Jean Laplanche

Transference is ubiquitous. These inarticulable transferential processes enliven and/or deaden an analytic process. Further, they occur in all of our transactions with people, our communal relations, our history, our things (technological processes) and our ideological saturations that affect our way of being in the world. Post-Lacanian thinker Jean Laplanche extends the traditional ideas of transference into the cultural domain and considers what happens with transferential phenomena after analysis has ended.

Seminar with Walter McGerry

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Reflecting on the human condition and the mysteries of the human soul has been my lifelong career. This was my role in my extended and nuclear family. My best friend's mother called me 'the little priest' when I was 7. I could easily have entered religious life.