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The Alliance Board is pleased to announce that the Annual Forum will happen on Saturday, May 2, 2026, at Bastyr University in Kenmore, WA. The Forum, one of our longest running events, is our annual conference that began the same year as our founding in 1989. For more than three decades the Forum has been an extraordinary opportunity to share in the experience, training, and expertise of our diverse psychoanalytic community. Our theme this year is -- Community, Mutuality, and Connection.

Community, Mutuality, and Connection: 

Psychoanalysis has been responding to the challenges of recent years by stretching into new formulations of the collective dimension of human psychology and development. From concepts ranging from the social unconscious to collective trauma, to thinking about the psychopathologies of neoliberalism and the healthy need for shared frameworks for care, we are being invited to think beyond the bounds of the individual, toward understanding the role of community in human psychology.

How does community support—or undermine—mental health? What diverse forms may community take in people’s lives? How do we reckon with the volatility of community, and the need for reparation and repair? What does it mean to live—and dream—meaningfully with other people? Where are the boundaries between individual and community experience? We invite you to think about this vital, problematic, and necessary dimension of life, for psychoanalytic exploration. 

Agenda Overview:

Agenda subject to change

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This program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 6 continuing education credits. SPPP is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in its continuing education activities. SPPP is also committed to conducting all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. Participants are asked to be aware of the need 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 questions, concerns, and any complaints to Emily Rademacher, admin@nwaps.org. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE Sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants, or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest. Participants will be informed of the utility/validity of the content/approach discussed (including the basis for the statements about validity/utility), as well as the limitations of the approach and most common (and severe) risks, if any, associated with the program’s content. 

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