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upcoming events

Chronological Event History

ICP Open House: Pretending it doesn’t hurt: From dissociation to conflict

April 11, 2026 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

erotic longing and the desire for identicality

March 7, 2026 @ 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm PST

2025-2026 Foundation Series

September 13, 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

2025-2026 Saturday Series

September 13, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm PDT

God’s-eye-view: The Evangelical Patient on the Couch

November 16, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

2024-2025 Foundation Series

September 21, 2024 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

When Racialized Ghosts Refuse to Become Ancestors: Tasting the “Blood of Recognition” in Racial Melancholia and Mixed-Race Identities – Dhwani Shah, MD

September 14, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am PDT

2024-2025 Saturday Series

September 7, 2024 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm PDT

Erich Fromm: A Contemporary Introduction – Sandra Buechler in Conversation with Ilene Philipson

July 27, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PDT

Connections and Conversation: Going beneath the surface: What people want from therapy – Linda Michaels, PsyD, MBA

July 11, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

Connections and Conversation: An exploration of psychosis through the Schreber Case – Charles Turk

June 23, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PDT

Racial Rage, Racial Guilt: The Uses of Anger in Asian America

June 1, 2024 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm PDT

Connections and Conversation: Cupid’s Hour: The Transformative Potential of Female Erotic Countertransference – Janine de Peyer, LCSW-R

May 19, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT

Connections and Conversation: Psychoanalytic Contributions to the Treatment of Eating Disorders – Tom Wooldridge PsyD, ABPP, FIPA, CEDS-S

April 27, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT

D. Bradley Jones, PsyD, LCSW and Darren Haber, PsyD, MFT on Psychoanalytic Substance Use Treatment

April 13, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

Connections and Conversation: Belonging and its Discontents – Eyal Rozmarin, Ph.D.

April 6, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT

Open House – An Unlived Life: Finding Hope in Complex Trauma

March 16, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Connections and Conversation: Analytic Love, Self-Compassion and the Growth of Internal Secure Attachment – Daniel Shaw, LCSW

March 9, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am PST

Connections and Conversation: Decolonizing Psychoanalytic Technique: From Repressed Histories to Pragmatic Practices – Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD

February 3, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST

Expanding psychoanalytic passion: a conference in memory of and inspired by Christina Emanuel

January 14, 2024 @ 8:00 am - 4:00 pm PST

Connections and Conversation: Towards a Socio-centric Psychoanalysis Contributing to Deliberative Democracy: Social Dreaming, Community Psychoanalysis, & Reflective Citizenship – George Bermudez, Ph.D., Psy.D.

January 6, 2024 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST

2023 ICP Holiday Party at Birdie G’s

December 9, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 9:00 pm PST

Connections and Conversation: Culture and the texture of experience: Multiple systems perspective from an interpersonal psychoanalytic lens – Miri Abramis, Ph.D

December 3, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PST

When We are Undone: Exploring Moments of Vulnerability, Surrender, and Creative Transformation within the Analyst

November 18, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PST

Connections and Conversation: Silence, ghosts, secrets and trauma – Ruth Lijtmaer, PhD

November 11, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST

In-Person Connections and Conversation: A Psychoanalyst Serves on A Jury – David James Fisher, Ph.D.

October 28, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PDT

Connections and Conversation: The Radical Otherness of Masud Khan – Ilene Philipson, PhD, PhD

October 15, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PDT

2023-2024 Saturday Series

October 7, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm PDT

The Fascist Turn: Totalitarian Objects & Perpetrator Fragments

September 30, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

2023-2024 Extension/Foundation Series

September 23, 2023 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm PDT

Connections and Conversation: “Conflict Statements”: Leveraging the Patient’s Anxiety to Incentivize Transformation and Growth – Martha Stark, MD

September 21, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

Connections and Conversation: On the Place of the Social Unconscious: Implications for Psychoanalytic Thought and Practice – Francisco J. González, MD

August 31, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

Connections and Conversation: The Doorknob Dilemma: A vexing clinical moment with the parent of an addicted child – Darren Haber, PsyD, MFT

July 8, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PDT

Connections and Conversation: Relational Perspectives on Trauma – Estelle Shane, Ph.D.

June 25, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PDT

Connections and Conversation: Psychoanalysis as a Means of Liberation – Debra J. Myers, MD, PsyD

May 25, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

Karen Maroda: The Analyst’s Vulnerability

May 13, 2023 @ 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm PDT

ICP Film Series: Divided We Fall

April 23, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm PDT

Connections and Conversation: Power and Vulnerability in Supervision: a exploration for both supervisors and supervisees – Lynne Jacobs, Ph.D.

April 20, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm PDT

ICP Open House

March 18, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm PDT

Connections and Conversation: Why Not the Body? – Doris Brothers, Ph.D.

March 12, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm PDT

ICP Film Series: Everything Everywhere All at Once

March 5, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm PST

Connections and Conversation: Unitary theory of psychoanalytic play: drama, narrative, and improvisation in field theory and metapsychology – Phil Ringstrom, Ph.D., Psy.D.

February 4, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am PST

ICP Film Series: Harvest of Empire

January 22, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm PST

Connections and Conversation: a dynamic, relational view of empathy – Daniel Goldin, Psy.D.

January 15, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PST

ICP Film Series: Transhood

January 8, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm PST

2022 ICP Holiday Party at Birdie G’s

December 17, 2022 @ 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm PST

ICP Film Series: Racially Charged (America’s Misdemeanor Problem)

November 20, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm PST

ICP Film Series: Engaging race, difference, and otherness through film

November 20, 2022 - April 23, 2023

Radical Openness: A Psychoanalytic Engagement of Race, Difference, & Otherness with Anton Hart

October 1, 2022 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm PDT

Online Colloquium

September 26, 2022 - September 30, 2022

Pre-conference Interview with Anton Hart

September 21, 2022 @ 6:15 pm - 7:15 pm PDT

Extension Classes: Foundations Of Psychoanalytic Theory

September 9, 2022 - June 17, 2023

Saturday Series Classes

September 9, 2022 - May 13, 2023

Phil Ringstrom – Psychoanalytic Play: Improvising in the Emerging Dramatic Narrative of Treatment

April 23, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PDT

ICP Open House

April 2, 2022

Peter Shabad: Trauma, Shame, & Mourning

January 8, 2022

ICP’s Inaugural Film Series

January 1, 2022 - June 3, 2022

The Patient’s Spirituality as Psychoanalytic Challenge

July 10, 2021 @ 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm PDT

presentation vault

Watch recordings and download papers and slides from past Connections and Conversations and Decentralized Learning Experiences.