ICP open house
a free Zoom event
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Join us for a live case presentation and discussion that will highlight the diversity of contemporary relational psychoanalytic approaches to clinical work available within the training programs at ICP Los Angeles.
ICP program information and case presentation – 1pm to 3:30pm PT
Q&A for prospective students/candidates – 3:30pm to 4pm PT

case presentation and panel discussion
pretending it doesn’t hurt/ from dissociation to conflict
Recent ICP graduate, Gaea Logan, LPC-S, will present an evocative case of unresolved trauma and the unfreezing of dissociated self states. ICP members Junie H. Mayes, Ph.D., George Bermudez, Ph.D., and Robyn Sewitz, Psy.D., LCSW will provide commentary on the case and engage in a discussion of Gaea’s case material. Audience members will also have the opportunity to discuss and ask questions about the case.
Q & A for prospective students/candidates
Following the program, you will have the opportunity to meet our instructors, candidates and members and to hear about ICP’s unique training opportunities in psychoanalysis, including our Foundation Series, Saturday Series, and the 4-year Psychoanalytic Training Program. You will experience why ICP and its members are leaders in the psychoanalytic community as respected educators, scholars, clinicians, and clinical supervisors. We hope that you will be inspired by our rich and dynamic display of some of the offerings at ICP.
case presenter:

Gaea Logan, LPC-S
Gaea Logan, LPC-S, is a British-American psychoanalyst and writer. She is the Executive Director of the International Institute for Trauma Studies, in Vinnytsia, Ukraine; a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association; and an alumna of the Harvard Refugee Trauma/ Global Mental Health Program. In recognition of clinical excellence and global humanitarian outreach, she is the recipient of the Yaacov Naor Award for Peace and Dialogue -International Association for Group Psychotherapy ( 2023) Previous awards include: Visionary Leadership in Group Psychotherapy – Four Corners Group Psychotherapy Society (20i9) and the Social Responsibility Award (2015) – American Group Psychotherapy Associations. Gaea currently serves on the Board of Directors at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles, California and has been named Chair of the new Contemporary Psychoanalysis Section at the Association of Psychotherapists and Psychoanalysts in Ukraine.
panelists:
Junie Mayes, Psy.D, received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Yeshiva University in NYC. She then worked at City College, NYC as the clinical co-director for preschool services, supervising the staff and graduate students. After moving to Los Angeles in 1991, Dr. Mayes continued work with clinical preschool programs and became an analytic candidate at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. She has continued her involvement with ICP in many capacities, including as a supervising and training analyst, participation in and chairing committees, and enjoying ICP classes whenever possible. She has a private practice in Santa Monica, California.


Dr. George Bermudez
Dr. George Bermudez, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst at The Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis Los Angeles, and 2020-21 Visiting Scholar at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) has developed pioneering scholarship and practice –an expansion toward a social psychoanalysis–exploring the “social unconscious” through “social dreaming”. Dr. Bermudez will be the Louis Ormont Keynote Speaker at the next annual conference (San Francisco, March 8, 2025) of the American Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA): “Dreaming Democracy Forward”. He is the author of “The Social Dreaming Matrix as a Container for the Processing of Implicit Racial Bias and Collective Racial Trauma” (International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 2018) and “Community Psychoanalysis: A Contribution to an Emerging Paradigm” (Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2019). He has focused on numerous contemporary socio-political concerns: American Xenophobia; Whiteness and Psychoanalysis; Black Reparations; The LGBTQ Unconscious in the Trumpian Era; and The Global Unconscious in the Time of Pandemic. Dr. Bermudez’ most recent work focuses on the applications of social dreaming to the discovery of potential psycho-political solutions to our climate crisis and the development of “deliberative democracy”.
Robyn Sewitz PsyD, LCSW

This is a free Zoom event.
No CE’s offered.
This event will NOT be recorded.
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CE Credit
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No one in the planning or presentation of this activity has any relevant financial relationships with a commercial interest to disclose.
The Presenter/s will receive an honorarium.