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Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of Fascism and Racism: Learning from Erich Fromm with Dr. Roger Frie

This talk will draw on the work of Erich Fromm, one of the twentieth century’s best known public intellectuals and least understood psychoanalysts. Fromm escaped Nazi Germany and was one of very few psychoanalysts to speak publicly about the dangers of fascism at the time. As Director of Social Psychology and Psychoanalysis at the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt, he developed a view of the human psyche as fundamentally social and political in nature.

Speaking Relationally: From Interpretation to Complex Dialogue with Roy Barsness, PhD and Clarissa Hill, LMHC

This course will focus on speaking to the analyst’s experience of the patients, the links and patterns that are emerging, the replications that are occurring and the working through and negotiating of the inevitable impasses and enactments that are occur when the therapist chooses to enter into dialogue with their patients.

Registration includes live access to this workshop or a recording of the event. 2.5 CEUs are available for extra purchase.

Registrants may request a recording of this event if unable to attend live.

Conceptualizing Culturally Informed Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in a Divisive World with Usha Tummala-Narra

This seminar focuses on the therapist’s and patient’s dilemmas concerning sociocultural issues in the therapeutic relationship. Dr. Tummala-Narra will expand on her framework for culturally informed psychoanalytic therapy (Tummala-Narra, 2016), particularly in the context of the contemporary sociopolitical climate. This elaboration of the framework will include the interaction of personality and social context, complex subjectivity and relational stress implicated in race and culture, and the challenge of humanizing sociocultural difference.

Object Relations: Origins with Jeffrey Eaton

I will present two papers. These lectures explore the work of two contemporary analysts, Michael Eigen and Neville Symington, and how both were deeply influenced by the work of W.R. Bion. The first lecture is titled “Facets of Faith”. It explores the role of psychoanalytic faith as the basis of a welcoming function in the work of Bion and Eigen. The second paper is titled “Realization: Symington reading Bion”. This paper discusses the importance of an analyst’s inner experience as a crucial variable in the therapeutic process, drawing deeply on the ideas of Neville Symington.

Object Relations: Origins with Terry Hanson

Harold Searles was one of the most innovative of American psychoanalytic theorists. Drawing especially on the work of Donald Winnicott, he was one of the earliest writers to explore the psychoanalytic process as a two way street, with the therapist and patient equally involved in a deeply shared human experience. He outlined three phases in the psychoanalytic process: autistic, symbiotic and individuating.

Object Relations: Origins with Judy Eekhoff

This course offers a historical retrospective on the concept of countertransference, with a focus on Paula Heimann’s pivotal contribution in reframing it as a crucial element of psychoanalytic work. Through clinical examples, participants will explore how countertransference serves as a tool for understanding unconscious communication. The course will also include an interactive activity designed to encourage reflection on participants’ own experience of counter-transference in clinical situations.

In-Person at the COR office

Saturday, January 31, 2026

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