co-sponsored by: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute
Multiple Code Theory: Bridging Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Research, and Neuroscience
Presenter: Charles M. Jaffee, MD
Tuesday, May 12, 2026, at 7:00 – 9:00 PM Central time
In person at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute,
8 S. Michigan Ave./7th Floor
or by Zoom
Speaker:
Charles M. Jaffe MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute. His areas of interest include couple therapy and adolescence in addition to psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Dr. Jaffe ’s writings focus on psychoanalytic theory, adolescent development, the theory of therapeutic action and the integration of clinical work and research. He has lectured across the United States and in China. Most recently, he co-led a conference at the Institute on “School is Out: Moving Beyond the Psychoanalytic Baby,” focusing on an integrated approach to neuroscience, an epigenetic hierarchical frame for clinical process, and a rational approach to a spectrum of treatment interventions. Dr. Jaffe is a retired Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Rush University Medical Center. He received the 1984 James Saft Award for Outstanding Clinical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Michael Reese Medical Center and has been a four-time recipient of the Residents ’ Award for Outstanding Psychotherapy Teacher in the Psychiatric Residency at Rush University Medical Center. He received his medical education at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed his residency in Psychiatry and Clinical Research Fellowship in Adolescence at the Michael Reese Hospital.
Description:
A valuable way to start therapy is to consider: “What is the patient suffering from?” This talk describes a new method for answering that question: Multiple Code Theory. It is an approach that makes use of recent development in understanding basic emotion systems, drives, and instincts. In looking at the use of Multiple Code Theory, the presentation will focus on the video of a psychotherapy case.
Learning Objectives
After attending this session, participants should be able to:
- To describe Multiple Code Theory and its derived measures of Arousal, Symbolization, and Reflection/Reorganization.
- To apply the Multiple Code Theory to observe the activation and changes in emotion in the presented case video.
Continuing Education Credits are offered exclusively to Society members in all membership categories and those intending to join.
The presenter, Charles M. Jaffee, MD, and the organizer, Lisa Karaitis, PsyD, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to report.
Participants are asked to be aware of the need for privacy and confidentiality throughout the program.
ACCME Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA) and the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement: The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement: The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
Accreditation Information for Professionals Other Than Physicians. The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content, in relation to accreditation for CE credits for non-physicians. CPI is licensed by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation to sponsor continuing education credits for (license numbers in parentheses): Social Workers (159.000122), Professional Counselors (197.000202), Marriage and Family Therapy Therapists (168.00204), and Clinical Psychologists (268.000091).
Eligible professionals will receive 2.0 continuing education credits for attending the entire program. To receive these credits an evaluation form must be completed online. Learners must claim the amount of time spent in the educational activity and that will be the amount of credit they will earn.
