co-sponsored by: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

Toward a Conceptualization of Nuisance

Presenter: Steven Cooper, PhD

Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at 7:00 - 9:00 PM Central time

By Zoom Only

Steven Cooper is a Clinical Professor at Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Clinical Professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Training Program in Psychoanalysis. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at both the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.  He served as Joint Editor-in-Chief of Psychoanalytic Dialogues from 2007-2012 and is now Chief Editor Emeritus. In 1989 he received the best paper prize from the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author of numerous articles in psychoanalysis and has written five books and co-edited two books.  His most recent books are “Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis” published by Routledge in 2023 and Psychoanalysis in Play: Expanding Psychoanalytic Concepts from a Play Perspective, published by Routledge in June, 2025. Also in August, 2025 a book that he co-edited with Christopher Lovett will be published: “Winnicott ’s 1967 Letter to Bion: Playing, Dreaming and Beyond.” He is in private practice in New York City. 

Description: 

Winnicott (1945) suggested that some types of aggressive behavior of the returning child from sustained separation from parents may be regarded as an expression of hope, one in which they can yield their forms of defensive self-sufficiency to trust a parent again. In this presentation, Dr Cooper will parse Winnicott ’s later various approaches to understanding both instinctual and reactive aggression and how applying his later views can obfuscate the particular meaning of aggression in nuisance-making behavior. A contemporary interpretation of Winnicott's views on nuisance, a specific definition of nuisance in the analysis of adults, and how it manifests itself in the analytic context is offered.  In the adult patients he describes, anger and hostility have become institutionalized as expressions of grievance or greed regarding earlier ruptures in recognition. Dr Cooper considers two clinical contexts involving the conscious reluctance to agree with the analyst ’s interpretations as well as making demands on the analyst outside the setting as forms of nuisance. He explores how the analyst's needs to hold two psychic realities, the patient ’s hope that is expressed in their nuisance-making as well as the analyst ’s limits in absorbing the patient ’s self-destructive hostility helps to transform the patient's self-destructive bids for recognition into an opportunity for mourning. 

Approximate breakdown of time:

First Hour: presentation

Second Hour: discussion with audience

Learning Objectives

After attending this session, participants should be able to:

1. Participants will be able to identify a contemporary interpretation of Winnicott's views on  nuisance and how it manifests itself in the analytic context.
2. Participants will be able to describe two psychic realities that the analyst must hold onto and understand how this helps transform the patient's self-destructive bids for recognition into an opportunity for mourning. 

Continuing Education Credits are offered exclusively to Society members in all membership categories and those intending to join.

The presenter, Steven Cooper, PhD, 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.

co-sponsored by: The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute

Symbols as Catalysts for Transformation in Analysis

Presenter: Patricia Llosa, MFA, LP

Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at 7:00 - 9:00 PM Central time

By Zoom Only

PATRICIA LLOSA,M.F.A., L.P. (USA/PERU) is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. She trained with the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA) and is a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology. She earned her undergraduate degree in archaeology and art history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and did graduate work at The School of Visual Arts.  For more than 20 years, she worked as an administrator and educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  A graduate of Marion Woodman’s BodySoul Rhythms® Somatics Leadership Training Program, a Woodman Foundation Faculty and Board Member, she has taught workshops in Ecuador, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Mexico, Peru, and Spain.Presently, she serves on the boards of the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Gradiva Awards and The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism and is on the faculty of the Assisi Institute, BodyDreaming Somatic JungianTraining and the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association.

Description: 

This presentation offers an approach to the clinical utility of symbols within the analytic encounter. Moving beyond a "sign-based" interpretation, we will examine the Jungian conceptualization of the symbol as the best possible expression for a yet-unknown psychic reality. We will explore two primary methodological pillars: amplification, the process of expanding a symbol’s meaning through mythic and cultural parallels, and circumambulation, the iterative process of orbiting a central psychic image to allow its inherent meaning to unfold. The presentation will introduce and demonstrate the usefulness of the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS) in clinical practice.

Approximate breakdown of time:

First Hour: presentation

Second Hour: discussion with audience

Learning Objectives

After attending this session, participants should be able to:

1. Apply the techniques of amplification and circumambulation to clinical material to deepen the patient’s relationship with unconscious imagery.
2. Describe how Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism  (ARAS) can be used as a resource in the amplification of symbols.
3. Analyze how symbolic material serves as a bridge between somatic experience and psychological insight.

Continuing Education Credits are offered exclusively to Society members in all membership categories and those intending to join.

The presenter, Patricia Llosa, MFA, LP, 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.

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:

1. To describe Multiple Code Theory and its derived measures of Arousal, Symbolization, and Reflection/Reorganization.
2. 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.