Child Colloquium Series

2024 - 2025 Child Colloquium Series

David Frankel, PhD and Yen Quoc, PsyD, Co-Chairs
Paul Brinich, PhD, Lilly Hanson, MFT, Courtney Hartman, PsyD and Lelia Youn, Committee Members

Date	Program Description
Saturday, September 14, 2024 10:00am – 12:00pm	Working with the Harsh Adolescent Superego Holly Gordon, DMH (presenter) Ann Martini, LCSW (discussant)
Saturday, January 11, 2025 10:00am – 12:00pm	Therapy and medications: How can child and adolescents clinicians work collaboratively with psychiatrists? Ross Andelman, MD, MFA (presenter)
Saturday, February 22, 2025 05:00pm – 08:00pm	Film Screening and Discussion After Sun Reyna Cowan, PsyD, LCSW (discussant)
Saturday, March 8, 2025 10:00am – 12:00pm	A felt-self: aspects of symbolizing through psychotherapy of an autistic boy. Jeffrey Eaton, MA, FIPA (presenter) Anne Alvarez, PhD, M.A.C.P. (discussant) Lilly Hanson, MFT (moderator)
Saturday, March 22, 2025 10:00am – 12:00pm	Coming Out as Gender Fluid: “That’s what threw him.” Robert Tyminski, DMH (presenter) Holly Gordon, DMH (discussant)
Saturday, May 17, 2025 10:00am – 12:00pm	Hot Feelings: Intensity in the consulting room–the erotic field between a female analyst and her male and female adolescent and adult patients, with special attention to sexual transference and countertransference Jennifer Davids, PhD (presenter) Charles Dithrich, PhD (discussant) Paul Brinich, PhD (moderator)

2023-2024 Child Colloquium Series

The Child Colloquium Series are offered free of charge through a generous support of the SFCP and the Sophia Mirviss Fund.

Upcoming Events

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Special Programs

W.R. Bion’s Reading of C.G. Jung’s Memories, Dreams and Reflections

Joseph Aguayo, PhD (presenter); Peter Goldberg, PhD and Mark Winborn, PhD (discussants)

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Visiting Professor Weekend

Introduction to the work of Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA

Peter Goldberg, PhD

Saturday, April 26, 2025, to Sunday, April 27, 2025

Committee on Groups

SFCP's Annual Group Relations Weekend

Alan Ruiz, MFA; and Janice K. Wagner, LCSW (facilitators)

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Visiting Professor Weekend

A morning with Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA - Bion's Technique

Nicola Abel-Hirsch, FIPA (presenter); Laurie Goldsmith, PhD (moderator)

Sunday, May 4, 2025

Visiting Professor Weekend

Professor's Choice: On "Container/contained Transformed"

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Coalition for Clinical Social Work

Unwound and Unwound-ing: A Poetic Psychoanalytic Exploration of Whiteness

Hazel White; Jyoti Rao, MFT; and Forrest Hamer, PhD (panelists)

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

Listening Into Being: An Actor’s Invitation

Robin Weigert in Conversation with Kristin Fiorella

Mondays, September 29 to October 20, 2025

Coalition for Clinical Social Work

CCSW mini-Module: Working with Parents: A Complex and Essential Component of Child Psychotherapy

Lea Brown, LCSW, and Amy Wallerstein Friedman, LCSW (instructors)

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