2025-2026 Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Henry Markman, MD and Julie Ruskin, PhD, Co-Chairs
Adam Blum, PsyD, Elizabeth Bradshaw, PsyD, and John DiMartini, PhD, Committee Members
Medina, Fez Morocco (2014) by Lee Grossman (leegrossman.net)
The Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis Program aims to foster meaningful discussion on major current trends in psychoanalysis — involving clinical practice, as well as psychoanalytic theory applied to topics such as politics, history, aesthetics, literature, film, gender, and development. Leading contributors present original work that is discussed by experts in that particular area.
Date | Program Information |
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Saturday, September 6, 2025 10:00am – 12:00pm PT | MOTHER MEDIA: Seeing moms and being moms in the ages of technology Hannah Zeavin, PhD (presenter) in Conversation with Elizabeth Bradshaw, PsyD |
Saturday, December 6, 2025 09:30am – 12:30pm | Malignant Nostalgia: the impulse to eradicate “the bitter experience of life.” Donald Moss in conversation with Mitchell Wilson Donald Moss, MD (presenter) in Conversation with Mitchell Wilson, MD |
Saturday, February 7, 2026 09:30am – 12:30pm | A Passion For Ever More Dominique Scarfone, MD (presenter) in Conversation with Adam Blum, PsyD |
Saturday, April 11, 2026 10:00am – 12:00pm | Spring Symposium Maggie Nelson (presenter) in Conversation with Francisco González, MD |