Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process: The Art of Not-Knowing. Presentation, with Creative Writer Rivka Galchen. Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, February 14, 2018
Cultivating the Psychoanalytic Mind: The Art of Not-Knowing. Presentation for the Dallas Society of Psychoanalytic Psychology, October 18, 2017
Workshop on Psychoanalytic Listening for the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center, February 11, 2017
Interview of Arlene Heyman and Discussion of Scary Old Sex. Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, January 21, 2017
Psychoanalytic Listening: Creative Acts and Creative Processes. Presentation, with Creative Writer, Sheila Kohler. Winter Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, January 18, 2017
Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process. Daylong Workshop for the Tampa Bay Psychoanalytic Society, November 12, 2016
Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process, Presentation for the Fall Faculty Retreat, Houston Center for Psychoanalytic Studies – November 19, 2016
Creative Listening and Clinical Engagement. Three Saturday Seminars for Dallas Psychoanalytic Center, October 2016
Patients (and Doctors) Are Complex Characters: Creativity in Clinical Practice. University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Grand Rounds, May 11, 2016
Listening to You, I Get the Story…, Workshop, Washington, DC Society of Psychoanalytic Psychology, March 11, 2016
Embodied Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process: Sensibility, Engagement, and Envisioning. Workshop, Austin Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, September 25, 2015
Creative Listening and the Psychoanalytic Process. Discussion Group, Scientific Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York City, January 14, 2015
Symposium 2014: Psychoanalysis: What Works in Psychoanalytic Therapies, “Therapeutic Action.” Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC. March 21, 2014
The Embodied Experience of Analytic Listening, Discussion Group (with Randall Paulsen, MD). American Psychoanalytic Association Winter Meeting, NYC, January 15, 2014.
Standing in the Abyss. Countertransferenceand Therapeutic Engagement: Living through the Feelings that We Must Bear, San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.April 12, 2013.
“Life Stand Still Here”: Dimensions of Analytic Listening. A Close Reading of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and a Case Presentation. A Ten-Evening Seminar.September-November, 2012. Dallas, Texas
Use of Reflective Writing in Teaching Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Discussion Group on Balint Groups and Narrative Medicine, American Psychoanalytic Association scientific meeting, January 11, 2012
Countertransference and Therapeutic Engagement:
Living through the Feelings that We Must Bear, Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology October 19, 2011
Animating the Relational World: The Clinical Use of Creative Reading and
Creative Writing. Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology
November 17, 2010
Surviving the Way We Live: Narrative Medicine and Psychiatry North Texas
Society of Psychiatric Physicians. September 23, 2010
The Therapeutic Process: Some Integrative Models from Neurobiology and
Cognitive Neuroscience Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry at UT
Southwestern Medical School, April 14, 2010
Founders’ Day Presentation, Dallas Psychoanalytic Center
The Clinical Use of Imaginative Literature: Creative Reading and Creative
Writing, October 24, 2009
Presentation at Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine conference,
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Surviving the Way We Live: the Use of Creative Writing for Containment of the Physician’s Emotional Experience, May 1, 2009
Creative Writing as an Avenue to Processing Emotional Trauma. Presentation to New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 17, 2008
One Form of Self-Analysis: The Act of Creative Writing as Psychoanalytic Process. Presentation to Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society, September 19, 2008
Senior Psychoanalyst Presentation, Annual Meeting of the American
Psychoanalytic Association, Atlanta, Georgia, June 18, 2008
Presenter at Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy discussion group at
American Psychoanalytic Association meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, June 18,
2008
Psychoanalytic Perspectives: Freud and Beyond. Honors Program, University of Alabama at Birmingham, August 28, 2008
What Neuroscience Tells Us about How and Why Psychotherapy Works, Grand Rounds in UAB Department of Psychiatry, University of Alabama School of Medicine
Part 1 October 7, 2007
Part 2 October 14, 2007
What Neuroscience Tells Us about How and Why Psychotherapy Works. Alabama Psychiatric Society, March 30, 2007, Sandestin, Florida
Love and Loss as Portrayed in a Painting by Benjamin West. Birmingham
Museum of Art, February 13, 2007
The Necessity of Narrative in Medicine: The Story’s Reach into Human Experience, Honors Program, University of Alabama School of Medicine, January 4, 2007
Imaginative Literature and the Psychoanalytic Process, New Directions in Writing program of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, Washington, DC, Creative Dialogues, October 13-15, 2006
The Use of a Short story to Resolve a Clinical Impasse: What Psychoanalysts
Can Learn from Creative Writers about the Analytic Space and the Process of Containment. Syracuse Psychoanalytic Study Group, Syracuse, New York,
June 29, 2006
The Use of a Short Story to Resolve a Clinical Impasse: What Psychoanalysts
Can Learn from Creative Writers about the Analytic Space and the Process of Containment. Presentation to the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Center, April 7, 2006
The Necessity of Art in Medicine, Address to University of Alabama School of Medicine Student and Faculty AOA Art Show, February 10, 2006.
Writing and Telling Your Stories to Improve the Art of Medicine. Workshop
sponsored by the Permanente Journal, October 20, 2005 Narrative Medicine and Physician Satisfaction William Carlos Williams: The Original Narrative Medicine Practitioner
Narrative Medicine with the Ward Team: Stories from Patient Care, Grand
Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, October 4, 2005
The Use of a Short Story to Resolve a Clinical Impasse: What Psychoanalysts
Can Learn from Creative Writers about the Analytic Space and the Process of
Containment. Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of
Alabama School of Medicine, May 10, 2005
Clinical Conversations between Psychoanalysis and Imaginative Literature, Dallas Psychoanalytic Society, April 2, 2005
What Is Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Anyway? Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alabama School of Medine, March 8, 2005
Clinical Conversations between Psychoanalysis and Imaginative Literature,
Memphis Psychoanalytic Study Group, November, 2004
The Physician-Patient Relationship According to Dr. William Carlos Williams,
Presentation at 30th Reunion U.T. Southwestern Medical School May 2004
One Form of Self-Analysis, Presentation at Dallas Psychoanalytic Society, March 2004