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• Comedy and Cruelty: The Comic Mode in the Age of Trump

  • When
    03/13/2026
  •  
    6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center 2460 Fairmount Blvd #312 Cleveland Heights, OH 44106

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  A Scientific Meeting Presented by Mitchell Wilson

  Event Price: This event is free. CE fee is $10. 

  Continuing Education (CEU/CME): 1.5 credits

  Attendance: This is a hybrid event: in-person and online attendance is available. Online attendees will have a webinar experience, which will not include the ability to ask questions of the speaker. No attendance limit.

  NOTE: Pre-registration is encouraged. Walk-in registration is available. No CEs available for walk-ins.

  Reception 6 - 6:30 p.m. at the Center before the presentation.

  Course Description: 

  Psychoanalysis has been linked to tragedy ever since Freud established the Oedipus Trilogy as the literary model for the vagaries of family life and human being. More recently, the tragic has been transformed into something more specific: the trauma narrative. The trauma narrative has come to so dominate the psychoanalytic body politic that we hardly notice it. This talk is about that dominance, and challenges it in a number of ways; in so doing, it rehabilitates the comic form through an exploration of Miranda July’s 2024 novel, All Fours, and a look at Donald Trump’s particular brand of comedy.
  

  Learning Objectives:

  1) Participants will be able to describe three features of the comic narrative form.

  2) Participants will be able to explain how trauma, and the trauma narrative, has become the controlling perspective in contemporary psychoanalysis.

  
  

  CE information will be sent to all attendees the week after the event.

  Refunds are available only with pre-event cancellation.

  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 the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.” The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  

  The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the Ohio Psychological Association-MCE Program to offer continuing education for psychologists.  The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center as Approved Provider 18PO-341019020, maintains responsibility for the program.  This event provides 1.5 CE to psychologists. The State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board accepts this approval for licensees. This event provides 1.5 CE to counselors and social workers only. 

  IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: 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. 

  
  

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• The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice

  • When
    03/14/2026
  •  
    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Hybrid - In Person and Zoom

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  An Ethics Workshop Presented by Mitchell Wilson

  Event Price: Fees include CEs. This is a free event for HP/CPC students and candidates, $60 for CPC/HP members and nonmember students, and $90 for nonmembers who are not students.

  Continued Education (CEU/CME): 3.0 Ethics Credits

  Attendance: Hybrid Event - In Person & Virtual event via Zoom Meeting

  Program Description:

  An ethics essentially consists in a judgment of our action …

  ––Lacan, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

  This is not your typical program on ethics. It will not address boundary violations and other related topics. I am interested in a foundational ethics that grounds our work as psychoanalytic psychotherapists. This grounding relates directly to desire, particularly the analyst’s desire, focusing on the deep connections between desire, action, and responsibility. Desire underwrites action. In the case of the psychoanalyst, our desire for certain outcomes, as opposed to others, is ever-present, though often obscured and rationalized by theory in various forms. What are we doing and why? What do we wish to experience? What do we aim to make manifest? What do we impose on the patient and the process? Numerous problems in the psychoanalytic clinic arise if these questions are not thoughtfully addressed, even though answering them can be challenging for the analyst. Desire and responsibility shape one another; each calls for the other. This program will explore these themes by examining theory, psychoanalytic history and politics, as well as the specifics of our clinical work, most notably the varieties of clinical impasses.

  
  

  Learning Objectives:

  1) Participants will be able to explain the role of the analyst’s wishes and desires in the formation of the countertransference.

  2) Participants will be able to describe how the analyst’s desire and responsibility for that desire are intimately linked regarding the analyst’s ethical position in the clinical situation.

  
  

  Mitchell Wilson is the former Editor-in-Chief of JAPA, and the author of The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice (Bloomsbury 2020). He has developed a theory of clinical process that centers the analyst’s wishes, intentions, values, and commitments at the heart of their ethical stance. He has recently published papers and essays on tele-therapy, the importance of the voice in clinical work, and the tension between the tragic and comic visions in the psychoanalytic perspective. He is a Training and Consulting Analyst at the SF Center for Psychoanalysis, and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  CE information will be sent to all attendees the week after the event.

  Refunds are available only with pre-event cancellation.

  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 the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 3.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  

  The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center is approved by the Ohio Psychological Association-MCE Program to offer continuing education for psychologists.  The Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, as Approved Provider 18PO-341019020, maintains responsibility for the program.  This event provides 3.0 CE to psychologists. The State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, and Marriage & Family Therapist Board accepts this approval for licensees. This event provides 3.0 CE to counselors and social workers only. 

  IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: 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. 

  
  

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