Visiting Scholars Weekend
Friday, April 10, 2026 - Sunday, April 12, 2026
The Visiting Scholar Weekend is open to Mental Health professionals and students.
Hybrid Event: In person attendees will be at the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center and virtual attendees will be online via Zoom in a view-only format.
In person registration includes the Friday reception and lecture, Saturday and Sunday classes and supervision sessions, and catered breakfast and lunch for Saturday and Sunday.
Online registration includes the Friday lecture, Saturday and Sunday classes. Virtual Attendees will not have access to the Supervision sessions. Please note schedule below.
Friday, April 10, 2026 - Lecture
Refreshments: 6:00 - 6:30pm
Lecture: 6:30 - 8:00 pm (IN PERSON and VIRTUAL REGISTRANTS)
Saturday, April 11, 2026
8:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.: Catered breakfast
9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.: Gathering and Introductions (IN PERSON and VIRTUAL REGISTRANTS)
9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.: Class 1: On how Kleinian analysis works (IN PERSON and VIRTUAL REGISTRANTS)
10:45 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.: Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: Live Supervision with Amy Kelly, MD (IN PERSON REGISTRANTS ONLY)
12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.: Catered Lunch
1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.: Class 2: The Clinical Role of Projective Identification (IN PERSON and VIRTUAL REGISTRANTS)
2:30 p.m. - 2:40 p.m.: Coffee Break
2:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.: Live Supervision with Belinda Torres, PhD (IN PERSON REGISTRANTS ONLY)
Sunday, April 12, 2026
8:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.: Catered breakfast
9:15 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Class 3: On Forms on Interpretation in the "Here and Now" (IN PERSON and VIRTUAL REGISTRANTS)
10:30 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.: Coffee Break
10:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Live Supervision with Brooke Finley, PhD, DNP (IN PERSON REGISTRANTS ONLY)
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.: Catered Lunch
1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.: Class 4: Countertransference: The Role of Analyst as Other (IN PERSON and VIRTUAL REGISTRANTS)
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.: Discussion of the Place of Kleinian Thinking in Current Analytic Scene (IN PERSON and VIRTUAL REGISTRANTS)
Blass Schedule of Events with PEP Web Reading Links.pdf
Additional Readings:
Lectures on Technique by Melanie_Klein.pdf
Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change.pdf
Problems of Psychoanalytic Technique.pdf
Psychoanalysis, Literature and War.pdf
REGISTRATION CLOSES APRIL 7 2026
Continued Education (CEU/CME): max 11.0 credits for full weekend in person attendees and 7.5 for virtual attendees. For Ohio Counselors, Social Workers, and Psychologists, this includes 6.0 Supervision CE and 1.0 Ethics CE.
CE information will be sent to all attendees within two weeks after the event.
Refunds 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 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 11 or 7.5 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 11 or 7.5 CE to psychologists. Ohio CSWMFTB accepts this approval for licensees. This event provides 11 or 7.5 CE to counselors and social workers only.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
*Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
-Updated July 2021-
