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• Psychoanalytic Supervision Reading Series

  • Start
    April 11, 2026
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  • End
    May 16, 2026
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    6 sessions
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  Join us for a six-week guided reading group organized in collaboration with the ICSW (Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago). This group will meet Saturday mornings this Spring as we prepare for the MPSI 2026 Fall Conference featuring Nancy McWilliams and her discussion of psychoanalytic supervision.

  Nancy McWilliams’ newest work, Psychoanalytic Supervision, offers a clinically grounded examination of supervisory practice. This program’s objective is to translate McWilliams’ clinical wisdom into live supervisory practice, strengthening supervisors’ capacity to think psychoanalytically and relationally, while being firmly rooted in theory and ethical decision making.

  This event is open to all psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, though it will be particularly tailored to clinicians engaged in or interested in offering supervision. Guest facilitators with supervisory experience will help guide the exploration and discussion of psychoanalytic supervision.

  Each session will be hosted by Nadia Kolesski, MS, LPCC and Comfort Belbas, MSW, LICSW, along with a guest facilitator each week who brings direct supervisory experience.

  Facilitators will include: 

  • Eric Boone, MSW, LICSW
  • Elizabeth Wittenberg, JD, MSW, LICSW
  • Anne Gearity, PhD, LICSW
  • Barbara Berger, PhD, LCSW
  • Nathan Dougal LCSW, BCD
    
  • Marya Samuelson , M. Ed., LPCC

  
  

  Week 1 - April 11: Overview and Historical Foundations of Psychoanalytic Supervision (Chapters 1 & 2)

  Week 2 - April 18: Psychological Vital Signs and the Practice of Individual Supervision (Chapters 3 & 4)

  Week 3 - April 25: Group Supervision and Ethical Dimensions of Supervision       (Chapters 5 & 6)

  Week 4 - May 2: Institutional Contexts and Individual Differences in Supervision   (Chapters 7 & 8)

  Week 5 - May 9: Helping Supervisees Make the Most of Supervision (Chapter 9)

  Week 6 - May 16: Additional time for topics identified during previous sessions,          Review and discussion

  Download series learning objectives here

  Registration Rate:

  • Members: $180
  • Non-members: $200
  • Students: $80

  To maintain a focused learning environment for meaningful discussion, this series is limited to 15 attendees.
  

  *A copy of Psychoanalytic Supervision by Nancy McWilliams will not be provided, and registrants should independently obtain and read the chapters prior to each session. 

  This program is offered as a multi-session series. The registration fee covers all sessions, and full payment is required at the time of registration. Please note that single-session rates, partial payments, and refunds for missed sessions are not available, regardless of attendance.

  Continuing Education Credits:

  9 CEUs for entire series. While registration includes all six sessions of this reading group, participants will only receive CEUs for sessions attended (1.5 CEU for each session attended).

  The collaboration between MPSI and ICSW for this reading series allows us to offer continuing education credits through MPSI or ICSW. 

  Continuing education credits (CEUs) offered by MPSI are available for psychologists, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, and professional counselors.

  Continuing education credits (CEs) offered by ICSW are applicable for psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and professional counselors licensed in Illinois. 

  Registrants will have the option to choose which entity grants their continuing education certificate.

  Please note: Facilitators do not receive CEUs for sessions they facilitate.

  

  
  

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• MPSI film series - Session 6, April 26. Through the Gaze, Darkly: Eight Cinematic Symptoms

  • When
    April 26, 2026
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    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    MPSI Psychotherapy Center at Semple Mansion Carriage House

  
  

  MPSI presents a film series, Through the Gaze, Darkly: Eight Cinematic Symptoms 

  Session 7 – Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

  April 26, 2026 at 1:00 - 4:00 pm
  Theme: The double, family romance, the sinister in the familiar

  • Freud: “The ‘Uncanny’” (revisit), with focus on the double

  • Lacan: Seminar I, excerpts on the mirror stage and the double

  • Žižek: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Lacan…But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, Part I, Chap 2

  WHERE:

  MPSI Psychotherapy Center at Semple Mansion Carriage House

  104 W Franklin Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55404

  Free to attend, donations appreciated

  Light refreshments provided

  No registration required

  MPSI invites you to enter the world of Alfred Hitchcock, the “Master of Suspense,” through the lens of psychoanalytic thought. Each screening will be paired with a discussion that draws on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, exploring how Hitchcock’s films stage desire, anxiety, the uncanny, and the return of the repressed. From the eerie stillness of Psycho’s Bates Motel to the spiraling obsessions of Vertigo, we will trace the ways cinematic form itself mirrors psychic structures.

  This series will not merely interpret Hitchcock’s characters as “case studies,” but will also examine how his use of camera angles, editing, and narrative withholding enact the very mechanisms Freud and Lacan describe—repression, displacement, condensation, the gaze, and the symbolic order. The films become, in effect, dream-texts: visual arrangements of unconscious logic, full of gaps, slips, and strange repetitions that invite interpretation. Participants will be encouraged to connect theory to the formal language of cinema, seeing how Hitchcock’s craft anticipates and sometimes challenges psychoanalytic concepts.

  By moving between film, theory, reverie, and discussion, we will cultivate a dialogue between two disciplines that have long been fascinated with each other: psychoanalysis and cinema. Each week will focus on a specific film alongside key readings, with discussion facilitated by MPSI member Genjo Sam Conway. Whether you come to deepen your understanding of Freud and Lacan, to reconsider Hitchcock’s artistry, or just watch a good movie and connect with our community, this series offers a rare opportunity to inhabit the suspense between screen and psyche.

  Join us for the final session:

  Session 8 – Vertigo (1958)

  May 24, 2026 at 1:00 - 4:00 pm

  ** Location TBD **
  Theme: Desire, fantasy, repetition

  • Freud: “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920), Sections II–IV – repetition compulsion and the death drive

  • Lacan: Seminar XI, Chapter VI (“The Split Between the Eye and the Gaze”)

  • Žižek: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Lacan…But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, Part III

  
  

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• 2026 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program Open House

  • When
    May 17, 2026
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    3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    MPSI Psychotherapy Center, 104 W Franklin Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55404

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  The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program

  Open House

  Date: May 17, 2026

  Time: 3:00 PM

  Location: MPSI Carriage House

  
  

  Registration welcomed, but not required. 

  PPTP is an excellent opportunity for professionals and graduate students within the fields of psychiatry, social work, psychology, marriage and family therapy, and counseling to deepen and enrich their therapeutic knowledge and skills. Come to this informal gathering with current and prior students, committee chairs, and faculty to hear details about our two-year program content, requirements and application process.

  YEAR ONE:

  • Analytic Listening
  • Evolving Psychoanalytic Concepts
  • Attachment Theory
  • Trauma Through the Eyes of Addiction: What Psychoanalytic Thought Has to Say
  • Object Relations
  • Case Conference

  
  

  YEAR TWO:

  • Losing Knowledge
  • Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Gender, Race, Sexuality & Culture
  • Surface to Depth or Depth to Surface: Introduction to American Ego & Kleinian Theory
  • Psychoanalytic Perspective on Gender, Race, Sexuality & Culture Relational Psychoanalysis Dreams
  • Case Conference

  
  
  

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• MPSI film series - Session 7, May 24. Through the Gaze, Darkly: Eight Cinematic Symptoms

  • When
    May 24, 2026
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    MPSI Psychotherapy Center at Semple Mansion Carriage House

  
  

  MPSI presents a film series, Through the Gaze, Darkly: Eight Cinematic Symptoms 

  Session 8 – Vertigo (1958)

  May 24, 2026 at 1:00 - 4:00 pm

  
  Theme: Desire, fantasy, repetition

  • Freud: “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920), Sections II–IV – repetition compulsion and the death drive

  • Lacan: Seminar XI, Chapter VI (“The Split Between the Eye and the Gaze”)

  • Žižek: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Lacan…But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, Part III

  WHERE:

  ** Location TBD **

  Free to attend, donations appreciated

  Light refreshments provided

  No registration required

  MPSI invites you to enter the world of Alfred Hitchcock, the “Master of Suspense,” through the lens of psychoanalytic thought. Each screening will be paired with a discussion that draws on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, exploring how Hitchcock’s films stage desire, anxiety, the uncanny, and the return of the repressed. From the eerie stillness of Psycho’s Bates Motel to the spiraling obsessions of Vertigo, we will trace the ways cinematic form itself mirrors psychic structures.

  This series will not merely interpret Hitchcock’s characters as “case studies,” but will also examine how his use of camera angles, editing, and narrative withholding enact the very mechanisms Freud and Lacan describe—repression, displacement, condensation, the gaze, and the symbolic order. The films become, in effect, dream-texts: visual arrangements of unconscious logic, full of gaps, slips, and strange repetitions that invite interpretation. Participants will be encouraged to connect theory to the formal language of cinema, seeing how Hitchcock’s craft anticipates and sometimes challenges psychoanalytic concepts.

  By moving between film, theory, reverie, and discussion, we will cultivate a dialogue between two disciplines that have long been fascinated with each other: psychoanalysis and cinema. Each week will focus on a specific film alongside key readings, with discussion facilitated by MPSI member Genjo Sam Conway. Whether you come to deepen your understanding of Freud and Lacan, to reconsider Hitchcock’s artistry, or just watch a good movie and connect with our community, this series offers a rare opportunity to inhabit the suspense between screen and psyche.

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• MPSI film series - Session 8, June 14. Through the Gaze, Darkly: Eight Cinematic Symptoms

  • When
    June 14, 2026
  •  
    1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Coming Soon

  
  

  MPSI presents a film series, Through the Gaze, Darkly: Eight Cinematic Symptoms 

  Session 8 – Vertigo (1958)

  June 14, 2026 at 1:00 - 4:00 pm

  
  Theme: Desire, fantasy, repetition

  • Freud: “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920), Sections II–IV – repetition compulsion and the death drive

  • Lacan: Seminar XI, Chapter VI (“The Split Between the Eye and the Gaze”)

  • Žižek: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know about Lacan…But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, Part III

  WHERE:

  Location TBD
  

  Free to attend, donations appreciated

  Light refreshments provided

  No registration required

  MPSI invites you to enter the world of Alfred Hitchcock, the “Master of Suspense,” through the lens of psychoanalytic thought. Each screening will be paired with a discussion that draws on the work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, exploring how Hitchcock’s films stage desire, anxiety, the uncanny, and the return of the repressed. From the eerie stillness of Psycho’s Bates Motel to the spiraling obsessions of Vertigo, we will trace the ways cinematic form itself mirrors psychic structures.

  This series will not merely interpret Hitchcock’s characters as “case studies,” but will also examine how his use of camera angles, editing, and narrative withholding enact the very mechanisms Freud and Lacan describe—repression, displacement, condensation, the gaze, and the symbolic order. The films become, in effect, dream-texts: visual arrangements of unconscious logic, full of gaps, slips, and strange repetitions that invite interpretation. Participants will be encouraged to connect theory to the formal language of cinema, seeing how Hitchcock’s craft anticipates and sometimes challenges psychoanalytic concepts.

  By moving between film, theory, reverie, and discussion, we will cultivate a dialogue between two disciplines that have long been fascinated with each other: psychoanalysis and cinema. Each week will focus on a specific film alongside key readings, with discussion facilitated by MPSI member Genjo Sam Conway. Whether you come to deepen your understanding of Freud and Lacan, to reconsider Hitchcock’s artistry, or just watch a good movie and connect with our community, this series offers a rare opportunity to inhabit the suspense between screen and psyche.

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