Early Bird Registration until April 3rd!
 
SPRING WORKSHOP
Virtual Event by Zoom
Saturday, April 18, 2026
9:00am to 4:00pm CDT
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Emotional Inheritance as Diagnostic Companion:  Love, Loss, and the Legacy of Trauma
 
PRESENTER: Galit Atlas, PhD
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6 CMEs/CEUs available
 
*Eligible for 6 Hours of Diagnosis & Treatment Credit
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION:
 
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About the Workshop

This full-day clinical workshop will delve into the heart of Atlas's work on Emotional Inheritance. Through clinical and theoretical discussions, it will introduce a psychoanalytic model for listening to and working with intergenerational material, family secrets, and the legacy of trauma. The clinical presentation will explore the roles of attachment and the place of sexuality, mourning, and aggression. It will examine the many faces of our emotional inheritance and illustrate how inherited trauma both hides and comes to life in the analytic dyad.
 
Learning Objectives
 
After attending this session, participants will be able to:
  1. Define inherited trauma.
  2. Explain the term Erotic Reparation.
  3. Identify the analyst’s dissociation as a defense against family trauma.
  4. Give at least one example of how the analyst and the patient collude to avoid pain. 
  5. Describe the relation between analytic love and regulation of aggression. 
  6. Explain the relation between depression and inherited trauma 
  7. Use infant research to explain symptoms of PTSD in disorganized attached children.
 
 

About the Presenter, Galit Atlas, PhD

Galit Atlas, PhD, is a faculty member at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, as well as the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She has published three books for clinicians and numerous psychoanalytic articles. Her latest book, Emotional Inheritance, is an international bestseller translated into 28 languages. Atlas serves on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. She is a recipient of the NADTA Research Award, the Gradiva Award, and the Nautilus Book Award. She is a psychoanalyst and clinical supervisor in private practice in New York City and teaches and lectures throughout the United States and internationally. Her next book, Come Closer: Childhood Wounds, Adult Love and the Secrets of Emotional Intimacy, will be published in fall 2026.
 
 
 
Helpful Information to Access and Participate in the Zoom Workship
 
·     We strongly recommend that you use your PC or Mac for this meeting rather than phone or tablet, as the reception and functionality is much better.
 
·     When you enter the meeting, you will be on mute. You are free to unmute yourself during the event during discussion
 
. We ask that you plan to attend the event with your personal video camera on so that you may be seen by the other participants on screen.  This is necessary for CME/CEU attendance tracking purposes.
 
 ·     Make sure you have labeled your first and last name in the box with your video picture. If you have not done so, or if you want to change your name, place your mouse on your video image. In the right corner, you will see three dots (…). Click the dots, then click “rename” and insert your name as you want it to read.  This is also necessary for CME/CEU attendance tracking purposes.
 

Continuing Medical Education Credits

ACCME Accreditation Statement
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 Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Disclosure Statement
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.