A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Community for NM & surrounding areas
Presents:
Carlos Padrón
A Pace for experience: Towards a Poetic and Political Psychoanalys
10/25/26
12-2pm MT (2-4 ET)
Zoom
Upcoming Event!
Southwestern Alliance for Psychoanalytic Psychology
Events
Upcoming event:
A Pace for Experience: Towards a Political and Poetic Psychoanalysis
with Carlos Padrón
Sunday, October 25h, 2026
12-2PM MDT / 2-4PM EDT
Zoom
Expanding upon his recent article, Spiritual Misery and the Absence of Experience: Towards a Political and Poetic Psychoanalysis (Padrón, 2025), Carlos will offer a wide-spanning critique of the commodification of psychotherapy within reductivist technologies including social media, alongside efforts to defend it from this commodification through a sterile scientism. These are read as parallel symptoms of a deeper spiritual and ethical malaise: the modern loss of the capacity to form genuine experiences with the other. In response, this presentation argues for reclaiming psychoanalysis as a public-facing, socially engaged practice, one that resists alienation by fostering transformative experiences and generating new "categories of meaning." The "poetic" dimension (poiesis) names psychoanalysis's capacity to bring forth the new through eros, the body, affect, play, andlanguage, opening possibilities for freedom in both personal and collective life.
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Cancellations & Grievances: Credit for CE's can only be given for full attendance per American Psychological Association (APA) policy. If you need to cancel, credit cannot be applied. Should you have any grievances, please contact us, and we will consider any issue you raise with our current leadership board.
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Past events:
Freud and the Status of the Outsider in His and Today's World
May 24th, 2026
11-1:30pm Mountain Time (1-3:30pm Eastern Time)
Zoom
Documentary screening of Outsider.Freud, followed by panel discussion of Center for Dynamic Practice supervising psychoanalysts Carlos Padron, Amy Taylor, Karen Senecal, Christie Offenbacher, & Cassandra Seltman, joined by film director Yair Quedar
Moderator: Ben Greenberg
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The Erased History and Contemporary Relevance of Early Women Psychoanalysts
November 16th, 2025
1-3pm Mountain Time
Zoom
Presented by: Klara Naszkowska, PhD
Drawing on Dr. Naszkowska’s original research and her anthology Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance this presentation will introduce you to the largely overlooked stories of women trailblazers who helped shape the foundations of psychoanalysis in Europe before World War II (and beyond). Biographical portraits of several remarkable pioneers will be examined against the tumultuous socio-political and economic landscape of early 20th-century. The presentation will discuss how these pioneers navigated the intersections of gender, Jewish identity, women’s education, professional career in male-dominated spaces, rising autocracies, and orced migration, while revealing how their groundbreaking contributions were systematically erased from the historical narrative.
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Winter Mini-Symposia on:
Ethics in Clinical Practice and Community Mental Health
Sunday, December 8th, 2024
12-2pm Mountain Time
Zoom
Ethical Challenges in the Treatment of Personality Disorders - A Trauma-Informed, Integrative Psychodynamic Perspective:
In addressing the notoriously challenging components of working with Personality Disorders (PD), this presentation will focus on ethical challenges when working with personality disorders such as Paranoid PD, Narcissistic PD, and Borderline PD in therapeutic settings with individuals, couples, and families, as well as in organizational and supervisory contexts, particularly in context to the current greater political moment. This online presentation will provide integrative psychodynamic and trauma-informed perspectives including an overview of developmental and neuropsychological components to the origins and challenges of these difficult diagnostic presentations, offering professionals essential insights and strategies in expanding our skill sets to support those who suffer from PD's, as well as their family, peers, and the public.
Presented by: Ben Greenberg, PsyD
Community-Based & Practice Considerations of Ethics, Through a Psychoanalytic Lens:
Codes of Ethics contain sensible, unexceptional guides for action. They are meant to protect and to serve the interests of consumers, clients and patients, yet sometimes they can shift the therapist's concern from doing the right thing for the human being in front of them to following the appropriate code. Through case examples derived from agency-based, private and community-based practice, this presentation will focus on the impact of third party demands on the therapy, the therapeutic relationship, and consider how the therapist maintains themselves over time, as they endeavor to provide effective and ethical treatment to their patients and the community.
Presented by: Reed Larsen, LCSW
Reference:
Greenberg, B. (2023). Ameliorative mechanisms of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the treatment of developmental trauma. Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, 17, 155-172.
Cancellation/Grievance Policy
All programming and CE's are structured to abide within American Psychological Association standards for credit eligibility. Cancellations, no shows, or partial attendance cannot be given credit for Continuing Education hours.
Any grievances, concerns, or complaints can be directed to current SWAPP president, Ben Greenberg, PsyD: drgreenberg@thecenterfordynamicpractice.com
Symposia/Conference
In addition to regularly scheduled events, we plan to have a yearly half-day symposia/conference where regional members (and beyond) can meet, participate, share, present and network.
Feel free to send us a proposal of a topic you'd like to see, or an idea you'd like to wish to present.
Study & Consultation Groups
We are currently forming various series of ongoing reading, study, and consultation groups that stem from classical psychoanalytic literature to contemporary, social justice, and feminist modes of thinking.
Let us know what your interest is, and we'd be happy to try and make it happen!
Referral Network
Members will have access to an increasingly robust network of analytically-oriented
Supporting Organizations
SWAPP was formed with the support and partnership of the following organizations:
The Center for Dynamic Practice:
www.thecenterfordynamicpractice.com
Dynamic Therapy Services of Northern NM:
If you have or are a member of an organization that supports psychoanalysis in the Southwest, and would like to become a member, we'd be happy to list your organization here
About Southwestern Alliance for Psychoanalytic Psychology
Supporting Psychoanalytic Community
Welcome! SWAPP was formed in response to the growing need for rigorous, contemporary psychoanalytic community in New Mexico and surrounding areas.
We are a registered Continuing Education provider under Division 39 of the American Psychological Association (APA) Section 4 (local chapters).
Our administrative offices are currently Located in Santa Fe, NM. In addition to all of New Mexico and its larger metro areas of Albuquerque and Las Cruces, we aim to support and represent a large region of the American Southwest (and Northwest México) that has been traditionally underrepresented in psychoanalytic community; from El Paso to Ciudad Juarez; Chihuahua to Durango to Colorado Springs, and more.
A home for analytic education and support
We draw our theoretical orientations many schools, but largely cohere around relational, feminist, social justice, and integrative psychoanalytic frames, including Freud, Winnicott, Jessica Benjamin, Laplanche, Solms, Schore, Lacan, Bion, Searles, Fanon and Lynne Layton.
Current SWAPP Leadership:
Ben Greenberg, PsyD - President
Brooke Jordan, LMHC - Treasurer
John Peloian, PsyD - Secretary
Mitchell Goheen, LMHC - Member-at-Large
Nancy Julius, PhD - Member-at-Large
A dynamic, evolving organization for modern times
The world is changing fast - psychoanalysis must keep up.
While we trace the origins of how we think, work, and collaborate to the very beginnings of the field, starting with Breuer and Freud, we recognize that in a changing world psychoanalysis has to to better to extend its reach and survive.
If you're interested in joining our growing community to participate, teach, present, supervise, or more, please don't hesitate to reach out!!
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Newsletter
Study & Consultation Groups
Symposia/Colloquium
Referral Network Listserv
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