Scientific Meeting
Saturday, December 13, 2025
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
255 Bradley Street
Event will also be available
via Zoom (link will be sent via email the day before the event)
New Haven, CT 06510
New Frameworks: Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know
Speaker: David Tuckett
Discussant: Angela Cappiello, MD, PhD
Non-WNEPS member
$35.00
WNEPS members, candidates and all students/trainees
$0.00
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Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know is the product of a 20-year international collaborative study examining ordinary psychoanalytic sessions conducted by leading analysts and subsequently discussed in depth by more than a thousand colleagues across three continents. Based on the detailed discussion of sixteen clinical psychoanalytic cases, the project addresses a central question: What do psychoanalysts actually do when they are practicing psychoanalysis?
From this work emerged a new “common” framework designed to help both experienced analysts and students clarify what they aim to do in their clinical work and to evaluate for themselves how fully they are achieving it.
This presentation will first outline the study as reported in Knowing What Psychoanalysts Do and Doing What Psychoanalysts Know. It will then focus on:
- Four distinct ways psychoanalysts operationalize their ideas about the emergence of underlying unconscious templates (i.e., transference) within sessions.
- Two primary approaches to structuring sessions in order to infer unconscious content.
- Three principal sources of data available for making such inferences.
Learning Objectives
After this presentation participants will be able to:
- Explain four distinct ways psychoanalysts operationalize their ideas about the emergence of underlying unconscious templates (i.e., transference) within sessions.
- Summarize two primary approaches to structuring sessions in order to infer unconscious content.
- List three principal sources of data available for making such inferences.
Speaker: David Tuckett
David Tuckett is Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis and Professor at University College London, UK. Recently honoured with a Sigourney Award for Psychoanalysis, the highest prize in the field, Professor Tuckett has brought together his initial training as an Economist with his subsequent work in Sociology and Psychoanalysis to initiate a new line of research; the significance of which has been recognised with recent invitations to speak at the Global Economic Symposium and the Global Risks Network of the World Economic Forum. Previously Principal of the Health Education Studies Unit at Cambridge University and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, he is the author of many papers and several highly successful books.
Discussant: Angela Cappiello, MD, PhD
Angela Cappiello, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Cappiello is Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, and a Fellow of the American Board of Psychoanalysis. She is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis.
CME/CE Accreditation
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 Western New England Psychoanalytic Society. 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 2 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.
This program is being reviewed for Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT. Once approved, it will meet the continuing education criteria for Social Work Licensure renewal, Marriage & Family Therapist Licensure renewal, Professional Counselor Licensure renewal and Licensed Psychologist Licensure renewal.
