Five Fridays 2026-2027
Our 2026-2027 Five Friday topics and presenters are listed below. Please note that for 2026-2027, four of the Five Friday seminars will be in person, at the BCC Service Center in Bethesda, MD. Our virtual webinar will be held via zoom, with zoom links sent to all registrants on the Monday before the seminar.
Everything, Everywhere, Undiagnosed: Psychoanalytic considerations for navigating diagnosis and identification with neurodivergent patients
Friday, September 18, 2026, 11:30am – 2:30pm
Benjamin Morsa, PsyD
This seminar earns 3 CE’s in Cultural Competence
I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”: Learning and Unlearning in the Course of an Analytic Career
Friday, December 11, 2026, 11:30am – 2:30pm
David Cooper, PhD
Everybody Hurts (Differently): Distinguishing Grief, Depression, Masochism, and Personality Disorders
Friday, January 8th, 2027, 10:00am – 1:00pm via Zoom
Nancy McWilliams, PhD
The Transformative Power of Infant Observation for Clinical Work
March 12, 2027, 11:30am – 2:30pm
Deborah Blessing, PhD
Infant observation training is excellent for sharpening a therapist’s ability to focus on nonverbal behaviors, primitive anxieties, and providing a containing environment—capacities that are essential when working with patients who struggle with eating disorders or other forms of acting out.
Ketamine Assisted Therapy and Psychoanalytic Openings: A different way of being on the couch
May 7, 2027, 10:00am – 1:00pm
Lisa Smith, LPC, CST
Liz March, LICSW, ATR, CGP