The Society for the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy (SICP) has long served as a dynamic hub for professional development and community building within ICP. For years, our Friday night lecture series and weekend retreats have provided engaging forums, bringing individuals together for learning, networking, and camaraderie. After the challenges during the pandemic, we recently hosted a Saturday weekend retreat, featuring esteemed alumni and members of our ICP community, that proved to be a tremendous success. This event underscored our community's strong desire for connection with each other and with our institute.
In light of this renewed momentum, we are excited to envision a revitalized SICP – now as ICP's alumni association. Our aim is to unite graduates from all of our training programs through compelling, relevant, and educational programming. We envision a platform for the sharing of ideas, collaboration, and community building events that resonate with the diverse interests and aspirations of our alumni.
We recognize that many of our alumni have expressed interest in staying connected to ICP, and we believe a reimagined alumni association will serve as the perfect avenue. We are looking for volunteers to participate on a committee and to chair SICP. If you share our enthusiasm and would like to contribute to this exciting venture, please reach out to the SICP Program Manager at SICP@icpnyc.org. Your ideas and engagement will play a crucial role in fostering a vibrant and enduring connection within the ICP community.
Two in-person events on consecutive days. Each may be registered for individually or as a discounted pair. While the Saturday workshop builds on Friday’s lecture, each event stands alone and may be attended independently. Both events will be held in-person at ICP.
What happens when the psychic boundary presumed to separate analyst and patient is breached by telepathic transmission?
Drawing on clinical material, Janine de Peyer proposes a shift from assumptions of psychic separation to non-sensory, field-based communication that challenges prevailing analytic epistemologies. Through two contrasting cases of unbidden telepathic transmission, she explores both the dilemmas and generative potential of uncanny phenomena—such as telepathic dreams—situating them within a relational, two-person field.
Eng and Han trace 30 years of work on Asian American racial identity, exploring how immigration, assimilation, and racialization shape experiences of guilt, rage, and loss—especially in the clinical role of the Asian American therapist.
Dr. Grossmark’s presentation explored the unique therapeutic dynamics of working with patients whose trauma remains unsymbolized and difficult to verbalize. Drawing on Laplanche, he showed how the analytic relationship can gently “untell” the unspeakable, providing space for fragmented experiences to finally find expression. This approach allows both analyst and patient to stay with the inchoate and painful material, reconstituting a sense of self and relatedness.
Thank you to everyone who joined us—we look forward to building our ICP community together! Don’t miss our next event in the Friday Night Lecture Series, "The Gendered Body as Home: Two Analysts’ Journeys ‘Coming Out’ to Their Patients," featuring Gabriel DeCicco, LCSW-R, Balin Anderson, LCSW, and Sandra Silverman as discussant, on November 15th.
