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Continuing Education Credit

The Denver Psychoanalytic Society offers Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit for many of its programs, which are planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) through a joint providership with the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA).

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Event reminders are typically sent 7-10 days in advance. For virtual events, registrants receive a reminder email with the Zoom link the day before and the day of the event.

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Upcoming Events

    • October 24, 2025
    • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Lowry Conference Center
    • 16
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    LECTURE DESCRIPTION

    Description:  This presentation uniquely combines clinical expertise with personal experience. Stephen J. Dietrich, JD, overcame neglect and abuse in childhood to become a successful law firm partner, husband, and father. Despite his achievements, the fear and anxiety from his past continued to affect his emotional well-being. In his 2024 book, Fear Dynamics, Stephen shares his transformative journey toward healing and emotional freedom. Complementing his story, psychologist Lupe-Rebeka Samaniego, PhD will provide clinical insights on empirically supported techniques that enhance emotional regulation, reduce addictive tendencies, and emphasize the therapeutic relationship as a 'safe container' for recovery and growth.

    CME Objectives: 

    1. Examine the use of empirically validated tools to enhance emotional regulation and decrease addictive potential within a psychoanalytic framework.

    2. Apply a deeper understanding of 'safe container' within the therapeutic relationship.

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    PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY

    Lupe-Rebeka Samaniego, PhD is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalytic relational psychotherapist in private practice with over 40 years of clinical and teaching experience.

    Stephen J. Dietrich, JD is a corporate attorney specializing in mergers and acquisitions, corporate structuring, and financing. He holds a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center (Washington, D.C.) and a Bachelor of Arts (summa cum laude) in political science from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. He is the author of Fear Dynamics: Harnessing Fear and Anxiety to Create Lasting Happiness and Meaningful Achievement.

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    REGISTRATION DETAILS

    Date: Friday, October 24, 2025

    Time: 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM (MDT)

    Location: Lowry Conference Center located at 1061 Akron Way, Denver, CO 80230. There is plenty of free, accessible parking around the Conference Center. The lecture will NOT be livestreamed.

    Cost: This event is free and open to the community. Guests may be included during registration. To receive CME credit, select ‘Yes’ from the dropdown menu. *Note: CME credit is only available to registered attendees; guests must register separately to receive credit.

      Donations: Consider including a donation with your registration to ensure programs like this continue to reach our community. Even a small gift creates a big impact. We are grateful for your support!

      Registration: Registration is required. If you would like to receive CME credit, please register by October 21, 2025. General registration will close at noon on October 24th. The cancellation policy is listed below.

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      CME INFORMATION

      1.5 CME credits available

      CME Certificates:  In order to receive a CME certificate, the attendee must: pre-register, pay in full, attend the session, and complete an evaluation. CME certificates will be handed out at the end of the event in exchange for a completed evaluation.

      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 Denver 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 1.5 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.

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      POLICIES

      Confidentiality: During all programs, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of this program. Recording without authorization is prohibited.

      Cancellation: Please email the office if you register and are no longer able to attend.

      Certificate Replacement:  If awarded a CME certificate, please retain for your records. There will be a $3 charge if the Society office must resend a certificate.

      Photography Notice: By registering for this event, I hereby acknowledge and agree that the Denver Psychoanalytic Society (DPS) or its agents may take photographs and recordings for DPS purposes, including but not limited to news, publicity, and fundraising purposes, without further compensation to me. All such photos and videos are the sole property of the DPS.

      To contact the Society office, please email office@denverpsychoanalytic.org.

      • November 16, 2025
      • 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
      • Sie FilmCenter
      • 99
      Register

      The purpose of the film series is to encourage psychoanalytic dialogue with respect to creativity and movies. 


      EVENT DESCRIPTION

      Description: The beloved 1987 American fantasy adventure comedy The Princess Bride was brought to the screen by director and co-producer Rob Reiner. It features an ensemble cast including Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, André the Giant, Robin Wright, and Peter Falk. Based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, the movie follows the daring farmhand, Westley, joined by newfound allies, as he endeavors to save his true love, Buttercup, from the despicable Prince Humperdinck. Echoing the book's metafictional style, the film presents this tale as a story a grandfather is reading to his grandson, who is home sick from school.

      Format: We'll watch the film together at the Sie FilmCenter, followed by a discussion. We are excited that this venue offers a full theater experience, complete with lounge, concessions, and full bar, providing plenty of opportunity to mingle before or after the event. Family and friends are welcome!

      Discussant Biography: Dr. Lowenstein is a faculty member of the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Society member, and in the private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis.

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      REGISTRATION DETAILS

      Date: Sunday, November 16, 2025

      Time:  3:00 - 6:00 PM (MDT)

      Location: Sie FilmCenter located at 2510 East Colfax, Denver, CO 80206. Free parking is available in the garage located above the Sie FilmCenter, accessible from both Columbine and Elizabeth streets. Street parking is also available throughout the surrounding neighborhood, where posted.

      The FilmCenter has a lounge area, concessions, full bar, accessible entrances and exits, accessible bathrooms, water fountains, and elevator/ramp access to all theaters. Click here for more information about accessibility at the theater.

      Cost: To help cover the cost of theater rental, there is a $20 general admission fee for all attendees. There are a limited number of $5 student tickets available. If registering as a student, please list your training institution during registration. Friends and family are welcome. 

      Donations: Consider including a donation with your registration to ensure programs like this continue to reach our community. Even a small gift creates a big impact. We are grateful for your support!

      Registration:  Registration is required and must be completed by 12:00 PM (MT) on November 14, 2025 to attend.

      Guest RegistrationIf you would like to bring a guest, please include the number of guests and pay their fee during the registration process.

      No CE credit offered.

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      POLICIES

      Confidentiality: During all programs, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of this program. Recording without authorization is prohibited.

      Cancellation: There will be no refunds within 3 days of the event.

      Photography Notice: By registering for this event, I hereby acknowledge and agree that the Denver Psychoanalytic Society (DPS) or its agents may take photographs and recordings for DPS purposes, including but not limited to news, publicity, and fundraising purposes, without further compensation to me. All such photos and videos are the sole property of the DPS.

      To contact the Society office, please email office@denverpsychoanalytic.org.

      • November 20, 2025
      • 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
      • Virtual using Zoom
      • 79
      Register


      LECTURE INFORMATION

      Description: 

      This lecture will present the journey of a descendant of one of the leaders of the 1919 Chicago race riot in which dozens of people were killed, hundreds wounded and some thousand homes of Black people were burned down. The journey traced in the presentation is from the 1919 race riot to a racial enactment between a White psychologist/psychoanalyst and a Black patient in 2006 to the presenter’s involvement (since 2023) in racial reparations in the Chicago neighborhood in which the riot occurred.

      CME Objectives: 

      1. Examine a transgenerational journey from racial violence to racial reparation.
      2. Discuss conscious and unconscious racism affecting the psychotherapeutic relationship.

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      PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY

      Therese Regan, PhD is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, graduate of Adelphi University Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in New York City and has taught at a number of psychoanalytic training programs. She has had a long held interest in social action and racial justice.

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      REGISTRATION DETAILS

      Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025

      Time: 7:00 - 8:30 PM (MDT)

      Location: Virtual using Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the event. This lecture will not be recorded.

      Many of our emails get filtered through secondary inboxes, so please do a search within your inbox for key words such as: Denver Psychoanalytic Society, DPS, Zoom link, and/or the name of the speaker or title of the event to find the email with the link. 

      Cost: To help cover costs, there is a fee to attend this event. Please choose the appropriate level when registering. (Members receive a 25% discount when registering to receive credit). 

      • Registration Fee: $20 
      • CME Credit - Society Members: $30
      • CME Credit - Non Society Members: $40
      • Students: Free

      Donations: Consider including a donation with your registration to ensure programs like this continue to reach our community. Even a small gift creates a big impact. We are grateful for your support!

      Registration: Registration is required. A confirmation email will be sent once registration is completed.

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      CME INFORMATION

      1.5 CME credits available

      CME Certificates: To receive a CME certificate, the attendee must: pre-register, pay in full, attend the session with your last name displayed in Zoom, and complete an online evaluation within 7 days following the program.

      An email with the evaluation link will be emailed after the program. Credit will be issued for actual participation time in 15-minute increments. CME certificates will be emailed within 2 weeks following the event if the evaluation is completed. Enabling your video while participating is strongly encouraged.

      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 Denver 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 1.5 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.

      ________________________________________________________

      POLICIES

      Confidentiality: During all programs, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of this program. Recording without authorization is prohibited.

      Cancellation: There will be no refunds within 3 days of the program.

      Certificate Replacement:  If awarded a CME certificate, please retain for your records. There will be a $3 charge if the Society office must resend a certificate.

      To contact the Society office, please email office@denverpsychoanalytic.org.

      • December 01, 2025
      • December 08, 2025
      • 2 sessions
      • Virtual using Zoom
      • 45
      Register


      CLASS INFORMATION

      Description: 

      This course offers a psychoanalytic framework for understanding how digital technologies and artificial intelligence shape—as well as reflect back—patients’ inner worlds, emotional functioning, and relational lives. As clinicians, we are increasingly called to make sense of the psychological impact of these technologies—not as separate or novel concerns, but as integral to our patients’ everyday experience.

      Rather than focusing on new techniques, this course is designed to help participants learn how to draw on familiar psychoanalytic concepts to help clinicians think more deeply about and engage with patients’ experiences of their digital lives. Participants will explore how to listen for traces of a patient’s digital life in the room, and bring curiosity and clinical relevance to the material that is in line with well-supported psychoanalytic technique and sensibility to patients’ engagement with technology, especially as it intersects with issues of identity, affect regulation, dependency, omnipotence, envy, and fragmentation.

      We will also consider how certain personality organizations and relational patterns tend to manifest in specific ways of engaging with digital life, and how psychoanalytic understanding can guide our listening and conceptualization in these moments.

      Finally, we will explore the idea of “Extra Possibilities” from the work of Stephen Mitchell to explore how, through technological discernment alongside psychoanalytic exploration, we can help patients find a way to relate to and use the technology in front of them—and as it changes—to access and inhabit new and health-promoting self states.

      CME Objectives:

      1. Examine how patients’ interactions with technology may reflect their underlying personality structures and how those interactions can exacerbate, enhance, or alter their experience of suffering or relief.
      2. Apply psychoanalytic skills such as attunement and transference/countertransference exploration, as tools to help contain the overwhelm that many are experiencing in relation to rapidly evolving technology.
      3. Examine ways in which psychoanalytic understanding can guide clinicians in helping patients relate to and use digital technology to access more health-promoting self-states, as well as mitigate potential perils of certain technology use through the psychoanalytic process.

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      PRESENTER BIOGRAPHY

      Risa Muchnick, PsyD is a licensed clinical psychologist who works with adolescents and adults in individual, couples, and family treatment. Dr. Muchnick served as an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP) at the University of Denver and the Morgridge College of Education (MCE) at the University of Denver. Dr. Muchnick also served as an assistant to the Latinx Psychology Specialty at GSPP during its development in 2015. Dr. Muchnick co-authored (with Dr. Peter Buirski) the article, “Social media as organizing but not transforming self-experience” (2016), and has maintained an active interest in the intersection between algorithm-based social technologies and psychology.

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      REGISTRATION DETAILS

      Date: December 1 & 8, 2025  (Two-session course on consecutive Mondays)

      Time: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM (MT)

      Location: Virtual using Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the event. 

      Please note that many of our emails get filtered through secondary inboxes, so please do a search within your inbox for key words such as: Denver Psychoanalytic Society, DPS, Zoom link, and/or the name of the speaker or title of the event to find the email with the link. Once payment is made for this event, you will receive a confirmation email.

      Cost: 

      • CME Credit - DPS Member: $125
      • CME Credit - Non DPS Member: $150
      • CME Credit - Student: $75 (Registration for this category is limited. Please list your training institution during registration).

      Donations: Donations are welcome during registration to help keep our programs affordable. We appreciate your support.

      Registration: Registration is required. The deadline to register is November 26, 2025. 

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      CME INFORMATION

      5 CME Credits Available 

      CME Certificates:  To receive a CME certificate, the attendee must: pre-register, pay in full, attend the session with your last name clearly labeled in Zoom, and complete an online evaluation within 7 days following the program.

      An email with the evaluation link will be emailed after the program. Credit will be issued for actual participation time in 15-minute increments. CME certificates will be emailed within 2 weeks following the event if the evaluation is completed. Enabling your video while participating is strongly encouraged.

      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 Denver 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 5 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.

      ________________________________________________________

      POLICIES

      Confidentiality: During programs, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of this program. No recording of case material is allowed.

      Cancellation: There will be no refunds after November 26, 2025. Any refunds made before November 26th will be less a $10 administrative fee. 

      Certificate Replacement:  If awarded a CME certificate, please retain for your records. There will be a $3 charge if the Society office must resend a certificate.

      To contact the Society office, please email office@denverpsychoanalytic.org.

      • January 15, 2026
      • 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
      • Virtual using Zoom
      • 74
      Register

      The purpose of the film series is to encourage psychoanalytic dialogue with respect to creativity and movies. 


      FILM DESCRIPTION

      DescriptionMelancholia, written and directed by Lars von Trier, is part psychological drama and part apocalyptic science fiction and tells the story of two sisters - Justine and Claire - as a mysterious rogue planet threatens to collide with Earth. The film opens with an opulent wedding gone awry, unraveling Justine’s profound depression, and shifts into a slow, meditative depiction of dread, despair, and existential paralysis. As the end draws near, Justine’s melancholia seems to align with the cosmic annihilation, while Claire, initially grounded and pragmatic, becomes increasingly unmoored.

      Format: The evening will begin with a presentation by the discussant followed by group discussion. Please watch the film prior to the event. Melancholia is available to view with a premium subscription or rent on several platforms such as: Prime, Tubi, Apple TVGoogle Play, etc. 

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      DISCUSSANT BIOGRAPHY

      Christopher W. T. Miller, MD is a Psychiatrist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He trained in Adult Psychiatry at the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Residency Program, graduating in 2012. He completed training in Adult Psychoanalysis at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis. He is the Director of Psychotherapy Education for the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Program. He has published and lectured on educational frameworks for teaching psychotherapy, on the intersection between the neurosciences and psychotherapy, and on psychodynamic dimensions of film and literature. He is the author of “The Object Relations Lens: A Psychodynamic Framework for the Beginning Therapist".

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      REGISTRATION DETAILS

      Date: Thursday, January 15, 2026

      Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (MDT)

      Location: Virtual using Zoom. The Zoom link will be emailed to registrants 24 hours before the event. 

      Many of our emails get filtered through secondary inboxes, so please do a search within your inbox for key words such as: Denver Psychoanalytic Society, DPS, Zoom link, and/or the name of the speaker or title of the event to find the email with the link.

      Cost: To help cover costs, there is a fee to register for this event. Donations are welcome during registration to help keep our programs affordable.

      • Nonmembers - $15
      • Society Members - $10
      • Students - Free (Please list your training institution during registration.)

      Registration: Registration is required. The deadline to register is January 15, 2025 by 12:00 PM (MST). Cancellation policy is below.

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      POLICIES

      Confidentiality: During events, we will follow rules of confidentiality for clinical case material including disguising identifying information. Please do not discuss any case material outside of this conference. No recording of case material is allowed.

      Cancellation: There will be no refunds within three days of the event. 

      To contact the Society office, please email office@denverpsychoanalytic.org.

      • January 27, 2026
      • February 01, 2026
      • San Francisco

      NOT A SOCIETY EVENT

      American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA)

      2026 National Meeting

      January 27 - February 1, 2026

      Palace Hotel

      San Francisco, CA


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