Featuring Shoshana Ringel, PhD

Sunday, September 27, 2026

Conference: 9:00 am – 12:30 pm ET
Community Gathering: 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm ET

In-Person Event: Silver Spring Civic Center, 1 Veterans Pl

3 CEs will be offered

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This will be an in-person event. We hope you can join us!

Since Freud and Jung, the interpretation of dreams has been a crucial aspect of psychoanalytic treatment.  Our dreams reveal unconscious conflicts, internal fragmentations, and the dreamer’s deep connection to universal themes and cultural/historic legacies.  In some indigenous cultures, dreams represent the loss of land, cultural heritage and historic discontinuity.

In this workshop, we will expand our understanding of dreams as harbingers of developmental wounds, and as symbols and metaphors for unresolved attachment traumas.  We will utilize dreams to explore the habitual relational and behavioral patterns we engage in in order to conceal and protect these early vulnerabilities.  We will examine how dreamwork in the clinical process implicate both patient’s and therapist’s unconscious, and how we may use our patients’ dreams as supervision for the treatment.   When relevant, we will focus on nightmares, dreams in the aftermath of loss, lucid dreams, cultural identities, and what dreams can reveal about the dreamer’s attachment patterns.

During the workshop, Dr. Ringel will utilize clinical material and live demonstrations to actively engage the audience, and to show how we may process and work with patients’ dreams, the range of perspectives from which to work with dreams, and how the process may unfold intersubjectively.  We will also work in small groups to practice exploring dreams’ hidden meanings.

After the conference, there will be a luncheon and a community meeting where our fellowship, couple, CAPP and psychoanalytic programs will make short presentations.

 Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this conference, participants will be able to:

  1. State, “I was able to engage with Dr. Ringel in analyzing dreams.”
  2. Apply their knowledge of dream work to their clinical practice.
  3. Demonstrate their understanding of a range of clinical models for working with dreams.

References:

Blechner, M.  (2018).  Data, dreams and drives: Interpersonal relational innovations in perspective. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 28(6), 670-678 http://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2018.1538744

Pizer, B.  (2023).  Get the goldfish bowl: Affect and intuition in the analytic relationship.  Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 33(6), 603-618.  http://doi.org/10.1080/10481885/2023.2257562

Ringel, S.  (2020).  Video communication and transgenerational shame in the mother/daughter bond.  Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30(3), 352-364.  http://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2020.1744971

This conference is appropriate for clinicians at all levels of experience and offers 3 CEs.

CE Credit is granted to participants with documented attendance for the entire duration of the event and a completed evaluation form. Credit will not be granted to registrants who are more than 15 minutes late or depart more than 15 minutes early from a session. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time to allow time to check in.

PLEASE NOTE: Recording in any form of this live streaming event is NOT permitted.

About our presenter:

Shoshana Ringel, PhD, is a co-chair of conferences at ICP+P, and a graduate of the psychoanalytic program. She teaches and supervises at CAPP and at the ICP+P psychoanalytic training program. Shoshana has published over 50 articles and books, and her private practice is in Gaithersburg, MD. Shoshana will be the keynote speaker at the Westchester Psychoanalytic Institute in March 2026. The title of her two-part presentation is: “Shielding invisible wounds: New insights on adult attachment” and “Dreams are the royal road to understanding attachment patterns”.

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Registration closes at noon ET on Friday, September 25th.

Conference Fees:

FREEICP+P Members
FREEICP+P MITs, Emerging Professionals, Graduate Student Members, Fellows, 1st and 2nd Year Members
$35Unaffiliated Students
$90Non-members
$60International Attendees (Outside US)

For more information, email administrator@icpeast.org. A refund for cancellation is available up to 10 days before the conference.

To register by mail, send this page and payment to:

ICP+P

c/o Nilou Mostofi
3298 Governor Drive, Suite 22270
San Diego, CA 92192

Continuing education credit: 3 CE credits available for full attendance. The Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis (ICP+P) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ICP+P maintains responsibility for this program and its content. ICP+P is approved by the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners to offer Category I continuing education credit. As our CE program receives oversight from a licensed social worker, the CE credits we award are highly likely to be recognized by licensing boards in Virginia and the District of Columbia. These continuing education credits meet the ANCC standards for nurses. Marriage and family therapists licensed in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia may submit these CE credits to their licensing boards. (Marriage and family therapists in other jurisdictions and licensed counselors should inquire with their local Boards regarding continuing education credit.) Attendees from the above professional groups will earn 3.0 CE credits for attending the CE activity. Full attendance is required to receive the designated CE credit.

* Shoshana Ringel, PhD, and the planners have informed us that they do not have a conflict of interest and have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationship with any commercial interests pertaining to this educational activity.

CE Credit is granted to participants with documented attendance at individual workshops and completed evaluation forms for those sessions. Credit will not be granted to registrants who are more than 15 minutes late or depart more than 15 minutes early from a session. Please arrive at least 10 minutes before the scheduled start time to allow time to check in.