About This Event
Erotic Entanglements:
Traversing the Forcefield
of Dependency and Desire
with Sarah Schoen, Ph.D.
Friday, October 23, 2026
7 - 9 PM
In person at ICP
— Earn 2 NYS CE Credits —
How can psychoanalytic clinicians engage the generative potentials of eroticism while navigating the intensity, ambiguity, and anxiety that accompany such experiences?
In this presentation, Dr. Schoen explores how erotic material can carry both defensive and progressive meanings, with the aim of expanding clinicians’ capacities to invite, tolerate, and think about erotic dynamics in the analytic relationship. Drawing on contemporary relational and developmental perspectives, Dr. Schoen will present a detailed clinical account illustrating sexuality’s dense entanglement with basic issues of vitality and coming alive. Developmental trauma, sexual charge, disintegrative anxieties, core fantasies of transformation, and concretized longings for physical touch permeate eroticism in the space of breakdown. Highlighting how both patient and analyst regulate anxiety by avoiding these unstable intersections, Dr. Schoen proposes that it is through delving into these overlaps that the central issues of being and becoming can emerge.
Important Information:
- ICP Community includes current ICP faculty, supervisors, and alumni of ICP's training programs. Please note that for alumni to qualify for this rate, you must have graduated within 5 years.
- If the cost of this event presents a financial barrier, please contact us at SICP@icpnyc.org. We are happy to offer a reduced rate when needed to ensure accessibility.
- An important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, creative arts therapists, psychologists and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis, ie 54321 (CA).
- CE certificates will be emailed to you. We kindly ask for your patience, as we’re a small team, and responding to repeated inquiries about information already shared adds to our administrative workload. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.
- Refund Policy: Please note that refunds for all ICP workshops are available up until one week before the start of the workshop or module.Fees assessed by third-party ticketing or payment processors are outside of our control and cannot be refunded. We are unable to issue refunds for technical difficulties, including platform issues, internet connectivity, or device-related problems.
About This Event
Erotic Entanglements:
Traversing the Forcefield
of Dependency and Desire
with Sarah Schoen, Ph.D.
Friday, October 23, 2026
7 - 9 PM
In person at ICP
— Earn 2 NYS CE Credits —
How can psychoanalytic clinicians engage the generative potentials of eroticism while navigating the intensity, ambiguity, and anxiety that accompany such experiences?
In this presentation, Dr. Schoen explores how erotic material can carry both defensive and progressive meanings, with the aim of expanding clinicians’ capacities to invite, tolerate, and think about erotic dynamics in the analytic relationship. Drawing on contemporary relational and developmental perspectives, Dr. Schoen will present a detailed clinical account illustrating sexuality’s dense entanglement with basic issues of vitality and coming alive. Developmental trauma, sexual charge, disintegrative anxieties, core fantasies of transformation, and concretized longings for physical touch permeate eroticism in the space of breakdown. Highlighting how both patient and analyst regulate anxiety by avoiding these unstable intersections, Dr. Schoen proposes that it is through delving into these overlaps that the central issues of being and becoming can emerge.
Important Information:
- ICP Community includes current ICP faculty, supervisors, and alumni of ICP's training programs. Please note that for alumni to qualify for this rate, you must have graduated within 5 years.
- If the cost of this event presents a financial barrier, please contact us at SICP@icpnyc.org. We are happy to offer a reduced rate when needed to ensure accessibility.
- An important note about CEs: ICP is an approved provider of continuing education credits for social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, creative arts therapists, psychologists and psychoanalysts through the New York Department of Education. If your license is from a different state, please contact your state’s licensing board to find out if they will accept CE credits for New York State. If your license is from another state, please enter your license number with your state in parenthesis, ie 54321 (CA).
- CE certificates will be emailed to you. We kindly ask for your patience, as we’re a small team, and responding to repeated inquiries about information already shared adds to our administrative workload. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.
- Refund Policy: Please note that refunds for all ICP workshops are available up until one week before the start of the workshop or module.Fees assessed by third-party ticketing or payment processors are outside of our control and cannot be refunded. We are unable to issue refunds for technical difficulties, including platform issues, internet connectivity, or device-related problems.