Recent Speaking Events:

• (2015) The Little Elf on the Shelf, Pyramid of Gazes, and Loss of Confidentiality in Healthcare. Academy for the Psychoanalytic Arts. (November) Madonna University, Livonia, MI
  
  
• (2012) On the Mystery, Magic and Muscle of Communicating with the
  Madness of Self and Other. (invited paper). ISPS-US 13th annual meeting. (October) Chicago, IL.

• (2012) Nibbling On the Edges and Spirits of Madness in the Present Moment
  of the Past. Panel Session: Psychoanalyst as Shaman: Creative Engagement: Integrating Past and Present Wisdoms. ISPS-US 13th annual meeting. (October) Chicago, IL.

• (2011) Wang Fo and an Ethic of Free Association: Poetic Imagination, Mythical
  Stories, and Moral Philosophy. Michigan Psychoanalytic Council,  (October) Ann Arbor, MI

• (2010) The Analytic Process as a Sham(anic) Discourse: The Analyst as a Poet-
  Shaman. Division of Psychoanalysis (39), 30th annual Spring Meetings. (April) Chicago, IL

• (2010) Wang Fo and an Ethic of Free Association: Poetic Imagination, Mythical
  Stories, and Moral Philosophy. Michigan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (February) Southfield, MI.

• (2010) Escaping the Phantom’s Ghostly Grasp: On Psychoanalysis as a
  Performance Art in the Spirit World. Michigan Psychoanalytic Council, (February) Ann Arbor, MI.

• (2010), Ilsa’s Choice. Discussant of the play written, produced and directed by
  Eugene Alexander. Michigan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. (January) Providence Hospital, Southfield, MI.

• (2009) The Dramatic Meaning of Madness in Psycho(analy)sis;
  The Ear-rationality of Treating Illusion as Reality, ISPS-US 10th annual meeting. (October) Rockville, MD.

• (2009) Escaping the Phantom’s Ghostly Grasp: On Psychoanalysis as a
  Performance Art in the Spirit World. 16th International Symposium for the Psychological Treatments of Schizophrenia and the Other Psychoses. (June) Copenhagen, DK.

• (2008) Developing Competencies in the Destruction of Psychoanalysis:
  Political, Pedagogical, and Practice Philosophies. Michigan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology (November) Southfield, MI.

• (2008) Escaping the Phantom’s Ghostly Grasp: On Psychoanalysis as a
  Performance Art in the Spirit World. Chicago Open Chapter for the Study of Psychoanalysis. (March) Chicago.

• (2008) Psychoanalysis and Ethics. Intensive week-end seminar:
  The Question of Ethics, An Ethic of Care and Theory of Moral Obligation When Situated in a Literary v a Medical Text. Center for Psychoanalytic Study (March) Chicago.

• (2008) What Role Do Medications Play in Psychoanalysis? It All Depends…;
  Intensive week-end seminar on the role of medications, if any, in the analytic situation. (February) Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis.

• (2008) The Story of Our Lives in the Kingdom of Positivism: Our Loss of
  Historical Consciousness: A Fractured Fairytale. Michigan Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. (January) Southfield, MI.

• (2007) Section 1V Panel: (invited paper), Developing Competencies in the Destruction of Psychoanalysis:
  Political, Pedagogical, and Practice Philosophies. American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 27th annual Spring meetings, (April )Toronto, CA.

• (2006) Re-entering Plato’s Cave: On the Original Essence of Being, ‘the unconscious,’  and Shamanic Learning.
  International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education, XVII annual Interdisciplinary Conference, (November) Pasadena.

• (2006) A Never Ending Quest of Finding the Words: Moving With Unconscious Process and Dynamic. Agape, (invited paper) (February)Queretero, Mexico.

• (2006) Stories from the Bog: On the Under-World, the Under-Consciousness,and the Under-taking. (invited paper) International Federation for Psychoanalytic Education (February) Queretero, Mexico.

• (2005) A Fly in the (An)-Ointment of Psychoanalytic Education: Genuflection or Reflection. American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 25th annual Spring Meetings, Section IV, Invited Paper, April, NYC.

• (2005) Psychic Theatre and Psychoanalytic Supervision: Some Thoughts on the Process and Paradox of The Associative-Interpretive Process. (invited paper) American Psychological Association, Division of Psychoanalysis (39) 25th annual Spring Meetings, Education and Training Committee (April) NYC.

• (2005) Deepening the Ethical Stance. (invited paper) Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis (May) Seattle.

• (2004) Frankenstein's Genie-ology: The Magical Visionary Experience and the Associative Method, (invited paper) Roehampton University, (November) London.