The Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center

05/10/2026

Refuge, oasis... Spectrum... Safe space... Layers... Grateful... Endearing... Community... Enjoyment in others’ minds... Cycle... I’m not alone in this work ❤️

These are the words and phrases that our fellowship students used to describe their experience this academic year as we met in person for our final gathering 🥹

We so enjoyed getting to know you all this year and having our imperfect goodbye today!

05/07/2026

2026-27 GKCTPC Center Membership Drive - Join or Renew by June 12th!

Click Here to Join or Renew: https://givingtools.com/give/78/5884

If you’re wanting to stay connected to psychoanalytic thinking—not just intellectually, but in a way that feels alive and shared—the Greater Kansas City & Topeka Center offers a space for that.

It’s a great place to stay engaged, to keep thinking, to be in dialogue with others who care about the depth and complexity of the work.

Through seminars, workshops, study groups, and courses, membership becomes less about attending and more about belonging—to a shared way of thinking and working.

Membership includes:
Ongoing learning across programs
CEUs/CMEs
PEP-Web access
Connection to a thoughtful, professional community
Membership options are:
Regular – $350: Full access, PEP-Web, and free CEUs/CMEs for Monday Night Seminars
Sustaining – $1000: All benefits + recognition events and a $50 event credit
Student – $95: Full access for students, interns, and residents + PEP-Web

For those who like to see what’s included, membership also offers:
7 Monday Night Seminars with free CEUs/CMEs (valued at $45 each = $315)
Workshop discounts ($45 discount per event)
PEP-Web access (cost of an individual subscription: $148/year + $1,030 entry fee)

All of this supports something that’s harder to quantify, but often more meaningful—a place to return to, a way to stay connected, a work that continues—together.

We’d love to have you with us.

Warmly,
Jessica Almond, LPC, LCPC
President, Greater Kansas City & Topeka Psychoanalytic Center

04/21/2026

Become a GUEST SCHOLAR at the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute

The following courses are available for the academic year 2026-27:
Quarter 1 Intro to Freud
Quarter 2 Ego Psychology
Quarter 3 Object Relations 1
Quarter 4 Psychodynamic Psychopathology
And the academic year 2027-28:
Quarter 1 Self Psychology
Quarter 2 Relational Psychoanalysis
Quarter 3 Personality Styles: Borderline & Narcissistic
Quarter 4 Trauma and Loss

Guest Scholars can take up to 5 of the 8 courses. The reading requirement is approximately 50 pages per week. Any courses taken will need to be repeated as a part of the curriculum for our two- and four-year training programs but will be free since they have already been paid for once.

All of these seminars are hybrid and occur on Fridays from 1:30-3pm at Center for Behavioral Medicine at 1000 E. 24 St., Kansas City, MO 64108. Scheduling of the quarters generally runs as follows depending on when various breaks happen and/or how the Fridays fall within the months:

Q1 First Friday after Labor Day to end of Oct
Q2 End of October to the beginning of Jan.
Q3 Middle of January to around mid-March
Q4 Mid-March to around the middle of May

Apply by May 1st!

Here is the link for information page containing the application: https://www.gkcpsa.org/training/guest-scholar-program/

04/15/2026

Now Accepting Applications to our Fellowship in Psychoanalytic Thought!

Please Apply Here: https://conta.cc/4mwKTNx

Psychodynamic thinking invites a deeper understanding of people, relationships, and the inner life. The Fellowship program offers an introduction to these ideas in a way that is accessible, reflective, and rooted in conversation, regardless of professional background.

We welcome mental health professionals, educators, artists, attorneys, business leaders, and anyone curious about the human mind. Psychoanalytic thinking lives not only in the consulting room, but also in everyday interactions, art, culture, and the social worlds we inhabit. The ordinary moments of everyday life are rich with psychoanalytic insight. The Fellowship values the dialogue that emerges when people from different fields, identities, and life experiences gather to think together about the complexities of being human.

We especially encourage early career professionals and postgraduate students to participate. Encountering psychodynamic ideas early in one’s professional life can shape how we listen, how we think, and how we relate for years to come.

The Fellowship meets once a month throughout the academic year, from September through May. Together we explore how humans develop, reflect on common psychological and interpersonal struggles, and consider broader societal experiences. Conversations often extend into the professional lives of Fellows, allowing space to think together about questions that arise in their own work.

The seminar is led by psychoanalyst Holly Anderson, M.A., LMFT, LCMFT, a graduate of the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute, and co-led by Robin Li, Ph.D., a Candidate at the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute.

Program Fees: The application fee is $25. Fellows accepted into the program become members of the Greater Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Center at the student membership rate.

Admission decisions will be communicated to applicants no later than June 30, 2026.

03/24/2026

🧠✨ Early Bird Ends April 3rd – Don’t Miss This Transformational Clinical Workshop ✨🧠

Mental health professionals—this is a rare opportunity to deepen your clinical insight into one of the most powerful forces shaping your clients’ lives: emotional inheritance.

Join us for a full-day virtual workshop:
📅 Saturday, April 18, 2026
⏰ 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM (CDT)
💻 Live via Zoom
🎓 Earn 6 CMEs/CEUs (Diagnosis & Treatment Credit eligible)

🔍 Emotional Inheritance as Diagnostic Companion: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of Trauma
Featuring internationally renowned psychoanalyst Galit Atlas, PhD

This workshop goes beyond theory—offering a clinically grounded framework to help you:
• Recognize and work with inherited trauma
• Understand the role of attachment, sexuality, mourning, and aggression
• Identify subtle dynamics like dissociation and clinician–client collusion
• Apply infant research to real-world PTSD presentations
• Deepen your understanding of depression through an intergenerational lens

Dr. Atlas brings a compelling blend of clinical depth and global perspective—her bestselling book Emotional Inheritance has been translated into 28 languages and continues to shape contemporary psychoanalytic thought.

💡 If you’ve ever sensed that your client’s story didn’t begin with them—this workshop will give you the language, framework, and clinical tools to work with what’s beneath the surface.

⚠️ Early Bird Registration closes April 3rd!

👉 Secure your spot today: https://www.gkcpsa.org/events/spring-workshop-april-18th-emotional-inheritance-as-diagnostic-companion-love-loss-and-the-legacy-of-trauma-with-galit-atlas-phd/

03/11/2026

We concluded our 2026 Searching the Psyche through Cinema film series this past Sunday with Kaylea Halstead and Karl Menninger as discussants for The Silence of the Lambs.

See you next year!! 💕🤓

02/27/2026

Love is at the Heart of Our Work.

02/23/2026

Presented in partnership with the Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center and The Kansas City Public Library.

The 2026 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film series explores the world of horror, inviting us to confront our deepest fears.

The series wraps up with a screening and discussion of the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs (R, 118 minutes).

A post-screening discussion is led by GKCPI president and UMKC law professor Karl Menninger and animator and filmmaker Kaylea Halstead.

Details:
Sun., March 8, 2026, 2 - 5:15 pm
Kansas City Public Library - Plaza Branch
Truman Forum Auditorium
4801 Main Street
Kansas City, MO 64112
816.701.3481

Our annual film series, “Searching the Psyche Through Cinema,” offers probing films followed by discussions featuring cinema and psychoanalytic experts for an examination of how celluloid gets under out skin and into our psyche.

All screenings are free, and continuing education credit is available.

Click Here or go to RSVP: https://kclibrary.org/events/searching-psyche-through-cinema-silence-lambs

02/21/2026

We are excited to announce the GKCTPC Spring Workshop on April 18, 2026. This virtual event will feature Dr. Galit Atlas, who will delve into "Emotional Inheritance as Diagnostic Companion: Love, Loss, and the Legacy of Trauma." Join us for a day of insightful discussions and professional development.
For more information go to: https://www.gkcpsa.org/events/spring-workshop-april-18th-emotional-inheritance-as-diagnostic-companion-love-loss-and-the-legacy-of-trauma-with-galit-atlas-phd/

To sign up go to: https://givingtools.com/give/78/5779

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02/17/2026

Please join us!

GKCTPC SEMINAR
Monday, April 6th, 2026
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. CT on Zoom
The Mirror & the Couch - Lacan in Dialogue with Other Schools
Presented by: Yeshim Oz, MS, LPC, & Mindy Duncan, PhD

To Register: https://givingtools.com/give/78/5741
For more information: https://ymlp.com/zabBn8