The Psychoanalytic Center of California's

Continuing Education Committee

is pleased to present

A Cure Through Love?

featuring


Judy Eekhoff, PhD

Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NPSI)


Saturday, April 25, 2026

9:00 am to 12:15 pm (Pacific Daylight Time)



CEUs: 3

Location: (online).

The conference will be held online via Zoom.

Program Description


PCC is delighted to welcome Dr. Judy Eekhoff as our featured speaker for this half-day program. Dr. Eekhoff offers the idea that psychoanalysis has changed a lot since the early days when Freud (1906) wrote to Jung that analysis was a cure through love. One major change is its application to non-neurotic patients. Today, many of our analytic patients are borderline, manic depressive, and even schizophrenic. These are patients who have traditionally been considered unanalyzable. Today we do treat them with varying degrees of success. We treat them by becoming aware of their somatopsychic relationships with us and using the analytic relationship as reflective of deep psychological structures previously unanalyzed. These patients teach us a great deal about love and hate, in spite of their seemingly indifferent attitudes toward us. They tell us they cannot love. We observe that they also seem unable to receive love. If analysis is indeed a cure through love, these patients will be especially challenging.


This program will explore the psychodynamics and treatment approach that may reach these types of patients. Love alone may not be enough to cure them but psychoanalysis, by focusing on deeply unconscious communication, is able to treat them. 

Program Schedule

8:45 am

Registration

9:00 am

Presentation: "A Cure Through Love?" (Dr. Eekhoff)

10: 30 am

Audience Discussion, Q&A

11:00 am

Break

11:15 am

Audience Discussion, Q&A

12:15 pm

Adjourn

Target Audience

MD's, Psychologists, LCSW's, MFT's, Registered Nurses, candidates and members of psychoanalytic institutes, and student clinicians who are interested in psychoanalysis.


Course Objectives

At the end of this activity, participants should be better able to:


  1. Identify two treatment challenges presented by non-neurotic patients;
  2. Implement two techniques to improve the treatment of seemingly "unanalyzable" patients;
  3. Distinguish between conscious and unconscious communication.

Program Faculty

Judy K. Eekhoff, PhD, FIPA is an IPA certified training and supervising psychoanalyst and a licensed child psychologist. She has a private practice in Seattle, Washington, USA where she teaches, writes, and consults. She has published numerous papers and book chapters as well as three books: Trauma and Primitive Mental States: An Object Relations Perspective; Bion and Primitive Mental States: Trauma and the Symbiotic Link; and Bion’s Emotional Links: Love, Hate, and Knowledge. Dr. Eekhoff is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and American Journal of Psychoanalysis.

Continuing Education Credit

The Psychoanalytic Center of California designates this live activity for a maximum of 3 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.



This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the California Medical Association (CMA)  through the Psychoanalytic Center of California. The Psychoanalytic Center of California  is accredited by the California Medical Association (CMA)   to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


As per the California Board of Psychology, psychologists may apply AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ earned by attendance at this CME accredited live activity toward their continuing education requirement for licensing. 

The Psychoanalytic Center of California is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT) to sponsor continuing education for LMFT's and LCSW's (CAMFT Approved Provider # 135374). The Psychoanalytic Center of California maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. This course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. These learners must attend the entire course to claim credit; no partial credit is offered according to CAMFT requirements.

 

*Important note: Participants who plan to use the credits in another state should check with their licensing jurisdiction to see if the credits from an ACCME or CAMFT provider will be accepted.


Claiming Credit: Participants will receive a certificate of attendance at the event, which can be used toward licensing requirements. Credit is offered for actual instruction time and does not include breaks.

 

Refunds/Cancellations: Refunds, less a $10 administrative fee, will be made if cancellation notification is phoned or postmarked three (3) business days in advance of this program. There will be no refunds on requests received after the refund deadline. Full refunds are made in the event that PCC must cancel this program.

 

Returned Checks: A $25.00 service charge will be assessed for checks returned by the bank.

 

Grievances: While PCC goes to great lengths to assure fair treatment for all participants and attempts to anticipate problems, there will be occasional issues that come to the attention of the PCC staff which will require intervention and/or action on the part of the staff. Visit  www.p-c-c.org/ethics for PCC's procedural guidelines for handling such grievances.

 

Special Needs: Facilities are accessible to persons with disabilities. If you have a special need and plan to attend the conference, please contact the PCC Office by phone at (310) 478-4347 or via email at 0ffice@p-c-c.org. Special needs requests will be fulfilled if received one week prior to the event, which will ensure we have ample opportunity to meet your needs.

 

Commercial Support Disclosure: None of the planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

 

Financial Support Disclaimer: The planners and presenters for this event have no financial relationships to disclose.

 

Confidentiality:  By registering for this educational event, attendees agree to strictly maintain confidentiality of any clinical material shared and will not distribute or convey such confidential material outside of the conference. 

Program Planners


Continuing Education Committee: Leigh Tobias, PhD (chair); Jennifer Kunst, PhD (member and CME coordinator); Chris Minnick, MD (member and CME chair); Persila Conversano, PsyD and Stacey Nicklas, PsyD (members); Jason Snyder, LMFT and Yelena Kashtuyeva, LMFT (candidate members).



Registration


General admission: $100

Current PCC Candidates in-Seminar: FREE

PCC Post-Seminar Candidate Admission: $50

Current PCC PPP Student Admission: $50

Full time students and candidates from other institutes admission: $50