This presentation explores the fascinating tension between two forms of intelligence that share an acronym but diverge profoundly in their nature and purpose. Analytic Intelligence — the cultivated capacity of the clinician to attend, interpret, and relate — has been the cornerstone of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic practice for over a century. Artificial Intelligence now enters the consulting room, not as a patient, but as a potential tool, collaborator, and challenger to that very tradition.

Participants will examine what it means to "know" a patient through the lens of transference, countertransference, and the unconscious — and ask whether any algorithm can replicate, approximate, or threaten that knowing. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory and contemporary developments in AI-assisted mental health care, this talk invites clinicians to reflect critically on the irreplaceable human dimensions of therapeutic work while honestly engaging with both the promise and the peril of AI in clinical settings.

Course Objectives:

1.    Participants will be able to articulate the fundamental differences between analytic intelligence and artificial intelligence, with specific attention to the roles of unconscious processes, therapeutic presence, and intersubjectivity in psychoanalytic treatment — qualities that current AI systems cannot replicate.

2.    Participants will be able to identify clinically relevant applications of AI that may meaningfully support psychoanalytic and psychodynamic treatment, including between-session patient engagement between sessions, symptom monitoring, and reduced administrative demands on clinicians.

3.    Participants will be able to identify transference and countertransference issues when using AI in a session.

Facilitators: Nicole E. Grace, LCSW, PsyA, and Zachary Schwartz, LCSW, PsyA

Place: In Person at

655 Pomander Walk,

Teaneck, NJ 07666

Date: Sunday, June 7, 2026

Time: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Fee: $20 payable via Zelle or PayPal using ipsinfo@ipsnewjersey.org

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This course, provided by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, Inc., is approved for 2 clinical continuing education hours by the New Jersey Society for Clinical Social Work.