Tolerance in Crisis: Forgiveness, Otherness and the Challenged of Psychoanalysis

Sunday, January 11th 2026 at 10:00 - 1:00 pm EST

Online via Zoom

In this three-hour seminar, participants are invited to explore one of today’s most urgent questions: what does it mean to practice tolerance when faced with painful forms of otherness? Drawing on the edited book Tolerance: A Concept in Crisis and the paper Tolerance and Forgiveness: Theoretical and Clinical Perspectives on Coping with Painful Otherness, the seminar examines how tolerance is tested in both clinical settings and everyday life.

3 CE Contact hours

Speaker: Gila Ofer, PhD

Gila Ofer, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, training psychoanalyst, and group analyst. Co-founder and past President of Tel-Aviv Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis (TAICP) and a founding member of the Israeli Institute of Group Analysis (IIGA). Lecturer and supervisor in the Program of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy at Tel-Aviv University, and is on the faculty of TAICP and IIGA.

Her edited books are: “A Bridge over Troubled Water: Conflicts and reconciliation in Groups and Society” (2017), (with Dr. Avi Beman) “Tolerance- A Concept in Crisis: Psychoanalysis, Group Analytic, and Social Perspectives” (2024).

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Speaker: Elliot L. Jurist, PhD, PhD

February 1, 2026 at 10:00-1:00pm EST via Zoom

3 CE Contact hours

This continuing education seminar, seminar instructor/s, and the Postgraduate Programs as the seminar’s sponsor, receive no commercial support for the content of instruction (e.g., research grants funding research findings etc.), or benefit for endorsement of products (e.g., books, training, drugs, etc.) that are known to present a conflict of interest.

Adelphi University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Adelphi University maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Adelphi University, Derner School of Psychology, is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0024 and by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0607 and by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0185; for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0083; and for licensed psychoanalysts #P-0058.

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