SPECIAL LECTURE SERIES
CAPA offers special lectures, seminars and courses for students, graduates, and members. A variety of topics will be covered by distinguished members of CAPA's faculty. Upon completion of the Special Lecture Series lecture, seminar or course, student and graduate participants will receive a certification of participation.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this program are those of the speaker(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of CAPA.
2025-2026 Academic Year
Title: The Psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan: An Overview with Applications to your Practice
Presenter: Gerald P. Perman, M.D.
US Seminar Dates: Friday, September 19, 2025
US Seminar Times: 7pm – 9:30pm (Eastern Time)
China Seminar Dates: Saturday, September 20, 2025
China Seminar Times: 7 AM – 9:30 AM (07:00 – 09:30 Beijing Time)
Prerequisites: All CAPA members, students and graduates
Course size: Open Enrollment
Course Fee: $20
Description: This seminar offers a concise overview of Lacan’s background and career, explores the influence of Ferdinand de Saussure’s linguistics on Lacan’s theory of the unconscious, introduces Lacan’s three Registers of human experience along with the Borromean knot, and examines how Lacanian psychoanalysis can be applied in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Course Objective:
Explain how "the Lacanian unconscious is structured like a language" based on repressed signifiers
Analyze how the self and others exist based on the interplay of the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and Real Register
Apply key Lacanian concepts to the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Bio: Gerald P. Perman, M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of adults and college students. He is also a Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at The George Washington University Medical Center. Dr. Perman's qualifications include having authored psychiatric publications, and he has received several honors, and awards over his career. His treatment philosophy is to identify and help patients resolve conflictual issues that contribute to the problems his patients are having. He addresses these conflicts through psychotherapy and, when indicated, the use of medication.
If you have any questions about the seminar, please contact Dr. Perman directly at gpperman@gmail.com.
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Title: Psychodramatization in Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Neuropsychoanalytic Approach
Presenter: Arseny Tarabanov, Ph.D.
US Seminar Dates: Friday, February 6, 2026
US Seminar Times: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM (Eastern Time)
China Seminar Dates: Friday, February 6, 2026
China Seminar Times: 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM (22:00 - 23:30)
Lithuania Seminar Dates: Friday, February 6, 2026
Lithuania Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Prerequisites: Open to CAPA Members, Students & Graduates
Course size: Open Enrollment
Course fee: $20 USD
Description: Traditional Chinese Medicine has a unique feature - its therapeutic methods practically do not become obsolete over time. Unlike Western medicine, the medicine of which disappears from the scene in accordance with the advancement of scientific and technological progress. However, the psychodramatization methods used in Traditional Chinese Medicine when working with psychiatric patients remain unclaimed today. Can we today translate these methods for the needs of modern psychiatry and psychotherapy? Yes, we can do this, relying on the methodology of neuropsychoanalysis, affective neuroscience and the multifaceted heritage of Freud.
Course Objective:
To examine psychodramatic techniques in Traditional Chinese Medicine as therapeutic practices using the example of treating conversion disorders in Imperial China
To characterize therapeutic techniques of psychodramatization from the point of view of Karl Friston's concept of "surprise and predictive process"
To discuss the effectiveness of including psychodramatization techniques in the process of talking therapy ("talking cure"), both within the framework of Chinese traditional methods and within the framework of modern psychoanalytic therapy
Bio: Dr. Arseny Tarabanov is the Director of Institute of Neurocommunications and Psychotherapy in Vilnius (Lithuania). He is the popularizer of neuropsychoanalysis in the Baltic countries. He designs courses in affective neuroscience, neuropsychoanalysis, and traditional Chinese psychotherapy. He has twenty years of teaching experience and five years of clinical experience. Dr. Tarabanov aims to develop psychotherapeutic methods based on a cross-cultural approach in psychopathology and the latest achievements in neuroscience. His publications include articles on the neuropsychoanalytic approach and chapters of the textbook "Child Psychiatry" devoted to the neuropsychodynamic approach to various types of psychopathology. He has been studying Chinese medicine for many years and applying it to the practice of martial arts. His post-doctoral certifications are in Body Therapy, Child Psychoanalysis, and Contemporary Methods of Family and Group Psychotherapy.
If you have any questions about the seminar, please contact Dr. Tarabanov directly at beobachter1971@gmail.com