Interactive Seminar with Dr. Jeffrey B. Rubin
Virtual Live
Sunday, December 14, 2025, 12pm-3:15pm ET
Continuing Education: 5 CE hrs for APA (covers most mental health professionals outside of NYS), NYS Psychologists, & NYS Social Workers
To Register for this training, please complete the Registration form
Interest in blending Eastern meditative and Western psychotherapeutic traditions is burgeoning, yet we have only begun to realize what these rich traditions can teach each other. In this seminar — a combination of lecture, meditation practice, and dialogue with the participants — Dr. Rubin will explore what he calls meditative psychoanalysis, which blends the best aspects of Western psychoanalysis and Eastern meditative traditions into a more encompassing synthesis.
In meditative analysis, we first use meditation and yogic breathing to quiet and focus the mind, and we then explore and translate the meaning of what we have discovered using psychoanalytic understandings of symbolic and unconscious communication. Psychoanalytic attention to unconscious communication and meaning — the second facet of meditative psychoanalysis — expands the focus and equanimity that meditation fosters. The third and final aspect of meditative psychoanalysis is a special relationship (and environment) designed to illuminate and transform one’s history.
Psychoanalysis not only elucidates the interpersonal roots of adult afflictions, it offers a relationship and experience that is a vehicle for transformation in the present. In tandem with meditation, the therapeutic relationship — seen in a freer and more empathic light as the vehicle for both validating a person’s experience and providing opportunities for new forms of relatedness and self-transformation — becomes a crucible in which old patterns of restrictively seeing and organizing one’s life can be witnessed and ultimately transformed, so that new and liberating kinds of human connections can occur.
This seminar will offer a focused presentation by Dr. Rubin, discussion of the concepts presented, and meditative and somatic practices ranging from Buddhist meditation and yogic breathing to qigong and practices derived from Chinese internal martials and Russian “Systema,” a holistic system of self-transformation.
At the end of this educational activity, its participants will be able to:
Intended Audience: psychologists, psychoanalysts, social workers, marriage and family counselors, medical professionals, nurses, occupational therapists, speech and language pathologists, and any professionals who are interested in integrating Western and Eastern approaches to healing in transformation – in their patients’/ clients’ lives, as well as their own.
Jeffrey B. Rubin Ph. D practices psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapy and teaches meditation in New York City and North Salem, New York. He is considered one of the leading integrators of the Western psychotherapeutic and eastern meditative traditions. A Sensei in the Nyogen Senzaki and Soen Nakagawa Rinzai Zen lineage and the creator of meditative psychotherapy, a practice that he developed through insights gained from decades of study, teaching and trying to helping people flourish, Dr. Rubin is the author of the ebooks, Meditative Psychotherapy: The Marriage of East and West; Practicing Meditative Psychotherapy: Pathways to Self-Transformation, and the critically acclaimed books The Art of Flourishing: A Guide to Mindfulness, Self-Care, and Love in a Chaotic World; Psychotherapy and Buddhism: Toward an Integration; The Good Life: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Love, Ethics, Creativity, and Spirituality; and A Psychoanalysis for Our Time: Exploring the Blindness of the Seeing I.
Dr. Jeffrey Rubin has taught at various universities, psychoanalytic institutes and Buddhist and yoga centers. He lectures around the country and has given workshops at the United Nations, the Esalen Institute, the Open Center and the 92nd Street Y. His pioneering approach to psychotherapy and Buddhism has been featured in The New York Times Magazine.
For more information, visit www.drjeffreyrubin.com.
2025 Fall Advanced Topics in Transdisciplinary Psychoanalysis
October 9, 2025 – December 18, 2025
Live Online
Session #1: 11-5-25 – 12-10-25 (Wednesdays, 7 – 9:15pm ET): Dream Appreciation and Interpretation: Montague Ullman’s Visionary Method (with Dr. Jeffrey B. Rubin) 10 CE hrs for APA (covers most mental health professionals outside of NYS), NYS Psychologists, & NYS Social Workers
Session #2: 11-16-25 & 12-7-25: ADHD, Borderline Personality, PTSD, & Dissociation: A Neurobiological, Psychoanalytic, & Lived-Experience Lens (with Inna Rozentsvit, M.D., PhD & Jan Almasy, RN) 8 CE hrs for APA (covers most mental health professionals outside of NYS), NYS Psychologists, & NYS Social Workers
Session #3: 12-14-25 (12-3:15pm EST): Meditative Psychoanalysis — The Marriage of Mindfulness, Meaning, and Intimacy (with Dr. Jeffrey B. Rubin) 5 CE hrs for APA (covers most mental health professionals outside of NYS), NYS Psychologists, & NYS Social Workers
Joint Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Amedco LLC and Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. Amedco LLC is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Professions in scope for this activity are listed below.
Amedco Joint Accreditation Provider Number: 4008163
Psychologists (APA) Credit Designation
This course is co-sponsored by Amedco and Object Relations Institute for Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis. Amedco is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Amedco maintains responsibility for this program and content. Maximum of 23.0 hours.
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Psychologists/Counselors: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA (LEP ONLY), MD, ME, MN, MO, NC, ND, NH, NE, NJ, NM, NV, OH, OK*, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY
MI: Accepts courses from APA for Psychologists. No general CE requirement for Counselors.
OK: Accepts APA credit for live, in-person activities but not for ethics and/or online courses.
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for MFTs: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NE, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OH, OK*, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WDC, WI, WY
AL MFTs: Credits authorized by NBCC or any other state licensing agency will be accepted. MA MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review. MI MFTs: There are no CE requirements for MFTs in MI.
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Addictions Professionals: AK, AR, CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MD, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY (held outside NY ONLY), OK*, OR, SC, UT, WA, WI, WY
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Social Workers: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, ID, IN, KY, ME, MN, MO, NE, NH, NM, OR, PA, VT, WI, WY
New York Social Workers
Amedco SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0115. 23.0 credit hours.
New York Psychologists
Amedco 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-0031. 23.0 hours.
Early Bird registration (before October 13th, 2025):
$50 regular/ $35 graduate students & analytic candidates/ $15 undergraduate students
Regular registration (from October 13th, 2025 – to December 13th, 2025 – before 6pm EST/NYC time):
$60 regular/ $45 grad students & candidates/ $20 undergrad students
Registration ‘at the door’ (after 6pm EDT/NYC time on December 13th, 2025):
$70 regular/ $55 grad students & candidates/ $25 undergrad students
Please Note: IF CEs ARE REQUESTED — please use the “regular” registration (not a “student”) option. There is an additional fee of $25 for CE certificate processing (can be paid now, during the registration, or on the day of the conference using form below).
SPECIAL SCHOLARSHIPS are available for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as for retired or disabled practitioners, or need-based or/and those who live outside of the USA.
To apply for your scholarship, please go to the registration form below.
