A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Community for New Mexico & surrounding areas.
Upcoming SWAPP event:
Historian & Fullbright Scholar
Dr. Klara Naszkowska,
11/16/25 @1-3pm MST.
See below for details!
About Southwestern Alliance for Psychoanalytic Psychology
Supporting Psychoanalytic Community
Welcome! SWAPP was formed in response to the growing need for rigorous, contemporary psychoanalytic community in New Mexico and surrounding areas.
We are a registered Continuing Education provider under Division 39 of the American Psychological Association (APA) Section 4 (local chapters).
Our administrative offices are currently Located in Santa Fe, NM. However, we represent a large region from El Paso / Las Cruces to Tucson to Durango to Colorado Springs, and more.
A home for analytic education and support
We draw our theoretical orientations many schools, but largely cohere around relational, feminist, social justice, and integrative psychoanalytic frames, including Freud, Winnicott, Jessica Benjamin, Laplanche, Solms, Schore, Lacan, Bion, Searles, Fanon and Lynne Layton.
Current SWAPP Leadership:
Ben Greenberg, PsyD - President
Brooke Jordan, LMHC - Treasurer
John Peloian, PsyD - Secretary
Scott Chapman, LMHC - Member-at-Large
Mitchell Goheen, LMHC - Member-at-Large
Nancy Julius, PhD - Member-at-Large
A multi-modal organization for modern times
The world is changing fast - psychoanalysis must keep up.
While we trace the origins of how we think, work, and collaborate to the very beginnings of the field, starting with Breuer and Freud, we recognize that in a changing world psychoanalysis has to to better to extend its reach and survive.
If you're interested in joining our growing community to participate, teach, present, supervise, or more, please don't hesitate to reach out!!
COMING SOON:
Newsletter
Study & Consultation Groups
Symposia/Colloquium
Referral Network Listserv
& More!
Southwestern Alliance for Psychoanalytic Psychology
Events
Upcoming Events:
The Erased History and Contemporary Relevance of Early Women Psychoanalysts
November 16th, 2025
1-3pm Mountain Time
Zoom
Presented by: Klara Naszkowska, PhD
Drawing on Dr. Naszkowska’s original research and her anthology Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance this presentation will introduce you to the largely overlooked stories of women trailblazers who helped shape the foundations of psychoanalysis in Europe before World War II (and beyond). Biographical portraits of several remarkable pioneers will be examined against the tumultuous socio-political and economic landscape of early 20th-century. The presentation will discuss how these pioneers navigated the intersections of gender, Jewish identity, women’s education, professional career in male-dominated spaces, rising autocracies, and orced migration, while revealing how their groundbreaking contributions were systematically erased from the historical narrative.
Bio:
Dr. Klara Naszkowska (she/her) is an independent scholar, writer, and adjunct professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Her work critically investigates the stories of Jewish women pioneers of psychoanalysis who fled Nazi persecution in Europe for the United States. It prioritizes the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, class and wealth, immigration status, age, and ability. Klara resurrects their biographies – largely
erased from the mainstream historical narrative – by engaging with archival materials and conducting oral history interviews. Her work has been recognized with the Fulbright Fellowship, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library Grant, and the Leo Baeck Institute’s Gerald Westheimer Career Development Fellowship.
Learning objectives:
Describe the sociopolitical, cultural and economic circumstances relevant to the entry of women into the psychoanalytic field in pre-WWI and interwar Europe.
Identify vital women pioneers active in the psychoanalytic movement in pre-WWI and interwar Europe. Describe personal and professional biographies of several of these pioneers.
Analyze the sociopolitical, cultural, economic developments that largely shaped their personal and professional biographies.
Discuss the intersecting oppressive systems of gender, ethnicity, and citizenship, as well as the unique combination of marginalization of privilege, as they pertain to the experiences of the first Jewish women psychoanalysts.
Explain the complex reasons behind the virtual disappearance of women pioneers of psychoanalysis from the mainstream historical narrative.
If you’re interested in purchasing the anthology Naszkowska, K. (Ed.) (2024). Early Women Psychoanalysts. History, Biography, and Contemporary Relevance, Routledge, please use code 25AFLY2 at checkout for 20% at the publisher’s website: https://www.routledge.com/Early-Women-Psychoanalysts-History-Biography-and-Contemporary-Relevance/Naszkowska/p/book/9781032595351
§ Registration: please email Ben Greenberg, PsyD your intent to attend – drgreenberg@thecenterfordynamicpractice.com
§ Cost: Free (suggested donation of $50 for those needing Continuing Education Units)
Licensed Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, and Physicians: this presentation is eligible for 2 Credit Hours of Continuing Education via the American Psychological Association (APA Division 39, Section IV).
Past Events:
Winter Mini-Symposia on:
Ethics in Clinical Practice and Community Mental Health
Sunday, December 8th, 2024
12-2pm Mountain Time
Zoom
Ethical Challenges in the Treatment of Personality Disorders - A Trauma-Informed, Integrative Psychodynamic Perspective:
In addressing the notoriously challenging components of working with Personality Disorders (PD), this presentation will focus on ethical challenges when working with personality disorders such as Paranoid PD, Narcissistic PD, and Borderline PD in therapeutic settings with individuals, couples, and families, as well as in organizational and supervisory contexts, particularly in context to the current greater political moment. This online presentation will provide integrative psychodynamic and trauma-informed perspectives including an overview of developmental and neuropsychological components to the origins and challenges of these difficult diagnostic presentations, offering professionals essential insights and strategies in expanding our skill sets to support those who suffer from PD's, as well as their family, peers, and the public.
Presented by: Ben Greenberg, PsyD
Community-Based & Practice Considerations of Ethics, Through a Psychoanalytic Lens:
Codes of Ethics contain sensible, unexceptional guides for action. They are meant to protect and to serve the interests of consumers, clients and patients, yet sometimes they can shift the therapist's concern from doing the right thing for the human being in front of them to following the appropriate code. Through case examples derived from agency-based, private and community-based practice, this presentation will focus on the impact of third party demands on the therapy, the therapeutic relationship, and consider how the therapist maintains themselves over time, as they endeavor to provide effective and ethical treatment to their patients and the community.
Presented by: Reed Larsen, LCSW
Reference:
Greenberg, B. (2023). Ameliorative mechanisms of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the treatment of developmental trauma. Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis, 17, 155-172.
Newsletter
If you have an idea for an article you wish to publish, we welcome you to submit to our upcoming peer-reviewed newsletter: Clinical Issues in Psychodynamic Practice.
Symposia/Conference
In addition to regularly scheduled events, we plan to have a yearly half-day symposia/conference where regional members (and beyond) can meet, participate, share, present and network.
Feel free to send us a proposal of a topic you'd like to see, or an idea you'd like to wish to present.
Study & Consultation Groups
We are currently forming various series of ongoing reading, study, and consultation groups that stem from classical psychoanalytic literature to contemporary, social justice, and feminist modes of thinking.
Let us know what your interest is, and we'd be happy to try and make it happen!
Referral Network
Members will have access to an increasingly robust network of analytically-oriented
Supporting Organizations
SWAPP was formed with the support and partnership of the following organizations:
The Center for Dynamic Practice:
www.thecenterfordynamicpractice.com
Dynamic Therapy Services of Northern NM:
If you have or are a member of an organization that supports psychoanalysis in the Southwest, and would like to become a member, we'd be happy to list your organization here