2025-2026 PROGRAM YEAR THEME
ANXPRESSIONS
From September to May each year, DSPP provides continuing education opportunities to mental health professionals in Dallas-Fort Worth area. These opportunities correspond to a yearly theme, determined by the DSPP President.
Monthly meetings generally occur on the third Wednesday of the month from 7pm-9pm, September thru November, and February through April, though there is some variation depending on other events. Monthly meetings are included in membership.
Workshops, which are longer educational opportunities, tend to occur on weekends and are purchased separately.
In addition, the Arts Committee provides opportunities to explore various artistic media through a psychoanalytic lens, these events often incorporating food, drinks, and socializing.
DSPP has a rich tradition of hosting some of the worlds leading psychoanalytic thinkers.
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All members receive 10% off workshops, in addition to free monthly meetings.
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upcoming MONTHLY MEETINGS
May 13th Monthly Meeting- J Unterberg, Phd and Mary Wyant, MD: Freuds Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality and the Otherness of Desire
$15.00
Date: Wednesday, May 13th 2026: 7:30pm-9:00pm (Rescheduled from original date of May 6th)
Credits: 1.5 CE
Speaker: J Unterberg, Phd and Mary Wyant, MD
Meeting is both on Zoom & in-person at:
The Center for Integrative Counseling & Psychology
4305 MacArthur Ave.
Dallas, TX 75209
Freud’s Three Essays on Sexuality and the Otherness of Sexuality
J. Unterberg, PhD (Jennifer Beth Unterberg) is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Dallas, Texas. She earned her doctorate from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in 2003 and completed her undergraduate studies at Union College.
Dr. Unterberg is a graduate psychoanalyst of the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center, where they completed their analytic training in 2015, and they are certified by the American Psychoanalytic Association. They are actively involved in teaching and training at the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center, with a particular focus on gender and sexuality.
Their clinical work is grounded in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches, with areas of focus including depression, anxiety, relationships, and LGBTQ+ issues. In addition to their clinical and teaching roles, Dr. Unterberg serves as Co-Chair of the Committee on Gender and Sexuality (COGS) of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Mary Wyant, MD completed psychoanalytic training at the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center between 2002 and 2013 and has been a Teaching Analyst there since 2014. In this role, she teaches on gender and sexuality alongside Dr. J. Unterberg. She has also served as a Personal Analyst since 2021. A leader in her field, Dr. Wyant was President of the Dallas Psychoanalytic Center from 2019 to 2022. In addition to her clinical and analytic work, she serves as Adjunct Faculty at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Learning Objectives
1) Participants will describe Freud’s biological theory of infantile sexuality.
2) Participants will describe the otherness/enigma of sexuality through Fonagy and Laplanche’s object related theories of infantile sexuality
3) Participants will describe a Laplanchean approach to psychotherapy, in which the therapist is the “artisan of unbinding”.
Reading:
Freud, S. (1905). Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, 7: 123-246.
Fonagy, P. (2008). A Genuine Developmental Theory of Sexual Enjoyment and its Implications for Psychoanalytic Technique. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 56: 11-36.
Sauvayre, P. (2017). The Unconscious In Translation: Jean Laplanche: Laplanche: An Introduction by Dominique Scarfone (D. Bonnigal-Katz, Trans.). New Y ork, NY: The Unconscious in Translation, 2015. 144 pp. The Temptation of Biology: Freud's Theories of Sexuality by Jean Laplanche (D. Nicholson-Smith, Trans.). New York, NY: The Unconscious in Translation, 2015. 140 pp. Between Seduction and Inspiration: Man by Jean
Laplanche (J. Mehlman, Trans.). New Y ork, NY: The Unconscious in Translation, 2015. 304 pp. Freud and the Sexual by Jean Laplanche (J. Fletcher, J. House, & N. Ray, Trans.). New Y ork, NY: The Unconscious in Translation, 2011. 318 pp. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 53: 112-139.
upcoming Workshops
DSPP Arts