NOBPC Engages Our Communities
The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center (NOBPC) explores and educates. We provide an excellent, in-depth and accredited training program for those interested in adult psychoanalysis and/or psychodynamic psychotherapy. In addition, NOBPC offers a variety of continuing education opportunities including: psychoanalytic training for residents; scientific meetings and study groups for professionals and scholars; and, community programs for professionals, scholars and interested persons. We offer a great community of brilliant minds and hope you will want to participate!
Upcoming Events
Cases in Conversation: Reading and Study Group
Do you want to earn up to 7 in-person CME credits? Would you like to learn more about psychoanalytic ideas and how to apply them to your practice? The Cases in Conversation Study Group is for clinicia...
January 11, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmThe I in You by Jeffry Luria, PhD
Psychoanalytic Explorations is a series in which faculty members and students of the NOBPC, as well as interested members of the community, present and discuss issues of current concern to them. The f...
January 17, 2026 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pmCases in Conversation: Reading and Study Group
Do you want to earn up to 7 in-person CME credits? Would you like to learn more about psychoanalytic ideas and how to apply them to your practice? The Cases in Conversation Study Group is for clinicia...
February 8, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmSAVE THE DATE: Psychoanalytic Explorations
More details coming soon!
February 28, 2026 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pmCases in Conversation: Reading and Study Group
Do you want to earn up to 7 in-person CME credits? Would you like to learn more about psychoanalytic ideas and how to apply them to your practice? The Cases in Conversation Study Group is for clinicia...
March 8, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
NOBPC Provides Tailored Referrals
If you’re looking for psychoanalytic psychotherapy, give us a call. You’ll speak with a trained professional who will ask you a few questions, research therapists that fit your needs, and return to you a complete list of available referrals.
Award-winning Short Film created by NOBPC Member
NOBPC Psychoanalytic training Candidate, Kulvadee Thongpibul, PsyD, JD, wrote, directed and produced a short film, Quiet Legacy, that won the Best Project Award for Inspiring Asia Micro Film Festival 2025 – Inspiring Thailand. This year theme is about youth mental well-being.
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Quiet Legacy is a psychological drama about the silent inheritance of pain between a mother and daughter. A withdrawn 14-year-old hides her struggles behind quiet routines, while her mother — burdened by her own unresolved past — fails to bridge the emotional gap. Through parallel flashbacks, unspoken moments, and shared scars, the film reveals how unaddressed trauma passes from one generation to the next. Using stillness, restrained visuals, and recurring symbolic objects, Quiet Legacy invites the audience to “see” the invisible weight carried within families, and to reflect on how even a single moment of recognition can begin to break the cycle. The message of this film is an invitation for us to truly see and listen to one another — because that is where the cycle of quiet pain can finally be broken.
What is Psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis is a set of theories, as well as a therapeutic practice, created by Austrian physician Sigmund Freud based on the observation that individuals’ emotions and behaviors are determined by unconscious factors. These unconscious factors may create unhappiness, troubling personality traits, difficulties in work or love relationships, or disturbances in mood and self-esteem. Because these forces are unconscious, the advice of friends and family, the reading of self-help books, or even the most determined efforts of will, often fail to provide relief.
Psychoanalytic treatment demonstrates how these unconscious factors affect current relationships and patterns of behavior, traces them back to their historical origins, shows how they have changed and developed over time, and helps the individual to deal better with the realities of adult life.
Practitioner Outreach
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