International Psychoanalysis

Jane Austen 

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE: Extension Division
247 East Eighty-Second Street, between 2nd & 3rd

PSYCHOANALYTIC THEMES IN JANE AUSTEN’S WORK
Muriel Morris, M.D. & Adrienne Scott, LCSW

Thursdays, May 22 – June 19, 2008
7:30 – 9 pm (5 sessions)
Fee $100

Study Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, and juvenilia to uncover the unconscious chords Austen struck to make her work irresistible and timeless.

 To register call 212-879-6900
 For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org

Click Here for Flyer about: “Eavesdropping on Dreams,” a play by Rivka Greenberg which will take place at the JCC-Manhattan on Wednesday, May 28th, at 8:00 PM.

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE: WORKS IN PROGRESS
247 East Eighty-Second Street, between 2nd & 3rd                           

Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 8:30 p.m.

Psychological Aspects of Money

 Richard Trachtman, Ph.D. will discuss money and its complex psychological representations.  Money’s function in relationships and in happiness will be explored.

 For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis: Burgeoning and Bleleagured by Arnold Richards.  Originally appeared as: Arnold Richards (1992).  Psychoanalysis: Burgeoning and Bleleagured, in Medical and Health Annual, Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc, 1992, pp. 400-405 and appears with all requisite rights and permissions.   

Many thanks to Jane Hall for bringing the recent Papal visit to the attention of the psychoanalytic community. (Click here to read Jane S. Hall’s editorial.) An international event of this importance has the potential to elicit deeply held emotions in individuals that rise to the surface and reverberate in our society at large. Having attended the Papal Mass at the Washington Nationals Stadium, I witnessed both the hushed attentiveness of over forty thousand faithful in the stands as well as several placard-carrying protestors shouting outside the front gates. Not unexpectedly, people expressed strong feelings around this event. As a psychoanalyst as well as a practicing Roman Catholic, the Papal visit and the reactions to it were of great interest to me.I would now like to share some psychoanalytic thoughts about a particular incident that occurred during this time. My intent is to show that the effects of clerical sexual abuse might be evident in one victim’s encounter with the Pope. Read the rest of this entry »

The Metropolitan Institute for Training in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists

    Invite you to a Scientific Meeting

            Friday, May 9, 2008 at 8:00 P.M.

Rage of the Oppressed: Countertransference Predicaments in the Treatment of Two Muslim Patients, Post 9/11    

Presenter: Debra Gill, L.C.S.W.
Discussant: Doris Silverman, Ph.D.     

Selected vignettes from the treatment of two very different patients, both practicing Muslims, will illustrate countertransference dilemmas for the therapist when she is confronted with unconscious fantasy material developed in the context of social and psychological oppression. While both patients endured various forms of cruelty and domination throughout their lives, each managed to live with the resulting internalized burdens until about one year after September 11th. Unconscious terrors resulting in rageful acting out led both of these patients to psychotherapy.  The analysis of unmanageable affects and impulses allowed unconscious experiences of oppressed rage to enter the transference leaving the therapist in paralyzing countertransference states that closely mirrored the patients’ oppression.

DEBRA GILL, L.C.S.W. is a graduate of MITPP’s Adult Program, and is a graduate and member of the New York Freudian Society.  She is on the Faculty and is a Supervisor at MITPP, and is a member of MSPP.  She is a member of the MSPP Program Committee. She is a Visiting Faculty member of The American Institute for Psychoanalysis, and a Supervisor in the Psychology Intern Program at the Karen Horney Clinic and in the New York Freudian Society Psychotherapy Program.

No registration or fee required.  Refreshments served following the presentation.

Meeting Will Be Held At:
The Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute and Center
329 East 62nd Street (1st & 2nd Avenues)
1st Floor Auditorium, New York, NY 10021

             For further information: (212) 496-2858, email mitppnyc@aol.com or visit www.MITPP.org

Program Committee: Thomas McCoy, M. Div., LCSW, Chair * Debra Gill, LCSW *
Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW * Patricia Saunders, Ph.D. * Ivy Vale, BFA

Click Here to Read: Maurice Preter and Donald Klein (April, 2008). Panic, Suffocation False Alarms, Separation Anxiety and Endogenous Opioids. This paper originally appeared in Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 1:32 (3): 603-12 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.