International Psychoanalysis

Dear Colleagues,

Fresh from the APSaA meeting in Washington, DC, the beat goes on and the international psychoanalytic website “that never sleeps” is again full of interesting posts which I will outline below.

My suggestions this week are:

1) though perhaps I should not have been, I was taken aback by the post on “British Girls in the 3rd Reich”:

“In the 1930s, many English families sent their daughters to finishing school in Nazi Germany. Rachel Johnson, sister of the London mayor, interviewed several for her most recent book. She told SPIEGEL ONLINE about Britain’s enthusiasm for Hitler’s Reich.” The British press has praised the book for being both entertaining and historically accurate.Johnson, who is the sister of (more…)

Contemporary Freudian Society: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice

Here is the announcement from the Anna Freud Centre, where Sir Peter Fonagy is Chief Executive Officer.

Professor Fonagy first came into contact with the Centre as a teenager when he received help from the organisation after being separated from his family upon leaving Hungary. Now over 30 years later and after ten years successfully leading the Centre that once helped him, Professor Fonagy has been honoured with an OBE in recognition of his services to psychoanalysis and psychology.
(more…)

SAVE THESE DATES FOR A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE
FORMAL NOTICE FORTHCOMING FALL 2013

Violence in Schools, Homes, and on the Streets:Psychoanalytic Collaboration with Educators, Law Enforcers,
and Community Leaders
Drs. Will Braun, Jonathan Cohen,Steven Marans, Lois Oppenheim, Wendy Olesker, Mark Smaller, Stuart Twemlow, Josephine Wright and Chief of Police Dean Esserman

NYPSI’s Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 E. 82nd Street, NYC

Friday, February 7, 2014, 7:30 – 9 pm (more…)

Click Here to Read:  Canadian Network for Psychoanalysis and Culture (Cnpc)/ Réseau Canadien Pour La Psychanalyse et La Culture (Rcpc): Call for Papers. CNPC will hold its inaugural conference at the University of Toronto from September 20th to 22th, 2013. Posted by Kevin on the Culture Lab Website on June 10, 2013

Those planning to attend the upcoming IPA conference in Prague this summer may wish to preview this special flyer which will be distributed there.  Of course, you can also order all of these books at IPBooks.net (Note:  The Rangell Reader is still in press.)

Click Here to Read:  Flyer and Order form for IPBooks at the IPA Prague Congress.

NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
CHILD & ADOLESCENT ANALYSIS DIVISION
DIALOGUES ON CHILDHOOD
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org

Wednesday, June 12, 2013 8 – 9:15 p.m.

Children’s Concepts About Death & Dying
Patricia Nachman, Ph.D. (more…)

THURSDAY 13 JUNE 2013 | 6:30pm
Rise Up! Revolution or Class Mobility: Anglo-Yiddish Poems and Songs as Agents of Political Debate 1884-1914

Presented by Vivi Lachs (University of London)
Moderated by Itzik Gottesman (Associate Editor, Forward – Yiddish Edition)
RUTH GAY SEMINAR IN JEWISH STUDIES

Admission: Free (more…)

Dear Colleagues,

As we anticipate the spring meeting of APsaA in Washington as well as the soon to happen IPA Congress in historic Prague, and watch in wonder the ever changing face of the weather and of world politics, it is no surprise that the international psychoanalytic website reflects the changing tide in psychiatry and psychoanalysis. As usual I will direct you to some posts that caught my attention and urge you to find those of interest to you once you are on the website.

My choices this week:

1) for those of us whose first language was not English, there is room for regret that we can’t contribute some of our earliest introductions to psychodynamic (more…)

Click Here to Read:  Sudhir Kakar to Speak about Psychoanalysis in India on the International Psychoanalytic University Website on  June 06, 2013.

“Enchanted Places”, Imagined Childhoods: A Symposium on Children’s Literature and Psychoanalysis
Collaboration Liaison Committee of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania
contact email: mezickler@gmail.com
Featured Author: Jerry Spinelli
Saturday, September 20, 2014, University of Pennsylvania (more…)

Click Here to Read: The GW Psychiatrist Newsletter, May 2013, Vol 1, Issue 1.

NYPSI’s Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation is pleased to present

Altruism and Empathy
Stephanie Brown, Lisa Cataldo, Alan Leslie, Wynn Schwartz

Saturday, June 8, 2013, 2:30 – 4:30 pm
The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd Street, NYC

Free and open to the public.
Please register at www.nypsi.org under Events and Lectures (more…)

Dear Colleagues,

As I read through this week’s international psychoanalytic website, it became abundantly clear to me that that the debate pro and con “talk therapy”  is   heating up with several posts comparing, contrasting, and judging different types of therapy and pharmacotherapy. I find this curious in light of the fact that whenever there is a human disaster of any sort in this country – cause by man ( vis Newtown, Boston Marathon or consequences of bullying) or nature (tsunami, tornados, earth quakes) the mental health  professionals are called upon to provide “talk therapy”. the ambivalence in the population yearning for human connection vs. a quick fix with a drug is mind boggling. (more…)

“Says Who?” Evidence, Fact and Belief in Clinical Psychoanalysis

October 19, 2013; 09:00am – 03:30pm

October 20, 2013; 09:30am – 12:30pm

SFCP, 444 Natoma Street
San Francisco, CA

Sponsored by the IPA, PINC and SFCP (more…)

The Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
Bharat Biswal, Ph.D.
Professor, Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology and Radiology, New Jersey Medical School
will present on Insights from the Resting Brain: Methods, Models and Applications

Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 10 am, NYPSI’s Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium, 247 E. 82nd Street, NYC
Discussant: Maggie Zellner, Ph.D. (more…)

Click Here to Read: Talk on Outreach Psychoanalysis on the International Psychoanalytic University website on May 24, 2013.

Click Here to Read:   Seminars in Psychoanalytic Learning at the PINE  Psychoanalytic Center.

NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
THE FRIENDS OF THE A. A. BRILL LIBRARY
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org

Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 7:30 pm, $10 Suggested Donation

Register at www.nypsi.org under Events and Lectures

Presents a reading & discussion

The Adolescent Neurosis in Fact & Fiction By Theodore Jacobs, M.D. (more…)

“Mind Sciences” A Focus on Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience during the month of October @ NYPSI

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, in conjunction with its divisions, The Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis and The Helix Center, presents a series of events focused on Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience during the month of October.

“Connecting the various disciplines of mental health continues to be of great interest to psychoanalysts,” explains Dr. Roger Rahtz, President of NYPSI. “The overlapping interest in our programs from medical professionals, therapists, artists and the general public suggests that a multidisciplinary approach will stimulate new collaborations.” (more…)