How does a psychoanalyst understand loneliness? LIterary works
through their dramatic characters allow us to examine and consider
human passion, foibles and pain in a way that otherwise might not be
as easily recognizable. We invite you to to a discussion by Dr.
Jeffrey Stern about the loneliness of particular characters in
literature and how they resemble the patients seen by psychoanalysts
and psychotherapists. After attending this discussion the
participants should be able to: 1. Define methods of staving off
loneliness in specific situations; 2. Recognize the ways patients
defend against loneliness. Dr. Stern has published on Shakespeare.He
is a graduate and member of The Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute.
Self Psychology informs his ideas.
Arlene Kramer Richards, Ed. D. ( Co-Chair)
Lucille Spira, LCSW/Ph.D. ( Co-Chair)
Presenter: Jeffrey Stern, Ph. D.

Date: June 14, 2012 Thursday
Time: 4:30-6:30
Place: Palmer House Chicago

Helping Post Partum Mothers Attachment with their Babies

Dear Colleague,

We would like to let you know about our mother support groups, where mothers attend with their babies and toddlers.

The groups are particularly useful to help mothers with post-partum anxiety and depression to help them bond more effectively with their babies.

For more information about the program please see: http://www.theparentchildcenter.org/resources-for-mothers/postpartum-depression

Call or e-mail Alice Rosenman LCSW, MS at (212) 665-6309 or email alice@theparentchildcenter.org for more information or to sign up.

Please also feel free to email hoffman.leon@gmail.com

WORKING WITH PARENTS AND CHILDREN OF DIVORCE
This six week clinical mini course will educate the therapist about legal issues, mandated reporting, letters to the court, subpoenas and establishing custody. The impact on children of separation and divorce, high conflict, the loss of the father, and the “caught in middle” syndrome will be explored. Parental capacity and goodness of fit with the child will be assessed. Other topics covered will be: who in the family to see, couples therapy, attachment and its bearing on divorce issues, overnight visitation, multiple attachments, siblings, step-parents and blended families, fatherhood, the child therapy process and work with divorced families as well as domestic violence and child sexual and physical abuse.

PAUL HYMOWITZ, Ph.D. Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult and Child and Adolescent Programs; Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Adjunct Professor: New York Medical College. Instructor: Yeshiva University. Member: New York University Postdoctoral Program, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, International Psychoanalytical Association.

Thursdays, June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 5, 12
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM $120
60 West 13th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues, just off 6th)

POST PARTUM DEPRESSION: ITS IMPACT ON MOTHER AND CHILD
The literature and direct work on postpartum depression, a specific type of depression that occurs after childbirth, has emphasized the biological aspect that plays a role in it. Often the crucial impact of psychological factors is minimized. In this four-week mini-course, we will aim to identify predisposing factors, symptoms and manifestations of post-partum depression and focus on the work we can do as clinicians to help from a psychoanalytic perspective.

ALEXANDRA CATTARUZZA, MS, LP Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Program. Fellow: Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Training Program, NYFS-IPTAR. Advanced Candidate: Adult Psychoanalysis, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Certificate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Certificate in Creative Arts Therapies, New School University. Diploma in Child Psychological Assessment, Universidad El Bosque.

Mondays, June 11, 18, 25, July 2
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM $80
1133 Broadway, Suite 1127 (between 25th & 26th Streets)

THE EATING DISORDERED PATIENT: ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT
In eating disorders, the body is used as an expression of affects and anxieties that must be kept out of awareness. When these issues are understood through treatment, the attack on the self is revealed and the communication of affect and experience can begin. This marks the beginning of connecting the patient to his or her inner life. For people with eating disorders the foundation is set for deeper work. Through clinical material, behaviors such as self-starvation, binding, exercising and other obsessional rituals will be examined. The unique aspects of these patients’ transferences will be explored. Techniques for creating and maintaining a therapeutic alliance with eating disordered patients will be discussed.

NANCY CROMER-GRAYSON, LCSW Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program; New York Freudian Society Psychotherapy Program. Faculty: New York School for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Fellow: Academy of Eating Disorders. Vice President: American Anorexia and Bulimia Association. Recipient: Plumsock Prize, New York Freudian Society.

Tuesdays, June 12, 19, 26
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM $60
177 East 87th Street (between Lexington and 3rd Avenues)

BIPOLAR DISORDER: THE INTERFACE BETWEEN MEDICATION AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
Bipolar Disorder is one of the puzzling diagnoses in psychiatric illnesses. As a result of ongoing clinical practice and neuroscience research, the diagnosis has gone through several revisions and includes a wide spectrum of psychological presentations. While the research evidence for genetic roots and biochemical causes of Bipolar Disorder is rapidly growing, the very basic Kleinian principle of Paranoid-Schizoid Position vs. Depressive Position appears to dominate the psychodynamics of most of these patients. These Kleinian positions will be presented and explained. This interactive workshop will review the diagnosis and the psychodynamic and the psychopharmacological aspects of this illness. The interface between medication and psychotherapy together with some clinical case material will be presented.

KAMRAN RAHMANI, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Faculty and Supervisor: Montefiore Medical Center. Member: American Academy of Psychoanalysis, American Psychiatric Association, American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology. Dr. Rahmani has conducted workshops on cultural issues in psychotherapy and clinical psychopharmacology.

Saturday, June 16
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM $50
60 West 13th Street, Suite #LB (between 5th and 6th Avenues, just off 6th)

TREATING THE CONCRETE PATIENT
A fundamental aspect of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis is the interpretation of symbolic meaning as it emerges through dreams, transference, unconscious fantasy and enactment. However, increasingly psychoanalytically-oriented clinicians find themselves working with patients who respond to symbolic interpretations with defensive concreteness, claiming in one way or another that “what I say is literally what I mean”: end of discussion. This mini-course will aim to more fully explore the problem of concreteness as well as several different ways to intervene in order to begin the process of opening up a therapeutic space in which effective interpretation can occur. In other words, how is it possible for both clinician and patient to arrive at a shared sense that anything that goes on in the therapeutic context could ultimately mean something other than its manifest content? Participants will be encouraged to bring vignettes from their own practices as we work through this most challenging clinical issue.

BRIAN KLOPPENBERG, MFA, LP Faculty: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Board Member, Training and Supervising Analyst: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis. Director: Theodore Reik Clinical Center for Psychotherapy.

Tuesday, July 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
8:00 PM – 9:30 PM $100
155 West 20th Street, #3K (between 6th and 7th Avenues)

HOW TO ORGANIZE YOUR CLINICAL MATERIAL OR PREPARE A CASE FOR PRESENTATION
Organizing your clinical work with a patient is a unique endeavor. Most candidates and/or seasoned clinicians find their first experience very challenging because this kind of organizing draws on so many different skills, such as: the capacity to integrate clinical theory with practice, the ability to select and organize the clinical material which best represents your patient and, if you’re writing about the case, the ability to write clearly. The hardest part may be conceptualizing the therapeutic process so the patient and the therapist come alive. This mini course will cover the steps that can help you think about your clinical material in a more useful way or produce a presentation or paper which captures the therapeutic process, represents your understanding of your patient, demonstrates your role in the treatment, and substantiates your dynamic and diagnostic thinking.

LOUISE CRANDALL, Ph.D., LCSW Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program. Training and Supervising Analyst: New York Freudian Society. Adjunct Associate Professor: New York University School of Social Work. Member: New York Freudian Society, International Psychoanalytical Association, National Association of Social Workers, New York State Society of Clinical Social Work Psychotherapists, National Membership Committee on Psychoanalysis.

Mondays, June 18, 25, July 9, 16
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM $80
170 West End Avenue, #1E (at 68th Street)

THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE VERY, VERY BAD: BRINGING THE WHOLE CHILD INTO THERAPY
Children are referred for therapy because of difficulties at home and school – they may be aggressive, demanding, anxious, or prone to tantrums. Classmates avoid them, and parents and teachers describe them as “impossible.” Many of these children begin therapy, quickly become attached, and love to play and spend time with their therapist. It’s a pleasure to be with them in sessions. In short, these children are like two different people: gentle, sweet children with their therapists, and angry, needy, oppositional children with parents and teachers. This workshop will focus on ways to bring the whole child into treatment, to work with the loving and aggressive, the anxious and attached, the needy and obstructionist. Case examples will be used to demonstrate how to engage all sides of children in treatment, helping them to bring us their pleasures and pains, anxieties and anger, so that we can work together to help them alleviate their difficulties at home and in school.

JILL BELLINSON, Ph.D. Faculty and Supervisor: Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Child and Adolescent Program; William Alanson White Institute, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, Adelphi University. Supervisor: Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programs of CUNY and Columbia University. Psychological Consultant: Children’s Center of John Jay College. Author: Children’s Use of Board Games in Psychotherapy and papers on child therapy.

Saturday, July 14
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM $50
229 West 71st Street (top floor walk-up, west of Broadway)

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Wednesday, June 6, 2012, 8:30 p.m. Donations Accepted
The Treatment of Celebrity Patients
Ellen L. Mezan, Ph.D.

How does a patient’s fame affect the psychotherapist and consequently the course of treatment? What special considerations come up when treating celebrity patients? Based on her study of these treatment situations, Dr. Ellen Mezan will explore the peculiarities of the transference and countertransference situation that typically arise when treating celebrity patients, the way fame may excite conscious and unconscious envy in the analyst, the role of the psychotherapist’s financial and narcissistic investment in famous patients, and the analyst’s temptations to deviate from the standard parameters of treatment. Fame may have unconscious representations in the psychotherapist’s inner world that may complicate treatment. These phenomena are examined from Freudian, Kleinian, and Kohutian points of view.

Dr. Ellen Mezan is a clinical psychologist, former journalist and writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Huffington Post.
For more information: admdir@nypsi.org
Information Regarding CE Credit for Psychologists
Educational Objectives: After attending this activity, participants will be able:

1) to identify the scope of patients fitting in the VIP category 2) to appreciate the complex transference issues complicating the treatment 3) and most importantly, to become aware of the multiple countertransference complications particularly in the narcissistic area and the push for actualization and enactment characteristic of these treatments.

Who Should Attend: Mental health professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and licensed psychotherapists)

APA-approved CE Credits:

Psychologists: The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, Inc. is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. NYPSI maintains responsibility for this program and its content. APA-approved CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance and completed evaluation forms. Attendance is monitored. Credit will be granted to participants who submit a completed evaluation form and an email or mailing address. It is the responsibility of participants seeking APA-approved CE credits to comply with these requirements.

Persons with disabilities: The building is wheelchair accessible and has an elevator. Please notify the registrar in advance if you require accommodations.

DISCLOSURE: None of the planners or presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.1) to understand better the mechanisms operative  in countertransference.

Information Regarding CME Credit for Physicians

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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This week it has been very difficult to focus a single theme as so much is happening in our analytic world. We wonder about the influence of mothers on world leaders, neuroscience interfaces with our approach in ethical questions regarding the loss of a “self”, in our understanding of autism and Asperger diagnosed children, we are finding more data on the atrocities of the Holocause and we mourn 3 men whose lives have touched so many – Jean Laplanche whose contribution to psychoanalysis is unforgettable and Maurice Sendak whose ability to use the unconscious to speak to children and adults is unsurpassable, and Bertram Cohler who meant so much to many of his students. I list them first in my choices.

1) Please read the tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone and extracts from an interview with Laplanche by Alberto Luchetti I would also like to thank Jonathan House from all of us for his detailed account of Laplanche’s work and his translations which he so kindly contributed as described in his post on Laplanche by our managing editor, N. Szajnberg, MD,

Click Here to Read: Extracts from an interview with Jean Laplanche, interviewed by Alberto Luchett

Click Here to Read: Laplanche: Whom and What We Have Lost by N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Click Here to Read: A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone Translated by Jonathan House and Article on Primal Fantasy by Jean Laplanche

2) In addition to the posts here about Maurice Sendak as seen in the NY Times, I hope some of you were lucky enough to hear interviews with Maurice Sendak recorded just a couple of years ago and aired on NPR last week. He was a remarkable man.

Click Here to Read: The Many Meanings of Where the Wild Things Are on this website.

Click Here to Read: The Nightmarish Power of Maruice Sendak’s Classic

3) Read Dr. Bertram Cohler’s obituary by N. Szajnberg’s obituary to learn about this beloved teacher, clinician and leader.

Click Here to Read This Article: 

4) Please read and listen to the video of Dr. Howard Shevrin discussing the unconscious and his career as a preparation to hearing him at the upcoming APsaA meetings in Chicago.

Click Here to Read This Article

5) The article in the NY Times by James Atlas on “the Amygdala made me do it” reminds me of patients who come in saying “I have a chemical imbalance in my brain”

Click Here to Read This Article:

7) which leads into the discussion yet again on the interminable creation of the DSM V.

Click Here to Read This Article on Classifying Children as Psychopaths

8) History continues to be made with Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, a major architect of the modern classification of mental disorders, sharing his apology publicly to the gay community.

Click Here to Read This Article:

9) Please peruse the MOVIES section for some excellent movies and reviews.

Click Here to Read the Movies Category

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The List of all contents:

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A. In the ANNOUNCEMENTS Category:

I. Dr. Blumenfield Assumes Presidency of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry

by Michael Blumenfeld on the Psychiatry Talk website on May 18, 2012.

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

II. Open Forum: What Neuropsychoanalysis Means to You at NYPSI

CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:

Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis

247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028

212-879-6900

www.psychoanalysis.org

Saturday, June 2, 2012, 10 am * 12 pm, Donations accepted

Open Forum: What Neuropsychoanalysis Means to You

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

III. The Alpha & the Omega: Beginning & Ending at NYPSI

CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:

The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation

247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028

212-879-6900

www.psychoanalysis.org

Saturday, May 19, 2012, 2:30 * 4:30 PM, Donations accepted

The Alpha & the Omega: Beginning & Ending

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

IV. Helping Post Partum Mothers Attachment with their Babies

THE PACELLA PARENT CHILD CENTER

247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028

212-665-6309

www.theparentchildcenter.org

Helping Post Partum Mothers Attachment with their Babies

Dear Colleague,

We would like to let you know about our mother support groups, where mothers attend with their babies and toddlers.

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

V. IPTAR Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Program Open House

PLEASE JOIN US

for an informal gathering to learn about training at our

CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAM (the CAP program) Sunday, May 20th, 3:00-5:00 p.m., At the home of Rori Shaffer

To read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ______________________________________________________________

B. In the ART Category:

VI. Remnants and recollections: Highlighting the experience of Sephardi Jews during the Holocaust

on the United States Holocaust Museum Website.

To view & read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________________

C. In the AUDIO/VIDEO Category:

VII. A Discussion with Dr. Howard Shevrin

to watch a video from the Algama Foundation via YouTube of Dr. Howard Shevrin discussing the unconscious and his career, please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/

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VIII. Interview with Peter Fonagy

on YouTube.

To view please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________

VIII. The Many Meanings of Where The Wild Things Are

a) on the Day 6 with Brent Bambury show interviewing Richard Gottlieb about Maurice Sendak on the CBC Radio website on May 11, 2012.

to listen please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ __________________________________________________

b) Maurice Sendak, Author of Splendid Nightmares, Dies at 83 by Margalit Fox in The New York Times on May 8,

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________

D. In the BOOKS Category:

IX. *The Tragedy of Leon Trotsky,* which discusses Joshua Rubenstein*s latest book, Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary*s Life, from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research on March 8, 2012.

for more information about the above topic on this site please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/

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X. Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution by Michael Moskowitz

a) Chapter 4: Trauma: how events shape the brain and the mind from Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution by Michael Moskowitz.

b) Review of Reading Minds: A Guide to the Cognitive Neuroscience Revolution by Michael Moskowitz, review in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

To read a) & b) please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________________

XI. Goldman-Bred Neuroscientist Bares Secret of Testosterone Trading

by James Pressley from San Francisco Chronicle via Bloomberg News on May 14, 2012.

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________________

XII. Social Neuropsychoanalysis: It*s a Topsy-Turvy World Monday, May 14th, 2012

Chapter 11 of Minding the Social Brain by Jay Harris.

From Jay Harris, author of the upcoming book, Minding the Social Brain: I invite you to the final chapter of Minding the Social Brain, a book about how the functional brain externalizes its structure to form human society. The anterior prefrontal cortex contains the full verbal and iconic

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ________________________________________________________________________

XIII. Introduction to Antiphilosophy by Boris Groys

reviewed by Stuart Kelley on the The Guardian website on May 11, 2012.

Nietzsche: one of the begetters of *antiphilosophy*. Photograph: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

2012.

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________

E. In the EDITORIALS Category:

XIV. The Amygdala Made Me Do It

By James Atlas in the New York Times on May 12, 2012

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________

XV. Diagnosing the D.S.M.

written by New York Times op-ed contributor, Allen Frances, which was published May 11, 2012.

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________

F. In the GENERAL NEWS Category

XVI. A Bar Mitzvah, With Autism

By Joel Yanofksy in The New York Times on May 18, 2012.

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________

XVII. Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay *Cure*

By Benedict Carey in The New York Times on May 18, 2012.

Dr. Robert L. Spitzer , a major architect of the modern classification of mental disorders, apologizes to the gay community and retracts his beliefs.

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________

XVIII. Education minister faces copycat allegations over *Freudian slip* Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

published in the 222 issue of University World News on May 16, 2012.

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________

XIX. *The Self* in the Future: Will it be Extinguished, by Neuroscience? Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

written by Hank Pellisier from The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies on May 16, 2012.

XX. iPad gives voice to kids with autism

by Supraja Seshadri from CNN on May 14, 2012.

To read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ___________________________________________________________

XX. Jews, the Left and the Rest

a) by Eitan Kensky from The Jewish Daily Forward on May 15, 2012.

b)) Psychoanalysts of the Left and Far Left Panel with Richard Brent, Arnold Richards, and Nathan Szajnberg on this website.

c) *Slideshow: Yiddish Communist Magazine* by Eitan Kensky from The Jewish Daily Forward on May 15, 2012.

To read a)& b) and to read and view c) please go to

http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/

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XXI. Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?

by Jennifer Kahn in the New York Times on May 11, 2012.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

XXII. Laplanche: Whom and What We Have Lost by N. Szajnberg, MD, Managing Editor

Jean Laplanche, a man as careful with words as a surgeon with scalpel, died this week. International Psychoanalysis.net will honor his life and work with three pieces: his 1991 *Is Psychoanalysis Curable* (courtesy of Jimmy Fisher); a classic translated by Jonathan House; and an interview.

In the *Curable,* piece below, Laplanche states that overusing psychoanalytic terms leads to ridicule; further, even in 1991, psychoanalysis was considered pass*.

Yet, for Laplanche, psychoanalysis * the method * leads to lucidity and freedom. These are subversive and even revolutionary activities.

to read more please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

XXIII. Presidential Historian: Moms May Be Secret Behind Success

By Doug Wead on the Newsmax website on May 12, 2012.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

XXIV. Dictators With Mommy Issues

written by Uri Friedman from ForeignPolicy.com on May 11, 2012.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

XXV. Excruciating details emerge on Jewish ghettos

written by Randy Herschaft and Verena Dobnik from The Associated Press on May 9, 2012.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

G. In the MOVIES Category:

XXVI. Crulic*The Path to Beyond from Romania: The tragic fate of a decent, humble human being

the second of a series of articles on the 2012 San Francisco International Film Festival by World Socialist Web Site, *Crulic * The Path to Beyond from Romania: The Tragic fate of a decent, humble human being,* written by Kevin Kearney and posted to the site on May 19, 2012.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

XXVII. Oedipus in Lebanon: *Incendies*

by Herbert H. Stein

I don*t know how many readers of International Psychoanalysis have seen the French Canadian film, Incendies. For those who have not seen it, I must warn you that this article will include important *spoilers,* so reader beware.

It is an award winning film, highly acclaimed, that brings the viewer to the horror and cruelty of war and of ethnic hatred amidst a story of incredible courage with the inevitable accompaniment of intense trauma. But that is not why I particularly bring Incendies to your attention. I thought that it might be of interest to analysts because it bears striking parallels with Sophocles* Oedipus Rex (perhaps more properly Oedipus Tyrannus).

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

XXVIII. Bernardo Bertolucci & Andrea Sabbadini An Additional Lens

Bernardo Bertolucci in conversation with Andrea Sabbadini May 1997 on the British Psychoanalytical Society website.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

H. In the OBITUARIES Category:

XXIX. A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone Translated by Jonathan House and Article on Primal Fantasy by Jean Laplanche For those interested, Laplanche*s Book Freud and the Sexual, Available Here.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

XXX. A tribute to Jean Laplanche by Dominique Scarfone

(Translation: Jonathan House; French below):

Jean Laplanche died on May 6, 2012 just a few weeks before what would have been his 88th birthday. A philosopher (student of Jean Hippolyte, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gaston Bachelard), a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst, one of the great readers of Freud and translator of the just completed French edition of Freud*s complete works, he was, with Serge Leclaire, among the first *.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

XXXI. Extracts from an interview with Jean Laplanche, interviewed by Alberto Luchetti

Laplanche in this interview covers some of his basic and often controversial ideas, such as the *normative* seduction of infants by their parents* (infantile) sexuality. Note that Laplanche was considered one of Lacan*s promising students. Yet, Laplanche is able to stay much closer to clinical work in a non-ambiguous, non-teasing, and more comprehensible manner than his teacher. This gives us hope that our discipline can pursue ideas that are more fruitful despite our tendencies to carry on too slavishly the *.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

XXXII. Bert Cohler (December 3 1938 * May 9, 2012)

Obituary for Bertram Cohler in the Chicago Tribune on May 13, 2012.

Bert Thoughts: In Memoriam for Bertram Cohler.

Bert and I met in 1970 when I was a counselor at the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School and he was preparing to follow Dr. B. as the director. I began working as Leslie Aranow*s co-counselor and also the night counselor for the six boys in the youngest dorm.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

I. In the SCIENCE NEWS Category:

XXXIII. Psychoanalyzing Facebook*s *Like* Button

by Quentin Fottrell from SmartMoney.com on May 18, 2012.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

XXXIV. French Autism Treatments: Children In The European Country Mostly Get Psychotherapy

by Marie Cheng from the Associated Press on May 18, 2012.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

XXXV. This is the cost of being human

The same genes that allowed modern humans to evolve speech may cause autism. Part of brain that recently evolved helped us speak and make complex decisions also responsible for *Fragile X* syndrome, leading cause of inherited autism By Rob Waugh on the Daily Mail website on May 14, 2012.

to read please go to http://internationalpsychoanalysis.net/ ____________________________________________________________

Every post this week is very informative for clinicians,

theoreticians, teachers and students. I hope that you will try to read those of interest to you and comment on the website.

Respectfully submitted by

Sasha Rolde

Click Here to Read: Dr. Blumenfield Assumes Presidency of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry by Michael Blumenfeld on the Psychiatry Talk website on May 18, 2012.

Michael Blumenfeld

Saturday, June 2, 2012, 10 am – 12 pm, Donations accepted
Open Forum: What Neuropsychoanalysis Means to You

The dialogue between neuroscience and psychoanalysis continues to expand around the world.  Psychoanalytic concepts appear in neuroscience journals with greater frequency (previously almost unheard of!), while neuroscience accelerates its exploration of processes of great relevance to psychoanalysis. Clinical work with neurological patients is expanding.  Our overall picture of the mind/brain has been enriched by the neuropsychoanalytic interchange.

It seems a good time to take stock of what our community is passionate about, intrigued by, and involved in.  How has neuropsychoanalysis affected your practice? How have psychoanalytic concepts catalyzed or enriched your neuroscience research?  What topics in the intersection between the mind and brain are “hottest” for you right now?

This meeting will be an open forum, in which all can share on these questions and more.  If you are a faithful attendee of neuropsychoanalytic meetings, we want to know what’s been useful to you over the years.  If you are brand-new to this, we want to know what questions you are eager to engage with.  This will be an opportunity to connect with colleagues around particular topics of interest, share vignettes about how neuropsychoanalysis has been woven into your clinical practice, research, or thinking, and more.

In advance of the forum, you are invited to share some of your thoughts in a survey, the results of which will be shared at the meeting. Even if you can’t attend, we would love to know about your experiences and ideas!

To participate in the survey, please click the following link:

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CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHOTHERAPY PROGRAM (the CAP program)
Sunday, May 20th, 3:00-5:00 p.m., At the home of Rori Shaffer

Faculty, graduates, and candidates will be there to describe the program, talk about their experience, and answer any questions.
Refreshments will be served.

RSVP to Recruitment Co-Chairs for location and further details:
Daisy Alter, Ph.D., daisy.alter@gmail.com or (718) 986 -5258
Rori Shaffer, LCSW, sdshaf@me.com or (917) 608-8382

CAP Executive Committee: Phyllis Beren, Ph.D., and Susan Berger, Psy.D., Co-Directors; Daisy Edmondson Alter, Ph.D., Bettina Buschel, LCAT, Ranny Goldfarb, LCSW, Carole Grand, Ph.D., Rena Greenblatt, Ph.D., Laura Kleinerman, MS, Miriam Pierce, LCSW, Lynne Rubin, Ph.D., Esther Savitz, LCSW, Rori Shaffer, LCSW, Donna Roth Smith, LCSW, Leni Winn, LCSW

Friday, May 18, 2012, 7 pm, $10 Suggested Donation
Presents a screening of  The Night of the Hunter
followed by a psychoanalytic discussion with Leon Balter, M.D.

When The Night of the Hunter was released in 1955, it was met by the critics and the public with bewilderment and confusion. And, of course, it was a financial failure. It was the first and last film directed by the distinguished and celebrated English actor Charles Laughton. The film rapidly became a “cult classic.” And, since 1955, it has garnered a slow and progressive appreciation by film critics. It is currently always ranked among the 100 best films ever made. Laughton didn’t live to see its re-appraisal.

The reason for this strange history is that Laughton eschewed conventional film narrative. The film, as presented, is the subjective mentality of a ten year old boy. It does not present (as usual) an adult’s empathic view of the boy, but rather the boy’s actual perceptions and apperceptions of the world around him. That is the film. It took years for the critics and the public to understand this. The boy’s story is of traumatic destruction of his family during the Great Depression and the menace of a psychopathic killer.

The killer is played by Robert Mitchum. It is one of the two roles where he, the laziest actor in Hollywood, actually acts. (The other role is also of a psychopathic killer, in Cape Fear.) As a report goes: “Laughton approached Robert Mitchum. ‘Mitchum,’ he told him, ‘I’m directing this film, and there’s a character in it who is a diabolical shit.’ ‘Present,’ replied Mitchum.” (Callow, 2000) It was the most remarkable performance of Mitchum’s career, objectively and by his own account. “I didn’t know I could be so good,” he said after throwing up while watching himself in the rushes. (Jones, 2002)

The screen credit for the script went to the famous writer James Agee. In fact, Agee wrote a first draft that was enormous and unusable. It was based on the novel of the same name by Davis Grubb (1953). Laughton edited Agee’s script down to size. What was left comes virtually verbatim from the novel. Grubb wrote from a canny psychoanalytic perspective. (He was in psychotherapy at the time.) Laughton, in his directing, amplified this psychoanalytic orientation spectacularly. The Night of the Hunter is one of those rare instances where the film is greater than the novel from which it derives.

Dr. Balter is a Training and Supervising Analyst at NYPSI and an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.

Reservations Strongly Suggested as Seating is Limited

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The Friends of the Library need your help. Those wishing to contribute please make checks payable to NYPSI (memo: Friends of the Library).

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [3] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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