International Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read:  HBO’s production of George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones unfolds a violent, complex tale By Christine Schofelt on the World Socialist Web Site on May 10, 2013.

Click Here to Read: He’s Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Fred  by Stephanie Cohen in The Wall Street Journal on April 18, 2013

Statement by David Kupfer, MD

Chair of DSM-5 Task Force Discusses Future of Mental Health Research

The promise of the science of mental disorders is great. In the future, we hope to be able to identify disorders using biological and genetic markers that provide precise diagnoses that can be delivered with complete reliability and validity. Yet this promise, which we have anticipated since the 1970s, remains disappointingly distant. We’ve been telling patients for several decades that we are waiting for biomarkers. We’re still waiting. In the absence of such major discoveries, it is clinical experience and evidence, as well as growing empirical research, that have advanced our understanding of disorders such as autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. (more…)

Click Here to Read:  Cancers Share Gene Patterns, Studies Affirm By Gina Kolata in The New York Times on May 1, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Diagnostic Manual of Mishegas: A different version of the famed manual of mental disorders By Jay Neugeboren, Michael B. Friedman, and Lloyd I. Sederer, M. D. on the April 30, 2013

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

Friday, April 19, 2013, 7:30 pm, $25 for general admission, $15 for NYPSI members, $10 for NYPSI trainees and students with valid ID

Tkts & info: www.nypsi.org under Events and Lectures

Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. in Conversation with . . . Gary Shteyngart (more…)

THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING
IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
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OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

CHASING AFTER THE “VAGUE AND DISTANT PATIENT”: USING THE COUNTERTRANSFERENCE & ENACTMENTS TO DEEPEN THE TREATMENT
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (more…)

Click Here to Read:  Why DSM-5 Concerns European Psychiatrists: A guest contributor from Paris explains why the manual’s power is misplaced  by Christopher Lane, Ph.D. in Side Effects blog on the Psychology Today blogs on March 18, 2013.

Click Here to Listen to: Woody Guthrie Singing Froggy Went a Courtin’ on YouTube.

Facing Self-sabotage, Regrets, and Mortality. Time Experienced as an Internal Object, Persecutory vs. Holding: Facing One’s Mortality and Themes of Immortality Within Mortality -
Didactic and Experiential Workshop – In-person and Virtual
Workshop leader: Susan Kavaler-Adler, PhD, ABPP, NPsyA, D.Litt
Date: June 1st, Saturday, 10am-4pm (lunch 12:30-1:30pm) (more…)

Click Here to Read: Passover, the Warsaw Ghetto, Sigmund Freud, and the Psychology of Bigotry On the Enduring Lessons of the Exodus Story by By Austin Ratner In The Jewish Daily Forward on March 15, 2013.

Click Here to Read:   “The Weimar Touch”: An interview with Rainer Rother, director of the 2013 Berlin film festival’s retrospective By Stefan Steinberg and Berndt Reinhardt on The World Socialist Web Site on March 2, 2013.

Rainer Rother

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
OF THE KAREN HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER
Established in 1941
329 East 62nd Street — New York, NY 10065
(212) 838-8044 — www.aipnyc.org — aipkh@aol.com
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SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Rosemary Balsam

FREUD, FEMALES AND DISSIDENCE: MARGARETE HILFERDING, KAREN HORNEY AND OTTO RANK (more…)

Professor Martin Bergmann, photographed in his office by Sebastian Zimmerman. Martin Bergmann (born 1913) is a clinical professor of psychology of the New York University post-doctoral program. He is a trainer and supervisor of psychoanalysis at the New York Freudian Society. Dr Bergmann is a highly creative, influential author, who has written significant books on the Holocaust, child sacrifice and the anatomy of loving. Dr. Bergmann turned 100 just last month.

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Contemporary Freudian Society, NY Division, Scientific Program

Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 8:30 – 10:00 pm, Mt. Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium, Madison Avenue & 100th Street, Free admission.

Psychoanalysis and Meditation: Partners in Healing
Jeffrey Rubin, PhD, presenter
Edward Kenny, MD, discussant (more…)

Click Here to Read: A Foucauldian Analysis of Psychoanalysis: A Discipline that “Disciplines” by Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg on the Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts Website.

Michel Foucault

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and
the Friends of the Abraham A. Brill Library
invite you to a special event

Marion M. Oliner, Ph.D. on Psychic Reality in Context: Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History, and Trauma

Saturday, February 23, 2013, 10:30 am – 12 noon,

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

$10 suggested donation
for tickets and information: visit www.nypsi.org under “Events and Lectures” or email admdir@nypsi.org (more…)

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

Friday, February 22, 2013, 7:30 pm, $25 for general admission, $15 for NYPSI members, $10 for NYPSI trainees and students with valid ID

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Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. in Conversation with . . .Dennis Wedlick (more…)

Click Here to Read:  After being kidnapped, the recovery ahead By Elizabeth Landau on the  CNN website on February 6, 2013.

Early Saunders