Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of  Cancer Patients Norman Straker, M.D. at NYPSI

NYPSI EXTENSION COURSE:    January 16 – 30, 2020 Thursdays, 7:15 – 8:45 pm 3 classes  /  $115 Location: NYPSI (247 East 82nd Street, NYC)
To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900

NYPSI Extension Course: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients
This course will provide the therapist with an introduction to psychoanalytic psychotherapy for cancer patients and their families. The first session will address the unique challenges for the therapist  of helping the patient face cancer at various stages of the disease. Death anxiety in Continue reading Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of  Cancer Patients Norman Straker, M.D. at NYPSI

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients with Norman Straker at NYPSI

NYPSI EXTENSION COURSE:  Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients with Norman Straker, M.D.

January 23 – February 13, 2019 Wednesdays, 7:00 – 8:20 pm 3 classes  /  $90 Location: NYPSI (247 East 82nd Street, NYC)  To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900

NYPSI Extension Course: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients
This course will provide the therapist with an introduction to psychoanalytic psychotherapy for cancer patients and their families. The Continue reading Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients with Norman Straker at NYPSI

Cancer and Death Anxiety Webinar

DISCUSSION AND INSIGHTS
Death anxiety is neglected in psychoanalysis, in theory and practice. This webinar brings together a group of experts in the psychoanalytic treatment of death anxiety. The audience will be initially introduced to a patient with a three-month prognosis by Norm Straker, MD to reflect on how they would respond to this referral. Prior to a description of the treatment of this patient, Sheldon Solomon, PhD will describe his research on the unconscious defenses against death anxiety, which he has termed “terror management”.
Dr. Straker’s description of his treatment of the patient prominently illustrates the clinical application of Solomon’s research and should help the clinician lessen death anxiety in their
treatment of terminally ill patients.
Linda Emanuel, MD a palliative care specialist, will describe “existential maturity “a term she has designated from her clinical work in palliative care. Finally, Jeffrey Guss, MD will describe his research on the use of psilocybin-assisted therapy in cancer patients with existential distress or demoralization syndrome, and how substance assisted therapy may reduce death anxiety.
Harvey Schwartz, MD will be our moderator. After the presentations, we will move into breakout rooms, each led by one of the
speakers, for small group discussion, and then reconvene to end the webinar in a large group discussion with all participants and speakers.

Members’ Presentations: Psychoanalysis and Fiction (Part II) at Après-Coup

MEMBERS’ PRESENTATIONS: Psychoanalysis and Fiction (Part II) Saturday,

September 14, 2019 10:30 am – 1:00 pm  The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Peter Gillespie Toward a New Political Fiction: Psychoanalysis and Neoliberalism
Salvatore F. Guido Fiction as Testimony: Psychoanalysis in a Destitute Time
Ona Nierenberg On “Constructions in Analysis” and Psychoanalytic Truth

Peter Gillespie is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Brooklyn, a supervisor and faculty member of Washington Square Institute, an Continue reading Members’ Presentations: Psychoanalysis and Fiction (Part II) at Après-Coup