Beneath the Surface of Bruce Springsteen

Click Here to Read: Beneath the Surface of Bruce Springsteen: For more than fifty years, he’s traveled deep into the heart of America. But with his new Netflix special—a film of his intense, powerful one-man show on Broadway—Bruce Springsteen reveals that his bravest journey has been wrestling with his own mental health. by Michael Hainy in Esquire Magazine on November 27, 2018.

Bruce Springsteen.  Photo: JolandaBakker.  Public Domain via Wikimediam Commons 

The Brain’s Autopilot Mechanism Steers Consciousness

Click Here to Read:  The Brain’s Autopilot Mechanism Steers Consciousness: Freud’s notion of a dark, libidinous unconscious is obsolete. A new theory holds that the brain produces a continuous stream of unconscious predictions By Steve Ayan in the Scientific American on December 19, 2018.

 Group photo in front of Clark University: Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, C. G. Jung; Back row: Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi. Photo taken for Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts publication. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

On the Verge: Madness in the Psychoanalytic Encounter with Alain Gibeault

IPTAR PRESENTS: On the Verge: Madness in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

Alain Gibeault, PhD Symbolization and Psychosis: A French  psychoanalytical approach to the treatment of psychotic  patients
Discussant: Danielle Knafo, PhD

Sunday, February 3, 2019 9:00 am – 4:00 pm IPTAR, 1651 Third Ave, suite 205 General: $125 includes 5 CE credits Candidates: $25 includes 5 CE credits https://iptar.org/event/ontheverge-gibeault/

ABSTRACT

Symbolisation can be defined as an operation by which something will represent another thing; but one must also be able to represent an absent object and distinguish the symbol from the symbolized. We might thus Continue reading On the Verge: Madness in the Psychoanalytic Encounter with Alain Gibeault

Please Contribute to the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program Home-Visiting Project

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ANNI BERGMAN PARENT-INFANT PROGRAM
HOME-VISITING PROJECT

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As we approach the end of this calendar year, the Anni  Bergman Parent-Infant Program hopes you will consider making a contribution to our Home-Visiting Project.

The Home-Visiting Project began nearly four years ago with the help of a start-up grant from the Jennie Dugan Fund of the Contemporary Freudian Continue reading Please Contribute to the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program Home-Visiting Project