NYPSI EXTENSION COURSE: The History of Psychoanalysis with Thomas Wolman, M.D.
January 7 – February 25, 2019 Mondays, 7:00 – 8:15 pm 6 classes / $150 Location: NYPSI (247 East 82nd Street, NYC) To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900
NYPSI Extension Course: The History of Psychoanalysis
This course will consider the history of psychoanalysis as a series of critical moments and decision points. Examples of crises include the Controversial Discussions in the basement of the British Psychoanalytic Society, the mass immigration of analysts to Britain and the U.S. in the late 1930s, and the boom in psychoanalytic training during the immediate post-war period. In addition to surveying events, we will look at the ways analysts view their own history. In that regard, we will examine the roles of repression, revision, splitting, and of course, repetition. We must also turn a critical eye to the bias and pre-conceptions we all hold. Do we, for example, see the arc of our history as progressive? Regressive? Do some developments in our history function as “correctives”? And most important for our everyday Continue reading The History of Psychoanalysis with Thomas Wolman, M.D. at NYPSI
