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Here to Read:  The Brain’s Autopilot Mechanism Steers Consciousness: Freud’s notion of a dark, libidinous unconscious is obsolete.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