Author: Tamar Schwartz

Analytic Listening: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice at CFS
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The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of The Contemporary Freudian Society: Analytic Listening: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice

We are pleased to offer a six-week course on analytic listening and concepts beginning Fall 2018. This course qualifies for 9 Continuing Education credits.

This course is suitable for students from a wide variety of backgrounds, including practicing clinicians from all disciplines, recent graduates of masters-level or doctoral-level programs, professionals considering changing careers, and anyone interested in exploring the possibility of post-graduate psychoanalytic training.

Applicants to our training program are also encouraged to enroll.
Instructors: Ani Buk, MA, LP, LCAT and Emily Schlesinger, LCSW
Dates: Tuesdays, September 25, October 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 Continue reading Analytic Listening: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice at CFS

“Exploring the Use & Misuse of Race in the Clinical Encounter” with Narendra Keval at CFS Brooklyn
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The Contemporary Freudian Society Psychoanalytic Brooklyn Program Chair, Gloria Demby Celebrating CFS’s new clinical center on Court Street in downtown Brooklyn A series of psychoanalytic salons and seminars, in Brooklyn (!)
Invites you to attend our first meeting:

“Exploring the Use & Misuse of Race in the Clinical Encounter” Presenter: Narendra Keval, London
Invited Discussant: Marsha Levy-Warren Date & Time: Saturday October 27, 2018 from 10am to 2:30pm
Location: 465 Henry Street, Brooklyn 11231

Preoccupations about differences due to ethnicity, race or racism and their lived experience are always present in subtle ways in the privacy of our daily thoughts and feelings, imagination and dreams. Our clinical encounters are no Continue reading “Exploring the Use & Misuse of Race in the Clinical Encounter” with Narendra Keval at CFS Brooklyn

Them Not Us: Finding Racist States of Mind where You Least Expect with Joseph Reynoso, Ph.D. at MITPP
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The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting: Friday, November 16, 2018 – 7:30 PM
THEM NOT US: FINDING RACIST STATES OF MIND WHERE YOU LEAST EXPECT
PRESENTER: JOSEPH REYNOSO, Ph.D.

Psychoanalytic scholars have increasingly addressed the unconscious dynamics involved in racial prejudice. Unsurprisingly, the subjects of this work are frequently persons whose personalities (or parts thereof) are understood to be categorically racist. Following the results of the 2016 election, however, many Americans were confronted by the capacity seemingly non-racist individuals have to endorse social aggression in political leadership. Dr. Reynoso will challenge the method of pursuing racial hate in the mind of “the racist.” The presentation will describe how the pragmatic efficiency of racist templates defend against the ever-present threat of intolerable anxieties in all individuals. Continue reading Them Not Us: Finding Racist States of Mind where You Least Expect with Joseph Reynoso, Ph.D. at MITPP