Author: Tamar Schwartz

How Sigmund Freud Wanted to Die
By Categories: Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: How Sigmund Freud Wanted to Die : Anecdotes from his doctors reveal that the famed psychoanalyst’s request has echoes in today’s assisted-suicide debate by Lewis Cohen on The Atlantic website on September 23, 2014.

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The Choreography of Enactment with Michael Feldman, M.D. at NYPSI
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

NYPSI: A SPECIAL WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR: The Choreography of Enactment with Michael Feldman, M.D.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 8:15 pm, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) $15 – General Admission, $10 – Student Admission, No charge for NYPSI members/students, Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900
The Choreography of Enactment: A clinical paper presentation by distinguished visiting psychoanalyst Dr. Michael Feldman

Dr. Feldman, a leading Contemporary Kleinian analyst, will present his paper which will include significant clinical material. Dr. Francis Baudry will moderate the event and Mr. Nasir Ilahi will provide some overall comments on the paper. There will be an opportunity for questions from the audience.

Michael Feldman, M.D. is a Training Analyst of The British Psychoanalytical Society. He studied psychology and medicine, and worked for many years in the Psychotherapy Unit at the Maudsley in London. He lectures and supervises clinical work in several centres in Europe and the USA. He has published numerous psychoanalytical papers, many of which have been gathered in his book Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process (New Library, Routledge, 2009) and has co-edited, with Elizabeth Spillius, Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers of Betty Joseph (New Library, Routledge, 1989). Continue reading The Choreography of Enactment with Michael Feldman, M.D. at NYPSI

Citizen Forum: One Year Later at IPTAR
By Categories: EVENTS

The Gould Center for Psychoanalytic Organizational Study and Consultation Citizen Forum: One Year Later
A Facilitated Group Event — MARCH 5, 2018 7:30-9:30PM at IPTAR Conference Room

The social and political partisanship that characterized the 2016 election has continued. As citizens, we have been subjected to a cascade of actions and pronouncements that has differed dramatically in tone and substance from anything we have experienced before. After a chaotic and fragmented beginning that led to failure in executing goals, those in power have coalesced to carry out their agenda in a manner that has been shocking even to many of those who are members of the same political party. While there has been some movement within our governmental system to assert checks and balances on what is feared to be moral corruption and emotional instability at the highest level, those whose side lost the 2016 election have been rendered powerless as major changes are taking place. However, there are also signs that the opposition is mobilizing with some initial success. Continue reading Citizen Forum: One Year Later at IPTAR