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Everyday Sadomasochim with Lynn Changer and Christian Churchill online with CFS Brooklyn
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PSYCHOANALYTIC BROOKLYN:  EVERYDAY SADOMASOCHISM: A CONCEPT BRIDGING PSYCHOANALYSIS AND SOCIOLOGY
with Lynn Chancer, PhD and Christian Churchill, PhD, LP Friday, January 22, 2021 1:30-3:00pm Online via Zoom

As psychoanalytic clinicians, we are familiar with sadomasochistic dynamics in the treatment room. How can we benefit from thinking more about the cultural dimensions of these dynamics?

In her book Sadomasochism in Everyday Life, Lynn Chancer advances the provocative thesis that sadomasochism is far more prevalent in contemporary societies like the United States than we realize. Sexual sadomasochism, she argues, is only the best-known manifestation of what is actually a much more broadly based social phenomenon. She suggests that the structure of societies organized along  patriarchal and capitalistic lines reflects and perpetuates a sadomasochistic social psychology, creating a culture steeped in everyday experiences of dominance and subordination. She places Continue reading Everyday Sadomasochim with Lynn Changer and Christian Churchill online with CFS Brooklyn

Repetition in Analytic Experience, Part 3 with Adriana Passini at Après-Coup
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SEMINAR; Repetition in Analytic Experience, Part 3 Adriana Passini Friday, December 11, 2020  6:30 PM – 8:30 PM To register, click here
Returning to Freud’s considerations on repetition in the analytic experience as a form of past behavior that emerges in the present, this seminar will study repetition in its dual aspect, both as an insistence of the signifying chain and as an encounter with an object missed by definition.
Suggested readings: Lacan: Seminars: II, The Ego in Freud’s Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954, class 16; XI, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, 1964, class 2; XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, 1969, class 3.

Adriana Passini, LCSW, practices psychoanalysis in NYC, and is a member and faculty member of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association and a member of the advisory board of the American Psychoanalytic Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work.
General fee: $20 For students with ID: $10 With 2 CE Credits
Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers: $40
For Members, AFs, and Yearly Participants of Après-Coup: No fee Continue reading Repetition in Analytic Experience, Part 3 with Adriana Passini at Après-Coup

FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH 2020 – 2021: VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE AT NYPSI
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The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to a clinical series: FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH 2020 – 2021 a virtual open house on Tuesday, December 1st, from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm.

Interested in deepening your clinical practice and exploring the relevance of psychoanalysis in our contemporary world? Please join us for our first virtual open house of this academic year. Candidate Dr. Alla Sheynkin will use material from her psychoanalytic work to explore how psychoanalytic training and theory helps her better address the anxiety of the moment. Senior training analyst, Dr. Ronda Shaw, will discuss her work.

In addition, we will discuss the ways in which NYPSI is responding to the environmental challenges as a community and as a training program. You will have an opportunity to meet current candidates, talk about psychoanalytic training, and ask our candidates and members questions about their work and training at NYPSI. Continue reading FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH 2020 – 2021: VIRTUAL OPEN HOUSE AT NYPSI

Save the Date: Upcoming Meets at NYPSI
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Special Event:   Saturday, Nov. 21, 10:30: “Tribalism and Discrimination:  An Anthropological and Evolutionary Perspective,” Henry Nunberg, M.D. (moderator), Mark Solms, Ph.D., Robert Paul, Ph.D., Chief Vincent Mann of the Ramapough-Lenape Nation
Dec. 8:  Brill Lecture:  Robert Smith, M.D. “On the Transition Towards a University Educational Model at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.”
January 12: Judy Kantrowitz, Ph.D. and Ted Jacobs, M.D. in conversation with Leon Balter, M.D.
February 23: Leon Hoffman, M.D. “Evolution of a Classic Psychoanalytic Institute: Escape from Rome.”  Discussant:  Arnold Richards, M.D.
March 9:  Leon Kupferstein Memorial Award:  Wilma Bucci, Ph.D.
April 16-17:  Conference: “Creativity:  Trans-Formation in Psychoanalysis and Art”
In honor of Matthew Silvan.  Postponed to Fall 2021 or to such time as it can be in-person with accompanying art exhibit.
April 27: Peter Blos Sr. Memorial Lecture: John Tisdale, D.Min.May 4:  Coline Covington, Ph.D.  “My Country, My Self: Separation, Identity and Dissonance.”Respondents (in informal conversation with each other and the presenter): Anna Balas, M.D. and Gilda Sherwin, M.D.
May 11: Freud Lecture: Leon Balter, M.D.
June 8:  Candidates’ meeting:  Jess Olson, Ph.D.  Case presentation. Discussant:  Lissa Weinstein, Ph.D.