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Psychoanalytic Themes in Six Classic Hollywood Films with Thomas Wolman online with NYPSI
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Psychoanalytic Themes in Six Classic Hollywood Films Thomas Wolman, M.D. January 4 – February 22, 2021 Mondays, 7:00 – 8:15 pm 6 classes  /  $150 Fee Location: Virtual – Held on ZOOM To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900

NYPSI Extension Course: Psychoanalytic Themes in Six Classic Hollywood Films 
This course will explore six films representing six different genres: Musical, Thriller, Western, Youth film, Science Fiction and Romance. In each case, the connections with psychoanalysis will vary with the film’s subject and style. “The Wizard of Oz” (1939), for example, is a veritable palimpsest of psychoanalytic ideas and an illustration of primitive fantasy a la Melanie Klein. “Spellbound” (1945) offers an interesting, though some would argue distorted, vision of psychoanalysis. “High Noon” (1952), while not overtly psychological in tone presents a model of ethical choice, of interest to therapists and psychoanalysts. And in “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955), the Ur-youth picture, James Dean offers an indelible portrait of Continue reading Psychoanalytic Themes in Six Classic Hollywood Films with Thomas Wolman online with NYPSI

Out from Behind the Couch with Susan Siegeltuch online with CFS
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SAVE THE DATE
 
2020 Plumsock Prize-Winning Paper
 
“Out from Behind the Couch:
The Case of a Mother and Her Suicidal Teenager in Detention”
 
Susan Siegeltuch, LCSW, FIPA
CFS Member and Chair of the1/14
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program
 
Introduction by
Helen Gediman, PhD
Chair of the CFS Plumsock Prize Committee
 
Thursday January 14, 2021
  7:00 – 8:30 pm EST
Live via Zoom
Overview  
A Central American mother and her teen suicidal daughter were evaluated forensically by two senior psychoanalysts, Gilbert Kliman, MD and Susan Siegeltuch, LCSW, FIPA. Both mother and daughter experienced multiple traumas in their country of origin as well as having their trauma reactivated by ICE and their time in detention. The interviews were conducted with psychoanalytically-informed thinking, awareness of transference and countertransference and empathic and humane listening.   Bearing witness to traumatized individuals and the atrocities they experienced has to be tolerated by the interviewers. This first-hand account of an asylum seeker and her daughter is a tribute to this mother’s resilience and the power of attachment. It is also a demonstration of how psychoanalysts can make a significant contribution to work outside one’s office.

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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
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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