Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development with David Sawyer, M.D.

NYPSI EXTENSION PROGRAM :  Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development with David Sawyer, M.D.   Psychoanalytic Principles of  Child Development  David Sawyer, M.D. October 19 – November 16, 2020 Mondays, 7:00 – 8:00 pm 5 classes  /  $150 This course is virtual and will be held on ZOOM. To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900

NYPSI Extension Program: Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development
This is a course designed to help students better understand child development phases from a psychoanalytic perspective: the pre-oedipal, oedipal, latency, and early, middle and late adolescent phases.  The course will highlight how certain issues affect child development at the different stages:  sibling trauma, separation  anxiety, beating fantasies, the origin and evolution of childhood narcissism, family romance fantasies (oedipal and latency fantasies) and object removal in adolescence.  The discussion of these universal childhood fantasies is facilitated by a study of certain classical papers and current considerations of these issues. Clinical examples will be offered to illustrate the Continue reading Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development with David Sawyer, M.D.

Repetition in Analytic Experience, Part 1 with Adriana Passini online with Après-Coup

SEMINAR: Repetition in Analytic Experience, Part 1 with Adriana Passini Friday, October 9, 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: Freud: “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” (1914); Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920). Lacan: Seminars XI, 1964, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, classes 4, 5, 10; XVII, 1969-70, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, class 5.
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: $40.00
For Members, AFs, and Yearly Participants of Après-Coup: No fee
Attendance is free for all annual fee members of Après-Coup as well as for the faculty and students of the School of Visual Arts. To register, use access code during the checkout process. Need the access code? Email apres.coup@yahoo.com to request.
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Washington Area Case Conference with David Joseph with WBCP and CFS

Dear Colleague:
We are pleased that the Washington Area Case Conference is co-sponsored by the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and the Contemporary Freudian Society.
The following link takes you directly to the registration on the WBCP website:https://www.wbcp.org/cgi/page.cgi/_evtcal.html?evt=522
You may also access the registration by going to the WBCP website at http://wbcp.org and clicking on the event in “Upcoming Events, then “Washington Case Conference 2020-2021”

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The Clear and Present Danger Program on October 4, 2020

THE CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER OF A MARKETING NARCISSIST AND GASLIGHTING PRESIDENT IN AN AGE OF CULTURAL CONFLICT

“The Clear and Present Danger of a Marketing Narcissist and Gaslighting President in an Age of Cultural Conflict” will be a free Go To Meeting Session on Sunday, October 4, 2020 from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm eastern time.

The speakers will be Michael Maccoby, Robin Stern, Elizabeth Lunbeck and Judith Logue.  Dr. Maccoby is a psychoanalyst and anthropologist whose book The Gamesman was a New York Times bestseller. He specializes in studying narcissistic leaders. Maccoby’s article “Narcissistic Leaders” in the Harvard Business Review earned a McKinsey Award.  Donald Trump quotes Maccoby on narcissism in his book, Think Like A Billionaire.  Robin Stern is the Associate Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.  She is also on the faculty of Teachers College Columbia University, and is the author of The Gaslight Effect. Dr. Stern has recently been a guest on the Today Show to discuss gaslighting.  Dr.  Elizabeth Lunbeck is Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is the author of The Americanization of Narcissism and The Psychiatric Persuasion.  Dr. Judith Logue, a psychoanalyst in private practice, is a co-founder of the Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy of New Jersey. She is a Former Board member, APA, Division 39, and is an Executive Councilor of the American Psychoanalytic Association.  Each is a contributor to Psychoanalytic and Historical Perspectives on the Leadership of Donald Trump edited by Michael Maccoby and Ken Fuchsman and published by Routledge in 2020.  The moderator of this event will be Dr. Fuchsman.  For more information and to register contact Ken at kfuchsman@gmail.com.  Free training in how to use Go To Meeting will be provided in advance to anyone who needs it.

This event is sponsored by the International Psychohistorical Association.

Storytelling and the Experience of Talk Therapy with Claire Basescu Online at WCSPP

Scientific Meeting 2 CE Hours available for NY L CSWs, LMSWs, LPs, LMFTs, LMHCs, LCATs STORYTELLING AND THE EXPERIENCE OF TALK THERAPY: NOTES ON THE POSSIBLE AND THE IMPOSSIBLE Live Webinar! CLAIRE BASESCU, Ph.D.  Friday, OCTOBER 2, 2020 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. Admission including CE: $30 TO REGISTER:  https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3797273767002816270  This webinar is live, real-time and interactive Powered by GoToWebinar Presented by the Psychoanalytic Association of WCSPP

This paper addresses multiple aspects of storytelling and narrative in relation to talk therapy.  It is an essayistic exploration of the collaborative meaning-making nature of the therapy conversation.  All theory, all case presentations, all interpretive organizing of experience, are forms of narrative storytelling based in the subjectivity of analyst and patient, mediated by language.  Also of interest are Continue reading Storytelling and the Experience of Talk Therapy with Claire Basescu Online at WCSPP

Gender Identity: What’s Sex Got to Do with It? Online with NYPSI

NYPSI’s 1043rd Scientific Meeting: Gender Identity: What’s Sex Got to Do with It?  with panelists: Jack Drescher, M.D. (moderator), Rachel Levine, M.D., Jack Pula, M.D., Rabbi Mike Moskowitz, Hilli Dagony-Clark, Psy.D.

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 Knowledge, Semblance, and Jouissance with Lillian Ferrari and Mark Stafford at Après-Coup

                                                                                         Giorgio de Chirico, Oreste e Pilade, 1966
FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: Knowledge, Semblance, and Jouissance Lillian Ferrari and Mark Stafford
Friday, September 25, 2020 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Returning to a close reading of “Radiophonie” (1970) this presentation will focus on the concepts of knowledge, semblance, and jouissance.
Suggested readings: Lacan: “Radiophonie” (1970), Autres écrits; Seminar XVIII, 1970-71, D’un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant.

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