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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

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.

Online WCSPP Annual Conference – Gender Dysphoria
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WCSPP Annual Conference – Gender Dysphoria: At the Intersection of Culture and Clinical Practice November 21 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
WCSPP’s Annual Conference this year will be a webinar offering 3 CE hours GENDER DYSPHORIA: At the Intersection of Culture and Clinical Practice Register by clicking here!
View the 2020 Conference Brochure
Keynote Speakers:
David Schwartz, PhD Clinical and ethical considerations in the treatment of gender dysphoric children and adolescents: When doing less is helping more
Laurel Silber, PsyD A child’s developing gender subjectivity in the context of attachment concerns with implications for psychotherapy
At this extraordinary moment in time, we are called upon to reconsider the ways we think and act across many spheres of life, including race, sexuality and gender. In this conference, gender will take center stage as we strive to expand our understanding of gender dysphoric Continue reading Online WCSPP Annual Conference – Gender Dysphoria

Critical Psychopharmacology with Peter Stastny Online with Après-Coup
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Critical Psychopharmacology Peter Stastny Saturday, November 14, 2020  10:30 AM – 2:00 PM To register, click here. 

On the basis of a brief historical survey on the use of psychotropic substances and their complex electrochemical information, this workshop will address the goal of freedom of choice in the biochemical reshaping of the self. Mood, madness, and anxiety are the three targets of chemical neuromodulation undercutting diagnostics and personal specificity. In a future shaped by cybernetic, neuroplastic, and interconnected models of the mind, can there be a liberationist auto-psychopharmacology? Continue reading Critical Psychopharmacology with Peter Stastny Online with Après-Coup