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”

Continue reading Washington Area Case Conference with David Joseph with WBCP and CFS

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.

“Gender Identity: What’s Sex Got to Do with It?”  Panelists:  Jack Drescher, M.D. (moderator), Rachel Levine, M.D.,    Jack Pula, M.D., Rabbi    Mike Moskowitz, Continue reading Gender Identity: What’s Sex Got to Do with It? Online with NYPSI

 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.

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

The Cerebral Mind Versus the Body Mind with Susan Lawrence online with IPTAR

IPTAR PRESENTS: SUSAN LAWRENCE THE CEREBRAL MIND VERSUS THE BODY MIND: CONTAINING ABD RECOVERING UNKNOWN PARTS OF THE SELF  DISCUSSANT: SUSAN FINKELSTEIN, LCSW SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 ON ZOOM 10:00 AM — 1:00 PM General: $100 includes 3 CE Credits IPTAR Members: $75 includes 3 CE Credits Candidates & Students: $25 includes 3 CE Credits
 Register Here (an account must be made to register for non-members):
IPTAR PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Brian Kloppenberg (Chair), Jeanne Even, Susan Finkelstein, Anna Fishzon, Lynne Herbst, Judy Ann Kaplan, Masha Mimran, Jamie Stevens, Yukari Yanagino

Susan Lawrence, a distinguished Kleinian analyst from London, will present a new, detailed clinical account of her psychoanalysis of an individual suffering from a profound split between what Lawrence calls the “cerebral mind” and the “body mind.” Drawing upon Kleinian Continue reading The Cerebral Mind Versus the Body Mind with Susan Lawrence online with IPTAR

I Do Not Have a Racist Bone in My Body with Dorothy Holmes online with IPTAR

IPTAR PRESENTS DOROTHY EVANS HOLMES, PhD  “I DO NOT HAVE A RACIST BONE IN MY BODY”: PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVES ON WHAT IS LOST AND NOT MOURNED IN OUR CULTURE’S PERSISTENT RACISM DISCUSSANT: MICHAEL MOSKOWITZ, PhD SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2020 ON ZOOM 10:00 AM — 1:00 PM

General: $100 includes 3 CE Credits  IPTAR Members: $75 includes 3 CE Credits Candidates & Students: $25 includes 3 CE Credits
Register Here (an account must be made to register for non-members): IPTAR PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Brian Kloppenberg (Chair), Jeanne Even, Susan Finkelstein, Anna Fishzon, Lynne Herbst, Judy Ann Kaplan, Masha Mimran, Jamie Stevens, Yukari Yanagino

Dorothy Evans Holmes calls for the need to include race as an important part of psychoanalytic inquiry. She argues that when one’s affiliation to whiteness gets split-off and disavowed in clinical work, it eventually comes back as a ghost and interferes with the psychotherapeutic work of symbolization and mourning. Continue reading I Do Not Have a Racist Bone in My Body with Dorothy Holmes online with IPTAR