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.

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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
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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

The Tele-Therapist/Analyst: Searching for a Silver Lining During the Time of Covid-19 online with NYPSI

The Tele-Therapist/Analyst: Searching for a Silver Lining During the Time of Covid-19   Tuesday:  September 15, 2020  8-10 p.m.2 CME/CE credits  Zoom Scientific Meeting  Register at www.nypsi.org events page  Zoom invite will be emailed to registrants the day of the event

Remote therapy has been used by analytic therapists for a long time. Many, however, have been reluctant to use it regularly due to concerns regarding the distortion of the analytic frame and relational dynamics. The COVID-19 pandemic forced therapists and analysts to a sudden switch to remote therapy from in-person sessions. The panelists will discuss among themselves and with the audience findings from surveys they have recently conducted with therapists and analysts. These concern the previous experience of analytic therapists with remote therapy;  the multiple ways in which the clinicians prepared themselves and their patients for the transition; how competent clinicians feel in online as opposed to in-person sessions; the strength of the therapeutic relationship in view of the technical and relational challenges posed by online therapy sessions. Have experiences during the pandemic resulted in more positive views about online therapy, in general? Do most feel online therapy less effective than in-person sessions?  Are many willing to continue using remote therapy even Continue reading The Tele-Therapist/Analyst: Searching for a Silver Lining During the Time of Covid-19 online with NYPSI

After the Shipwreck: The Individual Psyche and the Social Unconscious with Spyros D. Orfanos Online with CFS

SAVE THE DATE: AFTER THE SHIPWRECK: THE INDIVIDUAL PSYCHE AND THE SOCIAL UNCONSCIOUS
Keynote Speaker: Spyros D. Orfanos, PhD, ABPP  co-sponsored by The Contemporary Freudian Society and the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis  Sunday, November 22, 2020 via Zoom
This multimedia presentation examines the dynamic psychological forces at play as we experience the ongoing national and global catastrophes. The possibilities for repair and transformation in the midst of the catastrophes and related problems of oppression, exploitation, and violence will be addressed. The presenter will explore this topic in clinical, organizational, and sociopolitical contexts.
Dr. Spyros D. Orfanos is Director of New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis.  He founded the NYU Immigration and Human Rights Work Group.  Other leadership positions include: past-president of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP), the Society of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (Division 39) of the American Psychological Association, and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis.  He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
For inquiries, contact Emily Schlesinger (eschlesingerlcsw@gmail.com) or Alan Nathan (drahnathan@gmail.com) members of the CFS-DC Diversity Committee.
More information coming at the end of August.

Zoom lecture at Austen Riggs this Friday

I coordinate a lecture series at Austen Riggs, and I’d like to invite you all to attend the next one (and to attend the series generally!). All lectures are free and offer continuing education credits for most clinical guilds.

This Friday, September 11 at 6:30pm EDT, former Austen Riggs medical director Ed Shapiro, MD will be giving a lecture called Finding a Place to Stand: The Connection between Institutional Membership and Citizenship. The lecture draws upon the work he did for his recent book on citizenship, and is certainly timely. The event will include some participatory, interactive learning.

Registration is required– fill out this online form and you’ll get a Zoom link in your email:
https://austenriggs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcuuvrDwvHN1yRm_YafJaKzeUN19smPqp
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