Interested in learning more about psychoanalysis and how to deepen your clinic practice? Please join us for our second gathering and open house Continue reading FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH: 2019 – 2020 with Jessica Wolman at NYPSI

WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman Pick Wed, February 12, 2020, 8:15 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) $20 – General Admission $15 – Student Admission
No charge for NYPSI members/students Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

Mrs. Brenman Pick, a leading Contemporary Kleinian Analyst from London will present her paper: “The Faces of Trauma: Between the Personal and the Social – The ‘Pleasure’ of Passing on the Bad Treatment.” There will be an opportunity for questions from the audience. Continue reading An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman at NYPSI

This seminar will focus on the particular theoretical and clinical innovations implied by Lacan’s formulation of transference as the enactment of the sexual reality of the unconscious. Returning to Freud, we will accompany Lacan in his articulations of the unconscious and repetition, taking transference beyond its apprehension as a mode of operation or a technique
The next meeting will take place from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm on January 24, 2020.
For more information, please contact Adriana Passini at (212) 505-3588 or via email at adrianapassini@aol.com.
Suggested readings: Freud: “The Dynamics of Transference” (1912); Continue reading On Transference with Adriana Passini at Apres-Coup

FREUD’S ARCHITECTURE OF HYSTERIA:  THEN AND NOWTHE PATHWAY TO FEMININE IDENTITY PRESENTERS: Susan N. Finkelstein, LCSW, Maria Teresa Flores, M.D. ,   Masha Mimran, Ph.D.
REGISTER  https://iptar.org/event/2-7-fnp-freuds-architecture-of-hysteria-then-and-nowthe-pathway-to-feminine-identity/
Friday Night Papers:  February 7 6-8pm: IPTAR, Conference Room
Freud’s hysteria and psychic architecture: démodé or still relevant today?  Then and now, hysterical features and its diagnosis have shifted, from the unearthing of primal Oedipal conflict to include contemporary Continue reading Freud’s Architecture of Hysteria at IPTAR

This presentation will focus on Whiteness as a condition one first acquires and then one has– a malignant, parasitic-like, condition. The condition is malignant because it spreads/metastasizes, targeting an ever-widening sphere of objects. It is parasitic in that it is contagious, passed on by other infected people.  Biologically “white” people have a particular susceptibility. to “Whiteness”. This susceptibility is grounded in pre-existing hierarchical Continue reading “On Having Whiteness” with Donald Moss at NYPSI

NYPSI EXTENSION COURSE:    January 16 – 30, 2020 Thursdays, 7:15 – 8:45 pm 3 classes  /  $115 Location: NYPSI (247 East 82nd Street, NYC)
To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900

NYPSI Extension Course: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients
This course will provide the therapist with an introduction to psychoanalytic psychotherapy for cancer patients and their families. The first session will address the unique challenges for the therapist  of helping the patient face cancer at various stages of the disease. Death anxiety in Continue reading Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of  Cancer Patients Norman Straker, M.D. at NYPSI

Psychoanalytic Brooklyn Invites you to a Two-Session Program on HIGH CONFLICT DIVORCE with Steven Demby, PhD Wednesday, January 29, 2020 and Wednesday, February 12, 2020 7:00-8:30 pm
Session I:  The nuts and bolts of divorce: what therapists need to know1. Overview of the legal routes to divorce and custody arrangements for children in New York State
2. Explanation of roles:  Attorney for the Child, Guardian Ad Litem, forensic evaluator, parenting coordinator
3. Differences between therapeutic and forensic roles
4. Contested custody: when therapists are asked to give information or offer opinions to attorneys for the child, custody evaluators, or parenting coordinators
5.Clinical and ethical dilemmas encountered by clinicians working with this population Continue reading Two-Session Program on High Conflict Divorce with Steven Demby, PhD at CFS Brooklyn