Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams is a founding text in psychoanalytic discourse. This reading group will focus on selected chapters, along with commentaries on them by Lacan. Meetings will take place on Thursdays from 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm on the following dates: November 7, December 12, 2019 and January 9, February 6, March 12, April 9, and May 9, 2020. For information, please contact Lillian Ferrari at lillasferrari@gmail.com.

Readings for the first meeting: Chapters II, “The Method of Interpreting Dreams: An Analysis of a Specimen Dream,” and III, “Dreams as Wish Continue reading Reading The Interpretation of Dreams Lillian Ferrari at Après-Coup

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CASE CONFERENCE SERIES Fall 2019/ Spring 2020 Theme: Working at the Boundary: Inclusion, Exclusion, Identity and Otherness in Groups, Organizations and Nation States  IPTAR Conference Room — Wednesdays: 11:30am to 1pm 1651 Third Avenue, Suite 205 — NYC 10128 CE Credits Available for LCSW’s, LP’s, LCAT’s and LMHC’s (included in Fee for this event with pre-registration).
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November 13, 2019  Brian Vitunic, MIA Political Affairs Officer, The United Nations   Internal Reform at the United Nations: Boundary is management, Political and Psychosocial Considerations  With Michael A. Diamond, Ph.D. — Moderator and Consultant
Brian Vitunic will share his views and perspectives on organizational dynamics in two departments of the United Nations Secretariat undergoing a process of change management and (semi) merger. Continue reading CASE CONFERENCE SERIES Fall 2019/ Spring 2020 Theme: Working at the Boundary: Inclusion, Exclusion, Identity and Otherness in Groups, Organizations and Nation States  at IPTAR

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents SEMINAR: On Transference Adriana Passini  The School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
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 Continue reading On Transference Adriana Passini at Après-Coup

Winnicott’s 1953 paper, Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena is widely recognized as contributing seminal ideas that have been further developed by generations of psychoanalysts. In his original description, Winnicott emphasized the impact of the environmental mother who is central to the infant’s development and its capacity to make use of the transitional object. The mother’s breast is made available just when the infant is ready to receive, which allows for a period of omnipotence where Continue reading DEVELOPING TRANSITIONAL PHENOMENA IN AN ADULT PATIENT: THE ANALYST’S ROLE with Debra Gill, LCSW at MITPP

This presentation will provide an overview of the many malpractice litigation risks faced by psychiatrists, psychologists, psychoanalysts/therapists and social workers in New York State. Dr. Rubin will discuss some of the tools and protections available to mental healthcare providers to help reduce the risk of litigation and to mitigate Continue reading HAT CLINICIANS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LEGAL LIABILITY WITH JONATHAN D. RUBIN, J.D. at MITPP

THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY, THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH, and THE METROPOLITAN SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPISTS invite you to A CLINICAL WORKSHOP/CONVERSATION ON RACE AND CULTURE: ENGAGING WITH DIFFERENCE IN TREATMENT
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2019 PRESENTER: DEBRA GILL, LCSW
When the therapist’s racial and/or cultural worlds are overtly different from the patient’s, barriers to trust need to be recognized and addressed.  Enactments around difference, when understood, have the Continue reading RACE AND CULTURE: ENGAGING WITH DIFFERENCE IN TREATMENT WITH DEBRA GILL, LCSW at MITPP

The twice-weekly treatment of a Yemeni woman who emigrated alone as a young adult to the United States will be discussed. The presentation will explore the impact of sadomasochistic dynamics in the patient’s family of Continue reading OPEN HOUSE: SADOMACHOCHISM, SEPARATION AND LOSS IN THE ERA OF TRUMP at MITPP