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Registration Open – COWAP Film Discussion “The Power of the Dog”
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COWAP North America Film Series:  Discussions on Gender

Join us for a discussion of the film,
“The Power of the Dog” (2021), written and directed by Jane Campion

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Friday, May 20, 2022, from (5:00 – 6:30 pm ET)

Via Zoom (no CME/CE)
Participants should view the film prior to the discussion. It is available on Netflix.
The discussion will focus on themes related to the masculine, male queerness, and homophobia.
Discussants: Amrita Narayanan, PhD, and Michael Diamond, PhD
Moderators: Margarita Cereijido, PhD, and Anne Adelman, PhD
 

Erikson Institute of Austen Riggs Center Grand Rounds: Reimagining Community in the Psychoanalytic Field. Friday April 29 1:00 pm EDT
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The Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center presents a FREE upcoming VIRTUAL event 
GRAND ROUNDS 
Reimagining Community in the Psychoanalytic Field 
 
Grand Rounds are designed for mental health professionals, offered free of charge, and provide 1.0 continuing education credit. View all upcoming virtual events and recorded courses at education.austenriggs.org/courses
 
 
 
Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director
Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
Stockbridge, MA 01262
(413) 931-5213
 
 

Metaphysics at the Helix Center
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ROUNDTABLE ON 4/30 AT 2:30PM EST ZOOM LINK TBA
Metaphysics Saturday 2:30 PM EST 30 April 2022

Physics being the study of the fundamental properties of Nature, as the name implies, metaphysics investigates the nature of Nature, the what-must-therefore-be-the-case of those discoverable physical properties. For centuries, either explicitly or implicitly, metaphysics created the background and organizing principles for scientific research. But as the 20th century progressed there arose a number of challenges to this position.

The epistemic turn laid down by the quantum theory’s Copenhagen interpretation places our knowledge about Nature, in the sense of what we can know about it, above what it is “in itself.” Nearly contemporaneously, the famous “linguistic turn” heralded by the works of Wittgenstein and the ordinary language philosophers, urged “remaining quiet” about Nature beyond the acknowledged limits of what can be said about it. And more recently, on the heels of what has been referred to as the cognitive turn in psychology, philosophers like Richard Rorty focus on the modes of Continue reading Metaphysics at the Helix Center

Room 222 and Room Round Table
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Click Here to Read: Room 222. 

EDITORIAL
Struck Anew

Shock occasions change. Five years ago ROOM flashed into being as an immediate response to the 2016 US election. Psychoanalysts who had never written before felt compelled to write.       

ROOM has remained a participatory community platform, grounded in a psychoanalytic understanding of how change happens. Each issue archives a new moment. Each is a “working-through” of that which has already passed.   

But now we are struck anew. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine occurred during the final weeks of production of this anniversary issue. Still, the questions posed by the contributors in ROOM 2.22 are eerily prescient and speak collectively for all of us. Each looks toward a future none can envision.
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Psychedelics
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ROUNDTABLE ON 3/12 AT 2:30PM EST: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR SPOT IN ZOOM AUDIENCE
Psychedelics Saturday 2:30 PM EST 12 March 2022

Neuroplasticity: it’s what our brains do. We alter our minds when we engage with the world and with the people in it. But, of course, when we think of “mind altering drugs” we refer to something else. That there might be a shortcut, a wormhole, a portal to some new and improved state of mind has long held our fascination. Yes, that includes alcohol, but while alcohol can affect mood and anxiety and augment sociability, there is something especially appealing about opening a window onto a whole new view of reality itself. Hence the new question born in the 1960’s: “are you experienced?’.

Psychedelics have been featured and feared, romanticized and reviled, lauded and suspected since the earliest epochs of human history. In many tribal ceremonies certain substances with “mind expanding” properties were invoked as communal invitations toward the transcendent. In battle, various plants, herbs, and potions were reputed to make warriors assassins, berserkers, or heroes. Continue reading Psychedelics

People & Things in Motion: Economics and the Future with the Helix Center
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ROUNDTABLE THIS WEEKEND! WEBINAR STARTS 2:30PM EST ON 2/26 CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR SPOT IN ZOOM AUDIENCE
 People & Things in Motion: Economics and the Future
Saturday 2:30 PM EST
26 February 2022

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The Dismal Science seems to analyze and involve most aspects of our lives.  While traditional macroeconomics continues to concern itself with  natural rates of inflation and unemployment, with tariffs and taxes, with supply and demand, at both the meso- and micro-levels, economics has productively linked with sociology, social history, anthropology, and psychology. The field of behavioral economics , having adopted the methodology of experimental psychology, is now a full-fledged subgenre within the field. Many of its fascinating and useful insights have in turn seeded new lines of investigation in these sister disciplines. Continue reading People & Things in Motion: Economics and the Future with the Helix Center