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

“A Courageous Trip by First Responders to Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria in September 2017” Dr. Edward Colt  Wednesday, November 6, 2019 | 8:00 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
We were 3 doctors and 6 nurses. What we found was chaos – roads destroyed, electricity gone, clean water unavailable, medical care unavailable, education unavailable.  No one was helping the local Continue reading A Courageous Trip by First Responders to Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria in September 2017 with Dr. Edward Colt at NYPSI

Arnold Pfeffer Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and  Neuroscience Co-Presenters:  Ludovica Lumer, Ph.D. and Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D.
Saturday, November 2, 2019,  10 am – 12 pm  The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium  247 E. 82nd Street, NYC Free and open to the public  RSVP is appreciated but not required; first come, first-seated To register, click HERE, visit nypsi.org, or call 212.879.6900
Everything changes, moves, varies, appears and disappears in the environment around us and within our selves. This continual change has modelled our nervous system to extract a sort of stability out of what is not Continue reading For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and  Neuroscience Co-Presenters:  Ludovica Lumer, Ph.D. and Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. at Arnold Pfeffer Center of NYPSI

This reading group will read closely and clinically Freud’s case studies. We will compare and contrast them with Freud’s biographical studies. How Lacan discusses these cases in his seminars will also influence the way these studies are read. 

The group will begin on Tuesday, October 29, 2019, to meet monthly through May 2020. Meetings will take place from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Continue reading Freud’s Case Studies Mark Stafford and Martin Winn  at Après-Coup

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NYPSI’s 1039th Scientific Program Meeting: Art, Art History, and Psychoanalytic Insights with presenter Laurie Wilson, Ph.D. and discussant Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. Art, Art History, and Psychoanalytic Insights
Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 8:00 – 10:00 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) $30 – General Admission $20 – Student Admission (non-NYPSI) No charge for NYPSI members and students
Register HERE,  visit  nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900
Two diverse approaches to writing a psychoanalytic biography of an artist will be described. A focus on unconscious fantasy as a means of unraveling enigmas in Alberto Giacometti’s life characterized the first approach. Close Continue reading Art, Art History, and Psychoanalytic Insights with Laurie Wilson and Lois Oppenheim at NYPIS