The great innovation in Spinoza’s Ethics (parts II and III) is his rereading of the mind-body relationship. We will consider that rereading—so relevant to Continue reading Spinoza on Jouissance and Knowledge with André Michels

This clinical working group will be oriented by the specific challenges and unique opportunities we encounter in hospitals, clinics, prisons, treatment programs, schools, and other institutions. We will explore the often Continue reading Psychoanalysis in the Institution with Ona Nierenberg at Aprés-Coup

NYPSI Extension Program: Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development This is a course designed to help students better understand child development phases from a psychoanalytic perspective: the pre-oedipal, oedipal, latency, and early, middle and late adolescent phases.  The course will highlight how certain issues affect child development at the different Continue reading Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development David Sawyer, M.D. at NYPSI

An Introduction to Psychosomatics: Christine Anzieu, M.D. and Francis Baudry, M.D. October 24, 2019 – February 6, 2020 (10/24, 11/14, 12/12/2019; 1/16, 2/6/2020) Thursdays, 8:00 – 9:30 pm 5 classes  /  $185 Location: NYPSI (247 East 82nd Street, NYC) To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900 NYPSI Extension Course: An Introduction to Psychosomatics
This course will explore the dynamic between psyche and soma, using the theoretical frame of the Paris Psychosomatic School. We will read and Continue reading An Introduction to Psychosomatics: Christine Anzieu, M.D. and Francis Baudry, M.D. at NYPSI

READING GROUP: Fiction as Testimony: Reading W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz
Salvatore F. Guido
Austerlitz is a study of trauma, aging, and memory. It is a literary assemblage that, with poetic intensity, gives voice to silent transformations undergone by the eponymous Austerlitz, as remnants of a past catch up to him at midlife. What does the dawning urgency for Austerlitz to keep appointments with the past tell us about testimony in the aftermath of Continue reading Fiction as Testimony: Reading W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz with Salvatore F. Guido at Après-Coup

“The Interplay of Fact and Fiction in Narrative”

Lisa Gornick and Sheila Kohler Wednesday, October 2, 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

Works in Progress Seminar: The Interplay of Fact and Fiction in Narrative
How did your story begin? Where should the narrative start? Who should tell it? What are the facts that will give it a firm underpinning, provide the Continue reading