My Child is Addicted to Her Phone: The Smart Phone in Childhood and Adolescence with Sarah Fox at NYPSI

Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Division:  Dialogues On… Series with Leading Child Development Experts: My Child is Addicted to Her Phone: The Smart Phone in Childhood and Adolescence with Sarah Fox, M.D.May 8, 2019 | 8:00 – 9:30 pm

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC
No charge. Register HERE, visit nypsi.org, or call 212.879.6900 
Dr. Fox will present current psychological thinking about use of smart phones and their content.  The smart phone is only 12 years old, yet it has revolutionized the experience of childhood.  The impact of use of these
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The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health at Austen Riggs

For Immediate Release:  The Austen Riggs Center to Open “The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health,” A Special Exhibition in Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Public Opening Set for Sunday, May 26, 2019

Exhibition Chronicles 100 Years of Austen Riggs, Explores the History of Mental Health Treatment, and Aims to Help Diminish Stigma that Often Surrounds Mental Illness

Stockbridge, MA – April 30, 2019 – The Austen Riggs Center is proud to announce the new exhibition, “The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health,” over Memorial Day Weekend. The exhibition will be located in the newly renovated annex of the Old Corner House in Stockbridge, and chronicles the history of Riggs, from its founding by Dr. Austen Fox Riggs in 1919, to its current position as a leading psychiatric Continue reading The Hospital on Main Street: Human Dignity and Mental Health at Austen Riggs

The Treatment of a Young Woman: Trauma and Anxiety Exacerbated by Cultural Components with Margaret Freedman at MITPP

MITPP OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION: FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING  Tuesday, June 25, 2019
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM THE TREATMENT OF A YOUNG WOMAN: TRAUMA AND ANXIETY EXACERBATED BY CULTURAL COMPONENTS

A young Chinese woman presented with anxiety and depression exacerbated by her birth in China during the period of One Child Rule and infanticide. The influence of trauma and cultural devaluation since Continue reading The Treatment of a Young Woman: Trauma and Anxiety Exacerbated by Cultural Components with Margaret Freedman at MITPP

Crashing the Consultation Room 2019 CIPS/NAPsaC Biennial Clinical Conference in New York

2019 CIPS/NAPsaC Biennial Conference

Dear Colleagues,Please join us at the historic Explorer’s Club in NYC as we present a distinguished panel including Sergio Nick, IPA Vice President and child analyst, who will address political turmoil following the recent presidential election in Brazil and its impact in the consulting room; Louis Brunet, NapsaC representative from Montreal and an expert on world terrorism, who will discuss destructivity and identity; and Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau from Boston, who has written widely on aggression and will present some thoughts on how to detect and address aggression in Continue reading Crashing the Consultation Room 2019 CIPS/NAPsaC Biennial Clinical Conference in New York

The False Procrustean Myth of the  New York Psychoanalytic with Michael Porder, M.D at NYPSI

NYPSI’s 60th A.A. Brill Memorial Lecture:  The False Procrustean Myth of the  New York Psychoanalytic Institute Presenter & Honoree: Michael Porder, M.D. Additional Participants: Sander Abend, M.D.,Ted Jacobs, M.D., Albert Sax, M.D., and Martin Willick, M.D.Martin Willick to introduce the speaker

Tuesday, May 14, 2019 | 8:00 – 10:00 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) General Admission: $20 Student Admission: $15 No charge for NYPSI members/students  REGISTER

In this presentation, Dr. Porder will describe the dramatic changes in NYPSI’s psychoanalytic curriculum over the past 50 years. He will give Continue reading The False Procrustean Myth of the  New York Psychoanalytic with Michael Porder, M.D at NYPSI