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A Better Life Film at WCSPP
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In light of the challenges currently facing undocumented immigrants in our country, the Diversity Committee of WCSPP, partnering with NEIGHBORS LINK, has chosen to screen A Better Life directed by Chris Weitz starring Demian Bichir 

Join us for the viewing and conversation with our special discussant, CAROLA ORTERO BRACCO, Executive Director of Neighbors Link and renowned expert on the integration of immigrants into our communities.
 Friday, February 1, 2019 7:30 p.m.
Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
468 Rosedale Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605  Continue reading A Better Life Film at WCSPP

2019 Centennial Conference,  addressing the Mental Health Crisis in America at Austen Riggs
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER ANNOUNCES 2019 CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE,  ADDRESSING THE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN AMERICA

Annual Fall Conference Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Renowned Psychiatric Hospital

Stockbridge, MA – January 23, 2019 – The Austen Riggs Center (Riggs) will convene a conference of national and international experts in the fields of mental health care, treatment, research, advocacy, and the law to explore The Mental Health Crisis in America: Recognizing Problems, Continue reading 2019 Centennial Conference,  addressing the Mental Health Crisis in America at Austen Riggs

The Frame – Part II at CFS
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Psychoanalytic Brooklyn: Invites you to a Continuing Education Seminar The Frame – Part II * Friday, February 15, 2019 1:00 to 2:30pm

* As each session stands on its own, the first is not a prerequisite for the second.

We’re familiar with the usual ways patients use the frame to communicate with us – lateness, cancellations, payment issues, etc. But what about the more subtle, idiosyncratic ways? Where and how a patient sits? How s/he enters and leaves? Eating/drinking in sessions, behaviors in our waiting room, use of the bathroom, etc. As clinicians, we open ourselves up to observing – warmly, non-judgmentally, compassionately – all the ways our patients communicate with us. Continue reading The Frame – Part II at CFS

How Parent-Infant Therapy Informs Work with Children and Adults at CFS
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Psychoanalytic Brooklyn Invites you to an Early Spring Sunday Salon
in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Sunday, March 24th, 2019 10:00am to 3:00pm

How Parent-Infant Therapy Informs Work with Children and Adults

In parent-infant work, the clinician encounters an infant, one or more caretakers and a problem as straightforward as difficulty with sleep or feeding or as frightening as failure to thrive.   The trained observer meets pathology in an emergent state, intricate processes—interpersonal, intrapsychic, biopsychosocial—at the root of the crisis.  Interpretations, clarifications or shared observations—in a context of safety and trust—can Continue reading How Parent-Infant Therapy Informs Work with Children and Adults at CFS

An Evening with Elizabeth Danto at NYPSI
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The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to An Evening with Elizabeth Danto Monday, February 4, 2019 at 7:30 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute The Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd Street | New York City 

General Admission: $10 All proceeds support the A.A. Brill LibraryRegister HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to an evening with Elizabeth Danto, who will discuss the book Freud/Tiffany: Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the ‘Best Possible School’ (Routledge, 2018) as well as screen a short film Anna Freud and ‘The Conscience of Society’. The book and the film were jointly produced by Elizabeth Ann Danto and Alexandra Steiner-Strauss. Continue reading An Evening with Elizabeth Danto at NYPSI

On the Subject’s Relation to Knowledge, Part II Paola Mieli at Après-Coup
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents: SEMINAR
On the Subject’s Relation to Knowledge, Part II Paola Mieli  
Friday, January 25, 2019 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, Room 408, New York, NY

Returning to Freud and Lacan, this seminar will reflect on the function that knowledge and belief play in the subject’s relation to the world. Denial, disavowal, foreclusion—and their subjective and collective implications—will be explored, as well as the differences between unconscious and conscious knowledge, between savoir, connaissance and savoir faire.

Readings for January 25th, 2019: S. Freud,  Neurosis and Psychosis, 1923; The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis (1924); J. Lacan, Continue reading On the Subject’s Relation to Knowledge, Part II Paola Mieli at Après-Coup

CANCELLED: An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman Pick at NYPSI
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PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.

WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR: An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman Pick

Wed, February 6, 2019, 8:15 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
Mrs. Brenman Pick, a leading Contemporary Kleinian Analyst from London will present her paper: “The Faces of Trauma: Between the Personal and the Social – The ‘Pleasure’ of Passing on the Bad Treatment.” There will be an opportunity for questions from the audience. Continue reading CANCELLED: An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman Pick at NYPSI