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December 2018 News & Events Popular Articles from the Riggs Blog
Eric Plakun_ MD
Austen Riggs Center Board of Trustees Appoints Eric M. Plakun, MD, as Medical Director/CEO
Speaking about his new role, Dr. Plakun said, “I am deeply honored and excited to take on the leadership of an institution whose work and mission I feel so wholly committed to.”
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13 Reasons Why Season 2: A Clinical Perspective
Riggs clinical staff member Elizabeth Weinberg, MD; and research psychologist Katie Lewis, PhD, offer a two-part series that explores the impact, consequences, and the portrayal of American teens in the controversial Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why.
>>Impact and Consequences (Part 1) Continue reading December 2018 News & Events from Austen Riggs
NYPSI CHILD ADVANCED SEMINAR: Bodily Experiences and the Developing Capacity for Representation
with Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D.
Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. Thursday, December 6, 2018, 8 – 10 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) No charge. Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900 All are welcome. Child candidates are expected to attend.
This presentation discusses the treatment of a disturbed baby encapsulated in an autistic relationship with a severely depressed mother. This mother-baby dyad was unable to develop a communicative relationship with potentially catastrophic effects for the baby’s future mental health. Continue reading Bodily Experiences and the Developing Capacity for Representation with Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. at NYPSI
Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association Tuesday, December 11, 2018 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
FREUD’S CASE STUDIES, Reading Group MARK STAFFORD and MARTIN WINN
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.
LOCATION: Rm 602C at 133 West 21st Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues), New York City.
Please note that this is a different location from where Après-Coup meetings are usually held. 133 is directly across the street on the North side of W. 21st Street. Continue reading FREUD’S CASE STUDIES, Reading Group MARK STAFFORD and MARTIN WINN at Après-Coup
NYPSI’s 1034th Scientific Program Meeting: Multiple Code Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process
with Drs. Wilma Bucci and Eslee Samberg Math Universe series. Abstract background made of digits and elements of space for use with projects on mathematics_ science_ education and modern technology
Tuesday, January 8, 2019 8:00 – 10:00 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) $25 – General Admission $15 – Student Admission (non-NYPSI) No charge for NYPSI members and students
Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900 Continue reading Multiple Code Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process with Drs. Wilma Bucci and Eslee Samberg at NYPSI
NYPSI EXTENSION COURSE: The History of Psychoanalysis with Thomas Wolman, M.D.
January 7 – February 25, 2019 Mondays, 7:00 – 8:15 pm 6 classes / $150 Location: NYPSI (247 East 82nd Street, NYC) To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900
NYPSI Extension Course: The History of Psychoanalysis
This course will consider the history of psychoanalysis as a series of critical moments and decision points. Examples of crises include the Controversial Discussions in the basement of the British Psychoanalytic Society, the mass immigration of analysts to Britain and the U.S. in the late 1930s, and the boom in psychoanalytic training during the immediate post-war period. In addition to surveying events, we will look at the ways analysts view their own history. In that regard, we will examine the roles of repression, revision, splitting, and of course, repetition. We must also turn a critical eye to the bias and pre-conceptions we all hold. Do we, for example, see the arc of our history as progressive? Regressive? Do some developments in our history function as “correctives”? And most important for our everyday Continue reading The History of Psychoanalysis with Thomas Wolman, M.D. at NYPSI
Scientific Meeting: 2 CE Hours available for LCSW’s, LMSW’s, LP’s, LMFT’s, LMHC’s, LCAT’s
“NASTY WOMEN”: TOWARD A NEW NARRATIVE ON FEMALE AGGRESSION Janet R. Zuckerman, Ph.D.
Friday, December 7, 2018 8:00 p.m.
Suggested contribution: $20 Admission with CE: $30 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
468 Rosedale Avenue White Plains, NY 10605 RSVP to Ken Barish barish@wcspp.org
Presented by the Psychoanalytic Association of WCSPP
The relationship between women and aggression is a complex one. It is troubled by numerous cultural biases that constrain women to be nice, never anger and avoid aggressive self-assertion. These social forces have silenced women throughout time, reflecting a powerful patriarchy that dates back for centuries. Continue reading “Nasty Women” Toward a New Narrative on Female Aggression with Jane R. Zuckerman at WCSPP