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Austen Riggs Center Researcher Dr. Katie Lewis Receives Major Grant from American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Stockbridge, MA – November 28, 2018 – Katie Lewis, PhD, research psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center, has received the competitive Young Investigator Innovation Grant from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) for her study: “Impact of Interpersonal Experiences on Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors.” Dr. Lewis’ study was one of fewer than ten chosen out of 175 applications.

Psychoanalytic Brooklyn: Invites you to join us for a continuing education seminar The Frame, Part I
Friday, January 18, 2019, 1:00 to 2:30pm

What do we mean when we talk about the “frame” in psychotherapy or psychoanalysis? How can thinking about the frame more explicitly, and more deeply, enrich our work as clinicians? In this hour-and-a-half workshop – the first in a series of two – we will discuss basic questions relating to the frame. We will define the frame and explore its conceptual purposes and ways that departures from the frame, by patients and clinicians, can be put to valuable clinical use.

Join Josh Wolf-Powers, LCSW, and Jules Owen, SJD, advanced candidates at the Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society, to explore these important topics.

Discussion of new paper in Neuropsychoanalysis:
Michael T. Michael, “On the Scientific Prospects for Freud’s Theory of Hysteria”

Saturday, December 1, 2018, 10 am – 12 pm
The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 E. 82nd Street, NYC

NYPSI
WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR
Immortality Wishes in Dreams with Arnold Richards, M.D.

Wed, December 5, 2018, 8 – 10 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: Immortality Wishes in Dreams

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS Established by Karen Horney in 1941 329 East 62nd St, New York, NY 10065 ● aipnyc.org ● info@aipnyc.org

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SCIENTIFIC MEETING: THE MORALITY OF EVOLUTION By Dr. Mario Rendon Thursday, December 6, 2018
Book Signing 8:00 – 8:30 PM Book Discussion & Presentation 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM

According to Horney’s psychology of human growth, it is not to fight our nature but to realize our unique selfhood that is our uppermost life-long human task. Pure nature at birth, our self is then only potentiality, and constructing our own unique self is both privilege and obligation.

THE PROMISED LAND: FREUD’S DREAM OF ENGLAND
Lecture in German by Liliane Weissberg

Keynote at the symposium FREUD AND THE ÉMIGRÉ: Austrian Émigrés and Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain from the 1930s through the 1970s

Welcome by Monika Pessler, director of the Sigmund Freud Museum
Opening remarks by Daniela Finzi & Elana Shapira (in German)

OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION: FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING: Wednesday, November 27, 2018 1:00 PM –2:30 PM WORKING WITH PROFOUND CHILDHOOD SEXUAL TRAUMA

The presentation will focus on psychotherapy with a young female suffering from post-traumatic stress subsequent to a rape by a priest when she was 7 years old. The details of the therapy will demonstrate the experiential difficulties encountered over a five-year treatment and what was required from the therapist to help this woman begin to come to terms with her trauma. The profound complications of how non- empathic caregivers influenced her character development will be examined as well.