The History of Psychoanalysis with Thomas Wolman, M.D. 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

“Nasty Women” Toward a New Narrative on Female Aggression with Jane R. Zuckerman at WCSPP

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

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

For Immediate Release: Media Contact: Aaron M. Beatty: Communications Officer 413.931.5245 aaron.beatty@austenriggs.net
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.

Dr. Lewis’ study seeks to understand the ways in which daily interpersonal experiences and momentary interpersonal ruptures influence the development of suicidal ideation and engagement in self-destructive behaviors, in individuals diagnosed with severe and persistent mental illness. As part of this grant, Dr. Lewis will have the opportunity to work with the esteemed Dr. Thomas Joiner, a leading expert on suicide. Continue reading Austen Riggs Center Researcher Dr. Katie Lewis Receives Major Grant from American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

The Frame, Part I at CFS

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.

Jules Owen is a psychotherapist. He was a lawyer and law professor prior to his psychoanalytic training. Continue reading The Frame, Part I at CFS

“On the Scientific Prospects for Freud’s Theory of Hysteria” on Michael T. Michael at NYPSI


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

Free and open to the public
RSVP is appreciated but not required; first come, first-seated
To register,
click HERE, visit nypsi.org, or call 212.879.6900

Michael T. Michael’s new paper, “On the Scientific Prospects for Freud’s Theory of Hysteria,” looks at recent empirical evidence about hysteria (or conversion disorder) in the context of emerging Bayesian models of predictive coding. His intriguing and clearly-written paper is a great platform for a discussion about psychosomatic symptoms, repression,and related topics.

To download a free copy of the paper, click here. Continue reading “On the Scientific Prospects for Freud’s Theory of Hysteria” on Michael T. Michael at NYPSI

Immortality Wishes in Dreams with Arnold Richards at NYPSI

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

This paper proposes that wishes for longevity and immortality should be added to Freud’s list of wish fulfillment (sexual and aggressive) in dreams. The author provides examples of his own dreams to support his thesis. The paper also Continue reading Immortality Wishes in Dreams with Arnold Richards at NYPSI

The Morality of Evolution with Mario Rendon at AIP

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.

Unfortunately, self can only be constructed on top of what all generations of Homo sapiens have built before it. During this historical period a break somewhere occurred, that detoured the species from the previously reigning morality of evolution. This most likely took place about 500 generations ago. Continue reading The Morality of Evolution with Mario Rendon at AIP