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The Body and Psychosis at the Helix Center
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The Body and Psychosis 11 February 2023 247 East 82nd Street New York, NY 10028
 A new movement within Cognitive Psychology, known as 4E Cognition, views thought and behavior as embodied, embedded, enactive & extended. Each of these four strands has a rich (and ongoing) philosophical history. Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Bahktin, Vygotsky and others have drawn attention to the role of action and interaction in (in)forming our experience.  What do our bodies contribute to qualia, to the phenomenology that seems to mark consciousness for us? How does our embeddedness in a social world with others impact our sense of reality? And what role is played by our constant manipulation of things and interaction with others in anchoring us, not simply the way gravity keeps our feet on the ground, but as a woven fabric creates a world we can inhabit and experience together? Continue reading The Body and Psychosis at the Helix Center

Cancer and Death Anxiety Webinar
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DISCUSSION AND INSIGHTS
Death anxiety is neglected in psychoanalysis, in theory and practice. This webinar brings together a group of experts in the psychoanalytic treatment of death anxiety. The audience will be initially introduced to a patient with a three-month prognosis by Norm Straker, MD to reflect on how they would respond to this referral. Prior to a description of the treatment of this patient, Sheldon Solomon, PhD will describe his research on the unconscious defenses against death anxiety, which he has termed “terror management”.
Dr. Straker’s description of his treatment of the patient prominently illustrates the clinical application of Solomon’s research and should help the clinician lessen death anxiety in their
treatment of terminally ill patients.
Linda Emanuel, MD a palliative care specialist, will describe “existential maturity “a term she has designated from her clinical work in palliative care. Finally, Jeffrey Guss, MD will describe his research on the use of psilocybin-assisted therapy in cancer patients with existential distress or demoralization syndrome, and how substance assisted therapy may reduce death anxiety.
Harvey Schwartz, MD will be our moderator. After the presentations, we will move into breakout rooms, each led by one of the
speakers, for small group discussion, and then reconvene to end the webinar in a large group discussion with all participants and speakers.

Registration Open – COWAP Film Discussion “The Power of the Dog”
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COWAP North America Film Series:  Discussions on Gender

Join us for a discussion of the film,
“The Power of the Dog” (2021), written and directed by Jane Campion

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Friday, May 20, 2022, from (5:00 – 6:30 pm ET)

Via Zoom (no CME/CE)
Participants should view the film prior to the discussion. It is available on Netflix.
The discussion will focus on themes related to the masculine, male queerness, and homophobia.
Discussants: Amrita Narayanan, PhD, and Michael Diamond, PhD
Moderators: Margarita Cereijido, PhD, and Anne Adelman, PhD
 

Erikson Institute of Austen Riggs Center Grand Rounds: Reimagining Community in the Psychoanalytic Field. Friday April 29 1:00 pm EDT
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The Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center presents a FREE upcoming VIRTUAL event 
GRAND ROUNDS 
Reimagining Community in the Psychoanalytic Field 
 
Grand Rounds are designed for mental health professionals, offered free of charge, and provide 1.0 continuing education credit. View all upcoming virtual events and recorded courses at education.austenriggs.org/courses
 
 
 
Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP
Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director
Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy
Austen Riggs Center
25 Main Street
Stockbridge, MA 01262
(413) 931-5213
 
 

Metaphysics at the Helix Center
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ROUNDTABLE ON 4/30 AT 2:30PM EST ZOOM LINK TBA
Metaphysics Saturday 2:30 PM EST 30 April 2022

Physics being the study of the fundamental properties of Nature, as the name implies, metaphysics investigates the nature of Nature, the what-must-therefore-be-the-case of those discoverable physical properties. For centuries, either explicitly or implicitly, metaphysics created the background and organizing principles for scientific research. But as the 20th century progressed there arose a number of challenges to this position.

The epistemic turn laid down by the quantum theory’s Copenhagen interpretation places our knowledge about Nature, in the sense of what we can know about it, above what it is “in itself.” Nearly contemporaneously, the famous “linguistic turn” heralded by the works of Wittgenstein and the ordinary language philosophers, urged “remaining quiet” about Nature beyond the acknowledged limits of what can be said about it. And more recently, on the heels of what has been referred to as the cognitive turn in psychology, philosophers like Richard Rorty focus on the modes of Continue reading Metaphysics at the Helix Center