Archival Footage of Ellis Toney and Ralph Greenson Discussing Their Cross-Racial Psychoanalysis (1976) with Anton Hart, Ph.D. Film Screening & Discussion at NYPSI

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 15, 2018July 18, 2018 EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

NYPSI’s 1031st Scientific Program Meeting: Archival Footage of Ellis Toney and Ralph Greenson Discussing Their Cross-Racial Psychoanalysis (1976) with Anton Hart, Ph.D. Film Screening & Discussion:
Archival Footage of Ellis Toney and Ralph Greenson Discussing Their Cross-Racial Psychoanalysis (1976)

Post-film Discussant: Anton Hart, Ph.D.

Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 8 pm
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)

In 1976, Gail Wyatt, Ph.D., of UCLA, brought together Drs. Ralph Greenson and Ellis Toney, former analyst and analysand, respectively, to discuss the psychoanalytic work they had completed together more than 25 years before, when Dr. Toney was a candidate at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Greenson was white and Dr. Toney Continue reading Archival Footage of Ellis Toney and Ralph Greenson Discussing Their Cross-Racial Psychoanalysis (1976) with Anton Hart, Ph.D. Film Screening & Discussion at NYPSI

Treating Gender Non-conforming Children and Their Parents with Kim Kleinman at MITPP

By Tamar SchwartzJuly 15, 2018July 18, 2018 EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

2018 SUMMER INSTITUTE MINI-COURSE
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE

TREATING GENDER NON-CONFORMING CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS
Instructor: Kim S. Kleinman, LCSW, MS
The knowledge base concerning the development of gender non-conforming people has expanded exponentially in the last ten years. This course will survey the history of treating gender variant children and help to identify what type of developmental help can be tailored to the particular child in our office. We will also discuss the path toward the development of a positive gender identity for a child who experiences themselves as different. What are the issues related to “puberty blockers.” What are the issues around gender transitioning? What are the social skills necessary for the development of resilience for a child that may experience social negativity about their gender Continue reading Treating Gender Non-conforming Children and Their Parents with Kim Kleinman at MITPP

“Leadership and Institutional Integrity” Theme of July 21st Austen Riggs Center Conference

By Tamar SchwartzJune 28, 2018July 9, 2018 EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

For Immediate Release Media Contact: Aaron M. Beatty, Communications Officer, 413.931.5245 aaron.beatty@austenriggs.net “Leadership and Institutional Integrity” Theme of July 21st Austen Riggs Center Conference

Conference held in memory of the late Rev. Dr. A. Wesley Carr
Stockbridge, MA – June 28, 2018 – The Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center is pleased to announce “Leadership and Institutional Integrity,” a one-day conference on Saturday, July 21, being held in memory of the Rev. Dr. A. Wesley Carr, former Dean of Westminster Abbey (1997-2006), former Erikson Scholar, and former member of the Erikson Institute Council of Scholars of the Austen Riggs Center. The conference examines current leadership pressures in our major institutions of education, arts, government, and healthcare. Continue reading “Leadership and Institutional Integrity” Theme of July 21st Austen Riggs Center Conference

Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Body Pain and Trauma at CFS

By Tamar SchwartzJune 21, 2018July 9, 2018 EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

The Contemporary Freudian Society Presents Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Body Pain and Trauma
Sunday, October 21, 2018 1:00-4:00pm
PRESENTERS: Paula L. Ellman and Nancy R. Goodman (Chairs).
Part I – Nancy R. Goodman, Janice Lieberman, and Carolyn S. Ellman
Part II – Paula L. Ellman, Batya Monder, and Arlene Kramer Richards

Nancy Goodman and Paula Ellman chair the two parts of this program introducing discoveries from their new book, Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma, and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide (publisher, Routledge 2017. The presentations by contributors in the book demonstrate the way Trauma and Body Pain join and interweave with Narrative in discovering dimensions of unconscious life causing pain and conflict for patients. Emphasis is on the processes involved to make contact with the patient and with unconscious fantasies appearing as scenes in the “theater of the mind”. Continue reading Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Body Pain and Trauma at CFS

Heartspace: Convergence and Divergence in Religion and Psychotherapy – Interconnections and Differences Between Religion and Psychotherapy at MITPP

By Tamar SchwartzJune 21, 2018July 9, 2018 EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

2018 SUMMER INSTITUTE MINI-COURSE: HEARTSPACE: CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN RELIGION AND PSYCHOTHERAPY – INTERCONNECTIONS AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN RELIGION AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
Instructor: Robert Gunn, Ph.D.

In his Future of an Illusion and Civilization and Its Discontents, Freud was deeply critical and skeptical about religion. Jung, on the other hand, saw some positive possibilities as well as destructive ones in religions’ capacity to stimulate and support the process of individuation. Is there such a thing as a healthy religion? What is an unhealthy religion? What do religion and psychotherapy have in common? Are there clear distinctions to be made between the two processes? How do we evaluate the differences as well as similarities between the spiritual and the Continue reading Heartspace: Convergence and Divergence in Religion and Psychotherapy – Interconnections and Differences Between Religion and Psychotherapy at MITPP

Meet the author: Arnold Richards: Selected Papers Vol 1 at June APsaA Meetings in Chicago

By Tamar SchwartzJune 19, 2018July 9, 2018 EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

American Psychoanalytic Association Annual Meeting Palmer House Hilton Hotel
17 East Monroe Street Chicago, IL 60603
Friday June 22nd, 2018
1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
MEET THE AUTHOR: DR. ARNOLD RICHARDS AND DR. STEVEN STERN
Chair: Henry J. Friedman, M.D. (Cambridge, MA)
Authors & Presenters: Arnold Richards, Ph.D. (New York, NY)
Steven Stern, Psy.D.* (Yarmouth, ME)

Books: “Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations Volume 1” “Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing:
A Holistic Relational Perspective on the Therapeutic Process” This session will include presentations by Steven Stern, Psy.D. and Arnold Richards, Ph.D. Dr. Stern’s book, “Needed Relationships and Psychoanalytic Healing” extends Kohut’s self-psychology concept of the self-object and specificity theory to a fuller picture of what the analytic relationship provides for individual patients. He represents the expression of self-psychology’s best clinical practices. Dr. Richards’, “Psychoanalysis: Critical Conversations Volume 1,” “follows the leitmotif of “integrative pluralism”: how to continue the dialogue between the contributors of disparate psychoanalytic schools of thought” Continue reading Meet the author: Arnold Richards: Selected Papers Vol 1 at June APsaA Meetings in Chicago

On Bullying: A Psychoanalytic Reflection with Alba Flesler at Après-Coup

By Tamar SchwartzJune 16, 2018July 9, 2018 EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents Psychoanalytic Association presents WORKSHOP ON CHILD ANALYSIS: On Bullying: A Psychoanalytic Reflection with Alba Flesler Saturday, June 23, 2018 10:30 am – 2:00 pm The School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY

What does the current phenomenon of bullying tell us about the symptoms and jouissances of wider forms of violence? Drawing on clinical material, we will question the causes of human violence in general and of bullying in particular, reflecting on why it occurs primarily in the school.