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

Suggested Readings: Lacan: Seminars XXII, R.S..I., 1974-75; XXV, The Moment to Conclude, 1977-78. Flesler, Alba: El Niño en Análisis y las Intervenciones del Analista, Ed. Paidós, Buenos Aires, 2011; “El Superyó del Continue reading On Bullying: A Psychoanalytic Reflection with Alba Flesler at Après-Coup

The Subject of Politics with Isidoro Vegh at Après-Coup
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS : The Subject of Politics Isidoro Vegh Friday, June 22, 2018 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm The School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Lacan stated that “the unconscious is the political” and that “the symptom establishes the order whereby our politics is revealed.” What is politics for psychoanalysts?
Suggested Readings: Lacan: Seminars XIV, The Logic of the Phantasm, 1966-67, May 10, 1967; XV, The Analytic Act, 1967-68, Feb. 7, 1968; XVII, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, 1969-70, Feb. 11, 1970; XVIII, For a Discourse Probably Not on Semblance, 1971, April 2, 1971.

Isidoro Vegh is a psychoanalyst practicing in Buenos Aires, a founding member of the Escuela Freudiana de Buenos Aires, an Après-Coup faculty Continue reading The Subject of Politics with Isidoro Vegh at Après-Coup