Category: EVENTS

Helping Children Cope with Lisa Dubinsky at MITPP
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THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY, THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH, and THE METROPOLITAN SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPISTS invite you to A CLINICAL WORKSHOP: HELPING CHILDREN COPE SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2018
PRESENTER: LISA DUBINSKY, PSY.D.

As mental health practitioners who work with vulnerable children and adolescents how do we decide the best ways to intervene? How do we choose the best modality and technique? When is it most effective to work primarily with the child with occasional parent guidance, and when is it best to focus more on parent work? In this workshop, Dr. Dubinsky will discuss these issues in the context of key developmental topics that are relevant for children and adolescents. Some of the topics include:

1. Social and Emotional Development: Frustration tolerance; problem-solving; play and social communication; friendships and conflict; development of empathy.
2. Transitions: Separation; transition difficulty between places, activities, bedtime and sleeping; family changes including new sibling, moving, new caretakers; parents’ separation and divorce; illness and death.
3. Self-Regulation: Modulation of affect; balanced schedule and electronic devices regulation (parent); developing an inner voice/observing ego
4. Self-Esteem/Self-Concept: Body image; balance of self/other regard; externalization and internalization. Continue reading Helping Children Cope with Lisa Dubinsky at MITPP

On the Subject’s Relation to Knowledge with Paola Mieli at Après-Coup
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents

SEMINAR
On the Subject’s Relation to Knowledge, Paola Mieli
Friday, March 16, 2018, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, Room 408, New York, NY

Returning to Freud and Lacan, this seminar will reflect on the function that knowledge and belief play in the subject’s relation to the world. Denial, disavowal, foreclusion—and theirsubjective and collective implications—will be explored, as well as the differences between unconscious and conscious knowledge, between savoir, connaissance and savoir faire. Continue reading On the Subject’s Relation to Knowledge with Paola Mieli at Après-Coup

Recruitment evening at NYPSI
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The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to  a clinical series: FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH 2017 – 2018

Interested in learning more about psychoanalysis and how to deepen your clinic practice? Please join us for this year’s final evening.

You are invited on Thursday, April 12th, at 7PM to join NYPSI candidates Nicole Regent and Amber Nemeth, and NYPSI member Hilli Dagony-Clark for a casual evening to discuss the nuts and bolts of psychoanalytic training at NYPSI and to answer any questions you have about training or the Institute.

Please RSVP by April 2nd to let us know whether you can join us and we will send you the apartment address.

As usual food and beverages will be served. We plan to have a lively discussion and hope you can join us.

Thank you,

Hilli Dagony-Clark, PsyD
hilli@dagony-clark.com Continue reading Recruitment evening at NYPSI

The Elusive Good Object with Lynne Zeavin at NYPSI
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NYPSI’s 1028th Scientific Program Meeting: The Elusive Good Object with presenter Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D. and discussant Richard Zimmer, M.D.

The Elusive Good Object Presenter: Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D. Discussant: Richard Zimmer, M.D.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 8 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)

There are two distinct ways in which Melanie Klein writes about idealization. Insofar as she maintains that “The whole of [the infant’s] instinctual desires and his unconscious phantasies imbue the breast with qualities going far beyond the actual nourishment it affords,” and her increasingly stressed conviction that the libidinally invested breast, when introjected, forms ‘the core of the ego’, Klein is suggesting that the original good object must be experienced as ideal. Nothing less than this would adequately address ‘the whole of [the infant’s] instinctual desires.’ In this view, the infant projects his entire loving capacity, as well as his capacity for pleasure, onto the object and this is then introjected, together with the object’s actual goodness, to become his very core. Continue reading The Elusive Good Object with Lynne Zeavin at NYPSI

Meet the Author: Donald Moss at NYPSI
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The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to Meet the Author: Donald Moss

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at 7:30 pm, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, The Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd Street | New York City, General Admission: $15, All proceeds support the A.A. Brill Library

Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to an evening with Donald Moss, MD, the author of At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psycho-analysis (Routledge, 2017).

The author situates each chapter of At War with the Obvious at the border between common and psychoanalytic sense. Cumulatively, the book argues that in order for psychoanalysis to retain its original vitality, it must continuously work against becoming “common sensical”.Common sense – clinical and cultural – almost invariably obscures the uncommon/unconscious determinants that would expose its insufficiencies. The most pointed expression of this border tension may be in the chapter, “The Insane Look of the Bewildered Half-Broken Animal.”

Copies of the book will be made available for purchase for $35 at the event.

Donald Moss, MD is a faculty member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and is in private practice in New York City. He is also a member of the Green Gang, a four-person collective that studies the relationships between the human and non-human environments. He is currently the Continue reading Meet the Author: Donald Moss at NYPSI

“The shadow of the object….” The Challenges of Mourning in the Psychoanalytic Encounter at IPTAR
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Sunday Salon at IPTAR: Institute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research: “The shadow of the object….” The Challenges of Mourning in the Psychoanalytic Encounter: Please join the conversation, Sunday March 25, 2018, Roundtable 3:00-5:00 all are invited,
Open House reception to follow 5:00-6:00

IPTAR: 1651 Third Ave. #205 (92nd and Third Ave.)

Eva Atsalis, LCSW (IPTAR Member and Faculty) Naama Kushnir Barash, PhD (IPTAR Fellow and Faculty) Gil Katz, PhD (IPTAR Fellow and Faculty)
Moderator: Michael Moskowitz, PhD (IPTAR Fellow and Faculty) Continue reading “The shadow of the object….” The Challenges of Mourning in the Psychoanalytic Encounter at IPTAR

Reading Karl Friston: A discussion of predictive coding and consciousness An Open Discussion facilitated by Maggie Zellner, PhD at NYPSI
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The Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis of of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

Saturday, March 3, 2018 at 10 am, 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

In preparation for Mark Solms’ presentation in April, we will read and discuss a paper by Karl Friston on predictive coding, “free energy,” and consciousness. Together we will explore this dense but stimulating paper in an open discussion, facilitated by Maggie Zellner. We will focus on the first few pages of the paper. (Click on title to download PDF.)
Friston, K. The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Nat Rev Neurosci. 2010 Feb;11(2):127-38.
See other publications by Dr. Friston by clicking here.

Maggie Zellner, Ph.D., L.P. is a psychoanalyst, behavioral neuroscientist, and neuropsychoanalytic educator. She is the Executive Continue reading Reading Karl Friston: A discussion of predictive coding and consciousness An Open Discussion facilitated by Maggie Zellner, PhD at NYPSI