Giacomo Casanova: A Biographical Portrait
Laurence Bergreen, Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 8 pm, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves), $15 – General Admission, $10 – Student Admission
No charge for NYPSI members/students, Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900
NYPSI Works in Progress Seminar: Giacomo Casanova: A Biographical Portrait
This presentation is drawn from Laurence Bergreen’s most recent book, Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius (Simon & Schuster, 2016). Casanova’s life as a libertine, as well as his brilliant intellect and importance in European letters (he met both Voltaire and Mozart), will be discussed. The impact of two major traumas on his personal life will also be examined: first, the abandonment in early childhood by his mother, an actress and courtesan, and second, the early death of his father. Continue reading Giacomo Casanova: A Biographical Portrait with Laurence Bergreen at NYPSI
The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to Meet the Author: Louis Rose
Monday, February 12, 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 Louis Rose, author of Psychology, Art, and Antifascism: Ernst Kris, E. H. Gombrich, and the Politics of Caricature (Yale University Press, October 2016), as he presents a vivid portrait of two remarkable twentieth-century thinkers and their landmark collaboration on the use and abuse of caricature and propaganda in the modern world.
“In this book, Louis Rose traces the path of two great Viennese intellectuals, Ernst Kris and E.H. Gombrich-one a psychoanalyst who emigrated to New York and the other an art historian exiled in London-who together elaborated how caricature emerged as an art form Continue reading Meet the Author: Louis Rose at NYPSI
The Microbiome and Mind: Microbiota-host interactions in mood and mental health Jane Foster, Ph.D.
Saturday, February 10, 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
Researchers in psychiatry and neuroscience are increasingly recognizing the importance of microbiota to brain communication in mental health. Scientists have established the link between gut bacteria and anxiety-like behaviours in animal models and with emotional brain regions in healthy people. Work to date by our group and others suggest that microbiota influence brain structure, gene expression of stress-related and plasticity-related genes, stress-reactivity, and behaviour. Recent work in our lab has focused on how the interaction between microbiota and host genetics influence brain structure and behaviour. Bacterial community profiling of 16SrRNA gene was carried out using a modified bar-coded Illumina sequencing method in the McMaster Genome Center in different strains of mice. Strain-specific differences in microbiota richness and diversity were observed. The taxonomic profile of the microbiota showed significant strain Continue reading The Microbiome and Mind: Microbiota-host interactions in mood and mental health with Jane Foster, Ph.D. at NYPSI
NYPSI: A SPECIAL WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR: The Choreography of Enactment with Michael Feldman, M.D.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at 8:15 pm, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) $15 – General Admission, $10 – Student Admission, No charge for NYPSI members/students, Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900
The Choreography of Enactment: A clinical paper presentation by distinguished visiting psychoanalyst Dr. Michael Feldman
Dr. Feldman, a leading Contemporary Kleinian analyst, will present his paper which will include significant clinical material. Dr. Francis Baudry will moderate the event and Mr. Nasir Ilahi will provide some overall comments on the paper. There will be an opportunity for questions from the audience.
Michael Feldman, M.D. is a Training Analyst of The British Psychoanalytical Society. He studied psychology and medicine, and worked for many years in the Psychotherapy Unit at the Maudsley in London. He lectures and supervises clinical work in several centres in Europe and the USA. He has published numerous psychoanalytical papers, many of which have been gathered in his book Doubt, Conviction and the Analytic Process (New Library, Routledge, 2009) and has co-edited, with Elizabeth Spillius, Psychic Equilibrium and Psychic Change: Selected Papers of Betty Joseph (New Library, Routledge, 1989). Continue reading The Choreography of Enactment with Michael Feldman, M.D. at NYPSI
The Gould Center for Psychoanalytic Organizational Study and Consultation Citizen Forum: One Year Later
A Facilitated Group Event — MARCH 5, 2018 7:30-9:30PM at IPTAR Conference Room
The social and political partisanship that characterized the 2016 election has continued. As citizens, we have been subjected to a cascade of actions and pronouncements that has differed dramatically in tone and substance from anything we have experienced before. After a chaotic and fragmented beginning that led to failure in executing goals, those in power have coalesced to carry out their agenda in a manner that has been shocking even to many of those who are members of the same political party. While there has been some movement within our governmental system to assert checks and balances on what is feared to be moral corruption and emotional instability at the highest level, those whose side lost the 2016 election have been rendered powerless as major changes are taking place. However, there are also signs that the opposition is mobilizing with some initial success. Continue reading Citizen Forum: One Year Later at IPTAR
