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Designer Genes at the Helix Center
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Designer Genes Saturday 2:30 PM EST 4 December 2021

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Supernatural and other circumventions of the natural process of conception have been an abundant wellspring for magical, mythological, and religious narratives. It was held that the widowed queen of an Egyptian pharaoh could pull his posthumous sperm into her womb to create a child. The Olympian god Zeus could procreate in all sorts of ways, including swooping down as a shower of gold into a young womb. His daughter Athena sprang full-born from his head; his son Dionysus from his thigh. And it was the wind of the Holy Ghost that inseminated a certain young virgin. Continue reading Designer Genes at the Helix Center

Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks at 70 at CFS
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The Contemporary Freudian Society Diversity Committee Presents Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks at 70 Sunday, January 23rd, 2022
Online via Zoom 10am-2:15pm EST (with lunch break)

Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (1952) is a seminal theoretical text read across disciplines. Fanon utilizes psychoanalytic thinking to understand the oppression of Black people, performances of whiteness, and to put forward a vision for a humanist and anti-colonial culture. Our event is a celebration of Fanon’s work and this important text as it approaches its 70th anniversary. As the psychoanalytic community grapples with racism in our world, clinical work, and in the field’s history, a concentrated, communal, and conversational revisiting of Black Skin, White Masks is timely and imperative.

Philosopher and Fanon scholar Lewis Gordon, PhD will give a keynote presentation outlining some of the tenets of Fanon’s thinking and work and how Continue reading Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks at 70 at CFS

“What the Children Taught Us” A Panel Discussion Four Child Treatment Vignettes Via Zoom during COVID-19 with CFS
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“What the Children Taught Us” A Panel Discussion Four Child Treatment Vignettes Via Zoom during COVID-19
Friday, December 3, 2021 12:00-2:00pm Online via Zoom 2 CEUs Available

At the start of the COVID lockdown in March of 2020, Kim Kleinman of CFS organized an online clinical group supervision/ support group for child analysts across the country. The group met twice per week. We initially focused on clinicians’ fears and anxiety around COVID, as well as the treatment challenges of working in a brand new way via Zoom. What made this time so unique was that both our patients and their clinicians were being affected simultaneously by the impact of this terrifying virus. Fear and anxiety gave way to an exploration of trauma in real time. For many of us, perhaps not surprisingly, the children we were treating (of all ages) led the way into this new “screen” technology. We were the novices, and they were our teachers in this virtual space. The clinical frame changed nearly overnight. Continue reading “What the Children Taught Us” A Panel Discussion Four Child Treatment Vignettes Via Zoom during COVID-19 with CFS

Racism and Anti-Semitism: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Othering  with panelists: Leon Hoffman, M.D. in conversation with Susannah Heschel, Ph.D. and J. Kameron Carter, Ph.D.
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NYPSI’s 1052nd Scientific Meeting:  Racism and Anti-Semitism: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Othering  with panelists: Leon Hoffman, M.D. in conversation with Susannah Heschel, Ph.D. and J. Kameron Carter, Ph.D.

Racism and Anti-Semitism: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Othering   Panelists: Leon Hoffman, M.D. in conversation with Susannah Heschel, Ph.D. and J. Kameron Carter, Ph.D. The third in a series of three meetings devoted to the notion of conflict, both small-scale and large-scale, intra-institutional and inter-national.

Tuesday, December 14, 2021 | 8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST) (Held Virtually on ZOOM) $35 – General Admission $25 – Student Admission   No charge for NYPSI Continue reading Racism and Anti-Semitism: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Othering  with panelists: Leon Hoffman, M.D. in conversation with Susannah Heschel, Ph.D. and J. Kameron Carter, Ph.D.

Psychoanalytic Understandings of Poverty: The Importance of Context and Gender at CFS
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Psychoanalytic Understandings of Poverty:
The Importance of Context and Gender

Virtual Conference on Sunday, November 14, 2021
from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST
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Speakers: Patricia Gherovici, PhD and Jhuma Basak, PhD
Discussant: Anne Adelman, PhD
Opening and Closing remarks: Margarita Cereijido, PhD
Virtual Conference
Sunday, November 14, 2021
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm EST

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Of Fear and Strangers with presenter George Makari, M.D at NYPSI
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NYPSI’s 1051st Scientific Meeting:  Of Fear and Strangers with presenter George Makari, M.D. and discussant Sander Gilman, Ph.D. Of Fear and Strangers Presenter: George Makari, M.D. Discussant: Sander Gilman, Ph.D.

The second in a series of three meetings devoted to the notion of conflict, both small-scale and large-scale, intra-institutional and inter-national.

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 | 8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST) (Held Virtually on ZOOM)

$35 – General Admission $25 – Student Admission No charge for NYPSI members and students Register HERE, visit  nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900 Continue reading Of Fear and Strangers with presenter George Makari, M.D at NYPSI

AGORAPHOBIA with Susan Finkelstein and Jamieson Webster Online CFS
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AGORAPHOBIA with Susan Finkelstein and Jamieson Webster Friday, October 29, 2021 12:30-2:30pm Online via Zoom

It was not for a long time that I learned to appreciate the importance of phantasies and unconscious thought about life in the womb.  They contain an explanation of the remarkable dread that many people have of being buried alive; and they also afford the deepest unconscious basis for the belief in survival after death, which merely represents a projection into the future of this uncanny life before birth. Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.” -Freud (1900-1901, S.E. Vol.5, p. 400)

Following our last presentation on claustrophobia, we will now turn to its counterpart, agoraphobia, shifting the valence from the fear of being trapped inside with no way out, to the fear of going outside, and potentially losing not only one’s way, but also one’s mind. Agoraphobic fears point to the Continue reading AGORAPHOBIA with Susan Finkelstein and Jamieson Webster Online CFS