Panacea or Posion: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine at the Helix Center

Panacea or Posion: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine Saturday 2:30 PM EST 20 March 2021

Placebos “work” for quite a few medical problems. But how? And what is the work they do?

What one thinks a medicine is capable of, one’s idea of that medicine, may affect us in the way “proper” medicines do. This implies that, in observing the work of a placebo we are watching an idea affect biology, the mind moving the body.

Despite the dualist notions this description elicits, where mind and body are held as separate entities, most neuroscientists, generally of a monistic bent, welcome the challenge of the placebo effect. Most insist that placebos precisely demonstrate that the mind is one with the body. Yet, Continue reading Panacea or Posion: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine at the Helix Center

“The Intersection of Gender, Sexuality, and Our Current Crises” 4/9-10 online with CFS

The Intersection of Gender, Sexuality and Our Current Crises: The Psychological Impact of Race, Politics, Economics, and COVID
Friday, April 9, 2021 4:00-6:00pm EST and Saturday, April 10, 2010 11:00am-6:00pm EST Live via Zoom
Co-sponsored by the Contemporary Freudian Society, the International Psychoanalytical Association, and the American Psychoanalytic Association
 
Claudia Rankine, MacArthur Fellow and award-winning poet, will offer a Friday keynote inspired by her recent book, Just Us: An American Conversation.  She will be joined by San Francisco analyst, Francisco Gonzalez. Saturday will be a day of presentations and study on the intersectionality of our current world crises and gender and sexuality.
Two panels of forward-thinking psychoanalysts, along with break-out groups for self-study will offer the enriching opportunity to think, synthesize and reflect on issues concerning race, class, health and politics and the place of gender and sexuality.
This conference is open to members of the mental health community, as well as anyone interested in exploring the psychological impact of the pandemic on social issues embedded in our global fabric.

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SEMINAR: On Voluntary Servitude — Paola Mieli online with Après-Coup

Kazimir Malevich, Female Torso, 1928-9

SEMINAR On Voluntary Servitude   Paola Mieli With the participation of  Raffaella Colombo
Saturday, March 20th, 2021 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)
In times like these, as new forms of totalitarianism are taking over everywhere, it’s necessary to reflect on humans’ inherent propensity to take joy in their own servitude. Returning to Freud’s and Lacan’s articulations of the subject of language and the social link, and that subject’s passion for ignorance, the seminar will explore the nature of the drive, masochism, and the ways the superego
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Truth in the Clinical Encounter: AAPCSW Conference Rescheduled for May 1, 2021

American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW-NY)
-Conference is sponsored by National Institute for Psychoanalytic Education and Research in Clinical Social Work, Inc. (NIPER), educational arm of AAPCSW, and
-Co-sponsored by The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR)

Zoom link will be sent to registrants on  April 29, 2021.  If you register after that date a zoom link will be sent at the end of the day that you register. 

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Program
Panel Presentation and Discussion: 9:30 am – 1:30 pm

Carol Tosone
Lying and the Construction of Self
This presentation will address the development and function of lying in relation to one’s self-concept from multiple theoretical perspectives. A case example of infidelity will be offered to explicate the process. Continue reading Truth in the Clinical Encounter: AAPCSW Conference Rescheduled for May 1, 2021

Dear Candidate: Talking about Training online with CFS

Dear Candidate: Talking about Training  Saturday, March 13, 2021 2:00 – 4:00 pm EST Live Program on Zoom

Dear Candidate is a book comprised of letters from analysts around the world describing their experiences while candidates themselves, as well as offering advice to their younger colleagues currently in the midst of their psychoanalytic education. Three of those analysts and the editor will be in discussion with three candidates who will have the opportunity to ask questions and exchange ideas.  This conversation among colleagues at different stages of their careers will expand to include all participants in the Zoom room!

INTRODUCTION: Fred Busch, PhD

Editor, Dear Candidate: Analysts From Around the World Offer Reflections on Psychoanalytic Training, Education, and the Profession

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FEAR OF CONTAGION—NEED FOR INFECTION IN THE TALES OF THE COVID-19 Online with IPTAR

IPTAR PRESENTS GIUSEPPE CIVITARESE, MD, PHD  FEAR OF CONTAGION—NEED FOR INFECTION IN THE TALES OF THE COVID-19 DISCUSSANT: JARED RUSSELL, PHD MODERATOR: MASHA MIMRAN, PHD SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2021 ON ZOOM  10:00 AM — 1:00 PM

Register Here: https://www.iptar.org/fearofcontagion/ General: $100 includes 3 CE Credits
IPTAR Members: $75 includes 3 CE Credits Candidates & Students: $25 includes 3 CE Credits IPTAR PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Brian Kloppenberg (Chair), Jeanne Even, Susan Finkelstein, Anna Fishzon, Lynne Herbst, Judy Ann Kaplan, Masha Mimran, Jamie Stevens, Yukari Yanagino

Giuseppe Civitarese will present his unique response to the historic Covid-19 pandemic, the first of its kind in the digital age. Civitarese will begin with the ways in which cyberspace offers possibilities of resilience that did not exist before, including novel ways for people Continue reading FEAR OF CONTAGION—NEED FOR INFECTION IN THE TALES OF THE COVID-19 Online with IPTAR