Citizen Forum: One Year Later, A Facilitated Group Event — MARCH 5, 2018 at IPTAR

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, A Facilitated Group Event — MARCH 5, 2018 at IPTAR

Save the Date: Freedom to Choose with Jack and Kerry Kelly Novick on May 18, 2018 at CFS

Friday, May 18, 2018, 8:00-10:00pm, Mt. Sinai’s Goldwurm Auditorium

The Contemporary Freudian Society will honor Jack and Kerry Kelly Novick for their contributions to our profession, focusing on the latest: FREEDOM TO CHOOSE: TWO SYSTEMS OF SELF-REGULATION IPBooks $25

Kimberly Kleinman and Donna Roth Smith
will be joining the panel for an evening of play

Jane Hall, Chair
The NY Scientific Program Committee

Facebook should get rid of its app for young kids, child development experts tell Mark Zuckerberg

Click Here to Read:  Facebook should get rid of its app for young kids, child development experts tell Mark Zuckerberg By Association Press on the Los Angeles Times website on January 30, 2018.

Click Here to Read: Turn Off Messenger Kids, Health Experts Plead to Facebook By Cecilia Kang in The New York Times on January 30, 2018.

Giacomo Casanova: A Biographical Portrait with Laurence Bergreen at NYPSI

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.
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