Category: Psychoanalysis

“The shadow of the object….” The Challenges of Mourning in the Psychoanalytic Encounter at IPTAR
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

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

Activism and Psychotherapy
By Categories: Politics, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Not your great-grandfather’s psychoanalysis: Psychologists have modernized the approach to better serve patients and have conducted more research that validates its success By Amy Novotney on the American Psychological Association website in the Monitor on Psychology Section on December 2017, Vol 48, No. 11.

Click Here to Read: Letter send to the United States House of Representatives on Gun Control by various psychological associations.

Click Here to Read: Call for Action to Prevent Gun Violence in the United States of America: Interdisciplinary Group on Preventing School and Community Violence on February 28, 2018.

Click Here to Read:   The Honorable Alex Azar, Department of Health and Human Services re LGBT rights from Various Health Organizations.

 

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