Click Here to Read: Decoding dreams: 6 answers to what goes on inside the sleeping mind By Rowan Hooper in the Washington Post on April 7, 2018.
A Dream of a Girl Before a Sunrise by Karl Bryullov (1799–1852). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
Click Here to Read: Legacy of Childhood Trauma: I never got any help, any kind of therapy. I never told anyone By Junot Díaz in The New Yorker in the April 16th, 2018 Issue.
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Click Here to Read: Were We There to Talk about AIDS, or Not? One woman’s journey in psychotherapy by Margaret Kim Peterson on the Public Seminar.org website on April 4, 2018.
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents

Lacan and the English Language with Jean-Pierre Cléro
Friday, April 13, 2018 · 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm Saturday, April 14, 2018 · 10:30 am – 2:00 pm
The School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Lacan’s thesis “the unconscious is structured like a language” seems to contradict his later suggestion that certain languages are better suited than others for the practice and theory of psychoanalysis. We will focus on Lacan’s relation to English, and further elaborate on the themes dealt with in the book Lacan et la Langue Anglaise (Cléro, Essaim, 2017). We will Continue reading Lacan and the English Language with Jean-Pierre Cléro at Après-Coup
FROM PRACTICE TO RESEARCH: PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH ENTERS THE PSYCHOANALYTIC CLINIC
MAY 19, 2018 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM IPTAR CONFERENCE ROOM 1651 THIRD AVENUE, SUITE 205, NEW YORK 10128
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JACQUES P. BARBER, PH.D. GORDON F. DERNER SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY, ADELPHI UNIVERSITY
“WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE EFFICACY OF PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY FOR SPECIFIC DISORDERS?”
J. CHRISTOPHER MURAN, PH.D. GORDON F. DERNER SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY, ADELPHI UNIVERSITY
“PLURALITY AND CONTEXTUALISM IN A PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH PROGRAM: REDUX 2018” MODERATOR: GEOFF GOODMAN, PH.D.
Jacques Barber’s presentation:
What do we know about the efficacy of dynamic therapy for specific disorders? For years, psychodynamic therapy has been under attack for not being sufficiently empirical. Interestingly both friends and foes are not sufficiently aware of the outcome literature. This presentation will address this gap in knowledge and present systematic reviews addressing the efficacy of dynamic therapy for depression, anxiety disorders and personality disorders. I will delve in greater depth into examining the question of what treatment works for whom. I will suggest a way this kind of critical question for our field can be Continue reading FROM PRACTICE TO RESEARCH: PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH ENTERS THE PSYCHOANALYTIC CLINIC at IPTAR