Category: Psychoanalysis

Approaching Clinical and Consultative Work with “Curiosity” yet “Without Memory and Desire” with Avi Nutkevitch at IPTAR
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REGISTRATION OPEN CE CREDITS AVAILABLE: IPTAR The Gould Center for Psychoanalytic Organizational Study and Consultation

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Approaching Clinical and Consultative Work with “Curiosity” yet “Without Memory and Desire” Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Workshop with Avi Nutkevitch, PhD.*

10:30AM to 2:30PM with Lunch Break Included IPTAR Conference Room – 1651 3rd Avenue, Suite 205.NYC 10128).
CE Credits Available for LCSW, LP, CAT and MHC

Workshop Description:
While the internal position of “no memory and no desire” (and also no understanding) is a well known Bionian dictum of technique, the notion of curiosity is rarely discussed in the psychoanalytic literature. What actually is curiosity? How is curiosity connected to the position of no memory, no desire and no understanding? Can they go Continue reading Approaching Clinical and Consultative Work with “Curiosity” yet “Without Memory and Desire” with Avi Nutkevitch at IPTAR

ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
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Link to ROOM  —  http://analytic-room.com

ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action

 Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action is an on-line magazine and website conceived in the immediate wake of the 2016 US election as an agent of community- building and transformation.   Room exists on the interface between the public and the private spheres.  It has shed new light on the effect political reality has on our inner world and the effect psychic reality has on our politics.   Room’s resonance with poets, artists, writers, Continue reading ROOM: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action

Austen Riggs Center Clinician and Researcher Dr. Jane Tillman Receives Significant Grant for Suicide Study
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Media Contact: Janet Hiser Director of Communications and Advancement 413.931.5333
janet.hiser@austenriggs.net

Austen Riggs Center Clinician and Researcher Dr. Jane Tillman Receives Significant Grant for Suicide Study

Stockbridge, MA – May 18, 2018 – Jane G. Tillman, PhD, ABPP, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Director of the Erikson Institute for Education and Research, has received a significant grant from the Fund for Psychoanalytic Research through the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) for her work, “Follow Up to States of Mind Preceding a Near Lethal Suicide Attempt Study.” In making this award, the review committee indicated that this was an important topic for study and may yield valuable information.

According to Dr. Tillman, “Suicide is a significant public health problem. Despite a burgeoning research literature that focuses primarily on biobehavioral and diagnostic risk factors, there has been little effective translation of these findings into improved clinical care of suicidal patients.” Continue reading Austen Riggs Center Clinician and Researcher Dr. Jane Tillman Receives Significant Grant for Suicide Study