MEMBERS’ PRESENTATIONS: Psychoanalysis and Fiction (Part II) Saturday,

September 14, 2019 10:30 am – 1:00 pm  The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Peter Gillespie Toward a New Political Fiction: Psychoanalysis and Neoliberalism
Salvatore F. Guido Fiction as Testimony: Psychoanalysis in a Destitute Time
Ona Nierenberg On “Constructions in Analysis” and Psychoanalytic Truth

Peter Gillespie is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Brooklyn, a supervisor and faculty member of Washington Square Institute, an Continue reading Members’ Presentations: Psychoanalysis and Fiction (Part II) at Après-Coup

Click Here to Read: Planet Earth: Crumbling Metaphysical Illusion
What can help us face up to the horrors with which climate change threatens us? By Robert D. Stolorow, PhD in Society for Humanistic Psychology Newsletter in July 2019.

Robert D. Stolorow, PhD

Click Here to Read:  A Psychiatric Diagnosis Is Not a Disease: Doublethink makes for bad treatment by Jonathan Shedler on his Psychologically Minded blog on the Psychology Today blogs on Julu 27, 2019.

Image:  Scray.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Click Here to Read: Mexico’s Little-Known Attempt to Save Freud From the Nazis: Had the campaign to bring Sigmund Freud to Mexico succeeded, the imperiled psychoanalyst would have found himself living among the world’s foremost artists and intellectuals By Rubén Gallo on the MIT Press Reader website.

Image: Mexican currency postcard.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Click Here to Purchase: Pedro Almodóvar: A Cinema of Desire, Passion and Compulsion edited by Arlene Kramer Richards, Lucille Spira with Merle Molofsky.

PRESENTER: PAUL C. COOPER, MS, LP
The Wheel of Life & Death functions as a pictorial representation of cyclic existence or “samsara.” It is comprised of a series of concentric circles that detail how the mind is structured and functions. It serves as a template for mapping out and understanding internal mental processes, the range of emotional and psychological states that contribute to our sense of identity and their behavioral manifestations that can contribute to identifying both internal and relational dynamics, which can expand our awareness and Continue reading The Buddhist Wheel of Life and Death at MITPP

Click Here to Read: A Brief History of Anti-Semitic Violence in America: The synagogue attack in Pittsburgh may be the deadliest attack against Jews in American history—but it’s nowhere near the first by Isabel Fattal on the Atlantic website on October 28, 2018.

Memorials to Victims. A memorial outside the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.