An Introduction to Psychoanalysis with Mark Solms
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THREE PRACTICAL VIDEO LECTURES BY MARK SOLMS
For $33 – the price of a meal at your favourite restaurant (still awkward) – watch this PRACTICAL introduction to psychoanalysis from Mark Solms’ study. Three superb one-hour videos pre-recorded during the hight of lockdown, via Zoom. In these short lectures, Professor Mark Solms not only teaches psychoanalysis, he also delivers a down-to-earth, simple, and contemporary revision of the discipline, as it is practised by many psychoanalysts, including him, today.

LECTURE 1: Drive Theory
What are the real driving forces behind emotional life? Freud thought there were two drives, but there are many more … Continue reading An Introduction to Psychoanalysis with Mark Solms

Finding a Place to Stand: The Connection between Institutional Membership and Citizenship with Edward Shapiro at Austen Riggs
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Finding a Place to Stand: The Connection between Institutional Membership and Citizenship Ongoing Educational Events Austen Riggs Center 25 Main St Stockbridge, Massachusetts 01262

September 11, 2020 at 6:30 PM Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Edward R. Shapiro, MD NOTE: This is s a VIRTUAL event and requires advance registration.   Friday Night Guest Lectures are designed for mental health professionals, offered free of charge, and provide 1.0 continuing education credit (see details below). 

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Using stories from institutions and their members, and from his study of the experience of citizens, Dr. Shapiro will outline an interpretive method that offers a pathway for Individuals to find a place to stand with others as citizens. Continue reading Finding a Place to Stand: The Connection between Institutional Membership and Citizenship with Edward Shapiro at Austen Riggs

Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” VI: The Berserker Hypothesis
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Click Here to Read:  Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” VI: The Berserker Hypothesis By Matt Williams on the Universe Today on August 22, 2020.

An engraving of an image shown on a Vendel era bronze plate discovered in Öland, Sweden. Depicted are a berserker about to decapitate his enemy on the right and Oden on the left. Oden’s famous characters markers are not present. Image: Author Unknown.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Our Teens and Young Adults in this Pandemic/Black Lives Matter Moment Online withe Marsha Levy Warren at CFS and the Washington/Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis
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Dear Colleagues:
Please join us on Zoom when Marsha Levy Warren, PhD, will present and discuss “Our Teens and Young Adults in this Pandemic/Black Lives Matter Moment” on September 11, 2020.  Online paid registrants will be sent a Zoom invitation with Zoom registration details.
We are pleased to offer the Case Conferences on a subscription basis or you can select individual Case Conferences.The following link takes you directly to the detailed information; schedule and registration on the WBCP website: https://www.wbcp.org/cgi/page.cgi/_evtcal.html?evt=522You may also access the registration by going to the WBCP website at http://wbcp.org and clicking on the event in “Upcoming Events.”
Pre-registration is required via the WBCP website at http://wbcp.org. If you do not have an account on the WBCP website, you will need to create a “guest account” to register and view/print your CME/CE credit certificate after the conference. For registration assistance, contact the WBCP at 301-470-3635/ 410-792-8060/ 202-237-1854 or admin@wbcp.org. Continue reading Our Teens and Young Adults in this Pandemic/Black Lives Matter Moment Online withe Marsha Levy Warren at CFS and the Washington/Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis