Join Us! ROOM ROUNDTABLE VIA ZOOM Sunday July 12th, 1:00 PM (New York)
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Join our international ROOM community as we share thoughts and feelings in response to the evolving global situation. We are facing multiple crises and dangers but also multiple opportunities. There is a lot to begin to try to sort out as old certainties give way, for better and for worse, and new possibilities are glimpsed. It is a remarkable historical moment. Come and share how this moment is playing out in your world or in your thoughts. Please join and think with us.

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NYPSI 7/14 Virtual Mtg – Analytic Trng, White Privilege, Racism, Pandemic
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Tuesday, July 14th 7:00pm – 8:30pm
In light of national protests, NYPSI’s virtual drop-in series invites those interested in psychoanalytic training to engage with us
in a conversation regarding white privilege and racism in the midst of a global health pandemic.
In conversation with:  Dr. Lynne Zeavin, Dr. Thomas DePrima, and Dr. Nicole Regent
The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (NYPSI) will host a regular drop-in virtual meeting for clinicians who are curious about psychoanalysis and who want a place to connect with others and to share their experiences during these uncertain times.
Rotating NYPSI training analysts and members will lead a group twice per month. Continue reading NYPSI 7/14 Virtual Mtg – Analytic Trng, White Privilege, Racism, Pandemic

CFS COVID Series “Our Teens and Young Adults in this Pandemic/Black Lives Matter Moment” 7/17
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Series: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Clinical Practice During Pandemic
Individual and Couple Psychoanalytic Work during the time of COVID19 and George Floyd: Thinking about the Potential to Inflict Harm. Friday July 24, 2020  2:30 pm – 4:00 pm EDT A Live Program on Zoom Vivian Eskin, PhD CFS Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst

Overview
The current coronavirus pandemic has laid bare two societies living along lines of class and race – a divided country.  Just as we were coming out of the tragic circumstances of living with COVID19 in New York, the murder of George Floyd forced us to see what we previously ignored. It merged the plagues of police brutality, prejudice, racism. The hatred that we have been denying, turning a blind eye and covering up for decades came to the fore. While the issues around the pandemic, corruption and racism occur daily around the world, they also live inside of us – in the internal world of all individuals and couples. Continue reading CFS COVID Series “Our Teens and Young Adults in this Pandemic/Black Lives Matter Moment” 7/17

POETRY MONDAY: July 6, 2020
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     Cynthia Read Gardner

Good morning, everyone.  Under normal circumstances, I would be saying, “Happy Fourth of July Weekend” and we’d be packing the picnic lunches and getting the sparklers and flags ready.  But these are far from normal circumstances, as we well know.  We’re social distancing, wearing our masks and trying to stay healthy and well, for others’ sakes as well as our own.

Many of us have been out protesting racial inequity, which is another form of trying to help our whole world become well – or at least, better than it has been, which may be the best we can hope for at this moment in time.

This column has always been devoted to diversity, which means we feature poets of all racial, cultural, gender and age groups.  You’ll have to decide for yourselves in which category Gardner belongs.  How about “human”? Continue reading POETRY MONDAY: July 6, 2020

Bizarre new planet is largest known rocky world, 40 times as massive as Earth
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Click Here to Read: Bizarre new planet is largest known rocky world, 40 times as massive as Earth: The bulky object—possibly the core of a failed gas giant—challenges what astronomers think about how planets form by Nadia Drake on the National Geographic website on July 1, 2020.
This artist’s concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.  Credits: NASA/W. Stenzel.