Psychologists defend claim of “destructive aspects” to masculinity

Click Here to Read:  Psychologists defend claim of “destructive aspects” to masculinity: Critics argue new psychology guidance pathologizes being male by Beth Mole on the ars techina website on January 15, 2019.

Navy men cheering for their soccer team, Brisbane, March 1945. Royal Navy men barracking for their fleet in the soccer game between Royal Navy and Brisbane at the Exhibition Ground.  Sunday Truth, 03 March 1945.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

On the Subject’s Relation to Knowledge, Part II Paola Mieli at Après-Coup

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents: SEMINAR
On the Subject’s Relation to Knowledge, Part II Paola Mieli  
Friday, January 25, 2019 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, Room 408, New York, NY

Returning to Freud and Lacan, this seminar will reflect on the function that knowledge and belief play in the subject’s relation to the world. Denial, disavowal, foreclusion—and their subjective and collective implications—will be explored, as well as the differences between unconscious and conscious knowledge, between savoir, connaissance and savoir faire.

Readings for January 25th, 2019: S. Freud,  Neurosis and Psychosis, 1923; The Loss of Reality in Neurosis and Psychosis (1924); J. Lacan, Continue reading On the Subject’s Relation to Knowledge, Part II Paola Mieli at Après-Coup

CANCELLED: An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman Pick at NYPSI

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.

WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR: An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman Pick

Wed, February 6, 2019, 8:15 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) $20 – General Admission
$15 – Student Admission No charge for NYPSI members/students 
Register 
HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900
Mrs. Brenman Pick, a leading Contemporary Kleinian Analyst from London will present her paper: “The Faces of Trauma: Between the Personal and the Social – The ‘Pleasure’ of Passing on the Bad Treatment.” There will be an opportunity for questions from the audience. Continue reading CANCELLED: An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman Pick at NYPSI

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients with Norman Straker at NYPSI

NYPSI EXTENSION COURSE:  Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients with Norman Straker, M.D.

January 23 – February 13, 2019 Wednesdays, 7:00 – 8:20 pm 3 classes  /  $90 Location: NYPSI (247 East 82nd Street, NYC)  To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900

NYPSI Extension Course: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients
This course will provide the therapist with an introduction to psychoanalytic psychotherapy for cancer patients and their families. The Continue reading Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients with Norman Straker at NYPSI

FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH: 2018 – 2019 at NYPSI

The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to a clinical series:

FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH: 2018 – 2019

Interested in learning more about psychoanalysis and how to deepen your clinic practice? Please join us for this year’s three part clinical series. 

In the second evening’s presentation on Tuesday, January 29th, an advanced candidate Dr. Amber Nemeth will present her analysis of an adult patient, and Training Analyst Dr. Lynne Zeavin will act as a discussant and will use a Kleinian perspective to address this patient’s tendency to dissociate and disavow her aggression.  Continue reading FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH: 2018 – 2019 at NYPSI