The Brain’s Autopilot Mechanism Steers Consciousness

Click Here to Read:  The Brain’s Autopilot Mechanism Steers Consciousness: Freud’s notion of a dark, libidinous unconscious is obsolete. A new theory holds that the brain produces a continuous stream of unconscious predictions By Steve Ayan in the Scientific American on December 19, 2018.

 Group photo in front of Clark University: Front row: Sigmund Freud, G. Stanley Hall, C. G. Jung; Back row: Abraham A. Brill, Ernest Jones, Sándor Ferenczi. Photo taken for Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts publication. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

On the Verge: Madness in the Psychoanalytic Encounter with Alain Gibeault

IPTAR PRESENTS: On the Verge: Madness in the Psychoanalytic Encounter

Alain Gibeault, PhD Symbolization and Psychosis: A French  psychoanalytical approach to the treatment of psychotic  patients
Discussant: Danielle Knafo, PhD

Sunday, February 3, 2019 9:00 am – 4:00 pm IPTAR, 1651 Third Ave, suite 205 General: $125 includes 5 CE credits Candidates: $25 includes 5 CE credits https://iptar.org/event/ontheverge-gibeault/

ABSTRACT

Symbolisation can be defined as an operation by which something will represent another thing; but one must also be able to represent an absent object and distinguish the symbol from the symbolized. We might thus Continue reading On the Verge: Madness in the Psychoanalytic Encounter with Alain Gibeault

Please Contribute to the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program Home-Visiting Project

PLEASE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ANNI BERGMAN PARENT-INFANT PROGRAM
HOME-VISITING PROJECT

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As we approach the end of this calendar year, the Anni  Bergman Parent-Infant Program hopes you will consider making a contribution to our Home-Visiting Project.

The Home-Visiting Project began nearly four years ago with the help of a start-up grant from the Jennie Dugan Fund of the Contemporary Freudian Continue reading Please Contribute to the Anni Bergman Parent-Infant Program Home-Visiting Project

Ethical Issues in Psychoanalytic Practice at WCSPP

Scientific Meeting: 2 CE Hours available for LCSW’s, LMSW’s, LP’s, LMFT’s, LMHC’s, LCAT’s

ETHICAL ISSUES IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE: A PANEL DISCUSSION 
Alan R. Fleischman, MD, Moderator Friday, February 8,2019 8:00 p.m.

Suggested contribution: $20 Admission with CE: $30 Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation 468 Rosedale Avenue White Plains, NY  10605
RSVP to Ken Barish barish@wcspp.org
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Hans Loewald and the Emergence of Contemporary Freudian Psychoanalysis at IPTAR

HANS LOEWALD AND THE EMERGENCE OF CONTEMPORARY FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS
Instructor: Seymour Moskovitz, PhD WEDNESDAYS, January 30, February 6,13,20,27 March 6, 13, 20 @8-930 pm, IPTAR Conference Room

This eight-week course will examine Hans Loewald’s writings and their influence on contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice. Loewald’s role as both an extender and modifier of tradition, a “radical conservative,” will be explored. While firmly rooted in Freudian theory and the structural model, Loewald’s work will be viewed as providing a platform for considering interaction with others as constitutive of mind. Loewald’s Continue reading Hans Loewald and the Emergence of Contemporary Freudian Psychoanalysis at IPTAR