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

Freud’s Case Studies Reading Group at Après-Coup
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association: Tuesday, January 8, 2019
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
 
FREUD’S CASE STUDIES, Reading Group
MARK STAFFORD and MARTIN WINN
 
This reading group will read closely and clinically Freud’s case studies. We will compare and contrast them with Freud’s biographical studies. How Lacan discusses these cases in his seminars will also influence the way these studies are read. 
 
LOCATION: 136 West 21st Street (between Sixth and Seventh Avenues), New York City. Ask at the front desk for the room number. 
 
Contact Mark Stafford at (917) 543-1937 or Martin Winn (212) 677-1147 about registering for the group. 
 
READINGS: Schreber’s “Memoir”
 
ATTENDANCE FEE: Attendance is free, but registration is required.

Health advocates say schizophrenia should be reclassified as a brain disease
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Click Here to Read:  Health advocates say schizophrenia should be reclassified as a brain disease: Changing the definition could unlock more money for cures By Brianna Ehley on the Politico website on January 5, 2019.

Image showing brain areas more active in controls than in schizophrenia patients during a working memory task during a fMRI study. Two brain slices are shown. Image: Kim J, Matthews NL, Park S.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons