Freud the philosopher: Before fathering psychoanalysis, Freud first slayed the dominant Cartesian intellectual tradition of mind-body dualism

Click Here to Read: Freud the philosopher: Before fathering psychoanalysis, Freud first slayed the dominant Cartesian intellectual tradition of mind-body dualism by David Livingstone Smith on the Aeon website.

Sigmund Freud. Google Images. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Google Images. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Eva Cybulska on Freud’s unconscious debt to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

Click Here to Read: Psychoanalysis & Philosophy (II): Eva Cybulska on Freud’s unconscious debt to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the Philosophy Now website, Issue 68.

Gustav-Adolf Schultze Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

Portrait photograph of Arthur Schopenhauer Date: March 1859: Source Frankfurt am Main University Library
Author Schäfer, Johann This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 70 years or less. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

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Philosophy of Mind: An Overview

Click Here to Read: Philosophy of Mind: An Overview by Laura Weed takes us on a tour of the mind/brain controversy on the Philosophy Now website, Issue 87.

Outer surface of the human brain: Date between 1894 and 1895: Source Popular Science Monthly Volume 46 Image: Sanger Brown M.D.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus 70 years or less.

The Appeal of Tragedy with Paul Schwaber, Ph.D. at NYPSI

NYPSI: WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR: The Appeal of Tragedy with Paul Schwaber, Ph.D.

Wed, November 7, 2018 at 8:00 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

Works in Progress Seminar: The Appeal of Tragedy

Looking closely at Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and King Lear, and guided by both Aristotle and Freud, Dr. Schwaber will explore the special appeal of tragedy as a literary form, the ways verbal art imitates significant human action and the illuminating experience it enables. Continue reading The Appeal of Tragedy with Paul Schwaber, Ph.D. at NYPSI

Black Psychoanalysts Speak III: Beyond Borders and Boundaries at The New School

Black Psychoanalysts Speak III: Beyond Borders and Boundaries Saturday, November 17, 2018
Registration: 8:00 am to 8:50 am Conference: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm**
The New School for Social Research 66 West 12thStreet, NY, NY 10011

OPENING PLENARY Dionne Powell, M.D. “Breaking walls and building bridges: bringing race into the therapeutic conversation”

CASE PRESENTATIONS: PRESENTERS: Cleonie White, PhD.; Michael Moskowitz, Ph.D. CONSULTANTS:Kathleen Pogue White, Ph.D., Kirkland Vaughans, Ph.D.

To register for this conference, go to:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/black-psychoanalysts-speak-iii-tickets-49559651251

PLEASE NOTE! Pre-conference professional rates end on November 15, 2018
PLEASE NOTE! Early Bird rates for students/candidates end on October 20, 2018.
Student/Candidate tickets are significantly prorated.

This is a clinical conference designed for therapists who work consciously or, as importantly, unconsciously with race in the therapeutic dyad. Issues of race occur most obviously when therapist and patient are of different races; more subtly, but no less significantly, when therapist and patient are of the same race. This conference is designed to crystallize these issues so that their implications might be consciously considered. Continue reading Black Psychoanalysts Speak III: Beyond Borders and Boundaries at The New School