Aretha Franklin March 25, 1942 to August 15, 2018
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Click Here to Read: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, has died by By Lisa Respers France, Dan Gilgoff and Todd Leopold on the CNN website on August 16, 2018.

Click Here to Read:   Aretha Franklin Has Died at the Age of 76: The Queen of Soul and 18-time Grammy winner died at her home in Detroit, according to a publicist by Donald Liebenson in Vanity Fair on August 16, 2018.

Click Here to Read: Aretha Franklin, the ‘Queen of Soul,’ Dies at 76 by By Jon Pareles in The New York Times on
August 16, 2018.

Click Here to View: Aretha Franklin death: Queen of Soul dies aged 76: The star enjoyed immense success with songs including ‘Respect’ and ‘(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman’ by Jacob Stolworthy on the Independent website on August 16, 2018.

Click Here to Read: RESPECT: Here Are 5 of Aretha Franklin’s Most Important Contributions to Civil Rights
The “Queen of Soul” died Thursday By Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website on August 16, 2018.

Click Here to Read: How A Jewish Music Producer Helped Aretha Franklin Get Her Big Break By Josefin Dolsten in the New York Jewish Week on August 17, 2018/

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Analytic Listening: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice at CFS
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The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of The Contemporary Freudian Society: Analytic Listening: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice

We are pleased to offer a six-week course on analytic listening and concepts beginning Fall 2018. This course qualifies for 9 Continuing Education credits.

This course is suitable for students from a wide variety of backgrounds, including practicing clinicians from all disciplines, recent graduates of masters-level or doctoral-level programs, professionals considering changing careers, and anyone interested in exploring the possibility of post-graduate psychoanalytic training.

Applicants to our training program are also encouraged to enroll.
Instructors: Ani Buk, MA, LP, LCAT and Emily Schlesinger, LCSW
Dates: Tuesdays, September 25, October 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 Continue reading Analytic Listening: Foundations of Psychoanalytic Practice at CFS

“Exploring the Use & Misuse of Race in the Clinical Encounter” with Narendra Keval at CFS Brooklyn
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The Contemporary Freudian Society Psychoanalytic Brooklyn Program Chair, Gloria Demby Celebrating CFS’s new clinical center on Court Street in downtown Brooklyn A series of psychoanalytic salons and seminars, in Brooklyn (!)
Invites you to attend our first meeting:

“Exploring the Use & Misuse of Race in the Clinical Encounter” Presenter: Narendra Keval, London
Invited Discussant: Marsha Levy-Warren Date & Time: Saturday October 27, 2018 from 10am to 2:30pm
Location: 465 Henry Street, Brooklyn 11231

Preoccupations about differences due to ethnicity, race or racism and their lived experience are always present in subtle ways in the privacy of our daily thoughts and feelings, imagination and dreams. Our clinical encounters are no Continue reading “Exploring the Use & Misuse of Race in the Clinical Encounter” with Narendra Keval at CFS Brooklyn

Them Not Us: Finding Racist States of Mind where You Least Expect with Joseph Reynoso, Ph.D. at MITPP
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The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting: Friday, November 16, 2018 – 7:30 PM
THEM NOT US: FINDING RACIST STATES OF MIND WHERE YOU LEAST EXPECT
PRESENTER: JOSEPH REYNOSO, Ph.D.

Psychoanalytic scholars have increasingly addressed the unconscious dynamics involved in racial prejudice. Unsurprisingly, the subjects of this work are frequently persons whose personalities (or parts thereof) are understood to be categorically racist. Following the results of the 2016 election, however, many Americans were confronted by the capacity seemingly non-racist individuals have to endorse social aggression in political leadership. Dr. Reynoso will challenge the method of pursuing racial hate in the mind of “the racist.” The presentation will describe how the pragmatic efficiency of racist templates defend against the ever-present threat of intolerable anxieties in all individuals. Continue reading Them Not Us: Finding Racist States of Mind where You Least Expect with Joseph Reynoso, Ph.D. at MITPP