Movies Monday: Three Identical Strangers
By Categories: Film

Click Here to Read: Three Identical Strangers: What Are The Signs of Separation Trauma? This Film Tells Us A Lot
by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen on her Characters on the Couch blog on July 26, 2018.

Click Here to Read: The Reason These Triplets Were Separated at Birth Is Beyond Messed Up The triplets from ‘Three Identical Strangers’ spoke with VICE about the shadowy reason they were split up by Kara Weisenstein on the Vice website on July 10 2018.;

Click Here to Read: True story behind Three Identical Strangers – triplets separated at birth as part of cruel nature vs nurture experiment by Steve Myall on the Nirror website on April 7, 2018.

Click Here to Read: In ‘Three Identical Strangers,’ A Saga About Triplets Grows More Twisted By The Minute
As the gripping documentary hits theaters, the mysteries surrounding it only thicken By Matthew Jacobs on the Huffington Post website on June 27, 2018.

Click Here to Read: Memories of the Child Development Center: Study of Adopted Monozygotic Twins Reared Apart: An Unfulfilled Promise by Lawrence M. Perlman in Twin Research and Human Genetics Volume 8 Number 3 pp. 271–281.

Click Here to Read: Twin Towers: The Ones Left Behind; Research Reviews: Chimeric DZ Twins, DZ Twin Mothers; Revisited: The New York Child Development Center Twin Study; New and Unusual Twins by Nancy L. Segal in Twin Research and Human Genetics Volume 9 Number 6 pp. 1038–1042.

The Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis: The Mind of the Artist: October 26 – 27, 2018 at NYPSI
By Categories: EVENTS, Psychoanalysis

A Two-Day Conference jointly sponsored by the Scientific Program Committee and
The Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis: The Mind of the Artist: October 26 – 27, 2018
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute: 247 E. 82nd Street, New York City

Speaking from a theoretical perspective, Friday evening’s panelists will consider the relation between artistic creativity and psychoanalytic treatment, the significance (if any) of the high incidence of affective disorders among literary and visual artists, the paradigm of art as reparation of early object relations, and the like. The relevance of Freud’s notion of sublimation to more recent explanations of the intra- and inter-psychic valuations of imaginative expression and the relationship of imagination to the self, to mechanisms of defense and agency, will be explored. Saturday morning’s session will be devoted to a discussion with literary and visual artists on the notion of art as play, the neurobiological aims of that instinct in the making of meaning, the relation of id and ego function to unconscious fantasy and its expression in art, and how artistic expression bears upon our neuroscientific understanding of pleasure and reward. A plenary session by Nobel Laureate Eric Kandel will be offered in the Continue reading The Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis: The Mind of the Artist: October 26 – 27, 2018 at NYPSI