Ncaps Breakfast Seminar Sunday, October 17, 2010 at 9:00am – 12 noon
Topic: Rinse, Lather, Repeat:
Repetition compulsion in the life of the therapist and patient
At:
NY Psychoanalytic Society 245 East 82nd Street NYC
Keynote speaker: 3-time obey-award winning playwright Paul Zimet (see bio and description below) and moderated by Robin R. Benjamin, PsyA, LCSW and Simon Yisrael Feuerman, PsyD, LCSW
$75 (kosher breakfast included)
( seats left, so reserve now. First come, first served)
The analyst Michael Kahn (“Between therapist and client”) once wrote that the repetition compulsion is a phenomenon that causes dismay when we see it in our friends and despair when we see it in ourselves. It is one of Freud’s greatest discoveries that we – our patients and us — repeat and repeat. One of the few ways to break its choke hold is to talk about it and examine it with a light touch and with warmth. The study of repetition is a cornerstone of progress and prosperity for the analyst, therapist and patient. This course will examine this unconscious tendency. We will study case histories from literature and participants will be encouraged to relate personal histories and experiences to the readings. Zimet’s basic talk is this: repetition as enhancement of life vs. repetition as life moribund, ossification and destruction.
You might want to consider attending this lecture if these statements speak to you:
I want more
I want to understand more about yourself how that affects how much money I make and how good a clinician I am for myself and my patients
I want to connect with other like-minded professionals
I find myself confronting similar feelings and circumstances again and again
I have some fears about some aspects of the work
I want a better life for my patients and me
If any of these ring true, take a seat and join us! Call 973.249.8111 anytime and reserve your space or email Ncaps at yisraelf@hotmail.com There are 9 seats left, so first come, first serve.
Paul Zimet is the Artistic Director of the Talking Band. Born and raised in New York City, he studied clarinet and voice at the High School of Music and Art, comparative literature at Columbia College, and medicine at Harvard Medical School. Music-theater works that he has written and directed include: New Islands Archipelago, Radnevsky’s Real Magic, Imminence, Belize, The Parrot, Star Messengers, Bitterroot, Party Time, Black Milk Quartet and New Cities. He also wrote Shadow Passports and Bone Room , episodes 2 and 8 of The Talking Band’s serial mystery drama, The Necklace. Paul has directed over thirty productions for the Talking Band, and received a 2003 Village Voice OBIE award for his direction of Painted Snake in a Painted Chair by Ellen Maddow. In 2010 he directed The Deity, the first section of Taylor Mac’s OBIE award winning epic, The Lily’s Revenge. He also received three OBIE awards for his work with the Open Theater and the Winter Project, both directed by Joseph Chaikin. Paul has received the John C. Lippmann “New Frontier” Award and the Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theater, a Playwrights’ Center National McKnight Fellowship, playwriting fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, a New Dramatists/Children’s Theatre Playground commission, a Rockefeller/Creative Capital MAP Fund grant, a Fulbright Fellowship, and a 2008 NewYorkTheatre.Com People of the Year award. Paul has performed with Otrabanda Company, The Stratford Festival of Canada, and the New York Shakespeare Festival. He has taught for many years at colleges and universities, including Princeton, Williams, NYU, and Fordham. Paul is Associate Professor Emeritus in Theatre at Smith College, and an alumnus of New Dramatists.
Also:
Want to have a richer, fuller, more prosperous practice?
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