Beauty and the Ideal with Arlene Kramer Richards at AIP

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
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SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 8:00 PM
This Meeting is Chaired by the Candidates of the AIP
Dr. Arlene Kramer Richards: BEAUTY AND THE IDEAL

The platonic ideal of beauty is hypothesized to correspond to the inherent preference for an image infants are attracted to soon after birth. Dr. Richards will discuss how the importance of such an image is not only that it provides a bridge for attachment

that promotes the infant’s chances for survival, but also that it remains throughout development, is changed in significance as the infant becomes a toddler, the toddler an oedipal child, a latency child, adolescent and finally, an adult. In her presentation, Arlene will share two examples that illustrate how this concept can affect clinical work.
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Arlene Kramer Richards, EdD, is a training and supervising analyst with the Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS) and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). In addition, she is a faculty member at CFS, the American Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Tongi Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China where she developed the Wuhan China Psychotherapy Program. She is a member of the Board of the American Psychoanalytic Association and IPA. Dr. Richards’ psychoanalytic writings help clarify issues of female development as she explores perversion, loneliness and the internal world of artists and poets. She has written extensively on these topics and is the co-editor of Encounters with Loneliness: Only the Lonely which won the Gradiva Award in 2014. Her recent book Psychoanalysis: Listening to Understand is a compilation of her selected works. Dr. Richards is in private practice in Manhattan.
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KAREN HORNEY CENTER AUDITORIUM
329 East 62nd Street (Bet. 1st & 2nd Avenues), NYC 10065

ATTENDANCE is STRICTLY RESTRICTED to mental health professionals and individuals with graduate degrees/graduate school students, who would be eligible for postgraduate training.

Scientific Meetings Committee:
Giselle Galdi, PhD, Chair;
Riva Tait, PhD, Vice-Chair; Arthur Lynch, PhD & Kenneth Winarick, PhD

Candidates’ Scientific Meetings Committee:

Gesine Sauter, LMHC; Carolyn Ezrin, LMHC; Melinda Gallagher, LMHC & Milena Kazakov, LCSW

Scientific Meetings of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis
2014 – 15

Thursday, October 30, 2014 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Topic: ART BORN OF THE GREAT WOUND

Presenters: Spyros Orfanos, PhD & Sophia Richman, PhD

Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Topic: TREATMENT OF TRAUMA. Engaging the Extremely Dissociated Patient: Anger, Aggression, and Self-Harm

Presenter: Sheldon Itzkowitz, PhD, ABPP

Thursday, February 26, 2015 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Topic: THE USE OF THE ANALYST’S FEELINGS IN PSYCHOANALYTIC TECHNIQUE

Presenter: Paul Geltner, PhD

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Please mark your calendar for these dates. We are looking forward to seeing you.

Thursday, April 23, 2015 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Meeting Chaired by the Candidates of the AIP

Topic: BEAUTY AND THE IDEAL

Presenter: Arlene Kramer Richards, EdD

Thursday, October 15, 2015 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Topic: TBA

Presenter: Adrienne Harris, PhD

Thursday, November 19, 2015 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Topic: TBA

Presenter: Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD

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KAREN HORNEY CENTER AUDITORIUM

329 East 62nd Street (Bet. 1st & 2nd Avenues), NYC 10065