Save the Date: APM Symposium ‘On The Body’ May 6-7, 2016

Save the Date: APM Symposium ‘On The Body’ May 6-7, 2016

At the dawning of psychoanalysis in Freud’s project and throughout his writings, the intertwining of body and psyche was elemental but Since Freud, the body has been progressively undertheorized. The APM Symposium ‘On the Body’ addresses the imperative to bring the body back to center stage and to consider the challenges it poses to our current ways of understanding our patients. Does the contemporary ideology of the body, an ideology of an omnipotent mind that transcends the limits of the body, produce different kind of patients from those of the times of Freud? How do we think of hysteria today and of the psychosomatic symptoms that we are en-countering more and more in our practice? How is the body today used by the psyche?

This 2-day multi-disciplinary International Symposium in NYC on ‘The Body’ with guest speakers from around the world including Julia Kristeva, Juliet Mitchell, Paul Verhaeghe, Patricia Gherovici, Jessica Benjamin, Christine Anzieu-Premereur, Robert Paul, Panagiotis Aloupis, Marina Papageorgiou, Rosemary Balsam and Jonathan House will address singularly important topics in contempo-rary psychoanalysis such as:

• The Speaking Body, the Sick Body, the Sexual Body
• Sex, Gender and Infantile Sexuality
• The 21st Century Body and the Drives