Synechoche New York at NYPSI

PLEASE JOIN THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
AS IT CONTINUES ITS CENTENARY CELEBRATION WITH THE
NYPSI CENTENARY CINEMA SERIES SCREENING OF:

SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK
the 2008 directorial debut of Academy Award Winner Charlie Kaufman
followed by a discussion by Arthur Heiserman, Ph.D. and Maura Spiegel, Ph.D.
When: Friday, March 25, 2011, 7:00 PM
Where: The Auditorium of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Admission is free and open to the public
For further information: admdir@nypsa.org or 212.879.6900

Arthur Heiserman, Ph.D., is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Clinical Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. He is a graduate of the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis of New York University. He recently co-authored a paper on narrative and elicitation of viewer affect in film. He is in private practice in New York City.

Maura Spiegel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English at Columbia University, teaches literature and film at Columbia University and Barnard College, and at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons; she is also a member of the Core Faculty of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She co-authored The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying and Living on (Anchor/Doubleday), The Breast Book: An Intimate and Curious History (Workman), which was a Book-of-the-Month Club Quality Paperbacks selection; she has recently edited new editions of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes for the Barnes & Noble Classics Series. She co-edited the journal Literature and Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press) for seven years, has written for The New York Times, and has published essays on many topics. She is currently writing a book about the films of Sidney Lumet.

The NYPSI Centenary Cinema Series, jointly sponsored by NYPSI, Friends of the Library, and the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of the Imagination, comprises monthly screenings of classic, obscure, or provocative films selected and discussed by leading figures from the arts, academe, and psychoanalysis. Future films include Caché, Hamlet, Night of the Hunter, Wild Strawberries, and others; participants include Simon Critchley, Peter Dunn, Eric Marcus, Anne Morra, Jamieson Webster, Lissa Weinstein, and others. Watch for announcements.

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