NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
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Friday, April 19, 2013, 7:30 pm, $25 for general admission, $15 for NYPSI members, $10 for NYPSI trainees and students with valid ID
Tkts & info: www.nypsi.org under Events and Lectures
Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. in Conversation with . . . Gary Shteyngart
The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute continues its popular “Conversations with….” series and is pleased to present Dr. Lois Oppenheim in conversation with internationally acclaimed writer Gary Shteyngart who will reflect on his creative process and career.
Gary Shteyngart was born in Leningrad in 1972 and emigrated to the United States in 1979 with his parents. His most recent novel, Super Sad True Love Story, was an instant New York Times bestseller and was named to over 40 Best Books of the Year lists including NPR’s Fresh Air, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and O Magazine.
Shteyngart’s first novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, won the Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction and the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. It was also named a New York Times Notable Book and a best book of the year by The Washington Post and Entertainment Weekly. His second novel, Absurdistan, was a national bestseller, was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review and TIME Magazine, and was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, and Seattle Times.
Shteyngart’s novels have been translated into 24 languages around the world, and his fiction and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, GQ, Travel & Leisure, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and many other publications. He lives in New York City and was named a Granta Best Young American Novelists and a New Yorker “Best Writer Under 40.”
Dr. Lois Oppenheim is Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University where she teaches courses in both literature and applied psychoanalysis. She is also Scholar Associate Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society.
Dr. Oppenheim has authored or edited eleven books, the most recent being Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion (Routledge, 2012), awarded the 2012 Courage to Dream Prize by the American Psychoanalytic Association; A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2005); and The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett’s Dialogue With Art (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000).
She has been a Visiting Scholar at the Psychiatric Institute of the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, on the Boards of The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination and the UK Network for Modern Fiction Studies, and a past president of the international Samuel Beckett Society. Dr. Oppenheim continues as host of NYPSI’s popular “Conversations with…” series of discussions on creativity. She is co-creator of the documentary film on mental health stigma (currently in production) called The Madness Project.
Stay tuned for our next Conversation with Oliver Sacks @ NYPSI on Friday, October 9, 2013.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [2.5] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
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