NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013, 8 – 10 pm
$25 for general admission, $15 for NYPSI members, $10 for NYPSI trainees and students with valid ID
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Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. in Conversation with . . . Oliver Sacks
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute continues its popular “Conversations with….” series and is pleased to present the acclaimed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks who will reflect on his research, creative process and career, and introduce the 1974 documentary film Awakenings.
You may have seen the 1990 film Awakenings starring Robin Williams as neurologist Oliver Sacks and Robert DeNiro as the patient he miraculously “awakened” from decades of catatonia.
By special arrangement, the 1974 documentary film Awakenings will be screened on October 9, after which Dr. Sacks will reflect on his research, creative process and career in a conversation with Dr. Lois Oppenheim, 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. This 47-minute film of the patients Sacks describes in his book Awakenings was produced for British television and broadcast in the U.K. but has never been broadcast in the U.S.
Oliver Wolf Sacks is Professor of Neurology at NYU School of Medicine and has previously held teaching positions at Columbia University and Albert Einstein School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Queen’s College, Oxford and completed his internship and residency at Mount Zion Hospital in San Francisco and at UCLA.
The New York Times has referred to Dr. Sacks as “the poet laureate of medicine,” and his books and essays, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and An Anthropologist on Mars, are used in schools and universities around the world. His essays regularly appear in New Yorker magazine and New York Review of Books as well as various medical journals. His most recent book is Hallucinations.
Lois Oppenheim has authored or edited eleven books, the most recent being Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion (Routledge, 2013), awarded the 2013 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 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 films on mental health stigma called How to Touch a Hot Stove: Thought and Behavioral Differences in a Society of Norms and CRAZY?.
Stay tuned for our next Conversation with Andrew Solomon @ NYPSI on Friday, December 13, 2013.
Educational Objective:After attending this session, participants should have a clearer understanding of the relation between certain neurological disorders and psychic functions.
Information regarding CME credit for physicians
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 and 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] 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.
Information regarding CE credit for psychologists
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. NYPSI maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
DISCLOSURE: None of the planners or presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose
CME/ CE credits are granted to participants with documented attendance and completed evaluation forms. Upon receipt of the completed evaluation form, participants will receive a PDF via email of your their credits.
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