The Program Committee of the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis
Invites you to consider
RESUSCITATING FREUD’S FIRST PARADIGM OF PSYCHOANALYSIS:
The Remarkable View of the World as Seen Through the Lens of an Evolutionary / Adaptive Approach
Robert J. Langs, M. D.
Introduction by Arthur Pomponio, Ph. D.
President, NPAP Training Institute
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2013 @ 8 pm
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall
The New School, 55 W 13 Street 2 Floor
Dr. Langs will present clinical and theoretical evidence for two distinctive paradigms of psychoanalysis. Both were developed by Sigmund Freud who renounced his trauma-centered position in favor of one that stressed inner needs—an organizing view of the mind and life itself that prevails to this day. The dramatic differences between the two approaches will be stressed as they pertain to clinical understanding and practice, as well as to the links
between psychoanalysis, biology, and human history.
The biographical underpinnings of the thinking of both Freud and the presenter will be considered: Freud traveled from death to sex, while the presenter, unexpectedly, traveled in the opposite direction.
Robert J. Langs is a psychiatrist and a psychoanalyst who has developed an adaptation-centered paradigm of psychoanalysis in which trauma, death anxiety, and universal archetypes play a central role. His most recent books are Beyond Yahweh and Jesus: Bringing Death’s Wisdom to Faith, Spirituality, and Psychoanalysis (2008) and Freud on a Precipice: How Freud’s Fate Pushed Psychoanalysis Over the Edge (2010).
He is in private practice in New York City.
Co-sponsored by the Psychology Department in the Adult Bachelor’s Program at The New School, the event is free and open to the public.
NPAP Program Committee: Jean Golden, Richard Karpe, S. Montana Katz, Jane Kupersmidt, Evan Malater, Gavriel Reisner, Alan Roland, Catherine Silver, Hanna Turken, Margaret Zellner, Aleksandra Wagner, Chair.
Doris Mare, Administrative Director
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