NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org
Secrecy and Transparency with Ted Jacobs, Michael Lewis, Jack Z. Bratich
Saturday, December 7, 2013, 2:30 – 4:30
Free and open to the public
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The internet makes possible the unprecedented sharing of, access to, and data manipulation of, individual and social information with far reaching implications for personal privacy, healthcare, citizenship and national security, and for the definitions of personhood, institutional power and information itself. In this roundtable, we aim to explore contemporary notions of privacy, relationships between individuals and between individuals and institutions that arise through data exchange. We also hope to consider the role of secrets in notions of self, emotion, and reason, as well as the tensions between secrecy and transparency in protecting, exploiting, or undoing the individual and her freedoms.
Participants:
Theodore Jacobs is a board certified psychiatrist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the New York University School of Medicine. He’s also a training and Supervising Analyst for adults and children at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, the New York University Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Medicine. Dr. Jacobs is a Geographic Supervising Analyst at the Florida Psychoanalytic Institute and the Minnesota Psychoanalytic Training Program. He sits on the editorial board of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, International Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, and the Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis.
Dr. Jacobs has published over 60 papers and book reviews on a variety of psychoanalytic topics. In addition, he published two new books in 2013, The Year of Durocher– a novel about the turmoil created when the manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers Leo Durocher moves to a different team– the New York Giants in 1948 and The Possible Profession: The Analytic Process of Change where Dr. Jacobs continues his examination of unconscious communication that takes place in the analytic situation.
Michael Lewis is a University Distinguished Professor of pediatrics and Psychiatry, and Director of the Institute for the Study of Child Development at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson School. His research has focused on normal and deviant emotional and intellectual development. Through his research, Dr. Lewis has developed a computer-based technique for enhancing intellectual ability in children suffering from a variety of disorders associated with retardation.
Dr. Lewis has written many books including, Children’s Emotions and Moods and also Handbook of Emotional Development which was awarded the Critic’s Choice Award. His book Shame: The Exposed Self examines emotional development and self-conscious emotions which has been translated into German, Italian, and Japanese. In Altering Fate: Why The Past Does Not Predict The Future, Dr. Lewis describes various developmental theories and presents the proposition that early childhood does not seal one’s fate.
Dr. Lewis has served as an editor on numerous publications including Child Development, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, and Developmental Psychology. His latest book, The Rise of Consciousness and the Development of Emotional Life is out now and he’s currently working on his new book, My Life as Development.
Jack Z. Bratich is Associate Professor and Chair of the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University. His work applies autonomist social theory to popular culture and social movement media. He is a zine librarian at ABC No Rio and has co-taught courses at Bluestockings Bookstore in New York City. He is author of Conspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture (2008). His most recent publications include editing a special issue of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies on Occupy Wall Street, and “Adventures in the Public Secret Sphere: Police Sovereign Networks and Communications Warfare” in Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies.
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