NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org
Saturday, May 3, 2014, 10 am – 12 pm
Open Forum: Thinking About the Brain in Everyday Clinical Work
Graciana Lapetina, Larry Sandberg, Robert Scharf, & Maggie Zellner (moderator)
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Free and open to the public
Many of us have been learning about the brain since the emergence of neuropsychoanalysis in the late 1990s. How do we integrate these perspectives in our everyday clinical work as psychoanalysts and psychodynamic clinicians?
In this open forum, we will discuss how we “keep the brain in mind” during our work with patients. Do models of the brain or specific neuroscience findings inform our working hypotheses? Do we discuss this with patients, or use this data internally as we would other associations? Have we found strengthened confidence in our basic psychoanalytic ideas, or questioned any received psychoanalytic wisdom, based on emerging neuroscience data?
Several clinicians will offer reflections on how neuropsychoanalysis has influenced their practice, followed by a lively and open dialogue with all attendees.
Participants:
Robert Scharf, M.D.; The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
Larry Sandberg, M.D.; Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research
Graciana Lapetina, M.D.; Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with New York University School of Medicine
Moderator: Maggie Zellner, Ph.D., L.P.
Students, academics and clinical professionals in the analytic community are encouraged to attend. Members of the general public are also welcome.
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