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Upcoming Events at CMPS
Social Workers: Is Psychoanalytic Training For You?
Join us for breakfast and explore of the ways that modern psychoanalytic training can expand your clinical insight and strengthen your clinical and supervisory skills. Register now.
Friday, November 6, 2015, 9:30-11:00 AM
Psychoanalysis and the Arts: A Kind of Alaska
Sam Schacht edits and directs Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska, first performed on a London stage in 1982, based on Oliver Sacks’ (1973) compelling book that chronicles a group of patients he treated; one of them, Deborah, has awakened from a 30-year sleep resulting from encephalitis lethargica. Her sleeping sickness is seen as a metaphor for life and death and the subjectivity of human experience. Register now.
Free and open to the public
Friday, November 6, 2015, 7:30-9:30 PM
Student Paper: Dancing with the Locos: A Comparative Study of Argentine Tango and Psychoanalysis
It takes two to tango and two to form the analytic pair. While both Argentine tango and psychoanalysis were born in 1881, what else do they have in common? Psychoanalytic candidate Lexa Roséan’s research explores the narcissistic transference in modern psychoanalysis and finds a parallel in a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires where Argentine tango is taught as a therapy to schizophrenic patients. Register now.
Free and open to the public
Friday, November 20, 2015, 7:30-9:30 PM
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Modern Psychoanalysis in Russia
In 1991, Dr. Harold Stern was invited to address a group of psychiatrists and psychologists in St. Petersburg. Hungry for psychoanalytic training, they persuaded him to devise an ongoing training program for them. Under the auspices of the East European Institute of Psychoanalysis in St. Petersburg, he has traveled to Russia for over 20 years to teach modern psychoanalysis. In this presentation, Dr. Stern will recount some of his experiences working with this group. Register now.
Free and open to the public
Sunday, November 22, 2015, 12:00-2:00 PM
Modern Psychoanalytic Approaches to Understanding Compulsive Gambling
2 CE Credits for Social Workers, Psychologists, and CASACs
This workshop focuses on gambling, “the hidden addiction,” as an expression of narcissistic pathology rooted in the preverbal period of development. It explores conditions necessary for this addiction to occur and what clients and patients may be communicating with such behaviors. Register now.
Free and open to the public
Friday, December 4, 2015, 9:30 – 11:30 AM
We invite you to visit CMPS and meet with faculty members who will answer your questions about our educational programs. The next informational open house for CMPS and NYGSP is Monday, November 9, at 5:30 PM. For information, call (212) 260-7050 or email cmps@cmps.edu.
A Conversation With Adam Phillips
From the publication of his first book, Winnicott, in 1988, to his latest, Becoming Freud, in 2014, Adam Phillips has demonstrated that he is one of the foremost writers on psychoanalysis today. In this all-day conference, Phillips will present a paper and then have a conversation with CMPS president, Dr. Mimi Crowell, and the audience about his latest writing and thinking.
New York Academy of Medicine
Saturday, March 12, 2016
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Notable Research
The Tavistock Adult Depression Study
This 10-year study compared psychoanalytic psychotherapy with CBT and medication and found psychoanalytic treatment to be significantly more effective than the other treatments. TADS Clinical Director, Dr David Taylor, from the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, said, “These findings point to the value of a whole person approach in patients who have complex or persistent problems with depression. Longer-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy involves the shared commitment of patient and therapist to understanding emotionally painful parts of a depressed person’s life. This may activate a beneficial process of psychological growth with a lasting gain in resilience. This can occur even in those who have had their disorder for many years, have not responded to other treatments, and who previously may not have been thought to benefit from psychoanalytic psychotherapy.”
Click here to read about this remarkable study
Selected Events Elsewhere
The Freud/Ferenczi Letters: A Staged Reading of Selected Letters
Witness the complex relationship between Sigmund Freud and his friend, student, and colleague Sandor Ferenczi enacted through a dramatic reading of their selected personal letters. The intimate hand-written correspondences exchanged between these two pioneers of psychoanalysis reveal their minds at work, in tension with their close and at times volatile relationship. Their faithful and honest communications remind us that psychoanalytic history is not only about theory but also about its authors and their relationships, thus illuminating even more about their theories and how they came to light.
Tickets $85/$35 for candidates. Send check to: Desnee Hall, 7 Weyburn Road, Scarsdale, NY 10583.
NYU Postdoctoral Program, NYU Kimmel Center, Room 802
Sunday, November 8, 2015, 5:00 – 7:00 PM
Relational Analysts Go Under the Covers: Working with the Erotic in the Transference/Countertransference
To register: amycooney@aol.com
The Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, 30 East 10th Street
Sunday, November 11, 2015, 11:00 – 1:00 PM
NAAP Annual Conference: Assaults on the Psyche: From within/without
For information or to register: www.naap.org or download invitation here.
New York Law School, 185 West Broadway
Saturday, November 14, 2015, 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM
The Activist Core of Psychoanalysis
On the 10th anniversary of the publication of her book Freud’s Free Clinics: Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918-1938, which won the Gradiva Award and the Goethe Prize, Dr. Elizabeth Ann Danto will present her ongoing work that shows a strikingly different picture of Sigmund Freud and the early psychoanalytic movement. As she continues to probe archival and oral history sources (principally in Vienna), she has recovered the neglected history of the analysts’ intense social activism and the ways in which their commitment to treating the poor and working classes merged with the emancipatory nature of psychoanalysis itself. She will also introduce for the first time some of her newest work on Anna Freud’s Hietzing School, which closed in 1932 but left a remarkable institutional and conceptual legacy. Home to Erik Erikson, Peter Blos, and, of course, Anna Freud, the school was yet another Viennese contribution to the advancement of modern theories of human motivation, child development, adolescent psychology, self and identity, and the role of the school in family systems. Dr. Martha Bragin, the discussant, will refer to the ways in which psychoanalysis as a liberation psychology spread, flourished, and develops outside of the United States in areas such as South America and Sub-Saharan Africa.
$40 general admission/$20 candidates. Register here.
IPTAR and The New School, 65 West 11th Street, Room B500
Saturday, November 14, 2015, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
The Candidate’s Voice
The Candidate Journal and Das Unbehagen are hosting a panel and discussion on what it means to speak or write from the position of a candidate. What is assumed in the candidate’s voice, what perspective is that voice meant to take? If our belonging is predicated on being a candidate, then what changes once candidacy is completed? Is there a movement from skepticism to authority, from ignorance to knowledge, from learner to teacher? Or does the very practice and theory of psychoanalysis poke holes in the presumptions of the supposed competency or mastery? If there is no clear difference between candidate and graduate, is there a need for the candidate’s voice in an era when institutional frameworks and their authorization are being questioned in psychoanalysis? And how does this voice differ in communities where those questions are seen as irrelevant?
NPAP, 40 West 13th St
Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 8:00 – 10:00 PM
Does Containment Produce Psychological Growth?
This paper presentation explores the meaning of containment in psychoanalysis. It begins by delineating the components of containment, namely projection and introjection and their relationship to communication, and to unconscious fantasy in the psychoanalytic session. The author then goes on to discuss the model of the Container and the Contained proposed by Wilfred Bion, and suggests that this is not an adequate model for the kind of psychological growth that occurs in psychoanalysis. For psychoanalytic development, the analysis must foster the capacity for what might be called self-containment. He describes the features of self-containment, showing how it is both similar to and different from containment. He concludes with a discussion of psychological development that occurs spontaneously during normal development, and that differs from the results fostered by non-psychoanalytic therapies. (5 CE credits for social workers and psychologists)
$125 Non-CFS Members/$20 Candidates.
For further information, please contact Connie Stroboulis at connies3@aol.com or 212-752-7883.
Mt. Sinai’s Goldwurm Auditorium, Madison Ave at 98th St
Saturday, December 5, 2015, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM (Lunch 12:00-1:00 PM)
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