Vera Shlakman, Professor Fired During Red Scare, Dies at 108

Click Here to Read:  Vera Shlakman, Professor Fired During Red Scare, Dies at 108 By Sam Roberts in The New York Times on November 27, 2017.

Actor Fredric March, his wife Florence Eldridge, and Martin Dies at table during Un-American Activities Committee hearings in Los Angeles, Calif., 1940 Publication:Los Angeles Daily News Publication date:1940 Source:Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. PUblic Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Trauma, Unconsious, Phantasy and Reparation International Conference with IPTAR and CFS

Trauma, Unconscious Phantasy and Reparation: A Clinical Reflection from FREUD to KLEIN

FEBRUARY 3 & 4, 2018
(5 CE CREDITS FOR SATUDAY AND 4 FOR SUNDAY)

Saturday, February 3, 2018
9:00-9:30am Registration and Coffee
SUSAN N. FINKELSTEIN, MODERATOR
9:30-10:45am “The History of Trauma in Freud: Unconscious Phantasy, Reparation and Klein”
HEINZ WEISS, GERMANY
10:45-11:15am Coffee Break
11:15-12:30pm “The Effects of Emotional Trauma: Working with Difficult Patients”
FRANCO DE MASI, ITALY
12:30-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:00pm “Finding Unconscious Phantasy in Trauma and Psychosomatics: a Termination”
PAULA ELLMAN, WASHINGTON, DC
3:00-4:30pm Plenary chaired by Marion M. Oliner – Speakers discuss controversies and similarities of working
with trauma

Sunday, February 4, 2018
10:00am-12:00pm Clinical Workshops in Small Groups
12:00-2:00pm Plenary chaired by Paula Ellman, Carolyn Ellman, and Judith Felton
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From the Chair to the Couch at NYPSI

The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to a clinical series: FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH
2017 – 2018

Interested in learning more about psychoanalysis and how to deepen your clinic practice? Please join us for this year’s three part clinical series.

In the first evening’s presentation on Tuesday, December 14th, NYPSI member Dr. Hilli Dagony-Clark will discuss her analysis of adult case, and Training Analyst Dr. Richard Weiss will act as a discussant. This presentation will focus on defense and transference interpretations and will highlight the mutative agents active in many analyses.

The second presentation will continue to address an adult clinical case. Dr. Navah Kaplan will present an analytic case, followed by a discussion with Drs. Wendy Olesker and John Crow. Continue reading From the Chair to the Couch at NYPSI

Shrink

Click Here to View: Shrink. Shrink is a short-form series created by Alex Karpovsky and Teddy Blanks in which smart, charismatic people who have been in therapy for years tell us everything they’ve learned — all in under two minutes. The first season features Sarah Silverman, Susan Orlean, Lena Dunham, Gary Shteyngart, Kimberly Peirce and Natasha Lyonne, with original music by Tanlines on the Spielberg’s website.

Why a China-US alliance will help save world from war, terror and social ills

Click Here to Read:   Why a China-US alliance will help save world from war, terror and social ills: a psychiatrist’s prescription for global harmony: Jack Westman argues a psychiatric case for building on the cultural overlap between China and the US to divert the world from its path of self-destruction, which has roots in the impact of past conflicts on children’s mental health by Ng Weng Hoong November 28, 2017.

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An Art Nouveau Interpretation of the Minoan World

Click Here to Read:   An Art Nouveau Interpretation of the Minoan World: Restoring the Minoans: Elizabeth Price and Sir Arthur Evans at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World revisits the archaeology of Knossos through a contemporary video installation by Allison Meier on the HyperAllergic website on November 26, 2017.

Photo prise par Harrieta171.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Depression as an Obstacle to Change with Barbara Spiridon Open House at MITPP

THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
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OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:00 PM –2:30 PM
DEPRESSION AS AN OBSTACLE TO CHANGE: TREATING A WOMAN SUFFERING FROM LIFELONG MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

A 62-year-old professional woman was referred by Columbia Presbyterian for treatment for depression after she had spent eight weeks there in a double-blind study. At the time treatment began, she could barely function, overwhelmed by depression, anxiety and despair. She struggled with feelings of recurring debilitating depression, with feelings of worthlessness and crippling envy, and with impulsive rage. Highly sensitive to separation and loss, she had an incapacitating fear of abandonment. Through clinical material we will explore the ways in which her depressive affects affected the treatment and the transference/countertransference matrix. Continue reading Depression as an Obstacle to Change with Barbara Spiridon Open House at MITPP

Movies Monday: The Bicycle Thief

Click Here to Read:  The Bicycle Thief reviewed by Roger Ebert on the RogerEbert website on  March 19, 1999.

Click Here to Read: The Bicycle Thief (1948) on the TCM website.

Click Here to Read: Bicycle Thieves by Peter Bradshaw on the Guardian website on December 18, 2008.

Click Here to Read:  Vittorio De Sica’s ‘The Bicycle Thief,’ a Drama of Post-War Rome, Arrives at World By Bosley Crowther in The New York Times on December 13, 1949.

Click Here to Read: ‘The Bicycle Thief’ More than 60 years later, the Italian film hasn’t lost its dramatic pull by Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times on January 08, 2010.

Click Here to Read: The Bicycle Thief: Made with a cast of principals who were picked up in Rome’s streets and had never before faced a camera, and with a story [from a novel by Luigi Bartolini] incredible in its simplicity as a basis for a 90-minute film, the picture is a pure Continue reading Movies Monday: The Bicycle Thief