The Future of Psychoanalytic Education: Preservation and Innovation: Together Everyone Achieves More
Cochairs: Jane S. Hall and Arnold D. Richards
Farkas Auditorium,
NYU School of Medicine NYU School of Medicine
New York, New York,
November 16, 2008
Click Here to Read: Jane S. Hall’s Opening remarks
Click Here to Read: Henry J. Friedman’s Keynote Address
Click Here to Read: Theodore Jacobs’s Keynote Address
Click Here to Read: Paula Mieli’s Keynote Address
Click Here To View: Video “Interrogation Psychologists: The Making of a Professional Crisis”
This is a guest post which highlights the documentary video “Interrogation Psychologists: The Making of a Professional Crisis” directed by colleague and friend Martha Davis PhD. Dr. Davis is a Clinical Psychologist and a Visiting Scholar at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. She is an expert in the detection of deception, and has published numerous articles and books on non-verbal communication research. The “Interrogation Psychologis ts: The Making of a Professional Crisis” premiered at the conference entitled “The Interrogation and Torture Controversy: Crisis in Psychology” held at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Center on Terrorism in New York City on September 12, 2008.
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In the July, 2005 issue of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Leon Balter examines seven dreams from the literature and his own clinical work in which a patient describes either a dream within a dream or a work of art within a dream. Starting from Freud’s formulation that the “dream within a dream” represents reality that the dreamer needs to deny by portraying it as a product of imagination, Balter convincingly comes to the conclusion that the “nested” dream or work of art represents in greater or lesser disguise a distressing reality that is being partially denied. A dream or work of art within a dream should alert us to an attempt to disguise a distressing inner or outer reality while also creating a question, uncertainty, about how we can know what is real.
What if we applied Balter’s findings to a play within a film?1 The film I had in mind is Finding Neverland, a popular film about J.M. Barrie’s creation of the play, Peter Pan. The “nested” play is, of course, Peter Pan, itself, a play well known to most of the audience. Continue reading Siblings 3: Finding (Unconscious Conflict in) Neverland
