Author: Tamar Schwartz

Beyond Medication, Toward Rehabilitation: The Role of the Psychiatrist By Martin Willick
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This paper was presented on April 1, 2006 at the 21st Annual Schizophrenia Conference held at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. In 2005 the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia established the Martin S. Willick Lectureship in Psychiatry to honor Dr. Willick for his work in organizing and running this annual conference. Dr, Willick was chosen to give the first in this series of honorary lectures. It was intended for a wide audience of mental health professionals, family members and patients.

Review of Nineteen Nineteen By Arlene Kramer Richards
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Nineteen Nineteen
Reviewed by Arlene Kramer Richards

The wind drew off
Like hungry dogs
Defeated of a bone
Through fissures in
Volcanic cloud
The yellow lightning shone-
The trees held up
Their mangled limbs
Like animals in pain
When nature falls upon herself
Beware an Austrian.

Emily Dickinson Poem 1703 in: The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Edited by R.
W. Franklin. Cambridge MA: Harvard nd.

The storms clouds gathered in the presentiment of war and following
uneasy truce in Dickinson’s uneasy nineteenth century before and after the
War Between the States. They gathered again in Europe before and after the
First World War. And they gather now. Austria is the center of Europe-and
was especially so in 1919 when the divide between the Russian East and the
countries we know as Western Europe faced off against each other and
Russia’s revolution seemed to threaten the West as the West threatened
Russia. In that frightening atmosphere the Austro-Hungarian Empire looked
to Vienna for a center and a reason for being, Vienna trembled, and Freud
tried to figure out what was causing his patients’ anxiety and depression.
The first world war years were the background of the year 1919: war is
death and the anxiety of dying. That anxiety plays against the anxiety of
love. In Europe after the First World War as in Emily Dickinson’s New
England after the Civil War, when men go off to die, women are left to be
single for the rest of their lives.
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How do emerging models of the brain and mind inform clinical practice? Join Mark Solms, Ph.D at NYPSI
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Continued Exploration of Clinical Neuropsychoanalysis: A One-Day Workshop Sunday, April 8, 2018 New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 E. 82nd Street, New York City How do emerging models of the brain and mind inform clinical practice? Join Mark Solms, Ph.D. for an overview of ideas in neuropsychoanalysis that enrich our theory and technique. Two analytic case presentations will then be followed by detailed discussions of clinical material from a neuropsychoanalytic perspective.
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PROGRAM

Session I (9:00 – 11:00 am)
The affective basis of consciousness (the conscious id)
The unconscious nature of cognition (the unconscious ego)
Automatization and repression (the ‘cognitive’ and ‘dynamic’ unconscious)
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Why and How Consciousness Arises Presenter: Mark Solms, Ph.D. at NYPSI
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Why and How Consciousness Arises Presenter: Mark Solms, Ph.D. Discussant: Maggie Zellner, Ph.D.
Saturday, April 7, 2018 at 10 am The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium 247 E. 82nd Street, NYC

Free and open to the public RSVP is appreciated but not required; first come, first-seated To register, click HERE, visit nypsi.org, or call 212.879.6900

Dr. Solms will discuss recent developments in neuropsychoanalysis that illuminate the “hard problem” of consciousness – how and why the subjective experience of consciousness arises in conjunction with the functions of the brain. Solms’ model integrates insights from affective neuroscience, the “conscious id” hypothesis, and Friston’s model of predictive coding, free energy and “surprise,” with implications for clinical work.

Mark Solms, Ph.D. is best known for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming, and his pioneering use of psychoanalytic methods and Continue reading Why and How Consciousness Arises Presenter: Mark Solms, Ph.D. at NYPSI