Steven Zipperstein Appointed First Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar at YIVO

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NEW YORK, NY (September 17, 2013) – The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is pleased to announce the appointment of the first Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar, Dr. Steven Zipperstein, Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University.   Continue reading Steven Zipperstein Appointed First Jacob Kronhill Visiting Scholar at YIVO

Naming Genocide: The Legacy of Lemkin at CJH

Naming Genocide: The Legacy of Lemkin
Panel Discussion
“Sovereignty cannot be conceived as the right to kill innocent people.” —Raphael Lemkin

How can we define genocide? How is the concept of genocide interpreted in discussions of the Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, Rwanda, and other devastating events such as those in Cambodia, Darfur and the former Yugoslavia? And what about Syria? Continue reading Naming Genocide: The Legacy of Lemkin at CJH

Agency and Surrender in the Analytic Process with Jeremy Safran at AIP

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
OF THE KAREN HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER
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SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, October 3, 2013 at 8:00 PM
Jeremy Safran:
AGENCY & SURRENDER IN THE ANALYTIC PROCESS
Continue reading Agency and Surrender in the Analytic Process with Jeremy Safran at AIP

The Yiddish Analyst and My Mother, My Father, My Money: New classes with Simon Feuerman

The Yiddish Analyst: a new class (via telephone)
Thursdays beginning October 10th 12 noon-1 pm (10 weeks)
$440 (this class is held via telephone)
· What are the Jewish roots in our field?
· What influence does being Jewish or being part of any religion play in the practice of psychoanalysis?
Continue reading The Yiddish Analyst and My Mother, My Father, My Money: New classes with Simon Feuerman

The Clinical Moment at CFS

Psychoanalytic Training Institute of the Contemporary Freudian Society
A New Series The Clinical Moment

Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 8:00 – 10:00 pm, Manhattan Location

The Psychoanalytic Training Institute of CFS is pleased to introduce a new series entitled, “The Clinical Moment.”

Please join us for an informal meeting that includes discussion and a hosted dinner in a member’s home. Continue reading The Clinical Moment at CFS

Poetry, Anna Freud, Kristallnacht, child emotions, suffering & memories by Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Dear Colleagues,

Our own as well as the international turmoil continues as we prepare for elections on all fronts, but the international website “marches on” as usual.
Please note the post that I pick out for this week but do not ignore other posts, as many may find some of interest to them that I do not mention.

My choices this week:

1) I suggest that you listen to the haunting (translated from Russian) poems of Osip Mandelstam, and read the rest of the excerpt bells in the Wikipedia: Continue reading Poetry, Anna Freud, Kristallnacht, child emotions, suffering & memories by Sasha Rolde on IP.net

Sexual Aberration or Instinctual Vicissitude? Presentation at Austen Riggs

On Saturday, October 12, 2013 from 9:30 – 12:00 at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA, Sidney Phillips, M.D. will present “Sexual Aberration or Instinctual Vicissitude? Revisiting Freud’s ‘The Sexual Aberrations.’” This program is for mental health clinicians only and is sponsored by the Western Mass and Albany Association for Psychoanalytic Psychology (WMAAPP) . Dr. Phillips will discuss expanding Freud’s notions of the purpose of sexuality to include non-sexual wishes, including control or object merger. Dr. Phillips is Associate Clinical Professor at the Yale School of Medicine and a Supervising Analyst and Chair of the Education Department at the Western New England Institute for Continue reading Sexual Aberration or Instinctual Vicissitude? Presentation at Austen Riggs