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Discussion Group #11 on Theater and Psychoanalysis
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100th Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Discussion Group #11 on Theater and Psychoanalysis
Co-chairs: Fred Sander and Jed Sekoff
Reading of the main plot of
W.S. Gilbert’s
Original Mythological Comedy
Pygmalion and Galatea

PALACE HOTEL (Ralston Room)
June 8, 2011 4 pm

First produced at the Haymarket Theatre (London)
December 9, 1871

DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Pygmalion, an Athenian Sculptor Randy Hurst
Galatea, an Animated Statue Jenna Welch
Cynisca, Pygmalion’s Wife Sylvia Kratins
Narrator and other minor roles Fred Sander
Director Randy Hurst Continue reading Discussion Group #11 on Theater and Psychoanalysis

Leo Rangell MD 1913 – 2011
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  Click Here to Read:   A Leo Rangell Retrospective on this website.(And see below the text for more Leo Rangell Links  on this website.) 

 Click Here to View:  More Photos of Leo Rangel.

With profound regret I inform you that one of the most forceful voices for psychoanalysis has been silenced. Leo Rangell, the first man to be named Honorary President of APsaA, passed away early today at the age of 97.  Leo had undergone a relatively routine surgical procedure but his post-op course had become quite complicated. Leo had been a major, and constant, contributor to our scientific literature for eight decades, including the present one. His oeuvre constituted over 450 publications, many of them Continue reading Leo Rangell MD 1913 – 2011

Confusion of Tongues, a short film directed by Em Cooper
By Categories: Announcements, Movies

You are invited to attend the world premiere of Confusion of Tongues, a short film directed by Em Cooper inspired by Ferenczi’s seminal 1932/1955 paper on childhood trauma. The film will be screened as part of the animation program at Brooklyn Film Festival on Monday 6th and Thursday 9th June, 2011. Details and tickets:  are available here   Continue reading Confusion of Tongues, a short film directed by Em Cooper

The Rules of Disengagement at NYFS
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NYFS-DC Scientific Program

Friday, June 3, 2011
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Jane Fox Reading Room, Writer’s Center
4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD

Admission is free and no reservations are required.

The Rules of Disengagement: 
Brain and Mind in the Analytic Treatment of
Children and Adults with Asperger’s Syndrome
Michael L. Krass, PhD, presenter
Griffin Doyle, PhD, discussant
 
This presentation will include the ways that the person with Asperger’s syndrome embodies a highly complex interaction between deficit and Continue reading The Rules of Disengagement at NYFS

SF APsaA Meeting Discusion Group: Towards an Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness
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Towards an Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness Discussion
Group at APsaA Conference in San Francisco

If you  are attending the APsaA Conf. in San Francisco, we invite you
to our Discussion Group # 43: Towards An Understanding of Loneliness
and Aloneness.  As part of the analytic tradition of using literature
to learn about the human condition, we will present an original paper:
Proust and the Lonely Pleasure of Longing.   Also, we  will examine
passages from Marcel Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time – Swann’s Way,
Vol. 1.” This memoir-like novel was chosen because it is a masterful Continue reading SF APsaA Meeting Discusion Group: Towards an Understanding of Loneliness and Aloneness

The Dynamic Memory Trace with Cristina Alberini at NYPSI
By Categories: Announcements, NYPSI Centenary 1911-2011

PLEASE JOIN NYPSI FOR A YEAR LONG CELEBRATION OF OUR CENTENARY
CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF ADVANCEMENT THROUGH SELF-KNOWLEDGE
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY, 10028
212-879-6900 www.psychoanalysis.org

Saturday, June 4, 2011 10 am – 12 pm
Cristina Alberini, Ph.D. Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

The Dynamic Memory Trace Continue reading The Dynamic Memory Trace with Cristina Alberini at NYPSI

The Philoctetes Center to Close
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Click Here to View: Theories of Meaning and Motivation, Round Table featuring Emily Balcetis, Ned Block, Lawrence Friedman, and Edward Smith  at the Philoctetes Center on May 16, 2011.

THE PHILOCTETES CENTER FOR THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF IMAGINATION at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute (Edward Nersessian & Francis Levy, Co-Directors)

Dear Friends,

The Philoctetes Center regrets to announce that due to insurmountable budget shortfalls, we are closing our space and Continue reading The Philoctetes Center to Close