Phyllis Skoy Reading Myopia: A Memoir at American Sephardi Federation

Wednesday, December 13
7:30pm
Myopia: A Memoir
Presented by American Sephardi Federation
Book Talk
In her recently published memoir, Myopia, we learn about the life of the novelist. Phyllis M. Skoy lives with her husband and Australian cattle dog in Placitas, New Mexico where she settled after living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for many years.
Tickets: Free, reservations required
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A Yiddish Liederabend – An Evening of Yiddish Song at YIVO

6:30 PM
A Yiddish Liederabend – An Evening of Yiddish Song
Presented by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Concert
Hear an elegant, nostalgic program devoted to treasures of Yiddish song and the poetry that inspired this musical expression in all its variety of style. The concert begins at 7:30pm; Neil W. Levin delivers the pre-concert lecture at 6:30pm on the development of the Yiddish lieder tradition and its literary basis.
Tickets: $15 general; $10 YIVO members, students at https://yivo.org/Liederabend or 917-606-8290
Link: http://programs.cjh.org/event/a-yiddish-liederabend-2017-12-13

The Three Times of the Law by Alain Didier-Weill at Après-Coup

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents BOOK PRESENTATION
The Three Times of the Law by Alain Didier-Weill, Translated by Andrew Weller, Agincourt Press, The Seahorse Imprint, 2017
Saturday, December 16, 2017, 10:30 am -1:00 pm, The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
With the participation of: Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge, Mark Stafford, Jean-Michel Vives, Martin Winn

What is there in language that is so dreadful that, most often, man assents to it only in order to chatter rather than to speak? This book proposes a radically novel approach to the enigma Continue reading The Three Times of the Law by Alain Didier-Weill at Après-Coup

To Love, to Work, to Deliberate with Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge at Après-Coup

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: To Love, to Work, to Deliberate with Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge  Friday, December 15, 2017, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY

Returning to Freud’s and Lacan’s reflections on the psychic economy, we will explore the fate of the drive at the end of analysis and that of repression.

Suggested Readings: Freud: Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Lecture V (1909); “Drives and Their Vicissitudes” (1915); New Introductory Lectures, XXXI “The Dissection of the Psychical Personality” (1932). Lacan: Seminar XI: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, 1964. Films: Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick (1999); Wild Tales [Relatos salvajes], Damián Szifrón (2014).

Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge is a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist in Rio de Janeiro, Professor at the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, founder of Corpo Freudiano and director of its Rio de Continue reading To Love, to Work, to Deliberate with Marco Antonio Coutinho Jorge at Après-Coup

Analysis Interminable at NYPSI

NYPSI – IPE Analysis Interminable:  A Special Scientific Program jointly sponsored with the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education
with Theodore Jacobs, M.D. (moderator), Harold Blum, M.D., Philip Herschenfeld, M.D., Claudia Lament, Ph.D., Edith McNutt, M.D.

Analysis Interminable

Panelists: Theodore Jacobs, M.D. (moderator), Harold Blum, M.D., Philip Herschenfeld, M.D., Claudia Lament, Ph.D., Edith McNutt, M.D.

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 at 8 pm,  New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) Continue reading Analysis Interminable at NYPSI

By a Thread – A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s Hidden Identity at CJH

Sunday, December 10
1:30pm
By a Thread – A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s Hidden Identity
Presented by Jewish Genealogical Society & Center for Jewish History
Lecture
New York journalist Marisa Fox knew her mother as Tamar Fromer Fox, a self-proclaimed freedom fighter and hero of the Israeli War of Independence. But Tamar’s Polish roots were more elusive, as she avoided any conversation of how she escaped the fate that claimed her own mother and large family who were murdered at Auschwitz. Nearly 20 years after Tamar died, Marisa discovers her mother had a hidden identity and goes in search of it. After a 7-year investigation from Manhattan to Melbourne, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Detroit, Haifa, Berlin, and Malmo, Sweden, finding survivors and relatives who knew her mother, Fox has directed a documentary about her search called “By a Thread.” Connecting the dots between her mother’s alias and her true genealogical roots and secret past, Fox asks: Is identity something that’s genetically determined or are we creatures of self-invention and reinvention?
Tickets: JGS members free; guests are welcome, $5 at the door.
Link: http://programs.cjh.org/event/by-a-thread-2017-12-10

Turmoil of the Heart: Lyricism and Drama in Music by Schubert and Brahms at CJH

Thursday, December 7
7:30 pm
Turmoil of the Heart: Lyricism and Drama in Music by Schubert and Brahms
Presented by Center for Jewish History. Made possible by the generous support of the Blavatnik Family Foundation.
Concert
Phoenix Chamber Ensemble performs Schubert’s “Violin and Piano Duo Sonata,” Opus 162, D. 574, Brahms’ “Viola Sonata,” Opus 120, and Brahms’ “Piano Quartet,” Opus 25.
Tickets: $15 general; $10 CJH/partner members, seniors, students
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Images: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

 

The Ruined House by Ruby Namdar at the Center For Jewish History

DECEMBER @ the Center for Jewish History

Thursday, December 7
7 pm
The Ruined House by Ruby Namdar
Presented by American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History & 14th Street Y
Book Launch
Book talk to launch and celebrate the new English translation of Ruby Namdar’s award winning “The Ruined House” from Hebrew. Talk featuring Ruby Namdar and Liel Leibowitz (Tablet Magazine).
Tickets: $10 general; $5 AJHS/CJH/14th Street Y members, seniors, students; $12 at the door
Link: http://programs.cjh.org/event/the-ruined-house-2017-12-07

Eros, Love and Dread in the Transference: Contemporary Perspectives at WCSPP

Scientific Meeting 2 CE Hours available for LCSW’s, LMSW’s, LP’s, LMFT’s

EROS, LOVE AND DREAD IN THE TRANSFERENCE:CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES

On Touch: Analytic Mendacity and Prohibition Sue Grand, Ph.D
Talking Sex and Talking About Sex Galit Atlas, Ph.D.
Discussant:Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.
Friday, December 8, 2017, 8:00 p.m.

Suggested contribution: $20
Admission with CE: $30
Community Unitarian Church
468 Rosedale Avenue
White Plains, NY 10605
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Austen Riggs Center Staff Receive Prestigious Anna Freud Educational Achievement Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association

For Immediate Release: Media Contact: Janet Hiser, Director of Communications and Advancement, 413.931.5333, janet.hiser@austenriggs.net

Austen Riggs Center Staff Receive Prestigious Anna Freud Educational Achievement Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association
Riggs staff recognized for work in the Human Development Strategic Initiative.

Stockbridge, MA – November 30, 2017 – Donna Elmendorf, PhD, Claudia Gold, MD, and Kate Jewson, BS, have been recognized for their work in the Human Development Strategic Initiative, receiving the prestigious Anna Freud Educational Achievement Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association’s (APsaA) Schools Committee. Continue reading Austen Riggs Center Staff Receive Prestigious Anna Freud Educational Achievement Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association