News on the Sigourney Awards from Judy Schachter

The Sigourney Trust has a newly revised website: sigourneyaward.org which describes how nominations for the 2010 awards can be accomplished online. We welcome all psychoanalysts to review the criteria for nomination and utilize the template on the website to nominate their European colleagues who will be eligible for an award this calendar year.

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Love, Loss: Creating a Meaningful Life at AAPCSW

American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work (AAPCSW)Love, Loss: Creating a Meaningful Life
Saturday April 10, 2010
9:00 am – 9:30 am
Registration and Breakfast
9:30 am – 1:30 pm

Panel Presentation and Discussion
@ The New York Blood Center
310 East 67 Street (bet. 1st and 2nd Aves)
New York, NY

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Mirror, Mask and Masquerade in the Art and Life of Frida Kahlo by Danielle Knafo at NYPSI

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
THE FRIENDS OF THE A. A. BRILL LIBRARY
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY                                 

Friday, January 29, 2010 at 7 P.M.
 Mirror, Mask & Masquerade in the Art & Life of Frida Kahlo
Danielle Knafo, Ph.D.

Frida Kahlo’s artwork, consisting primarily of poignant and breathtaking self-portraits, can be characterized as a bold self-disclosure expressing the anguish of the corporeal battles she fought throughout her life following a horrific and debilitating bus accident at age eighteen. However, far more meaning than this scintillates beneath the surface of her art. The infant Frida suffered neglect by her histrionic mother and later filled her canvases with images of childbirth and nurturance that reflect conditions of both ecstatic union and unbearable derailment. Her artistic oeuvre reveals her harrowing losses and betrayals as well as the reparative attempts that contextualize her suffering within a transcendent vision of life. Continue reading Mirror, Mask and Masquerade in the Art and Life of Frida Kahlo by Danielle Knafo at NYPSI

NYPSI Open House

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East 82nd St., New York, NY  10028

NYPSI OPEN HOUSE & Supper
FOR PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES

Thursday, January 28, 2010, 7:30-9 p.m.

Supper at:
Please Contact 212-879-6900 or
info@nypsa.org for Location

An opportunity for LCSW’s, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatry residents, and psychology graduates students to learn about career opportunities in psychoanalysis   Continue reading NYPSI Open House

11th Joseph Sandler Research Conference – February 5 to 7, 2010

International Psychoanalytical Association
11th Joseph Sandler Research Conference – February 5 to 7, 2010

Dear Colleagues,

11th Joseph Sandler Research Conference
Friday, February 5 to Sunday February 7, 2010

We are pleased to invite you to the Joseph Sandler Research Conference 2010 which takes place in Frankfurt/Main for the third time. Continue reading 11th Joseph Sandler Research Conference – February 5 to 7, 2010

Call for Papers: Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious

CALL FOR PAPERS: MYTH, LITERATURE, AND THE UNCONSCIOUS

Date: 2-4 September, 2010
Venue: Wivenhoe Park Campus, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
An international conference organized by the Centre for Myth Studies at the University of Essex, supported by the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies.  
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