Click Here for Flyer about: “Eavesdropping on Dreams,” a play by Rivka Greenberg which will take place at the JCC-Manhattan on Wednesday, May 28th, at 8:00 PM.
Category: Announcements
Psychological Aspects of Money with Richard Trachtman at NYPSI
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE: WORKS IN PROGRESS
247 East Eighty-Second Street, between 2nd & 3rd
Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 8:30 p.m.
Psychological Aspects of Money
Richard Trachtman, Ph.D. will discuss money and its complex psychological representations. Money’s function in relationships and in happiness will be explored.
For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org
MITPP Scientific Meeting: Rage of the Oppressed: Countertransference Predicaments in the Treatment of Two Muslim Patients, Post 9/11
The Metropolitan Institute for Training in
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,
The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and
The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists
Invite you to a Scientific Meeting
Friday, May 9, 2008 at 8:00 P.M.
Rage of the Oppressed: Countertransference Predicaments in the Treatment of Two Muslim Patients, Post 9/11
Presenter: Debra Gill, L.C.S.W.
Discussant: Doris Silverman, Ph.D.
Selected vignettes from the treatment of two very different patients, both practicing Muslims, will illustrate countertransference dilemmas for the therapist when she is confronted with unconscious fantasy material developed in the context of social and psychological oppression. While both patients endured various forms of cruelty and domination throughout their lives, each managed to live with the resulting internalized burdens until about one year after September 11th. Unconscious terrors resulting in rageful acting out led both of these patients to psychotherapy. The analysis of unmanageable affects and impulses allowed unconscious experiences of oppressed rage to enter the transference leaving the therapist in paralyzing countertransference states that closely mirrored the patients’ oppression.
DEBRA GILL, L.C.S.W. is a graduate of MITPP’s Adult Program, and is a graduate and member of the New York Freudian Society. She is on the Faculty and is a Supervisor at MITPP, and is a member of MSPP. She is a member of the MSPP Program Committee. She is a Visiting Faculty member of The American Institute for Psychoanalysis, and a Supervisor in the Psychology Intern Program at the Karen Horney Clinic and in the New York Freudian Society Psychotherapy Program.
No registration or fee required. Refreshments served following the presentation.
Meeting Will Be Held At:
The Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Institute and Center
329 East 62nd Street (1st & 2nd Avenues)
1st Floor Auditorium, New York, NY 10021
For further information: (212) 496-2858, email mitppnyc@aol.com or visit www.MITPP.org
Program Committee: Thomas McCoy, M. Div., LCSW, Chair * Debra Gill, LCSW *
Joyce A. Lerner, LCSW * Patricia Saunders, Ph.D. * Ivy Vale, BFA
Freud Anniversary Lecture: Sander Abend
The Torture Election: Fighting for the Soul of the American Psychological Association
In a surprising turn of events, New York psychologist Steven Reisner won over 30% of the votes in the mail balloting for nominations for the presidency of the American Psychological Association (APA), as announced at the beginning of April. This represented more votes than any other candidate running.
Click Here to Read: The Torture Election: Fighting for the Soul of the American Psychological Association, from the blog of Michael Otterman, originally posted on Alternet. Mr. Otterman thanks AlterNet editor Liliana Segura for editorial help on this article.
CBS News Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood Featuring the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East Eighty-Second Street, New York, NY 10028
CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING WITH CHARLES OSGOOD
FEATURING NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
Sunday, April 27, 2008, 9 – 10:30 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time)
Maxine Gann, Ph.D. (along with Glen Gabbard, M.D. of Houston, TX) will be interviewed by Jeff Greenfield of CBS News. They will discuss psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, Freud’s impact, and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org
Academia and Psychoanalysis
The Identity of Psychoananalysis and Psychoanalyts by Arnold Richards and Arthur Lynch
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
Of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center
329 East 62nd Street, New York, NY 10065
212-838-8044 www.aipnyc.org
SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 8:00 PM
THE IDENTITY OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
AND PSYCHOANALYSTS
Psychoanalysis has been in a constant uninterrupted debate about its identity as a discipline and as a social institution. This paper considers the place of science in psychoanalysis, on the one hand, and the hermeneutic nature of our discipline, on the other. The aim is to articulate a typology of psychoanalytic knowledge that characterizes psychoanalysis as a form of therapy, an intellectual movement, and a theoretical system. This typology considers psychoanalysis as a thought collective that influences its members by exchanging and maintaining ideas. To a well-rounded psychoanalytic thinker or practitioner one must be able to move easily among three realms of knowledge – the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences. Each realm has its own criteria of truth and the challenge is to know when to employ which criteria.
Antidepressants enhance neuronal plasticity in the visual system
Click Here to Read: The article, “Antidepressants enhance neuronal plasticity in the visual system,” from the website Science Centric of the Journal Science.
This is an interesting study in the 18 April issue of Science, about the mechanism of action of antidepressant drugs.
The authors write ” However, to produce a functional effect, antidepressant treatment also seems to require environmental stimuli, such as rehabilitation or therapy.”
arnold richards
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program Informational Session
THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East Eighty-Second Street, between 2nd & 3rd
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program
Informational Session
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 7-8 p.m.
Understand Theory to Improve Practice
Supervision with Experienced Analysts
Case Conferences
Optional Child/Adolescent Track
Evening Classes
2 Year Program
Please RSVP
admasst@nypsa.org or 212-879-6900
For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org