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Chair: Christine C. Kieffer, Ph.D., ABPP (Chicago, IL)

Co-Chair: Irene Harwood, Psy.D., Ph.D., M.S.W. (Los Angeles, CA) 

Presenter: Daniel B. Frank, Ph.D. (Chicago, IL)

Discussant: Stephen Kerzner, M.D. (Duxbury, MA)

For this meeting, our discussion group will be devoted to examining organizational issues that affect group life in schools. School climate and group-as-a-whole system dynamics have an unconscious impact on individual experience in school settings, and this program will examine methods of intervention at the large group level that can support dyadic treatment with children and adolescents. Moreover, individual and dyadic experiences affect the large group atmosphere. Case material from child and adolescent analyses will be presented, with an emphasis on how studying school system dynamics can help us to understand the development and maintenance of individual distress. Methods of group level intervention also will be presented. 

Discussion leaders also will draw parallels among these phenomena and the kinds of organizational issues that face APsaA, elucidating underlying group dynamics that are parallel to both kinds of systems. After attending the session, participants will be able to identify two aspects of school climate or large group construction, which promote group norms that lead to increased levels of relational aggression.

Click Here to read  about:  “Neuropsychoanalysis: How Neuroscience is Validating our Theories” a conference on December 1st from 9 am to 12:30 pm,  in Westport, CT.    Sponsored by the Connecticut Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Psychoanalytic Association of Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.

The American Institute for Psychoanalysis of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center

• SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS PROGRAM 2008

Date: Thursday, January 17, 2008 8:00 PM
Topic: Psychoanalysis, Illusion, and our Humanistic Tradition?
Presenter: Benjamin Kilborne, PhD

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2008 8:00 PM
Topic: Suggestion Here, Suggestion There, Suggestion Everywhere
Presenter: Kenneth Winarick, PhD

Date: Thursday, May 1, 2008 8:00 PM
Topic: The Identity of Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysts
Presenters: Arnold Richards, MD and Arthur Lynch, DSW

A reception follows each meeting. All are welcome.

• TWO OPEN HOUSES

Date: March 15, 2008, 12:00 to 2:00
Topic: Creating the Therapeutic Frame

Date: May 17, 2008, 12:00 to 2:00
Topic: How to Begin a Private Practice

All meetings and open houses will be at the Karen Horney Clinic
329 East 62nd St., New York, N.Y. 10021

New Service:  The American Institute for Psychoanalysis Referral Service.  This low-cost service provides psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at a Cost Everyone Can Afford.
Call: (212) 888-5667

Within the first 36 months of life, as a reaction to experience (which is influenced by neurobiological and other individual factors), the infant establishes his or her own inner world. This inner world has an adaptive, self-organizing and self-regulating function. Continue reading IPTAR: 11/16/07 Special Program Honors Dr. Anni Bergman

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To introduce us to the twenty-first century, the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies has invited five outstanding psychoanalysts who have been closely associated with Hyman Spotnitz and who have participated significantly in the development and evolution of modern psychoanalysis: Arnold Bernstein, Evelyn Liegner,Robert Marshall, Leslie Rosenthal and Murray Sherman. These innovative thinkers have each made many contributions to the field over their long careers, as reflected in their work as educators, training and supervising analysts, in their many published writings, and as lecturers and speakers at conferences and workshops. For this conference they are coming together to exchange thoughts and feelings about their work, their experiences, their philosophy, and their ideas about psychoanalysis in the new century. They will invite us to join in dialogue with them.

Title: ART AND PSYCHE The freudian Legacy at CDS Gallery
Category: Exhibition

When: From September 14th to November 24th at regular hours
Where: CDS Gallery, 76 East 79 Street, New York, NY 10075

Details: Featuring works of Nicolas Africano, Jonathan Borofsky, Charles Brown, Julie Cockburn, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Timothy Cummings, Edmund Engelman, Max Ernst, Eric Fischl, Gonzalo Fonseca, Lucian Freud, Arshile Gorky, Marcel Jean, Leon Kelly, Roberto Matta, Charles Matton, Jorge Michel, Odd Nerdrum, Jackson Pollock, Suzanne Scherer and Pavel Ouporov, Kurt Seligmann, Hedda Sterne, Christian Vincent.

Sigmund Freud set the cornerstone of modern psychology when he demonstrated that the unconscious mind is active in organizing conscious experience. He described how forbidden desires are repressed into the unconscious and then relum to consciousness in symbolic form. By the 1930s the Surrealist artists in this exhibition were inspired to depict their dreams and fantasies.

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As more and more children from around the world are adopted and raised by parents with racial and/or ethnic backgrounds differing from their own, parents, teachers and mental health professionals need to cultivate more understanding and sensitivity in regards to the role that race/ethnicity plays in identity formation for these children. Continue reading COWAP Adoption Conference in the News

Click Here to Read: Exhibition Review “A Century-Old Court Case That . . .” by Edward Rothstein, October 17, 2007, New York Times.

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 Lemberg Children’s Center at Brandeis University, The Mass Chapter of American Academy of Pediatrics, and several others and sponsoring Supporting Children Affected by the Iraqi War: What Responders Need to Know a workshop on Saturday, October 20 in Schwartz Auditorium at Brandeis University. 

 Supporting Children Affected by the Iraqi War: What Responders Need to Know

Betsy McAlister Groves, LICSW
Director, Child Witness to Violence Project, Boston Medical Center, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine.

Major Molinda Chartrand, MD
Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
Brandeis University, Schwartz Auditorium

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Click Here to read  about:  “Neuropsychoanalysis: How Neuroscience is Validating our Theories” a conference on December 1st from 9 am to 12:30 pm,  in Westport, CT.    Sponsored by the Connecticut Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology and the Psychoanalytic Association of Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy.