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Psychoanalysis on Ice
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Update

As registration continues for the second Psychoanalysis on Ice, to be held at Harpa in Reykjavík, Iceland, from 26-29 July 2018, paper submissions are pouring in and more are welcome (note: we are at capacity for panels and will happily consider submissions for individual papers by email). Notices will be sent out in early January before the end of the early-bird registration period.

In addition to an exciting program with a wide-range of speakers and panelists, the conference will include several other events:

Opportunities to speak at local universities and to make public addresses
An Icelandic film program and panel discussion including the filmmaker
A cultural program at an optional dinner where a local expert on the Icelandic sagas will discuss the sagas and their significance Continue reading Psychoanalysis on Ice

Trauma, Unconsious, Phantasy and Reparation International Conference with IPTAR and CFS
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Trauma, Unconscious Phantasy and Reparation: A Clinical Reflection from FREUD to KLEIN

FEBRUARY 3 & 4, 2018
(5 CE CREDITS FOR SATUDAY AND 4 FOR SUNDAY)

Saturday, February 3, 2018
9:00-9:30am Registration and Coffee
SUSAN N. FINKELSTEIN, MODERATOR
9:30-10:45am “The History of Trauma in Freud: Unconscious Phantasy, Reparation and Klein”
HEINZ WEISS, GERMANY
10:45-11:15am Coffee Break
11:15-12:30pm “The Effects of Emotional Trauma: Working with Difficult Patients”
FRANCO DE MASI, ITALY
12:30-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:00pm “Finding Unconscious Phantasy in Trauma and Psychosomatics: a Termination”
PAULA ELLMAN, WASHINGTON, DC
3:00-4:30pm Plenary chaired by Marion M. Oliner – Speakers discuss controversies and similarities of working
with trauma

Sunday, February 4, 2018
10:00am-12:00pm Clinical Workshops in Small Groups
12:00-2:00pm Plenary chaired by Paula Ellman, Carolyn Ellman, and Judith Felton Continue reading Trauma, Unconsious, Phantasy and Reparation International Conference with IPTAR and CFS

From the Chair to the Couch at NYPSI
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The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to a clinical series: FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH
2017 – 2018

Interested in learning more about psychoanalysis and how to deepen your clinic practice? Please join us for this year’s three part clinical series.

In the first evening’s presentation on Tuesday, December 14th, NYPSI member Dr. Hilli Dagony-Clark will discuss her analysis of adult case, and Training Analyst Dr. Richard Weiss will act as a discussant. This presentation will focus on defense and transference interpretations and will highlight the mutative agents active in many analyses.

The second presentation will continue to address an adult clinical case. Dr. Navah Kaplan will present an analytic case, followed by a discussion with Drs. Wendy Olesker and John Crow. Continue reading From the Chair to the Couch at NYPSI

Depression as an Obstacle to Change with Barbara Spiridon Open House at MITPP
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THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
160 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024 · (212) 496-2858 mitppnyc@aol.com · www.MITPP.org · on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn

OPEN HOUSE LUNCHEON & CLINICAL PRESENTATION FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:00 PM –2:30 PM
DEPRESSION AS AN OBSTACLE TO CHANGE: TREATING A WOMAN SUFFERING FROM LIFELONG MAJOR DEPRESSIVE DISORDER

A 62-year-old professional woman was referred by Columbia Presbyterian for treatment for depression after she had spent eight weeks there in a double-blind study. At the time treatment began, she could barely function, overwhelmed by depression, anxiety and despair. She struggled with feelings of recurring debilitating depression, with feelings of worthlessness and crippling envy, and with impulsive rage. Highly sensitive to separation and loss, she had an incapacitating fear of abandonment. Through clinical material we will explore the ways in which her depressive affects affected the treatment and the transference/countertransference matrix. Continue reading Depression as an Obstacle to Change with Barbara Spiridon Open House at MITPP

Eros, Love and Dread in the Transference at WCSPP
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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 Continue reading Eros, Love and Dread in the Transference at WCSPP

Making it Work: Putting the Play in Play Therapy with Jill Bellinson at MITPP
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THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY, THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH, and THE METROPOLITAN SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPISTS invite you to

A CLINICAL WORKSHOP MAKING IT WORK: PUTTING THE PLAY IN PLAY THERAPY SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2017
PRESENTER: JILL BELLINSON, Ph.D.

Child therapists are drawn to the work because children seem innocent and appealing and eager to relate. They become expert at making an alliance with children and joining in the play that children engage in so energetically. Then someone — child, parent, or therapist’s inner voice — worries, “All we do is play!” This workshop will explore whether play is all we do, whether play is enough to do, and how to create play that is truly therapeutic. Clinical examples will be offered by the instructor and welcomed from the participants. Continue reading Making it Work: Putting the Play in Play Therapy with Jill Bellinson at MITPP

Redefining Unconscious Fantasy: Its Role in a Model of the Mind and a Possible Solution to the Problem of Theoretical Pluralism Presenter: Anne Erreich, Ph.D. at NYPSI
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NYPSI’s 1026th Scientific Program Meeting: Personality Disorders from a Neuroscience Perspective with Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D.

Redefining Unconscious Fantasy: Its Role in a Model of the Mind and a Possible Solution to the Problem of Theoretical Pluralism
Presenter: Anne Erreich, Ph.D. Discussant: Elizabeth Auchincloss, M.D.

Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at 8 pm, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)

In the history of Freud’s thinking, the nature of the patient’s fantasy life became the central interest of psychoanalytic work; thus, psychoanalysis was, Continue reading Redefining Unconscious Fantasy: Its Role in a Model of the Mind and a Possible Solution to the Problem of Theoretical Pluralism Presenter: Anne Erreich, Ph.D. at NYPSI

The Couple World with Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, M.D. and Peter Mezan, Ph.D at NYPSI
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NYPSI: WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR: The Couple World with Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, M.D. and Peter Mezan, Ph.D.

American Gothic by Grant Wood

Wednesday, December 6, 2017 at 8 pm, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves), $15 – General Admission, $10 – Student Admission (non-NYPSI), No charge for NYPSI members and students
Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900 Continue reading The Couple World with Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose, M.D. and Peter Mezan, Ph.D at NYPSI

New Study Group: In Dark Times, Freud’s and Ours at Après-Coup
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association: New Study Group: In Dark Times, Freud’s and Ours
FIRST MEETING: Sunday, November 19, 2017, 1-2:30 pm. We will meet every 3 weeks.

In these dark times, “the light of the public obscures everything” (Heidegger). The refuge that psychoanalysis provided in Freud’s time against the public exposure of everyday life is all the more crucial today given the encroachment of mediatized lives accompanied by the persistent demand to program “a life of one’s own”. Fortunately, the unconscious has no biography and it is unnecessary to sacrifice the truths of desire encountered in an analysis for trumped-up stories. This study group will explore writers, beginning with Freud who, unable to live with what passes for politics, embark upon a journey of psychical emigration and travel through political landscapes, making of writing a political act. We will be particularly interested in the writings of exiles and extra-territorials such as Hannah Arendt, Joseph Roth, Norman Manea, and Czeslaw Milosz as well as post-war French thinkers including Lacan, Derrida, Lyotard and Blanchot.

Location: 201 W. 77th street (corner of Amsterdam Avenue), suite15D.

While attendance is free, registration is required. Please contact Salvatore F. Guido at sfrguido@gmail.com or 212 229 0811 for details and to register.

When We Cry: Loss and Grief from a Clinical, Neurobiological and Cultural Perspective at WCSPP
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The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy invites you to join us for our annual Conference entitled When We Cry: Loss and Grief from a Clinical, Neurobiological and Cultural Perspective on Saturday, November 18, 2017, 8:30 – 3:00 PM at the Renaissance Westchester Hotel, 80 West Red Oak Lane, West Harrison, NY.
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Continental Breakfast and Check-In (8:30 – 9:00 am)
Morning Program (9:00 am – 12:00 pm): Derived from his personal experiences with loss and historical psychoanalytic understandings of grief and mourning, George Hagman, LCSW, will present a framework for New Mourning theory which emphasizes the relational context of bereavement, the diversity of mourning processes and the complex attachment the survivor may maintain with the deceased. Treatment implications will be discussed. Following his paper, Maggie Zellner, Ph.D, LP will present the neurobiological underpinnings of the experience of loss and grief and how a therapist’s familiarity with these substrates can inform and enhance therapeutic interventions.
Lunch (12:00 – 1:00 pm) Provided.
Continue reading When We Cry: Loss and Grief from a Clinical, Neurobiological and Cultural Perspective at WCSPP