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Post-Doctoral Clinical Psychology Fellowship and Introduction into Psychoanalytic Training at NYPSI
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New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute: Post-Doctoral Clinical Psychology Fellowship and Introduction into Psychoanalytic Training

NYPSI now offers a combined clinical psychology post-doctoral fellowship and introduction into psychoanalytic training program for new psychologists who are interested in psychoanalysis, but are unsure whether they want to pursue analytic training. The fellowship involves two components:

1) A one year full-time or two year half-time program for psychologists who have their Ph.D. but are not yet licensed. It provides further training in psychoanalytically-oriented adult and child psychotherapy and psychological testing with excellent supervision, seminars, and choices of research, teaching, parent-child work, and school consultation experience. Post-doctoral fellows are paid a fee for services when conducting psychotherapy and psychological assessments. Continue reading Post-Doctoral Clinical Psychology Fellowship and Introduction into Psychoanalytic Training at NYPSI

Film Night Nise: The Heart of Madness at WCSPP
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WCSPP FILM NIGHT NISE: THE HEART OF MADNESS Friday, November 3, 2017 7:30 P.M. Admission: $10

Directed by Roberto Berliner, this beautiful movie explores the power of human connection, art and the ideals at the heart of psychoanalysis. Set in 1940’s Brazil, the movie tells the true story of Dr. Nise da Silviera (played by award-winning actress Gloria Pires). The only female psychiatrist in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Dr. da Silviera refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock therapy in her treatment of schizophrenics. After challenging her colleagues she is ridiculed and left to run the long-defunct occupational therapy program. As she seeks to find alternative ways to care for her patients who have long been mistreated, isolated and abandoned to institutional care, Nise first creates a space of safety and connection. She then begins to understand the meaning of her patients’ behaviors and actions. Sustained by her deep belief in the human capacity for communication, the potential for healing through the symbolic expression of inner experience and its recognition by others, and inspired by the work of Carl Jung, Nise helps transform the lives and experiences of the patients in her care.

A discussion following the screening will be facilitated by Connie M. de Pinho, Ph.D.

Continue reading Film Night Nise: The Heart of Madness at WCSPP

Revolutions in Technique: Lacan’s R/evolution in Psychoanalysis at IPTAR
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IPTAR Program Committee: Jeanne Even (Chair), Eva Atsalis, Susan Berger, Carolyn Ellman, Steven Ellman, Susan Finkelstein, Anna Fishzon, Judy Ann Kaplan, Masha Mimran, Bruce Reis, Jamieson Webster

PROGRAM

9am

BREAKFAST
9:30am – 10:30am

BRUCE FINK, LACAN’S REVOLUTION IN TECHNIQUE

This presentation will highlight similarities and differences between Lacan’s approach to psychoanalytic technique and both Freud’s approach and that of numerous contemporary analysts from non-Lacanian traditions. Whereas in Lacan’s approach the unconscious remains fundamental, the royal road to it is neither 1) the analyst’s countertransference, projective identification, self-disclosure, or intuition, nor 2) the analysand’s affective states. With his reformulation of the unconscious as the “subject supposed to know” and his reconceptualization of the psychoanalytic setting, we will explore Lacan’s innovations in technique with neurotics, including punctuation, oracular/poetic interpretation, scansion, the variable-length session, delayed use of the couch, and then focus on nonmeaning as opposed to understanding. The role of analysts as “giving what they do not have” as opposed to what they do have will be explored at length. Continue reading Revolutions in Technique: Lacan’s R/evolution in Psychoanalysis at IPTAR

Reflections from a 15 Year Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Patient with Substantial Chronic Childhood Psychic Trauma with Marvin Hurvich at AIP
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Prognostic Reflections from a 15 Year Psychoanalytic Treatment by Marvin Hurvich, PhD
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
Continuing Education Program: 2 CONTACT HOURS for licensed social workers
329 East 62nd Street — New York, NY 10065 — (212) 838-8044 — aipnyc.org — info@aipnyc.org

PROGNOSTIC REFLECTIONS FROM A 15 YEAR PSYCHOANALYTIC TREATMENT OF A PATIENT WITH SUBSTANTIAL CHRONIC CHILDHOOD PSYCHIC TRAUMA
Marvin Hurvich, PhD
Date: Thursday, November 30, 2017 Time: 8:00 pm- 10:00 pm
General Admission is FREE! – Please RSVP

Cost: $20.00 (applies only to licensed social workers wanting to receive their CE certificates) – Please REGISTER
Contact Hours: 2 Location: American Institute of Psychoanalysis, 329 East 62nd Street, Rm: Auditorium
Overview
The case to be presented is from a 15 year mostly three times a week analysis of a substantially traumatized patient beginning at age 4 and including both parents. The focus of the presentation following some background will be on the degree and kind of change and the possible basis for the patient’s marked improvement. Factors associated with the progress in comparison with other mostly less improved patients will be considered. Continue reading Reflections from a 15 Year Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Patient with Substantial Chronic Childhood Psychic Trauma with Marvin Hurvich at AIP

In Dark Times, Freud’s and Ours, New Study Group, Salvatore Guido at Après-Coup
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association: Sunday, November 19, 2017, 1 pm – 2:30 pm, FIRST MEETING
In Dark Times, Freud’s and Ours, New Study Group, SALVATORE GUIDO

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, Continue reading In Dark Times, Freud’s and Ours, New Study Group, Salvatore Guido at Après-Coup

The Peter Blos Clinical Fellowship in Psychoanalysis at NYPSI
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THE PETER BLOS CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
The Blos Fellowship Includes the Following Benefits:
· $10,000 Stipend for each of two years
· Psychoanalytic training tuition for two years is covered separately
· The Blos fellow (must have MD, MSW, PhD, or PsyD) can be a current psychoanalytic candidate or can newly apply to the NYPSI Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program
· Participation in individual clinical case supervision
· Development and mentorship of a research or clinical project, related to adolescent mental health / psychoanalysis
· Opportunity to present clinical or research work to a psychoanalytic audience Continue reading The Peter Blos Clinical Fellowship in Psychoanalysis at NYPSI

When we cry: loss and Grief from a clinical, neurological and cultural perspective at WCSPP
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2017 Annual Conference of The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
When we cry: loss and Grief from a clinical, neurological and cultural perspective
5 CE hours

Keynote speakers
George Hagman, LCSW: “New Models of Bereavement Theory and Treatment”
Maggie Zellner, Ph.D, LP: “A Neurobiological Perspective on Loss and Grief”
Lama Zuhair Khouri, LMSW: “Can You See Me? The Interpellation of an Arab Immigrant” Continue reading When we cry: loss and Grief from a clinical, neurological and cultural perspective at WCSPP

The Anatomy of Betrayal: Some Thoughts on Trust and Betrayal. with Sheldon Bach at PPCS
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PPSC is honoring Dr. Sheldon Bach with their Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday, November 3, 2017.
Dr. Bach will present  The Anatomy of Betrayal: Some Thoughts on Trust and Betrayal.

The presentation will be at The First Presbyterian Church of New York
(12 W. 12 St. at 5 Ave., NYC) from 6:30 to 9:30
(including wine and cheese reception),
2.5 CEU’s for LCSWs and LMSWs.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/anatomy-of-betrayal-some-thoughts-on-trust-and-betrayal-tickets-36484735827

For more information contact PPSC@att.net.

Personality Disorders from a Neuroscience Perspective Presenter: Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D. at NYPSI
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Personality Disorders from a Neuroscience Perspective Presenter: Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D.

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 8 pm
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)

The study of personality disorders conceived as categorical entities has traditionally been in the province of psychoanalytic or behavioral models. However, there is an emerging area of study, spearheaded by the NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoCs) program, that aims to uncover the neurobiological underpinnings of the dimensions that make up mental disorders. These new directions in psychiatry neurobiological research converge with new dimensional conceptions of personality disorders, and with efforts to identify the neural basis for the traits underlying personality disorders. Continue reading Personality Disorders from a Neuroscience Perspective Presenter: Mercedes Perez-Rodriguez, M.D., Ph.D. at NYPSI

The Human Association Cortex in the Context of Evolution: A discussion of Buckner & Krienen (2013) Maggie Zellner, Ph.D., L.P. at the Helix Center
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The Human Association Cortex in the Context of Evolution: A discussion of Buckner & Krienen (2013) Maggie Zellner, Ph.D., L.P.

Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 10 am, The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium, 247 E. 82nd Street, NYC
Free and open to the public , RSVP is appreciated but not required; first come, first-seated, To register, click HERE, visit nypsi.org, or call 212.879.6900

This will be an open discussion, facilitated by Maggie Zellner, Ph.D., L.P.

In this meeting, we will discuss a paper by Buckner and Krienen (2013) on the development of the association cortex through evolution. As the association cortex has expanded, a number of mental capacities have evolved in tandem, including the capacity to inhibit instinctual responses; working memory; affect and behavior regulation; symbolization; fantasy and imagination; theory of mind; and more. These capacities have become more complex, interacting with the primary sensory and motor cortex, and the emotional and instinctual subcortical circuits, that all mammals share. Participants should read the paper before the meeting. (See reference and link to paper below.)

Dr. Zellner will give an overview of the main points of the paper. Discussion will follow, linking the concepts from the article to clinical phenomena and to important questions in metapsychology. Continue reading The Human Association Cortex in the Context of Evolution: A discussion of Buckner & Krienen (2013) Maggie Zellner, Ph.D., L.P. at the Helix Center