Cultural Competence Conference: Changing Notions of Pathology at Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis

Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis: 2017 Cultural Competence Conference: Changing Notions of Pathology
Sunday, November 5th, 2017, 12:30 – 4:00

The George Washington University Mount Vernon Campus 2100 Foxhall Road, NW West Hall B- 108 Washington, DC 20007
Introduction: Margarita Cereijido, PhD

Presenters:

Rosemary Balsam, MD: “From ‘The Child Woman’ to ‘Wonder Woman’: Progress and Misogyny in Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Work”
Dr. Balsam is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and a staff psychiatrist at Yale University; and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. Her special interests are gender developments, young adulthood, the place of the body in psychic life, the work of Hans Loewald and teaching. She has written award winning papers and books, lectured here and abroad. She was a National Woman Traveling Psychoanalytic Scholar for APsaA. She is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Imago, and JAPA. Her most recent book is: Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis (2012, Routledge).

Janice Lieberman, PhD: “Be Careful What You Wish For: A Psychoanalyst Reacts to the Liberation of Aggression in Women”
Dr. Lieberman is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York, where she maintains a private practice. She served on the Editorial Board of JAPA and other journals for many years and is the author of Body Talk: Looking and Being
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Making us Great Again? A Psychoanalytic Discussion of Populism Leon Hoffman, M.D. and Coline Covington, Ph.D., B.P at NYPSI

The Program Committee of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute: presents a very special Scientific Program: Hand putting voting paper in the ballot box on USA flag background. Concept of US Presidential election. Vintage engraving stylized drawing.

Making us Great Again? A Psychoanalytic Discussion of Populism Leon Hoffman, M.D. and Coline Covington, Ph.D., B.P.C.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 8 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute
247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) 
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October 2017 News & Events

October 2017 News & Events

The Riggs Blog

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The Opioid Epidemic

We recently wrapped up a four-part series on the opioid epidemic. You can find links to all four pieces below:
The Opioid Epidemic blog series

Something for the Pain

The Opioid Epidemic: A Clinical Perspective

The Opioid Epidemic: A Local Perspective

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions . . . and with the Influence of Big Pharma

 

We’re All Students Here

Pottery Instructor Michael McCarthy writes about his role as a teacher in the Activities Program at the Austen Riggs Center in an article for Studio Potter journal.
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In Our Times, Psychoanalysis Celebrating Thirty Years of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association at Après-Coup

Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents

COLLOQUIUM
In Our Times, Psychoanalysis Celebrating Thirty Years of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association October 6–8, 2017 The School of Visual Arts 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10011

Friday, October 6, 5:30 pm Registration, 6:00 pm Opening Remarks: Ona Nierenberg, Paola Mieli, 6:30 pm On the Discourse of Science

Liliana Donzis, Escuela Freudiana de Buenos Aires, The Desire of the Analyst and the Medicalization of Childhood

Peter Gillespie, Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association, Capturing the Desire of the Worker: From Scientific Management to the Psychoanalytic Clinic Continue reading In Our Times, Psychoanalysis Celebrating Thirty Years of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association at Après-Coup

Quantum Physics and Psychoanlaysis with Gerald J. Gargiulo at WCSPP

Scientific Meeting 2 CE Hours available for LCSW’s, LP’s, LMFT’s, LMHC’s and LCAT’s
QUANTUM PHYSICS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: NEW CLINICAL MODELS FOR UNDERSTANDING DYNAMIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
Live, in-person presenter: Gerald J. Gargiulo, Ph.D. Friday, October 6, 2017 8:00 p.m. Suggested contribution: $20 Admission with CE: $30
Community Unitarian Church 468 Rosedale Avenue White Plains, NY 10605 RSVP to Ken Barish barish@wcspp.org

This talk will present the interface between some of the primary findings of quantum physics and the clinical practice of dynamic psychotherapy. Quantum physics models can be useful for many different therapeutic approaches. They have particular benefit for validating the findings of relational psychoanalysis. Quantum physics models also provide a wider framework for understanding clinical practice than do Newtonian models, which rely on cause and effect, determinism, and accept the bifurcation of conscious and unconscious. Clinical vignettes will be offered for each of the models discussed.

Gerald J. Gargiulo is a psychotherapist/psychoanalyst in practice in Stamford, CT and New York City. He is on the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Review, Psychoanalytic Psychology & Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies. He is a former President of the NPAP Psychoanalytic Training Institute and a former President and founding member of The International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education. He has authored numerous professional articles as well as three texts, the latest of which is Quantum Psychoanalysis: Essays on Physics, Mind and Analysis Today. Continue reading Quantum Physics and Psychoanlaysis with Gerald J. Gargiulo at WCSPP

The “Present” in Couples Therapy with Mary-Joan Gerson at WCSPP

Couples Therapy Workshop 3 CE Hours for NYS LCSW’s, LMSW’s, LP’s and LMFT’s
THE “PRESENT” IN COUPLES THERAPY: MOMENTS OF TRANSFORMATION Speaker: Mary-Joan Gerson, Ph.D. Discussant: Mark Finn, Ph.D.

Saturday, October 21, 2017 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Admission (before Oct.16): $40, Admission with 3 CE Hours (before Oct.16): $50, Admission (after Oct.16 or at the door): $50, Admission with 3 CE Hours (after Oct.16 or at the door): $60

Community Unitarian Church 468 Rosedale Avenue White Plains, NY 10605 Continental breakfast included
* Please make your check payable to WCSPP and send to: WCSPP, 468 Rosedale Avenue, White Plains, NY 10605
Refunds: Admission, minus a $20 administrative fee, will be refunded with 48-hours’ notice to Jennifer Sestok at 914-997-7500 or wcspp_adm@earthlink.com

This presentation offers a view of couples therapy focused on crucial “moments” of engagement and transformation. From an integrated psychoanalytic, systemic and attachment theory perspective, and drawing on the work of the Boston Change Process Group, specific “moments” in couples therapy will be highlighted. Issues of therapeutic participation, transference and countertransference will be addressed from this triadic theoretical perspective. Continue reading The “Present” in Couples Therapy with Mary-Joan Gerson at WCSPP

Continuation of the Referential Process Seminar with Wilma Bucci, You Zhou, Sean Murphy at NYPSI

Continuation of the Referential Process Seminar: Introduction of the New Treatment Data Base Including Multi-level Process and Outcome Measures

Presenters: Wilma Bucci, You Zhou, Sean Murphy, Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 8 pm, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves), No charge. All are welcome.  Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

Referential Process Seminar: Introduction of the New Treatment Data Base Including Multi-level Process and Outcome Measures
The seminar will continue the examination of the therapy process from multiple perspectives including the participating clinician, other clinicians looking at videos and reading transcripts, and researchers applying computerized measures. Wilma Bucci will briefly outline the theory of the referential process as a common factor in psychotherapy, and review the computerized measures of the phases of the process. You Zhou will describe the data base including these measures applied to
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Meet our Local Authors at the Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

Psychoanalysis in Seattle: Meet our Local Authors November 18, 2017

– Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Please join us for this special event!

We are pleased to invite the mental health community of Seattle and the surrounding area, to get together to meet ten of our local “mental health authors” and celebrate their writings and creativity!

This will be a place where professionals subscribing to different psychoanalytic theories will come together to learn about some of the excellent books that have been written right here in the Seattle area. Ten authors from Seattle have been invited by NPSI to present brief descriptions of their published books, giving us the unique opportunity to hear directly from each author and engage them with our questions and comments.

We will finish the event with wine, snacks and a toast to our local authors, their productivity and the joy of gathering together to grow our mental health community and our friendships within it.

Copies of the books will be available for purchase and author signings.

Our participating authors will be:

1. Maxine Anderson: “The Wisdom of Lived Experience: Views from Psychoanalysis, Neuroscience, Philosophy and Metaphysics” (2016)

2. Daniel Benveniste: “The Interwoven Lives of Sigmund, Anna and W. Ernest Freud: Three Generations of Psychoanalysis” (2015)

3. Robert Bergman: “Mindless Psychoanalysis, Selfless Self Psychology: and Further Explorations” (2008)

4. Dana Blue & Caron Harrang (editors): “From Reverie to Interpretation: Transforming Thought into the Action of Psychoanalysis” (2016)

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Marijuana and the Adolescent Process with Rex McGehee, M.D.  at NYPSI

The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute presents the Third Peter J. Blos Memorial Lecture
Marijuana and the Adolescent Process with Rex McGehee, M.D.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 8:00 PM The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd Street, NYC

Marijuana is a large and growing factor in current adolescent culture. Recent moves legalizing marijuana for both medical and recreational purposes add to both the availability and legitimization of the usage of marijuana products. Building on current research and clinical experience, this paper will look at the effects of marijuana usage during adolescence on the adolescent developmental process. Using clinical vignettes and one case in detail we will think together about the complex and sometimes permanent consequences to the adolescent, which then alter adult functioning. Implications of this information for treatment will be discussed.

No charge. All are welcome. To reserve seats, click HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900 Continue reading Marijuana and the Adolescent Process with Rex McGehee, M.D.  at NYPSI

Helen Gediman’s Stalker, Hacker, Voyeur, Spy at a Meeting of CFS

Dear Colleagues,

On Friday, October 27, at 8PM at Hatch Auditorium (Madison and 100th Street 2nd floor) CFS presents an out of the box, experimental meeting on Helen Gediman’s book “Stalker, Hacker, Voyeur, Spy.” Joining Helen will be Peter Dunn and Elizabeth Fritsch and YOU, the audience. We are aiming for a round table type discussion even though we have no round table. So please join us and bring your ideas, questions, and comments – even if you have not read the book, which will be on sale at the venue.

Helen’s beautifully written and fascinating book uses Freud’s focus on the sexual and aggressive aspects of voyeurism and its relatives, stalking, hacking, spying. And because pathology is our business, we must explore its roots in order to better understand it.

Can we expand our view from the primal scene/sexual root of voyeurism to the normal curiosity we all have and how it gets played out in healthy and unhealthy ways? Why does curiosity becomes pathological?

How might this baby https://youtu.be/yRsjJ-u2ipw become Harry Caul of The Conversation?
Harry tells us: Listen, my name is Harry Caul. Can you hear me? Don’t be afraid. I know you don’t know who I am, but I know you. There isn’t much to say about myself. I – was very sick when I was a boy. I was paralyzed in my left arm and my left leg. I couldn’t walk for six months. One doctor said that I’d probably never walk again. My mother used to lower me into a hot bath – it was therapy. One time the doorbell rang and she went down to answer it. I started sliding down. I could feel the water starting to come up to my chin, up to my nose, and when I woke up, my body was all greasy from the holy oil she put on my body. I remember being disappointed I survived. When I was five, my father introduced me to a friend of his, and for no reason at all, I hit him right in the stomach with all my strength. He died a year later. He’ll kill ya if he gets the chance. I’m not afraid of death but I am afraid of murder.
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