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Fostering Children’s Resilience in the Face of Racial Hatred and Prejudice with Marsha Levy-Warren at CFS Venue Change
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Fostering Children’s Resilience in the Face of Racial Hatred and Prejudice: A Psychoanalytic Developmental Perspective
One-Session Program (2 Contact Hours)
Presenter: Marsha Levy-Warren, PhD
Discussant: Kirkland Vaughans, PhD
Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Time: 8:00-10:00pm
Location: Mt. Sinai, Hess Seminar Room A, 1470 Madison Ave, 2nd Fl., NYC

The topic of this presentation – the impact of growing up feeling hated – has become even more salient and painful in a political and social climate in which there are increased outlets for voices of bigotry and prejudice. What are we to tell children who are observably “of color?” How do we explain to them that there are people who will react to them on the basis of the most superficial of characteristics – e.g., skin tone, hair, body type or shape, manner of dress, and name. How do we do this in a manner that is attuned to their developmental level of understanding? How do we inculcate a sense of pride, security, and trust in children when there is so much in the world around them that conveys reasons to be frightened, wary, and self-doubting? Continue reading Fostering Children’s Resilience in the Face of Racial Hatred and Prejudice with Marsha Levy-Warren at CFS Venue Change

Workshop on Child Analysis: Children, Maltreatment and the Law with Angelo Villa at
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents

WORKSHOP ON CHILD ANALYSIS: Children, Maltreatment and the Law with Angelo Villa Saturday, June 10, 2017, 10:30 am – 2:00 pm, The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY

We will consider the clinical theory and practice of analysis of abused children and adolescents in relation to the function of the law. The response of the subject and its relation to the social link will be discussed based on clinical examples.

Suggested Readings: Freud: “’A Child Is Being Beaten’” (1919). Lacan: “La psychanalyse vraie, et la fausse” (1958), Autres écrits. Ferenczi, Sandor: “Confusion of Tongues between Adults and the Child: The Language of Tenderness and of Passion” (1933). Benjamin, Walter: “Critique of Violence” (1921) in Reflections. Continue reading Workshop on Child Analysis: Children, Maltreatment and the Law with Angelo Villa at

FINDING UNCONSCIOUS FANTASY IN NARRATIVE, TRAUMA AND BODY PAIN at CFS
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SAVE THE DATE: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2017, 1:00-3:30 pm, The Contemporary Freudian Society
“FINDING UNCONSCIOUS FANTASY IN NARRATIVE, TRAUMA AND BODY PAIN”

Presenters: Paula Ellman, Nancy Goodman, and Irene Cairo, Carolyn Ellman, Janice Lieberman, Batya Monder, Arlene Kramer Richards
Rogelio Sosnik

A panel of presentations by authors of the new book “Finding Unconscious Fantasy in Narrative, Trauma and Body Pain: A Clinical Guide”, published by Routledge, 2017.

Location: Mt. Sinai, Goldwurm Auditorium, Madison Ave @ 98th St, NYC

Registration information to follow.
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When it comes to religion, how do we think that psychoanalysis can best deploy its tools of understanding: in finding commonalities with the religiously passionate, or in differentiating itself from expressions of the religious life that are clearly awful?
Elizabeth Cutter Evert: “I am drawn to look both at the ways psychoanalysis can be guilty of dismissiveness of the religious endeavor, and to think about how we have more in common with those involved in spiritual yearning then we often acknowledge.”

Jared Russell: “At what point do understanding and tolerance begin to facilitate masochistic self-sacrifice? … Understanding should not be confused with tolerance, nor should tolerance be confused with acceptance.”

Come to the first Room Roundtable on June 11, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m., IPTAR Conference Room,

I. A conversation between Elizabeth and Jared, moderated by Richard Grose. Continue reading

A Clinical Workshop: Analytic Work & Analytic Love Sheldon Bach and Lewis Aron
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Click Here to Purchase:  Chimeras and Other Writings: Selected Papers of Sheldon Bach on IPBooks.net

It’s already June. Register Now!! A Clinical Workshop: Analytic Work & Analytic Love Sheldon Bach and Lewis Aron, Saturday, June 24, 2017, 10 am – 3:30 pm (lunch break from 12-1:15) Location: NYU Meyer Hall, Room 121 4 Washington Pl (btw Broadway and Mercer St)
Participants are eligible for 4 CE credits in social work, psychoanalysis, mental health counseling.

This clinical workshop will explore analytic work and the role of analytic love in the treatment of a wide range of patients including those often thought to be “difficult to treat,” narcissistic, perverse, addicted, character-disordered, or “pre-oedipal.” Making use of Bach’s newest (2016) work, Chimeras and Other Writings: Selected Papers of Sheldon Bach, Lewis Aron will interview Sheldon Bach, exploring the development and evolution of his views on theory and psychoanalytic therapy. They will engage in a dialogue about treatment issues and the history, present state, and future of psychoanalytic concepts and therapy. Bach will consult on two clinical cases and Aron will moderate the discussion and attempt to clarify and probe the perspective being offered. Participants of ALL theoretical orientations will benefit from spending this clinical day immersed in cutting edge clinical thinking. Continue reading A Clinical Workshop: Analytic Work & Analytic Love Sheldon Bach and Lewis Aron

THE DC SPRING PROJECT: Treating Underlying Attachment Trauma in Postpartum Depression
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THE DC SPRING Project Support for Pregnancy – Raising Infants – Navigating Growth

The DC SPRING Project is a new outreach initiative sponsored by the Contemporary Freudian Society. The Project helps expectant and postpartum mothers and their families who are experiencing mood-related problems. Learn more about the Project at www.springproject.org

Treating Underlying Attachment Trauma in Postpartum Depression: Sunday, June 4, 2017, 12:30 to 3:00 pm, BCC Regional Services Center – West Room, 4805 Edgemoor Lane, Bethesda, Maryland

There is urgency to the treatment of postpartum depression (PPD) —to minimize attachment risk and to restore mom and baby to maximum functioning at a critical developmental time.  Yet while some new mothers seeking our help recover with traditional psychotherapy, other patients become stuck and confound us with their apparent treatment resistance.  Therapists can be reluctant to refer patients for adjunct help, lest they convey that the patient is too much for them to bear.

In this in-depth case presentation, three clinicians present their concurrent work with a woman suffering from PPD as well as Continue reading THE DC SPRING PROJECT: Treating Underlying Attachment Trauma in Postpartum Depression

Developmental Psychoanalysis and the Promotion of Progressive Development: A Retrospective Discussion with Jill M. Miller, PhD at NYPSI
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he New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute presents the ROBERT J. KABCENELL MEMORIAL LECTURE IN CHILD ANALYSIS

Developmental Psychoanalysis and the Promotion of Progressive Development: A Retrospective Discussion with Jill M. Miller, PhD
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 8:00 PM, The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC

Most children who enter analysis suffer from what Anna Freud called the mixed psychopathology of childhood– the interweaving of both conflict and developmental disturbances. The technical approach with these children is also mixed as the focus is not only on conflicts, but also on developmental imbalances and internal structural deficits. In this presentation detailed clinical material from the analysis of a 4 and one half-year old girl will be outlined to elucidate this approach. In addition, when looking back at an analysis one always wonders if there were alternative ways of understanding the patient and what could have been done differently, issues which will be open for discussion.

To reserve seats, click HERE, visit nypsi.org or
call 212-879-6900 Continue reading Developmental Psychoanalysis and the Promotion of Progressive Development: A Retrospective Discussion with Jill M. Miller, PhD at NYPSI

MITPP Summer Institute Mimi-Courses and Workshops in June and July
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METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY
160 West 86th Street, New York, NY 10024, Phone: (212) 496-2858,  Email: mitppnyc@aol.com Website: www.MITPP.org
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2017 SUMMER INSTITUTE

THE FEE
Instructor: Barbara Stimmel, Ph.D.
The fee is a vexing and constant reality. In every treatment process: Regardless of one’s theoretical and clinical orientation,
regardless of the level of sophistication and experience of the therapist, regardless of the amount, regardless of the financial reality of the patient, and always with the therapist’s attitudes toward earning money for helping others- the fee is a critical and often less appreciated aspect of the treatment relationship. This relationship will be discussed and explored clinically in this workshop. Participants are invited to bring in vignettes and questions that will form the basis of our conversation. Participants will: have a greater appreciation of a centerpiece of the clinical work, have a greater understanding of how to think about the fee, be able to develop a more comprehensive and thoughtful approach to setting the fee – which is in the best interest of both patient and therapist. Continue reading MITPP Summer Institute Mimi-Courses and Workshops in June and July