Freud’s Dream Theory Revisited with Arnold Richards at MITPP

The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Society of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists Invite you to a Scientific Meeting

Friday, April 7, 2017 – 7:30 PM, FREUD’S DREAM THEORY REVISITED, PRESENTER: ARNOLD RICHARDS, M.D.

Freud saw the dream as translating thoughts from their derivatives to their unconscious source. The dream exists first in the patient’s present, in his immediate experience, rather than in his earlier trauma. The link between present anxiety and past trauma may exist, but this has to be demonstrated rather than asserted. For the Freudian, the didactic purpose may be to show the patient his unconscious, unfulfilled childhood wish, but this is also driven by an effort to fulfill that wish in the dream state. In my view, attention to the experience of the dream is the beginning, not the end point, of the task of getting to the analysand’s conflicted wishes. It has been hypothesized that dreams seek solutions for conflicts. I conclude that this view of dreams is more descriptive than explanatory, and does not offer us an explanation of why past trauma or current conflicts should be represented in a dream. Instead, I believe that dreams are an effort to deal with conflicts that stem from a wish/guilt dynamic, and contain a compromise formation in which wishes are fulfilled and punishment is executed. Dreams mediate the realms in which the id- Continue reading Freud’s Dream Theory Revisited with Arnold Richards at MITPP

The Scientific Standing of Psychoanalysis with Mark Solms, Ph.D. at NYPSI

The Scientific Standing of Psychoanalysis: Presenter: Mark Solms, Ph.D.
Saturday, April 1, 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 presentation will take stock of the current scientific standing of psychoanalysis, both in terms of its theoretical claims about the human mind and in terms of its clinical claims about the efficacy and mode of action of psychoanalytic treatments. The presentation will be aimed at informing and updating the general membership about these basic issues; it is not a specialist ‘research’ presentation. Continue reading The Scientific Standing of Psychoanalysis with Mark Solms, Ph.D. at NYPSI

Global parenting, Power of resistance, Living submerged by Sasha Rolde

Dear colleagues,

I am not sure what in the current global news to focus on : global
warming, the affordable health care(?), the lawyers who resigned or
were fired …. al of it seems so horrendous and I can’t find a silver
lining anywhere tonight, so I will just plunge into giving you my
choices on the international psychoanalytic website for the past 2
weeks as I always do, followed by the entire menu.

My choices:

1) There are a number of posts on families and children. The first
that caught my eye is:
“Do Parents Matter?: Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican
Siblings Don’t Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax”
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Pregnancy and PostPartum Depression: Treatment and its Complications with Alexandra Cattaruzza at MITPP

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

PREGNANCY AND POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION: TREATMENT AND ITS COMPLICATIONS
SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2017, PRESENTER: ALEXANDRA CATTARUZZA, M.S., L.P.

Treatment during a patient’s pregnancy can prove quite challenging as the new mother has to meet the biological, psychological and environmental demands of an expected or newborn baby. In some mothers who have experienced a lack of good-enough care from their own mothers and have internalized a bad parental object, there is a powerful Continue reading Pregnancy and PostPartum Depression: Treatment and its Complications with Alexandra Cattaruzza at MITPP

Advances in Understanding and Treating Psychotic Disorders at Mount Sinai Hospital

We’ve arranged a terrific Innovations in Psychiatry Symposium at Mount Sinai entitled Advances in Understanding and Treating Psychotic Disorders. Dr. Rene Kahn is Chair, and I’m Co-chair. The meeting is February 17 in Goldwurm Auditorium at our Icahn School of Medicine. Among other leaders, Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD, Sophia Frangou, MD, PhD, Pamela Sklar, MD, PhD, and René S. Kahn, MD, PhD will be speaking. See below for details.

Please let the IP roster know. We can discount or even comp them.
The Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai invites you to attend our 5th Annual Innovations in Psychiatry Symposium: Advances in Understanding and Treating Psychotic Disorders
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