Coming soon from IPBooks.net: Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on a Thought Collective: Selected Papers of Arnold D Richards, reviewed by David James Fisher

These lively and thought provoking papers by Arnold Richards highlight a number of themes which will be relevant to the student of psychoanalysis, whether clinician, academic, or member of the educated lay public.  Richards wears his learning lightly, educating without being pedantic, and spicing up his prose by engaging in a number of significant polemics, particularly against the psychoanalytic establishment.   He is adept at illuminating how the concepts of Bildung and Fleck’s ideas about thought collectives and styles frame the history of psychoanalysis and provide a context for  an inquiry into its scientific sociology of knowledge.  Reading his papers on Freud and Brill and the historical and cultural role of Jewishness, including ambivalence about Jewish identity, is to encounter texts rich in clinical insight and historical understanding.  There are penetrating studies into the fascinating and Continue reading Coming soon from IPBooks.net: Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on a Thought Collective: Selected Papers of Arnold D Richards, reviewed by David James Fisher

Two Clinical Presentations and A Discussion of Psychoanalysis in Mexico at IPTAR

Two Clinical Presentations and A Discussion of Psychoanalysis in Mexico
Thursday, May 18, 2017. 8:30PM – 10:00PM. IPTAR Conference Room, 1651 Third Ave.; NY, NY; 10128

Dr. Norma Leon-Roble”: Trauma and Resilience: Vicissitudes of dissociation in the aftermath of rape; Resolution through Psychoanalytic Treatment

A discussion of the 5 year psychoanalytic treatment of an adolescent girl who was kidnapped and raped, suffering PTSD and dissociative disorder. The trauma of the rape and its aftermath was followed during the treatment and eventual evolution of the patient’s sexual development towards a synthesis and normal sexual life.

AND Dr. Manuel Lopez-Gomez Towards a Second Individuation Process in Treatment

The 4 1/2 year psychoanalytic treatment of a 25 year old man whose symptoms were understood in terms of two intersecting sets of dynamics. One related to issues of separation-individuation and a fear of regressive fusion with the engulfing mother. The other dynamic was related to Oedipal anxieties around punitive male figures.. Continue reading Two Clinical Presentations and A Discussion of Psychoanalysis in Mexico at IPTAR

Complexity and Emergence II: Visions of Cosmic Order, from Particles to People at the Helix Center

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Complexity and Emergence II: Visions of Cosmic Order, from Particles to People 2:30 pm on Saturday, May 20th, 2017

What principles of order underlie the ascent of complexity, from the simplest particles of physics heralding the birth of the universe, through biological forms, to the achievements of civilization? Has a recurrent theme of combination and integration led to multiple fundamental levels from quarks to culture? What do we learn from the ongoing creative process in the sophistication that has arisen in this journey of the universe? Can we trace back human culture and consciousness through a series relationships and things that were innovative at their time of emergence? Our roundtable will explore these and other visions of cosmic order.

2:30 pm on Saturday, May 20th, 2017  Notes:No registration required Entry is free and open to the public Roundtables begin at 2:30pm Continue reading Complexity and Emergence II: Visions of Cosmic Order, from Particles to People at the Helix Center