Dr. Ellman’s presentation will explore the analytic process as analogous to the manner in which the dream is an integrated part of a person’s sleep and waking experience. He will postulate that in optimal circumstances the dream is a welcome part of human life, but that unfortunately this is often not the case, as many adults suffer from some type of dreaming (sleep) disturbances. He will show how these disturbances mirror the difficulties in transference-countertransference cycles. He will demonstrate how conceptually enduring transference-countertransference states allow patients to experience their dreams, and he will explain how dreams are discharged in a manner that is parallel to difficulties in tolerating transference manifestations. Continue reading The Dream Cycle of the Analytic Couple with Steven Ellman at The New School

Peter Gillespie, “The Subject of Precarious Work in the Psychoanalytic Clinic”
Kareen Malone, Discussant Continue reading The Formation of the Analyst and the Social Link at Après-Coup

Wed., April 5, 2017 at 8 pm 247 East 82nd Street, NYC
FREE. All are welcome. Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900

Works in Progress Seminar: Who was R.D. Laing?
During the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and 70s, R.D. Laing was the most famous psychiatrist in the world — and arguably the most controversial psychoanalytic thinker since Freud. Regarded as the father of the antipsychiatry movement, Laing challenged the basis of conventional psychiatric treatment, particularly with regard to schizophrenics. His ideas enraged the psychiatric establishment but caught the imagination of the public at large. Laing’s books – The Divided Self, Sanity, Madness, and the Family, and The Politics of Experience – sold millions of copies and cemented his status as a culture hero. But by the time Laing died in 1989, his influence had all but vanished. Dr. Mezan will give a portrait of the man and his ideas, based on his encounters and friendship with Laing and the world surrounding him. Continue reading Who was R.D. Laing? with Peter Mezan, Ph.D. at NYPSI