From the Chair to the Couch at NYPSI
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The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute invites you to a clinical series:
FROM THE CHAIR TO THE COUCH
2016 – 2017
Interested in pursuing psychoanalytic training or learning how to deepen your clinical practice? Please join us for our five part clinical series and learn more about NYPSI’s psychoanalytic training program. Each evening focuses on a different aspect of analytic work. In the fourth evening’s presentation on Thursday, April 6th at 7 PM, Navah Kaplan, PhD will present an adult analysis in it’s middle phase. The evening will demonstrate what happens in the ‘thick” of an analysis, such as lines of interpretation, and transference/ countertransference issues. The discussants will be NYPSI Training Analysts Wendy Olesker, PhD and John Crow, MD.

As usual, there will be food and drink and a lively discussion of clinical material. Professionals and students with Continue reading From the Chair to the Couch at NYPSI

The Fundamental Epistemological Situation with Howard B. Levine at CFS
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The Fundamental Epistemological Situation: Psychic Reality and the Limitations of Classical Theory”
Presenter: Howard B. Levine, MD, Friday, March 10, 2017 8:00-10:00pm

While many of Freud’s formulations were restricted by the epistemological assumptions of his times, his creative genius allowed him to anticipate post-modern views that are at the cutting edge of contemporary analytic thinking. This paper will attempt to examine the epistemological basis – what do we think we know and how do we think we come to know it? – for the shift in the aims of analysis from a predominant emphasis on uncovering mental contents to one that also includes the creation of mental contents and the strengthening of the instruments for thinking and the capacity for thought. A brief clinical example will illustrate some of the clinical implications of this shift. Continue reading The Fundamental Epistemological Situation with Howard B. Levine at CFS