The Status of Women at NYPSI
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The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to attend The Status of Women
An Evening with Vivian Pender, MD, Alexander Kalogerakis, MD and Sargam Mona Jain, MD

March 22, 2017 at 8:00 pm, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC
General Admission: $10, All proceeds support the A.A. Brill Library, Register Here

The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to an evening with the editor and several contributors to the recent publication The Status of Women: Violence, Identity and Activism (Karnac, 2016). Together they will discuss the book’s overall project and review their own individual contributions. This will be followed by a discussion with the audience.

This book examines the current status of women. It consists of a collection of papers that focus on the political, economic, biologic, cultural, academic and psychological challenges Continue reading The Status of Women at NYPSI

Philosophy Thursday: Albert Einstein
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Click Here to Read: Albert Einstein on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: This Day in Jewish History 1916: Einstein’s Relativity Theory Is Submitted for Publication: As a consequence of Einstein’s work, it became clear (well, clear to some scientists, at least) that time and space comprise a single continuum David B. Green March 20, 2016.

Click Here to Read: Without Albert Einstein, We’d All Be Lost: Do you like your GPS? Thank his general theory of relativity, an astonishing feat of the human mind By Robert Dijkgraafin the Wall Street Journal on November 5, 2015. Continue reading Philosophy Thursday: Albert Einstein

Psychoanalytic Conversations on Diversity and Race: A Panel Discussion at NYPSI
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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM MEETING
Psychoanalytic Conversations on Diversity and Race: A Panel Discussion; Free For Members & NYPSI Students
Tuesday, March 14, 2017, 8:00 pm, Moderator: Beverly Stoute, MD, Panelists: Anton Hart, PhD, Milton Hollar, MD and Kathy Pogue White, PhD

This will be an interactive presentation devoted to how we discuss our experiences of and resistances to thinking and talking about difference. How do we experience difference in the analytic dyad? How do we frame it? How ready are we to look inward? What are our resistances as individuals and as a field? How do we deal with a lack of openness to curiosity? What are the resistances to curiosity regarding difference? What is the reluctance to allowing curiosity to develop in analysis? Although the conversation about diversity and race has evolved in some quarters toward issues of “cultural competence” and knowledge, it is our position that a productive psychoanalytic frame would involve a persistent exploration of how we experience curiosity – or its inhibition – in approaching matters of race, difference, and otherness.

2 CME/CE credits offered.

$20 – General Admission Continue reading Psychoanalytic Conversations on Diversity and Race: A Panel Discussion at NYPSI

Austen Riggs Center to Award $3,000 Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media
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CALL FOR ENTRIES: Austen Riggs Center to Award $3,000 Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media

The Austen Riggs Center is pleased to announce the call for entries for its 2017 Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media.

The Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media recognizes a select group of professional journalists, writers, and media professionals who create exemplary work that contributes to the public’s understanding of mental health issues. Continue reading Austen Riggs Center to Award $3,000 Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media

Writer’s Wednesday: Graham Greene
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Click Here to Read: Graham Greene on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Graham Greene (1904-1991) on the Greeneland website.

Click Here to Read: Graham Greene, 86, Dies; Novelist of the Soul in The New York Times on April 4, 1991.

Click Here to Read: The 100 best novels: No 71 – The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (1951): Graham Greene’s moving tale of adultery and its aftermath ties together several vital strands in his work by Robert McCrum On the Guardian website on January 26, 2015. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Graham Greene

The Subject’s Economy and Neoliberal Discourse Panel Discussion at Après-Coup
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Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents

The Subject’s Economy and Neoliberal Discourse, Saturday, March 4, 2017, 10:30 am – 3:00 pm
The School of Visual Arts, 136 West 21st Street, New York, NY

PANEL DISCUSSION
John Brenkman: “Exchange Paradigm / Jouissance Paradigm”
Renata Salecl: “Ignorance and Neoliberal Subjectivity”
Dany Nobus: “Commodified Reason in the Neoliberal University Discourse: A Report from the Frontline”
Mario Eduardo Costa Pereira: “Health, Bodies and Sexuality in the Era of Post-Modern Medicine”
Paola Mieli, Moderator Continue reading The Subject’s Economy and Neoliberal Discourse Panel Discussion at Après-Coup