Ann and Aaron Pore Over Freud’s Fainting Spells in Jung’s Presence
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Click Here to Read:   Robert Lippman’s play: Ann and Aaron Pore Over Freud’s Fainting Spells in Jung’s Presence

Note from Dr. Lippman: Dr. Bernard Meyer’s lecture on Psychoanalysis and Biography prompts me to submit for consideration the stage version of ” Ann and Aaron Pore Over Freud’s Fainting Spells in Jung’s Presence ” (Sept 2, 2008). In this version, which I have just completed, Aaron’s obsession with the father of psychoanalysis is fleshed out.

Call for Presenters! Forgotten Analysts and their Legacy
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Call for Presenters! Forgotten Analysts and their Legacy

The Discussion Group Forgotten Analysts and their Legacy announces a request for presenters for the January and June 2011 APsaA meetings. The focus of the Discussion Group is on forgotten, overlooked and neglected analysts and their creative contributions frequently similar to or an influence on contemporary theorists. At the recent January, 2010 meeting Joseph Reppen read a paper on the life and work of Edmund Bergler on psychic masochism and at the June, 2010 meeting Zvi Lothane will present the life and work of Sabina Spielrien, known more for her alleged sexual exploitation by Carl Gustav Jung, but less for her therapy of schizophrenia and her pioneering work on child psychology and psychoanalysis The co-chairs are Joseph Reppen, PhD, the former editor of Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychoanalytic Books and Zvi Lothane, MD, the author of In Defense of chreber: Soul Murder and Psychiatry and numerous papers on the theory and history of psychoanalysis. Please contact Dr. Reppen at: jreppen@datagram.com or Dr. Lothane @Zvi.Lothane@mssm.edu if interested.

Training Therapists on Resolving Alliance Ruptures with J. Christopher Muran at NYPSI
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THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Academic Research Seminar
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY

Training Therapists on Resolving Alliance Ruptures
J. Christopher Muran, Ph.D.

Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 8 – 9:30 pm

Dr. Muran will describe a training program developed at Beth Israel that attempts to redress the sobering failure rates in psychotherapy by improving therapists’ abilities to negotiate negative process with their patients. The program is grounded in empirical research on psychotherapy process, affect regulation and interpersonal transactions, as well as principles from contemporary relational psychoanalysis. Continue reading Training Therapists on Resolving Alliance Ruptures with J. Christopher Muran at NYPSI