Charlie & Jackie in the film The Kid

Click Here to Read: Charlie & Jackie in the film The Kid.  This film will be screen at The A. A. Brill Library of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute 247 East 82nd Street NY NY 10028, 212-879-6900.  This event is open to the general public.

Before and after the film there will be a discussion by Stephen M. Weissman author of Chaplin: A Life. Dr. Weissman is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who lives and practices in Washington, D.C.

Click Here To Listen to: A on hour interview with Dr. Weissman on the Diane Rehm Show.

Explaining the Benefits of Psychotherapy: A Tale of Two Psychologies

Dr. Bruce Wampold, author of “The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, Methods, and Findings,” (and over 200 articles and book chapters) will present the 32nd Sandor S. Feldman Lecture, presented by the Psychoanalytic Society of Upstate New York on Saturday, April 18, 2009.  Dr. Wampold’s lecture is titled, “Explaining the Benefits of Psychotherapy: A Tale of Two Psychologies.”

 Dr. Wampold is Professor and Chair, Department of Counseling Psychology and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Continue reading Explaining the Benefits of Psychotherapy: A Tale of Two Psychologies

Stock-Still Behavior: A Potential Developmental Marker for the Representation of Self and Other in Toddlers

THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd 
                     
Tuesday, April 14, 2009, 8:15 p.m.

Peter Fonagy, Ph.D. will discuss a paper by Susan Sherkow, M.D. and Lissa Weinstein, Ph.D. on Stock-Still Behavior: A Potential Developmental Marker for the Representation of Self and Other in Toddlers.

Join us for light refreshments from 7:30 to 8 p.m.

For information about our training programs please visit us at: www.psychoanalysis.org

An Amazing Adventure

CAPA, the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance, (http://www.capachina.org/) is completing the first year of its Two Year Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program. There are 57 students in classes at 6 sites in China. We are inundated with applicants for the incoming first year class.

The program runs for 30 weeks each year divided into three trimesters
No more than 10-12 people in a class
Each course is 10 weeks long
1 and 1/4 hours a week theory class
1 and 1/4 hours a week technique class
1 and 1/4 hours a week continuous case conference
1 hour a week individual supervision
All students receive PEP WEB.
All of this is done using Skype, free, secure and easy to use.
There are model reading lists for each course, but of course, instructors can tweak them to suit.

We are recruiting instructors and supervisors.
In exchange for your participation, we promise you interested and dedicated students (some have been getting up at 4:30 in the morning to attend classes) and an amazing adventure. That’s a pretty good offer these days.

Please contact me for more details.

Elise Snyder elise.snyder@yale.edu