THE NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE
247 East Eighty-Second Street, between 2nd & 3rd

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Program

Informational Session  

Thursday, April 24, 2008, 7-8 p.m.

Understand Theory to Improve Practice
Supervision with Experienced Analysts
Case Conferences
Optional Child/Adolescent Track
Evening Classes
2 Year Program

THE FRIENDS OF THE A. A. BRILL LIBRARY
of The New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
 

invite you to a
Special Event
 
Friday, April 25, 2008 at 8:15 P.M.
 
The Auditorium of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute
247 East 82nd Street, New York, NY 10028
 
An Evening with Sylvia Brody, Ph.D.
 
Sylvia Brody, Ph.D., a most distinguished psychoanalyst and developmental researcher, came to prominence with her books documenting her observational, clinical, and theoretical studies on maternal behavior and child development. Among her contributions were Patterns of Mothering (1950), Anxiety and Ego Formation in Infancy (1970), Mothers, Fathers, and Children: Explorations in the Formation of Character in the First Seven Years (1978) and the follow-up study of the sample at eighteen years, Evolution of Character (1992). This body of work served to vividly demonstrate the significance of the child’s earliest experiences on emerging character structure and ego and superego functioning. In 2002, Dr. Brody published The Development of Anorexia Nervosa; a second edition came out in 2007.
 

The William Alanson White Institute LGBT Study Group
presents the first annual
Catherine Stuart Memorial Lecture

Friday, May 9th at 8pm
20 West 74th Street
New York City

Catherine Stuart Ph.D., Fellow, Supervising and Training Analyst, Co-Director Diversity Committee, William Alanson White Institute, was prematurely lost to her family, friends and colleagues on April 5, 2007. This lecture, presented by Dr. Jack Drescher, is the first in a series devoted to diversity and honors her memory.

Jack Drescher, MD
Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis
From the Preoedipal to the Postmodern

Dr. Drescher will review the history of psychoanalytic theories of, and attitudes toward, homosexuality. Psychoanalytic theories purporting to explain homosexuality’s “etiology” can be divided into three broad categories:  theories of immaturity, theories of pathology and theories of normal variation. Freud’s early theory of “homosexual immaturity” was replaced by later Neo-Freudian theories that pathologized homosexuality.  Then, in 1973, the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from the DSM.  Dr. Drescher will illustrate the implicit values that psychoanalytic theorists historically used to construct their theories of “etiology.” He will also argue that the history of psychoanalytic attitudes toward homosexuality illustrates how psychoanalytic theories cannot be divorced from the political, cultural, and personal contexts in which they are formulated, and that analysts can take positions that either facilitate or obstruct tolerance and acceptance.