French Chinese Movie
By Categories: China

I just saw a preview of the Chinese/French movie “Summer Palace”. During the discussion following the showing there were passionate reactions to the film–split 50/50 for and against. I thought it was a very brave film that depicted the journey of a young, depressed teen-aged woman from her home town to Beijing University, before and after the 1989 uprising. A hand held camera, took me, and those who agreed with my experience, inside the mind and bodies of the protagonist and her lovers. The pain and passion were palpable and with the camera lingering as it did, one could not escape the emotions that bubbled up. I won’t say more, other than it gave me a deep look into the student, dormitory life at Beijing U. and everyday existence that I missed when I was in China last May for a Wu Tai Chi gathering for practitioners from around the world.

Reactions from the Cannes film festival were also split but somewhat tilted to the negative side. I have a feeling that analysts will load up on the side of intense engagement with the film. Click here to read a review that captures the essence of the film.

Myron S. Lazar, Ph.D.

The Richie Boys
By Categories: Movies

Am I the only one who has never seen–or maybe the only one who has seen–a documentary called The Richie Boys? It is about some young German, French, Austrian…who escaped the Nazi’s in 1933-1939. When the war broke out, they enlisted–or were drafted. The Army fearing it had a batch of enemy aliens in their midst assigned most of them to kitchen duty. Later they realized they had a great asset and sent them aa to Camp Richie where they were trained in military intelligence and landed in Normandy and were put to work interrogating German POW’s. It is a fantastic film, even more so when you compare these interrogators to the ones at Abu Gareb.

IPTAR: 11/16/07 Special Program Honors Dr. Anni Bergman
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IPTAR **A Special Program in Honor of Dr. Anni Bergman**

SAFETY OR DANGER? A RECONSIDERATION OF THE CONCEPT OF OBJECT CONSTANCY

Speaker: William M. Singletary, M.D.
Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst in private practice in Philadelphia; Faculty Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia; President, Margaret S. Mahler Psychiatric Research Foundation

Within the first 36 months of life, as a reaction to experience (which is influenced by neurobiological and other individual factors), the infant establishes his or her own inner world. This inner world has an adaptive, self-organizing and self-regulating function. Continue reading IPTAR: 11/16/07 Special Program Honors Dr. Anni Bergman

Art, Psychoanalysis, and Society Project: Film (Undzere Kinder)
By Categories: Movies

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INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC TRAINING AND RESEARCH
 Art, Psychoanalysis, and Society Project
Co- sponsored by the Center for Jewish History and YIVO

Space is limited   Reservations required
Box office:  917 606-8200
Date: November 4, 2007                      
Time: 2 –5 PM

Location:  Center for Jewish History
                  15  West 16th  St.
                  New York City
Sunday 4, 2-5pm

Childhood Trauma In Film: Undzere Kinder (Our Children) Film and Workshop:  This last Yiddish-language film made in Poland features famous Yiddish comedians Szimon Dzigan and Yisroel Szumacher and a cast of Jewish orphans, survivors of the Holocaust. The film will be used as the basis of a workshop on psychological trauma and its representation in film. Introduced and moderated by Dr. Maurice Preter and Dr. Isaac Tylim with the participation of Dr. Harold J. Bursztajn, Harvard Medical School; Professor Shimon Redlich, Ben-Gurion University; Marek Web, YIVO Historian; Dr. Eva Weil, Paris Psychoanalytic Society; Dr. Eva Kantor, Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, NYC.

Click Here to Read: More About the Movie Undzere Kinder.  

Click here to Read: More about Dr. Maurice Preter.

Click here to Read: More about the showing of film sponsored by Instititute for Psychoanlaytic Training and Research, Center for Jewish History, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.   

CMPS Conference: Psychoanalysis in the XXI Century: A Clinical Conference
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To introduce us to the twenty-first century, the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies has invited five outstanding psychoanalysts who have been closely associated with Hyman Spotnitz and who have participated significantly in the development and evolution of modern psychoanalysis: Arnold Bernstein, Evelyn Liegner,Robert Marshall, Leslie Rosenthal and Murray Sherman. These innovative thinkers have each made many contributions to the field over their long careers, as reflected in their work as educators, training and supervising analysts, in their many published writings, and as lecturers and speakers at conferences and workshops. For this conference they are coming together to exchange thoughts and feelings about their work, their experiences, their philosophy, and their ideas about psychoanalysis in the new century. They will invite us to join in dialogue with them.