“Knowing you, knowing me” Boundaries and Borders in the Clinical Encounter at IPTAR

Following IPTAR’s Race as Relations Conference: Sunday Salon at IPTARInstitute for Psychoanalytic Training & Research
“Knowing you, knowing me” Boundaries and Borders in the Clinical Encounter
The conversation on race, culture, class, identity continues…
bringing it into the clinical moment.
Sunday March 20, 2016, Roundtable 3:00-5:00, Open House 5:00-6:00
IPTAR: 1651 Third Ave. #205 (92nd and Third Ave.)
Naama Kushner Barash, PhD, (IPTAR Fellow and Faculty), Sam Semper, PhD, (IPTAR Advanced Candidate)
Sujatha Subramanian, PhD, (IPTAR Member and Faculty), Moderator: Ben Kafka, PhD, LP, (IPTAR Advanced Candidate)
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The IPA model of training and its buried mistake, Op-Ed by Ahmed Fayek

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The IPA model of training and its buried mistake.*

Fusing the Executive Committee  and the Training Committee  of the IPA in the early years of establishing training was a first mistake. It was recognised very early on that the distinction between the team that was running the
analytic organization became the defacto team running training. The mistake is that the role of the executive was to manage the members’ affairs, while the ITC was to manage seekers of membership. The fusion of the two
committees created a case of conflict of interest that plagued the IPA in every aspects of its future varied activities  Anna Freud (1938) called it wrong to confuse teaching with doing analysis, and for the setup of training analysis permitting choosing the trainees from the circle of interested candidates. Eitingon, the father of training psychoanalysis apologized to the ITC (report,1927) that didactic analysis and therapeutic analysis are Continue reading The IPA model of training and its buried mistake, Op-Ed by Ahmed Fayek

Writer’s Wednesday: Joseph Heller

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Click Here to Read:  Joseph Heller on Wikipedia.

Click Here to Read: Joseph Heller, The Art of Fiction No. 51 Interviewed by George Plimpton in The Paris Review in the Volune 60, Winter 1974 issue.

Click Here to Read:  The War for Catch-22 by Tracy Duagherty in Vanity Fair in the August 2011 Issue.

Click Here to Read: The Enigma of Joseph Heller By Blake Bailey in The New York Times on August. 26, 2011. Continue reading Writer’s Wednesday: Joseph Heller

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients with Norman Straker at NYPSI

NEW YORK PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY & INSTITUTE:
Extension Program
247 East 82nd St., between 2nd & 3rd, NY, NY 10028
212-879-6900
www.psychoanalysis.org
www.nypsi.org

PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY of CANCER PATIENTS
Norman Straker, M.D., Thursdays, 7:30 – 8:40 pm, March 10, 17, 24, 2016, (3 Classes), Fee $90
3.5 CME/CE credits offered

To register, click HERE or visit nypsi.org and go to Continuing Education & Research

This course will provide the therapist an introduction to psychoanalytic psychotherapy of cancer patients. It will acquaint the therapist with the important concept of “death anxiety,” long neglected in psychoanalytic theory and Continue reading Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients with Norman Straker at NYPSI