Marijuana and the Adolescent Process with Rex McGehee, M.D.  at NYPSI
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The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute presents the Third Peter J. Blos Memorial Lecture
Marijuana and the Adolescent Process with Rex McGehee, M.D.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 8:00 PM The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 East 82nd Street, NYC

Marijuana is a large and growing factor in current adolescent culture. Recent moves legalizing marijuana for both medical and recreational purposes add to both the availability and legitimization of the usage of marijuana products. Building on current research and clinical experience, this paper will look at the effects of marijuana usage during adolescence on the adolescent developmental process. Using clinical vignettes and one case in detail we will think together about the complex and sometimes permanent consequences to the adolescent, which then alter adult functioning. Implications of this information for treatment will be discussed.

No charge. All are welcome. To reserve seats, click HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900 Continue reading Marijuana and the Adolescent Process with Rex McGehee, M.D.  at NYPSI

Helen Gediman’s Stalker, Hacker, Voyeur, Spy at a Meeting of CFS
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Dear Colleagues,

On Friday, October 27, at 8PM at Hatch Auditorium (Madison and 100th Street 2nd floor) CFS presents an out of the box, experimental meeting on Helen Gediman’s book “Stalker, Hacker, Voyeur, Spy.” Joining Helen will be Peter Dunn and Elizabeth Fritsch and YOU, the audience. We are aiming for a round table type discussion even though we have no round table. So please join us and bring your ideas, questions, and comments – even if you have not read the book, which will be on sale at the venue.

Helen’s beautifully written and fascinating book uses Freud’s focus on the sexual and aggressive aspects of voyeurism and its relatives, stalking, hacking, spying. And because pathology is our business, we must explore its roots in order to better understand it.

Can we expand our view from the primal scene/sexual root of voyeurism to the normal curiosity we all have and how it gets played out in healthy and unhealthy ways? Why does curiosity becomes pathological?

How might this baby https://youtu.be/yRsjJ-u2ipw become Harry Caul of The Conversation?
Harry tells us: Listen, my name is Harry Caul. Can you hear me? Don’t be afraid. I know you don’t know who I am, but I know you. There isn’t much to say about myself. I – was very sick when I was a boy. I was paralyzed in my left arm and my left leg. I couldn’t walk for six months. One doctor said that I’d probably never walk again. My mother used to lower me into a hot bath – it was therapy. One time the doorbell rang and she went down to answer it. I started sliding down. I could feel the water starting to come up to my chin, up to my nose, and when I woke up, my body was all greasy from the holy oil she put on my body. I remember being disappointed I survived. When I was five, my father introduced me to a friend of his, and for no reason at all, I hit him right in the stomach with all my strength. He died a year later. He’ll kill ya if he gets the chance. I’m not afraid of death but I am afraid of murder. Continue reading Helen Gediman’s Stalker, Hacker, Voyeur, Spy at a Meeting of CFS