Psychological Care of the Medically Ill: Understanding the Conceptual Framework of Psychosomatic Medicine with James J. Strain, M.D. at NYPSI
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NYPSI: WORKS IN PROGRESS SEMINAR

Psychological Care of the Medically Ill: Understanding the Conceptual Framework of Psychosomatic Medicine with James J. Strain, M.D.
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Psychological Care of the Medically Ill: Understanding the Conceptual Framework of Psychosomatic Medicine

James J. Strain, M.D. Wednesday, October 4, 2017 at 8 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves)
Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900  Continue reading Psychological Care of the Medically Ill: Understanding the Conceptual Framework of Psychosomatic Medicine with James J. Strain, M.D. at NYPSI

Beyond the Basic Curriculum at IPTAR
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BEYOND THE BASIC CURRICULUM,  2017- 2018

The Beyond the Basic Curriculum Committee is pleased to offer the following courses. ALL ARE AVAILABLE FOR CE CREDIT FOR SOCIAL WORKERS and LPs. Approximately one month before each course begins, a registration form for it is posted at the bottom of the course description each time the course is advertised. Beyond the Basic Curriculum courses are open to candidates (adult and CAPS programs) who are past their second year of study, and to IPTAR members. In addition, they are open to candidates and members of other institutes. IPTAR candidates who have completed their coursework but have not yet graduated are required to take one BBC course per year.

CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTIC FIELD THEORY

Instructor: S. Montana Katz, Ph.D., LP Continue reading Beyond the Basic Curriculum at IPTAR

The “Not I” Patient with Susan Finkelstein of IPTAR
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THE “NOT I” PATIENT: Instructor: Susan Finkelstein, LCSW, Wednesdays, October 18, 25 November 1,8,15, 830-10pm, 771 West End Avenue

The “Not I” patient is the clinical representation of the traumatized ‘ mouth’ depicted by Samuel Beckett in his play of the same name, whose experience of pain is disembodied and disowned. These sado-masochistic parts of the self become part of the transference /counter-transference dynamic but neither patient nor analyst are aware of them or want to experience them, resulting in mutual enactments.
The class will use clinical vignettes from both the instructor and participants to illustrate and understand the unconscious anxieties and primitive defense of projective identification of these unmetabolized experiences that prevent deeper understanding and working through. Continue reading The “Not I” Patient with Susan Finkelstein of IPTAR

An Exhibition About Revolution that Keeps Faith with Ringgold
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Click Here to Read: An Exhibition About Revolution that Keeps Faith with Ringgold: It is a great irony that the Faith Ringgold’s first public commission was effectively imprisoned for over 40 years, but this situation raises valuable questions regarding our notions of the public and how that public is served.
by Ramsay Kolber on the HyperAllergic website on September 14, 2017.

Faith Ringgold, “For the Women’s House” (1971) oil on canvas, 96 x 96 (243.8 x 243.8 cm) (courtesy of Rose M. Singer Center, Rikers Island Correctional Center 2017 © Faith Ringgold / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)

A poor analysis of the father of psychoanalysis
By Categories: Books, Letters To Editors

Click Here to Read:  A poor analysis of the father of psychoanalysis by Michael S. Roth in the Washington Post on September 15, 2017.

Click Here to Read:  Cutting ’Em Down to Size: A new dismantling of Freud shows the value of a critic’s well-honed hatchet By Laura Miller on the Slate website on September 5, 2017.

Click  Here to Read: Physician Heal Thyself   Part I by Frederick Crews in the New Review of  Books September 29. , 2011.

Click Here to Read:  Physician Heal Thyself   Part II by Frederick Crews in the New Review of  Books October 13, 2011.

Click Here to Read:   How we feel about Freud: Susie Orbach and Frederick Crews debate his legacy: Crews, an academic, thinks psychoanalysis is an unscientific jumble of ideas, while psychoanalyst Orbach would prefer not to throw the baby out with the patriarchal bias by Dr Frederick Crews and Susie Orbach on the Guardina website on August 20, 2017.

Click Here to Read:   ‘Freud: The Making of an Illusion,’ by Frederick Crews Reviewed By Carl Rollyson in the San Francisco Chronicle on August 25, 2017. Continue reading A poor analysis of the father of psychoanalysis