The Role of Anxiety in Child & Adolescent Development at CFS

The Role of Anxiety in Child & Adolescent Development: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
Panel Presenters: VIRGINIA UNGAR, JAMES HERZOG & MARSHA LEVY-WARREN

November 8th, 2014, Saturday – 9:00am to 4:45pm, Pace University NYC Campus, One Pace Plaza
ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE CONTEMPORARY FREUDIAN SOCIETY
Co-Sponsored By: PACE UNIVERSITY DOWNTOWN NYC DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Psychoanalysis has led to the creation of a new approach to mental development. Psychoanalytic observations have taught us that since the beginning of life babies experience anxieties and libidinal impulses and also great disappointments while Continue reading The Role of Anxiety in Child & Adolescent Development at CFS

“The Other Current” with Priscilla Roth at CFS

The Third Rita Frankiel Memorial Lecture: “The Other Current”
by Priscilla Roth
Friday November 7, 20147:00-9:00pm
Mt Sinai Medical Center, Hatch Auditorium, Madison Ave @ 100th St

The title of Priscilla Roth’s paper comes from Freud’s discussion of disavowal and refers also to John Steiner’s development of this concept in his description of psychic retreats. It also recalls the Meeting of the Rivers of the Amazon, where the Rio Continue reading “The Other Current” with Priscilla Roth at CFS

Nobel Prize Winner Patrick Modiano Summons the Shadow-World of Postwar French Jewry

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Click Here to Read: Nobel Prize Winner Patrick Modiano Summons the Shadow-World of Postwar French Jewry; Born by his own account of ‘the mud of the Occupation,’ the French author remains haunted, like his compatriots, by memory By Clémence Boulouque on the Tablet Website on October 20, 2014.

Patrick Modiano gives a press conference in Paris, on Oct. 9, 2014, following the announcement earlier in the day of his Nobel Literature Prize. (Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images)