Screening of Gods and Monsters at Div 39

Section I, Division 39, APA Invites you to a special Discussion and film Screening of Gods and Monsters Academy Award 1998: Best Screen Play Adaptation.

Sunday, February 24, 2013, 11:00 AM. – 3:00 PM.
Training Institute for Mental Health
15 East 27th Street 4th Floor
New York, NY. 10001

Presenter: William Fried, PhD Board Section I, Div. 39, APA Fellow International Psychoanalytic Assoc.

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The Power of Witnessing: International Holocaust Remembrance

The inspirational ways that survivors of the Holocaust testify to their experiences teaches us all about the place of witnessing when trauma haunts the mind–in the past and today. Please join Nancy Goodman, Marilyn Meyers, Arlene Kramer Richards, Arnold Richards, Sophia Richman, Katalin Roth, Nina Shapiro-Perl (film maker) and Margit Meissner.

Dear Friends,

An Invitation for 27 January 2013

Nancy R. Goodman

and

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Father/Daughter Fantasy in “The Artist”

On the face of it, it is astounding that a silent film would win awards as best motion picture of the year; although, the anomaly may be a key to its success, as we may admire and enjoy something that is so different.

The film, The Artist, has a further burden. It centers around a silent film star, George Valentin, whose career plummets at the end of the silent era. It must elicit our sympathy for George, but he has many traits that are not sympathetic. At the outset, we see him as a Continue reading Father/Daughter Fantasy in “The Artist”