Psychoanalysis and the Arts
Past
Film Screening: Cured
Thursday, June 8, 2023, 8:00 PM (Eastern), In-Person and Via Zoom
Five years in the making, Cured illuminates a critical chapter in the struggle for LGBTQ equality: the campaign that led the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
Clinical Writing: Expanding the Parameters (Online Workshop)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2020 | 9:00 AM — 1:00 PM, VIA ZOOM
4 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers
In this workshop, participants will learn to write richer, more accessible, and creative clinical narratives, including vignettes, case studies, and clinical papers. [Read more . . .]
Presenter: Therese Ragen, PhD
The Dream Screen: Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Online Survey Course Open To The Public)
Mondays September 14–November 16, 2020 | 10:00 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)
THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO PARTICIPANTS IN NEW YORK
AS WELL AS THOSE OUTSIDE THE METROPOLITAN AREA
Instructor: Joseph Dodds, PhD
Psychoanalysis and Art (Online Survey Course Open To The Public)
Wednesdays, September 9–November 11, 2020 | 10:00 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)
15 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts
and Social Workers
THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO PARTICIPANTS IN NEW YORK
AS WELL AS THOSE OUTSIDE THE METROPOLITAN AREA
Instructor: Joseph Dodds, PhD
Cisgender/Transgender: Bye-Bye, Binary
FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2017 • 7:30–9:30 PM
Agender, Bigender, Cisgender, FTM, MTF, Genderqueer, Other, Neither, and Two-Spirit; these are a few of the 58 gender options that Facebook offers. Whatever happened to him and her? We are confronting twenty-first-century conceptions of gender with a nineteenthcentury mind-set.
Dancing with the Locos: A Comparative Study of Argentine Tango and Psychoanalysis
Friday, November 20, 2015. 7:30–9:30PM
It takes two to tango and two to form the analytic pair. While both Argentine tango and psychoanalysis were born in 1881, what else do they have in common? RSVP by email.
A Kind of Alaska
Friday, November 6, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM
Sam Schacht edits and directs Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska, first performed on a London stage in 1982, based on Oliver Sacks’ (1973) compelling book [. . .] RSVP by email.
Emancipated Woman or Femme Fatale? Bizet's Carmen
Friday, September 25, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM
This multimedia lecture examines Carmen, the first operatic femme fatale, dismissed by contemporary critics as a “wild animal” and “cynical harlot.” Through excerpts from the staged opera, the presentation explores the behaviors and underlying motivationsof this female protagonist. RSVP by email.
Transformation of Trauma in Art
Friday, April 17, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM
This exhibition offers insight into artistic creativity as a process. The release of imagery, memory, and feeling buried in the unconscious mind and body is fundamental to the psychoanalytic conception of cure. Three curators explore the intimate connection between the creative and the therapeutic process as exemplified in the work of these extraordinary artists. RSVP here.
Lucia di Lammermoor -- The Fragile Mind In Extremis -- A Multimedia Opera Lecture
Friday. Nov. 21st 2014 7:30–9:30 PM
Against the backdrop of a foreboding Scottish landscape, Lucia’s story of despair and mental torment unfolds. Donizetti’s opera is steeped in blood feuds, forbidden love, incestuous desire, murder, insanity, death, and suicide. It is a rich case study of psychosis and the tragedy that often accompanies such extremes in literature. Dowload flier
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