The Trauma of Being Alive: Perspectives from Buddhism and Psychoanalysis

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 2019  |  7:30 — 9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS.

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From the “Child Woman” to “Wonder Woman”: Progress and Misogyny in Psychoanalytic Theory and Clinical Work

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018 • 7:30–9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

The way we listen to our patients and formulate their problems in the areas of sex and gender depend on the guiding theories of the therapist. The place and function of sex and gender in that theory will reveal its biases about female development in particular. [Read more]

Rosemary H. Balsam, MD, presents

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Pace, Space, and the Other in the Making of Fiction

FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2018 • 7:30–9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

The turn toward an embodied metaphorical understanding of human thought in the cognitive sciences and other disciplines has reconfigured the idea that narrative is a purely linguistic phenomenon that begins with language acquisition. [Read more]

Siri Hustvedt, PhD presents

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Trans* Psychoanalysis: A New Discipline?

FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2018 • 7:30–9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS 

“I had no choice. I would be dead if I hadn’t transitioned—I would have killed myself.” This clinical vignette is no longer exceptional. We are living a “transgender moment,” as headlines across the United States have called it, that is radically changing our notions of sex and gender. [Read more]

Patricia Gherovici, PhD, presents

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Freud's Tin Ear: On His Aversion to Music

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 • 7:30 - 9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

Joel Whitebook will speak on the significance of Freud’s strong aversion to music, which was especially unusual in Vienna.

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Facing Race and Racism in Psychoanalysis

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2017 • 7:30 - 9:30 PM

PLEASE ARRIVE ONTIME, THE PRESENTATION WILL COMENCE WITH A FILM SEGMENT.

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

Michael Moskowitz will discuss the problem of institutional racism in psychoanalysis. He will address the need for greater openness to and understanding of the roles of history and culture in psychoanalytic training, transference, and countertransference, and their implications for making psychoanalytic education more accessible and relevant to people of color.

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Love is Giving What You Don't Have: A Commentary on Lacan's Reading of Plato's Symposium

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2017 • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

What is love and what part does it play in psychoanalysis? Where are the analyst and the analysand situated in relation to the roles defined as “lover” and “beloved”?

Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor who trained in France at the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris.

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To Have and to Hold: Understanding and Treating the Compulsive Hoarder

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2017 • 9:30 - 11:30 AM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

This workshop will give an overview of hoarding and the diagnostic categories in which it may be a factor. We will examine the beliefs commonly held by hoarders and will explore the syndrome’s underpinnings, including neurological factors and psychodynamics. 

Patrice La Mariana, MA, LP, is on the faculty of CMPS and NYGSP. 

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EVENT CANCELED: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Analytic Listening and the Use of the Analyst's Mind

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017 • 7:30 - 9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

Montana Katz will describe the motivation for the development of psychoanalytic field theory as well as the various psychoanalytic field theory models that have been developed in different contexts and parts of the world. She will explore whether and how psychoanalytic field theory models offer something new and useful to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and other clinical modalities.

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Introducing Bion: Some Basic Dimensions

FRIDAY, MAY 5 • 7:30–9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

James Ogilvie will introduce an aspect of Bion’s psychoanalytic engagement with the “primitive mind,” focusing on some of the basic turns through which he engages us. Bion has a remarkable ability to bring us into a more immediate, “from the inside” contact with areas of psychic fragmentation and rebirth.

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