Tuesday, September 25, 2018 8:00 pm Presenter: Anton Hart, Ph.D. In 1976, Gail Wyatt, Ph.D., of UCLA, brought together Drs. Ralph Greenson and Ellis Toney, former analyst and analysand, respectively, to discuss the psychoanalytic work they had completed together more than 25 years before, when Dr. Toney was a candidate at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute. […]
A Two-Day Conference jointly sponsored by the Scientific Program Committee and The Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis Friday, October 26, 2018 & Saturday, October 27, 2018 Speaking from a theoretical perspective, Friday evening’s panelists will consider the relation between artistic creativity and psychoanalytic treatment, the significance (if any) of the high incidence of affective disorders among […]
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 8:00 pm Presenter: Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D. Discussant: Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. Boundary concepts pervade psychoanalytic thought and practice from the “repression barrier,” to gender, to institutional expectations about professional behavior. Yet analytic discussion of boundaries often proceeds without a clear conceptual framework and on the basis of intuitive but ill-founded notions about them. In […]
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 7:30 pm The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to an evening with Donald Moss, the author of At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2017). The author situates each chapter of At War with the Obvious at the border between common and psychoanalytic sense. Cumulatively, the book argues that in order […]
DIALOGUES ON…SERIES: Understanding and Coping with Childhood Aggression Wednesday, January 24, 2018 8:00 pm Presenter: Wendy Olesker, Ph.D. Dr. Olesker will look at aggression from a developmental perspective focusing on school aged children. She will discuss the manifestations of aggression, typical developmental conflicts, and the role of caregivers in helping children understand, channel, express, and contain […]
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