Sharon Weller

A Courageous Trip by First Responders to Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria in September 2017

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  •  November 6, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works in Progress Seminar:

“A Courageous Trip by First Responders to Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria in September 2017”

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

8:00 pm

Presenter: Dr. Edward Colt

We were 3 doctors and 6 nurses. What we found was chaos – roads destroyed, electricity gone, clean water unavailable, medical care unavailable, education unavailable.  No one was helping the local population.  We were not to drink water from the tap.  There were broken water mains, broken sewers, diarrhea, parasitic infections.  The rule was drink only bottled water.  Clean your teeth only with bottled water.  Spray with DEET to kill the mosquitos and other insects.

We divided  into 2 teams – one for San Juan and one for Arecibo, towns on the North coast of Puerto Rico.  Each day we worked to exhaustion.  Lost count of the number of patients.  Diabetes, hypertension, depression, anxiety.  Our morale and esprit de corps was high.  We realized that our efforts were inadequate and that a huge amount of work needed to be done.  Most of us came back to Puerto Rico several times.

We learned how poverty affected medical insurance in Puerto Rico and how Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy and political relationship with the U.S. government made the island vulnerable to natural disasters.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

 

Edward Colt, MB, BS, FACP graduated from University College Hospital Medical School, London, in 1962. He was Assistant Professor at Columbia University and is a Senior Attending Physician at St. Luke’s Hospital. A researcher in genetics and endocrinology, he has authored over 20 publications and peer-reviewed articles.

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Sharon Weller

Art, Art History, and Psychoanalytic Insights

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  •  November 12, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

NYPSI’s 1039th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Art, Art History, and Psychoanalytic Insights”

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

8:00 – 10: 00 pm

Presenter: Laurie Wilson, Ph.D.

Discussant: Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D.

Two diverse approaches to writing a psychoanalytic biography of an artist will be described. A focus on unconscious fantasy as a means of unraveling enigmas in Alberto Giacometti’s life characterized the first approach. Close attention to the artist’s behavior and the stylistic development of a signature style were crucial in making sense of Louise Nevelson’s work and life.

No CME/ CE credits offered.

 

Dr. Laurie Wilson is a psychoanalyst, art historian, and art therapist.She received psychoanalytic training at The NYU Psychoanalytic Institute and is on the faculty at PANY affiliated with NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Wilson is the U.S. Chair of 8th Triennial Symposium on Psychoanalysis and the Arts, Florence 2020; and chairs the Committee on Arts  and Psychoanalysis at the  American Psychoanalytic Association. She was awarded Honorary Life Member of the American Art Therapy Association and is Professor Emerita at New York University. She has published over 40 papers in three fields and the books Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic and the Man (Yale, 2003) and Louise Nevelson: Light and Shadow (Thames & Hudson, 2016.)

Dr. Lois Oppenheim is University Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University where she teaches courses in both literature and applied psychoanalysis.  She is Scholar Associate Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society.  Dr. Oppenheim has published over 100 papers and authored or edited fourteen books, the most recent being For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (co-authored with Dr. Ludovica Lumer) and Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion, awarded the 2013 Courage to Dream Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association.  Other recent books include A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis and The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett’s Dialogue With Art.

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Sharon Weller

Screening and Discussion of “The Lives of Others”

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  •  October 30, 2019
     7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

A.A. Brill Library Film Event:

Screening and Discussion of “The Lives of Others”

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Post-Film Discussant: Helen K. Gediman, Ph.D.

In 1984, Gerd Wiesler, secret-service Stasi operative of East Germany stalks, via videotape, the love and art of a couple whose sympathies lie with West Germany.  We, as a classically voyeuristic movie audience, are challenged to account for the sleazy political Stasi stalker’s amazing transformation  into a humane lover of the “primal scene” couple that was his quarry. Following the film presentation, Dr. Gediman will summarize her comments on the film as they appeared in her recent book Stalker, Hacker, Voyeur, Spy.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

Dr. Helen K. Gediman is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Faculty, Supervising and Training Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society, and in full time practice in Manhattan. The writer of numerous published papers on psychoanalysis, she has also authored or co-authored five psychoanalytic books. Her latest are her selected papers, Building Bridges, and Stalker, Hacker, Voyeur, Spy. The latter is a selection of the CIPS series on The Boundaries of Psychoanalysis, a psychoanalytic study of Erotomania, Voyeurism, Surveillance, and Invasion of Privacy, and will provide the basis of her discussion of the film.

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Sharon Weller

Open Group Discussion on Mentalising Homeostasis

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  •  October 5, 2019
     10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis:

Katerina Fotopoulou’s video lecture on “Mentalising Homeostasis” –  an open group discussion

Saturday, October 5, 2019

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

The clinical implications of the research findings on affective touch are just beginning to be explored.  Katerina Fotopoulou, one of the pioneers and leading researchers in this field, has contributed a wonderful course on the topic, entitled “Mentalising Homeostasis:  From Body to Self,” to the NPSA Learning platform (www.npsalearning.org).  We will discuss this rich lecture in an open group discussion.

Participants are encouraged to view the course (requires purchase for $30; discount for current members of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society) in advance.  To purchase and access Dr. Fotopoulou’s course, visit:

www.npsalearning.org/courselibrary

In addition, participants can read the ground-breaking article “Mentalizing homeostasis:  The social origins of interoceptive inference” by Fotopoulou & Tsakiris (Neuropsychoanalysis, 2017) by downloading the open access version here:

https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15294145.2017.1294031

No CME or CE credits offered. 

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Sharon Weller

Works In Progress Seminar: The Interplay of Fact and Fiction in Narrative

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  •  October 2, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works In Progress Seminar:

The Interplay of Fact and Fiction in Narrative

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

8:00 pm

Presenters: Lisa Gornick and  Sheila Kohler 

How did your story begin? Where should the narrative start? Who should tell it? What are the facts that will give it a firm underpinning, provide the stuff of life, but allow the story to move forward to its inevitable but surprising end? These are some of the questions the presenters will try to answer in a discussion of writing historical fiction using their own texts as examples: The Peacock Feast by Lisa Gornick and Dreaming for Freud by Sheila Kohler.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

 

Lisa Gornick is a graduate of the doctoral program in clinical psychology at Yale and the psychoanalytic training program at Columbia, where she is on the voluntary faculty. Hailed by NPR as “one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America…immensely talented and brave,” she is the author of the novels The Peacock Feast, Louisa Meets Bear, and Tinderbox—all published by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Picador—as well as A Private Sorcery, published by Algonquin. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Real Simple, Salon, Slate, and The Wall Street Journal.

Sheila Kohler is the author of ten novels,  three volumes of short fiction, a memoir,  and many essays. Her most recent novel is Dreaming for Freud,  based on the Dora case. Her memoir Once We Were Sisters was published in 2017 by Penguin as well as in England and Spain.  She has won numerous prizes including the O.Henry and been included in Best American Short Stories. Her work has been published in thirteen countries. She has taught at Columbia, Sarah Lawrence, Bennington and at Princeton. Her novel, Cracks was made into a film with directors Jordan and Ridley Scott with Eva Green playing Miss G.  You can find her blog at Psychology Today under Dreaming for Freud.

 

 

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