Sharon Weller

How neuropsychoanalysis impacts clinical practice: An open group discussion

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  •  April 6, 2019
     10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis:

“How neuropsychoanalysis impacts clinical practice: An open group discussion”

Saturday, April 6, 2019

10:00 am

As we celebrate 20 years of neuropsychoanalysis, we have begun to outline its impacts on clinical practice. Many clinicians report that neuroscience findings provide support for psychodynamic models and techniques. Neuropsychoanalytic ideas may inspire clinical hypotheses, either explicitly in the moment, or realized in retrospect. Some therapists have intentionally changed aspects of their practice, others have not. We may use neuroscientific ideas much as we use information from other disciplines, sometimes sharing information with patients for educational purposes, or to assist in exploring a dynamic in the treatment. Many other impacts could be described as well.

Join us for an open discussion about how (or if) neuropsychoanalysis has impacted your own work. Because neuropsychoanalysis is a rich area of exploration, with implications at many levels, non-clinicians are welcome to contribute to the discussion as well.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

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Sharon Weller

Works In Progress Seminar: The Problem of Self-Disclosure

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  •  May 15, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works In Progress Seminar:

“The Problem of Self-Disclosure”

Wednesday, May 15, 2019

8:00 pm

Presenter: Arnold Richards, M.D.

This paper discusses the difference between self-disclosure and self-revelation particularly from the points of view of self psychology and contemporary Freudian conflict theory and other theoretical points of view. It was stimulated by an exchange between Jeffrey Stern, a self psychologist, about a paper on self-revelation: “I have a dog in the fight.” The pros and cons of self-disclosure are explored in relation to a case presented by Dr. Richards (where issues of self-disclosure were present) and the patient’s own comments on Dr. Richards’ write-up of his case are included.  In addition, there is discussion of the history of self-disclosure in psychoanalysis focusing on instances of Freud’s own interference in his patients’ lives. Finally, there is a discussion of changes in the relevance of the analyst’s self-disclosure now that patients can google their analysts and may find out many details of their analysts’ lives on the internet.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

 

Arnold Richards, M.D. is Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and is on the Faculty of the Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Adult Program and the Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China. He is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute; the American Psychological Association, Division 39; the New York Freudian Society, and the Psychoanalytic Association of New York.  He is also Honorary Member of the American Institute of Psychoanalysis/Karen Horney Clinic.
Dr. Richards served as editor of The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) from 1994 to 2003 and The American Psychoanalyst (TAP, newsletter of The American Psychoanalytic Association) for three years prior to that. He is currently editor of internationalpsychoanalysis.net and the publisher of ipbooks.net.  Dr. Richards was the recipient of the Distinguished Contributor Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He was also winner of the Mary S. Sigourney Award (2000) and the Hans Loewald Awardee of the IFPE (2013). He is the author of Controversial Conversations: Selected papers of Arnold Richards, Volume 1, published by ipbooks, Perspectives on Thought Collectives, Selected papers of Arnold Richards, Volume 2, and numerous other books and papers.
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Sharon Weller

Dialogues On… Series: Beyond the Stork: Where do I come from and what does that mean?

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  •  June 12, 2019
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Dialogues On…Child and Adolescent Analysis:

“Beyond the Stork: Where do I come from and what does that mean?”

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

8:00 pm

Presenter: Anna Balas, M.D.

This presentation will focus on how to talk to children and their siblings who were born through assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF, sperm donors, egg donors, and surrogates. Dr. Balas will discuss a range of approaches to talking with children, taking into account the family style of communication, parents’ level of comfort, children’s temperament and their developmental stage. Parents and helping professionals are welcome.
No CME or CE credits offered. 
Anna Balas, M.D. is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Training and Supervising Analyst at NYPSI and Associate Professor at Payne Whitney.  She has a long-standing interest in the areas of psychological impact of assisted reproductive technologies and of adoption on children and their families.  She is in private practice on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

 

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Sharon Weller

Eyes Wide Shut: A Psychoanalytic Investigation

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  •  April 17, 2019
     7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

A.A. Brill Library Event:

Eyes Wide Shut: A Psychoanalytic Investigation

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Presenter: Mary Wild

The Friends of the Brill Library are pleased to present “Eyes Wide Shut: A Psychoanalytic Investigation” with Mary Wild. During this presentation, Ms. Wild will discuss Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wild Shut and present clips from the film.

Eyes Wide Shut is an erotic drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick – released in 1999, it is the final feature he completed before dying that same year at the age of 70. Based on Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream Story), it depicts the ambivalent role of extra-marital fantasies revealed by a woman to her husband in a seemingly happy relationship. One would be forgiven to suspect that, over the course of his career, Kubrick was working his way to an investigation of female desire by first tackling less daunting subjects in earlier works (e.g., war, outer space, ultraviolence and horror)!

Starring the then-still-married actors Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, Eyes Wide Shut presents dark motifs of jealousy and sexual obsession, although Kubrick intended the film as a “hopeful” story about commitment and monogamous fidelity. The title is a reference to remarks made by Benjamin Franklin: “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards” – a shorthand for a pragmatic attitude in terms of viewing a spouse’s inner life.

A pattern formed with the emergence of new Kubrick films; baffled critics angrily dismissed his vision, but the equalizing forces of word-of-mouth among audiences ensured that a cult following developed around his masterful cinema. Peter Bradshaw, writing in The Guardian, was one of Eyes Wide Shut’s biggest detractors, referring to it as “a grotesque, vulgar, preposterous flop that embarrassingly damages one of the most unimpeachable reputations in world cinema.” While The New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael raised herself from retirement to declare the film “a piece of crap.”

This lecture will interpret Eyes Wide Shut from a psychoanalytic perspective, relying on theoretical concepts such as the uncanny, primal scene, feminine jouissance, Eros, and Thanatos to approach the infuriating enigma of marital eroticism. On the 20th anniversary of Kubrick’s death coinciding with the film’s release, we will reflect back on the initial outraged response of film reviewers, and identify the director’s recurring iconic themes that, in a present-day appraisal, stand the test of time.

No CME or CE credits offered.

Mary Wild is the creator of the PROJECTIONS lecture series at Freud Museum London, applying psychoanalysis to film interpretation. Her interests include cinematic representations of mental illness, doppelgangers and the unconscious in the genres of horror, science fiction and documentary. Mary also co-hosts a film podcast on iTunes: PROJECTIONS Podcast.

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Sharon Weller

Works in Progress Seminar: Mind and Consciousness

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  •  April 3, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works in Progress Seminar:

“Mind and Consciousness”

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

8:00 pm

Presenter: Terence Rogers, Ph.D.

With the larger aim of formulating a model of the human mind that acts as a bridge between clinicians and neuroscientists, we suggest that it is possible to clarify some of the questions that have vexed psychodynamic and psychoanalytic thinking for a long time. Two examples, “What is a Mind”, and, “What is Consciousness” will be addressed and their connection to topics such as awareness, subjectivity and attention will be touched on. We shall also address Chalmer’s “Hard Problem”, and initiate a discussion on the way in which classic Freudian models of the mind can be interpreted within these conceptions. We will not address therapeutic techniques, except in a very general sense.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

Dr. Rogers holds a Ph.D. from Cambridge University (UK) in the Theory of Elementary Particle Physics, and a B.Sc., also from Cambridge, in Natural Sciences (1st Class Honors). He was then awarded a Harkness Fellowship to carry out research at Princeton and Berkeley Universities.  He left academia and worked for IBM from 1970 to 1990, becoming a Group Director, and from 1990 to 1999 he held executive positions in several software companies, including being CEO of a (failed) Internet startup.  In 1999 he was asked to lead a national project to build an alternative Internet, which was announced at the White House and became the most powerful network in the world.  Subsequently, Dr. Rogers became President and CEO of the International ThinkQuest Foundation an initiative for engaging 100,000 teenagers around the world in creating educational websites for other students.  Between 2006 and 2012 Dr. Rogers worked on a proposal to redesign our K-12 Public School System, and his book “Fifty Million Futures” is to be published imminently.  In 2013, he became Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where his research is devoted to applying his knowledge of complex systems to studying models of the mind.

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