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An Evening on Broadway in Support of NYPSI

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  •  January 22, 2019
     7:00 pm - 11:00 pm

A Special Evening in Support of NYPSI

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

7:00 – 9:00 pm: Theater Performance of Academy Award® winner Kenneth Lonergan’s “The Waverly Gallery”  

9:00 – 11:00 pm: Dinner & Conversation with Tony Award® winner Joan Allen and director Lila Neugebauer at Il Gattopardo Restaurant

 

Join us for a special evening that includes a performance of “The Waverly Gallery” starring Elaine May, Lucas Hedges, Joan Allen and Michael Cera, as well as a post-play dinner and conversation with star Joan Allen and director Lila Neugebauer.

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An Evening with Elizabeth Danto

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  •  February 4, 2019
     7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Brill Library Book Series:

An Evening with Elizabeth Danto

Monday, February 4, 2019

7:30 pm

Presenter: Elizabeth Ann Danto

The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to an evening with Elizabeth Danto, who will discuss the book Freud/Tiffany: Anna Freud, Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham and the ‘Best Possible School’ (Routledge, 2018) as well as screen a short film Anna Freud and ‘The Conscience of Society’.  The book and the film were jointly produced by Elizabeth Ann Danto and Alexandra Steiner-Strauss.

Modernism, creativity, the freedom to grow as a “free and self-reliant human being” – with these beliefs, Anna Freud, the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham, the youngest daughter of the great American artist Louis Comfort Tiffany, founded Vienna’s Hietzing School in the mid-1920s. To Erik H. Erikson who taught there, it was “the best possible school” and today its true significance, as both the teachers and the students remember it, comes to life in this lushly illustrated book. Four historic photographs of Sigmund Freud are showcased here for the first time, along with never-before-seen vintage photographs and unpublished archival material. Nine essays, written expressly for this volume, confirm the depth to which interwar Vienna’s commitment to social democracy formed the backdrop for a Freud/Burlingham modernist psychoanalytic platform. Bringing together the historic Freud and Tiffany legacies as never before, this lively book restores Hietzing to its rightful place in the history of so many ideas with which we are still working today.

Regarding the film Anna Freud and ‘The Conscience of Society’:

Drawing on a wealth of still and video archival materials, this 15 minute digital exhibit brings to life the fascinating intersection of psychoanalysis and education. Out of the cultural and political ferment of inter-war Vienna emerged the Hietzing School, founded in the 1920s by Anna Freud and Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham. The original impulse, however, occurred in Budapest, on September 28, 1918, when Sigmund Freud asserted that “the conscience of society will awake.” Anna Freud was present for one of the most consequential papers of Freud’s career, and from that day forward, she pursued a life of teaching and discovery that merged psychoanalysis, research on child development and programs designed to meet the educational and psychological needs of the young child. The breadth of the film’s images come from a range of private and public collections in Europe and America, and narrative is drawn from her own writing on theory and practice, from the 1920s through the 1960s, from Vienna to London.

Dr. Danto’s book is available for purchase on the Barnes and Noble, Karnac, and Routledge websites. She will be happy to sign copies at the event.

No CME or CE credits will be offered.

Elizabeth Ann Danto is emeritus professor at Hunter College – City University of New York, and an independent curator who writes and lectures internationally on the history of psychoanalysis as a system of thought and a marker of urban culture. She is the author of Historical Research (Oxford University Press, 2008) and her book Freud’s Free Clinics – Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918–1938 (Columbia University Press, 2005) received the Gradiva Book Award and the Goethe Prize.

Alexandra Steiner-Strauss is a historian of Viennese art and culture; former curator, Theatermuseum Vienna and lecturer at the Kunsthistorisches Museum; co-author of Gustav Klimt und Wien (2012), Trägt die Sprache schon Gesang in sich. Richard Strauss und die Oper (2014), and Anna Freud in Wien (2016).

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CANCELLED: An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman Pick

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  •  February 6, 2019
     8:15 pm - 10:00 pm

Works in Progress Seminar:

An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman Pick— THIS TALK IS CANCELLED.

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

8:15 pm

Participants: Mrs. Irma Brenman Pick, Dr. Francis Baudry and Mr. Nasir Ilahi

Mrs. Brenman Pick, a leading Contemporary Kleinian Analyst from London will present her paper: “The Faces of Trauma: Between the Personal and the Social – The ‘Pleasure’ of Passing on the Bad Treatment.” There will be an opportunity for questions from the audience.

Participants in this event will include Dr. Francis Baudry, who will moderate the event and Mr. Nasir Ilahi, who will provide some overall comments on the paper.

No CME or CE credits will be offered.

Irma Brenman Pick trained as a Child and Adult Analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London. She is a Training Analyst there and formerly a President of the British Psychoanalytic Society. Together with her late husband, Eric Brenman, she has taught in many countries, including Australia, Brazil, Germany, Italy, India, Israel, Scandinavia, South Africa, and in several cities in the U.S. – Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. Her published papers include “Working through in the Counter Transference” (1985; International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, Vol 66:415-422) and “Concern: Spurious and Real” (1995; International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, Vol 76:257-270).  A number of her writings have been published in 2018 under the title Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter – The Work of Irma Brenman Pick (London, The New Library of Psychoanalysis).

Francis Baudry is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.

Nasir Ilahi is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalytic Education, affiliated with NYU Medical School. He is also an Honorary Member of New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, and graduate and Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society.

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Meet the Author: Janice S. Lieberman

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  •  January 30, 2019
     7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Brill Library Book Series

Meet the Author: Janice S. Lieberman

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

7:30 – 9:30 p.m.

The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to an evening with Janice Lieberman, the author of Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body and Gender in Psychoanalysis  (Routledge, 2018).

The value systems and problematic morality of many of today’s  leaders have affected what is being  heard in the psychoanalyst’s consulting room. These leaders’ blatant disregard for the truth,  their normalization of deception, of “alternative facts”, their greed, have parallels in the thoughts and conduct of certain patients who are in psychoanalytic treatment today. Media idealization of “the body beautiful” and of the acquisition of expensive homes and objects, of what is on the surface, have made the traditional exploration of  the “inner life” a challenge.

This book contains a series of papers Lieberman has written in the past 25 years that include her observations of how changes in values and norms of behavior in ”the world out there” have influenced what is heard in the consulting room. She writes about “a new superego”.  Deception abounds and often goes unpunished. She has observed an increase of greed and envy and an enhanced emphasis on the body and its appearance. Traditional gender roles have been challenged  in fortuitous ways, but a certain amount of chaos and confusion has ensued. Relationships are found and maintained using technology. Many feel lonely, empty. There are parallels for this in several artists’ lives and in their work. She writes about clinical dilemmas and their resolution in working with today’s patients.

Dr. Lieberman will be reading passages from her book, in particular from the chapter “Loss of Integrity in Contemporary Culture and Contemporary Psyche”.  There will be a book signing and books will be sold at a discount.

No CME or CE credits will be offered. 

Janice S. Lieberman, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst (Fellow) and Faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York. She served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association for many years. She chairs a Discussion Group on Masculinity at the Winter Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is a Member of the IPA Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies. She is co-author of “The Many Faces of Deceit: Omissions, Lies and Disguise in Psychotherapy” and the author of “Body Talk: Looking and Being Looked at in Psychotherapy”. She has written numerous papers and reviews on deception, greed and envy, body narcissism and psychoanalysis and art.

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On the Origins of Psychiatric Illness: Schizophrenia as an Example

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  •  January 9, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works in Progress Seminar:

“On the Origins of Psychiatric Illness: Schizophrenia as an Example”

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

8:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Presenter: René S. Kahn, M.D., Ph.D.

Schizophrenia is currently classified as a psychotic disorder. This paper will attempt to show that this emphasis on psychosis is a conceptual fallacy that has greatly contributed to the lack of progress in our understanding of this illness and hence has hampered the development of adequate treatments. Not only have cognitive and intellectual underperformance consistently been shown to be risk factors for schizophrenia, several studies find that a decline in cognitive functioning precedes the onset of psychosis by almost a decade. Although the question of whether cognitive function continues to decline after psychosis onset is still debated, it is clear that cognitive function in schizophrenia is related to outcome and little influenced by antipsychotic treatment. Thus, our focus on defining (and preventing) the disorder on the basis of psychotic symptoms may be too narrow. Not only should cognition be recognized as the core component of the disorder, our diagnostic efforts should emphasize the changes in cognitive function that occur earlier in development. Putting the focus back on cognition may facilitate finding treatments for the illness before psychosis ever emerges.

No CME or CE credits offered.

 

Dr. René Kahn is the Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and System Chair of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. After completing Medical School in the Netherlands (1979) and having actively served in the 42 Armd. Brigade of the Royal Army of the Netherlands as a 1st Lt (he retired a Lt. Col in the Army Reserve), he was trained as a psychiatrist and neurologist in Utrecht and Amsterdam, respectively. He then moved to New York City (1985), where he did a research fellowship in biological psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He subsequently completed his psychiatry residencies at Mount Sinai Hospital and then worked as Chief of the psychiatry research unit at the Bronx VA. In 1993 he moved back to Utrecht to become to Chair of Psychiatry at the University hospital, going on to lead the Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, which combines research in basic neuroscience, psychiatry and neurology. He remained connected to Mount Sinai School of Medicine as an Adjunct Associate professor for several years.

One of his most important contributions to science has been to help provide the scientific foundation of the century-old postulate that schizophrenia debuts with cognitive dysfunction – preceding the onset of the first psychosis by more than a decade. Moreover, he and his group have shown that brain changes in schizophrenia are progressive over time; and that these changes are clinically relevant, related as they are to outcome and to loss of cognitive function during the course of the illness. Finally, his research has shown that brain volume is one of the most heritable characteristics of man, paving the way to link brain volumes in health and disease to genetic variation. During his time in Europe he initiated several large treatment trials in schizophrenia in order to improve the outcome of patients with schizophrenia. He is also involved in many other collaborative studies, examining both genetic and neuroimaging parameters. His work has been funded by various sources such as the European Union, the Dutch Government, NIMH and the Stanley Foundation.

Dr. Kahn has published over 800 research papers and in 2015 and 2016 was named Thomson Reuters’ highly cited researcher, representing ‘some of the world’s most influential scientific minds’. He has served on neuroscience grant review boards in the Netherlands as well as those of the United Kingdom and Germany. He received several honors, such as a Fulbright Scholarship, membership of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award, an honorary doctorate at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary and the lifetime achievement award of the Netherlands Psychiatric Association. He is Honorary Lifetime Professor at Jilin University in Changchun, China. He was Treasurer and Vice-President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology and is currently past-President of The Schizophrenia International Research Society. He is a fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

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