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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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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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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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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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Special Event: Is the Alliance Really Therapeutic?

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

Special Event:

Is the Alliance Really Therapeutic? Revisiting This Question in Light of Recent Empirical Studies

Thursday, May 9, 2019

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Presenter: Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Ph.D.

Discussant: Michele Press, M.D.

The therapeutic value of alliance is a contested supposition. Although many theorists and researchers believe that alliance is therapeutic in itself, others see it as a byproduct of effective treatment or as a common non-specific factor enabling the truly effective ingredients of treatment to work. For many years, the debate was confined mainly to the domain of theory, and no studies were available to examine this issue. The only empirical evidence that existed was studies showing a correlation between alliance and outcome, and advocates of the above conflicting opinions used the same correlation to prove the validity of their position. Over the last few years, however, a revolution has taken place in alliance research, which brings this theoretical debate into the realm of the empirical. Recent alliance studies have applied advanced methodologies to achieve this aim. Based on an integration of these studies, a new model for understanding the potential therapeutic role of alliance as sufficient to induce change by itself emerges. The model stresses the importance of differentiating between patients’ general tendencies to form satisfying relationships with others, which affect also the relationship with the therapist (“trait-like” component of alliance), and the process of the development of changes in such tendencies through interaction with the therapist (“state-like” component of alliance). The former enables treatment to be effective; the latter makes alliance therapeutic. Based on the most recent literature, the presentation attempts to determine which of these components is the predictor of treatment outcome. 

2 CME/CE credits offered. 

Dr. Zilcha-Mano is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, and a Visiting Associate Professor at the Healthy Aging and Late Life Brain Disorders Program, Columbia University. She heads the Psychotherapy Research Lab in the Department of Psychology, University of Haifa.

Michele Press, M.D. is President and Training and Supervising Analyst at NYPSI where she also co-teaches advanced psychoanalytic technique. She is clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at New York University Langone Medical Center where she teaches a course on advanced psychodynamic technique to PGY-3 residents in psychiatry.

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

  1. Describe the most recent research on alliance.
  2. Consider the implications of the new knowledge for day-to-day clinical practice.
  3. Identify the specific strategies to strengthen the alliance and affect treatment outcome.
Psychologists
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Social Workers
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Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of (2) AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Important disclosure information for all learners
None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Persons with disabilities
The building is wheelchair accessible and has an elevator. Please notify the registrar in advance if you require accommodations.
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