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Racial Socialization and Thwarted Mentalization

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  •  March 21, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Advanced Seminar in Child and Adolescent Analysis:

“Racial Socialization and Thwarted Mentalization: Reflections of a psychoanalyst from the lived experience of James Baldwin’s America”

Paper Awarded the 2018 Rieger Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Award –
A Distinguished Member Award from The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Thursday, March 21, 2019

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Presenter: Beverly J. Stoute, M.D.

A contemporary psychoanalytic perspective recognizes that the discussion of race will occur at the intersection of the intrapsychic and the social.   Framing this discussion with clinical examples, Dr. Stoute traces and explores the developmental evolution of race awareness from childhood and adolescence into adulthood, and reformulates the research on race awareness with a rare analytic interpretation of James Baldwin’s letter to his nephew, first published in 1962 in The Progressive, later in his acclaimed The Fire Next Time and revived as the literary forerunner of Between the World and Me  in 2015 by Ta-Nehisi Coates.   In this discussion, enriched with analytic data on mentalization and trans-generational trauma, Dr. Stoute integrates the theoretical, the clinical, the literary and the developmental perspectives to demonstrate the invaluable importance of psychodynamic understanding in deconstructing how we process racial difference in treatment situations and help clinicians recognize and discuss their own conscious and unconscious racial and cultural bias in working with patients.

2 CME/ CE credits offered. 

Beverly J. Stoute, M.D., is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Stoute went on to complete her psychiatry residency and fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Payne Whitney Clinic—New York Hospital, part of Cornell Medical Center. She completed psychoanalytic training in child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalysis at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She serves as a training and supervising analyst at Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute and a child and adolescent supervising analyst at New York Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Stoute is a faculty member of the Southeast Child Analytic Consortium and an adjunct associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences of Emory University School of Medicine. She emphasizes clinician education and training in recognizing and discussing racial bias. Dr. Stoute co-edited the 2016–2017 series in The American Psychoanalyst entitled Conversations on Psychoanalysis and Race, featuring her ground-breaking review paper “Race and Racism in Psychoanalytic Thought: The Ghosts in our Nursery,” now required reading in race and diversity courses at psychoanalytic institutes across the country. Dr. Stoute treats children, adolescents, and adults in her private practice. Her book, with co-editor Michael Slevin, MSW, entitled Race in the Therapeutic Encounter is due out in 2019.

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

  1. identify the developmental nodal points in the process of race awareness in childhood, and the factors that affect how attitudes around race are shaped into adulthood.
  2. identity the technical challenges of how issues around race arise in clinical situations and how their own attitudes and countertransference are factors in the process of mentalization.
  3. identify the utility of using psychoanalytic principles to understand how to understand and work with race in the consultation room.

 

 

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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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