Elizabeth Donovan

Before He Becomes a Man: The Adolescence of Shakespeare’s Prince Hal

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  •  April 19, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Advanced Seminar in Child and Adolescent Analysis:

“Before He Becomes a Man: The Adolescence of Shakespeare’s Prince Hal”

Thursday, April 19, 2018

8:00 pm

Presenter: Leon Hoffman, M.D.

This talk discusses Shakespeare’s adolescent Prince Hal, his relationship to his father, his rebellion, including a turn to an anti-social mentor, a substitute father, Falstaff. This study explores Shakespeare’s portrayal of the evolution of the complex father-son relationship. Eventually, Prince Hal gives up his rebellion and takes on his adult role, becoming Henry V. Relevant aspects of adolescence are highlighted, including the transition from an adolescence dominated by a narcissistic object choice to an adulthood in which the ego ideal is the most prominent driving force of his behavior.

Leon Hoffman, MD is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist; Training and Supervising Analyst in adult, child, and adolescent analysis; co-Director, Pacella Research Center at NYPSI (New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute); Faculty, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Chief Psychiatrist, West End Day School in NYC.

He has published the Manual for Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children with Externalizing Behaviors (RFP-C): A Psychodynamic Approach, co-authored with Timothy Rice and with Tracy Prout. A clinical trial using the manual has been underway at Yeshiva University’s School-Clinical Child Psychology Program at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, with Tracy Prout as Principal Investigator.

 

2 CME/CE credits offered.

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

  1. describe contemporary formulations of adolescence as a result of Shakespeare’s depictions of the father-son relationship during adolescence
  2. describe contemporary formulations of adolescence as a result of Shakespeare’s depictions of the transition from adolescence to adulthood
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Elizabeth Donovan

Reading Karl Friston: A discussion of predictive coding and consciousness

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  •  March 3, 2018
     10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis

Reading Karl Friston: A discussion of predictive coding and consciousness

Saturday, March 3, 2018

10:00 am

In preparation for Mark Solms’ presentation in April, we will read and discuss a paper by Karl Friston on predictive coding, “free energy,” and consciousness. Together we will explore this dense but stimulating paper in an open discussion, facilitated by Maggie Zellner.  We will focus on the first few pages of the paper. (Click on title to download PDF.)

Friston, K. The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Nat Rev Neurosci. 2010 Feb;11(2):127-38

See other publications by Dr. Friston by clicking here.

No CME/CE credits offered.

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Elizabeth Donovan

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Elizabeth Donovan

How to keep your cool when your child is oppositional: How does understanding help?

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  •  March 14, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Dialogues On… Series

How to keep your cool when your child is oppositional: How does understanding help?

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

8:00 pm

Presenter: Leon Hoffman, M.D.

Children with problematic behaviors do not have sufficient internal strength to tolerate the pain and anxiety of disturbing emotional states. In this meeting we will discuss the helpfulness of being curious about the child’s behavior.

 No CME/CE credits offered.

Leon Hoffman, MD is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist; Training and Supervising Analyst in adult, child, and adolescent analysis; co-Director, Pacella Research Center at NYPSI (New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute); Faculty, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Chief Psychiatrist, West End Day School in NYC.

He has published the Manual for Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children with Externalizing Behaviors (RFP-C): A Psychodynamic Approach, co-authored with Timothy Rice and with Tracy Prout. A clinical trial using the manual has been underway at Yeshiva University’s School-Clinical Child Psychology Program at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, with Tracy Prout as Principal Investigator.

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Elizabeth Donovan
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CANCELLED: The Appeal of Tragedy

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  •  March 7, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works in Progress Seminar

The Appeal of Tragedy

Wednesday, March 7, 2018  THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER PREDICTIONS

8:00 pm

Presenter: Paul Schwaber, Ph.D.

Looking closely at Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and King Lear, and guided by both Aristotle and Freud, Dr. Schwaber will explore the special appeal of tragedy as a literary form, the ways verbal art imitates significant human action and the illuminating experience it enables.

No CME/CE credits offered. 

Paul Schwaber is Professor of Letters Emeritus at Wesleyan University and a practicing psychoanalyst.  For many years, he was Director of the College of Letters, Wesleyan’s undergraduate major in Western literature, philosophy and history. He has published extensively on the relation between imaginative literature and psychoanalysis.

He co-edited Of Poetry and Power: Poems Occasioned by the Presidency and by the Death of John F. Kennedy (Basic Books) and is the author of The Cast of Characters: A Reading of Ulysses (Yale University Press). In 1993 he was given the Robert S. Liebert Award in Applied Analysis by the Columbia Center for Psychoanalysis and the Association of Psychoanalytic Medicine and, in 2014, the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award by the American Psychoanalytic Association. A graduate of the Western New England Institute, Dr. Schwaber has been Chair of its faculty and also its President. He has served on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and at present is on the Boards of the James Joyce Quarterly, the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He and his wife, Dr. Rosemary Balsam, now edit the Book Review section of JAPA.
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