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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 Approachco-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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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 StudiesPsychoanalytic Quarterly, and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He and his wife, Dr. Rosemary Balsam, now edit the Book Review section of JAPA.

On Boundaries: A Nonlinear View

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  •  March 27, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

NYPSI’s 1027th Scientific Program Meeting

On Boundaries: A Nonlinear View

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

8:00 pm

Presenter: Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D.

Discussant: Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.

Boundary concepts pervade psychoanalytic thought and practice from the “repression barrier,” to gender, to institutional expectations about professional behavior. Yet analytic discussion of boundaries often proceeds without a clear conceptual framework and on the basis of intuitive but ill-founded notions about them. In his paper, Galatzer-Levy shows how starting with Leonardo Da Vinci and continuing through the work of twentieth century mathematicians a rich and useful conceptualization of boundaries called fractal geometry has emerged. This conceptualization is directly applicable to psychoanalysis. The paper demonstrates how older, implicit conceptualizations have limited analytic thinking in this area and shows how fractal concepts provide important insight into the nature, development and management of boundaries. Application to clinical and institutional issues will be discussed.

2 CME/CE credits offered.

Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago and a Faculty Member of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, where he is a training, supervising and child and adolescent supervising analyst. He is the author of seven books and 140 papers and books chapters on topics ranging from clinical psychoanalysis to forensic psychiatry to nonlinear systems theory and psychoanalysis. His most recent book Nonlinear Psychoanalysis: Notes from 40 years of Chaos and Complexity Theory was published in 2017 by Routledge.

Galatzer-Levy grew up in New York where he went to Bronx Science, NYU, and finally NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences starting at age 19. A little earlier he had started an analysis, which he reports enabled him to go to medical school “even though my mother wanted me to.” As with most analyses this one was incomplete and to this day he struggles between the pull of psychoanalysis and that of mathematics, a conflict that is partly resolved through his applications of nonlinear dynamics systems theory to psychoanalysis.

This evening he will talk about a central theme of psychoanalysis, boundaries, as seen through the lens of nonlinear dynamics and fractals.

Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. is Faculty and Supervisor at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an editor at Psychoanalytic DialoguesStudies In Gender and Sexualityand of the IPA ejournal: Psychoanalysistoday.com.  And she co-edits the Book Series: Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, a series now with over 70 published volumes.  In 2009, along with Drs. Lewis Aron and Jeremy Safran, Dr. Harris established the Sandor Ferenczi Center at New School University.

Dr. Harris is a member of an NGO which the IPA developed to work with the UN and she has been doing education and development on the problem of human trafficking.  She has written on topics in gender and development, analytic subjectivity, and the analytic community in the shadow of the First World War.  Her current work is on analytic subjectivity, on intersectional models of gender and sexuality, and on ghosts.

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

  1. identify the pervasive but implicit use of boundary concepts in clinical work and psychoanalytic conceptualizations.
  2. make interventions based the fractal structure of boundaries, as opposed to interventions based solely on more traditional descriptions of boundaries.
  3. describe methods for building useful boundaries as a result of integrated psychological development as opposed to imposing them on patients and institutions.

 

CANCELLED: Screening & Discussion of Gods and Monsters

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  •  February 28, 2018
     7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Brill Library Film Series

Screening & Discussion of Gods and Monsters

Wednesday, February 28, 2018   THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 

7:00 pm

Discussant:  William Fried, Ph.D.

The Friends of the Brill Library present a screening and post-film discussion of Gods and Monsters with Dr. William Fried.

One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1998 and winner of several awards including the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Gods and Monsters is a compassionate speculation about the final days of James Whale (1889-1957), the director of Frankenstein and 20 other films of the 1930s and ’40s, who was openly gay at a time when homosexuality in Hollywood was discreetly concealed. Adapted and directed by Bill Condon from Christopher Bram’s novel Father of Frankenstein, the film stars Ian McKellen in a sublime performance as the white-haired Whale, who is portrayed as a dapper gent and amateur artist prompted by failing health into melancholy remembrance of things past. Flashbacks of lost love, World War I battle trauma, and glory days in Hollywood combine with Whale’s present-day attraction to a newly hired yard worker (Brendan Fraser) whose hunky, Frankenstein-like physique makes him an ideal model for Whale’s fixated sketching.It is at once a keen glimpse of Hollywood’s past, a loving tribute to James Whale, and a richly moving, delicately balanced drama about loneliness, memory, and the passions that keep us alive. –Amazon

William Fried, PhD, FIPA, is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, photographer, educator, author, and editor. Until 2000, he was the Associate Director of Psychiatry Residency Training and the Director of Training and Education at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. In 2000, the Association for Academic Psychiatry named him Teacher of the Year, the first time such an award was given to a non-physician.  Dr. Fried has published papers on clinical psychoanalysis, psychopolitics, applied psychoanalysis, group therapy and group dynamics, mental health education and training, and psychoanalytic theory. He has also written catalogue essays for the exhibits of prominent artists. His own photographs were shown in several solo gallery exhibits.  Dr. Fried’s book Critical Flicker Fusion: Psychoanalysis at the Movies, (Karnac, 2016), has just been published and is available from both Amazon and Karnac Books.

No CME/CE credits offered.

General Admission – $15

Student Admission – $10