Details This presentation explores the technical implications of a conception of the patient as an ethical subject, attempting to tackle the question—how do we integrate an exploratory analytic method with a therapeutic stance aimed at cultivating the patient’s own ethical responsiveness towards Self and Other? The speaker reviews the contemporary psychoanalytic literature on ethical intersubjectivity,
Psychoanalysis from the Couch to the Community Postponed Details A psychoanalytical community-based intervention model was born out of a need to address secondary trauma and to work through personal and systemic resistances. While it's been believed that psychoanalysis belongs to the couch, this event presents the emergence of a psychoanalytically-informed approach to addressing homelessness,
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Details Panel presentation of various clinical and theoretical considerations to writing. This panel examines, through case study, theories and personal experience, how the creative process is freed and what interferes with that freedom. It explores questions such as: why do we hold creative impulses in check? Why are writing and painting and other artistic expressions
Details We have come far since Jay Haley, founder of Strategic Family Therapy, wrote a useful, “unself-help” article on this topic decades ago. Building on his paper, tonight’s talk adds current research about the science of marriage and love. The presenter will further highlight psychoanalytic and cultural perspectives. With a 53% divorce rate in the
Details From its deceptively simple opening shot to its complex narrative weaving nostalgia, personal and social history, Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity, 2014) conjures a moment from his own past that moves from autobiography to the poetic and the political as he re-visits the world of his childhood in 1970’s Mexico. Against a series of
Details A Modern Psychoanalytic approach encouraging the blossoming of the whole emotional self, leading to reparation and a deeper healing. While many therapies strive to help the patient attain their “best” self — reach their highest potential and overcome their negative and self- limiting behaviors – psycho analysis invites the “worst” self. When the
Details A synthesis of evolutionary and psychoanalytic perspectives offers an understanding of how biological, psychological and technological factors have converged to fuel the current explosion of chemical and behavioral addictions. Why hasn’t our experience with addictive behaviors over the years (centuries!) enabled us to avoid this disaster? What are the psychological resistances to doing what
Details Details Countertransference is omnipresent in our psychoanalytic work. Studying how this phenomenon can lead to countertransference resistance is one of our major tasks. This workshop offers an opportunity for clinicians to present countertransference issues that are resulting in treatment impasses and interfering with making therapeutic interventions. Modern psychoanalytic understanding of theory and technique will
Senior Talks: Film Screening of The Pharaohs Issues in Senior Group Living Saturday May 11 | 1:00 - 2:30 PM Details The Pharaohs is a short film that uses humor and drama to depict some real-life issues facing seniors today. Inspired by a true story, the film traces one woman’s journey as she
