psychoanalysis, culture & the arts
WHAT OUR WORDS REVEAL: Did You Mean to Say That?
The words we choose reflect our unconscious thoughts and feelings. Using the
tools of forensic psycholinguistics, Mr. Brod explores what our words reveal.
Ernest Brod, JD, is Managing Director of Global Investigations and Intelligence at
Navigant Consulting, where he uses forensic psycholinguistics as an investigative tool.
He is Director of Brooklyn Seminars in Modern Psychoanalysis.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th 7:30–9:30 PM
THE ANALYST DREAMS: Joan of Arc Meets André Gregory
Embarking on a psychical adventure, Josie Oppenheim allowed a dream to shape aspects of her reality for over a year. With this experimental essay, she returns to tell the tale and in so doing deconstructs the psychoanalytic terrain--fantasy, grandiosity, consensual reality and hallucination. It's a wild ride down Alice's rabbit hole and back again as she endeavors to bring the creative force of a dream out of Wonderland into life.
Josie Oppenheim, MA, NCPsyA, LP, is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She was cofounder and Director of the Stella Adler Conservatory Theater and is the author of numerous articles on child development, child and adolescent substance use and creativity. She has presented papers on adoption in the unconscious, the genesis of creativity, and the cultural context of dreams for CMPS, NAAP and IFPE and is a recipient of the Phyllis W. Meadow Award for Excellence in Psychoanalytic Writing, 2008.
.FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13th 7:30 – 9:30 PM
HAPPY DAYS
 Sam Schacht edits and directs Samuel Beckett’s
masterpiece, Happy Days, a dark comedy about
the indomitability of a woman buried in sand
with only her head visible at the play’s climax. “Winnie,” the main character, like the tramps in
Waiting for Godot, hangs on relentlessly in the face
of losing odds. Discussion follows.
Sam Schacht, MA, producer, theater academic, former
Dean of the Actors Studio Drama School at the New
School, is an instructor at Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
Rita Gardner, Winnie, has had a distinguished career
in the New York theater for over 50 years. She was the original “girl” in The Fantasticks.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20th 7:30 – 9:30 PM
OUT OF THE CLOSET: Why “Coming Out” Matters
In 1973 the APA removed homosexuality from the DSM II. How much progress
has been made? What do our patients say and what do we believe? This event
explores the clinical and cultural implications of the “coming out” process.
Richard Sacks, MA, LP, is a faculty member of CMPS and NYGSP and past Director
of Group Services at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis of NYC.
Andrés Hoyos, MS, LMSW, is the Director of Center CARE Recovery, a NYS OASAS
licensed out-patient chemical dependence treatment program at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,
and Transgender Community Center, NYC.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11th 7:30 – 9:30 PM
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