scientific presentations

New Ideas in the Speech of 14 Psychoanalytic Patients Download Flyer
by Dan Gilhooley, PsyaD; Robert Hempel, MA; and Maria Huffman, MFA

Using a tool piloted in their PT171 Systematic Investigations class, Dr Dan Gilhooley and CMPS students Maria Huffman and Robert Hempel identified 300 new ideas occuring in the speech of 14 analytic patients. Looking at the contexts within which these ideas emerged, they found that 80% of new ideas were born during states of relative mental disorganization and discomfort, after which patients invariably shifted attention to their pasts. Dr Gilhooley will discuss their findings in terms of primary process and creativity, while Ms Huffman and Mr Hempel will describe how doing this research has contributed to their training to become psychoanalysts.

(In September 2008 Dr Gilhooley presented their work at the annual North American Society for Psychotherapy Research Conference at Yale University.)

Friday, April 3rd. 7:30 - 9PM

Recollections of My Fifty-Year Association with Hyman Spotnitz Download Flyer
Dr. Marshall discusses his long and highly varied experience with Hyman Spotnitz in individual and group analysis, supervision, and informal settings, providing an insider’s view of a master clinician at work and at play. The audience is invited to participate. Dr. Sara Sheftel will act as moderator. Robert Marshall, PhD, has published numerous articles and books on psychoanalysis

Friday, April 17th. 7:30 - 9PM

Why is Spotnitz Almost Never Cited in Psychoanalytic Literature?
In considering this question, Dr. Sheftel presents some hitherto unpublished material offered by Drs. Evelyn & Leonard Liegner, as well as her own thoughts. Sara Sheftel, PhD, is on the CMPS Faculty, and is the editor of Just Say Everything: A Festschrift in Honor of Hyman Spotnitz.

Friday, May 29th. 7:30 - 9PM

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