Freud's Tin Ear: On His Aversion to Music

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2017 • 7:30 - 9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

Joel Whitebook will speak on the significance of Freud’s strong aversion to music, which was especially unusual in Vienna.

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Facing Race and Racism in Psychoanalysis

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2017 • 7:30 - 9:30 PM

PLEASE ARRIVE ONTIME, THE PRESENTATION WILL COMENCE WITH A FILM SEGMENT.

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

Michael Moskowitz will discuss the problem of institutional racism in psychoanalysis. He will address the need for greater openness to and understanding of the roles of history and culture in psychoanalytic training, transference, and countertransference, and their implications for making psychoanalytic education more accessible and relevant to people of color.

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Love is Giving What You Don't Have: A Commentary on Lacan's Reading of Plato's Symposium

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2017 • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM

4 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

What is love and what part does it play in psychoanalysis? Where are the analyst and the analysand situated in relation to the roles defined as “lover” and “beloved”?

Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor who trained in France at the psychoanalytic institute Jacques Lacan created shortly before his death, the École de la Cause freudienne in Paris.

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To Have and to Hold: Understanding and Treating the Compulsive Hoarder

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2017 • 9:30 - 11:30 AM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

This workshop will give an overview of hoarding and the diagnostic categories in which it may be a factor. We will examine the beliefs commonly held by hoarders and will explore the syndrome’s underpinnings, including neurological factors and psychodynamics. 

Patrice La Mariana, MA, LP, is on the faculty of CMPS and NYGSP. 

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EVENT CANCELED: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Analytic Listening and the Use of the Analyst's Mind

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2017 • 7:30 - 9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

Montana Katz will describe the motivation for the development of psychoanalytic field theory as well as the various psychoanalytic field theory models that have been developed in different contexts and parts of the world. She will explore whether and how psychoanalytic field theory models offer something new and useful to the theory and practice of psychoanalysis and other clinical modalities.

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June Workshop: Can Love Last? Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Couples Therapy and Sexuality

Tuesdays: June 6, 13, 20, 27, 2017  |  7:00 - 8:30 PM

6 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

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What makes it so difficult to keep the flame alive? Is mature love a myth? How do unconscious conflicts dampen desire?

June Workshop: Sex in the Consulting Room: Decoding the Hidden Meanings of Erotic Transference

Thursdays: June 1, 8, 22, 29, 2017  |  7:00- 8:30 PM

6 CE CREDITS FOR LICENSED PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

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The taboo on—as well as the inevitability of—sexual feelings in the treatment room has been an issue inpsychoanalysis since its inception, and the challenge of working with these feelingsis an integral part of its fabric.

June Workshop: Being Apart to Be Together: Helping Group Members Tolerate the Tension of Intimacy

Mondays: June 5 and 12, 2017  |  7:00 - 8:30 PM

CANCELLED 3 CE Credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts, Social Workers, and Psychologists. This workshop will explore how the ability to set flexible/dynamic boundaries in group is integral to members’ being able to sustain intimacy with one another.  The presenter will also briefly discuss how boundaries can serve as roadblocks to intimacy, and she will demonstrate, via an experimental process group, techniques that can assist in resolving these resistances.  Teresa Solomita, LCSW-R,is a graduate of CMPS, Hunter College School of Social Work, and The Couples Institute, and is an advanced student at The Group Center.  Ms. Solomita is in private practice in NYC and Brooklyn. Tuition: 0

Introducing Bion: Some Basic Dimensions

FRIDAY, MAY 5 • 7:30–9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR PSYCHOANALYSTS, SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

James Ogilvie will introduce an aspect of Bion’s psychoanalytic engagement with the “primitive mind,” focusing on some of the basic turns through which he engages us. Bion has a remarkable ability to bring us into a more immediate, “from the inside” contact with areas of psychic fragmentation and rebirth.

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On Subjective Space

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2017 • 7:30–9:30 PM

2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS

Practitioners and General Public: ; Students: Free

Paola Mieli, PhD, is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is a founding member and president of the Freudian-Lacanian Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association (New York).

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