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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.
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).
The Contributions of Gaetano Benedetti to the Psychoanalytic Therapy of Persons Experiencing Distressing Psychotic States, in the Light of Contemporary Affective and Social Neuroscience
FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 2017 • 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
Practitioners and General Public: ; Students: Free
Gaetano Benedetti has been working psychoanalytically with schizophrenic patients for over 50 years at the Burghölzli, the psychiatric hospital of the University of Zürich. Brian Koehler will review Benedetti’s contributions to the psychoanalytic therapy of persons experiencing distressing psychotic states.
Holding, Humor, and Shame: Some New Ideas About an Old One
Friday, December 2, 2016, 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
When does Winnicott’s concept of holding fit within a contemporary relational frame? Can we invoke a parental metaphor without thinning the work we do? If so, what is holding’s underlying therapeutic function? Reviewing the evolution of the parental metaphor and its current place in our thinking, Slochower theorizes about holding’s dynamic function.
Joyce Slochower, PhD, APBB, presents
The Psychoanalysis of Madness: A Fight Against Perversion
Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 1:00–3:00 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
Françoise Davoine has published two books on Don Quixote and the psychoanalysis of madness. She views this “greatest of all novels” as Cervantes’ attempt to find his way out of madness with his “son,” Don Quixote, as his guide. He has been a guide for Davoine as well in her own work with madness and trauma.
Modern Psychoanalytic Approaches to Compulsive Gambling
Friday, December 2, 2016, 10:00 AM–12 NOON –
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND CASACS
This workshop will focus on gambling as an expression of narcissistic pathology rooted in the preverbal period of development. We will explore the conditions necessary for gambling addiction to occur and what our clients or loved ones may be communicating via their addictive and compulsive behaviors.
Raul A. Plasencia, LCSW, leads this workshop.
Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind
Thursday, October 13, 2016, 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
Dr. George Makari will discuss his new book, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind. The book takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of the inner life of people.
Free Speech, Hate Speech: Can Talking Cure?
Friday, September 16, 2016, 7:30–9:30 PM
2 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
As globalization and metastasizing conflicts drive us into ever closer encounters with the Other, a siege mentality spreads. Those who represent the public voice—politicians, professional and “citizen” journalists, pundits, academics—respond to real and imagined violence with conflicted reappraisals of free speech and its limits, especially “hate speech.”
Jill Gentile, PhD, presents
June Workshop: Cutting Through the Chaos
Tuesdays, June 21 and 28, 2016 • 7:00–9:00 PM
Understanding Couples Treatment via a Developmental Lens While Utilizing Modern Psychoanalytic Techniques
4 CE CREDITS FOR SOCIAL WORKERS AND PSYCHOLOGISTS
This workshop will introduce the developmental stages of a couple from the standpoint of attachment theory, illustrated with brief clinical vignettes, and will present some of the methods used to assess where the couple may be fixated.
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