Do You Hear the People Sing?

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2026 • 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Doors Open at 6:30 PM

Patriotism, Propaganda, and Revolution in the Art of Europe and the Americas
Public Event

“All art is propaganda,” Diego Rivera famously pronounced. In this presentation we will look at how art has been used to inspire people in bringing about social change and upending oppressive power structures.  [Read More . . .]

Speaker: Mark Buenzle

Book Event: Girlhood, Translated: Understanding YoungWomen in the Age of Therapy Speak and Self-Diagnosis

Friday, October 9, 2026  |  7:00-8:30 PM
Doors Open at 6:30 PM

ADHD. OCD. Toxic. Unwell. Over the past decade, psychiatrist Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell noticed that girls were coming to her office with an increasingly long list of psychiatric diagnoses, often pulled from the internet and social media. It seemed like it was becoming impossible for young women to talk about their feelings without using "therapy speak" or connecting them to mental illnesses. 

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Author: Suzanne Garfinkle-Crowell, MD

Working With Infertility Patients Through a Psychoanalytic Lens

FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2026 • 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Alumni Association Event Open to the Public

Doors Open at 6:30 PM

While addressing behavioral needs and surface-level fears and anxieties is essential in helping patients who struggle with infertility, it is also important that we help patients process their deeper unconscious (and often conflicting) feelings around treatment, failure, loss, inadequacy, and successful pregnancy. [Read more]

Presenters: Golzar Selbe Naghshineh, and Nancy Kaufman

Film Screening: Cured

Thursday, June 8, 2023, 8:00 PM (Eastern), In-Person and Via Zoom

Five years in the making, Cured illuminates a critical chapter in the struggle for LGBTQ equality: the campaign that led the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).

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Clinical Writing: Expanding the Parameters (Online Workshop)

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2020  |  9:00 AM — 1:00 PM, VIA ZOOM

4 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers

In this workshop, participants will learn to write richer, more accessible, and creative clinical narratives, including vignettes, case studies, and clinical papers. [Read more . . .]

Presenter: Therese Ragen, PhD

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The Dream Screen: Psychoanalysis and Cinema (Online Survey Course Open To The Public)

Mondays September 14–November 16, 2020  |  10:00 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO PARTICIPANTS IN NEW YORK 
AS WELL AS THOSE OUTSIDE THE METROPOLITAN AREA

Instructor: Joseph Dodds, PhD

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Psychoanalysis and Art (Online Survey Course Open To The Public)

​Wednesdays, September 9–November 11, 2020  |  10:00 – 11:30 AM (Eastern)

15 CE credits for Licensed Psychoanalysts 
and Social Workers

THIS COURSE IS OPEN TO PARTICIPANTS IN NEW YORK 
AS WELL AS THOSE OUTSIDE THE METROPOLITAN AREA

Instructor: Joseph Dodds, PhD

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Cisgender/Transgender: Bye-Bye, Binary

FRIDAY, MAY 12, 2017 • 7:30–9:30 PM

Agender, Bigender, Cisgender, FTM, MTF, Genderqueer, Other, Neither, and Two-Spirit; these are a few of the 58 gender options that Facebook offers. Whatever happened to him and her? We are confronting twenty-first-century conceptions of gender with a nineteenthcentury mind-set.

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Dancing with the Locos: A Comparative Study of Argentine Tango and Psychoanalysis

Friday, November 20, 2015. 7:30–9:30PM

It takes two to tango and two to form the analytic pair. While both Argentine tango and psychoanalysis were born in 1881, what else do they have in common? RSVP by email.

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A Kind of Alaska

Friday, November 6, 2015. 7:30-9:30 PM 

Sam Schacht edits and directs Harold Pinter’s A Kind of Alaska, first performed on a London stage in 1982, based on Oliver Sacks’ (1973) compelling book [. . .] RSVP by email.

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