CMPS and NYGSP Student Associations' Acclaimed Student Paper Series:

Friday, May 13, 2016, 7:30–9:30 PM

Listening to One’s Self: An Innovative Approach to Studying the Free Associative Process

​Free association isn’t an aimless wandering — it is driven by the yearning of new and unformulated thoughts to be put into a structure that resonates with the inner experience of the self. This drive for synchrony — to fit our sense of who we are with new thoughts, feelings, and memories — is a restless passion; there is nothing neutral or passive about it.

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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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Computers and Psychoanalysis

Friday, May 16th 2014 7:30-9:30 pm

If the main focus of analysts is the unconscious, then the idea that there is a correct, objectively verifiable interpretation tends to close down analysts’ ability to allow their unconscious to speak to them. Mr Katz proposes to open analysts to their unconscious, using a computer program, based on Freud’s works, developed for his Master’s thesis.

Standing Where the Towers Fell: A Study of Psychic and Physical Collapse and Reconstruction

Friday, March 8th 2013 from 7:30–9:30 PM

This talk examines the evolution of a research project in terms of the interplay between emerging clinical material, relevant literature, and the writing process. A profound terror of annihilation formed the nucleus of this case and over the span of treatment, the patient began to contextualize death and move toward life. It addresses the author’s experiences in conducting the analysis, with a focus on how the research itself became an effective tool in treating this primitive patient.

An Evening with New Books in Psychoanalysis

Friday, November 22^nd 2013, 7:30-9:30 PM

This promises to be an evening of ecumenical delights. Lewis Aron and Karen Starr, both from the NYU-Post-Doc—the birthplace of relational thinking in many respects—come to CMPS, the home of Spotnitz and all things modern psychoanalytic, to speak about their most recent publication, A Psychotherapy for the People: Toward a Progressive Psychoanalysis (Routledge 2013). Karen Starr, PsyD, is the author of Repair of the Soul: Metaphors of Transformation in Jewish Mysticism and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Starr is Adjunct Faculty and Clinical Supervisor at The Graduate Center, CUNY and Long Island University at CW Post. Lewis Aron, PhD, is the Director of the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Aron has served as President of the Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association. Tracy D. Morgan, LCSW-R, MPhil, is producer and host of the Gradiva Award winning webcast: New Books in Psychoanalysis, now in its third year. She is a research candidate at CMPS and maintains a private practice in NYC.