FALL 2007 |
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October 2nd, 2007, 8 PM |
Abram Kardiner Lecture |
| Unconscious mental conflict and our democratic culture Akeel Bilgrami further information on professor Bilgrami's interdisciplinary involvement |
Educational objectives: to demonstrate the pervasive influence of unconscious conflict and irrational behaviour in contemporary culture |
November 6th , 2007, 8 PM |
Interview |
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Roy Schafer Interviewed by Ernst Prelinger |
Educational objectives: 1) To gain insight into the development of the psychoanalytic theories of Dr. Roy Schafer. 2) To learn about the historical context within which these theories emerged. |
December 4th, 2007, 8 PM |
Scientific Paper |
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Susan Scheftel: “The World of William Steig” |
Educational objectives: 1) An understanding of some psychodynamic factors contributing to the work of William Steig. 2) Integrating theoretical principles of contemporary infancy research into a psychoanalytic understanding of Steig’s life and work. 3) A recognition of ways in which children’s literature manifests central conflicts of mental life. |
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| SPRING 2008 | |
January 8th, 2008, 8 PM |
Scientific Paper |
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Otto F. Kernberg, M.D: Some Observations on the Process Of Mourning |
Educational objectives: 1) Participants will be able to review critically some aspects of the literature on mourning processes. 2) Participants will be able to relate more precisely to the complex aspects of normal mourning in the treatment of patients undergoing these processes. |
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February 5th, 2008, 8 PM |
The Robert S. Liebert Memorial Lecture |
| Educational objectives: to reveal Leonardo's self by approach his writings and drawings by the help of the psychoanalytic method |
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March 4th, 2008, 8 PM |
Scientific Paper |
| Educational objectives: 1) To heighten awareness in the audience of shifts in ways of thinking that can occur in analytic hours and the meanings of these shifts in terms of the transference. 2) To delineate three specific kinds of transference configurations which can be identified in this way, and to demonstrate the relation of these configurations to different phases of the creative process. 3) To demonstrate the clinical usefulness of this model in terms of understanding certain forms of creative inhibition, in overcoming some countertransference conflicts which may interfere with analytic work, and in enhancing the creative use of the analytic process by both patient and analyst. |
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April 1st, 2008, 8 PM |
Scientific Paper |
| Educational objectives: 1) To educate about the history and the current state of psychoanalysis in China. 2) To inform about the possibilities for analyzing and teaching in China. 3) To examine the effects on analytic process of specific cultural and linguistic differences and the use of Internet technology. |
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May 6th, 2008, 8 PM |
International Psychoanalytic Scholar Lecture |
| Educational objectives: 1) to demonstrate the unique and central role of dreams 2) to illustrate the layered approach to dream analysis in clinical material, 3) to reference Ferro's personal theory of a mental "transformational cycle" that takes place intapsychically and relationally in the psychoanalytic situation, 4) to illustrate how the resulting “pure ‘poetry’ of the mind,” shared between analyst and analysand in an intuitive and interpretive process offers new analytic possibilities |
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June 5th, 2008, 8 PM |
The Fifty-first Annual Sándor Radó Lecture |
| Myron Hofer, M.D.: The Emerging Synthesis of Development and Evolution: A New Biology for Psychoanalysis | Educational objectives: to privide a brief and comprehensive overview of the emerging field of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, or "Evo- Devo" |
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