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BROWSE PAST APS SALONS

February 11th, 2012: Kohut, the Analyst, with: Allen Siegel, MD

Kohut's theory of the Self became a bold rival to traditional psychoanalysis in the 1970s. At that time, Kohut was considered a rebel, an intellectual, and a contentious voice in the politics of the psychoanalytic movement.

December 3rd, 2011: Psychoanalytic Complexity and the Clinical Attitude, with: William Coburn, PhD, PsyD

Dr. Coburn discussed his notion of Psychoanalytic Complexity—a contemporary approach to applying nonlinear dynamics systems theory to psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice.

October 29th, 2011: Memories of Metamorphous: A Transgender of the Mind. How does the mind hold memories of self, when memories of the body self have changed? With: Ryan Sallans, MA, and Jack Drescher, MD

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is in the process of revising its Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), with the DSM-5 having an anticipated publication date of 2013. The process has generated controversies regarding the status of the diagnostic categories of Gender Identity Disorder (GID) for both children and adolescents and adults. This presentation reviews the history of how homosexuality became a psychiatric diagnosis, only to be eventually removed from the DSM-II in 1973, followed by a history of how the GID diagnoses found their way into DSM-III in 1980 and in subsequent editions.

September 17th, 2011, Film and Psychoanalysis: Black Swan,
directed by: Darren Aronofsky, with Introductory Discussant: Paola Hartley, and Presenter: Florence Rosiello, PhD

Black Swan (2010) is a thrilling and terrifying union of purity and innocence fused into malevolence and madness in the developing psychosis of a young female ballet dancer chosen to perform the White Swan and Black Swan roles of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. She must dance the White Swan role with virtuousness and grace and perform the Black Swan with guile and sexuality. Her obsession with bodily perfection and artistic execution of movement in this ballet defend against the swirling maelstrom of psychosis into which she descends with evolving blackness and destruction of her psyche.

June 18th, 2011: Freud the Man

There have been few professional fields in which one mind has loomed larger than that of Sigmund Freud, and even fewer where the personal characteristics of the founder played a more critical role. Freud taught us to respect the past because of the control it can exert over the future.

Very few of Freud's own pupils wrote of their association with him. So, who then was Freud the man? Who were his pupils? Who was chosen to be in his inner circle of followers? Who remained loyal? Who left the fold, and whom did Freud excommunicate?

May 21st, 2011: Metaphor and Narrative in Group Psychotherapy, with: Scott Conkright, PsyD

Scott Conkright, PsyD is a psychologist in private practice in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Conkright has lectured and written on the use of metaphor in group therapy on Lacanian psychoanalysis as well as issues of sexuality. He is a former member of the affiliate Board of Directors for the American Group Psychotherapy Association, and is past president of the Atlanta Group Psychotherapy Society. He is currently completing a book on Lacan and Group Psychotherapy.

February 19th, 2011: Who is the Analyst, Really? And, Does it Matter?
With: Judy Teicholz, PhD

Over the years, Psychoanalysis has evolved from the traditional notion of the analyst having an objective scientific perspective on the patient's treatment. The contemporary concept of psychoanalysis has changed with the realization of the importance of the analyst's subjectivity. The course and outcome of a treatment is now quite different. For better or worse, it has become the analyst's personhood that we now feel has a major impact on the analytic process. It is the analyst's affective response to the patient, the analyst's affective expressiveness, and the analyst's capacity to process, modulate, and contain the intensity of, often, painful emotional experiences that are expressed within the treatment room. We must then ask the question, to what degree does the analyst impact the patient's "cure?" In this Salon, clinical examples will be discussed by both the presenter and by attendees.

January 8th, 2011: The Secretary — What does love feel like?

A peek into the psychological role of domination and submission in relationships, using a psychoanalytic perspective and audience dialogue on this sensuous, steamy and seductive independent film.

December 4th, 2010: Partners in Thought: Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation and Enactment, with: Donnel B. Stern, PhD

Dr. Stern is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City. He is Clinical Professor of Psychology and Supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. His most recent book is Partners in Thought: Working with Unformulated Experience, Dissociation, and Enactment, from Routledge (2010).

November 13th, 2010: The Dilemma of Emotional Meaning: Old and New Perspectives from Psychoanalysis, Cognitive Science and Affective Nueroscience, with: Wilma Bucci, PhD

"Humans are complex beings, conflicted, dissociated, only partially integrated; capable of immense feats of imagination and immense stupidity; immense kindness and caring and immense cruelty. We are all in this field because we recognize, value and struggle with this complexity. Psychoanalysis can contribute in a unique way to bringing this complexity into a scientific approach. I believe that knowledge of basic psychological and neurological processes can contribute to development of more effective forms of therapy, and the study of the psychoanalytic situation can potentially contribute to scientific understanding of these basic processes in their multi-dimensional forms. I have a fantasy in which I see scientists in diverse fields working together with psychoanalysts towards this deeper understanding." ~ Wilma Bucci, PhD

October 23rd, 2010: Stuck — Choice and Agency in Psychoanalysis, with: Joye Weisel-Barth, PhD

"One measure of psychopathology is a disturbance in a person's sense of choice and agency. Depressives feel helpless and hopeless to effect their lives; obsessive-compulsives feel enslaved and/or driven by their maladies; and manics feels omnipotent with unconstrained choices. In our conversation we'll talk about analytic ideas about agency and choice and clinical strategies to enhance our patients' sense of competence and control in their lives." ~ Joye Weisel-Barth

September 25th, 2010: Relational Psychoanalysis: An Oxymoron, with: Lewis Aron, PhD

"I hope it is clear that my argument is that the very idea of relational psychoanalysis was historically, quite literally, an oxymoron. To the extent that a treatment relied on relational factors, it was by definition psychotherapy and not psychoanalysis." ~ Lewis Aron, PhD