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NUOVO
LIBRO (in inglese) su ENACTMENT E PSICOANALISI
A
cura di Giuseppe Leo & Giuseppe Riefolo
Scritti
di: Efrat Ginot Jay R. Greenberg
Jessica Kraus, Giuseppe Leo, Giuseppe Riefolo,
Jeremy D. Safran
Editore:
Frenis Zero
Collana:
Confini della Psicoanalisi
Anno
di pubblicazione: 2019
Pagine:
326
ISBN:978-88-97479-15-4
Il
libro è dedicato a Jeremy Safran ed a Lewis Aron, eminenti
figure di psicoanalisti, recentemente scomparsi, che hanno
dedicato pionieristici contributi all’argomento dell’”enactment”.
Come ha scritto Safran, sebbene l’enactment sia un concetto
problematico e fonte di confusione tra i differenti approcci,
esso può conferire alla psicoanalisi, il cui stato di
disciplina ‘liminale’ cioè al confine con altre non
sempre ad essa epistemologicamente commensurabili (neuroscienze,
infant research, antropologia culturale, ecc.), una
significativa fonte di vitalità. Il libro esplora il tema
dell’”enactment” in relazione a tali confini o aree di
transizione, specie nell’introduzione di Giuseppe Leo che ne
analizza la genesi storica ed il ruolo di concetto-ponte tra
psicoanalisi e psichiatria, tra psicoanalisi e neuroscienze,
tra psicoanalisi e pratiche trans-culturali ed esplorandone
altresì la valenza trans-generazionale. Jay Greenberg nel suo
capitolo discute le varie modalità di partecipazione
dell’analista per cui, sebbene un certo grado di azione e
‘mutualità’ possa essere considerato espressione di un
modomeno
formalizzato di interazione coll’analizzando, molte
delle vignette cliniche maggiormente influenti nella
letteratura contemporanea sottolineano una maggiore tendenza
del clinico ad assumersi dei rischi, cosa che però richiede
una discussione critica ed attenta ai confini del setting.
Giuseppe Riefolo nel suo capitolo, utilizzando vignette
cliniche provenienti da setting differenti (psicoanalitico,
psichiatrico nel servizio pubblico) esplora un percorso che
dall’azione (concepita come qualcosa che impedisce il
processo analitico in quanto antitetico rispetto al ricordare
ed al rielaborare nelle prime formulazioni teoriche) passa per
la relazione (per cui l’enactment diventa un processo e non
più solo un evento) fino ad una concezione dell’enactment
come espressione di una conoscenza relazionale implicita
incarnata che può essere condivisa tra analista e paziente
per produrre nuove configurazioni terapeutiche. Nel loro
capitolo Safran e Kraus, pur nella consapevolezza che le
rotture dell’alleanza terapeutica, le ‘impasse’ e gli
‘enactment’ siano inevitabili, illustrano il loro
programma di ricerca che è stato formalizzato in una
metodologia di formazione per gli psicoterapeuti volta ad
individuare e ad affrontare costruttivamente tali eventi
potenzialmente portatori di un esito terapeutico negativo.
Infine Efrat Ginot nel capitolo conclusivo espone come,
rispetto all’’enactment’ ed all’empatia, sia le
osservazioni cliniche che la recente ricerca neuroscientifica
forniscano sempre nuove evidenze su ciò che accomuna
piuttosto che solo su ciò che distingue
tali due processi intersoggettivi.
Il libro è
acquistabile su Amazon:
LIBRO (in inglese) su INFANT RESEARCH E PSICOANALISI
Dagli
articoli di precedenti numeri della rivista di psicoanalisi
Frenis Zero è uscito l'ultimo libro delle
nostre edizioni per il momento in inglese e prossimamente in
italiano. Il libro è dedicato a due pionieri del dialogo tra
psicoanalisi e psicologia dello sviluppo, Daniel Stern e Berry
Brazelton. Gli autori del libro sono Beatrice Beebe (New
York), che vi ripercorre il suo "viaggio" personale
che dura 40 anni all'interno di questo ambito di ricerche,
Karlen Lyons-Ruth ed altri che trattano delle rappresentazioni
materne della confusione dei ruoli genitoriali, Colwyn
Trevarthen (Edimburgo), che ripercorre la storia delle sue
ricerche a contatto con personaggi come Bruner e Brazelton, ed
Edward Tronick (Boston) che tratta delle implicazioni
psicoterapeutiche della creazione diadica del significato.La
introduzione è di Giuseppe Leo che è anche il curatore. Il libro è
acquistabile su Amazon:
Su
Books.Google è possibile accedere ad un'anteprima limitata
del libro
NUOVO
NUMERO ON-LINE SULL'EFFICACIA DELLE PSICOTERAPIE PSICOANALITICHE
L'ultimo
numero di Frenis Zero (n.31, anno 16, gennaio 2019) ha come
tema quello dell'"EFFICACIA DELLE TERAPIE
PSICOANALITICHE E SUPERVISIONE". Abbiamo il piacere di presentare, dopo
il
primo articolo già pubblicato: "EFFICACIA DELLE
PSICOTERAPIE PSICOANALITICHE" di Lech Kalita e Chrzan
Detkos, quello di Leichsenring et al. "Meccanismi del
cambiamento in terapia psicodinamica", nonché l'articolo
di Nancy McWilliams "Alcune osservazioni sui gruppi di
supervisione". Per la sezione dedicata alla psicoanalisi
in relazione alle neuroscienze vi proponiamo l'articolo di
Karlen Lyons-Ruth et al. (in Inglese) "Reactivity,
Regulation, and Reward Responses to Infant Cues among Mothers
with and without Psychopathology: an fMRI Review".
Alla
pagina http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/bertolucci.htm
l'articolo "Eros e Thanatos. Mondo interno e realtà
politica nella cinematografia di Bernardo Bertolucci"
di Simonetta Diena e Rossella Valdrè
RECENSIONI
BIBLIOGRAFICHE
Pubblichiamo
la recensione, scritta da Brad McLean del libro di Jessica
Benjamin "IL RICONOSCIMENTO RECIPROCO. L'intersoggettività
e il Terzo" (2019)- Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/benjamin.htm
SEMINARIO
CLINICO
"MOLTEPLICITA' DEGLI STATI DEL SE' IN PSICOANALISI" con G.
RIEFOLO
Il
2 marzo 2019 si è svolto nella nostra sede del Centro di Psicoterapia
Dinamica "Mauro Mancia" (via Lombardia, n.18 -
Lecce) il seminario con il dott. Giuseppe Riefolo
(psicoanalista SPI, psichiatra ASL ROma/E). Nel canale YouTube di Frenis Zero potete vedere
alcuni momenti della giornata di studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilJlaZ6Q48c I
PROSSIMI SEMINARI ECM (10 crediti nazionali per ciascun
evento) in piccolo gruppo (max 15 partecipanti necessariamente
abilitati alla psicoterapia) saranno: "LA FINE DELLA
PSICOTERAPIA" (sabato 8 giugno 2019) e "I DISTURBI
DI PERSONALITA'" (sabato 23 novembre 2019). Per info ed
iscrizioni contattare la Segreteria Organizzativa via email: assepsi@virgilio.it
ARTICOLI
ORIGINALI
"The
Dead Sibling: a Family Secret and its Consequences" è il titolo del contributo (in
Inglese) di Massimiliano Sommantico (analista SPI, IPA,
ricercatore di Psicologia Dinamica all'Università 'Federico
II' di Napoli), che, riferendosi ad un caso clinico di terapia
familiare psicoanalitica, esplora le dinamiche di
odio e di rivalità che caratterizzano i legami tra fratelli. Link:
http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/sommantico.htm
3)
Hilda Catz (psicoanalista dell'Associazione Argentina di
Psicoanalisi nonché artista) espone la sua relazione su
Psicoanalisi ed Arte. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKs9JJ3ukOA
ULTIMO
LIBRO (in Italiano) DELLE EDIZIONI FRENIS ZERO "PSICOANALISI, LUOGHI
DELLA
RESILIENZA
ED IMMIGRAZIONE"
AA.
VV. "PSICOANALISI, LUOGHI DELLA RESILIENZA ED
IMMIGRAZIONE" a cura di Giuseppe Leo
S. Araùjo Cabral,L. Curone,M. Francesconi,L. Frattini, S. Impagliazzo, D. Centenaro Levandowski, G. Magnani,M. Manetti, C. Marangio,G. A. Marra e Rosa, M. Martelli, M. R. Moro, R. K. Papadopoulos,A. Pellicciari, G.
Rigon,D. Scotto di
Fasano, E. Zini, A. Zunino, Psicoanalisi, luoghi della resilienza ed
immigrazione, Collana "Id-entità Mediterranee",
Frenis Zero
2017, ISBN 978-88-97479-11-6, € 39,00, pagine
372.
"PSICOANALISI
IN TERRA SANTA" a cura di A. Cusin e G. Leo
H.
Abramovitch, A.
Cusin, M. Dwairy, A. Lotem, M. Mansur, M. P. Salatiello, "Psicoanalisi
in Terra Santa", prefazione
di Anna Sabatini Scalmati, Postfazione
di Christoph U. Schminck-Gustavus, Note di Nader Akkad, Collana
"Id-entità Mediterranee", Frenis Zero
2017, ISBN 978-88-97479-12-3, € 29,00 (rilegatura
rigida), euro 20,00 (rilegatura economica).
PSICOLOGIA
DELL'ANTISEMITISMO (2.a edizione) di Imre Hermann
Imre Hermann, "Psicologia
dell'antisemitismo", a
cura di Giuseppe
Leo, Collana
"Cordoglio e Pregiudizio", Frenis Zero 2017, ISBN
978-88-97479-10-9, € 18,00.
ESSERE
BAMBINI A GAZA. IL TRAUMA INFINITO di Maria Patrizia
Salatiello
Maria
Patrizia Salatiello, "Essere bambini a Gaza. Il trauma
infinito", Collana
"Id-entità Mediterranee", Frenis Zero
2016, ISBN
978-88-97479-08-6, € 35,00.
ULTIMO
NUMERO (N.31, anno XVI, gennaio 2019) della RIVISTA
TELEMATICA "FRENIS ZERO"
E'
consultabile sul sito internet della rivista di
psicoanalisi "Frenis Zero" (link: http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm
) il numero 31 (anno 16, gennaio 2019), numero semestrale
monografico intitolato "Efficacia delle terapie
psicoanalitiche e supervisione".
EFFICACIA DELLE TERAPIE PSICOANALITICHE E
SUPERVISIONE.
1)Au
lien de Frenis Zero (http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm)
Vous pouvez lire le sommaire du Numéro 31, an 16
(janvier 2019) de notre journal, dédié au sujet de
<<Efficacité des thérapies
psychanalytiques et supervision>> (articles
en italien et en anglais).
1)
We
are glad to announce the issue of the last number (n.31,
year 16, january 2019) of Frenis Zero on-line journal:
"EFFICACY OF PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPIES AND
SUPERVISION".The table of contents is at url: http://web.tiscali.it/bibliopsi/frenishome.htm
. The papers are in Italian and English.
Following
the article (in Italian) by Lech Kalita and Chrzan
Detkos "Efficacia delle terapie psicoanalitiche" (Efficacy
of psychoanalytic therapies) and
the paper (in Italian) "Meccanismi del
cambiamento in terapia psicodinamica" ("Mechanisms
of change in psychodynamic therapy") by Falk
Leichsenring, Christiane Steinert, Paul Crits-Christoph, we are glad to announce two papers in
English exploring the topic: one,
"Some observations about Supervision/Consultation
Groups" by Nancy McWilliams,
and the other, concerning
the NEURO-PSYCHOANALYTIC section
"Reactivity, Regulation, and Reward Responses to
Infant Cues among Mothers with and without
Psychopathology: an fMRI review" by Karlen
Lyons-Ruth et al..
2)
We
are glad to announce the issue of the last book published
in English by Edizioni Frenis Zero: "ENACTMENT IN
PSYCHOANALYSIS" edited by Giuseppe Leo and Giuseppe
Riefolo, writings by Efrat Ginot, Jay R Greenberg,
Jessica Kraus, Jeremy D Safran. Collection "Borders
of Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero publisher, Lecce
2019, pp.326.
The
book is dedicated to Jeremy Safran and Lewis Aron, whose
recent loss
drove the editors as well as the publisher to gather
these contributions about enactment, a topic to whom
Safran and Aron devoted many papers of theirs. As Safran
wrote, though problematic and source of confusion among
different psychoanalytic approaches, the epistemological
status of psychoanalysis, related to its condition of
‘liminality’, is a meaningful source of vitality for
the discipline. The book explores the subject of
enactment in relation to boundaries in psychoanalysis,
referring to a series of viewpoints that lead to many
crucial areas.
3)
We
are glad to announce the issue of the book published
in English by Edizioni Frenis Zero:"INFANT RESEARCH
AND PSYCHOANALYSIS" edited by Giuseppe Leo,
writings by Beatrice Beebe, Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Jeremy P.
Nahum, Elisabet Solheim, Colwyn Trevarthen, Edward Z.
Tronick, Lauriane Vulliez-Coady. Collection "Borders
of Psychoanalysis", Frenis Zero publisher, Lecce
2018, pp.273.
This
book has the hard task to cover an interdisciplinary
area in which psychoanalysis has to deal with infant
research. The development of infant research
methodologies is illustrated in the present book by the
contribution written by Beatrice Beebe, whose
‘journey’ leads us through the ‘creating’ of a
discipline with its creators, her traveling companions,
such as Daniel Stern, Frank Lachmann, Joseph Jaffe and
many others. Trevarthen’s chapter is a discussion of
his work with T. Berry Brazelton, passed away on March
2018. Brazelton used his trust and enjoyment of innocent
company to greet a newborn infant as a friend, and he
showed that the baby is read to share friendship with
mother and father, giving them joy. Brazelton’s belief
in innate human nature transformed pediatric care and
early diagnosis of developmental disorders, guiding
treatment, not ‘of’ the baby, but ‘with’ him/her
as an individual with unique expressions of vitality.
The last two chapters, instead, deal with clinical
implications of infant research. Tronick’s
contribution focuses on mother-infant dyad as well as on
analyst-patient one, conceived as open dynamic systems,
capable of meaning making, in which coherence is at best
imperfect, and coordination alternates with mismatching.
In open dynamic systems messiness itself is inherent to
the process of meaning making because of limitations in
their capacity, «their different time scales, the many
polymorphs of meaning that have to be integrated, and
because of the many kinds of meaning making processes»
(including affective, cognitive, memorial, linguistic,
bodily and psychodynamic meaning making processes, such
as a dynamic unconscious, projective identification and
transference). «Dyadic states of consciousness»
Tronick writes in the chapter «are joint creations and,
as such, bring together the messy, unpredictable and
inchoate features of two individuals’ state of
consciousness, not just the messiness of one». But
meaning meaning processes and security making ones,
though normally overlapping each other, are not the same,
and this heterogeneity between motivational systems (Lichtenberg
et al., 2011) can cover the heterogeneity of
psychopathological conditions. Lyons-Ruth and
colleagues’ chapter is focused on the representational
world of the mother, particularly on the assessment of
mother’s representation of role-confusion in her
relation with her child. The authors call attention to
the dimension of sexualisation in the relationship, a
high indicator of role-confusion. This emerging body of
work points to the importance of being alert to
indicators of role-confusion in the clinical setting.
The findings can inform and enrich counselling and
psychology practice by familiarizing clinicians with how
to listen for indicators of role-confusion while talking
with parents about their relationship with the child.
6)
Book "FUNDAMENTALISM
AND PSYCHOANALYSIS", Giuseppe Leo (Editor),
Prefaced by Vamik D. Volkan, writings by Lene Auestad,
Werner Bohleber, Sverre Varvin, Linden West. Collection "Mediterranean
Id-entities", Frenis Zero publisher, Lecce 2017,
pp.214.
The
collection “Mediterranean Id-entities” is devoted to
publish books in order to investigate the role of
Mediterranean cultures from a psychoanalytic point of
view, in front of the anthropological transformations
concerning human societies and social institutions in
the contemporary world. This book has the hard task to
cover an interdisciplinary area in which psychoanalysis
has to deal with fundamentalism as a social phenomenon
and therefore with ‘bordering’ disciplines (such as
religion history, transcultural studies, cultural
anthropology) often with epistemologies that for origin
and history appear to be incomparable to it. Lene
Auestad intends to integrate the psychological analysis
of the subject with its social embedding. She
investigates the importance of the social unconscious
and its effects on the prejudiced intentions of the
individual apart from its own active interpretations.
She highlights the importance the psychoanalytical
approach provides in understanding the unspoken,
unconscious contents of the social phenomena and how
much the socially critical approach is able to enrich
the analytical view which merely focuses on the subject
regarding the effects of the social consensus. While
Auestad’s scrutiny aims at the social convention’s
role as an agent affecting the individual’s deeds and
thinking, Linden West’s contribution draws on
‘psycho-social’ understandings, combining
psychoanalysis and critical theory, as well as the work
of John Dewey, to interrogate Islamic fundamentalist
groups in a post-industrial city. It explores processes
of self-recognition in groups and paranoid-schizoid
modes of functioning, in which unwanted parts of self
and of culture are split off and projected on to the
other. The world is correspondingly divided into good
and bad, pure and impure. John Dewey makes a crucial
distinction between processes of democratic education
and closed groups, which is what fundamentalist groups
are, by reference to the quality of relationship to the
other, and to experiential and narrative openness.
However, it is also suggested that fundamentalism is
ordinary, in that each of us can feel out of our depth,
at times, and we may grab at ideas promising truth and
nothing but the truth, which is ultimately illusion.
Except not everyone reaches for a Kalashnikov, which is
where individual biographies matter for subtler
understanding of difference within commonalities.
Fundamentalism has increasingly become a part of the
political discourse in Western countries and is to a
large degree associated with Islamic Jihadism.
Fundamentalism has, however, been a concern in all
religions, and Werner Bohleber in this book discusses
its connections with violence in monotheistic religions.
Fundamentalism is also a concern in professional
organisations and in this book Sverre Varvin discusses
the relation between fundaments for a science and
fundamentalism in psychoanalysis. This is related to
general trends of fundamentalism in religious and
political contexts. A central question is how adherence
to fundamentals, understood at basic principles for a
profession or a religious-political movement, may
develop into fundamentalism and how this may develop
into more violent forms. Psychoanalytic understanding of
mass psychology and unconscious processes at group
levels are developed in this book by each of the
outstanding authors in order to understand present
Islamic and other forms of fundamentalist movements in
the European context.
7) "NEUROSCIENCE
AND PSYCHOANALYSIS", G. Leo (ed.), prefaced by
Georg Northoff, writings by David Mann, Allan N.
Schore, Robert Stickgold, Bessel A. Van Der Kolk,
Grigoris Vaslamatzis, Matthew P. Walker, Collection
"Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience", Frenis Zero
Publisher, Lecce 2014, pp.300, € 49,00.
The
book gathers some papers concerning the dialogue between
neuroscience and psychoanalysis. Following the
Introduction written by Georg Northoff, concerning the
possibility of overcoming the highly impasse generating
contraposition between localizationism and holism, G.
Vaslamatzis deals with a “Framework for a new dialogue
between psychoanalysis and neurosciences”. In this
chapter the author describes three points of
epistemological congruence: firstly, dualism is no
longer a satisfactory solution; secondly, cautions for
the centrality of interpretation (hermeneutics); and,
thirdly, the self-criticism of neuroscientists. David
W.Mann in his contribution “The mirror crack’d:
dissociation and reflexivity in self and group phenomena”
tries to show how reflexive processes generate each of
three levels of the human system (self, relationships,
group) and integrate them one to another, while
dissociative processes tend throughout to pull them
apart. Health and illness within the self, the
relationship and the group can be understood as special
states of the dynamic equilibria between these cohesive
and dispersive trends. In “Sleep, memory and
plasticity” Matthew P. Walker and Robert Stickgold
outline a review of the researches following the
discovery of rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (NREM)
sleep, and specifically of those that began testing the
hypothesis that sleep, or even specific stages of sleep,
actively participated in the process of memory
development. The last two chapters, “Clinical
implications of neuroscience research in PTSD” by
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk, and “Dysregulation of the
right brain: a fundamental mechanism of traumatic
attachment and the psychopathogenesis of PTSD” by
Allan N. Schore, demonstrate how the psychopathology of
traumatic conditions can be a fertile field of dialogue
between neuroscience and psychoanalysis.
To
order the book you can click here: or
here
To
get a preview of the book click here:
8)
"PSYCHOANALYSIS AND ITS BORDERS", G. Leo
(ed.), writings by J. Altounian, P. Fonagy, G.O.
Gabbard, J.S. Grotstein, R.D. Hinshelwood,
J.P. Jiménez, O.F. Kernberg, S. Resnik.
Collection "Borders of Psychoanalysis", Frenis
Zero Publisher, Lecce 2012, pp. 348, € 19,00.
Eight
outstanding theoreticians of contemporary
psychoanalysis reflect on psychoanalysis and its
borders and boundaries between it and adjacent
disciplines such as neuroscience, psychiatry, and
social sciences. The book celebrates ten years of
existence of Frenis Zero psychoanalytic journal.
You
can view a video introducing the book in our You Tube
Channel ( www.youtube.com/frenis0
) To
order the book you can click here: or
hereTo
get a preview of the book click here:
9)
NEW
ARTICLE in Frenis Zero psychoanalytic on-line journal: The
Dead Sibling: a Family Secret and its Consequencesby
Massimiliano Sommantico Link: http://web.tiscali.it/cispp/sommantico.htm
Abstract:
By
referring to a clinical example of psychoanalytic family
psychotherapy, the author highlights the relevance of
the dynamics of hate and rivalry that characterize
sibling links. In particular, the author analyses the
rivalry of the daughter with her dead elder brother, and
her hate link with her younger brother. The focus on the
family’s common and shared psychic world allows these
dimensions to be considered more in depth. The author
describes a sequence in the psychotherapeutic work, also
using dream analysis, by focusing particularly on a
denial pact that characterises the family dynamic and on
the interpsychic dynamics related to the replacement
child. More generally, the author shows the importance
of taking into account also the fraternal dimension –
and not only the oedipal one – in working
psychoanalytically with families.
10)
Video launching the next number of Frenis Zero
psychoanalytic journal (june 2017) about "Fundamentalism
and Psychoanalysis"
23)
N-Psa Newsletters, New York Psychoanalytic Institute and IPA newsletters
(source:
N-PSA newsletter)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
A Psychoanalytic
Understanding of Dreams:
Why they are, What they
tell us and
How they help us help our
patients
Douglas J. Van der
Heide, M.D.
March 28 - April 11, 2019
Thursdays, 8:00 - 9:15 p.m.
3 classes /
$90
Location: 247 East 82nd
Street, NYC
NYPSI Extension Program:
A
Psychoanalytic
Understanding of
Dreams
Freud called his solving the
riddle of dreams his
greatest achievement. The
dream highlights his core
discoveries of mind and any
metapsychological theory
building must account for
them. Dreams are unique and
quintessentially personal.
They offer a genuine view of
the dreamer's soul and their
use is of immense value in
the creation of a healing
space.
Learning to work with dreams
requires comfort with
metaphorical thinking and a
reflective position that
embodies what Freud meant by
analytic neutrality. This
course is intended to review
basic Freudian concepts
including the Topographic
Model which underlie dream
production. The instructor
will demonstrate how dreams
have been used for
historical reconstruction
but in contemporary usage,
as measures of self-image,
characteristic defenses, ego
capacity, object relations,
and of course, the state of
the transference.
This is meant to be seminar
style course. The instructor
will use some of his own
material to demonstrate
these aspects of dream life
but encourages participants
to bring in dreams from
their practice so the class
can work collaboratively to
mine them for clinical data
and consider therapeutic
approach.
3.75 CME/CE
credits offered
Douglas J. Van der
Heide, M.D. is
a Supervising and Training
Analyst at PANY (formerly
IPE) and is on the Faculty
of the New York
Psychoanalytic Society
& Institute. He has
taught the course Dreams
in Clinical Practice at
NYPSI for over 18 years.
Works in Progress
Seminar: The
Problem of
Self-Disclosure
This paper discusses the
difference between
self-disclosure and
self-revelation particularly
from the points of view of self
psychology and contemporary
Freudian conflict theory and
other theoretical points of view.
It was stimulated by an exchange
between Jeffrey Stern, a self
psychologist, about a paper on
self-revelation: "I have a
dog in the fight." The pros
and cons of self-disclosure are
explored in relation to a case
presented by Dr. Richards's (where
issues of self-disclosure were
present) and the patient's own
comments on Dr. Richards's
write-up of his case are
included. In addition,
there is discussion of the
history of self-disclosure in
psychoanalysis focusing on
instances of Freud's own
interference in his patient's
lives. Finally, there is a
discussion of changes in the
relevance of the analyst's
self-disclosure now that
patients can google their
analysts and may find out many
details of their analysts' lives
on the internet. The
paper is available for
distribution before the
presentation by emailing psypsa@aol.com.
No
CME or CE credits offered.
Arnold
Richards, M.D. is
Training and
Supervising Analyst at
the New York
Psychoanalytic
Institute and is on
the Faculty of the
Metropolitan Institute
for Training in
Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapy, Adult
Program and the Tongji
Medical College of
Huazhong University of
Science and Technology
in Wuhan, China. He is
a member of the New
York Psychoanalytic
Society &
Institute; the
American Psychological
Association, Division
39; the New
York Freudian Society,
and the Psychoanalytic
Association of New
York. He is also
Honorary Member
of the American
Institute of
Psychoanalysis/Karen
Horney Clinic.
Dr. Richards served
as editor of The
Journal of the
American
Psychoanalytic
Association (JAPA)
from 1994 to 2003
and The
American
Psychoanalyst
(TAP, newsletter of
The American
Psychoanalytic
Association) for
three years prior to
that. He is
currently editor of
internationalpsychoanalysis.
net
and the publisher of
ipbooks.net. Dr.
Richards was the
recipient of the
Distinguished
Contributor Award of
the American
Psychoanalytic
Association. He was
also winner of the
Mary S. Sigourney
Award (2000) and the
Hans Loewald Awardee
of the IFPE (2013).
He is the author of Controversial
Conversations:
Selected papers of
Arnold Richards,
Volume 1,
published by ipbooks, Perspectives
on Thought
Collectives,Selected
papers of Arnold
Richards, Volume 2, and
numerous other books
and papers.
The Friends of the
Brill Library are
pleased to present
"Eyes Wide
Shut: A
Psychoanalytic
Investigation"
with Mary Wild.
During this
presentation, Ms.
Wild will discuss
Stanley Kubrick's Eyes
Wild Shut and
present clips from
the film.
Eyes Wide Shut is
an erotic drama
film directed by
Stanley Kubrick -
released in 1999,
it is the final
feature he
completed before
dying that same
year at the age of
70. Based on
Arthur Schnitzler's
1926 novella Traumnovelle (Dream
Story), it depicts
the ambivalent
role of
extra-marital
fantasies revealed
by a woman to her
husband in a
seemingly happy
relationship. One
would be forgiven
to suspect that,
over the course of
his career,
Kubrick was
working his way to
an investigation
of female desire
by first tackling
less daunting
subjects in
earlier works
(e.g., war, outer
space,
ultraviolence and
horror)!
Starring the
then-still-married
actors Nicole
Kidman and Tom
Cruise, Eyes
Wide Shut presents
dark motifs of
jealousy and
sexual obsession,
although Kubrick
intended the film
as a "hopeful"
story about
commitment and
monogamous
fidelity. The
title is a
reference to
remarks made by
Benjamin Franklin:
"Keep your
eyes wide open
before marriage,
and half shut
afterwards" -
a shorthand for a
pragmatic attitude
in terms of
viewing a spouse's
inner life.
A pattern formed
with the emergence
of new Kubrick
films; baffled
critics angrily
dismissed his
vision, but the
equalizing forces
of word-of-mouth
among audiences
ensured that a
cult following
developed around
his masterful
cinema. Peter
Bradshaw, writing
in The
Guardian, was
one of Eyes
Wide Shut's biggest
detractors,
referring to it as
"a grotesque,
vulgar,
preposterous flop
that
embarrassingly
damages one of the
most unimpeachable
reputations in
world
cinema."
While The New
Yorker film
critic Pauline
Kael raised
herself from
retirement to
declare the film
"a piece of
crap."
This lecture will
interpret Eyes
Wide Shut from
a psychoanalytic
perspective,
relying on
theoretical
concepts such as
the uncanny,
primal scene,
feminine
jouissance, Eros,
and Thanatos to
approach the
infuriating enigma
of marital
eroticism. On the
20th anniversary
of Kubrick's
death coinciding
with the
film's release, we
will reflect back
on the initial
outraged response
of film reviewers,
and identify the
director's
recurring iconic
themes that, in a
present-day
appraisal, stand
the test of time.
Mary
Wild is
the creator of
the PROJECTIONS lecture
series at
Freud Museum
London,
applying
psychoanalysis
to film
interpretation.
Her interests
include
cinematic
representations
of mental
illness,
doppelgangers
and the
unconscious in
the genres of
horror,
science
fiction and
documentary.
Mary also
co-hosts a
film podcast
on iTunes: PROJECTIONS
Podcast.
NO CME OR CE CREDITS
WILL BE OFFERED.
Psychoanalytic
Couple Therapy
Graciela Abelin-Sas Rose,
M.D. & Peter Mezan, Ph.D.
This course will present results
of an ongoing collaborative
research by two analysts working
in two different modalities -
individual and couple. The
comparison of the dynamics in
the two settings reveals many
new issues and questions. For
instance: Is there an
unconscious organization of the
couple distinct from the
unconscious organizations of the
individuals in it? What are the
differences between the
individual's transferences to
the analyst and to the patient's
partner? How much can the
analyst know about the patient's
partner? At every meeting the
instructors will present
clinical material illustrating
these and other issues.
4.5 CME/CE credits offered
Graciela Abelin-Sas
Rose, MD is
a member of the New York
Psychoanalytic Society &
Institute; of the Association
for Psychoanalytic Medicine
and of CAPS. She founded and
chaired the New York
Psychoanalytic Institute's
Colloquium with Visiting
Authors, where members of
diverse schools of thought
were invited to present their
psychoanalytic perspectives.
She served as the Foreign
Editor of the Journal
of Clinical Psychoanalysis. She
is in private practice and
conducts private seminars and
supervisions. Besides being
guest lecturer at American and
International institutions she
has written reviews and essays
on the work of various authors
as well as publications of her
own work, such as: "To
Mother or Not to Mother:
Abortion and its Challenges"
(1993); "Discovering One's
Own Responsibility in a
Judgmental System"
(1996); "The Headless
Woman: Scheherazade's Syndrome"
(1997); "The First
Interview: From
Psychopathology to
Psychoexistential Diagnosis"
(1999); "The Internal
Interlocutor" (2001);
"Malignant Passionate
Attachments" (2004);
"Implicit theories of the
psychoanalyst about femininity"
(2008); "The perilous
road to hope" (2009);
"Coupledom" (2010);
"The Synergizing
potential of Individual and
Couple Treatments" (2011)
with Peter Mezan, PhD; "Is
there an unconscious
organization of the couple,
and if so, how does it come
into being?" with Peter
Mezan, PhD (2012); "What
can we know about our patient's
partner?" with Peter
Mezan, PhD (2012). She has
been the co-editor, with
Leticia Glocer Fiorini of
"Freud's Femininity"
a book edited in 2010 by the
IPA under the Contemporary
Freud Series. Her chapter in
that book: "Are women
still at risk of being
misunderstood?"abelinsasrose@gmail.com
Peter Mezan, PhDis Assistant
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
at The Icahn School of Medicine
at Mount Sinai and is
a psychoanalyst in private
practice in New York City.
Earlier in his career he was
Senior Psychologist and
psychotherapy supervisor at
North Central Bronx Hospital,
Albert Einstein College of
Medicine. Dr. Mezan was educated
at Harvard College, Harvard
Medical School, Harvard Graduate
School, Cambridge University,
and The City University of New
York. While at Harvard, he
worked with inner city
adolescent gangs under the
supervision of Erik Erikson. In
London, where he lived for many
years, he worked with R.D. Laing
and, as a freelance journalist,
introduced Laing to the American
public in cover articles in
major American magazines and
contributions to several books.
Dr. Mezan was a lecturer on
family systems in Laing's
Philadelphia Association. He was
also Supervisor in Renaissance
English literature and modern
American poetry at Christ's
College, Cambridge, and an
editor at Nature,
the British science journal. In
collaboration with Dr. Graciela
Abelin-Sas Rose, he has given
numerous papers at major
psychoanalytic conferences
around the world on the
psychoanalysis of couples. They
are currently collaborating on a
book on that subject.drmezan@gmail.com
Modern Conflict
Theory in Practice
Ian
D. Buckingham, M.D.
April 18, 25; May 2, 9, 2019
Thursdays, 8:30 - 10:00 pm
4
classes / $120
Location:
NYPSI: 247 East 82nd Street, NYC
NYPSI Extension Program: Modern
Conflict Theory in Practice
A contemporary focus on the
functioning of the mind from the
perspective of Modern Conflict
Theory, with emphasis on
Brenner's revisions of
traditional structural theory
and a new appreciation of the
ideas of evolutionary biology
for understanding the
functioning of the mind.
6 CME/CE credits offered.
Dr.
Buckingham was
formerly President of NYPSI and
Director of its Psychodynamic
Psychotherapy Program. He is on
the faculty of both NYPSI and NYU
Medical Center.
With the larger aim of
formulating a model of the
human mind that acts as a
bridge between clinicians and
neuroscientists, we suggest
that it is possible to clarify
some of the questions that
have vexed psychodynamic and
psychoanalytic thinking for a
long time. Two examples,
"What is a Mind",
and, "What is
Consciousness" will be
addressed and their connection
to topics such as awareness,
subjectivity and attention
will be touched on. We shall
also address Chalmer's
"Hard Problem", and
initiate a discussion on the
way in which classic Freudian
models of the mind can be
interpreted within these
conceptions. We will not
address therapeutic techniques,
except in a very general sense.
No
CME or CE credits offered.
Terence
Rogers holds
a Ph.D. from
Cambridge University
(UK) in the Theory
of Elementary
Particle Physics,
and a B.Sc., also
from Cambridge, in
Natural Sciences
(1st Class Honors).
He was then awarded
a Harkness
Fellowship to carry
out research at
Princeton and
Berkeley
Universities. He
left academia and
worked for IBM from
1970 to 1990,
becoming a Group
Director, and from
1990 to 1999 he held
executive positions
in several software
companies, including
being CEO of a (failed)
Internet startup. In
1999 he was asked to
lead a national
project to build an
alternative
Internet, which was
announced at the
White House and
became the most
powerful network in
the world. Subsequently,
Dr. Rogers became
President and CEO of
the International
ThinkQuest
Foundation an
initiative for
engaging 100,000
teenagers around the
world in creating
educational websites
for other students. Between
2006 and 2012 Dr.
Rogers worked on a
proposal to redesign
our K-12 Public
School System, and
his bookFifty
Million Futures is
to be published
imminently. In
2013, he became
Assistant Clinical
Professor of
Psychiatry, Icahn
School of Medicine
at Mount Sinai,
where his research
is devoted to
applying his
knowledge of complex
systems to studying
models of the mind.
Janine
Altounian (Parigi), Leonardo Ancona (Roma), Brenno Boccadoro
(Ginevra), Werner Bohleber (Francoforte sul Meno), Mario Colucci (Trieste),
Lidia De Rita (Bari), Santa Fizzarotti Selvaggi (Bari),
Patrizia Guarnieri (Firenze), Robert Hinshelwood (Londra), René
Kaes (Lione), Otto Kernberg (New York), Massimo Maisetti (Milano), Lidia
Marigonda (Venezia), Predrag Matvejevic' (Zagabria), Franca
Maisetti Mazzei (Milano), Laura Montani (Roma), Marie Rose
Moro (Parigi), Salomon Resnik
(Parigi), Mario Rossi Monti (Firenze), Mario Scarcella
(Messina), Sverre Varvin (Oslo), Vamik D. Volkan (Charlottesville,
USA).
Le
illustrazioni contenute in questa Newsletter sono tratte
da: "From Neurology
to Psychoanalysis: Sigmund Freud's Neurological Drawings and
Diagrams of the Mind" di Lynn Gamwell and Mark
Solms.
La
prossima newsletter verrà inviata nel mese di Maggio 2019.
Cordiali
saluti
e buona Pasqua...
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prochaine newsletter sera envoyée en Mai 2019. Cordiales
salutations et Joyeuses Pâques.
The next newsletter is in May 2019.
Best
regards and Happy Easter.
Giuseppe
Leo
Direttore
Responsabile (Editor) rivista di psicoanalisi applicata Frenis
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