Lost in Translation, Found in Relation: Treating Adoptees & their Families

Join us on Saturday, April 6, 2013, from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm, for this exciting continuing education workshop with Billie A. Pivnick, PhD & filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal. Lost in Translation, Found in Relation: Treating Adoptees & their Families A narrative approach to adoption can open new lines of exploration – making room for curiosity in adoptees, adoptive families, and those called on to assist them. Gaps in self-experience create…
Read more...Academic Program Open House at The National Institute for the Psychotherapies, NY

Thursday, March 14, 2013; 6:30 pm NIP 250 West 57th Street, Suite 501 New York City, NY 2012 NIP graduate Rachel Sopher, LCSW, will provide a clinical presentation illustrating rupture and repair in a complex therapeutic relationship with a young woman struggling with severe emotional and physical dysregulation.
Read more...Conference to Honor Norbert Freedman and Irving Steingart at IPTAR

SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 13 AND 14, 2012 IPTAR CONFERENCE TO HONOR NORBERT FREEDMAN AND IRVING STEINGART The Analyst’s Receptivity: Exploring Intersections and Divergences in Contemporary Freudian, Kleinian/Bionian and Field Theory Participants Giuseppe Civitarese, Larry Brown, Lissa Weinstein and Steven Ellman. This Conference is in honor of Norbert Freedman and Irivng Steingart—Beloved Analysts, Contributors and […]
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Big Wild Cats

We love and fear big wild cats and they are part of our cultural imagination. Join psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe in a discussion of "the wild predator within" with award-winning film-makers Amanda Barrett and Owen Newman, and see clips from t…
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The Horror in Dreams

What do dreams mean? Can they predict our futures, or are they a way of remembering our past? Join psychoanalysts Rosine Perelberg and Donald Campbell to discuss the way dreams and nightmares depict people’s anxieties.
Speakers
Donald Campbell is…
Developing Identity

Who and what made you who you are? Early experiences, traumas and culture are among the many factors influencing your sense of self. Join us as we explore identity through films and discussion.
Part 1: short films and discussion
Three programmes of new…
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Ideology of choice and the idea of perfect future

We are encouraged from all sides to view our lives as being full of choices. Like the products on a supermarket shelf, our careers, our relationships, our bodies, our very identity seem to be there for the choosing. But paradoxically this seeming freed…
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Real people: the self in mental health and social care

Abstracts for the conference may be submitted either as an oral or as a poster presentation. Workshops, Seminars and Symposia are also welcome.
You are invited to submit an abstract on a relevant topic that you would like to present connected to the …
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The aesthetic development in psychoanalytic thinking: a series of lectures April-June

A series of lectures on the psychoanalytic theories of Bion and Meltzer: Linking psychoanalysis and the arts
April – June 2009
Fee: £30 per seminar (£130 for all 5 seminars)
Venue: Tavistock Centre, London
This series of lectures focuses on the …
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Freud Reconsidered: Reading seminars for child and adult psychotherapists

Fee: £35
Venue: Tavistock Centre, London
In this new series of reading seminars for qualified child and adult psychotherapists, eminent child psychotherapists and psychoanalysts introduce a paper by Freud of particular interest to them, leading in…
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