Study Groups
Reading Harold Searles with Terry Hanson & Peter Hopkins
This is a six-part course meeting on Wednesday evenings: January 16, 23 and 30 and February 6, 20 and 27.
Psychoanalytic ideas can often feel intimidating, frustrating, and even intrusive, and often there's a pressure to engage them in a concrete way. The internal pressure to understand, comprehend, "know," categorize, and collect knowledge can be tremendous, and very easily can lead to a disruptive relationship with knowledge, as well as a misunderstanding of the various ways that human beings come to know and understand.
The Use of Psychedelics and the Psychoanalytic Perspective
A study group based on Michael Pollan’s new book How to Change Your Mind.
This book chronicles what the new science of psychedelics teaches us about consciousness, dying, addiction, depression, and transcendence.
We will follow the book closely and bring our own personal and psychoanalytic minds together to explore this fascinating “new” field of inquiry. Additional article links will be provided.
Study group: The Function of Emotions
An Email-Based Study of the Work of Psychoanalyst Michael Eigen
Join an ongoing and weekly study of the work of New York Psychoanalyst Michael Eigen through email. Participants can join, read, and engage at their own pace, as well as stay in or exit the email thread at any point in time. Currently reading: The Sensitive Self.
Working with Object Loss
Loss of an object can wreak havoc on internal structure. Working with patients who have lost someone or something significant can quickly feel full of despair, hopeless, and unending. Some patients cannot seem to stop mourning, while others refuse to mourn at all. In this study group, we will read and discuss five essential papers on object loss, published in Rita V.
Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis
How might these foundations be challenged from an existential perspective, and how might such a challenge expand our understanding of our patients? This reading group will explore the theory of daseinsanalysis, an existential-phenomenological reformulation of psychoanalytic theory put forth by Medard Boss (patient of Freud and friend of the philosopher Martin Heidegger), and its potential to expand our ability to adapt to our most distressed and fragile patients. Participants will read through Boss's Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis over the course of four meetings.
An Email-Based Study of the Work of Psychoanalyst Michael Eigen
On-going group, online
Join an ongoing and weekly study of the work of New York Psychoanalyst Michael Eigen through email. Participants can join, read, and engage at their own pace, as well as stay in or exit the email thread at any point in time. Currently reading: The Sensitive Self.
Herman Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener: Stretching our capacity to think clinically and creatively about Bartleby’s complex psychic structures (Group 3)
The setting for this novella is mid-19th Century Wall Street in New York City. When Bartleby’s employer, a lawyer, asks him to do some work, Bartleby famously answers: “I would prefer not to.” Why does Bartleby obsessively refuse work orders and why does his employer obsessively try to reason with him rather than dismiss him? We will examine the obsessive conflict between Bartleby and the lawyer.
Herman Melville’s Bartleby, the Scrivener: Stretching our capacity to think clinically and creatively about Bartleby’s complex psychic structures (Group 2)
The setting for this novella is mid-19th Century Wall Street in New York City. When Bartleby’s employer, a lawyer, asks him to do some work, Bartleby famously answers: “I would prefer not to.” Why does Bartleby obsessively refuse work orders and why does his employer obsessively try to reason with him rather than dismiss him? We will examine the obsessive conflict between Bartleby and the lawyer.
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