The Truman Show Delusion: Revisiting the Psychoanalytic Attitude Toward Psychosis
This talk will endeavor to address appropriate concerns while also revisiting the utility of a psychoanalytic approach toward patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic illness.
Home, Homelessness, & Immigration
What might contribute to our subjectively feeling at home in the world? What leads to the loss of one’s psychic sense of home which in turn results in us feeling psychically unmoored in the world?
4th Annual Marianne Goldberger Memorial Lecture: "Marianne Goldberger: A Mold-breaking Psychoanalyst in Her Time and, Importantly, for Ours"
The Marianne Goldberger Memorial Lecture commemorates Dr. Goldberger, who was an outstanding and beloved analyst, supervisor, teacher and mentor at PANY. Each year a lecture is chosen by the MGML Committee to honor Dr. Goldberger's love of learning and the pursuit of analytic truth.
The Impact of Medication on the Psychotherapeutic Situation
The Impact of Medication on the Therapeutic Situation
How do psychoanalysts work with medication? What is the significance to both patient and analyst of an analyst prescribing medication? Dr. Garza will address these topics and provide clinical examples from his psychoanalytic practice.
Group Psychoanalysis: Who Knew?
In this offering, Dr. Attwell will introduce the class to the didactic similarities and differences between individual and group psychoanalysis as well as how they can work in effective tandem.
Vicissitudes of Interpretation
In this presentation Dr. Reis asserts interpretation is called upon to do far too much explanatory work in psychoanalysis and that it is accorded a variety of meanings.