The Neuropsychoanalytic Clinical Study Center
of NPAP Presents

The Brain has a Mind of its Own:
Attachment, Neurobiology, and the
New Science of Psychotherapy
(Confer Books, London)

By. Jeremy Holmes

Facilitator:
Ann Rose Simon, LCSW

Co-Facilitator:
Mary Edlow, PhD

Friday, March 5, 2021
2:30pm – 4pm

Live Online via Zoom
(Registration is required in order to receive the zoom link)
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Friday, March 5 at 1pm

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BETWEEN 1PM AND 2PM
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 5

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Presenter:
Klara Naszkowska, PhD

Class Instructor:
Thomas Taylor, LCSW-R

Tuesdays:
March 9, 16, 23, 30
April 6, 13 — 2021
7 – 8:30 pm

Live Online via Zoom: Workshop
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Tuesday, March 2, at 5pm

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BETWEEN 4PM AND 5PM
MONDAY, MARCH 8

Registration is Closed!

The seminar will look at the cultural, social, political, racial, and gender contexts of one of the most significant phenomena in twentieth–century intellectual history: the migration of persons, ideas, and institutions from Europe to the United States in the 1930s with the focus on psychoanalysis. Of special interest to the discussion is the condition of Jewish women psychoanalysts. We will try to answer the following questions: What were the social, cultural, political, and racial aspects of the forced emigration of the 1930s? What were the US politics of emigration? How did émigré women and men analysts experience uprooting, loss of language, culture gap, acculturation? How does immigration reinvent a person? How did the complex multiple identities of émigré women-analysts relate to one another? What was their public and domestic interpretation of gender? Was Jewishness an important self-category for the émigré women and men analysts? What was the status of women immigrants in a Jewish community (diaspora), and in a medical environment in the 1930s and 1940s? Also, the transformation of psychoanalysis from a radical social, cultural, political project in Europe into a medical specialization in the US will be explored. Why are the stories of émigré psychoanalysts of interest to us now? The figure of an intellectual immigrant, and the problem of Jewish and women refugees, reveals facts that are relevant to us today. They force us to rethink our basic concepts of the (political) subject, community, nation–state, and more. What we learn today, we may have to use tomorrow.

Learning Objectives: After attending the presentation, participants will be able to
– Discuss a historical, social, cultural, political, and psychoanalytic perspective of the issues related to emigration of 1930-41.
– Describe the differences in the beginnings of psychoanalysis in Europe and the United States, the transformation of psychoanalysis in America, and the character of psychoanalytic theory and practice.
– Explain the contribution of female Freudians to the development of the psychoanalytic movement.
– Describe the contribution of émigré psychoanalysts to the history of American psychoanalysis, with the focus on women analysts.
– Explain the complex multiple identities of the first female Freudians who emigrated to the US.
– Identify how the different interpretations of women’s identities can be rooted in race, class, as well as different social or cultural conditions.

Open to:
NPAP Members and Candidates I $225
Non-member I $250
NPAP Guest Candidate I $120

9.0 CE contact hours will be granted to participants with documented attendance and complete evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion, a Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to all participants.

Bio: Klara Naszkowska, PhD, is a cultural, social, and personal historian specializing in the early history of psychoanalysis. Visiting Scholar (2020/2021), and Fulbright Visiting Scholar (2019/2020) at Union Theological Seminary (Columbia Univ.). Guest Instructor at Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute, NYC. Founding president of the International Association for Spielrein Studies www.spielreinassociation.org Most recent publications: “Passions, Politics, and Drives: Sabina Spielrein in Soviet Russia” in: Sabina Spielrein and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis: Image, Thought, and Language. Ed. P. Cooper-White, F. Kelcourse. Routledge (2019); Dr. Naszkowska is currently working on a book on Jewish women émigré analysts and the great wave of European intellectual immigration to the United States. As the head of the scientific committee, she is organizing the first international conference “Sabina Spielrein and the Early Female Pioneers of Psychoanalysis” in April 15-17, 2022 in Warsaw.

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National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0139.

National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0010.

Presenter:
Gavriel Reisner, PhD, LP

Moderator:
Judy Ann Kaplan, LCSW, BCD-P, FIPA

Sunday, March 14, 2021
5pm – 7pm

Live Online via Zoom: Workshop
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BETWEEN 5PM AND 6:30PM
FRIDAY, MARCH 12

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The presentation applies Loewald’s distinction between “ghosts” and “ancestors” and Winnicott’s concept of “potential space” to Toni Morrison’s novel, Song of Solomon (1977). Morrison reworks African legend into a mid-twentieth-century fable as her protagonist, Milkman Dead, almost a black Hamlet, looks for a lost heritage in the woods of Pennsylvania and over a canyon in Virginia, turning the vast American continent into a Winnicottian stage. There he finds the deeper meanings of both love and being through the Loewaldian counselor-as-good-object, Pilate Dead, a mother-figure with no navel who creates liberating boundaries-within-deep-spaces. She is the one who indirectly leads him to his legendary-true ancestor: mythical Solomon, the slave who really knew how to fly. Altering the ghosts of racial history, Solomon bequeaths his lost ancestral heritage to the novel’s transformed hero.

Learning Objectives: After attending the presentation, participants will be able to
– Discuss Loewald (on time and inner experience) and Winnicott (on space and outer experience) to understand the achievement of selfhood in the protagonist of Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon.
– Trace the Loewaldian movement from ghosts (disturbing inner objects) to ancestors (restorative inner objects) in the novel’s protagonist, Milkman Dead, and in the African-American community as a whole.
– Describe “haunting” as a subliminal process, with psychoanalytic, social, and political dimensions, that reveals a profound social repression of America’s racial history.

Open to:
NPAP members and candidates I no cost
Non-members I $40
Other Students/Candidates I $20
Contribution I Optional

2.0 CE contact hours will be granted to participants with documented attendance and complete evaluation form. It is the responsibility of the participants seeking CE credits to comply with these requirements. Upon completion, a Certificate of Attendance will be emailed to all participants.

Bio: Gavriel Reisner, PhD, LP, became a licensed psychoanalyst in New York in December 2017; he graduated from the NPAP in 2019. Living in Jerusalem, Israel, for many years, he was Lecturer in English at The Hebrew University and Lecturer in English and Visiting Senior Lecturer in Multidisciplinary Studies at Tel Aviv University. He has authored many works, books, articles, chapters in compilations, and reviews on literature and, more recently, on literature-and-psychoanalysis. In The Death-Ego and The Vital Self: Romances of Desire in Literature and Psychoanalysis he applied Freudian theory – particularly the death drive – to a series of literary texts. He is presently working on another full-length study: Suffering a Sea-Change, Going from Ghosts to Ancestors in Narrative. This work-in-progress focuses on being-creation, the protagonist’s self-development traced in psychoanalytic terms, in a series of literary works. One essay in the projected volume, “On Ghosted and Ancestral Selves in Hamlet: Loewald’s ‘Present Life’ and Winnicott’s ‘Potential Space’ in Shakespeare’s Play” won the Peter Loewenberg (CORST) Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Society in 2015. In 2019 a much-revised version of this article received the JAPA-New Author’s Prize.

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National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0139.

National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0010.