Events
For those curious about what psychoanalysis is and how it works as well as for the seasoned analyst interested in the latest applications of psychoanalytic principles, please join us for the following one hour presentations followed by one hour discussions.
October 22 Denise Dorsey, MD Having Everything: The Red Shoe Stories
Red shoes and in particular red high heels appear everywhere and are likely a universal symbol; but what is being symbolized? Seeking the answer led me on a journey through a little history, culture, fashion, the erotic, fairy tales, movies, and some clinical vignettes. Viewed from these different vantage points, I began to form some plausible conclusions.
November 12 Walt Ehrhardt, PhD Learning From Bion
The goal of this presentation is to offer a smattering taste of Wifred Bion, to whet the participant’s appetite for psychoanalytic learning, using object relations theory as developed out of the psychoanalytic community in London where Freud found refuge, his daughter Anna and protégé Melanie Klein battled, and where major strides have been made in thinking about thinking. Drawing on the work of James Grotstein and Thomas H. Ogden, the group will be invited to struggle with Bion’s search for “Truth”, his concept of “O”, and its involvement in his expanding thinking about “thinking”.
February 4 Dale Firestone, LCSW My Dinner with Andre “Action Figures
Discussion of the Trend of Reifying Symptoms and Syndromes as Static Entities vs. Exploration of the Dynamic Action Underlying Symptom Formation.
March 10 Scott Griffies, MD Mind-Body Interaction
Mind-Body Interaction in Psychosomatic Disorders A review of the psychodynamics of psychosomatic disorders and understanding of stress response and stress dysregulation including review of functional MRI.
April 21 Al Burstein, PhD Narrative and Being
The capacity to tell stories is a unique and important form of memory. We will explore the relationship between narrative, identity and the human awareness of mortality.
May 19 Talaat Mohammed, MD A Comparison of the Child, Adolescent, and Adult Dream Dream Interpretation will be discussed through a developmental lens and increase awareness of dream analysis.
Location: New Orleans–Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center• 3624 Coliseum Street • New Orleans
Pre-registration required. Please call 504-899-5815 or email nobpcenter@gmail.com
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
There is a $15.00 charge for CME certificates for members and a $25.00 charge for non-members. Psychologists and Social Workers may receive credit with the CME certificate. The event is free of charge.
Past Events
The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
Scientific Presentation
Fred Busch M.D.
“Why Do We Ask Questions?”
Friday Dec 2, 2011
8:00-10:00 P.M.
3624 Coliseum Street
The role of questions in psychoanalysis is a long neglected topic. Few theories exists for asking questions, yet, it is the author’s experience that certain questions have come to be accepted as a common part of the psychoanalytic method. The thesis of this paper is that although most questions are asked to open and explore unknown areas, they often interfere and shut down thinking, leading to what is already known. It is based on the author's thinking about the analytic process and goals, which is sketched after some initial observations about questions. Other perspectives are presented and discussed. The author introduces the term unsaturated questions as a type of question which might fit better with the goals of analysis, and explores some countertransference reasons for asking questions.
Educational Objectives:
1. Participants will come away with an understanding of the complex issues in asking questions in analysis.
2. Participants will appreciate the possible ways questions stop rather than open up thinking in analysis.
- Guidelines for potentially useful questions in analysis will be discussed
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose..
Psychologists and Social Workers may receive credit for this activity with a CME certificate.
There will be a $30.00 fee for CME certificates for NOBPC members and a $50.00 fee for nonmembers.
THE EDWARD H. KNIGHT MEMORIAL FUND
Film and Discussion
Cyrano de Bergerac
by
Edmond Rostand
Starring Jose Ferrar
Rostand’s Cyrano was Anna Freud’s favorite play, one she was said to know by heart. She describes the play as illustrating a form of altruism as a defense mechanism.
We will discuss the film, addressing the following questions: Who is the object of Cyrano’s altruism? Is his behavior altruistic? Are there other views of Cyrano’s behavior?
Discussant: Alvin G. Burstein, Ph. D.
There is no admission charge. Contributions to the Edward Knight Memorial Fund are welcome.
2-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011
New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
3624 Coliseum Street
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Fee for CME credits: $15 for Center members; $25, non-members (payable at the event).
THE EDWARD H. KNIGHT MEMORIAL FUND
Film and Discussion
Shadowlands
The Story of C. S. Lewis and Joy Gresham
Starring Anthony Hopkins & Debra Winger
Both Lewis and Freud understood the centrality of conflict in the human condition and provided sensitive accounts of the irrational forces that motivate us. The film, which describes the impact of the tragic death of Joy Gresham only two years after her marriage to Lewis, provides an opportunity to address questions about the nature of love and the relationship of narrative and historical truth.
Discussant: Alvin G. Burstein, Ph.D.
There is no admission charge. Contributions to the Edward Knight Memorial Fund are welcome.
2-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011
New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
3624 Coliseum Street
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Fee for CME credits: $15 for Center members; $25, non-members (payable at the event).
The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
Scientific Presentation
Elise Snyder M.D.
The Shibboleth of Cross-Cultural Issues in
Psychoanalytic Treatment
Friday February 11, 2011
7:30-9:30 P.M.
3624 Coliseum Street
Psychoanalysts have long been curious, enamored and divided about the role of culture in analytic treatment. Most often analysts employ an outdated notion of culture, long abandoned by anthropologists. They regard culture as static and unchanging. Now, most anthropologists describe even the most remote cultures as constantly changing (even when members of the culture seem unaware of that fact). The discussion of cross-cultural analysis has become a cottage industry as analysis has moved to Asia and, most particularly, to China. Issues of cultural differences arise from both sides of the analytic couch. This presentation will focus on analyses now being conducted by American analysts in China. Case material from an analysis conducted in America will also be presented
(see Flyer for more details)
The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
Mind-Body Interactions in Psychosomatic Disorders
A Four Session Discussion Group
By
Scott Griffies M.D.
Please join us for a discussion group series of four interactive lectures focused on a review of psychodynamic theory as applied to psychosomatic disorders. Dr. Griffies will review functional MRI data and neural correlates as well as review the stress response and the current understanding of stress dysregulation in psychosomatic disorders. There will also be a review of psychoneuroimmunology models in psychosomatic disorders.
The program will be held at the NOBPC 3624 Coliseum Street from 7:00-8:00pm
May 30-June 13-June 27-July 11, 2011
Registration fees: $60 for Center members; $100 for non-members (includes 4 CME credits)
Complete and mail with your check to:
The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
3624 Coliseum St.
New Orleans, LA 70115
Name ________________________________________________________________________
Address ______________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________
Phone _______________________________________________________________________
Total enclosed $_______ Requesting continuing education credit? Yes/No
Please respond quickly. This program will be limited to 12 participants.
"This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of the CME activity. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 4 hours in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity. IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose."
25th Annual Regional Child Analysis Conference
SCHEDULESeptember 10, 2010
7:30 P.M. Dinner at Café Adelaide in the hotel
Cost of $75.00 per person to be prepaid via registration form. Cash bar.
September 11, 2010
CONFERENCE
Cost of Program-$100.00 Registration Fee includes continental breakfasts, lunch and 5 CME.
8:30 A.M.-9:00 A.M. Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. Presentation
12:00 P.M.-1:00 P.M. Box Lunch Provided
1:00 P.M.-3:30 P.M. Presentation
Two 15 minute breaks will be incorporated into the morning and afternoon sessions.
7:00 P.M. Dinner at Galatoire’s Restaurant
209 Bourbon Street
Cost of $75.00 per person to be prepaid via the advanced registration
form. Cash bar. JACKET REQUIRED FOR MEN.
September 12, 2010
7:45 A.M.-8:30 A.M. Continental Breakfast
8:30 A.M.-10:30 A.M Child Analytic Seminar on Failed Cases for Candidates. Meeting is open
to all
WHERE TO STAY
LOEW’S HOTEL
Reservations: (504)595-3300 $149.00 per night plus tax Conference ID#-SEC910
(see flyer for more details)
FREUD AND LACAN IN THE BARRIO:
CLINICAL WORK WITH MARGINALIZED POPULATIONS
THE EDWARD H. KNIGHT MEMORIAL FUND
PUBLIC LECTURE
PATRICIA GHEROVICI, Ph. D.
Founding Director of the Philadelphia Lacan Study Group
Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member,
APRÈS-COUP PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSN., NEW YORK
Dr. Gherovici has published extensively, especially with respect to cultural issues. Her most recent book is Please Select your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge, 2010.)
7 P. M., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2010
NOBPC CENTER
3624 COLISEUM ST.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CME activity. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2 hours in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity. Psychologists and social workers may also receive up to 2 hours CME for this educational activity IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Registration fee for CE credits: $25 for Center members; $35, non-members (payable at the event).
(see Flyer for more details)
The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
Scientific Presentation
Alexandra Murray Harrison, M.D.
“Are You My Mother?”:
Therapeutic Action in a Dyadic Treatment
Friday, Dec. 3, 2010
7:30-9:30 P.M.
3624 Coliseum Street
Dr. Harrison will discuss therapeutic action – what makes change take place - in the case of a dyadic treatment of a four-year old adopted boy and his mother. She will illustrate her points with videotape from the clinical sessions. Dr. Harrison will show how videotape technique, developed by infant researchers to observe infant and mother, can be used to observe therapeutic process in a psychodynamic treatment. She illustrates how the method of videotape observation makes it possible to study data unavailable in traditional methods of recording and reporting the clinical material of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic cases. For example, Dr. Harrison will demonstrate the importance of non-verbal communication of affect and intention, as well as the significance of the micro-process – the moment to moment exchange. She will then elaborate her ideas about how change takes place in psychotherapy, using non-linear developmental theory to complement psychoanalytic theory, in making sense of the multiple simultaneous meaning-making processes involved in developmental and therapeutic change.
(see Flyer for more details)
Where: Southern Rep
When: 7pm May 21st
2nd Annual New Orleans Psychoanalytic Center's Theater event--The Piano Teacher
We have reserved the entire theater for the play and it will be a thought-provoking and fun evening.
The tickets prices are a very affordable $30 ($35 at the door), and we will have a wine and cheese reception starting at 7. Make checks payable to the NOBPC and mail them to me at the address below.
Judy Barnes-Cochran
1426 Amelia St.
NOLA 70115
Psychotherapy as Portrayed in HBO’s
In Treatment (view flyer)
The Program: Please join us for this discussion series which will utilize the HBO series In Treatment as a catalyst for discussion of psychotherapy, particularly how a psychotherapist copes with the realities of personal and professional stressors as well as counter-transference and ethical issues. Discussion will also focus on clinical decision making regarding diagnosis and treatment.
The group will meet for discussion four times over a two month period. Prior to the meeting, participants will be asked to prepare by watching 10 to 13 specified episodes of “In Treatment” and reading related articles. The discussion will be led by a psychoanalyst, Dale Firestone, LCSW, and coordinated by psychologist, Mindy Kronenberg, Ph.D.
The Schedule (including learning objectives):
All sessions will meet at 3624 Coliseum Street from 7:00 to 8:30 PM.
March 10, 2010: Diagnosis of Four Fictional Clients (Episodes 1 – 10)
- Discuss how psychopathology is portrayed in popular culture.
- Utilize clinical reasoning to diagnosis the characters portrayed in “In Treatment.”
Selections from: McWilliams, N. Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process
March 31, 2010: Psychotherapy with Four Fictional Clients (Episodes 11-20)
- Discuss how psychodynamic psychotherapy is portrayed in popular culture
- Discuss the psychotherapeutic techniques utilized by the fictional psychotherapist in “In Treatment.”
- Evaluate the appropriateness of psychotherapeutic techniques utilized in “In Treatment” given the clinical presentation of each character.
Zerbe, K.J. (2007). Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis: fifty years later. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic
Association, 55(1), 229-238.
April 14, 2010: Psychotherapeutic Challenges & Professionalism (Episodes 21-30)
- Utilize the content of “In Treatment” to discuss how counter-transference and boundary issues affect the psychotherapeutic relationship
- Discuss the personal and professional difficulties psychotherapists encounter and the importance of clinical consultation and self care
Maroda, K.J. (2007). Ethical considerations of the home office. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 24, 173-179.
April 28, 2010: Ethics Violations: “The Slippery Slope” (Episodes 31-43)
- Discuss the ethical issues portrayed in “In Treatment.”
- Discuss the progression of boundary violations presented in “In Treatment.”
- Utilize the content of “In Treatment,” to discuss how boundary violations may occur and be avoided in psychotherapy
Celenza, A. & Gabbard, G.O. (2003). Analysts who commit sexual boundary violations: a lost cause? Journal of the
American Psychoanalytic Association, 51(2), 617-636.
Apr 10, 2010 "Obstacles to Love" (view flyer)
by: Judy Kantrowitz, PhD
This workshop is free to attendees not wanting continuing education credits. The Center will grant 2 CME’s to mental health professionals at a fee of $25 for Center members and $35 for non-members. The workshop will be held at The Conference Room, 400 Office Park Dr. Birmingham, AL, 9am to 11am. A case presentation and workshop with a master psychoanalyst and psychotherapist.
The Century of the Self
On Friday, March 12th, at 7:30
The New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center and the New Orleans Lyceum will be showing the first part of the Century of the Self which focuses on the rise of Edward Bernays in American corporate culture and his wider legacy.
On Friday, March 26th at 7:30
We will show the second part of the series which covers the influences of Anna Freud on the government, big business, and CIA development of techniques to manage and control the minds of the American people
Announcing: The showing of a two part documentary describing the importation of Freud’s ideas into the US government and corporations from the BBC documentary “Century of the Self” March 12th and 26th at 7:30, followed by a discussion.
No Neutrality: The Abduction of Psychoanalysis by Corporate America
The American application of the discoveries of psychoanalysis comes under heavy scrutiny in Adam Curtis’ acclaimed BBC series, “The Century of the Self.”
The story begins with the relationship between Sigmund Freud and his American nephew, Edward Bernays. Bernays invented the public relations profession in the 1920s and was the first person to take Freud's ideas to manipulate consumer behavior. He showed American corporations how they could make people want things they didn't need by systematically linking mass-produced goods to their unconscious desires.
Bernays was convinced that this was more than just a way of selling consumer goods. It was a new political idea of how to control the masses. By satisfying the inner irrational desires that his uncle had identified, people could be made happy and docile and thereby remain conformist and politically harmless.
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized." - Edward Bernays
A (hopefully) lively discussion will follow each film.
We will be meeting at the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center at
3624 Coliseum St. New Orleans. Questions can be directed to David at 473-7194.
Music and Psychoanalysis at the Trinity Artist Series
(view flyer)
February 28, 2010
Program: Lecture-Recital, Melodies of the Mind: A Psychoanalytic and Musical Perspective on Mozart in 1778, presented by Dr. Julie Jaffee Nagel and Dr. Louis Nagel.
Date and Time: 2/28/10, 5:00 - 6:30 pm followed by complimentary reception
Place: Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue, NOLA
Cost: Free and open to the public,
Contacts: NOBPC – Kathryn Nathan, Ph. D., kathrynnathan3@gmail.com, or Diane B. Hammer, M.D., 504-444-6381. Trinity Artist Series: Albines Prizgintas, Music Director, Trinity Episcopal Church, 504-522-0276, email Aprizgintas@Trinitynola.com
Sponsors: Trinity Artist Series and the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center
Program Description:
In the summer of 1778, Mozart suffered “writer’s block” and depression while traveling in Paris with his mother. On that trip his mother died, and Mozart’s father blamed him for her death. These emotionally charged events led to the composition of the A Minor Piano Sonata, K. 310, Mozart’s only piano sonata in a minor key, marked by its sense of gravity and departure from his own and others’ compositional style. On Sunday, February 28, 2010, Dr. Julie Jaffee Nagel, Ph.D., distinguished pianist and psychoanalyst, will discuss this unique piece from an intrapsychic and musical point of view. The event will be capped by a performance of the full K.310 by Dr. Louis Nagel, internationally renowned concert pianist and music educator.
This program is part of the Trinity Artist Series. It is free and open to the public. It is made possible by a grant from the American Psychoanalytic Foundation and support from the New Orleans-Birmingham Center’s Ernest O. Svenson Fund for Psychoanalysis and the Arts.
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Julie Jaffee Nagel, Ph.D. holds BM and MS degrees in piano performance from The Juilliard School, and the MSW, MA (psychology) and Ph.D. (in psychology and social work) from The University of Michigan. A graduate of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, she is certified in adult psychoanalysis by the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). She was awarded the Ernst and Gertrude Ticho Lectureship in 2009 for her work on the intersection of music and psychoanalysis. She is in private practice in Ann Arbor, MI.
Louis Nagel, DMA holds 3 degrees from the Juilliard School. He is a Professor of Piano and Director of the Outreach Program at the University of Michigan’s School of Music. A Steinway Artist, he combines an active concert and teaching schedule and is noted for his lecture-recitals by musicians and non-musicians alike. He has performed in highly acclaimed solo recitals and concerto concerts in major American and European cities, and is a sought-after teacher, presenter and artist performer at state, national, and international conferences and festivals
Nov 4, 2009
"Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Adult-Onset Trauma" (view flyer)
A four-session discussion group
Drs. Randolph Harper and Kathryn Nathan will co-facilitate a discussion of selected chapters from Dr. Ghislaine Boulanger’s book, Wounded by Reality: Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma (Analytic Press, 2002) and recent lecture, “I Don’t Want This Knowledge: Understanding the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Therapists and Therapy in New Orleans” (presented in New Orleans through the FAR Fund Project and NOBPC on 2/5/09).
As noted by Boulanger, when catastrophic events overtake adult lives, they can scar the psyche in ways psychodynamic clinicians struggle to understand. The adult survivor of a catastrophe, be it a life-threatening assault or natural disaster, experiences a near-fatal disruption of fundamental aspects of self experience. Many who have physically survived are uncertain of their psychological survival. Dr. Boulanger’s book represents the culmination of three decades of studying and treating survivors of adult onset trauma and is the first systematic attempt to differentiate adult onset trauma from childhood trauma. Her lecture draws on personal interviews with New Orleans mental health clinicians three years after Katrina. Group participants will learn of recent findings in the neurobiology of stress and developmental psychology, and relational psychoanalytic concepts. Psychodynamic clinicians will learn to recognize symptoms, understand dynamics and work productively with survivors of adult trauma.
The group will be held biweekly on Wednesdays starting 11/4/09 from 7:00 to 8:30 pm at the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center, 3624 Coliseum Street. The fee is $60.00 for Center members and non-members, and includes CE credits. Fees do not include copies of Dr. Boulanger’s book, which must be purchased by participants; Center has order forms available for reduced price of $36.00. Missed groups will not be reimbursed. Maximum 12 participants; early registration is recommended.
For further information, call the NOBPC at 504-899-5815, or email info@ffpnola.com. To learn about the NOBPC, visit www.nobpc.org. For more about the FAR Fund Project, visit www.farfundprojectnola.com, where Dr. Boulanger’s recent New Orleans lecture is available in its entirety and can be downloaded.
CLASS SCHEDULE:
Nov. 4, 2009 Chapters 2 & 3: “Catastrophic Dissociation and Childhood Trauma: Some Distinctions” and “The Cost of Survival: Historical Perspectives on Adult Onset Trauma”
Nov. 18, 2009 Chapters 4, 5 and 6: “Wounded by Reality: The Relational Turn;” “The Core Self in Crisis: Deconstructing Catastrophic Dissociation,” and “The Relational Self in Crisis: Further Deconstructing Catastrophic Dissociation”
Dec. 2, 2009 Chapters 7, 8, & 9: “From Voyeur to Witness: The Crisis in Symbolic Functioning During Catastrophic Dissociation;” “The Ancient’s Mariner’s Dilemma: Constructing a Trauma Narrative,” and “The Strength Found in Innocence: Resistance to Working Psychodynamically with Survivors of Adult Onset Trauma”
Dec. 16, 2009 Chapter 10, “The Psychological Politics of Catastrophe: Local, Personal, and Professional,” and NOLA lecture: I Don’t Want This Knowledge: Understanding the Effects of Hurricane Katrina on Therapists and Therapy in New Orleans”
Nov 13, 2009
"An introduction to Slavoj Zizek" 7:30 - 9:30
Come join us at the New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center for an introduction to the ideas of Slavoj Zizek, a Slovenian psychoanalytic philosopher, at 7:30 on Friday November 13th. Refreshments will be provided.
Slavoj Zizek is probably the most widely read psychoanalytic, political and social philosopher on the planet, according to New Orleans analyst, Molly Rothenberg. He is coming to New Orleans to give a free public lecture at Loyola on November 17th “Uses and Misuses of Violence.” The center would like to offer an introductory evening to help participants become a bit more familiar with this complex thinker’s ideas. We will begin with some introductory remarks and view the film “Zizek!” and then open the floor to reaction and discussion. David O’Donaghue, Psy.D. , who has a background in philosophy and psychoanalysis, will tie some of Zizek’s ideas into Hegel and the critical theory of the Frankfort School. The work of French analyst Jacques Lacan, is the foundation for much of Zizek’s work and we will make an attempt to grapple with some of his ideas as well.
Oct. 31, 2009
"The Exonerated," (view flyer)
Film and discussion by Jessica Blank, Screenwriter, and Carolyn A. Weyand, PhD, Psychologist/Psychoanalyst;
Funded by The Ernest O Svenson, MD Fund for Psychoanalysis and the Arts. Admission for attendee who do not want continuing education credits will be $ 10 for the film screening and discussion. Admission for mental health professionals who would like the 2.75 continuing education credits available from the Center will be $30 for Center member and $40 for non-members. The event will be 8:30am to Noon at the Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St, New Orleans
The film shows us the real life experience of innocent people sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit. Later, their innocence discovered, they were exonerated and released from prison. Discussion will explore the process of researching, then writing, this nightmare come to life; and discover what can be learned about super-ego, persistence in the of trauma, and hope
Sept. 26, 2009
"The Neurobiology of Addiction for Psychotherapists and Psychoanalysts," (view flyer)
by: Maggie R. Zellner, PhD, Behavioral Neuroscientist and Psychoanalyst.
Anyone interested in this scientific program is welcomed to attend. The Center will grant 3 CME credits at fees of $30 for Center members, $40 for non-members. The event will take place at 8am to Noon, in the Stibbs Conference Room, Lavin-Bernick Center, Tulane University
May 23, 2009 8:00pm
Goin' To Jackson
Doing the right thing has never been more fun!
The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center needs your support to continue its important educational programs. But this time around, we have found a way to make donating not only painless, but actually very entertaining. Goin’ to Jackson is a popular one man stage comedy about the East Louisiana State Hospital . Critics across the country give it rave reviews! Creator and veteran actor, Jamie Wax, portrays four quirky patients and the flaky hospital chief of staff with a hilarious wit, but loving insight into the ‘other world’ we deal with daily. The Center has arranged for a private evening of Goin’ To Jackson and a "Talk Back" with actor, Jamie Wax. You are invited to join the fun and help the cause. Only 130 tickets can be sold….send your check today!
Goin’ To Jackson
A benefit performance for the New Orleans-Birmingham
Psychoanalytic Center
Saturday, May 23rd at 8pm
Le Chat Noir cabaret theater
715 St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans
Tickets are $50
Mail checks payable to
NOBPC
c/o Judy Barnes-Cochran
1426 Amelia Street
New Orleans, LA 70115
To read more about Goin’ to Jackson, Jamie Wax or Le Chat Noir
(where you will enjoy intimate table seating by candlelight and cocktails during the show), and
convenient parking next door to theater for $2,
visit www.cabaretlechatnoir.com
Questions about the benefit? Call Judy (504) 952.8139