Registration and Information
Once again, our 2011-12 Lecture Series retains a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural lens. David George, professor of Latin Studies, opens our fall Fridays@CCP series with a focus on film: “On the Road: Latin American Road Movies and the Encounter with the Other.” This Friday presentation will continue as a free forum film club, meeting on 3 Sundays throughout the year, open to the public free of charge. Later in the fall, Francoise Meltzer, professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago, brings a view of psychoanalysis and literature.
In winter Brian Koehler will discuss relational trauma, dissociation, social isolation, and loneliness in his neuropsychoanalytic model of psychosis, and Ken Corbett will continue our study of gender and psychoanalysis. With spring, we will turn to “Clinical, Epistemological, and Moral Dimensions of Dialectical Constructivism” presented by Irwin Hoffman.
Within our other format, Sundays@CCP, The Free Forum, former Fellow Paul Cantz, joined by Kallman Kaplan, will challenge our thinking as they ask what might have happened had Freud used Isaac instead of Oedipus. Their presentation is titled, ”Isaac vs. Oedipus: A Biblical Re-conceptualization of Psychology.”
We are invested in making this year’s lecture series affordable to all. Therefore, we invite everyone to join CCP by becoming a member. The annual membership dues of $100 (students and fellows $75) will give you entrance to all CCP events, plus additional benefits.
Please send your contact information and check for $100/$75 to:
PO Box 268017
Chicago, IL 60626
RSVP for all events to: rsvp@ccpsa.org
Cost for Fridays@CCP
CCP members: Free
Students: $15, Non-students: $50
The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis is an IRS 501(C)(3) charitable organization, and expenses may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law and your personal tax situation.
Lecture Series
2011-12
Fridays@CCP
October 21, 2011: David George, PhD
The Marcia Adler Annual Memorial Lecture
“On the Road: Latin American Road Movies and the Encounter with the Other”
5:30pm: Reception and Registration
6-8pm: Viewing of film “Motorcycle Diaries”
8-9:15pm: Discussion
If you are unable to make the 6 pm screening, consider viewing the film beforehand and joining us at 8 pm for the discussion with Dr George.
The Chicago School for Professional Psychology
325 N. Wells St., 4th Floor, Chicago
Free to Members of CCP ($100 annual fee; students $75)
Non-members: $50
Student non-members: $15
RSVP: rsvp@ccpsa.org
David George, Ph.D., is a professor of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at Lake Forest College and the author of five books, dozens of articles on Latin American culture, and the recipient of many national awards for scholarship and excellence in teaching.
About the presentation:
“On the Road: Latin American Road Movies and the Encounter with the Other”
Travel writing and road movies share the central theme of encounter with the other, inviting us to grapple with powerful questions, such as: In what ways is a movie’s navigation of familiar binaries (barbarous and civilized, rustic and urban, etc.) variously contingent on the traveler's gender, nationality, historic surround, and psychological states? Which ideologies permeate road movies, and how does ideology condition such "objective" matters as a traveler's itinerary or view of landscape? How do all these combined factors influence the traveler’s “gaze,” his or her view of the other’s cultural, social, political, racial, and psychological differences?
Throughout the year, on three Sundays, David George will lead a series of film discussions focusing on Latin American road movies, including, “Central Station” (Brazil), “Y Tu Mamà Tambièn” (Mexico), and “Intimate Stories” (Argentina).
November 11, 2011: Françoise Meltzer, PhD
Psychoanalysis and Literature
6:30pm: Registration and Reception
7-9pm: Lecture and Discussion
The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago
Free to Members of CCP ($100 annual fee; students $75)
Non-members: $50
Student non-members: $15
RSVP to rsvp@ccpsa.org
2 CEU credits for LCSW and LCPC
Françoise Meltzer, Ph.D., is the Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago and a professor in the Philosophy of Religions at the Divinity School. She has been a co-editor of the journal Critical Inquiry since 1982. Her most recent book is Seeing Double: Baudelaire’s Modernity (University of Chicago Press, Spring, 2011). She has co-edited a book on saints in the three monotheistic religions (University of Chicago Press, Fall, 2011) and has another forthcoming book on the essays of Jacques Derrida. She is presently working on a book about ruins in the Berlin of 1945.
About the presentation:
Dr. Meltzer’s presentation will consider how psychoanalysts, specifically Freud and Lacan, have used the literary text to show the structure of the unconscious. This approach helps to elucidate how literary text works in psychoanalytic theory and also enables us to clarify the assumptions about the unconscious made by both Freud and Lacan.
January 27, 2012: Brian Koehler, PhD
“The Neuroscience of Relational Trauma, Dissociation, Social Isolation and Loneliness: A Neuropsychoanalytic Model of Psychotic Disorders”
6:30pm: Registration and Reception
7-9pm: Presentation and Discussion
The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago
Free to Members of CCP ($100 annual fee; students $75)
Non-members: $50
Student non-members: $15
RSVP to rsvp@ccpsa.org
2 CEU credits for LCSW and LCPC
Brian Koehler, Ph.D., is a psychologist-psychoanalyst and current president of the United States Chapter of the International Society for the Psychological treatments of the Schizophrenias and other psychoses (ISPS-US) as well as executive board member of ISPS and chair of the New York Branch of ISPS-US. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and the School of Social Work at New York University, as well as in the Graduate Psychology Program at City University of New York. Dr Koehler is affiliated with several other New York psychoanalytic institutes, including the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center and the National Institute for the Psychotherapies. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches and has published many articles on neuroscience and psychosis psychotherapy. He has a private practice in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY and in Manhattan.
About the presentation:
“Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”
T. S. Eliot from The Rock
“What we teach today is part biology and part history...but we don’t always know where one ends and the other begins.”
JT Bonner
Eisenberg (2004) cautioned our field to steer between the brainless psychiatry of the past and the mindless psychiatry of the present. This paper will attempt to integrate the “science of the day,” i.e., neuroscience, with the “science of the night,” i.e., the thoroughly personal and subjective. Cichetti (2010), from a developmental psychopathology perspective, emphasized that the abnormalities in the broad domains of genetics, neurobiology, cognition, emotion and interpersonal relationships in severe mental disorders do not exist in isolation. He encouraged researchers to strive to comprehend the interrelationships between the biological, psychological and social in these disorders. This paper will attempt to integrate research and clinical findings across the complex domains of brain, mind/self and culture. Over the past decade, psychoanalysts have accelerated their attempts to relate the third-person findings of neurobiology and cognitive, affective, and social neuroscience with the second- and first-person observations within the psychoanalytic setting. The relatively new field of neuropsychoanalysis has inspired many in the field to articulate the relevance of neuroscience to the psychoanalyst. A neuropsychoanalytic model will be presented on the psychoses after a brief review of contemporary research in genetics, epigenetics, neurobiology, social neuroscience and epidemiology. A developmental traumatology review of the effects of relational-interpersonal traumas, e.g., neglect, unavailability, social defeat and social isolation, on the brain and person will be presented. A case will then be made for the central psychobiological threat of unrelatedness and profound loneliness in the expressions of the psychoses at all levels, especially the epigenetic, neurobiological, psychosocial and phenomenological. Relational psychosis psychotherapy will be introduced, along with its theoretical and clinical foundations, as a person-specific psychosocial therapy for the psychoses.
March 9, 2012: Ken Corbett, PhD
“Yes, The Constitutive Necessity of Perversion”
6:30pm: Registration and Reception
7-9pm: Presentation and Discussion
The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago
Ken Corbett, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is the author of Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities.
About the presentation:
“Yes, The Constitutive Necessity of Perversion”
From Dr. Corbett: “How is desire framed? Who gets to be in the picture? And how does such framing serve to constitute what comes to be known as desire? Using 6 works of art, Ken Corbett takes us on a thought experiment: How do these various representations of sexuality alter our framing of desire? What and who exceeds the frame? At what ethical cost do we speak of that excess as perverse? Or can we begin to recognize that that which exceeds or confounds the norm may be called “perverse,” but that this is just another way of saying that no set of social norms fully or effectively regulate sexuality.”
2 CEU credits for LCSW and LCPC
April 27, 2012: Irwin Hoffmann, PhD
“Clinical, Epistemological, and Moral Dimensions of 'Dialectical Constructivism'”
6:30pm: Registration and Reception
7-9pm: Presentation and Discussion
The Chicago School, 325 N Wells, Chicago
Free to Members of CCP ($100 annual fee; students $75)
Non-members: $50
Student non-members: $15
RSVP to rsvp@ccpsa.org
Irwin Z. Hoffman, Ph.D. is faculty and supervising analyst at the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and at the National Training Program for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, and Adjunct Clinical Professor at the New York University Post-Graduate Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. He is on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, is a corresponding editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, and has served on the board of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is the author of a series of publications developing his "dialectical-constructivist" point of view, including his book, Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process: A Dialectical Constructivist View” (The Analytic Press, 1998). Since the book, Dr. Hoffman has published a series of essays that take this point of view to new frontiers. Dr. Hoffman is in private practice in Chicago.
About the presentation:
“Clinical, Epistemological, and Moral Dimensions of “Dialectical Constructivism”
Dr. Hoffman states: “We'll begin by conveying essential elements of a perspective on the psychoanalytic process that I’ve called ‘dialectical constructivism.’ Among the features of this viewpoint to be highlighted will be its integration of existential and more traditional psychoanalytic ideas. Experience is ambiguous and therefore fertile ground for multiple plausible interpretations and a wellspring for many kinds of action. As a function of the ritual asymmetry of the analytic situation combined with the patient’s transference disposition, the analytic therapist has special power to overcome the neurotogenic influences of early bad object ties, even as they are played out within the analytic relationship, and to affirm the patient as a creative agent in that very relationship and in the world. What I am reacting against when I underscore the responsible agency of the participants are very deeply entrenched concepts that reside at the core of the psychoanalytic tradition. In particular I am thinking of concepts such as psychic determinism, free association, and evenly hovering attention, all of which serve the pursuit of an illusory “objective” truth while radically limiting the responsibility of the participants for their value-laden choices. To underscore the participants’ agency is not to deny that they are acting in ways that are heavily influenced by their personal histories, by their intrapsychic dynamics, by the interplay of the transference and the countertransference, and by their embeddedness in a sociocultural surround that shapes every moment of their encounter. The latter is often ignored in conceptualizing the nature of analytic work. A constructivist perspective challenges therapists to think critically about the socio-political context and implications of the patient’s experience. It also encourages therapists’ critical reflection on the moral implications and potentials of their influence in the analytic process.”
2 CEU credits for LCSW and LCPC
Sundays@CCP
January / February, 2012: Paul Cantz, Psy.D. and Kalman J. Kaplan, PhD
“Oedipus or Isaac? A Biblical Re-conceptualization of Psychology”
Noon to 2pm: Reception and Presentation