Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies

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10/19/2022

CMPS Annual Conference (Virtual): Silence is an essential clinical tool that can be used to facilitate analytic work, from developing the transference to regulating frustration and communicating feeling. However, a form of "learned silence" can drown out this therapeutic quiet, particularly with regard to confronting racism in our consultation rooms. This conference will explore the ways we avoid our patients' racial traumas and fail to address prejudice in our training institutes. Facing these learned silences, which often take the form of countertransference resistance, can expand our clinical vocabulary, promote richer communication between patient and analyst, and deepen the analytic work.

Beverly J. Stoute, MD, is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She is Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality of the American Psychoanalytic Association; a training and supervising analyst at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute; a child and adolescent supervising analyst at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, of which she is a graduate; adjunct associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine; and adjunct clinical associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Morehouse School of Medicine. She is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. She is in full-time private practice in Atlanta.

Anton Hart, PhD, FABP, is a training and supervising analyst and instructor at The William Alanson White Institute in New York City. He is a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), and is Chair of the Diversities Section of APsaA’s Department of Psychoanalytic Education. He is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. He is in full-time private practice in New York City.

https://www.cmps.edu/Annual-Conference-2022

05/18/2022

CMPS offers:

♦️Licensure-qualifying psychoanalytic training
♦️Stimulating, interactive classes
♦️Supervised practice in our on-site clinic
♦️Evening classes to accommodate students’ work schedules

Sign up here: https://www.cmps.edu/signup.php?id=92


If you have any questions about which program would be appropriate for you, please call Dr. Tallent at (212) 645-5795.

If you are unable to attend a virtual open house, notify Dr. Tallent (mtallent@cmps.edu) and he will arrange an individual information session for you.

05/03/2022

The newest episode of features CMPS faculty member and NBiP’s Founding Editor Tracy Morgan in conversation with literary scholar and psychoanalyst Emma Lieber on her new book, The Writing Cure

Listen here: https://apple.co/35w1r5e

The Writing Cure (Bloomsbury, 2020), Lieber’s first book, is a hybrid text—equal parts the work of an analysand, a new clinician, a scholar of Russian literature, and a divorcing mother. It is also the work of a Lacanian-influenced analyst whose analytic credential comes from an institute not especially associated with the work of Lacan; as such, the book functions as a kind of “pass”, a representation of what it is that the author wants to present to a community of analysts who she hopes will see her as a peer.

Her writing is creaturely by which I mean her words are close to the ground. She is funny. She is droll. She takes you into a nook and a cranny and your heart breaks. Always almost conversational, until she stops talking to you. The result is very beautiful and elusive. Her voice is precisely that: hers. She reveals but also conceals. The reader could want more. The reader could want less. But the reader is left wanting. How else can an analyst write about her own treatment but to tell the truth only to also tell it (a la E. Dickinson) a tad slant?

Embracing auto-theory as a burgeoning psychoanalyst is no simple task. Lieber refers to certain writers bearing this hyphenated moniker, among them Maggie Nelson, Paul Preciado and Barbara Browning but not her own analyst who is known for her use of the same genre. Of course reading about an analysis—like watching two people f**k in a car—can feel prurient: “I didn’t mean to look but then I could not turn away.” Lieber nevertheless finds a way to circumvent our voyeuristic wishes. We meet her and then again, we are left wondering; we are left to wonder—which is kind of perfect for a book written by an analyst about her analysis—about her. She remains through her final written utterances, a powerful transference-magnet.

04/18/2022

CMPS offers:

♦️Licensure-qualifying psychoanalytic training
♦️Stimulating, interactive classes
♦️Supervised practice in our on-site clinic
♦️Evening classes to accommodate students’ work schedules

Sign up here: https://www.cmps.edu/signup.php?id=92

If you have any questions about which program would be appropriate for you, please call Dr. Tallent at (212) 645-5795.

If you are unable to attend a virtual open house notify Dr. Tallent (mtallent@cmps.edu) and he will arrange an individual information session for you.

04/14/2022

The upcoming Black Psychoanalysts Speak virtual conference, Georgia on Our Mind: Witnessing, Recognition, and Psychic Reconciliation in the Therapeutic Encounter, will take place on Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15.

It will feature roundtable discussions with David Marriott, Ken Hardy, and Christopher Warren, as well as presentations and dialogue-facilitation by the following members of Black Psychoanalysts Speak: Craig Polite, Samuel P. Wyche, Beverly Stoute, Janice O. Bennett, Annie Lee Jones, Dionne R. Powell, Richard Reichbart, Kirkland Vaughans, Paula Christian-Kliger, Maxine Dennis, Chanda Griffin, Anton Hart, Michael Moskowitz, Alexandra Woods, Dorothy E. Holmes, and Kimberlyn Leary.

Full conference details: https://web.cvent.com/event/829b8a88-6139-4cb9-84dd-aca4c41a9713/summary

Register here: https://web.cvent.com/event/829b8a88-6139-4cb9-84dd-aca4c41a9713/regProcessStep1

04/02/2022

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The presentation will begin with the question “What is Psychosis?” and examine ways it is defined from medical and psychiatric perspectives. Then various psychoanalytic perspectives on psychosis and paranoia will be considered, including Freudian, contemporary Kleinian, and interpersonal-relational. The contributions of several key theorists will be reviewed, including Winnicott (British Object Relations & Independent Group), Searles (interpersonal), Benedetti (existential), Rosenfeld and Lucas (contemporary Kleinian), Spotnitz (modern), Davoine and Gaudillière (contemporary Lacanian), and Bromberg (relational). Areas of focus will be dissociative processes and the therapist’s countertransference, including dissociative processes in the analyst. The neuroscience and embodied self-states of the analyst in countertransference enactments will also be briefly discussed.

Brian Koehler, PhD, is an Adjunct Associate Professor at New York University, CUNY and Columbia University, teaching in the Social Work, Clinical Psychology, and Neuroscience Departments. He is a supervisor and faculty member in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, from with he has a certificate in psychoanalytic supervision, and has been on the faculty of several psychoanalytic institutes in New York City, teaching psychoanalytic approaches to distressing psychotic states. He is an Assistant Editor of the journal Psychosis: Psychological, Social and Integrative Approaches. He has published many papers and presented at institutions of higher learning around the world. He is past president and executive board member of ISPS-US and ISPS, an affiliate group with the World Psychiatric Association. He is in private practice in New York.

03/18/2022

The Consultation and Referral Service is the clinical division of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. We offer affordable short- and long-term therapy for a wide range of life challenges including relationships, job stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, serious illness, and life transitions. We are an inclusive clinical setting where people of all life circumstances are welcome.

03/18/2022

The Consultation and Referral Service is the clinical division of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. We offer affordable short- and long-term therapy for a wide range of life challenges including relationships, job stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, serious illness, and life transitions. We are an inclusive clinical setting where people of all life circumstances are welcome.

Opening new doors in understanding the underpinnings of emotional disorders while offering a unique and comprehensive approach to psychoanalytic technique.