Public Events

Name: Magritte’s Mysterious Memory by Alvin Burstein, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)
Start: 2021-06-05T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-06-05T12:00:00+00:00
Location: Virtual Event via Zoom

April 2019
April 13, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Can We Bear to Turn Our Psychoanalytic Attention Toward Those Who Are Other? Scientific Program by Anton Hart, PhD, FABP

Virtual Event via Zoom LA
At the present moment, it would behoove psychoanalytic practitioners to remember that psychoanalysis is a strange, minority discipline in relation to the rest of the world. Yet the psychoanalytic psychotherapists, as a group, regularly fail to employ their power to penetrate the surface, their customary stance of curiosity and their capacity for insight vis-a-vis their ... Read more
September 2019
September 21, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Working with Enactments by Webb Haymaker, LCSW-BACS (Psychoanalytic Explorations)

NOBPC 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, United States
In a 1986 article (“Countertransference Enactments”) that introduced the term enactment into the psychoanalytic literature, Ted Jacobs observed how his vigilant attention to a patient’s narratives foreclosed an opportunity to relax his own mind and follow his associations. Eventually, Jacobs’ reverie about his adolescent experience of the family dinner table - he was expected to ... Read more
October 2019
October 12, 2019 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Film Series: 12 Years a Slave presented by Dr. Marvin Clifford, Ph.D., LCSW-BACS

NOBPC 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, United States
2019-2020 Film Series: The Other in Film In the language of psychoanalysis, the Other is a name for the unconscious, that domain of human subjectivity ruled by phantasms that haunt us. It has been the project of psychoanalysis to articulate how these phantasms get displaced into the dynamics of interpersonal relationships as a defensive strategy ... Read more
November 2019
November 16, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
New Time –Film Series: Blue Velvet presented by Webb Haymaker, LCSW-BACS

NOBPC 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, United States
Presents 2019-2020 Film Series: The Other in Film 10am - 1pm In the language of psychoanalysis, the Other is a name for the unconscious, that domain of human subjectivity ruled by phantasms that haunt us. It has been the project of psychoanalysis to articulate how these phantasms get displaced into the dynamics of interpersonal relationships ... Read more
March 2020
March 7, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Galadriel’s Mirror-and Winnicott’s, and Lacan’s by John Rosegrant, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)

NOBPC 3624 Coliseum Street, New Orleans, LA, United States
Lacan and Winnicott both believed that mirroring was very important in early development, but focused on different aspects and outcomes. Lacan theorized that when a young child first views her reflection in a mirror and sees her image as complete, her anxiety about her actually undeveloped and unintegrated state is relieved; henceforth she imagines herself ... Read more
January 2021
January 30, 2021 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
First World Problems and Gated Communities of the Mind: An Ethics of Place in Psychoanalysis– Francisco González, MD Scientific Program

Virtual Event via Zoom LA
Sponsored by The Knight Fund Fee to attend: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members; and $15 student rate. All attendees will receive a 2 hour CME certificate. This meeting is virtual. Pre-registration is required. Using the social meme of “first world problems” as an opening, this paper articulates a continuous field of psychoanalysis which extends ... Read more
February 2021
February 27, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Freud, Lacan and Race in Contemporary America– Sheldon George, PhD Scientific Presentation

Virtual Event via Zoom LA
Sponsored by The Svenson Lectureship Fund Fee to attend: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members; and $15 student rate. All attendees will receive a 3 hour CME certificate. This meeting is virtual. Pre-registration is required. The tripartite familial structure of the oedipal complex has been central to Freudian understandings of the psychoanalytic subject. In the ... Read more
April 2021
April 24, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Beyond Woke: Why the Focus on Unconscious Bias Will Not Address Systemic Racism– Ann Pellegrini, PhD Scientific Presentation

Virtual Event via Zoom LA
Fee to attend: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members; and $15 student rate. All attendees will receive a 2 hour CME certificate. This meeting is virtual. Pre-registration is required. This presentation begins with a short history of the concept of unconscious bias. Dr. Pellegrini will track the legal, educational, and therapeutic attempts to remedy unconscious ... Read more
May 2021
May 7, 2021 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Psycho-Social Factors that Influence Mental Health Treatment Outcomes for Persons of Color: Psychodynamic Consequences and Intervention Possibilities–C. Jama Adams, PhD Scientific Program

Virtual Event via Zoom LA
Fee to attend: $30 for NOBPC members; $50 non-members; and $15 student rate. All attendees will receive a 2 hour CME certificate. This meeting is virtual. Pre-registration is required. Contemporary psychodynamic treatment approaches tend to be insensitive to the effects of macro-social factors on the intra-psychic and inter-psychic functioning of persons of color. Racism and ... Read more
June 2021
June 5, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Magritte’s Mysterious Memory by Alvin Burstein, PhD (Psychoanalytic Explorations)

Virtual Event via Zoom LA
This virtual event is free to attend and pre-registration is required by emailing your name and degree to nobpcenter@gmail.com. The Life and Influence of the surrealist painter, Rene Magritte will be reviewed, with special emphasis on the influence of his mother's suicide on his work. Familial suicide can have profound impact on development and creative ... Read more

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