"The Characteristics, Aims and Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy."Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, as well as New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center (NOBPC) present Joint Grand Rounds on Friday February 26th from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. by David Goldberg, Psy.D., a psychoanalyst and faculty member of NOBPC. In addition to full time private ... Read more
Instructors: Denise Dorsey, MD & Jamie Cromer, LCSW ACSW Dates: Tuesdays September 20, October 4 and 18, and November 1 and 15 Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Fee: $175 (book fee included) 10 CME hours For clinicians and those in training who are curious about what it is that psychodynamic therapists actually do, we ... Read more
The New Orleans-Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center is once again teaming up with New Orleans Film Society by sponsoring a feature film screening as part of the annual New Orleans Film Festival. This exciting event will include the film screening of My First Kiss and The People Involved followed by an on-stage Q & A with the ... Read more
In addition to sponsoring My First Kiss and the People Involved, NOBPC is proud to be a community partner for two films: Are We Not Cats? A young garbage man loses his girlfriend, job, and his home, but acquires an old truck. He takes a trip that quickly turns dreadful, increasingly plagued by a compulsion to eat his ... Read more
As a presidential election year, politics has assumed center stage again for collective discourse. This Scientific Presentation considers the psychological dynamics underlying certain aspects of global politics from the framework of psychoanalytic political psychology. Relevant to this realm of applied psychoanalysis are group psychology, the role of psychological constructs in political movements whose members ... Read more
Dr. Griffin will discuss creative listening and provide a conceptual framework by which works of literary fiction can be used to develop clinicians’ attunement to the expressiveness of language and to foster emotional receptivity to psychoanalytic experience. Dr. Griffin will use Virginia Woolf’s novel, To the Lighthouse, to teach engaged, embodied analytic listening. This novel ... Read more
The Paranoid Thriller and the Suspect Law Saturday, March 11, 10am-12pm Tilton Hall 305 Tulane University Professor Todd McGowan (University of Vermont), a distinguished scholar in psychoanalysis, film studies and cultural analysis, will present a public lecture treating films such The Conversation, The Matrix, and the Jason Bourne thrillers. Using a psychoanalytic framework, Professor McGowan ... Read more
Join NOBPC Faculty for an informal discussion and Q&A about our upcoming Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. The two year training program is designed for mental health professionals in clinical practice who want to enhance their theoretical understanding of psychoanalytic principles and improve their skill in conducting intensive psychotherapy. The program includes classes in psychoanalytic psychodynamic theory, ... Read more
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.Aggression, Violence, Hatred, Apologies And ForgivenessSATURDAY APRIL 8, 2017 8:45AM – 12:00PMNOBPC 3624 Coliseum St.*This event does not offer CME credits.*This is a free event.Presenter: Volney Gay Ph. D. Title: "Atrocities and Atrocity Narratives: Their Intergenerational Effects” The history of warfare is replete with actual atrocities and with atrocity narratives. The ... Read more