Joan’s Wire Hangers: Reconciling that Recollection is the Best Fake We Have on Hand Psychoanalysis and Cinema: Many psychotherapists struggle to reconstruct patients' early life stories and parse external reality from unconscious phantasies. This challenge is further complicated by pervasive images, prejudices, and power dynamics that imbue even the most private traumas with cultural meanings. ... Read more
The Lost Daughter : If Autonomy Is Reactive, What Do We Do? Psychoanalysis and Cinema: uses the immersive power of cinema to explore the complex interplay between internal psychic life and external social structures. Although patients routinely grapple with authoritarian social demands, theory alone can mistakenly reduce them to passive objects of social control. Cinema ... Read more
Psychoanalytic Explorations is a series in which faculty members and students of the NOBPC, as well as interested members of the community, present and discuss issues of current concern to them. The focus will be on clinical practice, theoretical challenges, and non-clinical applications of psychoanalytic theory; all presentations are intended to deepen attendees’ ability to ... Read more
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