Friday Notes
August 8, 2014
Upcoming Meetings and Events
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Friday, August 22, 2014
Prospective Candidate Meet & Greet
7pm Blue Mesa/Northwest Highway
Monday, September 1, 2014
DPC Year Begins – New Committee
Chairs Begin
Monday, September 1, 2014
Due Date for Dues and Tuition
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Classes Begin (3rd Year Candidates)
Saturday, September 13, 20-14 Listening Like a Writer/Fred Griffin
January 13 – 18, 2015
APsaA Annual Meeting/NYC
Event Information
LISTENING LIKE A WRITER
The Embodied Experience of Analytic Listening
Fred L. Griffin, MD
Saturday, September 13, 2014
9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
This is a mini-workshop intended to expand sensibility in psychoanalytic listening.
It is adapted from a ten-session seminar in which participants did a close reading
of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse coupled with the presentation of analytic
case material.
Following a presentation in which Dr. Griffin will provide a conceptual framework
for the use of imaginative literature to teach analytic listening, the participants will
be presented with selected excerpts from To the Lighthouse, to which they will do
a piece of free writing about a clinical experience that comes to mind. Several
participants may then choose to read aloud what they have written for purposes
of group discussion.
The full listing of DPC programs, for 2014-2015:
September 13, 2014
“LISTENING LIKE A WRITER: Psychoanalytic Envisioning and
Engagement”
Fred Griffin, M.D.
October 7, 2014
Film Seminar
“Dona Flor”
October 23, 2014
NTSPP and DPC Program
" A Priest, a Therapist and a Patient Walk Into a Confessional: Ethical and
Legal Considerations of Child Abuse"
Gerald Melchiode, M.D.
November 8, 2014
"Listening"
Salman Akhtar, M.D.
December 7, 2014
Film Seminar
"Assassination Tango" (Asesinato Tango)
Discussant - David Hershey, M.D.
February 8, 2015
Film Seminar
"Talk To Her" (Habla Con Ella)
Discussant - Renata Teixera
March 7, 2015
"The Poetics of Boundary Violation: The Case of Boston
Poet Anne Sexton "
Dawn Skorczewski, Ph.D., Professor of English, Brandeis University
May 3, 2015
“El Amor En Los Tiempos del Colera” ("Love In The Time of Cholera")
Discussant - Marc Rathbun, Ph.D.
DATE - TBD
Ethics Workshop
“Improving Psychotherapy Supervision: Ethical Guidelines”
Gerald Melchiode, M.D.
Address Changes
Please note that Marc Litle’s email address is now: mslitle@icloud.com
Celebrations
Tom Christian, has two papers that are going to be published:
1) "The Night Sky, Psychological Projection, and Ancient Rock Art: A View
into the Human Psyche," which will appear in Jung Journal: Culture and
Psyche in Fall 2014, No. 8, Vol. 4. (Volume 4 is a November publication)
(Published by Taylor and Francis).
2) "Aristophanes’ Fusion and Longing for Love: A Philosophical Hermeneutic
of the Shared Dementia Phenomenon in Spousal Dyads.", which will be
published in Psychoanalytic Social Work.
Kudos, Tom!
News
Bills have been emailed for graduate analysts and candidates. Please notify me
if you did not receive yours’.
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