FEATURING: Joshua Durban Israeli Psychoanalytic Society Maria Rhode British Psychoanalytical Society Shelley Rockwell Contemporary Freudian Society Margaret Rustin British Psychoanalytical Society Saturday, October 7 & Sunday, October 8, 2023 Los Angeles: 7:30 - 10:00am (PDT)* Washington DC: 10:30am - 1:00pm (EDT)* London: 3:30 - 6:00pm (BST)* Tel Aviv: 5:30 - 8:00pm (IDT)* *Start and end times for both Saturday and …

Autistic States of Mind and Body Across the Human Life Cycle Read More »

Psychoanalytic Brooklyn would like to invite you to a conversation on the similarities and differences between drug and alcohol addictions and disordered eating in patients' presentations and clinical treatment. Both addiction disorders and disordered eating present challenges and complexities. There are significant variations between anorexic and bulimic patients. Significant differences also exist between alcohol abuse and drug abuse and dependence. …

Forms of Addiction and Disordered Eating Read More »

Henri Rey’s seminal work on borderline and psychotic patients who alternate between claustro- and agoraphobic anxieties led him to identify the claustro-agoraphobic dilemma, where borderline, narcissistic, and schizoid patients experience no place of safety. They are afraid of being trapped while inside their object and terrified of disintegration if they escape to the emptiness of outside space. Henri Rey worked …

Remembering Henri Rey: Michael Feldman and John Steiner in Dialogue Read More »