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Fronds, Fractals, and Fantasies:
AN INTEGRATION OF MIRRORING & SELF-SIMILARITIES
Robert Marshall, with his audience, attempts to outline the self-similarities present in music, dance, art, architecture, biology, and perhaps in all natural phenomena. Using the repetition compulsion as a bridge, Dr. Marshall considers fantasy, the self, and its parts in the application of psychoanalytic mirroring.
FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1st - 7:30–9:30PM
Robert Marshall, PhD, CMPS Faculty, author of numerous articles; co-author with Dr. Simone V. Marshall, The Transference-Countertransference Matrix: The Cognitive-Emotional Dialogue in Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, and Supervision.

Marilyn Monroe and Ralph Greenson:
REFLECTIONS ON A TRAGIC ALLIANCE
Ralph Greenson, Marilyn Monroe's fourth and final analyst, undertook to treat her in the last fifteen months of her life. Dr. Poser presents clinical portraits of both patient and analyst caught up in a tangle of unconscious enactments. A classic borderline personality, Monroe's complex transference and Greenson's unconscious collusion are examined. Other aspects of the icon's primitive conflicts manifested in her famous and profoundly disturbing behaviors are analyzed.
FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22nd - 7:30–9:30PM
Steven Poser, PhD, LP, faculty member, training analyst, and Coordinator of the Research Committee at CMPS and NYGSP.

SEXUAL DYNAMICS IN GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY
Gender issues, for both leaders and members, are crucial dynamics in group psychotherapy. Dr. Holmes discusses these dynamics, emphasizing the integration of the masculine and feminine, and then leads a group of audience members in a demonstration of the different ways men and women tend to function in group.
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12th - 7:30–9:30PM
Lucy Holmes, PhD, LP, faculty member at CMPS, NYGSP, and the Center for Group Studies, author of The Internal Triangle: New Theories of Female Development.

MALADAPTIVE DEFENSE OF ADAPTATION?
An evolutionary perspective of human nature has implications for the most effective treatment approach for impulse-control, affect tolerance and regulation, and optimal decision-making. Dr. Kalin explores the versatility of the human psyche through the therapeutic potential of modern psychoanalysis.
FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21st 2011 - 7:30-9:30PM
Eugene Kalin, PhD, LP, faculty member, CMPS and NYGSP.