The New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis is for people whose highest degree at the time of admission is a bachelor’s degree and are interested in obtaining an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies. NYGSP offers: A solid foundation in psychoanalytic theory Comprehensive preparation for psychoanalytic training for those who desire it Advanced placement for graduates who

In contrast to exploring the patient's mind from a safe distance, the clinician’s feelings, subjective experiences, and history all impact the intersubjective space of the therapeutic encounter. Thus, the analyst’s authentic self-exploration is a vital part of the work. Shah explores how the analyst’s uncomfortable and disowned emotions are inevitably entangled with the therapeutic process and have

There is, within psychoanalysis, an increased interest in the psychoanalytically inspired work of the decolonial thinker Frantz Fanon.  However, Fanon's engagement with psychoanalysis is partial: there are a great many other theories (philosophical, psychiatric, literary) that he moves on to, particularly after his classic Black Skin, White Masks, and his work benefits from being connected to the

HYBRID PRESENTATION (IN-PERSON AND ZOOM) COSPONSORED BY CMPS AND THE BOSTON GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PSYCHOANALYSIS PRACTITIONERS AND GENERAL PUBLIC: $40 BGSP/NYGSP/CMPS FACULTY AND STAFF: $25 STUDENTS w/ID: FREE Register now - Online registration ends Friday at 12 PM on 1/26/2024. Registration may also be purchased at the door. The backdrop for this presentation is the recent

A particular epistemology of trauma now wields an outsized hold over psychoanalytic theory and practice: trauma, we have come to accept, is of destructive, if not catastrophic, effects. But what if we got this wrong? What if our staunch commitment to psychoanalysis as a healing practice invested in the working-through of trauma is but a

This program will involve a clinically based presentation of maternal erotic transferences and how these are addressed in verbatim clinical process. An accompanying PowerPoint will help explicate associated theorizing that aims to clarify the meaning of maternal eroticism, differences in related concepts, and how femininity and femaleness are internalized at different levels. Andrea Celenza, PhD, is