APSA_NY13-401

Helping Youth in Violent Communities to Help Themselves: Psychoanalysts at Work in Jamaica & Uganda

Speakers: Marie Rudden, Stuart Twemlow, Martha S. Bragin

The presenters will describe two different interventions, based on applied psychoanalytic principles that helped adolescents in violent communities. Stuart Twemlow describes a school project that radically changed a community and government, using low cost culturally attuned interventions. Martha Bragin discusses the Uganda Ministry of Education and Sports’ initiative to use traditional community strengths in supporting war-affected teachers and students.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

APSA_NY13-301

Presidential Symposium: The Twilight of the Training Analysis System

Speakers: Robert L. Pyles

This presentation will summarize the principal analyses of the training analysis system formulated over the past 30 years, pointing to this system’s relevance regarding authoritarianism, infantilization, intellectual stultification, and institutional corruption in psychoanalytic education. The question is raised, whether replacing the present structure of psychoanalytic institutes and governance of psychoanalytic education may have a renovating effect on psychoanalytic science and profession, and on the impact of psychoanalysis on the broader scientific, cultural, and mental health environment. One such possible model of modern transformation of psychoanalytic education is presented, its advantages and constraints discussed, and the inevitable resistances to change explored.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

APSA_NY13-306

University Forum: Shakespeare’s “Othello”

Speakers: Stanley J. Coen, Robert Brustein, Michael Wood, Paul Schwaber

Robert Brustein, Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard; Founder of the Yale Repertory and American Repertory Theatres, playwright, author (“The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time”), and recipient of the National Medal of Arts, talks about: how easily the forces of good can be overwhelmed by the forces of evil, Iago as a new kind of image in literature, and the embodiment of a world without a vigilant God. Michael Wood, Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, at Princeton, author (“Shakespeare”), critic (New York and London Reviews of Books), will talk about how language works in “Othello” as a means of seduction and almost becomes a character in its own right.

Audio CDs: 3

Audio CD

$35.00

$35.00

Subtotal

$65.00