Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute

Events Schedule for 2008-2009

The deadlines for submissions to our newsletter, OPEN MIND, are August 15, 2008, for the Fall issue and March 15, 2009, for the Spring issue. Please email submissions to Eileen Piasecki.
 

Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society

Events Schedule for 2008-2009

Scientific Program:

Friday, September 19, 7:45 PM: One Form of Self-Analysis: The Act of Creative Writing as Psychoanalytic Process.
Fred L. Griffin, M.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center, and Director of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Alabama School of Medicine.
 
Wednesday, October 22, 7:45 PM: Psychoanalysis and Obesity -- A Historical Problem.
Sander L. Gilman, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of  the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University.  Director of Emory's Program in Psychoanalysis and of the Health Sciences Humanities Initiative, and author or editor eighty books, including Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul and Fat Boys.

Friday, November 21, 7:45 PM: Meditation as Mentalization: Psychoanalytic Study of the Buddha's Psychology.
Mark D. Epstein, M.D., psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and author of many books on Buddhism and psychotherapy, including Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart and Psychotherapy Without the Self.

Friday, January 30, 2009, 7:45 PM: Traumatic Lesions, Psychoanalytic Lessons.
J. Mickey Nardo, M.D., psychiatrist and psychoanalyst retired from private practice in Atlanta, faculty emeritus, Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute, and frequent lecturer on object relations psychology and other topics, including the treatment of trauma.

Saturday, February 14, 2009, Time TBA: GPPA Lecture: The Shrinking of the Presidency: How the 2008 Presidential Election was Won.
Drew Westen, Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, Emory University, and author of The Political Brain  and other books as well as over 140 research papers bridging perspectives in psychodynamic, cognitive, and evolutionary psychology.
 
Friday, March 13, 2009, 7:45 PM: Ramon C. Ganzarain Memorial Lecture: Writing and Treating with Ramon Ganzarain: The History of Creating a Container from a Cauldron in the Group Treatment of Trauma.
Bonnie J. Buchele, Ph.D., Director of the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute, Past President of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, past program director of the Menninger Clinic's trauma unit, and co-author with Dr. Ganzarain of Fugitives of Incest: A Perspective from Psychoanalysis and Groups.

Friday, April 24, 2009, 7:45 PM: The Frozen Analyst (in Erotic and Anti-Erotic Transferences): A Study of 17 Cases.
Stanley J. Coen, M.D., Training and Supervising Analyst and Senior Associate Director for Academic Affairs, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Author of The Misuse of Persons: Analyzing Pathological Dependency and other books and of articles on problems in clinical psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic literary criticism.

Please note that the GPPA lecture will be held at the Georgia Aquarium (time still TBA).  All other meetings will be held at the Petite Auberge Restaurant in the Toco Hills shopping center at 2395 North Druid Hills Road, with wine reception at 6:00p.m., dinner at 6:45 p.m. and the featured speaker at 7:45 p.m.  CME and CEU credits will be provided for clinicians. Please see the Scientific Program Series page for more details.
 
Please note: You are responsible to pay for dinners that have been reserved
unless cancelled with 24 hours notice.
 
Cheryl Eschbach, M.D., Scientific Program Committee Chair, Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society.  For questions, call 404-636-4330 or email ceschba@emory.edu.

Other Programs involving APS guest presenters:

Saturday, February 14, 2009: GPPA Lecture: The Shrinking of the Presidency: How the 2008 Presidential Election was Won.
Drew Westen, Ph.D.

Other APS Events:

The deadlines for submissions to our newsletter, OPEN MIND, are August 15, 2008, for the Fall issue and March 15, 2009, for the Spring issue. Please email submissions to Eileen Piasecki.