EXPLORING CONCEPTIONS OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NORMALITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Speakers will investigate phenomena that have historically been considered “normative” in psychoanalytic theory and practice. The presenters will reexamine specific topics including religion, sexuality, diagnosis, gender, race, creativity, development, and education and discuss ways our theoretical/clinical conceptualizations have evolved over the last decades.

September 22, 2004, 8-10:00PM
Gurmeet S. Kanwal M.D.
Presidential Address – Psychopathology or Everyday Life? Reflections on Normality as a Goal for Psychoanalysis
Discussant: Helene Kafka Ph.D.

October 27, 2004, 8-10:00PM
George Vaillant M.D.
Adult Maturation—Keystone of Mental Health
Discussant: George Satran M.D.

November 12, 2004, 8-10:00PM
Jerome Wakefield DSW., Ph.D.
Health as Evolutionarily Designed Functioning: Rethinking the Roles of Relational, Cultural, and Value Issues in Health Judgments
Discussant: Ernesto Mujica Ph.D.

December 10, 2004, 8-10:00PM
Ralph Roughton M.D.
Deconstructing Noah’s Ark: Expanding the Norms of Sexuality
Discussant: Jack Drescher M.D.

January 21, 2005, 8-10:00PM
Richard Shweder Ph.D.
“The Cultural Psychology of Suffering: The Many Meanings of Health in Orissa, India (and Elsewhere)
Discussant: Elizabeth Hegeman Ph.D.

February 11, 2005, 8-10:00PM
( This meeting has been postponed until further notice.  We welcome your attendance at the meeting scheduled for Friday February 25, 2005 at 8pm )
Kimberlyn Leary Ph.D.
(I am) Everyday People: Sameness and Difference in the Psychoanalytic Consulting Room
a panel with Kimberlyn Leary Ph.D., Seth Aronson Psy.D. and Marcelo Rubin Ph.D. on how “otherness” effects, transforms and informs the treatment process

February 25, 2005, 8-10:00PM
Ana Maria Rizzuto M.D.
Psychoanalysis and new conceptions of Believing: Belief as a Psychic Function
Discussant: Paul Lippmann Ph.D.

April 1, 2005, 8-10:00PM
Diane Ackerman M.F.A., Ph.D.
Rapture, Ecstasy, Play
Jay Frankel Ph.D.
Play and Danger in the Clinical Situation

April 29, 2005, 8-10:00PM
Bertram Cohler Ph.D.
“Love in the Classroom: Desire and Transference in Teaching and Learning”
Discussant: Darlene Ehrenberg Ph.D.

May 18, 2005, 8-10:00PM
Muriel Dimen Ph.D.
I, Thou, It: Reflections on Cure
Discussant Emily Kuriloff Psy.D