Donald Moss: “Against Common Sense: On the Necessity of Theorizing Sexuality/On the possible utility of the category ‘sexual aberrations’”

March 31, 2012 10 AM to 12 PM   PINC 530 Bush St, 7th Floor San Francisco, CA 94108   2 CE credits are available for $10   Contemporary, post-modern common sense about genders and sexualities is radically different from the common sense against which psychoanalysis first aimed its interpretations. Given this radical difference, what, if any, kinds of disruptive interpretive labor remain for psychoanalysis?  What remains for psychoanalytic sexual theorizing now?  Do we still need it?  And what remains of the often deservedly ...

Paola Mieli: “Preliminary Session and the Direction of the Cure”

January 14, 2012 10am-12pm Paola Mieli is a psychoanalyst in New York City. She is the founder and president of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association. She is a member of Le Cercle Freudien (Paris), of Insistance (Paris), and of The European Federation of Psychoanalysis (Strasbourg). A Correspondent Editor of the Psychoanalytic Journal Che Vuoi (Paris) and a Contributing Editor of the Journal Insistance. Art, psychanalyse et politique (Paris), she teaches in the Department of Photography and Related Media of ...

Steven Cooper – Visiting Scholar

VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM FOR THE PINC COMMUNITY presents... October 15, 2011 - San Francisco, CA Steven Cooper “I am Forced to Imagine: Finding One's Way Into the Patient's Internalized Object World” Steven H. Cooper is in practice in Cambridge as a psychoanalyst, individual psychotherapist, and couples therapist. Dr. Cooper is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic ...

A Year of Visiting Scholars

Rachel Peltz, Ph.D. and Deborah Melman, Ph.D. We are pleased to report that the implementation of Visiting Scholars program – one new dimension of the proposal for a revised curriculum – by all accounts, was a huge success. The program this past year included community presentations and candidate seminars with Sue Grand, Hazel Ipp, Patricia Gherovici and Robert Oelsner. Here are some of the community members’ responses to this years’ program. Suffice to say at ...