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Dreaming and Reality: A Comparison of Interpretive Work in Two Cultures – North American Psychoanalysis and an Indigenous Culture in the Amazon Rainforest
Charles P. Fisher M.D. and Beth Kalish-Weiss Presentation at the 47th IPA Congress, Mexico City, August 4, 2011 Deep in the Amazon rainforest, dreaming matters. The lives of an indigenous people, the Achuar, are built around their daily dream analysis process. For hundreds of years the Achuar, living just north of the Peruvian border in Ecuador, have seen few outsiders. Their people sustain a traditional way of life in one of the few untouched areas ...
Angels in Hell’s Kitchens
Lee Rather Ph.D. This is short summary of my discussion of Drew’s graduation paper. I titled it “Angels in Hell’s Kitchen” with reference to Drew’s metaphor of containing ‘angels’ and Ferro’s metaphor of analytic ‘cooking’ ... Drew’s paper is beautifully written, emotionally evocative, and intensely personal. He is representative of a modern group of analytic writers who have been creating a new genre in which the analyst’s subjective experience is no longer veiled behind a ...
Trauma and the Fate of the Angel
Excerpts from a Graduation paper Drew Tillotson Psy.D. (Author note: This is a very shortened, much edited summary of a lengthy paper. The paper builds upon memories, dreams, theory and personal reflection. To condense all that here without losing nuance and meaning has not been possible. Instead, I have summarized, including excerpts from the actual paper to give a sense of the language. If interested in the ideas, I will be giving the paper again April 14, 2012 for ...
From the President: 2011 Dream On
Barbara Cohen, Psy.D. I had a dream last week that is in part about anticipating the end of my tenure as President of PINC. In the dream, I am in my newly “refreshed” house. It is quite like my real house in that the kitchen is newly remodeled, and other rooms have been painted and rearranged to suit us at this point in our lives. The house has a contemporary craftsman look. It is traditional, ...
Psychoanalytic Writing: A Lynchpin for Tripartite Analytic Training
Barbara A. Baer, Ph.D. 2011 Madrid IARPP Panel Relational Perspectives On Clinical Writing... Through Training And Beyond Psychoanalytic writing classes at PINC often elicit the thus far untapped poet in the identity of analytic candidates, enriching their clinical perspective, along with their overall training experience. When candidates capture their peripheral perspectives, bringing them into fuller consciousness, they often surprise themselves along with the reader. This paper detailed the value of incorporating writing throughout analytic training to ...
BEAUTIFUL PSYCHOTHERAPY OFFICES FOR RENT INSIDE PINC
PINC is offering four psychotherapy offices at our new location, 530 Bush Street. The spacious, elegant suite of offices and waiting room is adjacent to, yet completely separate from, PINC’s classrooms and administrative offices. Three offices are flooded with natural light from double-paned, west-facing windows and one has indirect light through a frosted glass wall. Each of the three offices is 190 sq. ft., 10.5’ X 18’’ and will rent for $1,200.00. The fourth office ...
Open House – November 10th & November 11th
2011-2012 Events Calendar
PINC is excited to present the Events and Programs scheduled for 2011-2012. Visit Acteva to pre-register for events.
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 ...