THE POETICS OF INTERPRETATION: BIONIAN FIELD THEORY, DREAMS AND REVERIE IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
BPSI PRESENTS A WEEKEND OF PROGRAMS FOCUSING ON THE WORK OF GIUSEPPE CITIVARESE, PHD SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2015 – SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2015 Early Bird: $125.00, after November 20th: $165.00 Giuseppe Civitarese, PhD is a training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, and is Editor of their official journal Rivista di Psicoanalisi. He has a private practice in Pavia, Italy. He is also a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and is the author of many books, including The Violence of Emotions: Bion and...
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Recent Publications by BPSI Authors Nancy, J. Chodorow (2015). From the Glory of Hera to the Wrath of Achilles: Narratives of Second-Wave Masculinity and Beyond. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 16: 261–270. Rona Knight, PhD (2014). Free to Be You and Me: Normal Gender-Role Fluidity—Commentary on Diane Ehrensaft’s “Listening and Learning from Gender-Nonconforming Children” Related Papers. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 68:57-70. Rita K. Teusch, PhD (2015). Sadomasochistic Relations Between Ego and Superego in Anorexic Patients....
read moreErotic Revelations: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios
EROTIC REVELATIONS: Clinical Applications and Perverse Scenarios by Andrea Celenza, Ph.D. Hove, East Sussex : Routledge, 2014. This book is about erotic desires and fantasies, how our sexuality expresses our inner being and defines the ways in which we engage in the psychoanalytic situation. I am using erotic life in its broadest sense – the way we desire and love or desire to be loved on all levels, including within our sexual being. We are drawn to the hidden and mysterious; we are tempted to push boundaries, even in the most permissive...
read moreFeatured Papers Discussing Psychotherapeutic and Biological Treatment of Transgendered Children
The newest volume of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (vol. 68) has a section of papers featuring the latest psychoanalytic thinking about the psychotherapeutic and biological treatment of transgendered children. Dr. Claudia Lament introduces the section by discussing the controversies related to treating these children. Dr. Diane Ehrensaft writes about her psychotherapy with gender nonconforming children. Dr. Rona Knight focuses on normal gender fluidity in children and adolescents, advising against the use of puberty blockers in middle...
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