Contemporary Psychoanalytic concepts in everyday life
2023-2024 One Year Program Materials
Class Dates and Course Materials:
Class 1. 09.14.23
6:15pm-9pm
Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street
Title: Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through
Instructor: Miriam DeRiso
Media: The Bear. Season 1: episodes 2, 7, and 8. Season 2: episode 6
Reading: Freud. Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through.
Class 2. 10.12.23
6:15pm-9pm
Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street
Title: Knowing
Instructor: Sharon Bernstein
Medium : Poem: A Brief for the Defense
Reading: What Kate DiCamillo Understands About Children The New Yorker
Class 3. 11.9.23
6:15pm-9pm
Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street.
Title: Thinking Psychoanalytically about the Climate Crisis
Instructor: Loren Sobel M.D.
Medium:
Movie: Don’t Look Up.
https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357
Reading:
Required:
1. Hope in the Anthropocene Age by Ryan LaMothe. ROOM A Sketchbook for Analytic Action
Suggested:
3. Bell D. Psychoanalytic reflections on the conditions of possibility of human destructiveness
Class 4. 12.14.23
6:15pm-9pm
Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street
Title:
Instructor: Mike Mervosh
Readings: ON THREE FORMS OF THINKING: MAGICAL THINKING, DREAM THINKING, AND TRANSFORMATIVE THINKING
Media:
Class 5. 01.11.24
6:15pm-9pm
Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street
Title: Transgenerational Haunting and Toxic Errands
Instructor: Bill Cornell
Media: Three Wishes
Reading: Ocean Vuong and Galit Atlas
Supplemental reading: Punch Me Up To The Gods, Strangers In Their Own Land, The reverie of resistance, & Black Boys in the Eye of the Storm
Class 6. 02.08.24
6:15pm-9pm
Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street
Title: When the Ghosts Come for an Office Visit:
The Clinical Applications of Transgenerational Transmissions
Instructor: Bill Cornell
Media: Transgenerational Haunting in Psychoanalysis: Toxic Errands
Reading: The Texture of Traumatic Attachment
Sociopolitical Trauma: Forgetting, Remembering, and Group Analysis
Black Boys in the Eye of the Storm
Class 7 03.14.24
Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street
Title: Psychoanalysis in everyday life: The impacts of smartphones and social media on us and our clients
Instructor: George Herrity
Media:
The Real Problem with Smartphone Addiction
Your Phone is trying to Control your Life
Technology, AI, and What Makes us Human
Reading:
Solitude
Class 8 04.11.24
Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street
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Class 9 05.09.24
Location: CoHatch 5428 Walnut Street
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