Literary Pathology: Nabokov’s Lolita
Nabokov’s Lolita is one of the most sustained examples of pathology in literature and can be read on a variety of levels. This workshop explores several questions that emerge from the book: writing as self-analysis; the creative distance between author and character; and pathology as a disguise for forbidden topics. For first meeting, use Vintage paperback edition and read through chapter 17, part one.

Raúl García, PhD, LP, CMPS Fellow and Research Committee Member. Dr. Garcia has interests in literary and cultural history.

MONDAY JUNE 6, 13, 20, 27 7:00–8:30 PM Four sessions: $180

Schadenfreude: Getting Pleasure from the Misfortune of Others
Schadenfreude is a common phenomenon, demonstrated by the narratives of patients and through characters in film, literature and television. The workshop reviews unconscious mechanisms, social comparison theory, neuroscience, and our experiences and thoughts on the topic. Selected readings are available in the CMPS library prior to the first meeting.

Lauree Mitchell, PhD, LP, CMPS graduate. Director, Marcus Garvey Nursing Home

TUESDAY JUNE 7, 14 7:00–8:30 PM Two sessions: $90

Getting Unstuck: Working through Creative Blocks
Obstacles to being creative arise from our deepest psychic processes. When we feel “stuck” and cannot find imaginative solutions—in the arts and in life— we need to find our way to understanding the resistances we have to accomplishing our goals. Participants will investigate creative blocks and examine the processes that must ensue to attain resolution.

Kenneth Feingold, MFA, LP, CMPS graduate. Visual artist, Pollock-Krasner
Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship recipient.

TUESDAY JUNE 7, 14 7:00–8:30 PM Two sessions: $90

Human Nature from the Perspective of Evolutionary Theory
Seminar explores the implications of drive theory and modern psychoanalytic treatment methods as they relate to recent developments in evolutionary theory.

Eugene Kalin, PhD, LP, CMPS and NYGSP Faculty, Training & Supervising Analyst.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 8, 15, 22, 29 3:40–5:10 PM Four sessions: $180

Mistakes and Misgivings: Advancing the Analysis While Protecting the Analyst
Psychoanalysts make apparent mistakes (or mis-takes) and then attack themselves for these “errors.” Such impasses can be seen as a necessary enactment of preverbal conflicts which, if understood in the context of the analyst’s induced feelings, can lead to significant therapeutic progress and spare the analyst unnecessary anguish. Registrants are encouraged to bring cases for discussion

Dan Gilhooley, PsyaD, LP, CMPS and NYGSP Faculty, Training & Supervising Analyst.
Robert Marshall, PhD, CMPS and NYGSP Faculty, Training & Supervising Analyst.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 8, 22 4:00–5:30 PM Two sessions: $90

Building and Maintaining a Private Practice
This workshop addresses the practical approaches to building a psychoanalytic private practice. Attention is given to networking and marketing in professional and personal venues, incorporating the ongoing pragmatic issue of setting and adjusting fees, and the overall business of a professional practice.

Theodore Laquercia, PhD, LP, CMPS NYGSP, and BGSP Faculty, Training & Supervising Analyst. Society of Modern Psychoanalysts, President.

WEDNESDAY June 8, 15 5:30–7:00 PM Two sessions: $90

Breaking the Cycle: Avoiding Repetitious Tendencies in Relationships
Individuals tend to repeat maladaptive patterns that often cause problems in relationships. How can we identify these patterns before they cause harm? This seminar addresses such repetitious behaviors: their origins, their affect on relationships, and the means by which they can avoided.

Gideon Freudenthal, PhD, CMPS graduate, Interfaith Medical Center, Private Practice.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 8, 15 7:00–8:30 PM Two sessions: $90

Couples Workshop
This workshop is open to partners in a couple relationship, who will attend together. Participants focuses on constructive communication about the myriad issues that mitigate against healthy, happy relationships.

Theodore Laquercia, PhD, LP, CMPS NYGSP, and BGSP Faculty, Training & Supervising Analyst. Forty years experience in working with couples and groups.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 22, 29 5:30–7:00 Two sessions: $90

Becoming Comfortable with Uncomfortable Feelings: Building Healthy Familial Relationships
As we become parents, we begin a lifelong experience, often filled with joy and fear. When a “child” becomes of legal age, he/she remain tied to us thereby rendering parenting that much more complicated. This workshop examines the joys and pitfalls of parenting adult “children” by discussing techniques to remain emotionally connected, despite the inevitable frustrations of extended familial relationships. Parents, in-laws, grandparents, and stepparents are all invited.

Carol Lerner, LCSW, LP, CMPS graduate, Counseling in Schools National Network, Consultant, Private Practice.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 8 7:00–8:30 PM One session: $45

When Space Shrinks and Time Stops: A Clinical and Theoretical Investigation
Space—held open by a temporal flow that allows objects to be present for a human subject—can shrink or collapse, erasing the distance between the world of objects and the human subject, stopping the flow of time. Hallucinations, dreams, and myths can be viewed as attempts to restore the object and contain the anxiety. Short readings from Rank, Freud, Lacan, and Merleau-Ponty will be distributed and serve as guides. William Hurst, PhD, LP, CMPS, NYGSP Faculty, Former Professor of Philosophy.

Dr. Hurst has a longstanding interest in continental European philosophy, French psychoanalysis, and the work of Freud.

THURSDAY JUNE 23, 30 5:30–7:00 PM Two sessions: $90

Pathways to Motherhood
Childbirth has always been a developmental milestone in a woman’s life. However, modern technology today provides many alternative routes to becoming a mother. The workshop questions how childbirth reconfigures and empowers the inner, feminine psychic world, and also explores how this process provides a particular creative journey when it involves Third Party Reproduction.
Lucy Holmes, PhD, LP, CMPS and NYGSP Faculty, Training & Supervising Analyst. She is author of The Internal Triangle: New Theories of Female Development.

Nancy Kaufman, LCSW, LP, CMPS graduate. Former Fellow. She is doing research on Third Party Reproduction at Cornell and leads The Third Party Parenting Network.

THURSDAY June 30 5:30–7:00 PM One session: $45