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Friday, February 17, 2006 – 7:30pm Friday, Februar

Posted By: The Philoctetes Center
Date: Thursday, 9 February 2006, at 11:21 a.m.

The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination

at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute

247 East 82nd Street

invites you to a Roundtable Discussion

Friday, February 17, 2006 – 7:30pm

PSYCHOANALYSIS IN AMERICA:

150 YEARS AFTER THE BIRTH OF FREUD

Moderator: Edward Nersessian, Psychoanalyst and Co-Director, The Philoctetes Center
Participants:
Jay R. Greenberg: Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Institute; Past Editor, Contemporary Psychoanalysis

William I. Grossman: Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Advisory Board, Neuropsychoanalysis; author of several papers on Freud’s models of psychoanalysis

Peter J. Loewenberg: Dean and Director of Training, New Center for Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; Professor of History and Political Psychology, UCLA; author of Decoding the Past: The Psychohistorical Approach and Fantasy and Reality in History

Robert Michels: Walsh McDermott University Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, Weill Medical College, Cornell; Training and Supervising Analyst, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

Jerome A. Winer: Past Director, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; Editor, The Annual of Psychoanalysis; Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, Chicago

This program – the first in a series of five roundtables planned to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sigmund Freud -- will take place in the Philoctetes Center, and broadcast through closed circuit television to additional seating in the Auditorium.

The event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited on a first come basis.

International Psychoanalysis (March 17, 2006), Psychoanalysis and Literature (May 6, 2006), Psychoanalytic Journals (June 9, 2006) and Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience (date to be announced) will complete the Anniversary Series.

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Information about these and future events may be found on the Philoctetes website: www.philoctetes.org, or contact us at Philoctetes@mac.com