Film and Mind Online: Saltburn

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Cinematic masterpiece Saltburn, (2023) directed by Academy Award winning Emerald Ferrell, is a fascinating study in perverse autonomy. Barry Keoghan stars in the psychological drama Saltburn from which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Keoghan plays Oliver Quick, a bright, young, brooding social outcast who lands at Oxford and is quickly drawn to […]

Film & Mind: The Headless Woman

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The Headless Woman is a 2008 Argentine psychological thriller art film written and directed by Lucrecia Martel and starring María Onetto. After hitting something with her car, a bourgeois woman’s life slowly descends into paranoia and isolation, as she fears she may have killed someone. Not well-known to American movie-goers, Martel is "arguably the most […]

Mark Solms’ “Source of Consciousness” Prep Course

Mark Solms, neuroscientist and psychoanalyst, has substantially altered contemporary understanding of both Consciousness and Self-Experience. Solms is a clear and personable writer, but his understanding draws on science largely unfamiliar to psychotherapists. In preparation for his appearance at next Spring’s NCP Manifest Mind conference, we are offering an introductory course (5 monthly sessions over Zoom) […]

The Perils and Promises of a Unified Clinical Model

Dismayed by the fragmentation haunting the psychoanalytic project for more than a century, Dr. Karbelnig has proposed an overarching clinical model for psychoanalysis. The approach intends to unify practitioners using Freudian, Jungian, Kleinian, Self-Psychological, Relational, or any psychodynamic approach. The presentation expands upon his February 2022 paper, "Chasing Infinity: Why Clinical Psychoanalysis' Future Lies in […]

The Perils and Promises of a Unified Clinical Model

Dismayed by the fragmentation haunting the psychoanalytic project for more than a century, Dr. Karbelnig has proposed an overarching clinical model for psychoanalysis. The approach intends to unify practitioners using Freudian, Jungian, Kleinian, Self-Psychological, Relational, or any psychodynamic approach. The presentation expands upon his February 2022 paper, "Chasing Infinity: Why Clinical Psychoanalysis' Future Lies in […]

A Psychoanalytic Town Hall: Controversial Issues in the 2024 Election

A Psychoanalytic Town Hall: Controversial Issues in the 2024 Presidential Election Panel of Psychoanalysts: Michael Diamond, PhD, David James Fisher, PhD, Mark Fisher, MD, Debra Myers, MD, Peter Wolson, PhD Town Hall Moderator: Peter Wolson, PhD On the cusp of this hotly contested presidential elections with radical differences between the party platforms and candidates and […]

A Psychoanalytic Town Hall: Controversial Issues in the 2024 Election

A Psychoanalytic Town Hall: Controversial Issues in the 2024 Presidential Election PANEL OF PSYCHOANALYSTS: Michael Diamond, PhD, David James Fisher, PhD, Mark Fisher, MD, Debra Myers, MD, Peter Wolson, PhD Town Hall Moderator: Peter Wolson, PhD On the cusp of this hotly contested presidential elections with radical differences between the party platforms and candidates and […]