For the Community
The Institute's community Lectures & Seminars program breaks new ground every season, offering psychoanalytic insights into the many dimensions of human experience: art, politics, literature, family, relationships, the stages of life, masculinity/femininity, work, love, and human passions. The format varies from discussions around lunch to large lectures. The lively Celluloid Couch Series and pre-performance discussions of Shakespeare in the Park entertain and enlighten.
UPCOMING EVENTS...
Don't miss these two exciting lectures coming this spring featuring internationally known experts in their fields:
Friday, March 9, 2012
David Brodzinsky, PhD
THE LIFECYCLE OF ADOPTION
This presentation will explore family life cycle issues that are unique to adoptive families and their implications for childen's psychological adjustment. Among the many topics to be discussed are those associated with the transisition to adoptive parenthood, helping chidren recover from early adversity, sharing adoption information with children and supporting a child's curiosity about their origins, helping children cope with adoption-related loss, and supporting a child's adoptive identity.
The role of openess in adoption commnication will be highlighted as the basis for successful negotiation of these life cycle tasks for adoptive parents and their children.
This lecture is a must-attend for all who work with and counsel adopted children and their families, as well as for all members of the adoption triad: birth parents, adoptive parents, and adoptees.
Dr. Brodzinsky has written and lectured extensively in the fields of developmental and clinical psychology and is co-author of such well known books as The Psychology of Adoption, Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self, and Children's Adjustment to Adoption: Developmental and Clinical Issues.
7:00 p.m.
AT&T Auditorium at The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (Directions here)
Tickets: $15
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Sponsors: Webster University Graduate Program in Counseling and Protivi
Collaborative Partners: Children's Home Society, Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition and Voices for Children
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick, PhD
EMOTIONAL MUSCLE: STRONG PARENTS, STRONG CHILDREN
Kerry Kelly Novick and Jack Novick, PhD, have been working with children and families on thoughtful, positive parenting techniques for more than four decades. Their latest book, Emotional Muscle: Strong Parents, Strong Children, offers all who work with children useful ways to build emotional muscles, such as trust, adaptability, empathy, internal controls and more in children from babies to five-year-olds.
Fee: $15
Ethical Society of St. Louis Auditorium
9001 Clayton Road, St. Louis, MO 63117
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Art & Analysis:
The Internal Life of a Musician
Panel Discussion featuring
Karen Miller, PhD, LPC; Lenita Newberg, MSW, LCSW; Ed Sprunger, PhD
Moderated by Britt-Marie Schiller, PhD
What are the dreams, fears, and internal struggles of muscians? In this thought-provoking evening, we will hear about music making as integral to these musicians' lives. They will talk about the relationships to their instruments, about performance anxieties, and about striving for "ideal" performances.
Friday, February 17, 2012
7:30 pm
Institute Classroom A
Fee: $25
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CELLULOID COUCH FILM SERIES - Films & Psychoanalysis
presented by the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and
The Webster University Film Series
Webster University Winifred Moore Auditorium
Start time: 7:30 pm
Tickets: $6 General Admission
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Where the Wild Things Are
Discussant: Mary L. Nielsen, MD
How delightful are the friendly monsters who romp in Maurice Sendak's 1963 book Where the Wild Things Are. Sendak's book has been a useful tool to help parents let children know that their "wild" feelings are acceptable. Those expecting a lighthearted film will be surprised, however. Directed by Spike Jonze, in consultation with Sendak, the film Where the Wild Things Are is a beautiful and disturbing drama about a boy's fantastic inner world during his parents' divorce; a story that is ready-made for psychoanalytic study.
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Black Swan
Discussant: Britt-Marie Schiller, PhDNina Sayers (Natalie Portman) is chosen to dance the role of Swan Queen in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan. Fragile and beautiful, Nina dances the part of the innocent white swan with perfect technique. A ruthless impresario pressures her to let go and lose herself to be able to dance the seductive and aggressive black swan part, while Nina's mother, a former ballet dancer who left the corps to have Nina, pressures her to remain an innocent, sweet girl. Between her mother's envy, the impresario's sexualized cruelty, and the threat of being replaced by Lily, who dances the black swan with abandon and sensual ease, Nina, in anguish, begins to hallucinate and lose her mind.
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Friday, June 1, 2012
Shortbus
Gary Hirshberg, MSW, LCSW
John Cameron Mitchell, the director of the explosive transgender rock musical, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" broadens his investigation into sexuality with Shortbus (2007). Shortbus is an exploration into the lives of several characters living in present-day New York as they navigte the humorous and tragic intersections betwen love and sex. Male, female, trans, straight, bisexual, lesbian and gay, the characters find one another -- and eventually themseves -- when they all converge at a weekly underground salon called "Shortbus," a wild collision of art, music,, politics and polyamorous carnality.
Co-sponsored by Pride St. Louis, Inc.
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MAKE A NOTE:
Shakespeare in the Park 2012
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Join us Friday, June 8 for a pre-performance discussion
FREE!