PsychoCinematics – Some Notes on Melodrama: Volver and the Return of the Repressed with John Allemand, PhD, LICSW, BCD, MPH

The New School for Analytical Psychology, the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study, and the Association for the Anthropology of Consciousness invite you to attend our seminar:

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In bringing together the art of film and the art of psychotherapy, PsychoCinematics aims to open new terrain for collaborative and creative conversations about both. Each seminar includes a film showing followed by a presentation and lively discussion led by a facilitator. The films chosen are notable for their exceptional art, style and innovation. They ignite the imagination to dream differently about current issues, both clinical and theoretical, in our field. Adding critical depth and challenge to our collective dreaming, suggested readings of interdisciplinary interest will accompany each seminar.

Description

Date and Learning Objectives

April 30 2023, from 12:30 to 5:00 PM Pacific time

Location: The Ark Lodge Theater, 4816 Rainier Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98118. The concession stand will be open for purchase of food and drink.

Cost: Please register at: Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study – Distinguished Speaker Series

PsychoCinematics Goal

To identify how the art of film and the art of psychotherapy can enrich and inform one another in ways that will be useful to clinical practice

Learning Objectives

1) Participants will be able to identify common themes, tropes and conventions of the melodrama.

2) Participants will be able to explain the paradox of the melodrama’s subversive quality, its resistance to the social structures and values it seems to valorize.

3) Participants will be able to articulate the way in which Heidegger’s concept of Dasein informs a particularly feminine “ethic of care” in the melodrama.

4) Participants will be able to identify several ways in which the melodramatic mise-en-scène becomes a vehicle for the expression of neurotic symptoms.

5) Participants will be introduced to Abraham and Torok’s (1994) distinction between the concepts of incorporation and introjection.

About our Facilitator

John Allemand, PhD, LICSW, BCD, MPH is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, supervisor, and consultant in private practice in Seattle, WA, providing clinical services to individuals and couples. He currently serves as Chair of the Distinguished Speakers Series of the Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study; Dr. Allemand is also a faculty member at the New School for Analytical Psychology and a Clinical Instructor in the UW School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. A graduate of Tulane University and Pacifica Graduate Institute, his theoretical and clinical interests include British object relations theory, archetypal psychology, and French psychoanalysis, as well as the psychoanalytic study of art, literature, and film.

For information, please contact:

Elizabeth Sikes (interconnectedcounseling@gmail.com ) or John Allemand (jallemandpsych@gmail.com)

PsychoCinematics – Some Notes on Melodrama: Volver and the Return of the Repressed with John Allemand, PhD, LICSW, BCD, MPH