PsychoCinematics – Civil War Returned: The Beguiled, with Kimberly Lamm, PhD
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:
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.
Date and Learning Objectives
March 19, 2023, from 1:00 PM 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 – 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:
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.
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
Past Events
“I Will Be True to You, Whatever Comes”: Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life, with Jason M. Wirth, PhD.
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:
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.
Date and Learning Objectives
Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023, from 1:00 PM 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 Living on this Unsettled Earth: First Reformed with Andrew Bryant, LICSW
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:
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.
Sunday, November 13th, 2022, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Pacific time
Location: The Beacon Theater, 4405 Rainier Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98118. The concession stand will be open for the purchase of food and drink.
Cost: Please register at: Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study – Distinguished Speaker Series
PsychoCinematics – The Pharmakology of Eros: Phantom Thread with Dr. Elizabeth Sikes
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:
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.
Sunday, September 18th, 2022, from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM Pacific time
Location: The Beacon Theater, 4405 Rainier Ave. S, Seattle, WA 98118. The concession stand will be open for the purchase of food and drink.
Cost: Please register at: Northwest Alliance for Psychoanalytic Study – Distinguished Speaker Series
The Mythology and Depth Psychology of Octavia Butler – Dr. Ayana Jamieson
The tone of collective discourse has rapidly degenerated, damaging the forms and rituals that give coherence to our lives, cultures and professional disciplines contributing to a sense of communal and global unrest. In this intimate Saturday morning seminar, our desire is to nourish a spirit of reflection rather than repeating the sounds of panic and alarm or pretend hopes. Stepping back from the present situation, we will reflect on the current moment through trans-disciplinary lenses including philosophy, theology, history, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and anthropology. Together we will seek new perspectives that may help us move into an open future.
While award-winning speculative and science fiction author, Octavia E. Butler, passed away nearly fifteen years ago, 2020 has been a big year in her career. Her novel Parable of the Sower, written in 1993, just hit the New York Times Best Seller’s list for the first time in September 2020, while Ava Duverney, Viola Davis, and others continue to work to bring her works to the small screen, adapting her novels Dawn, Wild Seed and Kindred for television. Over the last several decades, Butler’s prescience in Parable of the Sower has not gone unnoticed. Set in the 2020s in Los Angeles, this novel references a nation beset by climate change, widespread illness, economic collapse, scarcity of necessities, and yes, a zealot politician running on the platform to “Make America Great Again.”
In this session with Depth Psychologist and founder of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, Ayana Jamieson, we’ll explore the mythology and meaning of Octavia E. Butler’s empathetic and remarkable science fiction. In addition to her role as founder of the Legacy Network, Ayana is also an expert on Butler’s life and work, the Butler archives at the Butler’s life and work serve as a case study for moving toward psychological wholeness, surviving trauma and developing resilient narratives in unprecedented times.
Originally scheduled for August 7, this event will now be on October 2: from 10:00 AM to 12:15 PM Pacific time– via Zoom 2021
Two-Eyed Seeing: Indigenous Approaches to Healing Trauma – Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara Mainguy
“Two-eyed seeing” is a concept that was originated by Elder Albert Marshall of Sydney, Nova Scotia, and Cape Breton University to give indigenous epistemology and knowledge equal status with mainstream scientific perspectives and knowledge. In M’iqmaq, the word is Etuaptmunk. In English, it means the idea of explanatory pluralism. Within most indigenous cultures, the mind is not considered separately from body, community, and spirituality, unlike the silos created in the dominant culture.
Healing must involve the body, the community, and the spirits. In this lecture, we are going to introduce the two-eyed seeing concept to explore how to work with trauma from both an indigenous perspective and contemporary neuroscience and psychological research. We are especially interested in the role that trauma plays in addictions and in the so-called “severe mental illnesses,” and how our approach to people in distress must also be trauma-informed.
This introductory lecture is designed for practitioners who provide counselling in indigenous communities. It is also open to those providing counselling in other communities who want to see how indigenous practices could enrich their work, as well as to others who are just curious about Indigenous cultures and mental health.
Two-Eyed Seeing: Indigenous Approaches to Healing Trauma – Saturday, March 27th from 10:00 AM to 12:15 PM via ZOOM 2021
Special Event with Guest Speakers Dr Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara Mainguy
Lacan Beyond the Basics: The Formation of the Subject – A Seminar presented by Sharon R. Green
All psychoanalytic work is guided by the philosophical and metapsychological assumptions that underlie the clinician’s understanding of the nature of the psyche and the processes involved in the formation of the subject. These assumptions, whether conscious or unconscious, guide our interventions and goals for analysis and psychotherapy. Issues such as a person’s degree of freedom and responsibility for their destiny hinge upon these assumptions.
Our understanding of the relationship between subject and Other also shapes our ethical stance towards our work. This is especially crucial because psychoanalysis involves an asymmetrical relationship with its implied promise that suffering will be alleviated or that answers will be given to our most urgent existential questions. Lacan even goes so far as to define the unconscious as “the discourse of the Other”.
Lacan Beyond the Basics: The Formation of the Subject – A Seminar presented by Sharon R. Green
Six consecutive Thursdays. 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. PDT via Zoom from Seattle
April 29, May 6, May 13, May 20, May 27 & June 3 2021
Cost: $200.00. The seminar is limited to ten participants.
Please register by contacting Sharon directly at srgreen1@gmail.com
Violence, Trauma and the Making of Racial Identity – Dr. Sheldon George
The tone of collective discourse has rapidly degenerated, damaging the forms and rituals that give coherence to our lives, cultures and professional disciplines contributing to a sense of communal and global unrest. In these intimate Saturday morning seminars our desire is to nourish a spirit of reflection rather than repeating the sounds of panic and alarm, or pretend hopes. Stepping back from the present situation, we will reflect on the current moment through trans-disciplinary lenses including philosophy, theology, history, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and anthropology. Together we will seek new perspectives that may help us move into an open future.
Violence, Trauma and the Making of Racial Identity – Dr. Sheldon George
Location and Time: Zoom, Saturday, May 22nd: 10:00 am to 12:15 pm PDT from Seattle, WA 2021
General Public $65.00
Students – Candidates $30.00
Slavery, Hatred of the Other, and Lacanian Jouissance
Our political and social moment seems destabilized by an increased emphasis on racial difference. Freud, upon witnessing the horrors of World War I, first recognized within human subjects a drive toward aggression that he argued must be repressed for the sustainability of civilization. But, ending only a few decades before Freud’s writings, slavery fully manifested this psychic drive toward aggression belatedly recognized by Freud; and what’s more, slavery emerged as a stabilizing foundation for central aspects of American society. Through recourse to Lacanian theory, this talk argues that race and racism function as sources of psychic pleasure, or what Lacan calls jouissance. This jouissance is a mode of enjoyment that lures the subject to perilous transgressions that stabilize American society into its consistently oppressive racial configuration. Moving through an analysis of American slave masters’ efforts to establish slavery as a mask for what we can describe after Lacan as the psychic lack of the subject—a mask that refuted lack with racial superiority—the talk will turn to the writings of Zora Neale Hurston to describe religion and race as mechanisms through which African Americans themselves contend against social unveilings of psychic lack. Ending with a reading of the role played by pleasure in contemporary incidents of police violence, the talk presents race and racism as apparatuses that mediates subjective lack. Race, it argues, binds contemporary American civilization to sustained modes of psychic pleasure and discontent that grew out of the atrocity of slavery.
Slavery, Hatred of the Other, and Lacanian Jouissance – November 7, 2020
Special Event with Guest Speaker Sheldon George
‘Ominous Transitions’ – Hauntings and Specters in the Social and Political Collective
The tone of collective discourse has rapidly degenerated, damaging the forms and rituals that give coherence to our lives, cultures and professional disciplines contributing to a sense of communal and global unrest. In these intimate Saturday morning seminars our desire is to nourish a spirit of reflection rather than repeating the sounds of panic and alarm, or pretend hopes. Stepping back from the present situation, we will reflect on the current moment through trans-disciplinary lenses including philosophy, theology, history, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and anthropology. Together we will seek new perspectives that may help us move into an open future.
Continuing the theme of Ominous Transitions, the New School is offering a series of four seminars to extend the discussion generated by Dr. Alexander Hinton’s presentation on February 1st: The Extremist: From Cambodia’s Killing Fields To Charlottesville, USA. This series of Ominous Transitions seminars will center around themes of haunting and specters that linger in the social and political collective. Each seminar will focus on a particular theme; participants will be provided with readings prior to each meeting.
Voids and Xenophobic Fears – March 21, 2020
Presented by Ladson Hinton
Specters and Xenophobic Fears – April 18, 2020
Presented by Tony Stanton and Lane Gerber
Hauntings and the “Thing” of Slavery – May 16, 2020
Presented by Lisa Whitsitt and Mylor Treneer
“Ghostly Matters:” Race, Capitalism, and Technologies of Violence – June 13, 2020
Presented by Mylor Treneer and Nicole Torres
‘Ominous Transitions’ – The Extremist: From Cambodia’s Killing Fields To Charlottesville, USA
Presented by Dr Alexander Hinton,
Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Swedish Cultural Center, 1920 Dexter Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109
9:00 am – 1:00 pm (Registration 8:30 am – 9:00 am)
In March 2016, award-winning anthropologist Alex Hinton, faced off with a genocidal extremist, Pol Pot’s “Brother Number Two,” while serving as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia. A year and a half later, white power extremists wreaked havoc in the streets of Charlottesville. Professor Hinton’s talk will bring these two events into a conversation to answer the question asked about both: why? — as well the question that began to be asked in the U.S., could it happen here? In each situation, key issues of our time – truth and denial, human dignity, hate, moral choice, and extremism – were at stake.
Can the Earth Be sacred once again?
An evening seminar with Sean McGrath, PhD
7-9 pm on Tuesday, April 2, 2019
The Colman Building
811 1st Ave, Seattle, WA 98104
We live in the grip of a form of anxiety unknown to Freud, Jung, and Lacan. It is not anxiety over the self, but anxiety over the world without which there would be no selves to worry about. Nature has become an issue for us, whether it be in the form of climate change, mass extinction, or the disturbing possibility that nature is over. At the same time, we despair for humanity: there appears to be no way to move from our knowledge of the current precarious state of the earth to a practice and politics that would rectify it. The despair itself immobilizes us and renders us powerless to make even the smallest efforts toward solutions. In this seminar, we will discuss the ecological anxiety of our present age and look for ways to unfreeze eco-despair by generating language to articulate our hopes and fears. We will explore in some detail the religious quality of the ecological crisis. In the end, we will ask the question: given the Anthropocene, given the Sixth Great Extinction, given the rise of the technosphere, can the earth be sacred once again?
The New School for Analytical Psychology invites you to attend our four-month seminar series:
Ominous Transitions:
Ongoing Reflections on Finding our Ethical Bearings in Today’s World
November 10, 2018 – February 9, 2019
LOCATION: 811-1st Avenue, Suite 550, Seattle, WA 98104
The tone of collective discourse has rapidly degenerated, damaging the forms and rituals that give coherence to our lives, cultures and professional disciplines contributing to a sense of communal and global unrest. In these intimate Saturday morning seminars our desire is to nourish a spirit of reflection rather than repeating the sounds of panic and alarm, or pretend hopes. Stepping back from the present situation, we will reflect on the current moment through trans-disciplinary lenses including philosophy, theology, history, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and anthropology. Together we will seek new perspectives that may help us move into an open future.
New School for Analytical Psychology invites to its Fourth Annual Public Event:
Engaging the Themes of Temporality and Shame
A Response To The Volatile Changes In Dangerous Times
Saturday, February 3rd, 2018, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm (Registration from 8:30 – 9:00 am)
Swedish Cultural Center, 1920 Dexter Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109
Eminent psychoanalysts Ladson Hinton, MD (USA) and Hessel Willemsen, DClinPsych (UK), the co-editors of Temporality and Shame: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (Routledge, 2017), have engaged the creative minds of scholars from diverse disciplines of anthropology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, cultural studies, literature, and theology, in working together to produce this timely and urgent volume.
In their seminar, Hinton and Willemsen come together with three of the book’s chapter authors, to present their original contributions, providing a springboard for dialogue about this critical moment in history. There will be morning and afternoon sessions where each of the presenters will engage our deepest concerns about the basic ground of what it means to be human in today’s world, seen through the authors’ multi-disciplinary lenses. We hope this will stimulate your thoughts and questions, as well.
New School for Analytical Psychology Presents:
Psychocinematics! (SOLD OUT)
A Film Seminar Series with Readings
Sundays 2-6 pm: Oct. 8, Nov. 5, Dec. 3, 2017
Seattle University Media Screening Room, LeMieux Library
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 viewing followed by lively discussion. The films chosen are all 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.