April 6, 2008
32nd Annual Scientific Conference
The Need for Symbolization, Spirituality and Transformation in Psychic Life

In this conference we will explore: how symbolization, spirituality and transformation can contribute to affect regulation and a more stable sense of self; how the notions of belief and conviction are related to ideas and emotions; if the interpretations therapists give are accepted with faith and belief which are part of the healing process and if it is correct interpretations that are the way to healing, or emotions that ring true; how our systems of belief help us, patients and therapists alike to function in an unsafe world; how we use psychoanalytic formulations of transformation to explore the nature of change within the context of the psychoanalytic relationship; and how one may achieve transformation that leads not only to insight but also to meaningful change.


Presenters:

Professor Martin Bergmann
Being a Therapist in an Unsafe World

Harry Fogarty, Ph.D.
A Jungian Perspective on Transcendence & Symbolization

Zvi Lothane, M.D.
Soul Matters: Faith & Feeling, Love & Liberty, Spirit & Speech

Professor Martin Bergmann –
Clinical Professor of Psychology: New York University
Post-Doctoral Program; Training and Supervising Analyst,
New York Freudian Society. Author and editor of many
books and articles including
The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Technique, 1976;
Generations of the Holocaust, 1982,
Anatomy of Loving, 1988;
In the Shadow of Moloch, 1992. In 1994, a book entitled Essays in Honor
of Martin Bergmann was issued in his honor.  

Harry Fogarty, Ph.D.
Lecturer in Psychiatry
and Religion, Union Theological Seminary, NYC;
Faculty member, Jungian Psychoanalytic Association
(NY) and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian
Analysts. He has offered public seminars locally
at the 92nd St. Y as well as for the C.G. Jung Foundation
of NY. Jungian psychoanalyst in practice in NYC.
 


Zvi Lothane, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
Mt. Sinai Medical School; Distinguished Life Fellow
of the American Psychiatric Association. Member
of the International Psychoanalytic Association and
APsaA; Author of many papers on the methodology
of psychoanalysis. He has researched and published
on the life of Sabina Shpilrein and her relationship with
Jung and has written the book In Defense, of Schreber:
Soul Murder and Psychiatry, The Analytic Press, 1992.
This landmark book was published in Germany in 2004
with the new title Seelenmord und Psychiatrie –
Zur Rehabilitierung Schrebers.


Conference fees:

Pre-register before April 1st $115.00
At Door $125.00
WSI Faculty & Staff $85.00

Students with I.D. $65.00

To pre-register:

or send a check
(made out to Washington Square Institute) to:

Attention: Registrar
Washington Square Institute
41-51 East 11th Street
New York, NY 10003

For more information call registrar: 212-477-2600.

Psychologists attending the conference may receive 5
CE credits. Washington Square Institute is approved
by the American Psychological Association as a provider
for Continuing Education.