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Videos: 9th Annual Bion Conference with Giuseppe Civitarese
The Psychoanalytic Center of California presents the 9th Annual Wilfred Bion Conference with Dr. Giuseppe Civitarese of Italy on March 21-23, 2019. The first video is An Evening with Giuseppe Civitarese in which he presents his paper, "Waiting: About the Bionian Concept of Negative Capability." The main event was [...]
Videos: 29th Annual Melanie Klein Lecture with Margot Waddell
The Psychoanalytic Center of California presents the 29th Annual Melanie Klein Lecture on June 2, 2018. The Lecture features Dr. Margot Waddell of London. In Part 1 of this two part video series, Dr. Waddell presents her paper, "A Mind of One's Own" from her book, "On Adolescence." In Part [...]
Video: Ofra Eshel presents “The Vanished Last Scream”
PCC presents the 8th Annual Wilfred Bion Conference on Saturday, February 8, 2018. The conference features Dr. Ofra Eshel, training and supervising analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. She presents her paper, "The Vanished Last Scream." The full text of the paper is available in the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, February 2019.
New Video: A play about Bion’s life from Meg Harris Williams
Meg Harris Williams, a dear friend of PCC, has sent along this note and video link for our interest: I have just finished editing the video of the performance of my Bion play in India two years ago. The actor, Tom Alter, died three months later. The plan was [...]
PCC Candidate Philip Lance interviews Guiseppe Civitarese
Giuseppe Civitarese‘s An Apocryphal Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2019) is a book of transpositions, collecting together the author’s clinical vignettes, enigmatic objects, stray thoughts, projects, images, notes from readings, and musings; but also remarks on films and exhibitions, memories, episodes from daily life, summaries of papers to write, questions, doubts and [...]
PCC Candidate Philip Lance with New Books in Psychoanalysis Interview
Since the classical Freudian and ego psychology paradigms lost their position of dominance in the late 1950’s, psychoanalysis became a multi-paradigm science with those working in the different frameworks increasingly engaging only with those in the same or related intellectual “silos.” Beginning with Freud’s theory [...]
