Jonathan Sklar, LRCP, MRCS, MBBS, FRCPsych, TQAP 

FRIDAY NIGHT GUEST LECTURE SERIES 2022-23

The tradition of Apocalyptic prophecy developed in the Middle Ages, first by Jewish and later Christians ‘consoles, fortified and asserted themselves when confronted by the threat.' Messianism and debates about the Antichrist were further developed during the Crusades. Later the good-bad dichotomy was enacted by the thousands of penitents masochistically scourging themselves across Europe as well as the Torquemadian sadistic persecutions. Yet all the major European powers used such cruel displays as it was socially, politically, and economically expedient to those in power. Unconscious manifestations of human cruelties find expressions in society and very often such matters are reframed, covered over, and even believed to be ideal states of humanity–such as ‘religious goodness.'

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Jonathan Sklar is presenting a Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture on February 10, 2023, through the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center.

Jonathan Sklar

Apocalyptic Times and the Missing Debate

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 Free Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Jonathan Sklar.

Refugees and Immigrants: Their Experiences and Contribution to Psychoanalysis in North America

"Refugee Psychoanalysts 1920-1955: Enriching Psychoanalysis in the Americas"

This roundtable will discuss the history of forced migration of psychoanalysts from Europe and their impact on psychoanalysis in America. Beginning in the 1920s and again between 1938 and 1940, the rise of fascism and its attendant antisemitism led most Central European psychoanalysts to emigrate to other countries. Their contributions fundamentally reshaped the field of psychoanalysis in the United States and England. In this roundtable, scholars will discuss the historical experience of analysts who were forced to leave Europe, and the integration of those individuals and their psychoanalytic theories into American psychoanalytic institutes.

Learn about and register for the other Roundtables in this series:

Roundtable 1: "After Vienna: A conversation with Otto Kernberg, MD, and Thomas Kohut, PhD"

Roundtable 3: "Genocide: What Psychoanalysis Lost in the Holocaust"

Roundtable 4: "Beyond Forced Emigration: Contemporary Émigré Experience in Psychoanalysis"

This webinar will be recorded for later viewing

This roundtable is part of "From Despair to Hope: The Holocaust, Immigration, and Psychoanalysis in North America," a collaboration between the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center and the Sigmund Freud Museum honoring the late Anton O. Kris, MD.

This program is supported in part by Steven C. Ackerman and grants from the Stockbridge Cultural Council and the Lee Cultural Council, local agencies that are supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Refugees and Immigrants: Their Experience and Contribution to Psychoanalysis in North America - Virtual Roundtable #2

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Round table #2 will discuss the history of forced migration of psychoanalysts from Europe and their impact on psychoanalysis in America.

Suicidal thoughts are known to fluctuate dramatically over time, presenting an ongoing challenge to clinicians and researchers alike. While supportive social relationships are known to help reduce risk over time, the short-term impact of interpersonal conflicts on suicide risk is less well understood. In this presentation, contemporary theories drawn from the realms of personality science and suicide prevention will be used as a foundation for understanding the role of implicit relational dynamics in suicide risk. The concepts of agency and communion will be explored as important dimensions that may help to predict the kinds of social situations in which suicidal thoughts will arise. Novel findings from a daily diary study of psychiatric patients enrolled in long-term psychoanalytic treatment will highlight the role of complementarity (versus discordance) in agency and communion between interaction partners as a potential signal of proximal suicide risk. The presentation will discuss treatment implications based on these findings and highlight future areas of inquiry.

Katie Lewis, PhD, is the director of research at the Austen Riggs Center.

Katie Lewis, PhD

 How Do Interpersonal Conflicts Contribute to Suicide Risk? A Clinical and Empirical Discussion

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1.0 CME/CE Credits. Free Virtual Grand Rounds with Katie C. Lewis, PhD.

Please join us for our upcoming Open House for the Austen Riggs Remote Access Intensive Outpatient Program for College Students and Emerging Adults. We will begin with a brief presentation and IOP overview followed by a Q&A. This meeting is open to everyone: students, emerging adults, clinicians and parents/guardians.

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From Lonesomeness to Belonging: Building Resilience Through Self-Knowledge and Relationships

Please join us for our upcoming Open House for the Austen Riggs Remote Access Intensive Outpatient Program for College Students and Emerging Adults.

This lecture takes up the question of what a social psychoanalysis might look like in the clinic, in our psychoanalytic institutions, and in our society. Drawing on some earlier psychoanalysts’ concepts that have connected the social world and the psychic world, I introduce the concept of normative unconscious processes, which addresses the ways that racism, heterosexism, classism, and other social inequalities are unconsciously replicated in the clinic. The talk then explores how therapists can resist unconsciously replicating such cultural inequalities. We will then look outside the clinic at how cultural inequalities manifest in the wider circles of contemporary institutional and sociocultural life. Here, too, we will explore how we, as citizens and therapists, both unconsciously replicate and can resist replicating harmful, unequal relations. We will think together about how to address the places in our different subjective and communal worlds where harm has been done, and engage together on how to make repair.

Lynne Layton, PhD, is presenting a Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture on March 10, 2023 through the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center.

Lynne Layton, PhD

Social Psychoanalysis, Normative Unconscious Processes, and an Ethic of Repair

 Free Virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture with Lynne Layton, PhD.

Refugees and Immigrants: Their Experience and Contribution to Psychoanalysis in North America

"Genocide: What Psychoanalysis Lost in the Holocaust"

In this third roundtable, panelists will discuss what was lost when entire institutes were destroyed through emigration, war, and genocide. While some institutes like the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society were reestablished, the roundtable will look at the ways the individuals, their families, organizations, and the field grappled with loss and death in the post-war period.

Roundtable 2: "Refugee Psychoanalysts 1920-1955: Enriching Psychoanalysis in the Americas"

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Refugees and Immigrants: Their Experience and Contribution to Psychoanalysis in North America - Virtual Roundtable #3

In this third roundtable, panelists will discuss what was lost when entire institutes were destroyed through emigration, war, and genocide.

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Race and Racism in Psychoanalytic Thought: Shaking Our Analytic Frame

Beverly J. Stoute, MD, FABP, DFAPA, DFAACAP gives the 2023 Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture. This is a free virtual Friday Night Guest Lecture.

"Beyond Forced Emigration: Contemporary Émigré Experience in Psychoanalysis"

The field of psychoanalysis in the 21st century has been shaped by the history of emigration in the 20th century—this panel looks at the way that today’s immigrant psychoanalysts experience identity, otherness, and place and how those histories will continue to change the field.

 Refugees and Immigrants: Their Experience and Contribution to Psychoanalysis in North America - Virtual Roundtable #4

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