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Steve Harp, Associate Professor at the Department of Art, Media and Design at DePaul University was recently awarded a DePaul University Humanities Center Fellowship for 2020-2022 for his project "Negation/Against."

The abstract follows:

The commonly accepted perspective in Western culture is that photography manifests the external. The argument I seek to make against that – which I aim to explore in this fellowship – is that the photograph is rather a manifestation or projection of the internal. Through the lens of Freud’s essay “Negation,” I intend to investigate the ways photography is always already inherently subjective, an internal transformation of the external through the interplay of lost and found; that photography has something fundamentally irrational about it, something that revolves instead around projection, absence, loss and a visual correlate of the fact that existence is always against. The work I aim to create in this fellowship is an extended essay, in the spirit of Montaigne, investigating the ways in which Freud’s concept of negation is central to photography.

Graduation Announcement

President Carol Ganzer is very pleased to announce the graduations from the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis of Jeremy Bloomfield, PsyD, and Scott Pytluk, PhD. They have completed their coursework and have received the Certificate of Psychoanalysis. Beyond completing the program’s intensive course and supervisory requirements, each candidate presented a final project that integrated their years of study of psychoanalytic thinking. Their personal expressions of their own analytic growth have enriched us all.

For his project, Dr. Bloomfield interviewed and videotaped CCP faculty members over a period of several years, asking each about their own commitment to a lifetime of psychoanalytic exploration: training, teaching, working with patients, writing. For his presentation, Dr. Bloomfield selected ten of the interviews. Those who participated are Dr. Frank Summers, Dr. Marilyn Charles, Dr. Gerard Fromm, Dr. Malka Hirsch-Napchan, Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou, Dr. Sandra Buechler, Dr. Alan Bass, Dr. Françoise Davoine, Dr. Danielle Knafo, and Dr. Adrienne Harris. The effect of these cumulative voices is profound.

Dr. Scott Pytluk, in fulfilling the program requirements, chose to integrate his lifetime of experience as a musician with his immersion in psychoanalysis. Scott introduced his elegant clarinet concert by reading a paper in which he traced the intersecting events that brought together his musical talents, his own development, and his personal history within the field of psychoanalysis. The evening was a celebration, not only of Scott’s personal achievement, but a reminder of the marvels of our humanness.

Nominated for the 2019 Gradiva Award

Articles and Journals

Claude Barbre and Jill Barbre — Breaking into a Sacred, Bloodier Speech: The Healing Role of Monsters in Child Development, Trauma Play, and the Cultural Imagination . Violent States and Creative States: From the Global to the Individual, 2, 125 – 135

Books Publication

Robert Grossmark —The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Explorations in Psychoanalytic Companioning

Jamieson Webster — Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis

Edited Books

Marilyn Charles — Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining Terms and Building Bridges

Dr. Alan Levy to Speak at The Michigan Council on Psychoanalysis & Psychotherapy

Dr. Alan Levy will be speaking at the : Michigan Council on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, on February 16, 2020.

Title: “Staying the Same While Living with Multitudes: A New Look at Object Constancy”

New Book Chapter Forthcoming on Child Treatment

Alan Levy, CCP Vice President and faculty member will have a chapter on the treatment of children published in the forthcoming third edition of a Theory and Practice in Clinical Social Work. This is a revision of his earlier work and was co-authored with his wife, Julie Levy
Levy, AJ and Levy, JA (Forthcoming). Theory and Practice in Clinical Social Work (Third Edition), Jerrold R. Brandell (Editor). San Diego, CA: Cognella Academic Publishing.

Jeremy Stern, LCSW Wins Jack D Frank, zt"l, Memorial Scholarship Award

Jeremy Stern, LCSW, a student in our psychotherapy program, is the first recipient of the Dr. Jack D. Frank ztl Memorial Scholarship Award.
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Alan Levy, PhD | CCP Vice President, Appointed as Lecturer at University of Chicago

Alan Levy, PhD, CCP Vice President and faculty member, has been appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, where he teaches graduate courses on psychodynamic theory and practice.

INDIVISIBLE Chicago Podcast with Allan Scholom, PhD

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Best Practices

The Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis in the Community

You are cordially invited to attend a presentation co-sponsored by the Kedzie Center and the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis.

To be held at the Kedzie Center 4141 N, Kedzie Ave. Chicago

Wednesday, November 14 6-7:30 pm

The possibility of psychoanalytic treatment of psychosis in the community is actualized when:

1 – Psychosis is conceived of as a basic human structure – not an illness characterized by deficiency – allows for a reconsideration of the dimensions of chronicity and intractability demonstrated by established clinical work.

2 – As exemplified by a video that depicts an existing program known as “388”, located in Quebec City - where psychotics, afforded the opportunity for psychotics to profoundly reorganize their lives engaging in psychoanalysis. The results obtained demonstrate that 60% engaged in psychoanalysis gained a productive and satisfying place in their community.

3 – There will follow a discussion of the concept, the program and what would be required to establish such a program locally.

Presenter: Charles Turk, M.D. Psychiatrist at the Kedzie Center, a faculty member of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and an analyst of GIFRIC - the organization that developed “388”

CEUs available

1 – Participants will become familiar with how the ethic of “best practices” demands consideration of results obtained as demonstrated by an innovative psychoanalytic treatment in a psychoanalytically informed program, and with what clinical, organizational and financial issues would have to be addressed to develop such a program locally.

2 – Participants will gain increased knowledge of how the prevailing “scientistic” view of psychosis that regards it as a “brain disease” obliterates the subject – and how this concept makes us human and offers an alternative viewpoint of psychosis.

3 – Participants will become familiar with how psychoanalysis as conducted at “388” offers psychotics a way to engage in a total reorganization of their personality and their lives.

This presentation will be of medium level interest to graduate students, clinicians and other professionals

"Nothing human is alien to me" --Terrence

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