Article archive / October 1, 2009
Originally published: . Volume 1, No. 2. Source pages: 10.
Let me first introduce you to the New Orleans- Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center. The Center has been actively training psychoanalysts for more than 60 years. We’ve been one of New Orleans’ best kept secrets. Things have changed. I chair the Outreach Committee and I want to reach out to you with information about The Center’s continuing education activities for mental health professionals. The Center offers continuing education programs, co-sponsored with The American Psychoanalytic Association, in addition to training future psychoanalysts.
Coming up in October, we have two film discussions. The first film, Grey Gardens, is one in a series of films, Film as Insight into the Psychological Lives of Historical Figures. The second, The Exonerated, is one event of two funded by The Ernest O. Svenson, M.D. Fund for Psychoanalysis and the Arts.
Sunday, October 18, 2009, Grey Gardens will be featured. Denise Dorsey, M.D., will lead discussion of this film about Jackie O’s reclusive aunt, Edith Bourvier Beale and her cousin, Little Edie who lived in a neglected, sprawling estate in East Hampton, Long Island. Their home became the center of scandal when their lives were revealed. Viewing, followed by discussion, will begin at 2:00pm at the New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center, 3624 Coliseum St., New Orleans.
The Center charges $5 for general admission and $15 for participants who would like the 3 continuing education credits for which this program has been approved.
Saturday, October 31, 2009, we are screening The Exonerated. Screenwriter, Jessica Blank, who co-wrote the screenplay with her husband, Erik Jensen, will tell us how they researched and developed the true life stories of people condemned to death for crimes they did not commit. Psychologist/psychoanalyst, Carolyn Weyand, Ph.D., will highlight what can be applied to the art of the psychotherapist from this film and the creative process. The program will be at the Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St, New Orleans.
General admission, without continuing education credit, will be $10. With continuing education credits, fee is $35 for Center members and $45 for non- members. This program is approved for 2.75 continuing education credits.
Dr. Weyand is a Louisiana clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, practicing, teaching and writing in New Orleans. For answers to questions about The New Orleans Birmingham Psychoanalytic Center and it’s programs, you can email her at cweyand@copper.net or visit The Center’s website www. nobpc.org
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