Community Events (non-Alliance)

Dr. Keats will draw on his experience working at Chestnut Lodge Hospital from 1978 until its closure in 2001. He will
describe the efforts to provide the best possible treatment for psychiatric patients and will discuss how that treatment
changed over the years.

Fees: Free to COR Members, Non-Members: $20

CEUs: $10

First time members: Special membership price of $35.

No pre-registration

The SPSI Art Salon Committee presents a screening of the film, Lars and the Real Girl. This will be followed by a panel discussion with Rebecca Meredith, MA, and Liz Ulrich, LICSW, who will explore the concepts of grief and sadness, and how we replace our lost objects, when mourning is incomplete. Sue Radant, PhD, will moderate the discussion. 

This online course will explore the evolution of the superego as an internal mental structure, its usefulness, its ever-presence in the mind of the patient, the mind of the therapist, and, therefore, our constant encounters with it in therapy. We will read authors such as Bion, Rosenfeld, Bronstein, O’Shaughnessy, and Brenman. As one of the central notions of analytic work, the superego has been and continues to be taught in COR’s foundational classes.

This course will span the academic year – 18 classes – and will explore the context and development of the basic but complex object relations concepts arising from Freud and expanded upon by Klein and later theorists and clinicians. We will also consider necessary conditions for growing a mind, and the clinical implications when that process is affected by neglect or trauma. 

This on-line event is in six sessions: Saturdays 10/5,  11/2, 1/11, 2/1, 3/7, 5/2

Trauma according to Freud (1920) is defined by the failure of the internal contact barrier to protect the psyche from bombardment. Feeling bombarded is an internal response to either an internal or an external event arising when our necessary defensive organizations fail us. The internal response, one of overwhelm, shuts down the capacity to think, leaving an unmentalized state that is present but not memorable. Whereas we all have unmentalized states, trauma impacts ones ability to process and make meaning out of experience.

NPSI Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis 

October 2019-June 2020

“How do we interpret a fairy tale? —or stalk it, rather, because it is really like stalking a very evasive stag.” Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 37

The very popular fairy tale discussion group continues this fall!

Please join us for a 4-week study and discussion of fairy tales.
This educational series will be co-facilitated by Jungian analysts Suzan Rood Wilson, Stephanie Gierman and James Max Gossett.

“How do we interpret a fairy tale? —or stalk it, rather, because it is really like stalking a very evasive stag.” Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 37

The very popular fairy tale discussion group continues this fall!

Please join us for a 4-week study and discussion of fairy tales.
This educational series will be co-facilitated by Jungian analysts Suzan Rood Wilson, Stephanie Gierman and James Max Gossett.

“How do we interpret a fairy tale? —or stalk it, rather, because it is really like stalking a very evasive stag.” Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 37

The very popular fairy tale discussion group continues this fall!

Please join us for a 4-week study and discussion of fairy tales.
This educational series will be co-facilitated by Jungian analysts Suzan Rood Wilson, Stephanie Gierman and James Max Gossett.