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Therapeutic Process as Depicted in THE
SOPRANOS:
Implications for Real-Life Challenges as
Drawn from a Fictional Therapeutic
Dyad
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Presented
by Jeffrey Urist, PhD on April 8, 2008 at 7:00
pm
This talk begins with the premise that THE SOPRANOS,
through its carefully crafted characters, offers an
unusually, if not uniquely compelling dramatic portrayal
of multiple facets of our culture. By examining the
dramatic structure of the depicted therapeutic
interaction between the characters of Tony and Dr.
Melfi, we will aim to draw from the particulars of a
vividly drawn fictional therapy some implications
regarding the opportunities and challenges of real-life
psychotherapy, and the nature of therapeutic process.
Living in a relationship: Some helpful
resources from current
research
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Presented
by Sue Watts, LMSW and Melissa Rosenblum, PhD on April
23, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Some research and strategies will be
presented that may help you in building and maintaining
loving and sustaining relationships. We will be looking
at the work of Dr John Gottman and some of the
applications of Attachment theory. This lecture will
both review current research and offer practical ideas
for bringing about changes in your intimate
relationships. We will look at both negative behavior
that can spell doom to a relationship, and positive ways
of nurturing and enriching your intimate relationships.
We will look at the ways that your early relationships
may be impacting some of the ways you are behaving with
your partner, with the hope of promoting understanding
and interest in change and adaptation. We think you will
be surprised at how practical current relationship
research is, and take away some useful ideas to make
your life more satisfying.
The
Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute's 22nd Annual Visiting
Professor of
Psychoanalysis
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Dr.
Linda Mayes, the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child
Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology and Chair of the
Directorial Team of the Anna Freud Centre Program at the
Yale Child Study Center
Join us on April 4th from 9 to 11 in room
4448 in East Hall for Dr. Mayes' lecture on the special
developmental transition between adulthood and
parenthood. Recent findings suggest that there is a
special neural circuitry underlying this early adaptive
phase in parenting. Dr. Mayes is nationally and
internationally recognized as a ground-breaking
researcher, clinician and thinker in interdisciplinary
studies of development, psychoanalysis and the
neurosciences.
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