On October 23, 2005, in New York City, we presented the first Clinical Study Days of the World Association of Psychoanalysis in the United States. The theme of the CSD was "The Body in Psychoanalysis" and featured the participation of Vicente Palomera.

The program was held in conjunction with the Ninth International Seminar of the Freudian Field sponsored by the New York Freud-Lacan Study Group with Vicente Palomera on "The Subject, The Body, and Jouissance."
Our Clinical Study Days featured three case presentations with discussion. The first presentation was made by Pam Jespersen Elliott (Omaha, Nebraska) of a treatment in which the patient's insistent silence was presented as the greatest challenge in the treatment.


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Clinical Study Days 1
Clinical Study Days 2

The second Clinical Study Days, sponsored by the World Association of Psychoanalysis in the United States, took place on January 13, 2007 in Miami.

The title for the day was “Psychic suffering and the treatment challenges in the postmodern world.” Marie-Hélène Brousse began the day with a very interesting and informative lecture entitled “The treatment challenges of today.”

She took up the question, “what is post-modern?” and discussed how the master discourse today responds to and is organized by scientific discourse, and how science has changed our objects and the way we live our lives.


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Clinical Study Days 3

The third Clinical Study Days, sponsored by the World Association of Psychoanalysis in the United States, took place on January 7-8, 2008 in Omaha.

The title for the days was “The Object of Psychoanalysis.” Since Freud, psychoanalysis has been the most empirical of all the discourses of the mind and of the treatment of psychic suffering, for psychoanalysis orients itself around the identification of what is most singular in the experience of each speaking being.
While other discourses will bring ideals about the psyche or the cosmos, or will bring utopian faith in the ability of science to reduce the experience of the speaking being to quantitative parcels of information, psychoanalysis holds to the specificity of the experience of each one.

 


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Clinical Study Days 3

The fourth Clinical Study Days, sponsored by the World Association of Psychoanalysis in the United States, took place on October 16-18, 2009 in New York. The title for the days was “Interpretation in Psychoanalysis.”

Paraphrasing Gloucester in Richard III, we could say “Now is the fall of our discontent made glorious summer by the sun of Lacan.” A cold, windy, rainy autumn New York weekend was made glorious by the light of Lacan’s teaching during the Clinical Study Days 4 and the forty Lacanians that met to discuss Interpretation.

 

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Clinical Study Days 3

The fourth Clinical Study Days, sponsored by the World Association of Psychoanalysis in the United States, took place on October 16-18, 2009 in New York. The title for the days was “Interpretation in Psychoanalysis.”

Paraphrasing Gloucester in Richard III, we could say “Now is the fall of our discontent made glorious summer by the sun of Lacan.” A cold, windy, rainy autumn New York weekend was made glorious by the light of Lacan’s teaching during the Clinical Study Days 4 and the forty Lacanians that met to discuss Interpretation.

 

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