With profound regret I inform you that one of the most forceful voices for psychoanalysis has been silenced. Leo Rangell, the first man to be named Honorary President of APsaA, passed away early today at the age of 97. Leo had been a major, and constant, contributor to our scientific literature for eight decades, including the present one. His oeuvre constituted over 450 publications, many of them seminal. He served as President of both APsaA and of the IPA, each on two occasions. In recent years he had also been a presence on the Huffington Post as well as on NPR. In addition I counted him as my personal friend and mentor. Leo was, in a word, extraordinary. We will of course continue with our plans to honor Leo during our upcoming meeting in San Francisco.

Dr. Leo Rangell, who will be greatly missed by his NCP collegues and friends, had the honor of being named Hororary President of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA) at the April 21st meeting of their Executive Committee. This was the first time the honor had been awarded. Dr. Rangell was also Honorary President of the International Psychoanalytical Association and was twice President of both the IPA and APsaA. He authored nearly 500 papers and eight books and has been a major influence on psychoanalysis for six decades.

Dr. Rangell's honorary appointment will be announced Wednesday, June 8, at the President's Reception in San Francisco during the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Warren Procci, the current President of APsaA, states, "This honor is very well deserved." He encourages all who can to join in the celebration.

Dr. Rangell was an honorary member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and a distinguished member of the faculty.

Welcome to NCP!

Tuesday evening, April 12, at 6:30 PM.  Open House activities include dinner, program information, vignettes, and conversation.

Mental health professionals and academics invited.  Please tell your colleagues.

RSVP by April 7: 310.478.6541x10...no charge.

Friday, March 4, 2011 & Friday, March 11, 2011

This two-part documentary weaves together clips from more than 70 years of Israeli film with commentary from filmmakers, scholars and critics. Crafted for both insiders and outsiders, the film traces the evolution of the country’s cinema alongside its political and social history.

Friday, March 4, Part One covers the years 1933 to 1978, the overlap between the Zionist struggle to form a state and the propagandistic qualities of revolutionary cinema.

Friday March 11, Part Two shows the shift to reality-based filmmaking in the late 70s and the transition from the political films of the 80s to the more personal cinema of today. 

In this most comprehensive and compelling record of the Israeli Film landscape ever attempted, the director reveals a cinematic national identity inextricably linked to the ever changing emotional reality of the country. These screenings are partially in preparation to the NCP Conference in May 7, 2011 led by two analysts from Israel. 

FREE ADMISSION: NCP Members

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Marcia Goin, MD is the 2010 Distinguished Psychiatrist Seminar Series speaker at UCLA. She presents Psychotherapy Supervision: What Do Psychiatry Residents Want, and How Do We Get Them What They Need?  Dr. Goin joins a lauded list of honorees that includes Roy Menninger, Glen Gabbard, Otto Kernberg, Anthony Bateman, and Vamik Volkan who exemplify the ideals of the Psychiatric Clinical Faculty Association.

Dr. Arnold L. Gilberg, noted psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, will participate as a speaker at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine’s Institute for Juvenile Research Centennial celebration October 1.  He will provide the history of the Institute of Juvenile Research.

Arnold L. Gilberg, MD, PhD, received his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Illinois.  He continued his training at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center and the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he studied with Franz Alexander, a distinguished colleague of Sigmund Freud.  He received his Doctorate in Psychoanalysis from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute.

Dr. Gilberg was appointed to the Medical Board of California, Eleventh District, Medical Quality Review Committee (1982-91) by Governors Brown, Jr., Deukmejian and Wilson.  He is an appointed Los Angeles County Commissioner and serves on the Mental Health Commission. He is the past President of the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, now known as the New Center for Psychoanalysis where he is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst.  He is a member of the attending staff and teaching faculty of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicineand Visiting Professor of Human Relations at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.

Dr. Gilberg has been an active volunteer in numerous arts, medical and Jewish organizations in Los Angeles.  He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association. Dr.

Gilberg is a Fellow of the American College of Psychoanalysts, an organization which limits its membership to 200 distinguished psychoanalysts.  He has published twenty-five professional papers and has authored one-hundred professional papers.

The UIC Institute for Juvenile Research was the first child guidance clinic in the United States and was founded in 1909 shortly after the world's first juvenile court was established in Cook County. Since its inception, the Institute has integrated research, training, clinical practice and policy advocacy to advance children's mental health.

The Centennial celebration will highlight the neuroscience and psychosocial research that occurs within the Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR) and how these efforts have transformed public policy to improve the well-being of children and their families.

Speakers at the Centennial celebration include: Bryan Samuels, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families; Erwin McEwen, director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services; Dr. Michael Naylor, UIC associate professor of psychiatry and director of the Behavioral Health and Welfare Program; and Dr. Anand Kumar, UIC professor and head of psychiatry. IJR faculty will highlight their work in neuropsychiatric and psychosocial research related to mood disorders, autism, childhood development, conduct disorder, parent-child interaction treatment and resilience in traumatized youth.

The Sundaram Tagore Gallery will exhibit sculptures by Jane McAdam Freud, the London based artist who is the daughter of Lucien Freud and the great granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. This exhibition is shown in conjunction with the Los Angeles celebration of the 100th anniverary of the International Psychoanalytical Association sponsored by the local affiliates of the IPA, the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies, the New Center for Psychoanalysis, and the Psychoanalytic Center of California. There is an additional exhibit of McAdam Freud's work at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in West Los Angeles beginning September 19.

Sundaram Tagore Gallery is located at 9606 South Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90210. For more information contact the gallery at 310-278-4520 or www.sundaramtagore.com

 
Exhibit title: Random

September 15 through October 9, 2010.

Opening Cocktail Reception: Thursday, September 16, 2010

6 pm-8 pm

As part of the 100th anniversary of the IPA, an art exhibit  with the London based artist, Jane McAdam Freud, the great grand daughter of Sigmund Freud and daughter of the well known English artist Lucian Freud takes place at the New Center for Psychoanalysis at 2014 Sawtelle Blvd., West Los Angeles. This exhibit is co-sponsored by three IPA affiliate organizations in Los Angeles--Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (LAISPS), Psychoanalytic Center of California (PCC) and New Center for Psychoanalysis (NCP). According to the artist, the Freud on Freud exhibit "focuses on the interplay between my conceptual Sculptures and Freud's theories."  Conceptually she references Freud's dream work with ideas and images both compressed and displaced by substitutes to make physical – in sculptural terms - some of Freud's written concepts. “My hope for this physical interpretation of some of Freud's works is to go some way towards continuing Freud's work of helping us who are at war with ourselves and others.”

Jane McAdam Freud is a conceptual sculptor and multi-disciplinary artist educated at Central St. Martin’s and the Royal College of Art in London.  She won the British Art Medal scholarship, the Italian State Mint Prize, and Freedom of the City of London. She exhibits both nationally and internationally and her work has been acquired for numerous international Public Collections including the British Museum, Berlin State Museum, National Gallery of Greece, National Gallery Archives London and is on permanent display at the Victoria and Albert Museum.  “My sculpture has always been concerned with duality and the edges where art and psychology meet.”

Esther Dreifuss-Kattan, PhD, the exhibition co-curator, is helping coordinate the opening celebration/reception on Sunday, September 19, 2010 from 4 pm- 6:30 pm which will bring together the Los Angeles psychoanalytic community, the mental health community and the academic and arts community. At the opening reception there will be an opportunity to meet McAdam Freud and a program that includes an interview with the artist, screening of her short film.

Elyn Saks, a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis and the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at USC, was a featured guest on the June 22, 2010 Charlie Rose program. The segment was part of his Brain Series with Eric Kandel, the Nobel Laureate. They were joined by Kay Jamison and top researchers devoted to understanding and finding treatment for mental illnesses such as depression and schizophrenia.
 
Saks memoir, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness, in 2007 made public for the first time her lifelong struggle with schizophrenia. Jamison is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Honorary Professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She has authored or co-authored  five books and more than 100 scientific articles about mood disorders, suicide, psychotherapy, and lithium. Her memoir about her own experiences with manic-depressive illness is An Unquiet Mind.

The conversation was insightful and enlightening. The benefits of psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in conjunction with medication were confirmed by both Saks and Jamison from their personal experience.

For anyone who missed this wonderful program go to this segment of the Charlie Rose Brain Series at       http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11078.
 

University of Colorado Denver

American Psychologist, in press Copyright 2009, American Psychological Association

This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.

The ISPP Nevitt Sanford award jury has unanimously and enthusiastically selected Dr. Loewenberg as the winner of the 2010 prize which will be presented in San Francisco this July.

This award, set up in the honor of Nevitt Sanford, is given yearly since 1979 to someone deemed by the committee to be 1) engaged in the practical application of political psychological principles, or 2) creating knowledge that is accessible and used by practitioners to make a positive difference in the way politics is carried out.

Past awardees include Nevitt Sanford and David Riesman.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) the New Center for Psychoanalysis is pleased to present the following programs. An Evening with Leo Rangell, M.D. on March 5 was a discussion of his lifetime of experiences with psychoanalysis and the IPA. On May 14th Judith Hughes, Ph.D. discusses the relationship of the IPA and the American Psychoanalytic Association. Peter Loewenberg, Ph.D. will introduce Dr. Hughes and give a brief history of the IPA.  

It is a pleasure to invite you to the IPA Centenary Congress in Beijing from 22nd to 24th October 2010.  This will be our first IPA Congress in Asia with the theme, "Freud and Asia. Evolution and Change: Psychoanalysis in the Asian Context."

During the Congress we will have a special interactive program, Coming together in Beijing, intended as an open informal venue for the exchange of experiences, to facilitate communication about different national psychic heritages, and to foster personal acquaintance between the members of the Asian psychoanalytic groups and IPA members from other regions. Clinical Workshops, including the therapeutic relationship, eating disorders, working with couples and families, trauma, children, and personality disorders will take place on October 21.  A Cultural Program will take place from 18th to the 21st of October.

Early-Bird registration prices start from $350 (IPA Members) and $220 (IPA Candidates).  Registration is now open at:  www.ipaasia.cn

Go to News section to see letter from the IPA Anniversary Committee.

Elyn Saks, a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, was one of the 24 recipients of the 2009  MacArthur Genius Grant awards. Ms. Saks is also the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California Law School.

Elyn Saks, 53, said the money will allow her to continue educating people about the lives of those with severe mental illness, the kind of thing she did with a book about her own struggles with schizophrenia. "I want to make a difference in how people see schizophrenia," said Saks, a professor at the University of Southern California's law school, whose memoir, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey through Madness," came out in 2007. To that end, she said she is working on a book about "high functioning people with schizophrenia" such as herself. I hope my book and other books like it give people more understanding and more sympathy and more empathy."

Since 1981 the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has annually awarded these fellowships to U.S. citizens and residents, who are working creatively in their respective fields, to support and encourage their future work. 

The New Center for Psychoanalysis offers opportunities for you to honor or memorialize a special person.  Your gift can enhance the endowment, thereby ensuring NCP’s continued existence; assist analytic candidates or psychotherapy students through scholarships; contribute to a specific program; inaugurate a new program; or support the general operations of the Center.*

To make your gift, please provide the following information:

A Very Special Film Night at the New Center For Psychoanalysis Ends This Year's Series.

Frost/Nixon, directed Ron Howard and written by Peter Morgan ("The Queen"), depicts a dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. It is our special privilege to have our illustrious member Leo Rangell, M.D., lead a discussion of this film. Dr. Rangell is the author of the groundbreaking book The Mind of Watergate which explores the psychodynamics and conflicts between leaders and the followers. Dr. Rangell analyzed these interviews in detail in that book. Dr. Thomas Brod will interview Leo Rangell after viewing the film and there will be time for the audience to interact with Dr. Rangell.

Fee:    $20 with 2.5 CE credits (but not for MDs)

            $10 general admission with no CE credit      

New Center for Psychoanalysis
2014 Sawtelle Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90025
310-478-6541