Film & Mind: CIVIL WAR
***PACIFIC TIME***: July 12, 2025, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
*** Registration will close at 4:30 PM the day before the event. No registrations are possible after this time, no exceptions. *** See our Policy page for more info.
PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
- You will receive confirmation and details by email. Contact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.
- The program presentation runs from 10 AM to 12 PM
- This program is being presented Online Only.
- There will be NO CE/CME CREDIT offered for this event.
CIVIL WAR is a radical pacifist film for our times. Horrifying but well-made in carrying the viewer into and through the terrors of our nation at itself in the bloodiest, most senseless way. Cleverly, it does not take a political position on specific issues beyond survival. In fact, it’s like a horror movie in that it’s all about survival when the enemy is ineffable and omni-threatening. This special NCP Film and Mind event will offer 4 brief thought-leading discussions followed by an hour of collegial discussion of the film and its potential augery of psychic life in a disrupted civil society. Participants would screen the film prior.
Where to watch: Apple TV, Hulu, and Max Amazon Video
Schedule
*** All times listed are Pacific Time (PT) ***
Discussion (on Zoom): 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM - We will hear from our discussants and explore the film together.
We will not watch the film together prior to the discussion. Participants should watch the film beforehand or begin screening on their own before 8:15 am PT.
Program Coordinator: Thomas M. Brod, MD, coordinates the NCP Film & Mind Program with Apurva Shah, MD.
Discussants:
Alain J-J Cohen Ph.D is a psychoanalyst and Professor of Film Studies and aesthetics in the UC San Diego Department of Literature. He is an active faculty member of the San Diego Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. Cohen is author or co-author of four books and has single-authored 100-odd research articles in professional journals and scholarly volumes.
David James Fisher. PhD, is a historian and clinically active psychoanalyst. He has contributed to professional psychoanalytic literature including publishing four books (most recently The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis (2024) and over 60 articles, essays and book chapters. He has been named Faculty of the Year at the New Center for Psychoanalysis. In 2020 Dr Fisher was awarded Distinguished Psychoanalytic Educator by the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Educators (IFPE).
Aranye Fradenburg Joy, Ph.D. is Dean at Training Institute at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, with a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Santa Barbara. She is Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara, where she founded a specialization in "Literature and the Mind." She is the author of three books, most recently "Staying Alive: A Survival Manual for the Liberal Arts" which explores connections between psychoanalytic process and the integration of creative, analytic, emotional and improvisational intelligence offered by liberal arts education.
Bettina Soestwohner, Ph.D., Psy.D holds a doctoral degree in Comparative Literature and taught literature and language for many years. She is a Research Psychoanalyst with the New Center for Psychoanalysis, where she regularly presents in the film series. A member of the Freudian School of Quebec (EFQ), she is in charge of the work of the EFQ in California. She is a founding member of the SPIIRAL project where she participates in research on post-Lacanian psychoanalysis in a world where the mixing of cultures and civilizations requires new modalities to take seriously the loss of cultural credibility.
Thomas M Brod, MD (convener) Coordinates the NCP Film & Mind series with Apurva Shah and Mary Starks. Dr. Brod is Sr Faculty at NCP and former Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He is in private practice in West Los Angeles.
IMPORTANT:
- This is online only. It will be held via Zoom.
- Pre-registration is required.
- Target audience: Mental health professionals and open to the public interested in psychoanalytic perspectives. Open to members and the community.
- Level: Every level.
- You will receive a confirmation and event-details message by email after registering. Contact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.
FEES:
$15 Non-Members
$12 Members
Free for NCP Clinical Associates and Students