All times listed are in Pacific Time (PT) unless otherwise noted. 

NCP is proud to present a few of our member authors at this book signing event. Each of our authors will give a short description of their book with time for discussion and questions. Light snacks will be provided. RSVP required.

Please bring your books for the author to sign. All the books listed here are available for purchase online. There will not be books on sale at the event. 

BY MORRIS EAGLE

Subjective Experience: Its Fate in Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy of Mind (2024).

This book rests on the premise that the most precious thing about being alive is consciousness, that is, being able to feel, think, and experience the world and oneself and others in it. And yet, conscious subjective experience is given short consideration in the disciplines of psychology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of mind. For example, Laplanche & Pontalis (1973) write that "psychoanalytic theory emerges from a refusal to define the psychoanalytic field in terms of consciousness" (p. 84). Dr. Eagle will discuss the ways that these disciplines deal with conscious subjective experience. It is time that these disciplines recognize the centrality of conscious subjective experience. The book describes investigations and approaches that have recognized its centrality in one's life and includes discussion of this issue in the context of psychoanalytic theory and practice.

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Morris Eagle is a Distinguished Member at NCP. He is a Professor Emeritus of the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University and York University, Toronto, Canada. He is a faculty member and Co-Chair of Research Education at the American Psychoanalytic Association and faculty and former Research Committee Co-Chair with Linda Goodman at NCP. He has published over 150 journal articles and chapters in edited books.

BY JACQUELINE HELLER

Yesterday Never Sleeps, How Integrating Life’s Current and Past Connections Improves our Well-Being (2023)

The book is a unique blend of memoir and academic text. Although heavily influenced by psychoanalytic principles, the text manages to weave a biopsychosocial approach with Neuroscience substantiation. The book's focus is on 'befriending our unconscious mind' and understanding the intricate relationship between emotional regulation, self-awareness, and managing cycles of intergenerational trauma and dysfunction. The first part of the book, replete with stories and case histories, contextualizes many psychological and psychiatric principles related to how people react and cope with developmental trauma and significant life-changing traumatic events. The last parts, five and six, delve into my life story of growing up as a child of Holocaust survivors, viewed through the framework presented.  

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Jacqueline Heller is a physician with board certification in psychiatry and neurology and a psychoanalyst. Over her career, she has maintained psychiatry practice and treated patients at a community clinic. She served as an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences within the David Geffen School of Medicine, where she taught and supervised psychiatrists in training for 30 years. Dr. Heller has also been certified by the Center for Reflective Communities to lead reflective parenting groups.

BY ALAN KARBELNIG

Lover, Exorcist, Critic: Understanding Depth Psychotherapy (2023)

This book portrays how psychoanalytic psychotherapy works in real time. It is intended as much for the lay public as for psychoanalysts. The book's three metaphors—along with clinical examples—dramatically illustrate how psychoanalytic processes unfold. Like lovers (without physical intimacy), psychoanalysts bring intense attention, care, and respect to their patients. They behave like exorcists when working with more primitive patients who utilize splitting and projective identification. Psychoanalytic clinicians become "possessed" by these projections, metabolize them, and then present them to patients when the timing is right. Finally, and much like how literary critics might analyze plots of novels, psychoanalysts offer gentle critiques of patients' lives. These three processes, working in consonance with one another, capture much of how clinical psychoanalytic work facilitates personal transformation in patients. 

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Alan Karbelnig is Board Certified in Psychoanalysis and Forensic Psychology. He is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at NCP and provides psychoanalytic psychotherapy to individuals and couples in Pasadena, California. He also serves on the Board of Directors and teaches at Rose City Center—a not-for-profit psychotherapy clinic. Dr. Karbelnig has published scholarly articles and book chapters.  He also writes a weekly Substack newsletter entitled, "Journeys to the Unconscious Mind." 

BY NATHAN SZAJNBERG (please note: Dr. Szajnberg will not be in attendance)

The Secret Symmetry of Maimonides and Freud (2023) and the novel A Windmill, A Knight, A Ghost, A Jerusalem (2023)  

The book The Secret Symmetry of Maimonides and Freud shows how the thirteenth Century Rabbi/physician, Maimonides (aka Rambam) described the tension-filled relationship between keeping secrets and the need to reveal them. Rambam gives at least six mechanisms by which a text or narrative can “hide” its latent meaning, but he also reveals the techniques to uncover the hidden meanings. Further, he hints that secrets are meant to be revealed, but only to the select. Dr. Szajnberg shows how these ideas and even some of the techniques are similar to Freud’s concepts in The Interpretation of Dreams.

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A Windmill, A Knight, A Ghost, A Jerusalem is the third part of Dr. Szajnberg's Jerusalem trilogy. These books describe the human “landscape” of Israel. This third novel follows a very secular professor, Sofer, as he wanders the land and "bumps into” his father’s ghost (who was trapped in a supermarket plastic bag, stuck in an olive tree). The professor continues his journey, as his father's ghost pops up in various historical locals, and they engage in dialogues that they never were able to have when his father was alive. From this, Sofer develops a depth of understanding of his ghostly father, and of himself.

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Nathan Szajnberg is the Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis, formerly Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis, at the Hebrew University and has a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. He treats children, adolescents and adults since 1977. His books include: Educating the Emotions: Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development, Lives Across Time, Reluctant Warriors: Israelis Suspended between Rome and Jerusalem; and Sheba and Solomon’s Return: Ethiopian Children in Israel. He is a member of NCP and SFCP and training analyst of the Israel and International Psychoanalytic Society. He also teaches psychoanalysis and development in China.

Target Audience: This program is directed to mental health providers and interested participants. 

CE/CME credits: Continuing education credits are not offered for this program.

IMPORTANT:

• This event will be held in person ONLY.
• RSVP is required. 
• No CE credits offered.
• You will receive this information by email. Contact Byrd at byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have questions.  

FEES:

Registration: Free for all participants.

Please contact byrdb@n-c-p.org if you have trouble registering.