The Sandor Ferenczi Center is committed to the continued exploration, development, and dissemination of the work and tradition of Sandor Ferenczi.
Setting the Sandor Ferenczi Center in The New School has historical significance. Ferenczi spent 4 months in New York in 1926 centered on a series of lectures given at The New School, after being invited to the United States by Alvin Johnson, the President of The New School. From his correspondence with Freud in this period, we know that he lectured, saw patients and was involved in key issues in
03/21/2023
The Jeremy D. Safran Memorial Conference The New School’s students, alums, and faculty engage in groundbreaking scholarly research, creative practice, and scholarship that has a global and social impact. Our 34 academic centers and institutes defy disciplinary boundaries to address the world’s most pressing problems.
03/21/2023
Register NOW for April 2, 2023 Virtual conference honoring the legacy of Ferenczi Center co-founder Jeremy D. Safran. Panels on pedagogy, psychotherapy integration, and spiritual concepts and psychoanalysis. We would love for you to join us! Click below for registration.
https://blogs.newschool.edu/sandor-ferenczi-center/2023/02/the-jeremy-d-safran-memorial-conference/?fbclid=IwAR3P1hHAe4CPUgRavPyDXsTVNqkyqVerj2KGinCOn2xqw5EwCFmxrSue7Y4
The Jeremy D. Safran Memorial Conference The New School’s students, alums, and faculty engage in groundbreaking scholarly research, creative practice, and scholarship that has a global and social impact. Our 34 academic centers and institutes defy disciplinary boundaries to address the world’s most pressing problems.
03/09/2023
https://blogs.newschool.edu/sandor-ferenczi-center/2023/02/the-jeremy-d-safran-memorial-conference/
JOIN US TO HONOR THE LEGACY OF FERENCZI CENTER CO-FOUNDER JEREMY D. SAFRAN IN A VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON APRIL 2 FEATURING PANELS DEVELOPING HIS SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD, INCLUDING PEDAGOGY, PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION, AND BUDDHISM, JUDAISM, AND PSYCHOANALYSIS. REGISTER IN THE LINK BELOW!
The Jeremy D. Safran Memorial Conference The New School’s students, alums, and faculty engage in groundbreaking scholarly research, creative practice, and scholarship that has a global and social impact. Our 34 academic centers and institutes defy disciplinary boundaries to address the world’s most pressing problems.
06/10/2019
Ghosts, Trauma and Travel Fever in Psychoanalysis
Trauma can be part of our inheritance: read an excerpt from Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis about working with the transgenerational transmission of emotion.
Ghosts, Trauma and Travel Fever in Psychoanalysis Ghosts in the Consulting Room: Echoes of Trauma in Psychoanalysis, published by the Relational Perspectives Book Series, delves into the overwhelming feelings related to mourning. Bringing together a collection of clinical and theoretical papers, it features accounts of the unpredictable effects of
03/13/2019
http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/02/a-new-way-to-heal-borderline-bodies/
A New Way to Heal Borderline Bodies Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders, a new book by Clara Mucci connects interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, and psychoanalytic theory with cognitive and neuroscientific work on implicit memory, trauma theory, and dissociation to propose an integrated met
Thanks to Emily Breitkopf for finding this and sending it along. She writes:
This is an interview ofJeremy and Lew speaking in 2009 about the limits and possibilities of psychoanalysis, talking through a number of issues, including masculinity, elitism, and interdisciplinarity. Here is an especially poignant excerpt from the last page:
"Safran: I find myself wanting to explore this issue further, but I’m also aware of the time constraints, so I think we should begin winding down. We’ve covered a lot of territory in short period of time. But rather than bring up a new topic or explore some of the things you’ve said in greater depth, I’d like to give you an opportunity so close in a way that seems meaningful to you.
Aron: That feels like a tall order . . . but let me think for a minute (pause). Here’s what’s coming to mind. A few years back, The New York Times Book Review titled one article “Psychoanalysis: Is It Science or Is It Toast?” There is a great deal in the phrasing of that forced choice, science or toast, as if there are no other options that will allow us to survive. So, are we toast? I think not. With all of the criticisms and problems—managed care, psychopharmacology, supposed lack of empirical evidence, economic difficulties— with all of that, the bottom line is that patients want to and need to be listened to. They want a therapist who can listen to them in depth. And where is someone going to learn that other than at an analytic institute? That is what psychoanalysis is. That is what we offer: We listen to people in depth, over an extended period of time and with great intensity. We listen to what they say and to what they don’t say; to what they say in words and to what they say through their bodies and enactments. And we listen to them by listening to ourselves, to our minds, our reveries, and our own bodily reactions. We listen to their life stories and to the story that they live with us in the room; their past, their present, and future. We listen to what they already know or can see about themselves, and we listen to what they can’t see in themselves. We listen to ourselves listening. Psychoanalysis is a depth psychology, which means that we listen in depth and teach our students to listen. Whatever managed care says, and whatever drugs are prescribed, and whatever the research findings, people still want to be listened to in depth and always will. That’s why there will always be patients who want and need an analytic approach and why there will always be therapists who need to learn it.
Safran: That’s an eloquent ending, Lew. I think you’ve given our readers much food for thought with many of your rich and stimulating reflections. I find myself wanting to dig more deeply into many of the things you’ve said . . . but unfortunately . . . we need to stop for now. I’d like to express my deep appreciation to you for taking the time to share your thinking with us, and for kicking off this series of interviews about the future of psychoanalysis in such a thoughtful and intriguing way. Thanks, Lew."
Dear friends and colleagues,
It is with the heaviest of hearts that I inform our community that Lew reached the end of his journey today. Lew died this morning, Thursday, February 28, 2019.
I cannot believe such luminosity has been extinguished.
Lew meant so much to so many of many of us.
With Lew, death will not have the final word.
He will endure in our minds and hearts.
In this time of grief and bleakness, I offer our deepest condolences to his loving children, Benjamin, Raphi, Kirya, to his loving partner Galit Atlas, and her children Emma, Yali, Mia and all his family, friends, and colleagues in the United States, Israel, and the world.
Funeral arrangements will be announced.
Spyros
Spyros D. Orfanos, Ph.D., ABPP
Clinic Director
New York University
Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
email: [email protected]
12/25/2018
Funny little find in a little book on love (The I Love You Book, by Peter Paul Benson, published in 1969)
12/11/2018
Happening in one hour: Carla Mucci on Borderline Bodies.
12/09/2018
פיקה: "אני חושב שדיברו הרבה על כדור הזהב. ליאו הוא הטוב ביותר, כולנו יודעים כמה הוא טוב, אפשר להגיד שהבחירה וההצבעות האלה הן פשוט קצת מוזרות".
"לא מתאמנים הרבה על חופשיות באימונים. זה נראה שמסי שומר אותם למשחקים..."
"אלה היו 4 שערים אנרגטיים. הקהל היה בסדר גמור. זה היה דרבי נטול קפאין בגלל התוצאה"
"אני לא מתנצל על זה שקראתי להם אספניול מקורניאה 🤣".
"(על העלייה שלו קדימה ב 0-4) אתם יודעים שבמשחקים כאלה אני אחפש לצאת להתקפה". 😬
11/19/2018
What psych meds take from the human organism and from human possibility...by Jamieson Webster.
The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life Modern psychopharmacology goes hand in hand with a psychiatric diagnostic system that has, over time, been redefined to rely on medicating symptoms away rather than looking at the structure of the mind and its complex permutations in order to work with a patient in a deeply engaged way over the long...
11/13/2018
Register for "Embodied Witnessing" for the highly traumatized patient: From Sandor Ferenczi to Affective Neuroscience.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/embodied-witnessing-for-the-highly-traumatized-patient-tickets-52264792401
Sandor Ferenczi was the first in his time to highlight the necessity of a therapist who could be a "benevolent and committed witness” to the severely traumatized patients. Through the commitment and the bodily presence of the therapist, the fragmented patient can get in touch with his/her dissociated parts, regaining an emotional connection. He also indicated in the concept of “identification with the aggressor” the root of a dynamics that is the basis of the internalized victim-persecutor dyad, fundamental in borderline pathologies. In severe patients, in fact, guilt and aggressiveness (internalized in the victim because of the evil of the aggressiveness) are acted out either against the self or externalized against the other, or more interestingly against the body viewed as an other, a sort of alien self.
We will use these concepts to discuss cases in connection with a neuroscientific frame, in which the mind-body-brain of the two in the sessions are continuously at work in constant dynamics of reciprocal mirroring and enactments, working at the “regulatory edges” (as Allan Schore would say) of the patient’s tolerance. Abreaction, in fact, as Ferenczi used to say, “is not enough”, and an implicit new experience has to be imprinted through the reciprocal right brain connection.
***Dr. Mucci will be selling her new book, Borderline Bodies: Affect Regulation Therapy for Personality Disorders, after the event.***