Analytic Flicks

A large cadre of participants has been meeting for many years at the monthly Analytic Flicks. The discussion, led by the psychoanalyst who has selected the film for the group, is heated at times and always interesting. Often, insights evolve as one person and then another offers comments. While the story told in the film is always important, thoughts about the cinematography, music and the original book if adapted for the film, all converge on center stage.

Films discussed in the 2009-2010 year were “In the Loop,” “The Informant,” A Serious Man,” “An Education,” “Cherry Blossoms,” “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” and “The Secret in Their Eyes.”

Discussions are offered as a benefit to Friends of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, but seating in limited, so please reserve a place by calling (216) 229-5959 or emailing dmorse@psychoanalysiscleveland.org. Participants are invited to join the Friends of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center before attending or give Analytic Flicks a try and join at one of our events. Discussions are held at the Center. Members of the Friends may opt into an email list to receive notices of upcoming discussions, so that participants may arrange to view the designated films prior to discussion. You may also check the Calendar of Events for the Analytic Flicks schedule. We welcome new Friends!

Join the Friends online below, or print and mail the application and membership dues. To be added to the e-mail broadcast list for the next discussion, please call Debbie Morse at 216-229-5959 or e-mail dmorse@psychoanalysiscleveland.org.

Mini-Lectures

The second major program for the Friends is a series of monthly mini-lectures, followed by discussion and exchanges between the audience and lecturer. The lecturers have included college professors, who may also be linguists and historians, writers, a psychoanalyst, a media expert and the President of the Cleveland Institute of Music.*

In 2009-2010, some lecture topics dealt specifically with psychoanalysis, such as:

• “James Joyce’s Thoughts on Sigmund Freud” by Marjorie Johnson, Ph.D.
• “Preliminary Impressions: Emotional Dynamics Motivating Islamic Terrorism” by Marvin Brook, M.D., and
• “Unconscious Aspects of Language” by P. K. Saha, Ph.D., others were examples of applied psychoanalysis.

Common themes such as competitiveness, guilt, curiosity, creativity, and sweeping changes in mass communication, philosophy of mental health treatment and the classical music world were developed in:

• “Psyche and Soma in the History of Psychiatry” by Jonathan Sadowsky, Ph.D.
• “Making the Case: A Novelist’s Plea on Behalf of Reading” by Paul L. Gaston, III, Ph.D.
• “Behind the Therapist’s Door: A Journalist Goes Inside a Marriage Therapy Group” by Laurie Abraham
• “The Future of News Organizations” by Lauren Rich Fine, CFA
• “New Developments in the Classical Music World, New Markets for Classical Music, and How Conservatories Have to Change and Adapt” by Cleveland Institute of Music President Joel Smirnoff, and,
• “Conscious and unconscious in acting” by Michael Bloom, Artistic Director of the Cleveland Play House.

To become a member of the Friends of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, join online below, or download the application and mail to the Center with your membership dues.

*Although educational, the Mini-Lectures do not confer continuing education credits.

Friends of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center

Be a friend of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center

• Join with others who support the need for psychodynamic therapy as a treatment modality in our community
• Participate in interesting lectures and discussions, such as the monthly Friends movie discussion
• Receive invitations to Center Scientific Meetings and other events
• To join Friends of the Cleveland Psychoanalytic Center, select a membership type below and pay online:
  

  Levels of Membership

  Student $15.00 Individual $35.00 Family $50.00 Sponsor $100.00 Donor $250.00 Patron $500.00

  
  

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