Community Bulletin Board
A space where we share upcoming events, programs, and opportunities from peer organizations in mental health and community care. It’s our way of staying connected and helping spread the word about work we admire.
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Best-selling novelist Gary Shteyngart has everything except his foreskin. In The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong, he tells his funny, moving story of the botched circumcision that continues to haunt him. This provocative and surprising documentary is a meditation on the immigrant experience, masculinity, and the price of belonging.
Join us for a screening and conversation of "The Guy Who Got Cut Wrong," a short documentary by filmmaker/psychoanalytic candidate Dana Ben-Ari.essive Histories, Collective Practices, Implications for Our Times (UKRI Frontier Research Grant), an interdisciplinary collective of ten researchers studying the histories and legacies of free psychoanalytic clinics around the world. She is Academic Associate of The Freud Museum London; and Editor of the Studies in the Psychosocial series at Palgrave and of the Important Little Books in Psychoanalysis Series at 1968 Press.
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Divine Times Collective presents: The Pan-Afro Wisdom Retreat
From July 31st to August 2nd, DTC invites Black and especially queer and trans diasporic artists, cultural workers, and visionaries to the Hudson Valley for Imagination Reparation. This weekend is a curated "sacred pause" designed to counter the cellular stress of "weathering" through communal rest and inner-child meditations.
Participants will engage in practical herbalism, dance yoga, and community ritual, accompanied by restorative sound baths from artists-in-residency Laraaji and ọmọlolú. It is a space to repair our relationship with our truest desires and practice the new ancestral worlds we are architecting together.
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Pain and the Suffering Subject at the Intersection of Community, Psychoanalysis, and the Medical World. Keynote speaker: Judith Gurewich
***This is a free, public event open to psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, social workers, medical doctors, physical therapists, allied health professionals, students, candidates, and anyone interested understanding pain.
Program:This clinical workshop aims to create links between the psychoanalytic and the medical, challenging the disciplinary split and common notion that somatic pain concerns only medical professionals. Our intervention aims to establish a framework for an interdisciplinary exploration of pain as a multifaceted experience belonging to each individual in their singularity.
Patients experiencing somatic pain and other chronic conditions who come to the clinic are generally distressed and frustrated by their pain. Often, they have already consulted medical doctors, physical therapists, and other providers who rely heavily on standardized diagnoses and treatments, which tend to obliterate the singularity of the unconscious. We often observe an overwhelmed medical discourse that bounces patients from one professional to the next, without considering referral to a psychoanalyst, as pain is viewed, at best, as a matter of pain management rather than as a symptom of a speaking subject.These patients are often prescribed pain-management medication, which can open the route to substance use and other addictive coping mechanisms as ways of dealing with pain and existential angst.
Our psychoanalytic psychosomatic clinic approaches pain as an intimate matter for each subject living in a world of disrupted relations with others. It brings together considerations of psyche and soma, not as separate, but as interconnected, particularly for patients in whom the body comes to carry the burden of holding the psyche in an attempt to speak when words fail.
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