Events

Bob Mayne of Gruet & Company (right) won TI's Summer Gala Raffle - an Aspen Colorado vacation package worth $12,000 donated by Dr. Amy Attis.

Photo: Katia Prince © 2005

Important Dates

Associate Lecture Series The Associates of the Training Institute for Mental Health was formed in 1969. Primarily concerned with bringing greater awareness of contemporary mental health issues to the community at large, professional and non-professional alike, the Associates sponsors a variety of educational programs such as lectures, panel discussions, and film showings. Call 212-627-8181 to reserve space: Regular - $9…Senior Citizen - $5…Full-time Student - $5.

Hillary Volper is the President of TI's Associate Lecture Series

Friday, November 11, 2005 - 7:30 p.m.
Training Institute for Mental Health • 22 West 21st, 10th Floor, NY, NY

Not for Children Only: The Illuminating Power of Fairy Tales
Presenter: Kalilla Borghini, LCSW

• Private psychotherapy practice/counseling in Manhattan
• Offers individual, couples, families and group services
• Offers spiritual life counseling
• Specialist in African and Afro-Cuban rituals
  

Friday, December 2, 2005 - 7:30 p.m.
Training Institute for Mental Health • 22 West 21st, 10th Floor, NY, NY

How does a Playwright set out to write about Freud and Jun and end up with a play about Sabina Spielman? How subject matter sometimes chooses the writer.

Presenter: Willy Holtzman

• Author of Sabina
• Pulitzer Prize nominee for Hearts
• Screenwriter for Sundance Festival opening night film Edge of America
  

Couples Therepy Program

The Couples Therapy Program offers one and two year certificates in Couples Treatment to mental health professionals who are interested in improving their clinical skills. Training consists of a sequence of seminars focused on the psychodynamic aspects of interpersonal and intersubjective interactions along with recognition of individual diagnostic issues. The relevance of cognitive and systems techniques is also considered. Basic training includes: Issues in Couples Therapy, Supervision of Couples Therapy, Short and Long Term Couples Therapy, and Readings in Theory and Practice of Couples Therapy: Advanced Training beyond the one and two year certificates is also available.

Sunday, November 13, 2005 (time to be announced)
TI-22 West 21st Street, 10th Floor

Issues of Uncertainty and the Desire for Security: A Clinical and Supervisory Couples Workshop

Workshop Fee: $80
Graduate Students and Candidates: $40

The Psychoanalytic Society The Psychoanalytic Society of the Training Institute was founded in 1992 to provide graduates with opportunities for professional development. Since that time, the Society has sponsored lectures and workshops given by distinguished visiting speakers, offered study groups and hosted collegial social gatherings. The Society is committed to deepening and expanding our mission to promote psychoanalytic education and collegiality amongst TI alumni. We are interested in the needs of our members and encourage suggestions for new programs.

Society Members Eric Thurnauer, Joan Erdheim, and Christine Grounds.

Friday, December 2, 2005 - 7:00 p.m.
Kosciuszko Foundation, 15 East 65th Street

Mozart at 250 - His Mind and Music: An Exploration of Genius

Presenter: Richard Kogan, M.D.

• Richard Kogan has a distinguished career both as a concert pianist and as a psychiatrist. He has been praises for his “eloquent, compelling, and exquisite playing” by the New York Times and the Boston Globe wrote that “Kogan has somehow managed to excel at the world's two most demanding professions.” He has gained international renown for his groundbreaking work on the connection between music and healing and on how the medical and psychiatric illnesses of composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Gershwin influenced their creative output. Dr. Kogan is a graduate of the Julliard School of Music Pre-college and of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He completed his psychiatry residency training at NYU. He currently has a private practice of psychiatry in New York City and is affiliated with the Weil-Cornell Medical School as Director of is Human Sexuality Program.
  

Free Admission for Psychoanalytic Society Members; $50 for all others. Playing time will be one and one-half hours, with cocktails and discussion to follow. For information, please call Joan Erdheim, Ph.D., President of the Psychoanalytic Society, at 212-861-6930.

Annual Holiday Party & Raffle

A great time to celebrate a year of accomplishments with TI's faculty, staff, students, supporters and friends. The highlight of the event is always the raffle, with a top prize give-away of $15,000! Only 450 tickets are sold, so get your order in soon. For tickets and information, please call John Scroope, Chairperson of the Holiday Party and Raffle, at 212-627-8181, ext.19.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
TI-22 West 21st Street, 10th Floor

Please call event organizer, John Scroope, MSW, (212-627-8181, ext. 19) for tickets and details