| | | APSA_NY13-306 | | University Forum: Shakespeare’s “Othello” Speakers: Stanley J. Coen, Robert Brustein, Michael Wood, Paul Schwaber Robert Brustein, Professor Emeritus of English at Harvard; Founder of the Yale Repertory and American Repertory Theatres, playwright, author (“The Tainted Muse: Prejudice and Presumption in Shakespeare and His Time”), and recipient of the National Medal of Arts, talks about: how easily the forces of good can be overwhelmed by the forces of evil, Iago as a new kind of image in literature, and the embodiment of a world without a vigilant God. Michael Wood, Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, at Princeton, author (“Shakespeare”), critic (New York and London Reviews of Books), will talk about how language works in “Othello” as a means of seduction and almost becomes a character in its own right. Audio CDs: 3 | | Audio CD | | $35.00 | | $35.00 | |
| | | APSA_NY13-303 | | Scientific Paper 1: The Psychoanalyst and the Clinic: A Balint Group for Psychiatrists Speakers: Jonathan Sklar; Norman V. Kohn The paper offers an original description of Balint Group methodology and its relevance for training psychiatrists. Central is the understanding that the psychiatrist presents his clinical problem with the patient. Making the doctor’s counter-transference central to the process moves it away from being supervision i.e., the technical acquisition of skills. This is key for Balint, for whom acquiring psychodynamics “entails a limited, though considerable change in the doctor’s personality.” This paper is a tribute to developing Balint’s ideas and offering graphic vignettes of the difficulty and value of working with psychiatrists in this way. The author is a Training and Supervising analyst at the British Psychoanalytical Society. Audio CDs: 1 | | Audio CD | | $15.00 | | $15.00 | |
