The group analtic psychotherapy training in Bengaluru, India, is sustained through fees and donations.
All monies raised through these lectures are treated as donations and handed over to the registered charity, 'Group Analysis India' (Charity Number: 1192636)
All monies raised through these lectures are treated as donations and handed over to the registered charity, 'Group Analysis India' (Charity Number: 1192636)
Fund Raising
We are only able to sustain the group analytic training programme in India, through fund raising here in the UK for several reasons.
First and foremost, the fees being charged to the Indian candidates, which although considerable from an Indian perspective, are unable to meet the costs of the programme.
Second, even if we were able to raise sufficient money in India through whatever means, the Indian Government prohibits the payment of foreign professionals, particularly by charities like HNI (the institution that is hosting our training in Bengaluru).
It is for this reason that we have to raise funds outside of India.
To this end we have started the charity Group Analysis India (Charity Number 1192636) , the function of which is to raise funds to pay the costs of teachers, supervisors and group therapists.
Many colleagues and well wishers have supported us through one-off or regular monthly donations - for which we are very grateful. However, there continues to be a considerable shortfall.
This event, and others like it, are in the service of this end.
Further details of the training can be found here
www.groupanalysisindia.com
If you would like to make further one-off or regular donations, please visit our website or contact us.
We are only able to sustain the group analytic training programme in India, through fund raising here in the UK for several reasons.
First and foremost, the fees being charged to the Indian candidates, which although considerable from an Indian perspective, are unable to meet the costs of the programme.
Second, even if we were able to raise sufficient money in India through whatever means, the Indian Government prohibits the payment of foreign professionals, particularly by charities like HNI (the institution that is hosting our training in Bengaluru).
It is for this reason that we have to raise funds outside of India.
To this end we have started the charity Group Analysis India (Charity Number 1192636) , the function of which is to raise funds to pay the costs of teachers, supervisors and group therapists.
Many colleagues and well wishers have supported us through one-off or regular monthly donations - for which we are very grateful. However, there continues to be a considerable shortfall.
This event, and others like it, are in the service of this end.
Further details of the training can be found here
www.groupanalysisindia.com
If you would like to make further one-off or regular donations, please visit our website or contact us.
Overview from David:
This will be a three week course covering Freud’s monumental book The Interpretation of Dreams.
For good reasons, this book is generally considered the starting point and a sort of “ground zero” of psychoanalysis.
All of Freud’s subsequent contributions (and arguably all other psychoanalytic models) either add to it, take away from it, alter it, or contradict it.
Every important author in psychoanalysis began by reading this book. In my view all serious students of psychoanalysis need to study and master this foundational work.
We will focus on selected sections and aim to elucidate Freud’s main points.
My approach to the study of Freud’s work is to illuminate what he actually intended to convey, to highlight concepts that are enriching to a contemporary relationally oriented analyst, and to critique notions that have not held up over time.
Placing The Interpretation of Dreams in its historical context in terms of Freud’s overall work, in the history of psychoanalysis, and more generally in Western cultural and intellectual history will be some of the themes that will be elaborated in this series of seminars.
We will study the technique of dream interpretation that Freud introduces, his observations of the powerful primal forces at work in the human psyche, and the model of the psyche that he derived through his study of dreams.
In the first 6 chapters Freud demonstrated his method for determining the meaning of dreams. His interpretations revealed the presence of the dynamic unconscious, explored the lurid sexual and aggressive urges that underlie our conscious minds, and demonstrated how conflicts over these primal urges result in repression and various forms of human suffering.
These were ground-breaking revelations which opened up a new understanding of human nature.
In the seventh chapter, he tackles a whole other set of challenges. What do dreams, their meanings, and how they come to be, inform us about the nature and functioning of the psyche? In order to answer these questions, he constructs a fully realized model of the psyche and its operation, and in doing so he formally initiates psychoanalytic psychology.
This will be a three week course covering Freud’s monumental book The Interpretation of Dreams.
For good reasons, this book is generally considered the starting point and a sort of “ground zero” of psychoanalysis.
All of Freud’s subsequent contributions (and arguably all other psychoanalytic models) either add to it, take away from it, alter it, or contradict it.
Every important author in psychoanalysis began by reading this book. In my view all serious students of psychoanalysis need to study and master this foundational work.
We will focus on selected sections and aim to elucidate Freud’s main points.
My approach to the study of Freud’s work is to illuminate what he actually intended to convey, to highlight concepts that are enriching to a contemporary relationally oriented analyst, and to critique notions that have not held up over time.
Placing The Interpretation of Dreams in its historical context in terms of Freud’s overall work, in the history of psychoanalysis, and more generally in Western cultural and intellectual history will be some of the themes that will be elaborated in this series of seminars.
We will study the technique of dream interpretation that Freud introduces, his observations of the powerful primal forces at work in the human psyche, and the model of the psyche that he derived through his study of dreams.
In the first 6 chapters Freud demonstrated his method for determining the meaning of dreams. His interpretations revealed the presence of the dynamic unconscious, explored the lurid sexual and aggressive urges that underlie our conscious minds, and demonstrated how conflicts over these primal urges result in repression and various forms of human suffering.
These were ground-breaking revelations which opened up a new understanding of human nature.
In the seventh chapter, he tackles a whole other set of challenges. What do dreams, their meanings, and how they come to be, inform us about the nature and functioning of the psyche? In order to answer these questions, he constructs a fully realized model of the psyche and its operation, and in doing so he formally initiates psychoanalytic psychology.
Three consecutive Saturdays:
November 16, 23, 30, 2024
2pm to 3.30pm UK time
£50 for the series
David Brand
Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams: Revisited
Fund Raising Zoom Lectures
The next fund-raising event has a different format to our usual one - a stand-alone lecture and discussion.
This time we are offering a series of 3 consecutive saturdays for a deep dive into Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams.
The sessions will be led by David Brand, a senior Relational Psychoanalyst from New York, a Freud connoisseur and faculty member of a number of psychoanalytic trainings over the years.
Participants are invited to read specific sections of the book in preparation for each of the seminars.
David Brand PhD began practicing as a psychoanalyst in new York in 1980. He is a recognized training analyst. Over the years he has held numerous teaching and supervisory positions, which include:
Private Practice. 1980 –Present · New York, NY
Adjunct Professor and Clinical Supervisor, Doctoral and Postgraduate Psychology Programs, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University. Garden City, NY. 1980 – Present.
Faculty, Florida Psychoanalytic Center. 2019 – Present.
Teaching Faculty, Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. 2021 – Present
Faculty Member, Steven Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. 2013 – Present.
Director of Training (2016 – 2020), Faculty, Supervisor, Committee Chair. National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) (1988 – 2020). New York, NY
Supervising Psychologist, Teaching Faculty, Coordinator of Inpatient Psychology. St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York. 1988 – 1993. New York, NY
Assistant Professor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry. New York Medical College. 1988 – 1993. New York, NY
Supervising Psychologist, South Beach Psychiatric Center 1976 – 1988 Brooklyn, NY
Adjunct Faculty, Clinical Psychology Internship, Veteran's Administration Outpatient Center. 1983 – 1985 Brooklyn, NY
Adjunct Faculty, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, New School for Social Research. NY, NY. 1979–1981 New York, NY
Private Practice. 1980 –Present · New York, NY
Adjunct Professor and Clinical Supervisor, Doctoral and Postgraduate Psychology Programs, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University. Garden City, NY. 1980 – Present.
Faculty, Florida Psychoanalytic Center. 2019 – Present.
Teaching Faculty, Minnesota Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. 2021 – Present
Faculty Member, Steven Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. 2013 – Present.
Director of Training (2016 – 2020), Faculty, Supervisor, Committee Chair. National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) (1988 – 2020). New York, NY
Supervising Psychologist, Teaching Faculty, Coordinator of Inpatient Psychology. St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York. 1988 – 1993. New York, NY
Assistant Professor in Psychology, Department of Psychiatry. New York Medical College. 1988 – 1993. New York, NY
Supervising Psychologist, South Beach Psychiatric Center 1976 – 1988 Brooklyn, NY
Adjunct Faculty, Clinical Psychology Internship, Veteran's Administration Outpatient Center. 1983 – 1985 Brooklyn, NY
Adjunct Faculty, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, New School for Social Research. NY, NY. 1979–1981 New York, NY
Structure & Reading
Nov 16 & 23
In the first session David will provide a general introduction to Freud and what it means to study his work in this day and age. He will contextualize The Interpretation of Dreams in relation to Freud’s body of work, and also Western cultural history.
The second session will delve into the first part of the book which is the “hermeneutical” part, finding the meanings carried by dreams, and his method for finding that meaning.
Read
Editor’s introduction, pp. vii-xxxvii.
Chapter 2. The Method of Interpreting Dreams: An Analysis of a Specimen Dream, pp. 78–97
Chapter 3. The Dream is a Wish Fulfillment. Pp. 99-105.
Chapter 5: The Material and Sources of Dreams, §(d) Typical Dreams, pp. 185-210 (esp.: pp. 201-204)
November 30
The third session will focus on the monumental chapter 7, in which Freud formulates his theory of psychoanalytic psychology, his model of mind. Freud’s theory will be positioned in relation to some of the schools of psychoanalysis that followed, schools which either added to, took away from, or rebelled against
Read
Chapter 7: The Psychology of the Dream Processes, pp. 330-412
Nov 16 & 23
In the first session David will provide a general introduction to Freud and what it means to study his work in this day and age. He will contextualize The Interpretation of Dreams in relation to Freud’s body of work, and also Western cultural history.
The second session will delve into the first part of the book which is the “hermeneutical” part, finding the meanings carried by dreams, and his method for finding that meaning.
Read
Editor’s introduction, pp. vii-xxxvii.
Chapter 2. The Method of Interpreting Dreams: An Analysis of a Specimen Dream, pp. 78–97
Chapter 3. The Dream is a Wish Fulfillment. Pp. 99-105.
Chapter 5: The Material and Sources of Dreams, §(d) Typical Dreams, pp. 185-210 (esp.: pp. 201-204)
November 30
The third session will focus on the monumental chapter 7, in which Freud formulates his theory of psychoanalytic psychology, his model of mind. Freud’s theory will be positioned in relation to some of the schools of psychoanalysis that followed, schools which either added to, took away from, or rebelled against
Read
Chapter 7: The Psychology of the Dream Processes, pp. 330-412