Monthly seminar beginning Friday, September 25th. Join us in person at a local site, or over the internet using your computer, tablet, or smartphone. This year’s Master Speaker Series begins with the finale to last year’s theme on “Love in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy”. Tomas Plaenkers from the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt Germany will present “About the Fear of Love”, drawing on Rilke’s statement “For Beauty is nothing than the beginning of horror.” Then, we turn to this year’s theme, “Shame and Guilt,” illuminating an experience shared by all, yet often hidden from view and from thoughtful discourse. Presentations from around the globe begin with John Steiner on “Disillusion and Humiliation”, and continue with explorations of shame and guilt from theoretical, clinical, and academic perspectives that include some of our most celebrated analytic clinicians. We will consider the role of shame in conscious and unconscious attitudes about race and culture, with important implications for the provision of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and how we live our everyday lives. Please join us for a year of important, socially relevant conversation. Monthly seminar beginning Friday, September 25th. Join us in person at a local site, or over the internet using your computer, tablet, or smartphone. The 2019-2020 Master Speaker Series will feature live presentations by Guest Presenters and IPI Faculty, with discussion, case presentations, and advance readings distributed before each session. Participants may attend in person in Long Island, NY, or can join by video conference over the internet. Internet participants will all have the opportunity to participate fully in the seminar by joining in the live discussion. Seminars take place from 9:00-11:00 a.m. US Eastern Time, with additional group discussion available at the Long Island site. Participants joining over the internet can do so easily by downloading a free program for their computer, laptop, tablet or smart phone, and clicking on a simple link provided for each session. Our staff are happy to schedule a videoconference test with you prior to the seminar. Register for individual sessions by making your choices below, or attend all nine using the button below to register for the full series. REGISTER FOR FULL SERIES Each Friday course meets from 9:00 AM ET-11:00 AM ET 25 SEP About the fear of love For Beauty is nothing than the beginning of horror (Rilke) Tomas Plänkers Register 16 OCT Disillusion and Humiliation John Steiner Register 06 NOV Shame in the Therapy Hour Michael Stadter Register 11 DEC Shame in the Chinese Psyche Gao Jun (Gallant) Register 22 JAN Shame and Shamelessness Salman Akhtar Register 19 FEB On the Psychology of Shame June Tangney Register 05 MAR Shame in the life of African-American Adolescent Boys Kirkland Vaughans Register 16 APR Probing Shame and Humiliation Guillermo Bigliani Register 14 MAY Seeing or being watched: shame and the body Alessandra Lemma Register