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Videos on Psychoanalysis on PEP

Screen Shot 2015-03-29 at 11.25.10 AM We have written about this before, but would like to remind the membership that since 2013 PEP Web has had video capabilities. Videos, like articles, are fully searchable and organized into categories (lectures, documentaries, interviews, discussion, most popular, latest added) and videostreams, which are like video journals from various publishers.The dialog for each video is transcribed, so the full text of each video can be searched just like any other article on PEP Web, and you can access any point of the video by selecting the corresponding text in the video widget.The initial release of PEP Videos was very limited in content.  The platform is now in place, however, and PEP is attempting to bring together and preserve all existing audio-visual material of interest and relevance to psychoanalytic thinking, practice and research, as well as to encourage the creation of new material.  PEP expects the available material to grow rapidly and for the video archive to become a valuable resource for research, study and teaching. There are grants for producing videos about psychoanalytic practice and thinking.For content that PEP judges to be suitable, PEP will handle all the production beyond the videos themselves, i.e., all the tagging, transcribing, transcoding, etc.You can search the videos and see the citation and abstract at www.pep-web.org without logging in, but to view the entire video and transcript you have to Log In with your username and password. (Contact webmaster@psychoanalysiscleveland.org if you do not know your PEP password)Following are abstracts of three recent videos.Winograd, B. (2014). Black Psychoanalysts Speak. PEP Video Grants, 1:1.This film comprises material from the IPTAR hosted Black Psychoanalysts Speak Conference of 2012, and the IPTAR and The William Alanson White Institute hosted Black Psychoanalysts Speak Conference in 2013, also hosted by the Clinical Psychology Department of the New School for Social Research (with the support of NYU Post Doctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis). The film features interviews of the eleven Black psychoanalysts who participated in the conferences as well as two other participants. The film is intended to raise awareness of the need for greater openness and understanding of cultural and ethnic pressures in psychoanalytic training, in transferential and countertransferential interactions, and in the recruitment of people of coulour into psychoanalytic training.These participants contend that psychoanalysis has a long history as a progressive movement devoted to the common good. Psychoanalysis asks us to examine the processes of self deception that perpetuate both individual unhappiness and social structures that are inequitable and oppressive. Yet psychoanalytic education has for the most part focused on training and treating the relatively privileged. The Black psychoanalysts here examine this dilemma and engage in a vibrant and thought provoking discussion about race, culture, class and the unrealized promise of psychoanalysis.Buie, D., Gifford, S., Mobley, D. (2014). Elvin Semrad: His Principles for Diagnostic Interviews and Therapy. Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, 1:1.Elvin Semrad was one of our great teachers, known primarily for his work in group psychotherapy but also for his special methods of interviewing patients, in his weekly staff-meeting at Boston State Hospital & later at Mass. Mental Health Center. His interviews are the focus of Dr Buie's presentation, rather than his life, although some brief biographical notes by Sanford Gifford will introduce the workshop. There are audio and visual presentations, illustrating Dr. Semrad's methods of work with patients & students. David Mobley, a psychiatricsocial worker & a longterm admirer of Semrad, describes his methods of transcribing these of data from ancient reel-to-reel tapes into accessible form. Also included are comments, discussion & interchange with members of the audience. The longterm purpose of these workshops, organized by the Hanns Sachs Library of the BPSI, is to introduce the works of our former teachers to younger generations of analysts. We make use of the recollections of older colleagues who knew these teachers, & our own archival materials, when they exist. Bulgheroni, M., Panella, F. (2013). Interview with Dana Birksted-Breen: On Writing Psychoanalysis. Soc. Psi. Ital., 1:1.An interview with Dana Birksted-Breen - current Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis - about the difficulties in writing a psychoanalytic paper for publication. One must confront with the complex task of finding words for linking clinical experience with theory, and of coping with one's own anxieties about submitting the paper to the Journal reviewers.