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LitAnalysis: Reading Fiction with Freud
Discuss contemporary fiction with insight from professional psychoanalysts from the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. All are welcome. Discussions are free and open to the public. No registration is necessary.
This group meets the 4th Saturday of the month at 2:00 PM in Classroom A on the lower level of the Main Library in Oakland.
Upcoming Discussions:
Emma Donoghue
Room
A 5-year-old narrates a story about his life growing up in a single room where his mother aims to protect him from the man who has held her prisoner for seven years since she was a teenager.
Dicussion will be led by Dr. Irwin.
Tea Obreht
The Tiger's Wife
Struggling to understand why her beloved grandfather left his family to die alone in a field hospital far from home, a young doctor in a war-torn Balkan country takes over her grandfather's search for a mythical ageless vagabond while referring to a worn copy of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
Dicussion will be led by Dr. Fischetti.
Previous Discussions:
Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs of New York City for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind.
Dicussion will be led by Dr. Fischetti.
Chris Cleave
Little Bee
Presents a tale of a precarious friendship between an illegal Nigerian refugee and a recent widow from suburban London, a story told from the alternating and disparate perspectives of both women.
Dicussion will be led by Matt Markon, JD, LCSW.
Book Group Discussion Leaders:
Matt Markon, JD, LCSW is a candidate in adult psychoanalysis at the Pittsburgh
Psychoanalytic Center. Matt also works as a clinical supervisor at a community
mental health center where he conducts training and workshops in the treatment
of forensic clients as well as those with borderline and other severe
personality disorders. Matt is a nationally recognized trainer on offender
risk and threat assessment, stalking, domestic violence, and sexual assault.
Eleanor Irwin is a child and adult psychoanalyst, is a faculty member
of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center and a Clinical Assistant Professor
of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh.
Having a long standing interest in children and their families, she has
made films and published many articles and chapters in books about growth
and development, as well as the use of the arts in psychotherapy.
Mario Fischetti, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in
private practice specializing in psychoanalytic psychotherapies and psychoanalysis
for alcohol and drug involved persons and their families. As a faculty
member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, he has taught a course
called "Freudian Theory and the History of Psychoanalysis" to psychoanalysts-in-training.
He is also a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh
Medical School.
The Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center is a training and educational institution affiliated with and accredited by the American Psychoanalytic Association. The Center offers extensive training programs and educational opportunities to mental health professionals, psychiatric residents, and members of the community. These programs are designed to further the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, a form of therapy that focuses on the whole person.
Updated: 12/16/2011
