Recipients of the Rene Spitz Lectureships are listed below.

The Denver Psychoanalytic Society cordially invites all those interested in mental health to attend our free Fall Scientific Programs:
2012-2013
We are shifting the venue to Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church at Montview and Dahlia in Denver. See individual flyers for details, directions, parking info, etc.

Friday, September 28, 2012 - A panel presentation on "Psychoanalysis and Immortality." (Please click here for details.) 7:00 P.M.

Friday, November 16, 2012 - Presentation on Homosexuality by Richard Simons, M.D. with discussion led by Paula Bernstein, Ph.D. (Click here for details) 7:00 P.M.

Friday, February 1, 2013 lecture has been cancelled for this academic year.

Monday, March 18, 2013 at 7:00 P.M. "Journey to the East: Consultation and Treatment in China and via Skype" presented by Shoshana Shapiro Adler, Ph.D. at Montview Church at 1980 Dahlia in Denver (at Dahlia and Montview). Click here for details.

CANCELLATION of presentation by Phyllis Tyson, Helen Meyers Traveling Psychoanalytic Scholar on Friday, April 19, 2013.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 7:00 P.M. "Greeting the Gesture: Psychotherapy with a Non-Speaking, Severely Deprived Four Year Old Girl with Multiple Developmental, Psychological and Somatic Symptoms" with Jeanne Magagna, Ph.D., Presenter and Nancy L. Bakalar, M.D., Discussant. Click here for details.

Friday, May 17, 2013 at 7:00 P.M. "LI and Counting - Looking Back on 51 Years" by Mark A. Groth with commentary by Rex McGehee, M.D. Historic footage, photos and commentary marking the path of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Colorado.

Friday, June 14, 2013 at 7:00 P.M. A Memorial Lecture in honor of Louis Sander is being planned with details to follow soon.

2011-2012
All lectures will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Bushnell Auditorium on the 8th floor of Building 500 on the AMC campus in Aurora. Visitor parking is available for $1.00 per evening in the Ignasio Parking Lot accessed from 19th Avenue which runs directly behind the yellow-brick Building 500. We request that you use the back entrance (on 19th Avenue) to enter the building as the front entrance will be locked. Thank you.

Friday, September 23, 2011 - David E. Scharff, M.D. of Chevy Chase, Maryland will present: "The Interpersonal Unconscious" For details, click here.

Friday, October 14, 2011 - Paula Atkeson, Ph.D. & Anita Schmukler, D.O. will present "Ethics in Child Psychotherapy." For details, click here.

Friday, November 18, 2011 - Nancy L. Bakalar, M.D. of Lone Tree, Colorado will present "The Use of Countertransference in the Analysis of a Silent, Adolescent Boy." Click here for details.

No lectures are planned for December or January -

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - Dr. Hector Lopez of Argentina: "The analytic experience, an operation to be produced." For details, click here.

Friday, March 16, 2012: Phillip Freeman, M.D. "The Illusion of Getting Real and the Reality of Illusion: Constructing and Deconstructing Neurotic, Artistic, and Therapeutic Illusions" Click here for details.

Friday, April 20, 2012: Sam Wagonfeld, M.D. "Understanding Franz Kafka from his stories, diary, and a long letter to his father" (tentative title)

A fall 2012 Panel is being planned on "Mortality & Psychoanalysis" - check back for date and details. Thank you!

2010 - 2011 
The opening to this lecture series will be held on the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora beginning at 7:30 p.m. on a Thursday evening in the Bushnell Auditorium on the 8th floor of Building 500 (which is the former Fitzsimons Army Hospital).  Visitor parking is available for $1.00 per evening in the Ignasio Lot accessed from 19th Avenue which runs directly behind this yellow brick building.  We request that you use the back entrance to enter the building, as the front entrance will be locked. 

October 21, 2010, We are honored to have as our first speaker for this season, Robert N. Emde, M.D. presenting "Early Moral Development:  Beyond Attachment and Questions."  For additional information please click here.  

December 9, 2010:  Gabriela Zorsutti, "Ethics in Psychoanalysis - from Freud until now"    Click here for additional information.     

February 10, 2011:  Ted Gaensbauer, M.D.  "The Dark Side of Intersubjectivity:  Embodied simulation, mirror neurons, and the reenactment of trauma in early childhood"  Click here for more information. 

May 5, 2011:  PANEL PRESENTATION - "Adolescence and Marijuana Use"  with

Rex McGehee, M.D., Paula Riggs, M.D. and Leland Johnston, M.D.  7:30-9:00 p.m.

The location on the AMC campus will be determined by the RSVPs received for this event. 

(click here for more information)

2009-2010   
All lectures will be held at 7:30 p.m. in DU's Sturm Hall at 2000 E. Asbury Avenue north of Evans at Race Street in the Lindsay Auditorium (2nd floor) unless noted otherwise.  Paid visitor parking is available nearby.

   October 23, 2009    David Stevens, Ph.D., will present  "The Trouble With Reality." 

                                   (click for flyer)

   February 26, 2010 Carla Elliott-Neely, Ph.D. will present

                                  "Sudden Father Loss in a 3-year old:  Thoughts on

                                    interpretation  and technique."  More information will be

                                   available shortly.  Please check back.

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE IN LOCATION FOR THIS LECTURE ONLY:  Boettcher Hall (click for flyer)

   March 5, 2010   A special panel on "Aging & Psychoanalysis" with Mary Ann Levy,

                             M.D., Keither Meagher, David Hurst, M.D., Richard Simons, M.D., and

                             Ben Green, M.D.  Click here for details. (Sturm Hall location)

   May 7, 2010  Ted Jacobs, M.D. will present "Listening, Dreaming, Sharing:  On the use

                         of the analyst's inner experience."   (Sturm Hall location)

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2008-2009 Preview (see flyer)

    October 10, 2008  Stephen Witty, Ph.D. of Colorado Springs   "Where We are:                    Jungian Analysts in the 21st Century"   (click for flyer)

    November 14, 2008  Jeff Longhofer, Ph.D.  "On Having and Being a Case Manager"

           (click for flyer)

    No December lecture

    No January lecture

    February 5, 2009 (on a Thursday evening)  Ben Green, M.D. Panel

          "Psychoanalysis & Religion" Friends, Foes or Strangers?"  (click for flyer)

    March 6, 2009  Gary Grossman, M.D.

           "Pink Parenting: Providing a Facilitating Environment for Gay and Lesbian               Teens"  (click for flyer)

    April 3, 2009  Melvin Lansky, M.D.  "Forgiveness as the Working Through of                     Splitting"  (click for flyer)

    May 1, 2009  Richard Geist, Ed.D.  "Empathizing with Oedipus: The Self

            Psychological Treatment of the Neuroses"  (click for flyer)

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2007 - 2008 COMMUNITY LECTURE SERIES (see flyer)
2006 - 2007 COMMUNITY LECTURE SERIES (see flyer)
2005 - 2006 COMMUNITY LECTURE SERIES (see flyer)
2004 – 2005 COMMUNITY LECTURE SERIES (see flyer)
2003 - 2004 COMMUNITY LECTURE SERIES (see flyer)

* CME  -  The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing medical Education (ACCME) to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this continuing medical education activity for 1.5 credit hours each in Category 1 of the Physician’s Recognition Award of the American Medical Association. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essentials and Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and The Denver Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Denver Psychoanalytic Society

RENE SPITZ LECTURESHIP RECIPIENTS:

1981   Selma Fraiberg

1983   E. James Anthony

1987   Daniel N. Stern

1989   Joseph D. Lichtenberg

1990   Phyllis & Robert L. Tyson

1991   Judith S. Wallerstein

1994   Robert N. Emde

1996   Peter Fonagy

2005   Allan N. Schore