Paris, Texas with discussants Rick D. Bailey and David Stevens, PhD, FABP (In-Person Film)

Film Description: Directed by Wim Wenders and written by Sam Shepard, Paris, Texas tells the haunting and poetic story of Travis Henderson, a man who mysteriously reappears after four years missing, wandering the desert in a fugue-like state. As he slowly reconnects with his young son and estranged family, Travis embarks on a journey across the American Southwest to reconcile with his past and find the wife he left behind. With its sparse dialogue, evocative cinematography, and Ry Cooder’s unforgettable slide guitar score, the film explores themes of memory, identity, loss, and redemption through a deeply human lens.

Format: The evening will begin with a short presentation about the film followed by discussion. Please watch the film prior to the discussion. Due to the length of the film, only clips may be shown during the event. Paris, Texas is available to view with a premium subscription or rent on several platforms such as: Amazon, Hulu, Max, Apple TV, etc.

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DISCUSSANT BIOGRAPHIES

Rick D. Bailey is a trial lawyer and mediator, focusing on complex business cases. From 2009 to 2014, Rick was in analysis with the late Dr. Fred Mimmack. During and as a result of the analysis, Rick began creative writing, primarily stage plays and screenplays. Rick's full-length screenplay "Lincoln at Congo Square" was recently submitted to several film festivals and as of this writing, has been named a semi-finalist in the Filmmatic Drama Screenplay Awards and runner-up for Best Historical Screenplay by the Chicago Script Awards. He is at work on his second full-length screenplay called Days of War, which will be about the years 1967-69 and the effect of the Vietnam War on families. In 2014, Rick and Dr. David Stevens together published a paper Hearing and Mishearing: Psychoanalytic Observations on the Attorney-Client Relationship. Rick maintains a strong interest in psychoanalysis and is a member of the Society.

David Stevens, PhD, FABP is a practicing clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who works with adolescents and adults. He earned his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Colorado and received his psychoanalytic training at the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis where he has been a faculty member for more than thirty years, teaching courses on psychoanalytic theory and technique as well as being a Training and Supervising Analyst for the past twenty years. In addition, he is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center where he teaches psychiatric residents the principles of psychodynamic thought. He is the co-author with Jim Grigsby of the Neurodynamics of Personality published in 2000. He has a longstanding interest in participating in the mutually enriching conversations that can occur at the intersection of psychoanalytic thought and the humanities.

• Nonmembers - $15 
• Society Members - $10
• Students - $0 (Please list your training institution during registration.)