Updates and Upcoming Events

On June 28, 2023, the Freud Museum in London will host a discussion group and workshop on Presenting Problems in person! We are all super excited to meet up and join with many of the talented and thoughtful clinicians, teachers, artists and writers to discuss primitive states and representation of archaic dynamics as they appear in the films. The event will take place 2-5pm London time and will be a hybrid event for those of you not able to attend in person. In May of 2022, the Freud Museum in London hosted an online workshop devoted to Presenting Problems with great attendance and smashing questions!  It was a wonderful conversation between participants from around the world. We discussed the challenges and paradoxes of representation of internal life, the mutative factors in psychological change and how psychoanalytic concepts can help illuminate some of the paradoxical aspects of these films. Thank you to the lovely and amazing Jamie Ruers for facilitating such an exciting event and we can’t wait to see old and new friends at the event in June.

Please reach out to the Freud Museum to answer any questions. Here is the listing of the upcoming event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/607496587647

Freud Museum, 20 Maresfield Gardens, London, GB, NW3 5SX

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New Dehli, India

In addition to the Freud Museum event of 2023, the Psychology Department at Jesus and Mary College of the University of Dehli (located in New Dehli, India) hosted a workshop on Presenting Problems with over fifty students, faculty and psychologists. This group created an atmosphere of critical thinking and deep engagement in the ideas of the film, and they bravely raised important and illuminating questions about different types of knowledge, concepts of pathology, and about the role of the therapist’s conceptualization as it relates to the patient’s idea of what’s going on. One attendee said that the films and discussion really “pushed us to re-think the fundamentals of psychotherapy”. What a magnificent conversation! And truly one of the highlights of the year. Thank you so much for the honor of inviting me show the films, engaging in this high level of discussion and sharing the entire experience together! And thank you to the marvelous Dr. Annie Baxxi for being such a smart and considerate host and facilitator!

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Showings this year include Reed College, Boathouse Microcinema and the Jung Institute. If you aren’t familiar with it, Boathouse Microcinema is a screening series of local filmmakers in Portland, OR run by Amy Epperson, Chris Freeman and Shannon Neale.  These are some very special, driven, creative, interesting people. So please check out more screenings, which take place at The Boathouse, a long-running art studio space and former fireboat station on the banks of the Willamette River.

Across Culture and Countries

A special thank you to Andres Berrios who was kind enough (voluntarily) to translate the film “On Being a Patient” into Spanish for our viewers. Andres also helped with the Spanish translation of The Safe and The Eskimo. Please contact us for these translations.

If you haven’t had a chance to see “On Being a Patient,” it is on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQRWRPpbjBs&t=25s and has already surpassed 25K views.

Also, although fairly old news now but still worth mentioning. The Presenting Problems collection is for the first time being translated into Greek and will be used in classes at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki.  It is with great excitement that we are able to announce the release of the films for non-English speaking audiences. Please inquire for other translations that can be made available.