Lectures and Seminars
The 2011-2012 academic year's schedule of Lectures and Seminars is an exciting one -- with something for everyone. We have classes specifically for Mental Health Professionals, for Educators and Professionals who work with Children and Adolescents and for the Community at large.
Next up,
CELLULOID COUCH FILM SERIES - Films & Psychoanalysis
presented by the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute and The Webster University Film Series
Webster University Winifred Moore Auditorium
Start time: 7:30 pm
Tickets: $6 General Admission
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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Black Swan
Discussant: Britt-Marie Schiller, PhD
View the movie trailer: here
Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) is chosen to dance the role of Swan Queen in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan. Fragile and beautiful, Nina dances the part of the innocent white swan with perfect technique. A ruthless impresario pressures her to let go and lose herself to be able to dance the seductive and aggressive black swan part, while Nina's mother, a former ballet dancer who left the corps to have Nina, pressures her to remain an innocent, sweet girl. Between her mother's envy, the impresario's sexualized cruelty, and the threat of being replaced by Lily, who dances the black swan with abandon and sensual ease, Nina, in anguish, begins to hallucinate and lose her mind.
Friday, June 1, 2012
Shortbus
Gary Hirshberg, MSW, LCSW
View the movie trailer: here
WARNING: this trailer and the film contain explicit sexual scenes that may be offensive to some viewers
John Cameron Mitchell, the director of the explosive transgender rock musical, "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" broadens his investigation into sexuality with Shortbus (2007). Shortbus is an exploration into the lives of several characters living in present-day New York as they navigate the humorous and tragic intersections betwen love and sex. Male, female, trans, straight, bisexual, lesbian and gay, the characters find one another -- and eventually themseves -- when they all converge at a weekly underground salon called "Shortbus," a wild collision of art, music, politics and polyamorous carnality.
Co-sponsored by Pride St. Louis, Inc.
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