Sessions on the Couch: Ask a Shrink
Room: Inner Lobby, 1st Floor
"Sessions on the Couch: Ask a Shrink" dedicates a corner of the Central Library's Grand Lobby to you and a rotating roster of psychoanalysts who will listen, advise, hint, heal, or diagnose your most pressing concerns. Take a break from the concerts and lectures and give yourself some you-time. Lie back and speak freely to one of our psychoanalysts-in-training who will reflect upon your complexes, confusion, contradictions and dreams, and hopefully spur the transference that is key to that time-tested remedy known to shrinks as the talking cure.
8:30 - 10:00, Stacy Ruttenberg
Stacy Ruttenberg is an analyst-in-formation at Pulsion Institute. With degrees in psychology, nursing, and criminal justice, Stacy brings a multidisciplinary perspective to psychoanalysis. As a registered nurse, she worked on the acute neuroscience unit at Yale New Haven Hospital, an experience that deepened her interest in the transformative power of speech, and what can happen when that is lost. Her clinical and academic background informs her engagement with psychoanalysis, particularly in exploring the intersections of language, the body, and the unconscious.
9PM to 10:30PM, Jamieson Webster
Jamieson Webster is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis and has written for The Aesthete, Apology, Cabinet, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Playboy, The New York Times, and many psychoanalytic publications. She teaches at Eugene Lang College at the New School and supervises doctoral students in clinical psychology at the City University of New York.
10:30 to Midnight: Jared Ijames & Jamie Kahn
Jared Ijams is a Brooklyn-based writer and MA candidate in Philosophy with a concentration in Psychoanalytic Studies at The New School for Social Research. His work has appeared in Negation Magazine, Cosmonaut Magazine, and others. He also operates Ohr Judaica, a handmade Jewish goods business.
Jamie Kahn is a writer and incoming MSW candidate at Fordham University. She has written for Glamour, Evergreen Review, Epiphany, Brooklyn Magazine, and others.
