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Hi there everyone, if you are in Sydney, have a first degree and thinking of doing something more, thought you may be interested in this. It looks really interesting.

PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDIES PROGRAM 2005

In 2005 the NSW Institute of Psychiatry (Sydney, Australia) is commencing a three year program in psychoanalytic studies for students with a primary qualification in psychology, medicine, health, social science, philosophy or other relevant discipline. Units may also be taken as stand alone study units.

Purpose:

This program is designed to give those interested in psychoanalytic thinking and practice an overview of psychoanalysis both as a body of knowledge and as a method of investigation. It provides an introduction to the emergence and evolution of a broad-range of psychoanalytic models including contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and clinical techniques. The program critically evaluates the relationships between psychoanalytic thinking and the clinical context as well as other non-clinical disciplines such as philosophy, cultural and literary theories and research methodologies. There is an emphasis on developing students' critical awareness, thinking and analysis of the role of psychoanalysis in contemporary debates around race, gender, sexualities and models of psychopathology. While this program does not equip students to practice as clinicians, this inter-disciplinary course will be of relevance both to clinicians (by assisting them in gaining psychoanalytic insights into their work) and to those interested in psychoanalysis as a field of academic research and cultural debate. It aims to promote lively dialogue concerning debates within psychoanalysis and between psychoanalysis and its neighbouring disciplines.

Core units:

* Core concepts in psychoanalysis
* Reading key texts in psychoanalysis
* Philosophy of Psychoanalysis
* The Psychoanalytic Method and Attitude: The Consulting Room
* The Psychoanalytic Conceptions of Psychopathology: Then and Now
* Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society: Current Debates
* Introduction to Research Methodologies
* Dissertation

Elective Units may include:

* Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis
* Sexuality and Gender
* Transference and Countertransference
* The Kleinian Tradition in Psychoanalysis
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* Psychoanalysis at the Movies
* Psychoanalysis and Philosophy


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Wondering what people think about this dream.

I saw myself at the house of a friend.  She appeared to be getting ready for a holiday and I was visiting.  I can't remember all the details but I had a sense that I may be getting in her way of preparing for her holiday, although she protested that she wanted me around.  I had a sense that she was a spiritual person, like maybe she was a witch or in some esoteric type group.  I didn't know, just had a sense that she was more than I knew.

Then something happened, which I don't remember but I have a sense that I had to use spiritual/psychic powers to bring about something, maybe to protect her/us or do something.  I do have dreams like that sometimes where I am using psychic energy and wake up with migraines because there is so much energy around my head.  Back to the dream.  When whatever I did in the dream was over, she said she was impressed with me and thought I ought to consider being initiated.  There was a blank book on a stand and she placed a piece of jewellery on it.  It was a pin in the shape of a snake.  Its body had diamonds and emeralds while its head had a ruby in it.  It was very beautiful.  I told her I would have to think about it and would tell her when she got back.

Then we started to walk out the door and as I passed a room, there was a short, thin, old man in it.  He is an actor but I can't think of his name.  We just kept looking at each other.  My friend meanwhile kept urging me to move along.  I started to move reluctantly, not wanting to take my eyes of this person.  Then as I was moving towards the door, I stopped, turned around and went back and just hugged him.  We just started to sob.  I don't know who this person was or why they were important to me or why I was sobbing but it was really intense.  The closest I can make to the feeling is, it was as if I recognised in him and myself at that moment all the grief of the world, my own included.  All the missed opportunities, lost loved ones, hurt, etc, and at the same time, in him I saw a beloved friend returned to me, eventhough I didn't recognise him.  Yes, it was like letting go of all the pain in the safe presence of a loving friend that I hadn't seen in years.

Very strange dream.  Having woken up, and not seeing him around is a bit saddening.

Hi everyone,

I heard somewhere, some time ago, that if you write up a novel and put it on the internet, that you lose copyrights or something like that and that publishers don't have to pay you or you can't sell your story.  I don't remember it exactly but does anyone know the laws around this sort of thing?  Do you lose the potential to own your own story if you put it on the net, etc?

Hi everyone,

I can't really go into it very much yet, but I just wanted to let you guys know.

I have written of a paranormal experience (could be called remote viewing) that I had last year, to the editor of an Australian publication and it has been accepted!  The editor actually said that he was impressed with my experience and how I told my story.  [:I]

The only down point is that I won't be using my real name, so no one will know that it was me and my experience.  It doesn't matter though, the important thing is that it may put me into contact with people who may be able to use my quirky little abilities. []  I guess it would be really good to feel useful in this life.  It sort of gives me a renewed purpose in life.

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Wake up world...Greece won the European Soccer 2004!!!
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Hi everyone,

Do you know anything about either?  Any opinions on this person and the journal?

[SYDNEY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHO-ANALYSISABN 63 000 096 837INVITES YOU TO ATTEND A LECTURE SERIES GIVEN BYNEVILLE SYMINGTONENTITLEDKNOW YOURSELF AND BE HEALEDHOW IS IT THAT SOMEONE WHO HAS A PROBLEM IS ABLE TORESOLVE IT THROUGH CONVERSATION WITH ANOTHER? Neville Symington is a psychoanalyst in private practice, and has written several books including The Analytic Experience, Narcissism: A New Theory, A Pattern of Madness and The Blind Man Sees.DR. SHAHID NAJEEB WILL CHAIR THE LECTURESThe lectures will take place on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 p.m.at the Crows Nest Centre, 2 Ernest Place, Crows Nest:and will be held in the following rooms: Johnson Room: 10th, 17th, 24th and 31st August, 2004Pat Brunton Room: 3rd August and 7th September, 2004The fee for this lecture series is $264.00 (incl. GST)The programme is "Category A" MOPS Accredited.If you wish to apply for a place this lecture series, complete the form below and mail it together with your cheque to :The Treasurer, Sydney Institute for Psycho-Analysis5 Penshurst Street, Willoughby, NSW 2068Enquiries: sifp@bigpond.net.auDETAILS OF THE LECTURES TO BE ADVISED_________________________________________________________________________I am interested in attending the lecture series commencing 3rd August, 2004 and enclose a cheque payable to the Sydney Institute for Psycho-Analysis for $264.00 (incl. GST). A tax invoice/receipt will be issued.Name:Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms/Dr ..........................................................................................Address: ..................................................................................Postcode .................Phone: (W)................................................(H).........................................................Email: ...................................................................]

Hi everyone,

I have an interest in psychoanalysis and the institute is going to be holding some interesting lectures in August.  I would love to go but they are on at night in Crows Nest, Sydney, NSW and I am an hour away.  Maybe something may happen and I will go - it would be easier if someone from here was able to come as well - share the trip.

Here it is;

SYDNEY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHO-ANALYSIS
ABN 63 000 096 837



INVITES YOU TO ATTEND A LECTURE SERIES GIVEN BY

NEVILLE SYMINGTON

ENTITLED

KNOW YOURSELF AND BE HEALED

HOW IS IT THAT SOMEONE WHO HAS A PROBLEM IS ABLE TO
RESOLVE IT THROUGH CONVERSATION WITH ANOTHER?

 
Neville Symington is a psychoanalyst in private practice, and has written several books including The Analytic Experience, Narcissism: A New Theory, A Pattern of Madness and The Blind Man Sees.


DR. SHAHID NAJEEB WILL CHAIR THE LECTURES


The lectures will take place on Tuesday evenings at 8:00 p.m.
at the Crows Nest Centre, 2 Ernest Place, Crows Nest:
and will be held in the following rooms:
Johnson Room:  10th, 17th, 24th and 31st August, 2004
Pat Brunton Room:  3rd August and 7th September, 2004


The fee for this lecture series is  $264.00 (incl. GST)
The programme is "Category A" MOPS Accredited.


If you wish to apply for a place this lecture series, complete the form below and mail it together with your cheque to :
The Treasurer, Sydney Institute for Psycho-Analysis
5 Penshurst Street, Willoughby, NSW 2068
Enquiries:  sifp@bigpond.net.au

DETAILS OF THE LECTURES TO BE ADVISED
_________________________________________________________________________
I am interested in attending the lecture series commencing 3rd August, 2004 and  enclose a cheque payable to the Sydney Institute for Psycho-Analysis for $264.00 (incl. GST).  A tax invoice/receipt will be issued.

Name:Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms/Dr        ..........................................................................................
Address:        ..................................................................................Postcode .................
Phone:         (W)................................................(H).........................................................
Email:          ...................................................................
      

I am curious about what people think about the following.

I know that we have evolved in terms of our physicality, technology and intelligence but are we still primitive in some ways.

I mean, we talk about being civilised and modern but we are still driven by our instincts.  We are still killing each other in wars, we have developed cultures where violence, torture, etc, is seen as exciting and a kind of initiation into adulthood or groups.  We still lie, cheat, steal, backstab, physically/sexually abuse and use, etc.

I remember watching Star Trek and the figure that I felt most comfortable with and my vision of what would be a perfect human was a Vulcan, Mr Spock!  He was in control, logical, etc.  He was my hero.  Maybe this is crazy but I would give anything practically to be a Vulcan instead of an Earthling.

Have we really evolved or are we still primitive or maybe even going back?

I have written previously about this but I will repeat it here.

In December, 2003, a young woman by the name of Dru went missing from a shopping centre in North Dakota, the USA. Another woman on another site who belonged to the same college place a post on the other site asking for prayers for this young woman. For a long time I have hidden the fact that I got images or sensed things, so I decided I was going to openly test myself this time. I came out of the paranormal closet. I sent a PM to the woman saying that I would like to get some images and see what happened. She was very receptive.

I did get some images within minutes and I wrote back to her. I told her the kidnapper was Latino, the weapon a hunting knife, the car was crimson, the location they would find her. I could see the landscape, the body in a creek, hear Dru crying and her last breath, see her face lying in the creek, etc. I told her if they didn't find the body within the next few days, they would find it when the snow melted in March or April. The kidnapper was caught several days after the info I gave her. All of it was correct. However, the bastard wouldn't tell them where he had left the body.

Yesterday, I got the dreaded PM. Dru's body was found in the area I had suggested, lying in a shallow creek. I so wish I was wrong.

I don't think I want to see things like this. It feels more like a curse than a gift or a blessing. It hurts. I don't know if I want the responsibility. It just hurts too much. Then I think what if it helps someone next time to be found alive and even if they are found dead at least it brings closure for the family.

Hi,

I have been reading the various posts over the last few weeks and some of them are very well thought out.  Some come across as totally unreal and airy fairy stuff, belonging more to psychology than parapsychology.  Just because you have an experience which seems amazing, spiritual, etc, doesn't make it real.  It may bring about warm fuzzy feelings but does it have real substance or is it of the substance we on earth call reality?  

Ask yourself, is there a simple straight forward answer.  If you have a migrain then that is the constriction of blood vessels that is causing that, not some naughty spirit.  Maybe it is a spirit, but how do you validate that other than you 'just know its so'.  Life is so difficult and there are illnesses, murders, disease, etc, all around us.  If every time something negative happens in our lives we explain it away as some entity or negative force then we are being irresponsible.  What I mean by irresponsible is that we refuse to see our involvement in the process of life.  "I have a migrain" you say to yourself, "it must be some negative energy", then you cleanse your house and put up charms etc, to protect yourself.  The fact that yesterday you may have eaten chocolate (a well known trigger) or missed a meal or downed several glasses of alcohol doesn't occur.  It shifts responsibility for your life outside yourself and you enter into a kind of psychosis where you deny the realities of life in order to feel safe in a make believe world and then retreat into superstitious behaviours to protect yourself from that reality.  Reality is harsh and sometimes there is no other explanation for a negative experience other than 'excrement happens'.

I don't deny the existence of spirits or other paranormal events and I have experienced many of them myself but if these phenomena are going to gain some kind of credibility, we have to surely, examine our individual and collective experiences and within that, accept that some experiences are nothing more than a highly evolved imagination doing its thing.  There is nothing that indicates or triggers a lack credibility faster then when you ask someone how they know that something is so and they answer that their guide or intuition told them so.  How do you find evidence for something when the only thing you have is someone's belief or opinion?

Just in case anyone wonders why mild mannered me would put up a thread like this, let me say first of all, its not any negative force or entity.  It may be because I am going through a rough time at the moment or maybe I just have PMT, but its not because of some outside force.

Hi,

I have heard that Chris Robinson is considering taking Randi up on his $1 million dollar offer.  Too bad Randi doesn't want to take up Victor Zammit's million dollar offer.

I don't know him but I found out about this through Victor Zammit's site www.victorzammit.com.  Victor has warned him against it as he believes the offer is not only biased but it has been done in a way so no matter how brilliantly accurate he is, Randi will get out of it.  Something to do with the legality of the contract.

I thought some people here might be interested.

Just curious if anyone knows of any police officers or detectives who use mediums/remote viewing, etc, in Australia?

I know that officially it is denied, but there was a newspaper article about three months ago talking about a woman who was very accurate and was helping police.  Could kick myself for not keeping it.

Hi,

I saw a program the other night called Compass (Sydney, Australia).  It is a program which discusses issues around spirituality and religion.  It was showing a program about science vs. God type issues.  They started talking about the Big Bang theory and then about multiple universes.

I am hopeless with maths and things like this.  However, I have a very good imagination and I am very lateral thinking and some things occurred to me and I want to check them out with someone who can explain things to me.  I also have a theory about black holes that I would like to ask about.  

Would someone please spare me some time.

Hi,

Just curious if anyone here has been tested for psychic, clairvoyant abilities.  By tested, I mean by a professional parapsychologist at a laboratory under strict scientific methods.

I haven't and I don't know if I would like to.  Maybe in the future.

I am still new here and don't know many of the people here.  However, I am getting two disturbing images from the posts I read and I don't know if I am right or they are just my imaginings.  So I am putting this out there to get opinions.

I thought astralpulse was a site for people to come together to express their paranormal experiences and to discuss the topics with openess, caring and inquiring/intelligent minds.  Yet most of the time, I read posts that sound more like they are coming from someone suffering from hullucinations/paranoia (I don't mean to offend here since I also suffer from anxiety, just to say that some of the posts don't sound, well, sound), or I read threads where people are taking precious time out of their lives to start or enter into vicious arguments.

Am I in the wrong place?  I don't want to be.  I do like a lot of what is said but every now and then I feel like I stepped into a room where people are in the middle of a 'domestic'.  What ever happened to mindfulness, compassion, honesty, spirituality?  How is this site contributing to world peace/hope if people are attacking each other?  How can I form any relationships here since I may be making friends with the enemy of my next friend, if you know what I mean?

Just wondering what is going on?  What this place is for?

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if there are any group meetings in Sydney or if anyone from here is from Sydney?

I am new so this probably has been asked before.  I am curious to know if people have had any paranormal experiences which may have included some form of external confirming evidence.  For example, a remembered past life where on checking there was evidence of such a person existing.  Or, OBE experiences where people can provide clear evidence of having been somewhere and seen something that they couldn't have seen unless physically there.

I was replying to the Frank 'issue' and I got to wondering how many people here actually have academic qualifications.

I am not asking for people to identify themselves, just generally, if they have been to uni and what the degree is.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in sociology, although my main interest is in psychology.  Unfortunately, my psych department was not interested in depth psychologies (psychoanalysis, etc) so I had to do psych through the sociology dept which had a lot of subjects in this area.  Strange times we live in!

I would love to have gone on and done higher level courses however, family obligations took over and I haven't been able to return.

I wouldn't mind also learning how you explain or reason these various phenomena.  Do you have a difficult time understanding paranormal events?  How do you balance science and these paranormal experiences?

Hi,

I have never talked about these sort of things before and I am new to this site.  I have been reading a little about OBEs here and some of it sounds familiar but I am not sure.  Could someone tell me if my experiences are OBEs or some other kind of shamanic or psychic event?

I don't remember exactly when I started having my flying dreams.  I was a child at the time.  At first I would see myself floating but as soon as I became aware of my breathing or that this was happening, I would float back down.  I use to have a couple of those a year.  When I would wake up, my body was really heavy and stiff.  

Another feature of the dreams was that there was always something that kept me from going too high.  I would find myself in buildings, train stations, airports, etc.  If it was outside, I would try to go high but there were cables that seemed to attach themselves to my feet or body so I couldn't go beyond them, a very frustrating experience.  In the past few years they have become more frequent, I control the flying a lot better, and there seem to be fewer things hindering me.  Its as if I have learned how to fly over the years.  

I now find myself meeting people and helping people in these dreams.  The last one I had, there were a number of people on a white cliff-top and it was an incredibly beautiful clear day.  I allowed myself to float up and I flew over the ocean and came down close enough to touch it with my right hand.  When I got back up on the cliff-top, the people there wanted to know also how to do that.  I tried to explain it, but they just couldn't do it by themselves.  I got them to stand on either side of me and we held hands and as I floated upwards, they came along as well.  I was teaching them how to do it.  It was sooooo beautiful that when I did wake up and for several weeks after that, I found it difficult to adjust to this world.  I would only have to think about the place and I felt like I could float up even though I was awake.  A real challenge when driving!  If someone could tell me how I could stay in that world permanently, I wouldn't look back or think twice!

So are these just very vivid dreams or is there more to them?

I am writing to let everyone know that my computer has a virus and will have to be taken in to be fixed so I may not be contactable for several days.

Lets see,

From the week before Christmas, the following have happened.


1. My car broke down on my way to an important meeting.

2. The same day my brother in law had an accident (he is okay but 5 weeks later the car is still in repairs)and we have been using one car between two families.

3. My granduncle dies.

4. My car broke down a few days later, just before Christmas.

5. The TV broke down, believe me, tv in my family is a necessity.

6. My car broke down a third time, New Years eve! and on the way from shopping!

7. A week after New Years, my mum goes into hospital because of her eyes, she's a diabetic.  She got back home yesterday.

8. Yesterday, my computer goes funny and now I have a virus on it.


So in five weeks all these things have happened. Would I be wrong in thinking someone has placed a curse or jinx on my family?  I mean, am I wrong or is this just over the top?  Is there a statistician among you who can tell me the likelihood of all those things happening in such a small space of time?  I don't mean to sound superstitious but if anyone would like to sell me any protective charms, now is the time, I am all ears!  

Prayers, healing thoughts would be very much appreciated.

Okay, now there wasn't enough space to phrase that properly so no one get pedantic about it.  Of course, Harry Potter the character isn't real but I was wondering if some of the things they show are within our abilities/grasp.

For example, when Star Trek came out on tv, they had all those gadgets and I doubt many people then thought of those things as possible.  Now, not only are they possible but with some gadgets we have outdone them.  The mobile being one such device.

When I was reading the Harry Potter books, I got to thinking that in a way, much of what they are on about is what we can already do but maybe not as easily or as well.  I wonder if HP and other such stories are indicators or predicting the future evolution of human beings.  For example, Harry is able to focus and in doing so raise his broomstick to his side.  Isn't this telekinesis?  He is able to fly, isn't this levitation?  Etc.

By the way, there is no use at having a go at me for reading HP, what can I say, I got hooked![:I]

Hello,

I was up till 2am last night looking through this site.  Actually, now that I think about it, I don't even remember how I stumbled over it!  It seems like a very interesting site.  I don't know if I will agree with everything I read but I have already found a couple of experiences that I share with others here.  

I don't know who is who right now or what their role is here so feel free to introduce yourselves.  As for myself, I am 40, female, single (just in case anyone has a brother or friend they want to set me up with []), a uni grad with a BA in sociology/psychology, I am a full-time carer at the moment to my parents and my niece and nephew and I am coming to terms with the fact that I am strange!  

I grew up with many of the experiences that people describe here but for me it was terrifying but somehow normal.  I never talked about my experiences and the only two times I told a family member, I was thought of as fighting possession and the second time a witch (not that there is anything wrong with that[]).  I was a child when those things happened to me and I learned quickly not to talk about them.  However, the experiences I had happened so frequently they just seemed normal to me.

Okay, so I haven't said what those experiences were and still are.  I hope its okay, but I am not ready to talk about them in any detail yet.  I guess I could be classified as a clairvoyant/medium.

Thanks for the book recommendation, I will look it up.

I think you need to consider that dream you had because the coffee may have triggered it but you could have had any kind of dream, why was it that particular dream and especially since it kept repeating itself.  

I have lots of vivid dreams when I am anxious about something I am going to do, ie, if I know I have to get up early and I will have a stressful meeting, etc.  Then I tend to see lots of vivid dreams, however, the content of the dreams usually is not random.  They tend to reflect recent thoughts and usually insecurities.  

For example, the other day I dreamnt that we were living next door to very rich people.  Their house was large, solid brick and organised and our house was made out of fibro/timber and was a total mess.  The people who owned the rich house were going to sell and I told mum that we ought to buy the house and move in and rent our place so as to pay for the mortgage of the new house.  I had such an overwhelming sense of being stuck financially, emotionally and physically (because of the apparent mess) and desperately wanting to escape.

A few days before this dream, I had watched a program on television about two households swaping wives.  One was poor and the other was rich.  While watching it, I realised that the thing that caused the poor woman to remain in her situation was the amount of negativity she had about everything in life.  I wondered if that is something true of myself although I do try to remain positive about things.  A couple of days later the dream came along, as if it reflected that discomfort I have.  My world at the moment is a mess and I am stuck in it and when I see people living easier lives, I do get even more negative about my life.  I think the dream allowed me to vent that frustration and to make the impossible, possible.

So whatever the reason for dreaming, don't discount the message in the dream.  Giving up coffee however, is probably a good thing though, it may be delicious but it does tend to have negative effects.

My family went beachside one evening many years ago.  It was a really hot night so there were a lot of people around.  We were staring up at the sky when I saw this single light come up over us parallel to the seashore.  It came up at what appeared normal speed for a plane.  There was no sound.  What got my attention is that it suddenly stopped over the ocean but almost above us.  I thought it may have been a helicopter because they can stop like that but like I said it didn't make any noise.  Next it started to sway back and forth, as if it was travelling about four meters one way, then four the other way.  That happened for about a minute.  It stopped again, then it just started to speed up really fast heading east over the ocean's horizon until it disappeared.  It was going faster than any plane I know and again, there was no sound.

That was pretty weird.  I have never seen anything like that again.