ADVISORY/Analyze This and That: A Conversation with Harold Ramis.Business Editors ADVISORY...Sat. (Jan. 25) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Director Harold Ramis Harold Allen Ramis (born November 21, 1944) is an American actor, director, and writer. His best known acting roles are as "Egon Spengler" in Ghostbusters and "Russell Ziskey" in Stripes. has portrayed therapists and analysts at work in such films as "Groundhog Day Groundhog Day (February 2) In the U.S., the day that the groundhog predicts whether spring will be coming soon. If, on emerging from his hole, he sees his shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter; if not, spring is imminent. ", "Analyze This" and "Analyze That", often to hilarious comic effect. On Saturday, January 25 at 5:15 P.M. in the Empire Room (Lobby Level) of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Mr. Ramis will discuss his portrayals with psychoanalyst Glen Gabbard, MD, author of Psychiatry and the Cinema and editor of Psychoanalysis and Film. The two will discuss how Mr. Ramis regards the role of the therapist/analyst in American film, whether a filmmaker has any obligation to accuracy in such portrayals, how Mr. Ramis's own therapy influenced his films, and the nature of the creative process itself. Film clips will be shown to illustrate his work. Harold Ramis's career has been steeped in comedy. Following college, Ramis worked as editor of the Party Jokes page of Playboy magazine. He later performed in the original "Second City" in Chicago, and still retains close ties with his colleagues from this venue. This conversation is part of the Winter 2003 Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association American Psychoanalytic Association is an association of in the United States. It was founded in 1911, and forms part of the International Psychoanalytical Association. See also
Dr. Gabbard's interest in film also extends to television. During APsaA's last biannual bi·an·nu·al adj. 1. Happening twice each year; semiannual. 2. Occurring every two years; biennial. bi·an meeting in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Dr. Gabbard lead a lively symposium, entitled "Psychotherapy in The Sopranos," that focused on the creative process involved in writing the psychotherapy scenes in the acclaimed HBO Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) A form of oxygen therapy in which the patient breathes oxygen in a pressurized chamber. Mentioned in: Ozone Therapy series. Among the symposium's participants was Lorraine Bracco, who plays Dr. Melfi in the "The Sopranos". To access a list of other sessions open to the press at the Winter 2003 Meeting, Visit: http://www.apsa-co.org/ctf/pubinfo/newsrelease.html or contact Dottie Jeffries, Director of Public Affairs, at djeffries@apsa.org. Founded in 1911, APsaA is a professional organization of psychoanalysts throughout the United States. The Association is composed of Affiliate Societies and Training Institutes in many cities and has approximately 3,500 individual members. APsaA is a Regional Association of the International Psychoanalytical Association The International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA) is an association including 11,500 psychoanalysts as members and works with 70 constituent organizations. It was founded in 1910 by Sigmund Freud, on an idea proposed by Sandor Ferenczi. . |
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