Scientific Meeting: A Clinical Exercise: How We Listen

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The 1065th Scientific Program Meeting:

“A Clinical Exercise: How We Listen”

(Note: Registration closes 4/11 at 4 PM.)

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Panelists: Irene Cairo, M.D. (moderator), Jean Roiphe, M.D., Rogelio Sosnik, M.D., Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D.

This meeting will be a Clinical Exercise which will demonstrate how analysts of different theoretical perspectives respond to the same session material. Attendees will observe analysts in real time, so to speak, seeing them respond to material of which they have no prior knowledge. The aim is to witness the analysts’ minds at work. The moderator / clinical case reader will present a portion of the material to which each discussant will respond with their impressions and associations. A discussion of the material and of the differences in responses will then follow.

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.

Irene Cairo, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst and on the Faculty of the Contemporary Freudian Society and a graduate and member of the Faculty at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She has contributed chapters to The Bion Tradition (Karnac, 2015), Immigration in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2016), Unconscious Fantasy (Routledge, 2017) and Changing Notions of the Feminine (Routledge, 2019). Her paper, “My Colleague, That Other,” in Psychoanalytic Dialogues (2010) is a personal favorite.

Dr. Cairo has been North American Co-Chair of the Ethics Committee of the IPA, Associate Editor of “The American Psychoanalyst” and the IPA Newsletter “International Psychoanalysis.” She has also published a work of fiction: Inside-Out: Intimate Voices (IPBooks, 2022). She is in private practice in New York.

Jean Roiphe, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College. She is the Core Concepts editor of Auchincloss and Samberg’s Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts. Dr. Roiphe has also been involved in psychodynamic psychotherapy research and has published on this and other topics in JAPA, IJP and elsewhere. She teaches a course on Comparative Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique, which focuses on how the analyst’s theory affects their listening and technique.

Dr. Rogelio Sosnik is a native of Argentina where he received his medical education and his psychiatric and psychoanalytic training. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association, Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Freudian Society where he is also on the Faculty.

Dr. Sosnik is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the IPA. He is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and has published papers in Argentina, Uruguay, Italy, and the U.S. on the relationship between Ferenczi and Bion, the British School, the work of Bleger, and the “Ethical Texture of Psychoanalysis.”

Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute where teaches the work of Melanie Klein as well as a new course examining the role of the external world in psychic development.  An Associate Editor of JAPA, she has authored numerous papers and book chapters on female sexuality, the maternal, misogyny and the nature of the object, as well as various aspects of Kleinian theory and technique. She is a co-founder of the Frankiel Fellowship sponsored by the Melanie Klein Trust which has offered training in Kleinian analysis for advanced candidates for over a decade. Dr. Zeavin is the co-editor (with Donald Moss) of Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Contemporary Moment (New Library of Psychoanalysis).

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1. recognize the vicissitudes of listening to completely unknown clinical material
2. distinguish between differing perspectives on how we listen and respond to clinical material