Scientific Meeting: Benefit Flows Through the Relationship: Evidence from Recorded Psychoanalyses

  •  February 11, 2025
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

NYPSI’s 1077th Scientific Meeting:

“Benefit Flows Through the Relationship: Evidence from Recorded Psychoanalyses”

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Presenter: Sherwood Waldron, M.D.

Discussant: Otto Kernberg, M.D.

Dr. Sherwood Waldron will be presenting his study that shows that benefit in 27 psychoanalyses is strongly mediated through a favorable effect on the quality of the relationship in the following session. In other words, higher relationship quality in one session is followed strongly in the next session by favorable developments in the patient’s psychoanalytic functioning. These findings support the value of psychoanalytic work. They also support the relational turn in psychoanalysis which has occurred over the past 30 years. A past psychoanalytic educational emphasis on limiting the analyst’s contribution (maintaining anonymity, neutrality, avoiding revealing one’s own point of view and avoiding suggestions and advice) may sometimes or often be counterproductive because of the potential for negative impact on the relationship. Slides will demonstrate these findings and Dr. Waldron will provide illustrations taken from recorded sessions. Dr. Waldron has collected recordings of psychoanalyses from several different psychoanalysts over more than forty years. At the end of the session, practitioners will have a tangible basis for altering their approach beneficially to their patients. 

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

General Admission: $50

Student Admission: $35

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates

REGISTRATION LINK – Registration opens December 15

Please note registration closes at 5 PM on Monday, February 10.

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

1. BUY YOUR TICKET.
2. LOOK FOR CONFIRMATION EMAIL containing a link to Pre-Register in ZOOM for the event.
3. CLICK ON PRE-REGISTRATION ZOOM LINK and enter your name and email address. If you do not complete this step, you will NOT receive link to meeting.
4. LOOK FOR EMAIL FROM ZOOM containing the JOIN LINK to the meeting. Click the JOIN LINK to “enter” the meeting.
5. Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register!  Contact admdir@nypsi.org with questions.

OPTIONAL READINGS
  1. Falkenström, F., Ekeblad, A., & Holmqvist, R. (2016). Improvement of the working alliance in one treatment session predicts improvement of depressive symptoms by the next session. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 84(8): 738–751. https://doi.org/10.1037/ccp0000119
  2. Flückiger, C., Del Re, A. C., Wlodasch, D., Horvath, A. O., Solomonov, N., & Wampold, B. E. (2020). Assessing the alliance-outcome association adjusted for patient characteristics and treatment processes: A meta-analytic summary of direct comparisons. Journal of counseling psychology, 67(6): 706–711. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000424
  3. Jaffe, L. (2021). Freud and therapeutic action reconsidered:  Current applications. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 69: 573-593.
BIOGRAPHIES
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Sherwood “Woody” Waldron has been a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York since 1966 with a strong commitment to research and teaching.
As President of the Psychoanalytic Research Consortium (http://www.psychoanalyticresearch.org), founded in 1989 with the support of Robert Wallerstein and others, Dr. Waldron has collected the world’s largest collection of recorded psychoanalyses.  This collection, which he oversees, has been used as the basis for numerous published studies.  Recent grants support the use of artificial intelligence to enhance research efforts.  Dr. Waldron’s research has focused on the efficacy of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, including today’s topic “Benefit Flows through the Relationship: Evidence from Recorded Analyses.”  A list of his publications can be found on the PRC website.
Dr. Waldron has taught at Einstein, NY Hospital Westchester Division, Mount Sinai and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.  His teaching relies extensively on examination of recorded sessions and this pioneering approach has resulted in his receiving the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award from APsaA and the Charles Brenner Teaching Award from NYPSI.
Dr. Waldron studied psychology as an undergraduate at Harvard.  After completing his M.D. at Yale, he trained in psychiatry and child psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine where he conducted an NIMH-sponsored follow-up of childhood neurosis.
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Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., F.A.P.A. is Professor Emeritus at the Weill Cornell Medical College and Past Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at The  New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division. He is a Past President of the International Psychoanalytic Association and a Training and Supervising Analyst of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.  Dr. Kernberg is the author of 13 books and co-author of 12 others, including: Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism; Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Strategies; Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques and their Applications; The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression; Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads; and, most recently, Resolution of Aggression and Recovery of Eroticism.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

  1. Describe the difference between conversational responses to their patients that are likely to facilitate treatment, versus those that are not.

  2. Demonstrate the ability to explain the basis for their conversational responses to their patients in conversation.

Psychologists

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education programs for psychologists. New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Social Workers

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW – 0317.

Physicians
ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of [2] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement

The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

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