Blos Lecture: The psychoanalysis of an adolescent – a case presentation

  •  April 8, 2025
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

***THIS EVENT IS IN PERSON ONLY. SEATING IS LIMITED***

The Fourth Peter J. Blos Sr. Memorial Lecture:

The psychoanalysis of an adolescent – a case presentation

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Presenter and Awardee: Susan Donner, M.D.

In this lecture, Susan Donner, M.D. will address how clinicians are to approach adolescent sexuality. Due to a lack of comprehensiveness in traditional clinical training, many clinicians are often ill equipped to deal with erotic manifestations in the treatment of adolescents. This lecture will address the need for a more nuanced approach to adolescent sexuality. This session will specifically address and teach how to differentiate between infantile, latency, adolescent, and adult erotic manifestations in the treatment of adolescents, define erotic, erotized, and perverse components in the transference and countertransference matrix, and list pathological manifestations of maternal and paternal erotism. The integration of these elements into assessment and treatment of young patients is important for the effectiveness of clinicians’ practice with adolescents.

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

 

No charge.

REGISTRATION LINK – registration opens February 18

Please note registration closes at 5 PM on Monday, April 7.

OPTIONAL READINGS
  1. Elise, D. ( 2015a). Eroticism in the maternal matrix: Infusion through development and the clinical situation. fort da, 21(2):17-32.
  2. Elise, D. ( 2015b). Reclaiming lost loves: Transcending unrequited desires: Discussion of Davies’ “Oedipal complexity.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25:284-294.
  3. Elise, D. (2017). Moving from within the Maternal: The Choreography of Analytic Eroticism. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65:33-60.
BIOGRAPHY

Susan Donner, M.D. is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Los Angeles, California.  She is a Training and Child, Adolescent and Adult Supervising Analyst, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training, and Director of the NCP Child and Adolescent Clinic at the New Center for Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles.  She is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA where she directs the Area of Distinction in Psychoanalytic Perspectives for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship.  She is a member of IPA COCAP and the co-director of the pilot training program on Parent-Infant Psychoanalytic Interventions.  She is the recipient of 2019 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s Rieger Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Award, the 2020 Beata Rank Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (BPSI),  the 2021 UCLA Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2022 American Psychoanalytic Association’s Edith Sabshin’s Teaching Award.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

  1. Describe and differentiate between infantile, latency, adolescent, and adult erotic manifestations in the treatment of adolescents.
  2. Explain and define erotic, erotized and perverse components in the transference and countertransference matrix
  3. List pathological manifestations of maternal and paternal erotism

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.

Venue:  

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Second Floor, 247 East 82nd Street | New York, NY 10028

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