Candidate Case Presentation: An analytic approach to issues of gender, race, and class

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM MEETING

Tuesday, June 20, 2017
8:00 pm

Presenter: Thomas DePrima, M.D.
Discussant: Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.D.

Dr. DePrima will be presenting material from the analysis of a middle aged Latina woman with a focus on her difficulty with romantic relationships. He will highlight the ways in which gender, race, and class play a central role in the patient’s life, in her relationship issues, and in the treatment. After presenting a brief history and formulation of the case, Dr. DePrima will present process material to discuss with Dr. Saketopoulou who will offer insight into the ways she thinks through issues of gender, race, and class as they pertain to the clinical case. Time will be left for the discussion to be opened up to the audience.

No CME or CE credits offered.

Closed Meeting: NYPSI members and candidates only.

Thomas DePrima, M.D. is a fourth year psychoanalytic candidate at NYPSI. He is also an attending psychiatrist and Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai working at the World Trade Center Mental Health Program treating 9/11 responders. In addition to his analytic training he has been trained in Transference Focused Psychotherapy under the supervision of Frank Yeomans, M.D., Ph. D. Recently he took over as chair of NYPSI’s Psychoanalytic Fellowship Program. He maintains a small part-time private practice in Manhattan.

Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the William Alanson White Institute, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. She has received several awards including the Ruth Stein prize from the NYU Postdoctoral Program, the Roughton award from the American Psychoanalytic Association, the Symonds prize from Studies in Gender and Sexuality and, in 2014, the annual prize for best paper from the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Saketopoulou has published work on trauma and its representation, on traumatic and normative gender, on psychosexuality and perversion and on the enigmatics of consent.