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Closed Meeting: 2nd CRCD Dialogue Day: The Ideal Institute Project 9 Years Later: How We Work Now


  •  April 6, 2025
     12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Please note this meeting is closed to the public. 

Second CRCD Dialogue Day

“The Ideal Institute Project 9 Years Later: How We Work Now”

Sunday, April 6, 2025

12:00 – 3:30 PM (EST)

In-person group dialogue with current NYPSI members and students. Following up on the Ideal Institute Project (2016), the focus will be on world events related to diversity, discrimination and exclusion today.

Refreshments will be served.

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Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students

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In Person Open House


  •  April 10, 2025
     7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

NYPSI In-Person Open House

Thursday, April 10, 2025

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

Join us for hors d’oeuvres, drinks, and a lively discussion with NYPSI candidates and members. Those in attendance will include Chairs of the Candidates’ Association, the Fellowship Program, Licensure-Qualifying Program, and the Scholars Program. We will discuss our Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and the Child Psychoanalytic Training Program.

Additionally, we will inform attendees about the many other training opportunities at NYPSI, designed for students and practicing psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, mental health professionals, psychiatric nurse practitioners, as well as professionals from other disciplines intending to further their psychoanalytic knowledge. We will also focus on the ways to balance life and analytic training, the ins and outs of classes and supervision at NYPSI, our Treatment Center, current publications and research of members, community outreach by NYPSI members, and the NYPSI culture.

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Freud Lecture: Trauma, Dissociation, and the Life of Pi


  •  May 13, 2025
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

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

The 63rd Freud Anniversary Lecture:

“Trauma, Dissociation, and the Life of Pi”

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

8:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)

Honoree and Presenter: Judith A. Yanof, M.D.

Introduction by Anna Balas, M.D.

In this lecture, Judith A. Yanof will be addressing the topic of identifying childhood trauma. Recognizing childhood trauma can be particularly difficult when it is not a known part of the patient’s history. Often childhood trauma and the aftereffect of dissociation are not recognized in adults, and, as it turns out, more often, not recognized in children.  An increased understanding of the neuroscience of trauma and the consideration of adjunctive treatment modalities will enhance patient care. Dr. Yanof will look back at an analytic case and discuss how her current knowledge of trauma and dissociation would aid in her treatment if she were treating the patient today. This lecture is targeted to an audience of adult and child psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, all of whom are likely to have come across patients with a history of trauma or unknown trauma that has led to chronic aftereffects, including dissociation, somatic and relational symptoms.

1.5 Contact Hours. 1.5 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.

Anna Balas, M.D., Chair, Freud Lecture Committee

General Admission: $50

Student Admission: $35

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates

REGISTRATION LINK

Please note registration closes at 5 PM on Monday, May 12.

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.

Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register!  Contact with questions.

OPTIONAL READINGS
  1. Yanof, J. (2024). Film essay: trauma and dissociation in Drive My Car. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. 72: 967-995.
  2. Cortina, M. (2015). The use of attachment theory in the clinical dialogue with patients. Attachment: New Directions in Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, 9: 1-18.
  3. Boulanger, G. (2018). When is vicarious trauma a necessary therapeutic tool? Psychoanalytic Psychology, 35(1): 60–69.
  4. Chefetz, R .(2019). Psychotherapy: being, doing, and the risk of scientism, Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 47: 1: 53-80.
BIOGRAPHIES

Judith A. Yanof, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst and a Child Supervisor at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute.  She has written articles on several different aspects of child analysis, including gender, development, transference, termination, and play.  In 1996 she won the JAPA Journal Essay Award for her article “Is Child Analysis Really Analysis.” She currently serves on the Board of Directors and Editorial Board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and the Editorial Boards of the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and JAPA. She was chosen by the American Psychoanalytic Association to be the 2010-2011 Helen Meyers Travelling Scholar.  For over 25 years Judy has worked pro bono in community programs for children in the Boston area. In 2012, BPSI awarded her the Arthur Kravis Award for Community Action and Humanitarian Contributions. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of CAPS and the Anna Freud Foundation.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

  1. Identify two symptoms of dissociation in childhood.

  2. Name one counter-transference response in the therapist that can signal trauma in a child when trauma is not presented as part of the history.

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 [1.5] 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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Blos Lecture: The psychoanalysis of an adolescent- The Analyst as the Erotic Link between the Infantile and the Adolescent


  •  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 – “The Analyst as the Erotic Link between the Infantile and the Adolescent”

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Location: The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium  | 247 East 82nd Street, NYC

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

 

Presenter and Awardee: Susan Donner, M.D.

In this lecture, Susan Donner, M.D. will address the complexity of adolescent sexuality. Due to a lack of comprehensiveness in traditional clinical training, many clinicians may not feel well prepared to deal with erotic manifestations in the treatment of adolescents. This lecture will address the need for a more nuanced approach to adolescent sexuality. Specifically, Dr. Donner will 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.

Sabina Preter-Veit, M.D., Chair, Peter J. Blos Sr. Memorial Lecture

OPTIONAL READINGS
  1. Brady, M. (2022). Chapter 2, “Braving the erotic field in the treatment of adolescents,” In Braving the Erotic Field in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents, pp. 26-46, Routledge: London and New York.
  2. Elise, D. ( 2015a). Eroticism in the maternal matrix: Infusion through development and the clinical situation. fort da, 21(2):17-32.
  3. Elise, D. ( 2015b). Reclaiming lost loves: Transcending unrequited desires: Discussion of Davies’ “Oedipal complexity.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 25:284-294.
  4. Elise, D. (2017). Moving from within the Maternal: The Choreography of Analytic Eroticism. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65:33-60.
  5. Ferenczi, S. (1949). Confusion of the Tongues Between the Adults and the Child—(The Language of Tenderness and of Passion). International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 30:225-230.
  6. Guignard, F. (2022). Chap. 13, “Sexual Life and Identificatory Reorganizations in Adolescent,” In The Infantile in Psychoanalytic Practice, pp.125-136.
  7. Jackson, E. (2022). Chapter 10, “Too close for comfort: the challenges of engaging with sexuality in work with adolescents,” In Braving the Erotic Field in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Children and Adolescents, pp. 161-83.
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 the 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.
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Closed Meeting: CRCD Dialogue Day

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  •  January 12, 2025
     12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Please note this meeting is closed to the public. 

CRCD Dialogue Day

Sunday, January 12, 2025

12:00 – 3:00 PM (EST)

In-person group dialogue with current NYPSI members and students about the Holmes Commission Report.

Refreshments will be served.

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/candidates

REGISTRATION LINK

REFERENCES

Holmes Commission Report

In Pursuit of Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis: Findings and Recommendations from the Holmes Commission JAPA vol. 72 #3 (June 2024)

Exploring the Differences between Discussion, Debate, and Dialogue; National Intergroup Dialogue Institute, University of Michigan

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