(Note: Registration closes 6/8 at 4 PM.)
Thursday, June 8, 2023 — Note this is a Thursday
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)
Panelists: Wendy Olesker, Ph.D., Henry Nunberg, M.D., Harold Blum, M.D., Otto Kernberg, M.D. & Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. (moderator)
The topic of this meeting is of great importance for both the psychoanalyst and patient. There is a reciprocal interest between analyst and patient concerning these vital issues. Currently, there are more analysts and patients living to an advanced age with problems and conflicts concerning health, vitality, cognition, and affect regulation. The panelists will explore the critical conflicts and therapeutic issues that are inevitably involved in the aging process.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.
Wendy Olesker, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and on the Faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is Senior Editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Dr. Olesker is Director of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at NYPSI and, for the past ten years, she has been Director of the Follow-up Study of the Margaret Mahler Foundation focusing on eight of the original Mahler babies who have been interviewed in depth over many months, given psychological tests, repeated Adult Attachment Interviews, other measures at various points in time, and are now followed into their sixth decade. It is from Dr. Olesker’s longitudinal research and her analytic experience that she has developed a focus on the developmental process as it impacts understanding of the intrapsychic world and the handling of aggression and love relations in analytic work with children and adults.
Henry Nunberg, LLB, M.D. is a psychoanalyst in clinical practice in New York City. A member of NYPSI, where he is on the faculty, and of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he is a former member of the NYPSI Board of Directors and a past Vice-President. Dr. Nunberg is Professional Director of The Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund. His recent writings have been devoted to the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
Harold Blum, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Association of NY, affiliated with NYU School of Medicine, and an Honorary Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. He is the Former Executive Director of The Sigmund Freud Archives and the author of several books, including Defense and Resistance: Historical Perspectives and Current Concepts, Female Psychology: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Views, and Reconstruction in Psychoanalysis: Childhood Revisited and Recreated. And he has published more than 165 papers. Among other honors, Dr. Blum was the recipient of the inaugural Sigourney Award.
Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. is University Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Montclair State University where she teaches courses in both French literature and Medical Humanities. She is Scholar Associate Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, where she is also on the Faculty, and Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute. Dr. Oppenheim has authored or edited fifteen books, the most recent being For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience(co-authored; Bloomsbury) and Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion (Routledge), awarded the Courage to Dream Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association. Other titles include A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor. She has also published over 120 papers, book chapters, and reviews, been a Visiting Scholar at NYS Psychiatric Institute, and co-creator of two documentary films on mental health.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Physicians
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 the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
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.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
Please note this meeting is closed to the public. Child candidates at NYPSI, Columbia and PANY are expected to attend.
Thursday, May 18, 2023
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)
Please note this meeting will be held virtually on ZOOM. Registrants will receive ZOOM link.
Presenters: Leon Hoffman, M.D. & Can Büyükaşık, M.D.
This presentation describes the development of the Manual of Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C) with Externalizing Behaviors: A Psychodynamic Approach by Leon Hoffman, Timothy Rice, and Tracy Prout, including the aphorism, “it is easier to get mad than to feel sad.” The construct of “defense against unpleasant affects” began with the work of Berta Bornstein who resolved the theoretical disputes between Anna Freud and Melanie Klein. Defense analysis thereon became a staple in child analytic training and clinical practice. The manualized treatment of Affect Phobia (“fear of feelings”) by Leigh McCullough spurred the creation of the Manual of RFP-C and it was further influenced by the work of Paulina Kernberg and Saralea Chazan, Phebe Cramer, David Malan, and the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) of the NIMH.
In this seminar the presenters will highlight the contrast between behavioral approaches and the approach in RFP-C to disruptive behaviors in children. In RFP-C the therapist helps parents understand the value of conceptualizing disruptive behaviors as defenses protecting the child from painful emotions; with the child, the therapist addresses the child’s defense mechanisms (DM) against such painful emotions as they emerge in the sessions. The parallel between the concept of DM and the neuropsychological concept of Implicit Emotion Regulation (IER) will be addressed. In addition, the clinical utility of the Triangle of Defense and findings from a Randomized Control Trial (RCT) will be discussed. Clinical excerpts will highlight these concepts.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.
Leon Hoffman, M.D. is Co-Director of the Pacella Research Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is co-author with Timothy Rice and Tracy Prout of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C): A Psychodynamic Approach and with Timothy Rice and “Defense Mechanisms and Implicit Emotion Regulation: A Comparison of a Psychodynamic Construct with One from Contemporary Neuroscience.” In 2022, he presented the Norbert and Charlotte Rieger Psychodynamic Psychotherapy lecture on “Helping Parents Spare the Rod: Addressing Their Unbearable Emotions” based on a paper he authored with Tracy Prout and he presented the Paulina Kernberg Memorial Lecture at Weill Cornell Medicine Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds entitled “On Regulation Focused Psychotherapy: An evidence based psychodynamic treatment for children with disruptive behaviors.”
Can Büyükaşık, M.D. is an adult psychoanalytic candidate at New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and a double-board-certified child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist in private practice in New York City. He is a faculty member at Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine and the supervising psychiatrist for the Youth Assertive Community Treatment team of Child Center of New York in Manhattan. Dr. Buyukasik is a member of the research team at the Center for Regulation Focused Psychotherapy as an RFP-C supervisor for the upcoming international trial in collaboration with Sibel Halfon from Bilgi University in Turkey.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Physicians
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 the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
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.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
(Note: Registration closes 5/9 at 4 PM.)
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
8:00 pm – 9:45 pm (EST)
Presenter and Honoree: Nancy J. Chodorow, Ph.D.
Anna Balas, M.D. will introduce the speaker
“‘Civilized’ Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness.” Totem and Taboo. “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death.” Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. The Future of an Illusion. Civilization and its Discontents. From his earliest cases to the end of his life, Freud reached from psyche to society. He is joined in these dual interests by the generation of founding sociologists, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, Max Weber, and W.E.B. Du Bois, all of whom were born within 12 years of Freud, all of whose writings reach from society to psyche. This presentation describes the psychosocio-sociopsychic ideas of these writers and situates Freud among them.
No CMEs/CEs offered.
Nancy Chodorow’s work spans psychoanalysis, sociology, feminism and anthropology. She is Lecturer in Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, has been a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, and is faculty at BPSI and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She serves on the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Chodorow became a household name with the publication in 1978 of The Reproduction of Mothering. Award-winning at the time and translated into many languages, the book was named as one of the most influential books of the past 25 years. In 2002, Feminism and Psychology published a symposium, The Reproduction of Mothering: A Reappraisal, and in 2020 Petra Bueskens published the collection, Nancy Chodorow and the Reproduction of Mothering: Forty Years On.
In 2004, Chodorow defined an American independent tradition – intersubjective ego psychology. Her 2020 book, The Psychoanalytic Ear and the Sociological Eye: Toward an American Independent Tradition, extends her formulation. The book also looks to the integration of psychoanalysis and the social, from Freud to the present. Last year, she was one of two keynote speakers at the opening of the Hans Loewald Center.
In her 2023 Freud Lecture, “Freud in his Psychosocial Generation,” Chodorow brings her synthetic talents to situate Freud among his sociologist contemporaries and to show how these sociologists drew upon psychological insight.
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