NYPSI Graduation Party

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  •  May 16, 2023
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

NYPSI Graduation Party

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

8 – 9:30 PM (EST)

NYPSI members, faculty, candidates and other trainees are invited to an in person celebration of our Analytic Training Program graduates.  Join us to honor recent graduates and to socialize with friends and colleagues.

8:00 PM – Drinks & Hors d’oeuvres

8:45 PM – Presentation

The Education Committee and Child Analysis Committee are very proud of the wonderful work of these talented analysts. Congratulations to our graduates!

Honorees

Piergiuseppe Fedele, Sarah Fox, Sunghee Han, Debra Japko, Evan Leibu, Jess Olson, David Sawyer, Alla Sheynkin, Gabrielle Silver & Natalia van Hissenhoven

 

Scientific Meeting: A Clinical Exercise: How We Listen

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  •  April 11, 2023
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
This meeting is virtual. Please read instructions for successful registration:
  1. Buy your ticket at nypsi.org. PLEASE NOTE: Ticket Registration is NOT the same as ZOOM registration.
  2. One day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for meeting which you will receive by email from Sharon Weller. This step involves entering your name and email address. If you do not complete this, you will NOT receive link to meeting. PLEASE CHECK ALL EMAIL FOLDERS IN CASE IT GOES INTO SPAM OR OTHER. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH NYPSI WEBSITE REGISTRATION AND ZOOM REGISTRATION.
  3. Click on email from Lois Oppenheim (host) which contains ZOOM link  to “enter” the meeting.
  4. Evaluation survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

The 1065th Scientific Program Meeting:

“A Clinical Exercise: How We Listen”

(Note: Registration closes 4/11 at 4 PM.)

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Panelists: Irene Cairo, M.D. (moderator), Jean Roiphe, M.D., Rogelio Sosnik, M.D., Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D.

This meeting will be a Clinical Exercise which will demonstrate how analysts of different theoretical perspectives respond to the same session material. Attendees will observe analysts in real time, so to speak, seeing them respond to material of which they have no prior knowledge. The aim is to witness the analysts’ minds at work. The moderator / clinical case reader will present a portion of the material to which each discussant will respond with their impressions and associations. A discussion of the material and of the differences in responses will then follow.

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

Irene Cairo, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst and on the Faculty of the Contemporary Freudian Society and a graduate and member of the Faculty at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She has contributed chapters to The Bion Tradition (Karnac, 2015), Immigration in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2016), Unconscious Fantasy (Routledge, 2017) and Changing Notions of the Feminine (Routledge, 2019). Her paper, “My Colleague, That Other,” in Psychoanalytic Dialogues (2010) is a personal favorite.

Dr. Cairo has been North American Co-Chair of the Ethics Committee of the IPA, Associate Editor of “The American Psychoanalyst” and the IPA Newsletter “International Psychoanalysis.” She has also published a work of fiction: Inside-Out: Intimate Voices (IPBooks, 2022). She is in private practice in New York.

Jean Roiphe, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College. She is the Core Concepts editor of Auchincloss and Samberg’s Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts. Dr. Roiphe has also been involved in psychodynamic psychotherapy research and has published on this and other topics in JAPA, IJP and elsewhere. She teaches a course on Comparative Psychoanalytic Theory and Technique, which focuses on how the analyst’s theory affects their listening and technique.

Dr. Rogelio Sosnik is a native of Argentina where he received his medical education and his psychiatric and psychoanalytic training. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association, Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Freudian Society where he is also on the Faculty.

Dr. Sosnik is a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the IPA. He is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and has published papers in Argentina, Uruguay, Italy, and the U.S. on the relationship between Ferenczi and Bion, the British School, the work of Bleger, and the “Ethical Texture of Psychoanalysis.”

Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute where teaches the work of Melanie Klein as well as a new course examining the role of the external world in psychic development.  An Associate Editor of JAPA, she has authored numerous papers and book chapters on female sexuality, the maternal, misogyny and the nature of the object, as well as various aspects of Kleinian theory and technique. She is a co-founder of the Frankiel Fellowship sponsored by the Melanie Klein Trust which has offered training in Kleinian analysis for advanced candidates for over a decade. Dr. Zeavin is the co-editor (with Donald Moss) of Hating, Abhorring and Wishing to Destroy: Psychoanalytic Essays on the Contemporary Moment (New Library of Psychoanalysis).

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

  1. recognize the vicissitudes of listening to completely unknown clinical material
  2. distinguish between differing perspectives on how we listen and respond to clinical material
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
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.

NYPSI Virtual Open House

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  •  March 28, 2023
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

NYPSI Virtual Open House

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm (EST)

Join us for a discussion with NYPSI candidates and members, including Rebecca Twersky-Kengmana, M.D., NYPSI President. Others in attendance will include members of the candidates’ association, The Committee on Racial Consciousness and the Diversities, as well as chairs of the Fellowship Program, PREP 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 challenges of balancing 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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Please RSVP to Hilli Dagony-Clark at hilli@dagony-clark.com by Monday, March 27th.

 

Scientific Meeting: The Ethics of Analytic Authenticity: creative freedom and presence

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  •  March 14, 2023
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
This meeting is virtual. Please read instructions for successful registration:
  1. Buy your ticket at nypsi.org. PLEASE NOTE: Ticket Registration is NOT the same as ZOOM registration.
  2. One day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for meeting which you will receive by email from Sharon Weller. This step involves entering your name and email address. If you do not complete this, you will NOT receive link to meeting. PLEASE CHECK ALL EMAIL FOLDERS IN CASE IT GOES INTO SPAM OR OTHER. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH NYPSI WEBSITE REGISTRATION AND ZOOM REGISTRATION.
  3. Click on email from Lois Oppenheim (host) which contains ZOOM link  to “enter” the meeting.
  4. Evaluation survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

The 1064th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Scientific Meeting: The Ethics of Analytic Authenticity: creative freedom and presence”

(Note: Registration closes 3/14 at 4 PM.)

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Presenter: Henry Markman, M.D.

Discussant: Steven Cooper, Ph.D.

In this presentation, Dr. Henry Markman explores the foundations of what it means to “be oneself” in doing ethically and clinically sound analytic work. He defines analytic authenticity as two connected aspirations: to allow for the singular way each analyst finds and brings their true, creative nature to the meeting with each patient, offering a space for emotional growth, and one’s personal ethical aspirations. The expression of analytic freedom is found in spontaneity, improvisation, and play, and the unique way each analyst expresses love and care. Our unique way of analytic relating is our personal signature imparted to the work, and the freedom to express ourselves makes us most alive, honest, and real. Markman’s ethical aspiration acknowledges the limits of our freedom and spontaneity by a commitment to the patient as an equal subject—not a case– in the relationship, a “thou” who cannot be fully known. His fundamental approach does not emphasize technique but rather how we stand in relation to the patient; this stance inherently changes us. Markman’s ethical commitment is to “presence”.  Presence, after the philosopher Gabriel Marcel, means a commitment to availability, openness, and permeability, opening an internal door to the patient—a state that requires emotional work to face our internal obstacles to availability. How we are as analysts in the way we engage is personal and unique, the human foundation for real therapeutic contact and a fundamentally ethical way of relating to another in our care.

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

 

Henry Markman is a Training & Supervising Analyst, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP) and Co-chair of Dialogues in Contemporary Psychoanalysis at SFCP. In 2021 he published the book, Creative Engagement in Psychoanalytic Practice (Routledge). Recent publications include: “A Pragmatic Approach to Bion’s Late Work” (JAPA, 2015); “Presence, Mourning, Beauty: Elements of Analytic Process” (JAPA, 2017); “The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, and the Dead: A Typology of Analytic Fields” (fort da, 2018); (Accompaniment in Jazz and Psychoanalysis” (Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 2020); “Embodied Attunement and Participation” (JAPA, 2020); and “One sided analysis is no longer possible: the relevance of ‘mutual analysis’ in our current world” (fort da, 2021). He has appeared on the IPA podcast “Off the Couch” entitled: An Analyst’s Journey to Authenticity and Presence, and the podcast “New Books in Psychoanalysis.”

Some of Dr. Markman’s interests include modes of therapeutic action, embodied communication and the relevance of music in psychoanalysis, aesthetic experience, the emotional work of the analyst in the clinical encounter, and the emotional development of a therapist. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled “Five Un-easy Pieces: five psychoanalytic articles that changed my mind.” His clinical work and writing draws from Bion, Ferenczi, Balint, Winnicott, the American Relational Group, and Latin American field and link theorists. He is in private practice in Berkeley, where he consults and leads study groups.

Steven Cooper is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is on the faculty at the New York University Postdoctoral Program and at the Austen Riggs Center. He is Chief Editor Emeritus of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He serves on the advisory board of the Hans Loewald Center.

In 1988 Dr. Cooper won the Prize of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He is the author of numerous journal articles and four books on topics including play, transference-countertransference, working with narcissistic disturbance, and comparative psychoanalysis. He has authored, Objects of Hope: Exploring Possibility and Limit in Psychoanalysis (Analytic Press, 2000); A Disturbance in the Field: Essays in Transference-Countertransference (Routledge, 2010); The Analyst’s Experience of the Depressive Position (Routledge, 2016); and most recently, Playing and Becoming in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2022).

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

  1. Express analytic authenticity to be more spontaneous and creative in patient sessions, while keeping in mind the limits to freedom by being attentive to the patient’s responses to the analyst’s actual personality.
  2. Explain the idea of “presence” and its ethical foundation for analytic relating.
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
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.

Scientific Meeting: A Psychoanalytic Examination of the Development of Gender Identity in Autism Spectrum Disorder

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  •  February 14, 2023
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
This meeting is virtual. Please read instructions for successful registration:
  1. Buy your ticket at nypsi.org. PLEASE NOTE: Ticket Registration is NOT the same as ZOOM registration.
  2. One day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for meeting which you will receive by email from Sharon Weller. This step involves entering your name and email address. If you do not complete this, you will NOT receive link to meeting. PLEASE CHECK ALL EMAIL FOLDERS IN CASE IT GOES INTO SPAM OR OTHER. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH NYPSI WEBSITE REGISTRATION AND ZOOM REGISTRATION.
  3. Click on email from Lois Oppenheim (host) which contains ZOOM link  to “enter” the meeting.
  4. Evaluation survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

The 1063rd Scientific Program Meeting:

“A Psychoanalytic Examination of the Development of Gender Identity in Autism Spectrum Disorder”

(Note: Registration closes 2/14 at 4 PM.)

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Presenter: Susan Sherkow, M.D.

Discussant: Fred R. Volkmar, M.D.

This paper presentation offers a clinical case study that supports the literature on Gender Identity Disorders (GID) which has noted a correlation, but no hypotheses, for a causal connection between Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and GID. Children, from birth, actively search for ways to make sense of the social world that surrounds them, and cues about gender are an important part of this process. Through a dynamic interchange between experiences of their bodies, including hormonal and neuronal signals from the brain and their environment, such as parental interaction and decisions, these emotional, cognitive and developmental experiences become integrated into the child’s self-representation. Autism spectrum disorder is a genetic, neurobiological condition manifesting in early childhood that affects brain functioning and contributes to a relatively generalized difficulty in theory of mind and thus the process of forming representations of self and other, including representations of self/other, and male/female. According to both existing literature and this writer’s experience, children on the spectrum are more likely to show either an absent, indefinite, inexact, or, in more high functioning adolescents, dysphoric gender identity. This paper aims to examine how, why, and when ASD impacts the child’s ability to form gender identity. Dr. Sherkow will describe a case of a young boy who was seen in analysis four times weekly from the ages of 4 to 8 ½, and then in a psychosocial group until age 11. This study follows the process of his resuming the developmental trajectory of his ego and superego formation, his mastery of theory of mind, and the establishment of a gendered sense of self as a boy.

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

 

Susan P. Sherkow, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute. She is also a Supervising Analyst and Instructor in the Child and Adolescent Division of NYPSI, and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai and Albert Einstein Colleges of Medicine. She is the president of ACP. Dr. Sherkow has published in JAPAThe Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and Psychoanalytic Inquiry, among others, on the topics of autism spectrum disorder, primal scene, watched play, and working in analysis with children under five. She is co-author of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience (2014). Her most recent writings include chapter contributions: “Managing arrogance in child analysis” in Arrogance: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realms, and “Back to Freud’s beginning: Looking at Neuroscience through a Contemporary Psychoanalytic Lens” in Psychoanalytic Trends in Theory and Practice, The Second Century of The Talking Cure. Dr. Sherkow received the Ritvo prize in child psychoanalysis from the Yale Child Study Center in 2010. In 2012, she founded The Sherkow Center for Child Development and Autism Spectrum Disorder, a not-for-profit organization created to provide support for training, treatment, and research in the area of developmental delays and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Fred R. Volkmar, M.D. is the Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine and the Dorothy Goodwin Family Chair of Special Education at Southern Connecticut State University. An international authority on Asperger’s disorder and autism, he is certified in adult and child psychoanalysis and a member of the Western New England Psychoanalytic Institute. Dr. Volkmar was the primary author of the DSM-IV autism and pervasive developmental disorders section. He has authored several hundred scientific papers and has co-edited numerous books, including Asperger Syndrome, Healthcare for Children on the Autism Spectrum: A Guide to Medical, Nutritional, and Behavioral Issues and the recently released third edition of The Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders. Dr. Volkmar serves as associate editor of the Journal of AutismThe Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and the American Journal of Psychiatry and as co-chairperson of the autism/MR committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
  1. Describe how the the developmental trajectory of a child with autism differs from that of a neurotypical child in respect to gender formation
  2. Describe the application of a psychoanalytic approach to understanding and treating gender differences in a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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
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.