Sharon Weller

Closed Meeting: Child Seminar: Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C): From Clinical Construct to Systematic Empirical Study

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  •  May 18, 2023
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Please note this meeting is closed to the public. Child candidates at NYPSI, Columbia and PANY are expected to attend.

Advanced Seminar in Child and Adolescent Analysis:

“Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C): From Clinical Construct to Systematic Empirical Study”

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:

  1. describe the theoretical and clinical underpinnings of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children: A Psychodynamic Approach for Children with Disruptive Behaviors
  2. appreciate the value of addressing children’s defense mechanisms against painful emotions
  3. apply the Triangle of Defense in clinical work
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.

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Sharon Weller

Freud Lecture: Freud in his Psychosocial Generation: Durkheim, Simmel, Weber and Du Bois

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  •  May 9, 2023
     8:00 pm - 9:45 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 62nd Freud Anniversary Lecture:

“Freud in his Psychosocial Generation: Durkheim, Simmel, Weber and Du Bois”

(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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Sharon Weller

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

 

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Sharon Weller

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.

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Sharon Weller

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.

 

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