Please note this meeting is closed to the public. Child candidates at NYPSI, Columbia and PANY are expected to attend.
Thursday, November 17, 2022
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)
Please note this meeting will be held virtually on ZOOM. Registrants will receive ZOOM link.
Presenters: Stephanie Brandt, M.D. and Kelly Champion, Ph.D.
Too commonly we see individuals who have suffered from trauma during childhood. As therapists who see children and adolescents as well as adults, we need to understand this phenomenon from many perspectives. Three brief clinical case vignettes of children and adolescents who have suffered from trauma will be presented to lead us into an examination of the general topic of childhood trauma and how to understand it. How do we recognize this in our work with patients? How do we understand trauma’s signs and impact given the developmental phases during which it occurs? What methods do we use to treat the impact of trauma on the individual while also supporting the families?
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.
Stephanie Brandt, M.D. is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She is a Faculty member, Chair of the Ethics Committee, and a Child and Adolescent Supervising Psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She is also Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College. She has a private practice in Manhattan and also works with certain forensic cases both nationally and internationally.
Kelly Champion, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist as well as a forensic psychologist actively practicing in both areas. She works with national organizations to reduce the impact of trauma and violence on children through advocacy, prevention, education, and clinical intervention. She has published research in peer-reviewed journals on school bullying, child psychopathology, professional training, child maltreatment, and parenting and, she has presented at international, national, and local conferences.
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 11/8 at 4 PM.)
Tuesday, November 8, 2022
8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)
Presenter: Gilbert Kliman, M.D.
Discussants: Judy Kantrowitz, Ph.D. and Miriam Steele, Ph.D.
A now 72-year-old former child analysand has kindly permitted us to view a 63-year video recorded follow-up with Dr. Kliman. He had been deeply traumatized, fragile, depressed, enuretic, encopretic, dissociated, fetishistic, dyslexic, socially isolated and thus overall profoundly disturbed emotionally and developmentally at age nine. Humor, warmth, perseverance and gratitude were nevertheless evident. His CGAS (Children’s Global Assessment Scale) of his early years can be estimated at 40. Several years of intensive child analysis including parent guidance appear to have turned his life course into a gradually improving and solid adult development. He seems to have never stopped strengthening his gains despite major object losses, financial distress and continuing interpersonal adversities with his childhood abuser. His current GAF (Global Assessment of Functioning) can be estimated as over 80. How this outcome happened will be the focus of this presentation. A link to the video will be shared with registrants via email and will be available for viewing from November 2 – 9, 2022.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.
Gilbert Kliman, M.D. is Medical Director, The Children’s Psychological Health Center, Inc., former Chairperson, Harlem Family Institute, Co-Chair, Harlem Family Services. Distinguished Life Fellow and Diplomate American Psychiatric Association, Distinguished Senior Life Fellow and Diplomate, Am. Academy Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Certified Psychoanalyst for Children, Adolescents, and Adults – Am. Psychoanalytic Association. Recipient Janusz Korczak award for “World’s Best Book on Nurture and Well Being of Children” (Responsible Parenthood), 2016 Anna Freud Award, 2020 Humanitarian Award of The American Psychoanalytic Association. 2020 Rieger Award, AACAP. He graduated from NYPSI in adult, child and adolescent psychoanalysis.
Judy L. Kantrowitz, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and a former Clinical Associate Professor (now called a Corresponding Member) at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of four books, The Patient’s Impact on the Analyst (1996) ; Writing About Patients: Responsibilities, Risks, and Ramifications (2006); Myths of Termination: What Patients Can Teach Analysts About Endings (2014) and The Role of Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and Outcome of Psychoanalysis (2020). She has served three times on the Editorial Board of JAPA and won the JAPA paper prize for 2020. She is currently on the board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. She is in private practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Brookline, MA.
Miriam Steele, Ph.D. is the Alfred J. and Monette C. Marrow Professor in Psychology and co-director of the Center for Attachment Research at the New School for Social Research. Dr. Steele bridges the world of psychoanalytic thinking and clinical practice with contemporary research in child development. She trained as a child analyst at the Anna Freud Centre London and received her Ph.D. from University College London. Her research began with the study of “Intergenerational Patterns of Attachment” which embodied one of the first prospective longitudinal studies incorporating the Adult Attachment Interview and Strange Situation protocols. This work was important in initiating the concept of reflective functioning and providing empirical data to demonstrate the importance of parental states of mind in the social and emotional development of their children with a longitudinal focus on their development into adulthood. Her current projects include studies exploring attachment and body representations across a range of individuals including mother-child dyads and individuals with physical disabilities, studies of children in foster care and adoption and child and adolescent global mental health.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
1) articulate evidence of positive transference and positive countertransference persisting for six decades.
2) state a view the patient recalls of the role the child analyst played in his life.
3) state evidence of identification with the child analyst.
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.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
8:00 – 10: 00 pm (EST)
Presenter: Leon Hoffman, M.D.
Discussant: Paula Christian-Kliger, Ph.D.
When an issue becomes live — when it becomes salient, as political scientists put it — people disagree. The question is how to handle and structure that disagreement…
Jamelle Bouie – New York Times, July 30, 2022
Discussions about race and racism are very difficult among psychoanalysts, and are often polarizing. The paper argues that the conception of Whiteness as the pathogenic agent of our social ills has created a deal of animosity which has interfered with the goals of examining structural racism in psychoanalysis, as in the rest of society. The concept of Whiteness is compared to the scientific racism of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both constructions are manifestations of essentialism. Epistemic trust and mistrust, potential malignant polarization, and a back-fire effect occur which distracts from paying enough attention to critical social problems at the moment. Terror Management Theory, fear of one’s mortality, is postulated to result in the avoidance of open discussions about differences. Group discussions utilizing deliberative norms are more productive than the usual psychoanalytic-style of free and open-ended discussions, which often promote polarization. Can there be a recovery of epistemic trust among analysts who have similar values but may strongly disagree on the right course to follow? Understanding and addressing the difficulties of discussion among psychoanalysts can contribute to addressing these issues in the social realm.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.
Leon Hoffman, M.D., Psychiatrist and Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist; Training and Supervising Analyst in adult, child, and adolescent analysis, co-Director, Pacella Research Center at NYPSI (New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute); faculty Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; Chief Psychiatrist/Psychoanalyst, West End Day School in NYC. He is co-author of Manual for Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children with Externalizing Behaviors (RFP-C): A Psychodynamic Approach. A Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT) which demonstrated the effectiveness of the approach, has been published in Psychotherapy Research. The manual has also been translated into Italian. Hoffman’s publications include collaboration with different colleagues. He has written on the application of linguistic measures to the evaluation of psychotherapy and psychoanalytic sessions; studied the impact of teletherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic; and has written theoretical and clinical papers, papers discussing social problems, book reviews, and book essays, including “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Populism” in Contemporary Psychoanalysis in 2018 and “The evolution of racism in the Western world: addressing fear of the other” published in 2021 in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Paula Christian-Kliger, Ph.D. is a board-certified clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst who founded Psychological Assets, PC and Kliger Consulting Group, LLC 30 plus years ago. With broad professional expertise, she works with children/adolescents, adults, families, leaders, organizations, and communities from diverse social, cross-generational, and cultural backgrounds. She is Principal Organizational, Relational and Cultural Consultant of Harlem Psychoanalytic Family Institute, a member of APsaA and IPA, the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, American Psychological Association (APA), and Black Psychoanalysts Speak (BPS). Dr. Kliger’s writings and artwork, which speak to her long-standing work with people from multidimensional and relational contexts of life, offer an innovative approach to working side by side with psychoanalytically informed partners. Dr. Kliger is winner of the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Finalist Award for both poetry and illustrations for her book: Power Your Heart, You Power Your Mind, Self-Study then Build A Bridge to Someone. Her co-produced podcast: “We Are Human First” received the 2020 Hermes International Creative Gold Award and can be found on Spotify, Apple, and the website www.psychassets.com.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
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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