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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 webinar 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 webinar. 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 and password to “enter” the webinar.
4. Evaluation survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

The 1057th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Perception, mark and representation: Three cardinal points to guide a psychosomatic theory and practice”

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Presenter: Jorge C. Ulnik, M.D., Ph.D.

Discussant: Harvey Schwartz, M.D.

Is there a relationship between what appears marked on the body and is perceived as a symptom or sign of disease and what can be represented in the psyche?  If such a relationship does not exist, is it possible to create one and make it therapeutically useful?  From these foundational questions, two types of “marks” expressive of emotions and from which internal and external stimuli are processed will be described, one leading to language and the other to the body. Using both Freud’s text on Gradiva and clinical examples, a form of psychoanalytic work will be proposed that allows us to link and then differentiate the representations of the body, the world, and the other.

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

Jorge Claudio Ulnik, M.D., Ph.D. is a training and supervising analyst at the Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina.  He is Professor in the Pathophysiology and Psychosomatic Diseases Department in the School of Psychology and Adjunct Professor in the Mental Health Department, School of Medicine, at the University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Ulnik is also Professor of Psychosomatics at Complutense University of Madrid.  The 2021 winner of The Sigourney Award, he has been an invited lecturer at psychoanalytic institutes in Portugal, Australia, Italy, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. as well as invited Professor at McGill University, Tel Aviv University, Sao Paulo University, and elsewhere.  Dr. Ulnik has taught on the dermatology services of Russia, Spain, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay and in the Study Group of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Psychosomatic Patients in Russia. He has been President of EULAPS (Euro-Latin American Psychosomatics School), an IPA Research Fellow, a member of the Editorial Boards of Archivos Argentinos de Dermatología and Dermatología Argentina, and the founder of a private skin center with interdisciplinary teams of dermatologists and psychoanalysts.  In addition, Dr. Ulnik has published widely on psychosomatic medicine, psycho-dermatological diseases, and related topics.

Harvey Schwartz, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York and the Psychoanalytic Center in Philadelphia. Currently, he is the Co-Chair of the IPA in Health Committee and the Book Series Editor – IPA in the Community.  Dr. Schwartz has contributed to and edited six volumes; most recently, The Jewish Thought and Psychoanalysis Lectures and Applying Psychoanalysis in Medical Care.  He is the producer and host of the IPA podcast: Psychoanalysis On and Off the Couch.

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

1) describe concepts, as well as theoretical and practical approaches, that help the psychoanalyst work with patients suffering from somatic diseases

2) describe different levels of symbolization while taking into account variations in the relationship between perception and consciousness and the role of the body in replacing words

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 webinar 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 webinar. 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 and password to “enter” the webinar.
4. Evaluation survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

The 1056th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Adieu Lacan”

Tuesday, May 10, 2022

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Panelists: Betty Milan, M.D. (presenter), Alexander Kalogerakis, M.D.,  Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D., and Richard C. Ledes, Ph.D.

This Scientific Program will focus on the theory and practice of Jacques Lacan.  A clinical case of Lacan will be presented and discussed, one that inspired both a book and a play (Good bye, Doctor and Lacan’s Parrot), works by Betty Milan, M.D.  Dr. Milan, a Brazilian psychoanalyst as well as a writer, will be among the panelists and she will consider Lacan’s work from the perspective of both her own Lacanian clinical practice and her analytic experience with the maverick French analyst.  Milan’s analysis with Lacan is also the subject of a film, Adieu Lacan, a film that will be made available to those in attendance prior to and following the meeting.  Other presenters on Lacanian psychoanalysis will be Dr. Alexander Kalogerakis, Dr. Patricia Gherovici, and Dr. Richard C. Ledes (the film’s director and screenwriter). It is not required to watch the film prior to the May 10th panel but it is advisable.

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

Betty Milan, M.D. is a psychoanalyst and writer. She is the author of 27 books published in Brazil, Argentina, France, Spain, Portugal, and China. Three of these have to do with her analysis; the most recent being Pourquoi Lacan. In this book, she not only recounts her analysis with Lacan but, as she has said, “bears witness to the efficacy of the specific practice that was fundamental to his way of working.” In the 1970s, Dr. Milan founded  a Psychoanalytical Association (Colégio Freudiano do Rio de Janeiro).  She was also the first translator of Lacan’s seminars.

Alexander Kalogerakis, M.D. is a child and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a Supervising Analyst for Child and Adolescent Analysis, and a Faculty member and Chair of Admissions at NYPSI. Dr. Kalogerakis is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, a Board member at the American Board of Psychoanalysis, and a member of the United Nations Committee of the IPA. He teaches courses on Theory and Technique of Child and Adolescent Analysis and Adult Development.

Patricia Gherovici, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and recipient of the 2020 Sigourney Award for her clinical and scholarly work with Latinx and gender variant communities. She is co-founder and director of the Philadelphia Lacan Group; Associate Faculty, Psychoanalytic Studies Minor, University of Pennsylvania; Honorary Member of IPTAR; and Founding Member of Das Unbehagen. Dr. Gherovici’s single-authored books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (winner of the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize); Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism; and Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference. She co-edited Lacan On Madness: Madness Yes You Can’t; Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy and, most recently, Psychoanalysis in the Barrios: Race, Class, and the Unconscious (winner of the Gradiva Award for best edited collection and the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize). Her co-edited collection Psychoanalysis, Gender and Sexualities: From Feminism to Trans is forthcoming in 2022.

Richard C. Ledes, Ph.D. is a film producer, writer, and director based in New York City. He has directed and produced a number of films, including Fred Won’t Move Out, The Caller, and A Hole in One. His latest film Ikonophile Z, “a light romantic comedy about the extinction of all life on earth,” is currently in post-production. He is also currently at work on Vienna 1913, a feature film based on a play of the same name by the late French psychoanalyst and playwright Alain Didier-Weill.

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

1. describe how Jacques Lacan conceptualized the unconscious
2. explain how Lacanian theory and practice differ from classical psychoanalysis