Sharon Weller

Scientific Meeting: Panel Honoring the Published Work of Drs. Sander Abend, Michael Porder & Martin Willick

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  •  March 8, 2022
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
This webinar 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 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. PLS NOTE: ZOOM registration is separate from NYPSI website 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 1054th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Panel Honoring the Published Work of Drs. Sander Abend, Michael Porder and Martin Willick”

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Panelists: Lisa Deutscher, M.D., Edith McNutt, M.D., and Edward Nersessian, M.D.

This meeting will focus on clinical psychoanalytic practice and its theoretical foundation (or justification) as seen by three prominent psychoanalytic thinkers: Drs. Sander Abend, Michael Porder, and Martin Willick. Tackling subjects such as borderline conditions, therapeutic action, transference, and countertransference, among other clinical concepts, these theoretically-oriented practitioners established a standard which dominated much psychoanalytic thinking in this country for several decades after the 1970s. Such concepts, their application to clinical practice and their relevance to current thinking on borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, and other pathologies will be discussed and honor paid to these preeminent psychoanalysts for their rich and scholarly contributions.

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/ CE credits offered.

Dr. Lisa Deutscher has been on the faculty of NYPSI for many years, teaching several courses and supervising trainees.  She has also served on the Board of Directors, on various committees, and as Vice President. Currently, she teaches the courses “Women’s Bodies, Pregnancy, and Other Self-Revelations in Psychoanalysis” and “Utilizing Multiple Models.” Dr. Deutscher is also on the faculty of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and in private practice.  Her particular interest at this time is in how decisions are made about self-disclosure and what is unwittingly or unavoidably revealed by the analyst.
Dr. Edith McNutt is a Training and Supervising Analyst at NYPSI. For many years she taught the course “Early Theories of Symptom Formation.” Dr. McNutt has served as Chair of the Faculty and on many committees, including, most recently the Program Committee.
Dr. Edward Nersessian is a Training and Supervising Analyst at NYPSI, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, and the Director of the Helix Center. His last paper, co-authored with Philip Herschenfeld, was on Therapeutic Action.

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

  1. describe shifts in psychoanalytic thinking from the 1960s to the 2010s about the relative roles of constitutional factors, preverbal object relationships, later experience, and associated unconscious fantasies with regard to the treatment of more disturbed patients, such as those with longstanding characterological disorders.
  2. describe and assess the contributions made to psychoanalytic theory and technique individually and jointly by Drs. Abend, Porder, and Willick, particularly in relation to the significance of unconscious fantasy.
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. (as of 4/23/21)
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.
Cancellation Policy: Full refund will be granted only if registrant cancels prior to event. Please contact the Administrative Director at admdir@nypsi.org
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Sharon Weller

Institute Closed for President’s Day

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  •  February 21, 2022
     12:05 am - 11:55 pm
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Sharon Weller

Closed Meeting: Obstacles in the Psychodynamic Treatment of Adolescents in the Community

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  •  January 20, 2022
     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:

“Closed Meeting: Obstacles in the Psychodynamic Treatment of Adolescents in the Community: Updates from the Blos Fellowship”

Thursday, January 20, 2022

8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)

Please note this meeting will be held virtually on ZOOM. Registrants will receive ZOOM link.

Presenters: Lisa Roth, M.D. and Joe Wise, M.D.

In this Advanced Seminar, Drs. Lisa Roth and Joseph Wise, both Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Candidates at NYPSI, will describe their recent work during the Blos Fellowship. Both chose to consider psychoanalytic psychotherapy with adolescents in community settings where adolescents traditionally would have little access to this treatment. Dr. Roth focused on medication non-adherence in an adolescent teen with sickle cell disease. Dr. Wise focused on the meaning and implication of low/no fee and fee setting in working with this clinical group.

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits will be offered.

Lisa Roth, M.D. is a candidate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis at NYPSI. She is a board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist in private practice in lower Manhattan. She is also a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Montefiore Medical Center, where she is part of the core psychodynamic faculty who teach and supervise the child and adolescent psychiatry fellows in their treatments of children in the Bronx.

Joseph Wise, M.D. is a candidate in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis at NYPSI and an advanced candidate in Adult Psychoanalysis at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. He is a board-certified Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist, in private practice in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to moving to New York City four years ago, he was a psychiatrist in the U.S. Army for ten years, including a combat deployment. In addition to additional expertise in trauma therapies, he worked with many LGBTQ+ patients, and is the co-editor of, Gay Mental Healthcare: Providers and Patients in the Military, published by Springer, 2018.

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

  1. Describe and explain challenges of psychodynamic work with adolescents in community settings.
  2. Identify how no/low fee and fee-setting impacts psychodynamic psychotherapy in adolescents in the community.
  3. Explore the utility of psychodynamic psychotherapy in the treatment of adolescent non-adherence to medication in sickle cell disease.
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. (as of 4/23/21)
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

Scientific Meeting: Assessment of Sexual Maturity in Adolescence

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  •  January 11, 2022
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
This webinar 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 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. PLS NOTE: ZOOM registration is separate from NYPSI website 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 1053rd Scientific Program Meeting:

“Assessment of Sexual Maturity in Adolescence”

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Presenter: Otto F. Kernberg, M.D.

Discussant: Susan C. Vaughan, M.D.

This presentation will focus on clinical criteria to assess the degree of emotional maturity or pathology of the adolescent’s sexual love life.  Excessive submissiveness to or rebellious rejection of conventionally dominant patterns of behavior will be contrasted with measures of sexual identity, capacity for object relations in depth, erotic freedom, and idealization processes; in short, the potential for sexual passion.  The determination of the components of sexual identity and their degree of harmonious integration will be reflected in the integration of gender identity with object choice, the intensity of sexual desire, and the idealization of a sexual love relationship as a transcendental intimacy.

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered.

 

Otto F. Kernberg, M.D., F.A.P.A., is Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at The New York Presbyterian Hospital, Westchester Division, and Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Dr. Kernberg is a Past-President of the International Psychoanalytic Association.  He is also Training and Supervising Analyst of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.  He is the author of 13 books and co-author of 12 others, including: Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism; Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Strategies; Contemporary Controversies in Psychoanalytic Theory, Techniques and their Applications; The Inseparable Nature of Love and Aggression; Psychoanalytic Education at the Crossroads; and, most recently, Resolution of Aggression and Recovery of Eroticism.

Susan C. Vaughan, M.D. is Director, Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.  A graduate of Harvard College and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. Vaughan completed her psychiatry residency, research fellowship in affective and anxiety disorders and psychoanalytic training at Columbia as well.  Dr. Vaughan has written two books, The Talking Cure: The Science Behind Psychotherapy and Half Empty, Half Full: Understanding the Psychological Roots of Optimism.  She teaches courses on sexuality, gender, psychoanalytic process and research at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
  1. Differentiate between a sexual identity crisis and identity diffusion.
  2. List the indicators of integration of erotic drive with the emotional commitment to a love object.
  3. Describe the prognostic implications of sexual difficulties in various personality disorders.
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. (as of 4/23/21)
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

Scientific Meeting: Racism and Anti-Semitism: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Othering

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  •  December 14, 2021
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
This webinar 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 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. PLS NOTE: ZOOM registration is separate from NYPSI website 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 1052nd Scientific Program Meeting:

“Racism and Anti-Semitism: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Othering”

The third in a series of three meetings devoted to the notion of conflict, both small-scale and large-scale, intra-institutional and inter-national.

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Panelists: Leon Hoffman, M.D. in conversation with Susannah Heschel, Ph.D. and J. Kameron Carter, Ph.D.

Why is racism so tenacious? Is anti-semitism a species of racism? Is racism a species of anti-Judaism? Are they entirely separate phenomena? This discussion will address the relationship between racism and anti-semitism, examining specific examples from history and how historical, racial, religious, and psychoanalytic scholarship can offer insight into both phenomena. Professor Heschel will draw from her historical scholarship on the Nazi era to explore the slippery nature of racism, its ability to alter its manifestations with ease and hide behind various disavowals while facilitating the racialization of political conflict, social institutions, and religious thought. Professor Carter will consider racial oppression as a theological construct transferred to the political institutions of society. How and which psychoanalytic ideas help us to understand the tenacious persistence of these maladaptive dichotomies of purity and defilement will be the focus of the meeting.   

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/ CE credits offered.

Susannah Heschel, Ph.D. is the Eli M. Black Distinguished Professor and chair of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on Jewish and Protestant religious thought in Germany during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Her books include Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus; The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany; Jüdischer Islam: Islam und jüdisch-deutsche Selbstbestimmung; The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism (coedited); and forthcoming with Sarah Imhoff, Jewish Studies and the Woman Question.  A Guggenheim Fellow, she has received five honorary doctorates and grants from the Ford Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, National Humanities Center and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

J. Kameron Carter, Ph.D. is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He also directs, with Winnifred Sullivan, IU’s Center for Religion and the Human and is on the advisory board of IU’s Center for Theoretical Inquiry. Professor Carter’s work focuses on the co-constituting catastrophes of race, (settler) colonialism, and environmental crises as matters of political theology. Carter is author of Race: A Theological Account (Oxford UP, 2008) and The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song (Duke UP, forthcoming, 2022). He has also just completed a book manuscript titled, The Religion of Whiteness: An Apocalyptic Lyric, which is with Yale UP. This last book inaugurates Carter’s “Mystic Song” trilogy, which advances an understanding of Blackness as released from racial category and thus as worldless and black religion as practices of worldlessness in the name of entangled earthiness. Positively put, Carter’s “Mystic Song” trilogy offers a poetics that entails a (black) theory of the earth.

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.

 

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

 within the context of psychoanalytic theories and concepts, 

  1. describe the major historical manifestations of anti-semitism, new scholarly methods for examining antisemitism and its emotional impact, and problems associated with using “anti-semitism” as a label for social or political phenomena
  2. explain  how racism and anti-semitism interact and reinforce one another
  3. describe the pervasiveness of the concept of purity versus defilement
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. (as of 4/23/21)
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 or 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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