Scientific Meeting: Of Fear and Strangers

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  •  November 9, 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 1051st Scientific Program Meeting:

“Of Fear and Strangers”

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

Tuesday, November 9, 2021

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Presenter: George Makari, M.D.

Discussant: Sander Gilman, Ph.D.

How to ignore the international resurgence of xenophobia? What are its forgotten histories and what do they mean for us today? These are among the questions to be explored by George Makari who will draw upon clues to the origins of the fear and hatred of strangers uncovered while researching the topic for his most recent book. While such fear and hatred may be ancient, the notion of a dangerous bias called “xenophobia” arose not so long ago. Coined by late nineteenth-century doctors and political commentators and popularized by an eccentric stenographer, xenophobia emerged alongside Western nationalism, colonialism, mass migration, and genocide. In this presentation, Dr. Makari will chronicle the concept’s rise from its popularization and perverse misuse to its chilling applications in the lead up to World War II and up through the “new xenophobia” that has emerged in the 21st century. Investigating its evolution through the writings of numerous renowned figures, Sigmund Freud among them, he will synthesize history, philosophy, and psychology to offer insight into varied, interdisciplinary ideas such as the stereotype, projection, the authoritarian personality, the Other, and institutional bias.

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered.

Historian and psychiatrist George Makari, M.D. is the Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts, and Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, where for over two decades he has led efforts to integrate humanistic scholarship into mind/brain medicine and science. Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (W.W Norton, 2021), his third book, was preceded by two widely acclaimed histories, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (W.W Norton, 2015) and Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis (HarperCollins, 2008). Dr. Makari’s books have been or are being translated into ten languages and their findings have been the subject of eight symposia. His opinion pieces and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Massachusetts Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Boston Globe, and Time, in addition to his many articles in psychiatric journals. The recipient of numerous honors, Dr. Makari was presented in 2017 with the Benjamin Rush Award from the American Psychiatric Association. A graduate of Brown University, Cornell University Medical College, and the Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center, he is presently a Guest Investigator at Rockefeller University and a faculty member of Columbia’s Psychoanalytic institute.

Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over one hundred books. His “I Know Who Caused COVID-19”: Pandemics and Xenophobia (with Zhou Xun) appeared with Reaktion Press (London) in 2021; his most recent edited volume is The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body (with Youn Kim) published in 2019 with Oxford University Press. Dr. Gilman is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane and Jewish Self-Hatred. For twenty-five years he was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies. He has also held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago and been a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he created the ‘Humanities Laboratory.’ Dr. Gilman has served as Visiting Historical Scholar at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA; a Berlin prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin; the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford University; Visiting Research Professor at The University of Hong Kong; and the Alliance Professor of History at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China, and New Zealand. Dr. Gilman was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995 and he has been awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto (2007), elected honorary professor at the Free University in Berlin (2000), been an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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

  1. Describe the genealogy of the term and concept of xenophobia
  2.  Explain how different models of mind -including the psychoanalytic – have sought to understand these phenomena.
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.

Closed Meeting: NYPSI Outdoor Memorial & Community Gathering

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  •  October 24, 2021
     1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

NYPSI Outdoor Memorial and Community Gathering

Sunday, October 24, 2021
1:00 – 2:30 PM
A NYPSI Community Memorial Event and Gathering
Please respond by Oct 18.
*Parking and restroom facilities will be available at the site.
*NYPSI will have an outdoor area with seating provided for this event.

Closed Meeting: Jumping the Turnstile: Walking the Tightrope Walk with a Traumatized Adolescent

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  •  October 28, 2021
     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:

“Jumping the Turnstile: Walking the Tightrope Walk with a Traumatized Adolescent”

Thursday, October 28, 2021

8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)

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

Presenter: Ruth Baer Maetzener, Ph.D.

Dr. Baer Maetzener will present a 4-year-long analysis of an 18-year-old adolescent male whose developmental process of identification undulated between grandiosity and failure, manhood and boyhood, caregiver and beggar. Much work was done around superego conflicts having to do with identification and separation from his internalized parental figures.

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

Dr. Ruth Baer Maetzener studied Adult and Child Psychology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, from where she received her Ph.D. in psychology. She later moved to New York where she graduated from the Parent Infant Program at Columbia University. She then trained at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center in Adult as well as Child & Adolescent Psychoanalysis and recently graduated from the latter. She is a supervisor of the Clinical Psychology doctoral program of the City College of New York and in the Psychology Externship program of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She is in private practice in New York City where she sees infants, children, adolescents and adults.

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

  1. Name two factors that contribute to adolescent resistances to analytically informed treatments.
  2. Identify two strategies for responding effectively to these resistances

 

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.

Scientific Meeting: Truth and Reconciliation

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  •  October 2, 2021
     10:00 am - 12:00 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.
  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 1050th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Truth and Reconciliation”

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

Saturday, October 2, 2021

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (EST)

Panelists: Teresa Bejan, Ph.D., Rebecca Brendel, M.D., Henry Nunberg, M.D. (moderator), & Theodore Shapiro, M.D.

This panel will be devoted to the notion of conflict, both small-scale and large-scale, intra-institutional and inter-national. How might the origins of conflict be contextualized? Are the routes to reconciliation comparable? The role of aggression in human history and prehistory manifests in both small and large groups. Examples of the effect of increased aggression in the larger community on smaller groups abound; violence appears waiting to be stimulated. It is well-known that gratuitous violence – i.e., violence not connected to the need for food, territory, or reproductive opportunity – is more common in primates than in other species, the most obvious non-human example being chimpanzees. In a previous NYPSI meeting, tribalism was shown to be inextricably interwoven with aggression. What does this tell us about humans, from the members of the largest to the smallest groups and individual psychology as well? What are the ethical implications for political systems? These are among the questions to be considered by this group of distinguished panelists.

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

 

Teresa M. Bejan, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Political Theory and a Fellow of Oriel College at the University of Oxford. Her book, Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (Harvard, 2017), was called “penetrating and sophisticated” by The New York Times. She writes regularly for scholarly and popular venues and is currently at work on a second monograph entitled First Among Equals: A History of Equality in Theory and Practice.

Henry Nunberg, LLB, M.D. (moderator) is a psychoanalyst in clinical practice in New York City. A member of NYPSI, where he is on the faculty, and of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he is a former member of the NYPSI Board of Directors and a past Vice-President. Dr. Nunberg is Professional Director of The Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund. His recent writings have been devoted to the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

Theodore Shapiro, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College and a Training and Supervising Analyst at NYPSI. He was Editor of JAPA from 1983-1992 and served on the Boards of the Quarterly and Psychoanalysis and Science. He is the author of more than 25 scholarly and research articles published in peer review journals. His most recent books (two of nine) are a manualized treatment for children and adolescents coauthored with Barbara Milrod and Sabina Preter (Oxford U Press)and a compendium of his papers, From Inner Speech to Dialogue: Psychoanalysis, Linguistics and Development (IPP). Dr. Shapiro has served as Secretary of the Institute, on the Board of Directors and Education Committee and he was Director of Research for ten years. He is the recipient of multiple awards and lectureships including the Hartmann and Brill awards at NYPSI as well as the Rado lectureship at Columbia and the Plenary at the annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He continues to teach and lecture at the WCMC and practice in NYC.

Rebecca Weintraub Brendel, M.D., J.D. is President-Elect of the American Psychiatric Association.  Director of the Master of Bioethics Program and Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, she bases her clinical and forensic psychiatry practice at Massachusetts General Hospital where she is Director of Law and Ethics at the Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior. Dr. Brendel, who is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is also admitted to the Massachusetts Bar. Dr. Brendel is Chair of the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Ethics, Grievances, and Professional Standards and is an appointed member of the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA). Dr. Brendel lectures nationally and internationally on critical topics at the intersection of psychiatry, ethics, human rights, and law.

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

  1. Describe the role of aggression, conscious and unconscious, in our patients’ difficulties.
  2. Describe the relation between ethical considerations and aggression in the psychoanalytic situation.

 

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.

Institute Closed – Columbus Day

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  •  October 11, 2021
     12:05 am - 11:55 pm