Administrative Director

Advanced Child Seminar: Finding a Path Through the Thicket of Loss and Envy to New Forms of Connection: The Description of a Child Analysis

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  •  December 11, 2025
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

Advanced Child Seminar:

Finding a Path Through the Thicket of Loss and Envy to New Forms of Connection:

The Description of a Child Analysis

Thursday, December 11th

8:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)

Presenter: Sarah Knox, M.D

 

Description: The presentation will feature the description of a child analysis that illustrates technique based on an integration of several different psychoanalytic perspectives. The case will also demonstrate the importance of focusing on the child’s intrapsychic reality in the context of the analytic work, while also attending to the parents and their concerns. Finally, there will be an emphasis on the importance and complexities of the ending phase of the treatment in order to increase the likelihood that the treatment will have ongoing effects on the child’s developmental trajectory.

No CME/CE credits will be offered.

Free Admission

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

Please note registration closes at 2 PM on Thursday, December 11th.

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

***Registration in Zoom Before the Meeting is Required to Attend***

When you register, please look out for a confirmation email! This will have the zoom link to the meeting in it.

If you cannot find the link, please email  BEFORE the meeting, no staff will be available right as the meeting is starting.

*No recording will be made available due to the nature of the clinical content being presented*

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Brill Lecture: Inheritance and Trust: Reading the Family Novel

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  •  February 10, 2026
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

Brill Lecture:

Inheritance and Trust: Reading the Family Novel

Tuesday, February 10th

8:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)

Presenter: Daria Colombo, M.D.

 

Description: Daria Colombo, M.D. will use the occasion of the Brill lecture to consider our relationship to our socio-cultural surround.  Building on the author’s previous work on autotheory, Dr. Colombo will present an analysis of a recent novel: Hernan Diaz’s Trust. The novel centers on economic and narrative collapse, in the context of Haydée Faimberg’s model of “Listening to Listening.” In particular, Faimberg’s ideas about basic assumptions, misunderstandings and otherness are used as springboards for an interrogation of our psychoanalytic inheritances and an argument for our pressing responsibilities in the current moment.

1.5 Contact Hours. 1.5 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.

General Admission: $50

Student Admission: $35

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

Please note registration closes at 2 PM on Tuesday, February 10th.

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

***Registration in Zoom Before the Meeting is Required to Attend***

After you have completed registering for the event, please look out for a confirmation email with more details on how to receive your Zoom Link.

Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed after the event.

Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register!  Contact with questions.

OPTIONAL READINGS
  1. Bach, S. (2018) Some Thoughts on Trust and Betrayal. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 28:557-568. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2018.1506214
  2. Colombo, D. (2024) Revisiting, Rewriting, Reexperiencing: Clinical Writing Today, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 93:1, 3-12, https://doi.org/10.1080/00332828.2024.2319015
  3. Faimberg, H. (2019) Basic Theoretical Assumptions Underpinning Faimberg’s Method: “Listening to Listening”. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 100:447-462. https://doi.org/10.1177/000306512211005

 

BIOGRAPHIES

Daria Colombo, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at The New York Psychoanalytic Institute and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College.  She is an Associate Editor and on the Board of Directors of Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and was before that a longstanding editorial board member of both the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She is a member of The Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies. She won the Gertrude and Ernst Ticho prize in 2021 and is a past winner of the IJP’s Sacerdoti Prize as well as The New York Psychoanalytic Institute Foundation Award for Candidate Writing. Dr. Colombo has written about the analytic frame, literature, feminism and neutrality. Her most recent paper “Autotheory: Towards the Embodying of Analytic Framing” was awarded the JAPA prize in 2024. Dr. Colombo practices in New York City.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

  1. Discuss how to listen to clinical material from different theoretical backgrounds.
  2. Explain how to examine our clinical and theoretical work for unrecognized assumptions.

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
ACCME Accreditation Statement
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 New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of [1.5] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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Scientific Meeting: “Drive or trauma-Drive and trauma (Ilse Grubrich-Simitis) Revisited”

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  •  January 17, 2026
     10:00 am - 12:00 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

NYPSI’s 1082nd Scientific Meeting:

“Drive or Trauma-Drive and Trauma (Ilse Grubrich-Simitis) Revisited”

Saturday, January 17th, 2026

10:00 – 12:00 PM (EST)

Presenter: Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Ph.D.

Discussant: Luis Ripoll, M.D.

 

Description: Almost 40 years ago, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, in her groundbreaking paper, “Drive or Trauma: Drive and Trauma,” integrated drive and object relational aspects, on the one hand, and trauma-specific perspectives, on the other, in a creative way, as will be discussed regarding some conceptual developments in contemporary psychoanalysis. A short case example will illustrate the conceptual richness for treating chronically depressed patients with early trauma available to clinicians today. Considering both drive and trauma is among the strengths of modern psychoanalytic treatment techniques as will be illustrated alongside recent findings of the LAC depression study indicating that these difficult-to-treat patients profit especially well from psychoanalysis.

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

General Admission: $50

Student Admission: $35

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

Please note registration closes at 2 PM on Friday, January 16th.

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

***Registration in Zoom Before the Meeting is Required to Attend***

After you have completed registering for the event, please look out for a confirmation email with more details on how to receive your Zoom Link.

Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed after the event.

Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register!  Contact with questions.

OPTIONAL READINGS
    1. Bohleber, W., & Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. (2016). The Special Problem of Interpretation in the Treatment of Traumatized Patients. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 36(1), 60–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2016.1112223
    2. Krakau, L., Ernst, M., Hautzinger, M., Beutel, M.E., Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. (2024): Childhood trauma and differential response to long-term psychoanalytic versus cognitive-behavioural therapy for chronic depression in adults. The British Journal of Psychiatry, First View, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.112.
    3. Leuzinger‐Bohleber, M. (2015). Working with severely traumatized, chronically depressed analysands. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 96(3), 611–636. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-8315.12238
BIOGRAPHIES

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Ph.D. is the former Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt, Professor Emerita at the University of Kassel, and Senior Professor at the University of Medicine in Mainz. She is a training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association and she has chaired the Research Subcommittees for Clinical, Conceptual, Epistemological and Historical Research of the IPA, served as Vice Chair for Europe of the Research Board of the IPA, and Chair of the IPA Subcommittee for Migration and Refugees. Dr. Leuzinger-Bohleber has been honored with the Mary Sigourney Award (2016), the Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis (2017), the Robert S. Wallerstein Fellowship (2022-2027), and the IPA’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award (2023). Her research fields are clinical and extra-clinical research in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic developmental research, prevention studies, interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and literature, educational sciences and the neurosciences.

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Luis H. Ripoll M.D. was born in Cartagena, Colombia, completed his undergraduate education in 2001 at Brown University with a double concentration in Biology and Philosophy, and received his medical degree in 2006 from the University of Florida College of Medicine. He completed his psychiatric residency at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 2010 which was followed by a clinical research fellowship focusing on the neurobiology of empathic accuracy in personality disorders and work at Mount Sinai’s World Trade Center Mental Health Program, where he also taught a course on the application of attachment theory and mentalization-based therapy to this severely traumatized patient population. Dr. Ripoll completed psychoanalytic training at NYPSI in 2018, serving as Silvan Clinical Research Fellow. He has presented at APSA’s annual meetings on the disturbance of self in borderline personality disorder and on a panel devoted to Freud’s conception of trauma in “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” as applied to contemporary issues regarding racism, climate change, and immigration. He presently teaches two courses at NYPSI on Interpersonal and Relational Psychoanalysis and the use of tape-recordings of psychoanalytic sessions to understand the psychoanalytic process as well as an online course organized by the William Alanson White Institute on the works of Donnel Stern. Dr. Ripoll serves on the board of the Psychoanalytic Research Consortium where he continues to participate in process and outcome research using recorded analyses. He has been in full-time private practice in NYC since 2015.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

  1. Utilize the concept of embodied memories with psychoanalytic treatment technique
  2. Explain why in treating chronically depressed patients who experienced early trauma, it is crucial to address embodied memories of early trauma both in the transference relationship with the analyst and by approaching the “historical truth” of the trauma.

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
ACCME Accreditation Statement
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 New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
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.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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Fred Pine Award Plenary Address: Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious

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  •  January 13, 2026
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

Fred Pine Award Plenary Address

Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious

Tuesday, January 13th, 2026

8:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)

Presenters: Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. &

Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D.

 

Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. & Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D. will present on the influence of temporality on people’s mind and lives. They reconsider Freud’s assertions that time belongs exclusively to the system Cs. and is absent from the unconscious (UCS), highlighting the inconsistencies in Freud’s own clinical observations and theorizing. Time and timelessness are coexistent, interrelated dimensions of experience, rather than binaries. The past, present and future coexist in both unconscious and conscious mentation. Psychoanalytic literature, contemporary chronobiological and developmental research, recent work in neuroscience, and clinical observations will be drawn upon. As psychoanalytic practitioners and educators, they want to expand recognition of the role of temporality in the workings of unconscious processes and contribute to a revised theory of the unconscious.

1.5 Contact Hours. 1.5 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.

General Admission: $50

Student Admission: $35

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

*Registration will close at 2PM on Tuesday, January 13th*

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

***Registration in Zoom Before the Meeting is Required to Attend***

After you have completed registering for the event, please look out for a confirmation email with more details on how to receive your Zoom Link.

Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed after the event.

Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register!  Contact with questions.

OPTIONAL READINGS
    1. Cairo, I. (2017). It’s about Time: Temporality in Analysis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65:317-326.
    2. Scarfone, D. (2016) Enactive Cognition, the Unconscious, and Time. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 36(5):388-397.
    3. Steiner, J. (2018). Time and the Garden of Eden Illusion. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 99(6), 1274–1287.
BIOGRAPHIES
Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, is the co- author (with Danielle Knafo) of the book, Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World. He is a clinical consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He has published articles on child development, empathy,
unconscious fantasy, and sexual abuse. Dr. Feiner is in private practice in New York City where he sees adults, teenagers and couples.
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Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is Teaching Faculty, Clinical Consultant, and served for 6 years as Co-Chair of the Relational Track at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Faculty at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and the National Training Program of NIP. Dr. Waxenberg maintains an office practice in NYC working with individuals and couples.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

  1. Identify instances in which Freud’s descriptions of the unconscious included time, contradicting his claim that the unconscious is timeless.
  2. Describe how time and timelessness coexist in unconscious processes in their work with patients and discuss the ramifications of this for a psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious.

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
ACCME Accreditation Statement
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 New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of [1.5] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
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Horowitz Sondheim Clinic Presentation: Treating the Artist Patient

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  •  October 28, 2025
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

***This meeting is hybrid, in person and on zoom***

Horowitz Sondheim Clinic Presentation:

Treating the Artist Patient

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium

247 East 82nd Street, New York, 10028

Presenters: Alana Mendelsohn, MD & Amy M. Rosenthal, LCSW

The “tortured artist” is a Western archetype that depicts professional artists as individuals in constant mental torment. According to this trope, poor mental health contributes to and is potentially even necessary for creative output and ambition. Although artists face mental health challenges at significantly higher rates than the general population, they have not been extensively studied or approached as a patient population with distinct risk factors or needs. In this session, we will introduce providers to the mental health challenges artists face and how mental health treatment can support not only their personal health and wellbeing, but their creative needs as well. Building upon NYPSI’s legacy through Stephen Sondheim’s therapeutic journey with Dr. Milton Horowitz, this session demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding can support rather than inhibit creative expression. We hope that by the end of the session, providers will obtain a deeper appreciation for the mental health needs of artists and practical skills for how to approach working with them in treatment.

There are no CE/CME credits for this event. 

General Admission: $25

Student Admission: $15

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

IF YOU ARE ATTENDING VIA ZOOM; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

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BIOGRAPHIES

Alana Mendelsohn, MD is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, and a co-founder of Creatives Care. Dr. Mendelsohn completed her medical, scientific and clinical training in adult psychiatry at Columbia University and has maintained a part-time private practice in New York for the last four years providing comprehensive medication management and psychotherapy. She is currently based in London, where she helps lead early clinical translation at Sania Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup focused on precision therapeutics for nervous system dysfunction.

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Amy M. Rosenthal, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Clinical Director of Creatives Care, a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting NYC-based artists with affordable, high-quality mental health care. A graduate of NYU’s School of Social Work and the Psychoanalytic Fellowship at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI), she has extensive post-graduate training in psychodynamic, relational, and trauma-informed approaches. A former artist herself, Amy specializes in treating creative professionals and has presented on artists’ mental health needs at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting and The Harkness Center for Dance Injuries.

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