Sharon Weller

Library Event: Meet the Artist: Philip Listengart

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  •  October 29, 2024
     7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

***THIS MEETING IS IN PERSON ONLY.***

Brill Library Event: Meet the Artist

An Evening with Philip Listengart and Sigmund Freud

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

7:30 – 9:00 PM (EST)

The sculptor Philip Listengart is an associate professor emeritus of sculpture at SUNY Purchase. His interest in creativity and the nature of the unconscious – its underpinnings – led him to enroll at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (NPAP) where he received his psychoanalytic training. This evening he will discuss the sculptures of the early analysts which grace the Brill Library. Speaking about his own sculpture of Freud, gifted to NYPSI in 1984, Listengart observes: “I made this piece for the pure joy of it.”

No CME/CE credits offered.

Free Admission

REGISTER HERE

Please note registration closes on 10/28/2024 at 5 pm.

 

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Sharon Weller

Scientific Meeting: Gayness and Psychoanalysis: Bias, Change


  •  December 10, 2024
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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

NYPSI’s 1076th Scientific Meeting:

“Gayness and Psychoanalysis: Bias, Change”

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Presenter: Lawrence Hartmann, M.D.

Discussant: Mark Smaller, Ph.D.

Lawrence Hartmann, M.D. will consider changes over time in psychoanalysis and psychiatry with regard to homosexuality.  More specifically, he will discuss the occurrences in and around December, 1973, that led to the discarding of homosexuality as diagnostic of a mental disorder.  Until December 1973, numerous psychoanalytic institutes, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and public opinion generally speaking, deemed homosexuality an illness and many dubious ideas about causes, “cures,” prevalence, etc. were perpetuated.  Following his presentation, Dr. Hartmann will be joined by Mark Smaller, Ph.D. in a discussion aimed at bettering our understanding of what led to change, what change might still be needed, and how clinicians can be most helpful to their patients.  By discussing the history of change and biopsychosocial complexity, the objective of this meeting will be to advance recognition of the need for complex listening as well as a deeper understanding of the relationship of health to society and culture.

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

Please note registration closes at 5 PM on Monday, December 9.

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS TO ENSURE SUCCESSFUL REGISTRATION:

1. Buy your ticket at REGISTRATION LINK above.
2. After you register, you will receive a confirmation email containing a link to Pre-Register in ZOOM for the event.
3. Click on the pre-registration ZOOM link and enter your name and email address. If you do not complete this step, you will NOT receive link to meeting.
4. After completing ZOOM pre-registration, you will automatically receive an email directly from ZOOM containing the JOIN LINK to the meeting. Click the JOIN LINK to “enter” the meeting.
5. Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register!  Contact admdir@nypsi.org with questions.

OPTIONAL READINGS
  1. Drescher, J., & Merlino, J. P. (Eds.). (2007). American psychiatry and homosexuality: An oral history. Harrington Park Press.
  2. Balsam, R. H. (2019). On the Natal Body and its Confusing Place in Mental Life. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 67:15-36.
  3. Drescher, J. (2017). Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Discussion of “When Harry Met Jimmie”. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 14:31-39.
  4. Cheuvront, J. P. (2016). Henry Abelove’s “Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans”. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 17:80-85.
BIOGRAPHIES

Lawrence Hartmann, M.D., was educated at Harvard College, Oxford University, and Harvard Medical School. He interned in pediatrics at UCSF and served his residency in adult and child psychiatry at Mass. Mental Health Center (Harvard). Dr. Hartmann taught for over fifty years in various clinical positions as a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School and ran a child and adolescent clinic and school consultation program. He also saw child, adolescent, and adult psychiatric patients in Boston and Cambridge for over fifty years. In the early 1970s and after, he played several roles in the December, 1973, American Psychiatric Association decision to depathologize homosexuality.  Active in several child and adult psychiatric organizations, he served as President (1991-1992) of the American Psychiatric Association and took part in human rights and mental health trips to Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Chile, the Soviet Union, and China. He also led a post-Iron-Curtain APA-invented traveling department of psychiatry that, by invitation, went to Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary in 1992.  Dr. Hartmann has written on such topics as child psychotherapy, dirty words, social psychiatry, biopsychosocial integration, apartheid, torture, ethics, confidentiality, homosexuality, and latency development.

Mark D. Smaller, Ph.D., is an adult, adolescent, and child psychoanalyst; past president of the American Psychoanalytic Association and former board member of the International Psychoanalytic Association.  He is co-founding Director of Forward Edge Services; Clinical Faculty, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; and Executive Director Emeritus of the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation in New York. Dr. Smaller is Founding Director of Project Realize, an in-school treatment and research project in Chicago, and currently supports consultation to schools and patients unable to afford private psychotherapy. Project Realize was awarded the 2012 Award for Excellence by the American Association for Child Psychoanalysis, and was featured in the New York Times, January 2010.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

  1. Describe how the history of December 1973 can help clinicians understand and influence change in psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and society.
  2. Utilize the history of December 1973 to help combine psychoanalytic thinking with other interrelated disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, history, biography, animal studies, brain biology.

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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Sharon Weller

Special Event: Why do moths fly like crazy f*cks in the night? The Creative Impulse as Seen Through the Lens of Louise Bourgeois


  •  November 9, 2024
     7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

*** THIS EVENT IS IN-PERSON ONLY. SEATING IS LIMITED.***

Special Event: ‘Why do moths fly like crazy fucks in the night’: The Creative Impulse as Seen Through the Lens of Louise Bourgeois

Saturday, November 9, 2024

7:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)

Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium  |  247 East 82nd Street, NYC (Second Fl)

Artist: Sue Pam-Grant, M.F.A.

Panelists: Britt-Marie Schiller, Ph.D., Luca Caldironi, M.D. and Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. (moderator)

Sue Pam-Grant presents “why do moths fly like crazy fucks in the night?,” an encounter with the inner workings of the mind of Louise Bourgeois, a prolific French-American artist of the 20th century.  A writer, actor, and visual artist, Pam-Grant takes the audience on an exciting interdisciplinary journey reflecting on Bourgeois’ psychic life. Well-versed in psychoanalytic literature and concepts, as well as a long-term analysand, Bourgeois used psychoanalytic concepts to inspire her art over the course of many years. Utilizing art as a means of self-exploration, Bourgeois’ artworks reflect her inner struggles with abandonment, misogyny, sexuality, fear, and anger. Bourgeois’ complex relationship with creativity and psychoanalysis sets the scene for an interesting consideration of art, mental health, and the relationship between them.

Following Sue Pam-Grant’s performance, there will be a panel discussion with two psychoanalysts who have long been devoted to the visual arts. Britt-Marie Schiller, Ph.D. and Luca Caldironi, M.D. will each present a paper discussing psychoanalytic considerations of creativity from various perspectives (Freudian, Bionian, etc.). One of the panelists, Dr. Schiller, an analyst in private practice in St. Louis, has written extensively on psychoanalysis and art. She has published in JAPA articles that consider the art of Louise Bourgeois, whose making of art is the focus of the performance, from various analytic perspectives. The other panelist, Dr. Caldironi, has also written numerous articles on artistic creativity and, in addition to maintaining his private analytic practice, is the founder/owner of an art gallery in Venice.  The discussion will raise clinicians’ awareness of the origins of creativity as related to mental health as well as the ways creative practice may improve mental health.

1.25 Contact Hours. 1.25 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.

Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D., Program Committee Chair

General Admission: $60

Student Admission: $45

Current NYPSI members: $30

Current NYPSI students: $15

Please note registration closes at 5 PM on Thursday, November 7.

REGISTRATION LINK

PROGRAM

I. Performance by Sue Pam-Grant

II. Panel Discussion

III. Q & A Session with the Audience

OPTIONAL READING

Schiller, B. (2017). The Primitive Edge of Creativity: Destruction and Reparation in Louise Bourgeois’s Art. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65:221-250.

Schiller, B. (2018). Hair, Threads, and Umbilical Cords: Louise Bourgeois’s Dream of Connection. Psychoanalytic Review, 105:657-673.

Schiller, B. (2020). Fantasies of Cannibalism in the Art of Louise Bourgeois. American Imago, 77:365-393.

BIOGRAPHIES

Sue Pam-Grant, M.F.A. is a transdisciplinary artist whose expanded performative drawing practice intersects the visual with theatre art-making practices. Making use of autobiography, her process of mining, mapping, and tracking the self to examine the precarious point at which human fragility and resilience meet, has become her signature mark. In addition to being a visual artist, Pam-Grant is a published playwright and theatre director who has achieved international recognition for her highly acclaimed performance art. She curates and directs her performative STUDIO GALLERY space, “no.3 SPG,” in Cape Town, and her archive of works comprises numerous plays, public and immersive installations, assemblages, artist’s books, video and film, online publications, and solo exhibitions of drawings, etchings and paintings. Sue Pam-Grant’s “why do moths fly like crazy fucks in the night” received a nomination for Best Solo Performance in the prestigious South African Fleur du Cap Awards in February 2024. 

Britt-Marie Schiller, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Saint Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. She is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Webster University in Saint Louis. Dr. Schiller has been Head of the Department of Psychoanalytic Education of APsA and is now a North American representative to the Board of the IPA, as well as on its Executive Committee. In her writing she has focused on gender and sexuality, and on art seen through a psychoanalytic lens. Her latest paper,  “Figurability in the Art of Louise Bourgeois,” is in the September issue of American Imago.  She continues to be fascinated by Louise Bourgeois’s ability to delve into pre-symbolic and unformulated modes of psychic experience and artistically harness them. 

Luca Caldironi, M.D. is in private psychoanalytic practice in Modena and Venice, Italy. He works as well in the U.S. as an Individual and Group Professional Consultant. Dr. Caldironi is a Professor and Training Analyst at the Martha Harris School of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (Tavistock Model) in Bologna and on the board of The International Association for Art and Psychology (IAAPs) founded in 2000 by the late Graziella Magherini, M.D. His numerous publications and presentations reflect an emphasis on Bion’s thought, especially with regard to the notion of “creativity,” a notion evident in the exhibitions and related activities at the gallery known as Castello925 which he founded in Venice. Most recently, Dr. Caldironi has developed the project known as “K-Now-L-Edge,” a psychoanalytically informed project devoted to the study and practice of creativity by people seeking to deepen their understanding of self while enhancing their creative talents and professional opportunities.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

  1. Summarize how Louise Bourgeois’ life and artworks offer insight into the autistic-contiguous mode of organizing experience and the origins of creativity.
  2. Describe how creativity contributes to patient care in psychoanalysis.

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 [1.25] 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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Trainee Orientation

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  •  September 3, 2024
     1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Trainee Orientation

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

1:30 – 3:30 PM (EST)

An orientation for incoming Externs and Interns to meet Treatment Center staff and learn about TC protocols, as well as other components of the training programs.

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Prep Student Orientation

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  •  September 17, 2024
     7:00 pm - 7:50 pm

Prep Student Orientation Meeting

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

7:00 – 7:50 PM

Orientation Meeting for incoming students in the Preparatory Program.

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