Sharon Weller

In Person Open House


  • March 26, 2024
    7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

NYPSI In Person Open House

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

Join us for light hor d’oeuvres, drinks, and a lively discussion with NYPSI candidates and members. Those in attendance will include members of the Candidates’ Association, The Committee on Racial Consciousness and the Diversities, as well as chairs of the Fellowship Program, Licensure-Qualifying Program, and the Scholars Program.

We will discuss our Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and the Child Psychoanalytic Training Program. Additionally, we will inform attendees about the many other training opportunities at NYPSI, designed for students and practicing psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, mental health professionals, psychiatric nurse practitioners, as well as professionals from other disciplines intending to further their psychoanalytic knowledge.

 

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Brill Lecture: Addressing Defenses: A Core Mechanism of Change in Psychodynamic Treatments


  • March 12, 2024
    8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
This 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. At least one day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for meeting 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 meeting. PLEASE CHECK ALL EMAIL FOLDERS IN CASE IT GOES INTO SPAM OR OTHER FOLDER. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH NYPSI WEBSITE REGISTRATION AND ZOOM REGISTRATION.
  3. After completing ZOOM registration, click on blue JOIN MEETING button in email from Adrian Thomas (host) in order  to “enter” the meeting.
  4. Evaluation and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

The 62nd A.A. Brill Lecture:

“Addressing Defenses: A Core Mechanism of Change in Psychodynamic Treatments”

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

8:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)

Presenter and Honoree: Leon Hoffman, M.D.

Introduction by Robert Smith, M.D.

There is an ongoing tension in the psychoanalytic and psychodynamic field between interpreting the meaning of a patient’s verbal productions or actions and addressing the defenses as they occur in sessions. In addition, some authors maintain that implicit interactions between analyst and patient may be more important than the verbal interventions by the analyst. This communication argues the centrality of observing and appropriately addressing how patients manage/defend against painful affects that may arise at any point in treatment. Berta Bornstein and Paul Gray have been instrumental in promoting this perspective. This technique is experience-near and minimizes psychoanalytic/psychodynamic interventions which require a high level of conjecture by the analyst/therapist and are far from the patient’s consciousness. Several vignettes are provided which suggest that interpreting defense against painful affect is a pan theoretical construct. A successful randomized control trial utilizing this technique with children (Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy, RFP-C) is described. There have been limited empirical studies of the impact of therapists addressing defense in sessions but the work of J. Christopher Perry and colleagues, particularly the development of the Psychodynamic Intervention Rating Scales (PIRS) offers an opportunity to further study the impact of defense interpretations and other interventions.

1.5 Contact Hours for the program in its entirety. 1.5 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.

 

Leon Hoffman, M.D. is Co-Director of the Pacella Research Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is co-author with Timothy Rice and Tracy Prout of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C): A Psychodynamic Approach and, with Timothy Rice, “Defense Mechanisms and Implicit Emotion Regulation: A Comparison of a Psychodynamic Construct with One from Contemporary Neuroscience. Among his discussions of social problems, he has published  “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Populism” in Contemporary Psychoanalysis in 2018 and “The evolution of racism in the Western world: addressing fear of the other” in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2021.

 

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

  1. Explain the importance of addressing defense mechanisms in analysis and psychotherapy.
  2. Assess how the patient is defending against painful affect and intervene in an experience-near way.
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
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 [1.5] 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: Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: Two Sciences or One?


  • February 24, 2024
    11:00 am - 1:00 pm
This 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. At least one day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for meeting 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 meeting. PLEASE CHECK ALL EMAIL FOLDERS IN CASE IT GOES INTO SPAM OR OTHER FOLDER. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH NYPSI WEBSITE REGISTRATION AND ZOOM REGISTRATION.
  3. After completing ZOOM registration, click on JOIN MEETING button in email from Emily Summers (host) in order  to “enter” the meeting.
  4. Evaluation and CME/CE documentation will be emailed day after the event.

NYPSI’s 1072nd Scientific Meeting:

“Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: Two Sciences or One? Mark Solms and Ariane Bazan in Debate”

Saturday, February 24, 2024

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (EST)

Panelists: Ariane Bazan, Ph.D., Mark Solms, Ph.D. and Charles Fisher, M.D. (moderator)

“Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: Two Sciences or One? Mark Solms and Ariane Bazan in Debate,” is a program intended for members of the psychoanalytic community at large. Two distinguished psychoanalysts and neuroscientists will present their views and engage in a moderated debate before opening the program to include the audience. Mark Solms, the founder of Neuropsychoanalysis, views neuroscience and psychoanalysis as a single science with dual aspects. Ariane Bazan sees a duality in which the body and the mind have fundamentally different laws and regulatory principles. Both agree that the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience integrates psychoanalysis within science. Each of the debaters will present fundamental implications for clinical work.

2 Contact Hours for the program in its entirety. 2 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.

BIOGRAPHIES

Ariane Bazan, Ph.D., who holds doctorates both in Biology and in Psychology, is a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is a professor of clinical psychology and psychopathology at the University of Lorraine (France) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Dr. Bazan has also been conducting research for some fifteen years that has resulted in 120 publications, including one book, Des fantômes dans la voix: Une hypothèse neuropsychanalytique sur la structure de l’inconscient (Editions Liber), and twenty-one book chapters. She is a founding member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Association (NPSA) and was its liaison officer for Europe from 2014 to 2019. A former chief editor of the Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis section of Frontiers in Psychology, Dr. Bazan is a monthly columnist for the Belgian newspaper De Standaard discussing general societal and political matters and contributing to the life of ‘psychoanalysis in the city’. She has been a member of the Superior Health Council in Belgium and, at the invitation of the Belgian Administration, she helped manage the Covid crisis from September to December 2020 (before moving to France in 2021). At the Université de Lorraine, she is Director of the Interpsy laboratory and a co-coordinator of a French academic network on neuropsychoanalysis, Réseau Francophone Psychanalyse et Neuroscience (RFPN). Considering psychoanalysis a science, Dr. Bazan is currently engaged in organizing and instantiating a productive international dialogue between psychoanalysis and adjacent scientific disciplines, such as cognitive neuroscience and psycho- and neurolinguistics as well as in developing a properly experimental section of psychoanalysis.

Professor Mark Solms holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital. He has received numerous prizes and honours, such as the Sigourney Prize, the IPA’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award, and Honorary Fellowship of the American College of Psychiatrists. He is Training Director of the South African Psychoanalytical Association, Director of the Science Dept. of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and was until recently Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Professor Solms has published 350 articles in both neuroscientific and psychoanalytic journals, and he has authored eight books. The Brain and the Inner World was translated into 13 languages. His collected papers were published recently as The Feeling Brain. His latest book, The Hidden Spring, appeared in early 2021.  He is the editor and translator of the forthcoming Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 vols) and Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 vols).

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

  1. Describe evidence presented by the debaters as to whether or not neuroscience and psychoanalysis are a single science.
  2. Summarize several clinical implications of each debater’s theoretical views.
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
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 Program: The State of the World


  • January 27, 2024
    12:00 pm - 4:00 pm
This 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. At least one day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for meeting 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 meeting. PLEASE CHECK ALL EMAIL FOLDERS IN CASE IT GOES INTO SPAM OR OTHER FOLDER. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH NYPSI WEBSITE REGISTRATION AND ZOOM REGISTRATION.
  3. After completing ZOOM registration, click on JOIN MEETING button in email from Adrian Thomas (host) in order  to “enter” the meeting.
  4. Evaluation and CME/CE documentation will be emailed day after the event.

A Special Program co-sponsored with Harlem Family Institute

The 1071st Scientific Program Meeting:

“The State of the World: Facing our hatreds, uncovering our humanity”

Saturday, January 27, 2024

12:00 pm – 4:00 pm (EST)

(Note: Registration closes 1/26 at 12 PM.)

Participants: Paula Christian Kliger, Ph.D.,  Gilbert W. Kliman, M.D., Era A. Loewenstein, Ph.D., Natalia Nalyvaiko, Ph.D., Sargam Mona Jain, M.D., Harriet Wolfe, M.D., and Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. (moderator)

This meeting will focus not only on what is clearly horrific in many parts of the world, but on how, within a psychoanalytic frame, we might understand what could conceivably put an end to the repetition of anti-humanitarian and otherwise destructive events. Panelists will explore what we can do on this global human journey to bridge, to repair, to grow our emotional readiness to engage / accept / value the lives of those different from ourselves. What does it mean to share power? How might we better reveal and expand upon our understanding and awareness of our interconnectedness? These and other questions will constitute the basis for the presentations and discussions on ridding the world of hate, war, and other atrocities.

3.5 Contact Hours for the program in its entirety. 3.5 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.

PROGRAM

Welcome Remarks

Part I

12:00 – 1:00 PM (EST) Panel Discussion: Paula Christian Kliger, Ph.D.,  Gilbert W. Kliman, M.D., Era A. Loewenstein, Ph.D. and Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. (moderator)

 

There will be a short break from 1:00 – 1:15 PM. Please note the same ZOOM link will be used for all sessions.

 

Part II

1:15  – 2:00 PM (EST) Panel Discussion: Natalia Nalyvaiko, Ph.D. and Sargam Mona Jain, M.D.

2:00 – 2:30 PM (EST) Keynote Talk: Harriet Wolfe, M.D.

2:30  – 3:00 PM (EST) Self-Reflective Vignette: Paula Christian Kliger, Ph.D.

 

Part III

3:00 – 3:30 PM (EST) Panel Discussion with all Panelists co-moderated by Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. and Paula Christian Kliger, Ph.D.

3:30 – 4:00 PM (EST) Q & A with Audience

References of Interest (optional):

  1. Abdel-Malek, H. S. (2020). Birth of a Nation-State: A Battle for Boundaries or Dialogue? International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 17:49-64.
  2. Akhtar, S. (2017). The tripod of terrorism. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 26:139-159.
  3. Almond, R. (2015). Meditations on Psychological Repair: Commentary on GobodoMadikizela. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 63:1125-1133.
  4. Apprey, M. (2014). Enemies on the Couch: A Psychopolitical Journey through War and Peace, by Vamik D. Volkan, Pitchstone Press, Durham, NC, 2013, 496pp. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 74:392-395.
  5. Benjamin, J. (2016). Non-violence as respect for all suffering: Thoughts inspired by Eyad El Sarraj. Psychoanalysis Culture and Society, 21:5-20.

BIOGRAPHIES

Paula Christian Kliger, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who is Principal Consultant for Harlem Family Institute. She is President/Chair of the Harlem Family Services dedicated to providing clinical services as well as consultation and life coaching skills to underserved multicultural communities located across New York City. Dr. Kliger teaches her “Self-Study” and “Power Your Mind” model internationally and Advanced Ethics at Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute where she received her analytic training and she is Clinical Assistant Professor at Wayne State University’s School of Medicine. She has received the Public Leadership Credential from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School and was recently appointed to the International Psychoanalytical Association as the North America Region Representative of The Community and the World Committee on Prejudice, Discrimination and Racism. She is Chair of APSA’s Department of Psychoanalytic Education Section, The Psychoanalyst in the Community, and a founding/member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. Dr. Kliger is an award-winning poet and illustrator and her co-produced podcast, “We Are Human First,” received the 2020 Hermes International Creative Gold Award.

Gilbert W. Kliman, M.D. earned his degree from Harvard Medical School and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Senior Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. After his child psychiatric training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he founded three nonprofit organizations dedicated to childhood mental health services: The Center for Preventive Psychiatry, the Foster Care Study Unit at Columbia University College of Medicine and Surgery, Department of Child Psychiatry, and the Children’s Psychological Health Center, Inc. He has served as Medical Director of The Children’s Psychological Health Center in San Francisco since 1993 and Chairman of the Harlem Family Institute from 2020-2022. Dr. Kliman is the creator of Reflective Network Therapy, an evidence-based synergistic child therapy method which he practices and continues to research throughout the country and around the world. In addition, his practice of forensic child psychiatry often leads to his testifying in federal and state courts. He has testified in over 375 major cases.

Era A. Loewenstein, Ph.D., is a child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst. She is a training and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis where she also serves on the faculty. Dr. Loewenstein was the founder of a Preschool Consultation Project at SFCP. In this capacity she collaborated for over 20 years with early childhood educators. The focus of her work has been the impact of childhood trauma and psychoanalytic understanding of perversion. Since 2016 she has been teaching and writing about fascistic states of mind.

Sargam Mona Jain, M.D., who completed a psychiatric residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center, which was followed by a fellowship in Public Psychiatry at Columbia University and training in adult psychoanalysis, also at Columbia University, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City specializing in trauma-related and somatoform disorders within diaspora populations.  As a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association Committee at the United Nations, she works with NGOs and Member States to promote human rights, mental health and inclusive, psychologically-minded policies and programs.  Her academic work focuses on the intersection of unconscious conflict, post-colonial development and the built environment.  At the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Dr. Jain is co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee.

Natalia Nalyvaiko, Ph.D. earned her doctorate in psychology and her Master’s Degree in clinical psychology, psychoanalysis and psychopathology at the University of Strasbourg, France.  She is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the European Confederation of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Austria), a Board member of the European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (The Netherlands), a member of the Psychoanalytic Division of the National Psychological Association, and in private practice as well as Professor in the Academy of Social Studies and Tourism in Kyiv, Ukraine.  Dr. Nalyvaiko, who is the author of Psychoanalysis in Ukraine: Past. Modernity. Future., is actively engaged in scientific activity connected to theoretical and practical issues of psychoanalysis as a speaker at international meetings and as the author of numerous publications in international professional journals, such as Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA).

Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D., is University Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Montclair State University where she teaches courses in literature and medical humanities.  She is Scholar Associate Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she is also on the Faculty, and Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute.  Dr. Oppenheim has authored or edited fifteen books, the most recent being For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (co-authored; Bloomsbury) and Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion (Routledge), awarded the Courage to Dream Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association.  Other titles include A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor.

Harriet Wolfe, M.D. is President of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Past President of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.  Her scholarly interests include clinical applications of psychoanalytic research, organizational processes, female development, and therapeutic action and she has a longstanding commitment to psychoanalytic public health intervention. Dr. Wolfe has co-authored several psychoanalytically-informed guided activity workbooks for children, parents, and teachers to help children cope with natural and manmade disasters. She has a private practice of psychoanalysis, and individual and couple’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy in San Francisco.

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

  1. consider the role of human aggression in the context of various theoretical perspectives
  2. explain the importance of group process in the creation of war, peace, and the sharing power
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
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 [3.5] 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 companies.

 

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Sharon Weller

Institute Closed for MLK Jr Day


  • January 15, 2024
    12:05 am - 11:55 pm
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