Sharon Weller

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:
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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.
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Institute Closed – Columbus Day

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  •  October 11, 2021
     12:05 am - 11:55 pm
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Closed Meeting: How Our Mind Becomes Racialized Across the Developmental Cycle

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  •  September 30, 2021
     7:30 pm - 9:30 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:

“How Our Mind Becomes Racialized Across the Developmental Cycle: Locating Our Cultural Experience”

Thursday, September 30, 2021

7:30 – 9:30 pm (EST)

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

Presenter: Beverly J. Stoute, M.D.

 

Differences in the psychosocial construction of Black and White subjectivity impact the therapeutic encounter, for analyst and patient alike, but how do we come to understand these differences? Are there universal ways we come to recognize racial differences, and what developmental experiences impact how racial attitudes develop? How do we construct the intrapsychic working models that guide us as we evolve from childhood through adolescence into adulthood?
The cross-cultural dynamics of racial ethnic socialization has been a growing area of recent research inquiry. The developmental and psychoanalytic integration of the cross-cultural dynamics of racial ethnic socialization permits a theoretical formulation of the influence of culture on the intrapsychic world of the individual. Clinical case examples from psychoanalytic work with patients of varying ethnic backgrounds will highlight how the analyst, using this theoretical frame, can facilitate therapeutic engagement if race and ethnicity are seen as multidimensional and rich entry points for intrapsychic exploration on both sides of the dyad. The question is posed and explored: How does our mind become racialized?

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

 

Beverly J. Stoute, M.D., a Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst, serves as the President of the Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society, Co-Chair of the Holmes Commission on Racial Equality in the American Psychoanalytic Association, as a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute; as a Child and Adolescent Supervising Analyst and graduate of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and as a Fellow (Training and Supervising Analyst) of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Research and Training (IPTAR). Dr. Stoute teaches on the faculties of multiple training programs including the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Emory University School of Medicine and the Morehouse School of Medicine Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program. She serves on the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, on the Advisory Council of the Harlem Family Institute and is a founding member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. Among her many publications is her recent theoretical paper entitled “Black Rage: A Psychic Adaptation to the Trauma of Oppression” published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association — touted as an innovative perspective on racial trauma and the psychology of oppression that will change classical theoretical formulations in the field. Chosen to speak on the topic of racism and social justice from a psychoanalytic perspective, Dr. Stoute was one of six psychoanalysts interviewed in the documentary in the Freud and the Pandemic exhibit at the Freud Museum in London this year. Her upcoming book, co-edited with Michael Slevin, MSW, The Trauma of Racism: Lessons from the Therapeutic Encounter, is due out in early 2022. She is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and organizational consultant on issues of race, racism, diversity, the development of race awareness and racial ethnic socialization, multicultural perspectives in teaching development, and psychoanalytic applications in the treatment of children and adolescents with serious mood disorders, anxiety disorders and behavioral problems. She is in full-time private practice in Atlanta, GA.

 

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

1. Identify nodal points in the evolution of race awareness and the development of racialized thinking from childhood through adolescence into adulthood.

2.  Identify subtle ways that developmental differences in racial and ethnic socialization based on racial social identity impact the therapeutic relationship.

3. Identify the developmental factors that impact the clinician’s ability or inability to recognize and discuss race and racial dynamics in the clinical 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.
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Welcome Reception for NYPSI Members, Faculty & Students

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  •  September 14, 2021
     8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Welcome Reception for NYPSI Members, Faculty and Students

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

8:00 – 9:00 pm (EST)

Please join colleagues for virtual introductions to kick off the 2021-2022 academic year.

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Conversations with… Mark Solms

Event Phone: 212-879-6900

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  •  September 11, 2021
     10:00 am - 11:30 am
This meeting is virtual. Please read instructions for successful registration:
  1. Buy your ticket at nypsi.org. 
  2. One day prior: Sharon Weller will send ZOOM link to all paid registrants.
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Conversations with… Series

Dr. Lois Oppenheim in Conversation with… Mark Solms

Saturday, September 11, 2021

10:00 – 11:30 am (EST)

 

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute continues its popular “Conversations with….” series and is pleased to present Dr. Lois Oppenheim in conversation with Dr. Mark Solms. In celebration of the forthcoming Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud and the recently released The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness, this conversation will focus on, among other things, the “hard problem,” and how Solms’ analytic background leads him to view it differently from his colleagues in neuroscience.

No CME/CE credits offered. 

 

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 Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Dr. 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).

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 & Institute and Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society.  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 recent books include A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis and The Painted Word: Samuel Beckett’s Dialogue With Art.

 

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