Sharon Weller

Closed Meeting: Freud Lecture: Group Psychology and the Secret Committee

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  •  May 11, 2021
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Please note this meeting is closed to the public.

The 61st Freud Anniversary Lecture:

“Group Psychology and the Secret Committee”

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)

This meeting will be held virtually on ZOOM. Registrants will receive ZOOM link.

Presenter and Honoree: Leon Balter, M.D.

David Pollens, Ph.D. will introduce the speaker

Dr. Balter’s lecture applies ideas about group formation that he has been working on for many years to a particular and well studied episode in psychoanalytic history—the formation of the Secret Committee, a group that was ostensibly assembled to safeguard and guide the Freudian psychoanalytic movement. Following Freud’s postulates about group formation, Dr. Balter develops his own ideas about the formation of what he calls “the leaderless group” and uses them to explain the functioning of the Secret Committee. It is hoped that Dr. Balter’s approach will add to what is already known about this episode in the history of psychoanalysis.

No CME/CE credits will be offered.

Leon Balter, M.D. is Associate Clinical Professor, Mount Sinai Department of Psychiatry and Training and Supervising Analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.

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Sharon Weller

Scientific Meeting: My Country, My Self: Separation, Identity and Dissonance

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  •  May 22, 2021
     10:00 am - 12:00 pm
This meeting is virtual. Please read instructions for successful registration:
  1. Buy your ticket at nypsi.org. Making payment/signing up is only step 1.
  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 1048th Scientific Program Meeting:

“My Country, My Self: Separation, Identity and Dissonance”

Saturday, May 22, 2021

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (EST)

Presenter: Coline Covington, Ph.D.

Discussants:  Anna Balas, M.D. and Gilda Sherwin, M.D.

In this presentation, Dr. Covington will explore our primary attachment to our country and the profound implications this has on how we understand our identity.

Only when there is a break in one’s life does the question of identity and belonging arise. At these moments, we are faced with choice – not only between past and present, between membership in one group or another, between geographically staying and leaving – but a more fundamental choice that concerns our identity; who we see ourselves as being and what it is that we believe in. The implicit defining relation between place, belief system and identity is suddenly laid bare. This caesura creates a mental space within which we become acutely aware of how much our identity is linked to a complex network of loyalties, beliefs, and communities and the traumatic impact of losing these ties which leaves us in a state of diaspora.

This presentation will draw on clinical material and various accounts of this experience of rupture with one’s country, whether actual or ideological, to deepen our understanding of what it means to be “at home” within one’s country, within one’s self, and in our relations with others.

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE hours offered. See details below.

Coline Covington, Ph.D. is a Training Analyst and Supervisor of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She is a Fellow of International Dialogue Initiative (IDI), a think tank formed by Prof. Dr. Vamik Volkan, Lord Alderdice, and Dr. Robi Friedman to apply psychoanalytic concepts in understanding political conflict and the effects of trauma on political behaviour.

Coline has been writing a trilogy on morality and the unconscious. Her first book in the trilogy, Everyday Evils: A Psychoanalytic View of Evil and Morality, was published in 2017 with Routledge. Her second book, For Goodness Sake: Bravery, Patriotism and Identity, was launched 2020 with Phoenix Publishing House. And her forthcoming book, Who’s to Blame: The Political Morality of Collective Guilt, will be published by Phoenix Publishing House in 2022.

Anna Balas, M.D. is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Training and Supervising Analyst at NYPSI and Associate Professor at Payne Whitney. Together with Dr. Sherwin, Dr. Balas cofounded a study group on Trauma and Transmission of Trauma at NYPSI in 2002 and teaches a course on Psychic Trauma. She gave a presentation on “Traumatizing Societies and Resilient Children: Personal Reflections, The Impact of 9/11 Through the Lens of the Child Psychoanalyst,” and talks on applied psychoanalysis and trauma. Healthy and pathological narcissism is a related area of interest, as well as the psychological impact of adoption and assisted reproductive technologies on children and their families. She is in private practice in Manhattan.

Gilda Sherwin, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at NYPSI and in full-time practice in Manhattan. As part of her longstanding interest in massive psychic trauma she worked with severely traumatized individuals, mainly survivors of state sponsored torture, persecution and genocide and served as a mental health advisor to Khmer Legacies. In 2002 she co-founded a study group on Trauma and Transmission of Trauma at NYPSI and presently teaches a course on Psychic Trauma.  She has given many presentations and talks on this subject: “Multiple Meanings of Trauma: Trauma and Re-traumatization in Torture Survivors”, “Why Do Young Muslim Men Join Militant Islamist Terrorist Groups: Integration of Individual Psychology with Large Group Dynamics within a Specific Historical Context”, “Trans-generational Transmission of Trauma and the Memorial Candles Children Narrative”, as well as Trans-generational Transmission of Trauma as Resistance in the Treatment of Children of Survivors.”

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

  1. explain the profound importance geographical attachment and dislocation have on individual identity;
  2. identify and work in the consulting room with the transferential relationships patients hold towards their country of origin.

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 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 of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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 these programs and their content.

DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program have 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.

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Sharon Weller

Scientific Meeting: Exploring the Minds of Musical Genius

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  •  April 13, 2021
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
This meeting is virtual. Please read instructions for successful registration:
  1. Buy your ticket at nypsi.org. Making payment/signing up is only step 1.
  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 1047th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Exploring the Minds of Musical Genius”

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)

Presenter: Richard Kogan, M.D.

Discussant: Roger Rahtz, M.D.

Using as a springboard a brief account of Beethoven’s biography and a sampling of his music, the presenters will consider aspects of the relation between psychological profile and artistic production, especially with regard to creativity in music. What is the meaning of form in music, in fantasy, in the treatment setting? How does our understanding of the relation between mental disorders and creativity differ today from the early days of psychoanalysis? These are among the topics to be addressed in this presentation.

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

Richard Kogan, M.D. has a distinguished career both as a psychiatrist and as a concert pianist. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Artistic Director of the Weill Cornell Music and Medicine Program, and Co-Director of Weill Cornell’s Human Sexuality Program, Dr. Kogan has gained renown for his lecture/concerts that explore the role of music in healing and the influence of psychological factors and psychiatric and medical illness on the creative output of the great composers. He has given performances at medical conferences, music festivals and academic symposia throughout the world. Dr. Kogan has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards in both psychiatry and the arts, including the Liebert Award for Applied Psychoanalysis.
Dr. Kogan is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music Pre-College, Harvard College, and Harvard Medical School. He completed a psychiatry residency and academic fellowship at NYU. He has a private practice of psychiatry in NYC.
Roger Rahtz, M.D. is an adult, child, and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. He is a former President of NYPSI. Dr. Rahtz is a lifelong music aficionado and participant in amateur choral ensembles.

 

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
  1. describe the relationship between psychological development and creativity
  2. explain the interplay between psychological conflict and musical creation as exemplified in the case of Beethoven

 

Licensed Psychologists
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. ***Our CE application to NYS is still pending approval as of 3/31/21.***
Licensed 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.
Licensed 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 of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
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Sharon Weller

CANCELLED: Scientific Meeting: Applied Analysis in Global Diplomacy

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  •  March 30, 2021
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

The 1047th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Applied Analysis in Global Diplomacy”

Tuesday, March 30, 2021

8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)

Presenter: Vamik Volkan, M.D.
To be followed by a discussion with Henry Nunberg, M.D.

 

Unconscious factors undoubtedly play a role, and most likely a major role, in matters of global democracy. This meeting will entail a presentation by Dr. Vamik Volkan focused on the intertwining of shared external events and individual and large-group psychology. Starting with Sigmund Freud psychoanalysts have written about cultural, historical and religious topics. But these topics were avoided by most classical psychoanalysts while they were sitting behind their analysands. This situation has changed. Dr. Volkan will present cases to illustrate how shared traumas at the hand of Others influence a person’s internal world. Then he will describe how members of an ethnic, national, religious or ideological large group, under certain situations, are obliged to protect and maintain their large-group identity and their borders. Dr. Volkan’s presentation will be followed by a discussion with Dr. Henry Nunberg on what is conscious and what is unconscious in this arena. Also to be explored is the question of whether what is unconscious can be modified by experience and how we might characterize the relationship between psychodynamic factors and relations between nations.

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

Vamik Volkan, M.D. received his medical education at the School of Medicine, University of Ankara, Turkey. He is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia; an emeritus training and supervising analyst at the Washington-Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute; and an emeritus Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Mass. He is the emeritus president of the International Dialogue Initiative [www.internationaldialogueinitiative.com] and a former president of the Turkish-American Neuropsychiatric Society, the International Society of Political Psychology, the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, and the American College of Psychoanalysts.
Dr. Volkan was the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction (CSMHI) at the School of Medicine, University of Virginia; a member of the International Negotiation Network (INN) under the directorship of former President Jimmy Carter; a temporary consultant to the World Health Organization in Albania and Macedonia; a member of the International Advisory Board, Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; an inaugural Yitzhak Rabin Fellow, Rabin Center for Israeli Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel; a visiting professor of psychiatry, University of Ankara in the Turkish capital, Ege University in Izmir and Cerrahpașa Medical School in Istanbul, Turkey; a visiting professor of political psychology, Bahceșehir University, Istanbul, Turkey; an honorary supervisor and consultant, Società per lo studio dei disturbi della personalità in Milan, Italy; a visiting professor of law, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts; a Fulbright/Sigmund Freud-Foundation visiting scholar of psychoanalysis in Vienna, Austria; a visiting professor of political science at the University of Vienna; aboard member of the Freud Foundation in Vienna; a member of the Working Group on Terror and Terrorism, International Psychoanalytic Association, and a visiting professor at El Bosque University, Bogota, Colombia.
Dr. Volkan was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize five times with letters of support being sent from twenty-seven countries. He has been a recipient of the Nevitt Sanford, Elise Hayman, Bryce Boyer, Hans Strupp, Sigmund Freud (given by the city of Vienna), and Mary Sigourney awards, and the Margaret Mahler Literature Prize. He holds honorary doctorate degrees from Kuopio University (now called the University of Eastern Finland), Finland; Ankara University, Turkey; the Eastern European Psychoanalytic Institute, Russia; Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus, and Kyrenia-American University, North Cyprus.
The author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of sixty psychoanalytic and psycho-political books, some of which have been translated into Chinese, Finnish, German, Greek, Japanese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Turkish, Dr. Volkan has written hundreds of published papers and book chapters and has served on the editorial boards of sixteen national or international professional journals.

 

Henry Nunberg, M.D. is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard University Law School and the Albert Einstein School of Medicine.  He is a member of and on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.  Dr. Nunberg, formerly on the voluntary faculty of Weill Cornell Medical College, has a particular interest in neuropsychoanalysis and is a member of the Neuropsychoanalysis Society.  He is Professional Director of the Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund, Inc. Dr. Nunberg’s publications have most recently focused on trauma not emanating from childhood.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
1) explain the significance of cultural and historical context for the analytic situation
2) explain the meaning of cultural and historical context for both analyst and analysand when their cultural contexts are different
3) describe the role of large-group identity, border psychology and related unconscious factors in global democracy

 

Licensed Psychologists
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. ***Our CE application to NYS is still pending approval as of 3/1/21.***
Disclosure: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Licensed 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.
Licensed 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 of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
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Sharon Weller

Closed Meeting: The Portable Psychoanalytic Frame

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  •  March 18, 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:

“The Portable Psychoanalytic Frame: Evenly suspended attention, Bick’s method of infant observation and its [unexpected] application by an observer in a daycare”

Thursday, March 18, 2021

8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)

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

Presenter: Talia Hatzor, Ph.D.

Dr. Hatzor will present Freud’s idea of evenly suspended attention, as applied through Bick’s method of infant observation, to demonstrate a technique crucial to the work of the parent-infant clinician. Cultivating an evenly suspended state of attention is shown to be an indispensable technique for the clinician’s mind at work, especially for the parent infant clinician, whose external setting is unpredictable and challenging. Without a fixed external setting, a portable frame is required: the internal setting established by combining psychoanalytic theory with this specific kind of free floating attention. This claim will be illustrated by an observer’s use of attentiveness in a daycare setting. The observer gathered the experience of a four-month-old infant in psychic peril. Lacking his caregiver’s attention, the infant was object-absent. The observer’s sensitive, absorbing stance was pivotal: not only to finding meaning and containing the primitive anxieties of an infant in trouble, but also—critically—to enabling the development of the infant’s sense of self by building a mental bridge to an unavailable caregiver, who could be reached and ultimately found a place in her mind for him.

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

Talia Hatzor, Ph.D. is a psychologist, a psychoanalyst, and a training psychoanalyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society in New York City. She has a special training and interest in infancy and early childhood, parent-infant psychotherapy, parenting, and play therapy. She works with children and adults in private practice. She co-directs the Parent Infant Psychotherapy (PIP) Training Program at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York, where she is also faculty. Her teaching includes training clinicians via Bick’s Infant Observation method. She is currently involved in the IPA Psychoanalysis in the Community initiative, chairing the subcommittee on Psychoanalysis in the Community in Education.

 

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
1. identify elements of the portable frame used in infant observation work.
2. identify ways of using free floating attention in infant observation.
Psychologists
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.  ***Please note CE application with NYSED is still pending as of 3/1/21.***
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 of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
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