Please note the Brenner Teaching Award will be presented to Wendy Olesker, Ph.D. at the start of this meeting.
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)
Panelists: Drs. Rosemary Balsam, Anne Hoffman, Michele Press & Peter Rudnytsky
Following a screening of The Hysterical Girl at the start of the meeting, this panel will focus on the enduring impact of Dora, the case narrative, on modern psychoanalytic theory and technique and on its reception and reworking in this cultural moment. From both clinical and literary perspectives, panelists will explore the tensions and contradictions that inform this famously failed case and the history of its reception.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.
Rosemary Balsam, F.R.C.Psych. (London), M.R.C.P. (Edinburgh) is a British doctor and an American psychoanalyst. Graduated in medicine in Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland, and studying psychiatry there, she came to Yale University at the very end of the 1960s. She is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale Medical School and she teaches at the Department of Student Mental Health. A Training and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, Dr. Balsam is also in private practice. Her writings on bodies, gender, and female development include Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2012) and her most recent paper “The Natal Body and its Confusing Place in Psychoanalytic Theory” (JAPA, 2019). Interested in the work of Hans Loewald, she is involved in the newly forming Loewald Center – a collaboration between WNE and IPTA – to be inaugurated in 2022. On the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and American Imago, and former book editor for JAPA, Dr. Balsam was the first woman in the United States to win the Sigourney Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (2018).
Anne Golomb Hoffman, Ph.D. teaches English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. She is on the faculties of NYPSI and the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Hoffman is a member of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Her articles and reviews, exploring narrative, trauma, gender, and embodiment, have appeared in literary and psychoanalytic journals, including Psychoanalytic Review, JAPA, Prooftexts, American Imago, and Narrative.
Michele Press, M.D. is Dean of Education, and Training and Supervising Analyst at New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She co-teaches Freud’s Case History course and the Advanced Psychoanalytic Technique course in the analytic training program. Dr. Press is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University Langone Medical Center where she teaches Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy technique in the Psychiatry Residency training program and supervises psychiatry residents. She is past president of NYPSI and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She has previously presented papers on Arlow’s concept of Unconscious Fantasy for NYPSI’s Classic Papers Revisited Series and on the current research on Therapeutic Alliance and the implications for psychoanalytic technique at NYPSI and Mount Sinai.
Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. is Professor of English at the University of Florida and Head of the Department of Academic and Professional Affairs as well as Chair of the Committee on Confidentiality of APsaA. He co-edits the History of Psychoanalysis series for Routledge and the Psychoanalytic Horizons series. He served as editor of American Imago from 2001-2011 and is currently on the editorial boards of journals including JAPA, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and Psychoanalytic Psychology. His latest book, Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory, is forthcoming from Routledge in the Relational Perspectives series.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
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.
Please note this meeting is closed to the public. Child candidates at NYPSI, Columbia and PANY are expected to attend.
Thursday, June 3, 2021
8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)
Please note this meeting will be held virtually on ZOOM. Registrants will receive ZOOM link.
Presenter: David Goldenberg, M.D.
Discussant: Sydney Anderson, Ph.D.
More and more we are meeting adolescents with a multitude of issues, resulting in clinical challenges. K., a 14 year old boy, has a history of biological trauma (born to a substance-addicted mother), physical trauma (violent household), resulting family separation, subsequent multiple foster home placements, diagnosis and treatment of a space-occupying brain tumor, and finally adoption and relocation. K. self-identifies as gay. He was adopted by a gay male couple. This circumstance, increasingly common, although still novel, together with the above mentioned factors, prompts psychoanalytic conceptualization of its influence on K.’s development while also considering the roles of temperament, aggression and libido. Clinical material will be presented to elucidate how these issues play out – literally and metaphorically – in the often technically challenging treatment which, because of the pandemic was carried out remotely. Dr. Sydney Anderson will discuss the presentation with a special focus on the question of suitability for analytic treatment versus supportive treatment.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/ CE credits will be offered. See details below.
David Goldenberg, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan. He is on faculty at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (NYPSI) and at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. A graduate of NYPSI’s adult program in psychoanalysis, he is an ongoing candidate in adolescent psychoanalysis. Among other publications, he is the author of several book reviews for JAPA and has given talks on technology, intimacy and digitally assisted dating, and on the psychological effects of of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis.
Sydney Anderson, Ph.D. is an adult and child analyst, and a faculty member of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute and the Southeastern Child Analytic Consortium. She lives and has a private practice in Bloomington, Indiana.
Please note this meeting is closed to the public.
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
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.
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.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
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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