Administrative Director

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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Administrative Director

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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Administrative Director

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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Administrative Director

Kupferstein Memorial Lecture: The Need for Evolution of the Psychoanalytic Model: New Perspectives from Science and the Consulting Room

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  •  March 9, 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 is sent by Sharon Weller.  If you do not complete this, you will NOT get link to meeting.
  3. Day of: Click on email from Lois Oppenheim (host) which contains ZOOM meeting link and password to “enter” the meeting.

The Leon Kupferstein Memorial Lecture:

“The Need for Evolution of the Psychoanalytic Model: New Perspectives from Science and the Consulting Room”

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)

Presenter and Honoree: Wilma Bucci, Ph.D.

Introduced by Leon Hoffman, M.D.

This presentation will use the concepts of Multiple Code Theory and the Referential Process, along with measures developed within that framework, to provide a modern theory of the ‘talking cure’ and a basis for research on therapeutic change.  The theory and measures will also be used to distinguish among competing case formulations of a recorded psychoanalytic treatment that lasted six years and has been examined by many clinicians and researchers.

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

 

Wilma Bucci, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita, Derner Institute, Adelphi University, where she served as Director of Research Training; Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI), and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR); Visiting Professor in Psychoanalytic Research, University College, London; Faculty of the International Psychoanalytical Association Research Training Programme; Co-Director of Research at the Pacella Research Center;  author of Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science: A Multiple Code Theory, Emotional Communication and Therapeutic Change: Understanding Psychotherapy through Multiple Code Theory, and many clinical, theoretical and research papers.

 

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

1. Explain how concepts of multiple code theory provide a modern theory of the ‘talking cure’ and a basis for research on therapeutic change.
2. Apply the theory and measures of the referential process developed in the context of multiple code theory in clinical work, supervision and teaching.
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 IS PENDING WITH NYS. FURTHER INFORMATION TO FOLLOW.*****
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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Administrative Director

Scientific Meeting: Evolution of a Classic Psychoanalytic Institute: Escape from Rome

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  •  February 23, 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 is sent by Sharon Weller.  If you do not complete this, you will NOT get link to meeting.
  3. Day of: Click on email from Lois Oppenheim (host) which contains ZOOM meeting link and password to “enter” the meeting.

The 1046th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Evolution of a ‘Classic’ Psychoanalytic Institute: Escape from Rome”

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)

Presenter: Leon Hoffman, M.D.
Discussant:  Harold Blum, M.D.

This presentation will highlight theoretical variations of core concepts endemic to the history of psychoanalysis at NYPSI and their connection to other psychoanalytic theoretical approaches, to general psychological and neuropsychological findings. These concepts include unconscious fantasy, conflict and compromise theory, transference and countertransference. Comparisons between theories will be illustrated, particularly between the concept of transference and the therapeutic alliance. The importance of systematized research to theory development and practice will be stressed.

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

Leon Hoffman, M.D. is certified in Adult, Adolescent, and Child Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis. He is Training and Supervising Analyst, Supervisor in Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, and Co-Director of the Pacella Research Center at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute; Faculty, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai; and Chief Psychiatrist/Psychoanalyst at West End Day School.  Dr. Hoffman is senior author (along with Drs. Timothy Rice and Tracy Prout) of “Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children with Externalizing Behaviors (RFP-C): A Psychodynamic Approach.” An RCT has recently been completed at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology in New York, with Tracy Prout as PI (https://www.rfp-c.com). Among several papers from this work, findings from a pilot study were published in the American Journal of Psychotherapy in 2019.

 

Harold P. Blum, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, affiliated with New York University School of Medicine, and an Honorary Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. He is the Former Executive Director of The Sigmund Freud Archives and the author of several books and more than 165 papers. Dr. Blum was the recipient of the inaugural Sigourney Award given by the Sigourney Foundation.

 

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
1) describe how NYPSI’s core concepts are similar or different from other contemporary psychoanalytic and psychological approaches.
2) explain how systematized research contributes to the practice and development of theory.

 

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 IS PENDING WITH NYS. FURTHER INFORMATION TO FOLLOW.*****

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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