Closed Meeting: Waking Nightmares and Dreamless Sleep

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  •  January 30, 2021
     10:00 am - 12:00 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:

“Waking Nightmares and Dreamless Sleep: A traumatized child’s journey from the imaginary to the symbolic realm”

Saturday, January 30, 2021

10:00 am – 12:00 pm (EST)

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

Presenter: Holly Martin

Holly Martin will present a clinical paper which describes the intensive psychotherapy of a latency-aged foster child, attending to the way in which sexual trauma disrupts the development of symbolic functioning. Dissociative processes and their impact upon internal representation will be considered, as the presenter discusses the evolution of transference and countertransference phenomena over the course of this two-year treatment. Highlighting the adaptations in technique that were used to meet the child at her level of functioning, the presenter will trace her patient’s movement towards a capacity to symbolise.

2 CME/CE credits will be offered.

Holly Martin is a recently qualified Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, trained at IPCAPA, who works within both the Child Psychotherapy Team at the Anna Freud Centre and CAMHS. Holly has previously worked in inpatient settings including psychiatric intensive care with young people and adults with dual diagnosis. Her doctoral research explores the manifestations and correlates of dissociation amongst foster children in middle childhood.

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

  1. Identify two technical adaptations to work with a child with impaired ability to symbolize.
  2. Identify transference manifestations of the patient’s internal representations of traumatizing objects.

 

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 APPLICATION WITH NYSED IS STILL PENDING.***

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.

Scientific Meeting: Thinking about Intersubjectivity

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  •  January 12, 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 1045th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Thinking about Intersubjectivity: Judy Kantrowitz, Ph.D. and Theodore Jacobs, M.D. in Conversation with Leon Balter, M.D.”

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Panelists: Judy Kantrowitz, Ph.D., Theodore Jacobs, M.D. and Leon Balter, M.D.

Two highly experienced analysts, Theodore Jacobs, M.D. and Judy Kantrowitz, Ph.D., will reflect, in response to questions posed by moderator Leon Balter, M.D., upon the various ways an analyst’s life experience may enter their clinical work.  Both Drs. Jacobs and Kantrowitz have written extensively about profound disruptions in the analyst’s and / or analysand’s life and how such disruptions may affect the treatment.  Very much appreciated by the profession as a whole, their exceedingly articulate writings have explored the inner experience of the analyst in a number of life situations as well as in the analytic process, a topic to be broadened in this “conversation” to life events impacting society at large.  How analysts look inside themselves within the frame of the analytic dyad will provide the context for this exploration by the panelists.

 

2 CME/ CE credits offered.

Judy L. Kantrowitz, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and formerly a Clinical Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, now a corresponding member. She is the author of four books, The Patient’s Impact on the Analyst (1996), Writing about Patients: Responsibilities, Risks, and Ramifications (2006), Myths of Termination: what patients can teach analyst about endings (2014), and The Role of Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and  Outcome of Psychoanalysis (2020).  She has served three times on the Editorial Board of JAPA and is currently on the board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.  Dr. Kantrowitz is in private practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Brookline, MA.

Theodore Jacobs, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Adult, Child and Adolescent Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.  He is currently Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Psychoanalytic Association of New York (affiliated with NYU Langone Health), as well as Child Supervising Analyst, PANY and the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research.  Dr. Jacobs is on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly; Psychoanalytic Inquiry; the International Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy; and the Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis.  Among his many publications are The Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication in the Analytic Situation, The Possible Profession, and a novel, The Year of Durocher.  Dr. Jacobs was honored here at NYPSI as the Brill Lecturer in 1993 and has presented here in a number of capacities over the years.

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

 

Educational Objectives:

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

  1. articulate some of the ways in which stressful events in the analyst’s life impact the clinical work.
  2. describe the analyst’s “use of the self” in treatment.

 

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 APPLICATION WITH NYSED IS STILL PENDING.***
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.

Closed Meeting: Brill Lecture: On the Transition Toward a University Educational Model at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute

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  •  December 8, 2020
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Please note this meeting is closed to the public.

The 61st A.A. Brill Memorial Lecture:

“On the Transition Toward a University Educational Model at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute”

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

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

 

Presenter and Honoree: Robert Smith, M.D.

Dr. Carmela Perri will introduce the speaker.

The politics surrounding the gradual evolution of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute toward the adoption of a university educational model will be described. The nature of the group regression, types of identifications and analytic ego ideals of members on both sides of conflicts about the changes that occurred will be elucidated. The manner in which disagreements were resolved will also be reviewed and recommendations for ways issues could be approached productively in the future will be suggested.

No CME/CE credits will be offered.

 

Dr. Robert Smith received his B.A. in History from Cornell University where he wrote an honors paper on Eric Erikson’s psychobiography of Martin Luther. He entered medical school at SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine with the intention of becoming a psychoanalyst. He began analytic training at NYPSI in 1992 during the final year of his psychiatric residency at the NYU School of Medicine. Since graduating in 1997 he has been teaching, supervising and a member of various committees of the Institute.  He has also been teaching psychiatry residents at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine for many years. In 2018 he published a paper with Mark Solms entitled “Examination of the Hypothesis that Repression is Premature Automatization: A Psychoanalytic Case Presentation and Discussion”.  He was the Chair of Curriculum from 2013 until 2019 and is currently Chair of the Scholars and LP Programs.

 

The Brill Memorial Lecture honors the many contributions to psychoanalysis of A.A. Brill (1874-1948), the founder of the New York Psychoanalytic Society in 1911. Although the lecture series was founded in 1950, it was decided to retroactively recognize as the first A.A. Brill Memorial Lecture the paper given by Clarence P. Oberndorf, “Development of Psychoanalysis in America” on the occasion of the A.A. Brill Memorial meeting on March 29, 1949. Brill lecturers have included Sander Abend, Jacob Arlow, Siegfried Bernfeld, Peter Blos, Sr., Heinz Kohut, Margaret Mahler, Annie Reich, and Robert Waelder.

Institute Closed for Winter Break

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  •  December 24, 2020 - January 1, 2021
     12:05 am - 11:55 pm

Scientific Meeting: Tribalism and Discrimination: An Anthropological and Evolutionary Perspective

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  •  November 21, 2020
     10:30 am - 12:30 pm

This meeting is virtual. Please read instructions for successful registration:

  1. Buy your ticket at nypsi.org. Ticket sales end 11/20 at 4 PM.
  2. One day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for webinar which you will receive by email from Sharon Weller
  3. Click on email from Lois Oppenheim (host) which contains ZOOM meeting link and password to “enter” the meeting

The 1044th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Tribalism and Discrimination: An Anthropological and Evolutionary Perspective”

Saturday, November 21, 2020

10:30 am – 12:30 pm

Panelists: Henry Nunberg, M.D. (moderator), Mark Solms, Ph.D., Robert Paul, Ph.D., and Chief Vincent Mann of the Ramapough-Lenape Nation

2 CME/CE credits offered. 

From prehistoric times, humans appear to have a propensity for joining in collectives that we know as “tribes,” collectives that are probably genetically related.  The focus of this panel will be adherence to the group and the results such adherence may implicate.  Among the questions to be explored by the panelists is whether, in the animal kingdom, humans have a tendency toward aggression (conceivably matched only by chimpanzees) that is neither for the purpose of mating nor the preservation of territory.  Nearly a century ago, Sigmund Freud, predominantly in Civilization and Its Discontents, dealt with this and related issues.  How are we thinking about them today?

Henry Nunberg, M.D. (moderator) 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.

Mark Solms, Ph.D.  Professor Mark Solms holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital. His rating by the National Research Foundation is ‘A1’ and he is a Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa. 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. Prof. 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 BrainProf. Solms’ next book, The Hidden Springwill appear 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).

Robert A. Paul, Ph.D. is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emory University, where he is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.  He is a training and supervising analyst on the faculty of the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute and was its director from 2015 to 2019.  Dr. Paul’s publications include The Tibetan Symbolic World: Psychoanalytic Explorations (University of Chicago Press, 1982); Moses and Civilization: The Meaning Behind Freud’s Myth (Yale University Press, 1996); Mixed Messages: Cultural and Genetic Inheritance in the Constitution of Human Society (University of Chicago Press, 2015); and the forthcoming Our Two-Track Minds: Rehabilitating Freud on Culture, currently in press at Bloomsbury Academic Publishing in the series “Psychoanalytic Horizons.” He serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, American Imago, and the Society for Psychological Anthropology Book Series.  Dr. Paul has served as Dean of the Graduate School and of the College of Arts & Sciences at Emory University, and was for many years the editor of Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology.  He is a member of the College of the IJP and is on the board of directors of the Sigmund Freud Archives at the Library of Congress. He also serves on the advisory board of the Erikson Institute at Austen Riggs.

Chief Vincent Mann is the Turtle Clan Chief of the Ramapough Lunaape Nation, which encompasses Passaic County NJ, Warwick, and surrounding areas in New York. Chief Mann has held the title of Turtle Clan Chief for approximately twelve years. For the past five years, he has worked with the NYU Environmental Studies Department. During that time, he participated in the construction and implementation of a community health survey focused on identifying and addressing health concerns within his community. To honor Chief Mann’s efforts to shed light on his community’s efforts to fight back after the Ford toxic dumping, he was awarded the Russ Berry Foundations highest award of Unsung Hero. Chief Mann has been at the forefront of the New Jersey environmental justice movement, where he has worked to protect the water supply of 4 million people and advocated for the community living in close proximity to the Ringwood mines superfund site. He has served on the Legacy Council of the Highlands Coalition and the Ringwood mines superfund site’s Citizen Advisory Group (CAG). His efforts have been documented in the recent publication Our Land, Our Stories: Excavating Subterranean Histories of Ringwood Mines and the Ramapough Lunaape Nation. This collaborative publication was developed through Chief Mann’s partnership with the Rutgers-Newark Price Institute and Anita Bakshi, Professor of the Landscape Architecture Program at Rutgers New Brunswick. Currently, Chief Mann is working on co-creating the United Lunaapeewak, a project broadly focused on issues of cultural restoration and the construction of a permanent educational center for the greater citizens of New Jersey and Southern New York. He is also working on co-creating an organic farm, known as the Munsee Three Sisters Medicinal Garden. The prayer behind this is to create local jobs and, more importantly, to bring back food sovereignty to his Clan. As an advocate for cultural and environmental issues, he continues to this day to offer up prayers for humanity and for our natural environment.

 

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

1)  Recognize cultural influences on psychodynamic problems discussed in the treatment setting.
2) List at least two sources of male aggression in humans.

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.
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.