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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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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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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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Institute Closed for Presidents’ Day

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  •  February 15, 2021
     12:05 am - 11:55 pm
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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.
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