Sharon Weller

Scientific Meeting: The Tele-Therapist/ Analyst: Searching for a Silver Lining During the Time of Covid-19

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  •  September 15, 2020
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The 1042nd Scientific Program Meeting:

“The Tele-Therapist/Analyst: Searching for a Silver Lining During the Time of Covid-19”

Tuesday, September 15, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

This meeting is virtual. ZOOM invite will be emailed to all registrants on the day of the event.

 

Panelists: Drs. Leon Hoffman (moderator), Tracy A. Prout, Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, Vera Békés

 

Remote therapy has been used by analytic therapists for a long time. Many, however, have been reluctant to use it regularly due to concerns regarding the distortion of the analytic frame and relational dynamics. The COVID-19 pandemic forced therapists and analysts to switch suddenly to remote therapy from in-person sessions. The panelists will discuss among themselves and with the audience findings from surveys they have recently conducted with therapists and analysts. These concern the previous experience of analytic therapists with remote therapy;  the multiple ways in which the clinicians prepared themselves and their patients for the transition; how competent clinicians feel in online as opposed to in-person sessions; the strength of the therapeutic relationship in view of the technical and relational challenges posed by online therapy sessions. Have experiences during the pandemic resulted in more positive views about online therapy, in general? Do most feel online therapy less effective than in-person sessions?  Are many willing to continue using remote therapy even with improvement of the public health situation?  These and other such questions will be the focus of this meeting.

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered.

Leon Hoffman, M.D. (moderator) 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 and 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.

Tracy A. Prout, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Psychology at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University. She teaches psychodynamic psychotherapy in the School-Clinical Child Combined Doctoral Program, supervises advanced graduate students in the psychodynamic psychotherapy practicum, and leads the psychodynamic psychotherapy lab at Ferkauf. Dr. Prout earned a certificate in psychodynamic psychotherapy from the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education at NYU Medical Center. She currently serves as co-chair of the Fellowship Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Research Committee of Division 39. 

Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, D.Clin.Psy. is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Clinical Psychology Program of the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, NY. She received an MSc in Clinical Psychology from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as well as an MSc in Psychological Research and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from University of Oxford, UK. Over the years, she has worked clinically in different settings within the National Health Service, and most recently at a psychoanalytic community clinic in San Francisco. Dr. Aafjes-van Doorn completed a one-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Derner Institute for Psychological Services, Adelphi University. Her research focuses on psychotherapy process in different modalities, therapist training, and the use of technology by therapists and researchers. She is currently associate editor of the journal Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice.

Vera Békés, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ferkuaf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University, NY.  Her research focuses on trauma and PTSD and the psychotherapy process in various settings, including online interventions.  She is especially interested in the role of the therapeutic relationship in symptom improvement. Dr. Békés is co-director of the Psychodynamic Track at Ferkauf Adult Clinical Doctoral Program where she teaches courses on psychodynamic psychotherapy, qualitative methods, and multicultural issues. She is also a fellow at the American Psychoanalytic Association this year.       

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

  1.  describe how the experience of the pandemic resulted in more positive views about online therapy than previously held.
  2.  describe how the majority of analytic therapists felt confident and competent in their online sessions.
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.
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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

Labor Day

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  •  September 7, 2020
     12:05 am - 11:55 pm
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Sharon Weller

CANCELLED: Peter Blos Sr. Memorial Lecture: V is for Vendetta

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  •  April 14, 2020
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

UNFORTUNATELY, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE PUBLIC HEATH CRISIS.

Peter Blos Sr. Memorial Lecture:

“V is for Vendetta: Exploring the Interference Posed by a Sibling’s Chronic and Debilitating Medical Condition on an Adolescent’s Emerging Psychic Individuation”

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Presenter: John Tisdale, D.Min.

Peter Blos Sr. brought the developmental concept of an adolescent’s second individuation into the mainstream of psychoanalytic theorizing and discussion. He proposed this concept, among other things, as a 4th phase of psychosexual development propelling an adolescent toward the emergence of a more complex, rich, and, individualized identity as a sexually mature person. Blos Sr. emphasized the adolescent’s task involved revisiting their inherited identity first established as a pre-oedipal child in order to consolidate a new identity independent from the parents and embraced by the adolescent as his/her own. Typically, the primary focus of this concept has been on the vertical relationship between the parents and adolescent. In two decades of learning and practicing psychoanalysis, Dr. Tisdale has had what he has come to believe is a somewhat unique experience among practicing child and adolescent analysts — almost 70% of his analytic patients, and many more of the total number of his psychotherapy patients over the years, have had siblings with mental and/or medical conditions profoundly impacting their process of psychic individuation. Using close process vignettes from a three-time-a-week adolescent psychoanalysis, lasting three and one-half years, he will explore the influence of a sibling’s chronic medical condition on one adolescent’s psychic development, and specifically, the interference these circumstances posed to his subjective experience of owning for himself this developmental phase of emerging psychic second individuation.

2 CME/CE credits offered. 

John Tisdale, D.Min. holds a B.A. from High Point University, a Master’s of Divinity degree from Duke University and a Doctorate of Ministry degree (D.Min.) in Pastoral Counseling from the Graduate Theological Foundation. He is an ordained United Methodist Minister and a child and adolescent psychoanalyst, graduating from the APsaA member, Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas. His first professional job was with the N.C. Juvenile Court. While at the N.C. Court, he took a leave of absence to attend the Harry Wendelstedt Umpire School. Although tempted to pursue a career in professional baseball, Dr. Tisdale answered a higher calling and entered Duke Divinity School; after graduation, he pastored a local congregation for 6 years in rural N.C. and worked on licensing to practice psychotherapy full-time. During his 25-plus year career in clinical practice, he has worked in a variety of settings, including hospitals, a denominationally-sponsored counseling center, a private group practice, and a school-based practice. The last six years he served as the Associate Executive and Clinical Director of the Lucy Daniels Center, a non-profit therapeutic organization serving the social and emotional needs of children age birth to 12 years of age and their families. In September, 2019 he opened a private practice with two offices in Cary and Durham, N.C. Dr. Tisdale most recently presented a case at the 2019 Annual Meeting of Association for Child Psychoanalysis in Miami entitled, “Salmon Falls, One Important Stop in a Latency Age Boy’s Quest to Find a Good Enough Defense!”

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

  1. identify at least two factors potentially interfering with an adolescence’s intrapsychic development when the adolescent has a sibling living with a chronic medical condition.
  2. define the developmental concept of second individuation.
  3. provide an example of how the developmental concept “second individuation” is expressed in one adolescent’s experience through the lens of a psychoanalysis.
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CANCELLED: Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

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  •  April 3, 2020
     7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

We are very disappointed to announce the cancellation of the film and panel on Oliver Sacks scheduled for April 3rd.  In view of the public health situation, however, it has been determined unwise to hold an event with a registered audience of this size.  Payments will be refunded shortly.

Special Event:

Screening of Oliver Sacks: His Own Life followed by a Conversation with Drs. Mark Homonoff and Sanders Markx

Friday, April 3, 2020
7:00 – 10:00 pm

Panelists: Mark Homonoff,  M.D., Sanders Markx, M.D., Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. (moderator)

In advance of the nationwide release of this new film, Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, a screening will take place at NYPSI followed by a discussion with medical professionals who worked closely with Dr. Sacks.  Dr. Sacks was a maverick in the profession, an exceedingly astute observer whose perception of detail in the pathology of patients and in their subjective accounts took precedence over academic learning.  A prolific writer, his narratives have long fascinated readers intrigued by the mysteries of the brain that he explored with passion.
Following the film screening, Lois Oppenheim will interview Mark Homonoff,  M.D. and Sanders Markx, M.D. who will discuss Dr. Sacks’ contributions to the medical profession. Why migraines, hallucinations, and numerous neuro-psychological symptoms manifest differently from one individual to the next and what it means for the physician to imagine how symptoms feel to the patient will frame the discussion.
In addition, both Kate Edgar, Executive Director of the Oliver Sacks Foundation, and Billy Hayes, author and Sacks‘ partner of several years, will join in conversation with the audience.

1 CME/CE credit offered.

Mark Homonoff,  M.D.  is a neurologist affiliated with Baylor University Medical Center and Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York.  He received his medical education at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine which was followed by an internship in Internal Medicine at Philadelphia General Hospital and a Residency in Neurology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Homonoff is a former health economist at Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C.

Sanders Markx, M.D. is a psychiatrist on the faculty of Columbia University and the Director of Precision Psychiatry, which is devoted to the study of the genetics of psychiatric disorders.  Dr. Markx graduated from University of Amsterdam Faculty of Medicine and completed a residency at Columbia University Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital.
 
Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. is University Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Montclair State University where she also teaches in Medical Humanities.  She is the author or editor of 15 books and the co-creator of two documentary films on mental health, one on stigma associated with mental disorders, a film in which Oliver Sacks participated.  Dr. Oppenheim is Scholar Associate Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and Honorary Member of the William Alanson White Society.

 

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
  1. describe the boundaries and interplay between neurological and psychological disorders
  2. explain how subjective experience may impact neurological symptoms as well as their evolution
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POSTPONED: Scientific Meeting: The Analyst: Disabled and Enabled by What’s Personal

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

PLEASE NOTE THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTPONED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR LATER DATE.

The 1042nd Scientific Program Meeting:

“The Analyst: Disabled and Enabled by What’s Personal”

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Presenter: Judy L. Kantrowitz, Ph.D.

Discussant: Theodore Jacobs, M.D.

How do we become analysts? This presentation will focus on how the analyst can be both enabled and disabled by his/her own character and personal life events. The presenter will discuss how she uses her own character and her understanding of the mutual influences she shares with her patients in the clinical process. In addition, she will consider how this engagement reflects a process of “working through” both her own conflicts and those of her patients. Events in the analyst’s life affect who they become as people – sometimes in subtle ways and sometimes more significantly – and these changes in the analyst may have diverse reverberations in work with patients. Personal loss in the analyst’s life is one such life event that affects work with patients. For instance, the analyst may believe patients are recognizing or responding to the analyst’s preoccupations and/or distress or the analyst may fail to recognize such responses in the patient. This presentation will demonstrate the importance of not only recognizing but using these influences in the clinical work.

2 CME/CE credits offered. 

 

Judy L. Kantrowitz, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and a former Clinical Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, where she is now a corresponding member.  She is the author of three books, The Patient’s Impact on the Analyst (1996), Writing about Patients: Responsibilities, risks, and ramifications (2006), and Myths of Termination: What Patients Can Teach Psychoanalysts about Endings (2014) and The Role of Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and  Outcome of Psychoanalysis that will be published by Routledge in 2020.  She has served three times on the Editorial Boards of JAPA and is currently on the board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.  She 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 on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 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. He was the Brill Lecturer in 1993.

 

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

  1. describe how an analyst’s character and personal conflicts may interface with the patient’s character and conflicts
  2. describe how a personal loss in the analyst’s life can affect work with patients.
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