Sharon Weller

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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Sharon Weller

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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Sharon Weller

Closed Meeting: NYPSI Retreat for Members and Students

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  •  February 2, 2020
     9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Please note: This is a closed meeting for NYPSI members and students only. 

Retreat for NYPSI Members and Students

“Practicing Psychoanalysis Today and Tomorrow”

Sunday, February 2, 2020

9:30 am – 12:30 pm

The goal is community building, encouraging collaborative approaches to shaping and strengthening our institute and involving all interested members. We will begin with a large group introduction, then divide into small groups of 12-16 people for 50 minutes, and then join together again as a large group to share and respond to reports from each of the small groups.

The purpose of the small groups, whose members will be randomly assigned, is to discuss across a variety of viewpoints, topics that people have opinions about, wish to change, or want to explore.

The random assignment will hopefully ensure that people with different opinions will be in each group; the small group is to encourage a more detailed engagement with each other’s opinions than is possible in a large meeting.

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Sharon Weller

An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman Pick

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  •  February 12, 2020
     8:15 pm - 10:00 pm

Works in Progress Seminar:

An Evening with Distinguished Visiting Analyst Irma Brenman Pick

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

8:15 pm

Participants: Mrs. Irma Brenman Pick, Dr. Francis Baudry and Mr. Nasir Ilahi

Mrs. Brenman Pick, a leading Contemporary Kleinian Analyst from London will present her paper: “The Faces of Trauma: Between the Personal and the Social – The ‘Pleasure’ of Passing on the Bad Treatment.” There will be an opportunity for questions from the audience.

Participants in this event will include Dr. Francis Baudry, who will moderate the event, and Mr. Nasir Ilahi, who will provide some overall comments on the paper.

No CME or CE credits will be offered.

Irma Brenman Pick trained as a Child and Adult Analyst at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London. She is a Training Analyst there and formerly a President of the British Psychoanalytic Society. Together with her late husband, Eric Brenman, she has taught in many countries, including Australia, Brazil, Germany, Italy, India, Israel, Scandinavia, South Africa, and in several cities in the U.S. – Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. Her published papers include “Working through in the Counter Transference” (1985; International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, Vol 66:415-422) and “Concern: Spurious and Real” (1995; International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, Vol 76:257-270).  A number of her writings have been published in 2018 under the title Authenticity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter – The Work of Irma Brenman Pick (London, The New Library of Psychoanalysis).

Francis Baudry is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.

Nasir Ilahi is a Training and Supervising Analyst at PANY, affiliated with NYU Medical School. He is also an Honorary Member of New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, and graduate and Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society.

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Person Place Thing at NYPSI

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  •  February 13, 2020
     7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

The Friends of the Library present
Person Place Thing at NYPSI

Thursday, February 13, 2019

7:00 pm

Person Place Thing is an interview show based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them. The result? Surprising stories from great speakers.

At this evening’s show, Randy Cohen will interview writer Sarah Boxer, accompanied by music by Jill Sobule.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

 

Sarah Boxer is a writer of non-fiction and graphic fiction. She has published three books: In the Floyd Archives, a cartoon novel based on Freud’s case histories, its post-Freudian sequel Mother, May I?, and the anthology Ultimate Blogs. She is a contributing writer at the Atlantic and has written for a range of magazines, from the New York Review of Books to Artforum. Her essays appear in such anthologies as the Peanuts Papers, You Are Here: NYC, and Best American Comics Criticism. From 1998 to 2006, at the New York Times, she served variously as photo critic, Web critic, arts reporter, and editor at the Week in Review and the Book Review. She is now working on a series of Shakespearean tragic-comics (with animals), including Hamlet: Prince of Pigs and Anchovius Caesar: The Decomposition of a Romaine Salad.

Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics).

His first television work was writing for Late Night With David Letterman, for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s TV Nation. He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it.

For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. In 2010, his first play, The Punishing Blow, ran at New York’s Clurman Theater. His most recent book, Be Good: how to navigate the ethics of everything, was published by Chronicle.  He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.

Jill Sobule is an American songwriter/guitarist/singer (and Sarah Boxer’s cousin), best known for her 1995 “I Kissed a Girl,” and “Supermodel,” from the soundtrack of the 1995 film Clueless. Her folk-inflected compositions alternate between ironic, story-driven character studies and emotive ballads. In a dozen albums spanning three decades, the Denver-born artist has tackled such topics as the death penalty, anorexia nervosa, shoplifting, reproduction, the French Resistance, adolescent malaise, LGBTQ issues, and the Christian Right.

This event will be recorded for broadcast on Northeast Public Radio. For more information and to hear past episodes, visit PersonPlaceThing.org

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