Sharon Weller

On Having Whiteness

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

The 1041st Scientific Program Meeting:

“On Having Whiteness”

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Presenter: Donald Moss, M.D.

Discussant: Dorothy E. Holmes, Ph.D.

This presentation will focus on Whiteness as a condition one first acquires and then one has– a malignant, parasitic-like, condition. The condition is malignant because it spreads/metastasizes, targeting an ever-widening sphere of objects. It is parasitic in that it is contagious, passed on by other infected people.  Biologically “white” people have a particular susceptibility. to “Whiteness”. This susceptibility is grounded in pre-existing hierarchical representations of self and object — in any representation that organizes self and other in a vertical relation, powerful and powerless. The condition is foundational, generating characteristic ways of being in one’s body, in one’s mind, and in one’s world. Parasitic Whiteness renders its hosts’ appetites voracious, insatiable and perverse. In order to preserve and defend its original hierarchies, it must continuously engender new and expansive ones. For Whiteness, the most perceptually available category over which to establish hierarchical relations is “color”.  Race provides “Whiteness” its easiest target.

2 CME/ CE credits offered. 

Donald Moss, M.D. is in private practice in New York City.  Dr. Moss is Chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Program Committee and he has been on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, American Imago, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality.  He is the author of four books including, most recently, At War with the Obvious and I and You, as well as 60 articles, the most recent of which is  “Hate Speech/Love
Speech and Neutrality in and out of the Clinical Situation” (JAPA, 2019).  In 2017, he received the Elizabeth Young Bruehl Award for Work Against Prejudice and was a plenary speaker at the American Psychoanalytic Association meeting of 2016 where he presented “The Insane Look of the Bewildered Half-Broken Animal.”  Dr. Moss is a founding member of The Green Gang, a group of analysts/scientists working on climate change denial.

Dorothy Evans Holmes, Ph.D., is a Teaching, Training, and Supervising Analyst in the Psychoanalytic Center of the Carolinas, Professor and Psy.D. Program Director Emeritus at the George Washington University, and Teaching, Training and Supervising Analyst Emeritus at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis.  Dr. Holmes is widely-recognized for her work on the impact of race and gender on the psychoanalytic process. Her most recent of many refereed journal articles appeared in the fall, 2019 issue of American Imago (2019:76:359-379).  The paper is entitled “Our Country ‘tis of We and Them:  Psychoanalytic Perspectives on our Fractured American Identity”. Dr. Holmes continues to be involved in national psychoanalytic organization leadership roles and she practices psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Bluffton, SC.

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

  1. Discuss the concept of internal racial identity
  2. Assess the obstacles to clinicians’ effectively working effectively with issues of race in the therapeutic relationship
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Sharon Weller

Works in Progress Seminar: The Language of the Mother and the Language of the Father

Event Phone: 212-879-6900

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

Works in Progress Seminar: The Language of the Mother and the Language of the Father: Sabina Spielrein’s Anticipation of the Concepts of Jacques Lacan, Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

8:00 pm

Presenter: Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D.

Sabina Spielrein (1885–1942) was a Russian-Jewish forerunner of child analysis. I will focus on her model of the development of language and thought first formulated in the presentation delivered at the International Psychoanalytic Congress held in The Hague in 1920, and then expanded in a number of papers. I will show how Spielrein’s model anticipated by thirty years Jacques Lacan’s concept of the three orders, Real, Imaginary and Symbolic, and how her concept of the autistic primitive language associated with the mother anticipated the theories of Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray who postulate a non-symbolic feminine language associated with the mother, corporality and feminine jouissance.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

 

Klara Naszkowska, Ph.D., cultural historian, founding director of the International Association for Spielrein Studies (www.spielreinassociation.org), and 2019/2020 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary (Columbia University). Recent and forthcoming publications: “Passions, Politics, and Drives: Sabina Spielrein in Soviet Russia” in: Sabina Spielrein and the Beginnings of Psychoanalysis: Thought, Word, and Image (Routledge, 2019) and “Sabina Spielrein: Searching for her own path” in: Psychoanalysis in the Shadow of War and Holocaust (in Polish, Universitas, 2020). Klara is the main organizer of the first International Conference “Sabina Spielrein and the Early Female Pioneers of Psychoanalysis” (2-4 April 2020, Warsaw).

 

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Sharon Weller

Works In Progress Seminar: Formations of the Body in Psychoanalysis

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  •  December 4, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works In Progress Seminar:

Formations of the Body in Psychoanalysis

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

8:00 pm

Presenter: Jennifer Yusin

Can we say there is a unique psychoanalytic concept of the body? What role do the ideas of the maternal and paternal body play in the development of psychoanalytic theory and practice? How does the psychoanalytic clinic account for the body—its diverse forms, expressions, identities, etc.—in its approaches to and treatments of neurosis and psychosis? In this presentation, I will attempt to deepen our understanding of the body by exploring the ways it is linked to formations of symptoms and symptomatic acts. I will consider together Jacques Lacan’s proposition of the ‘sinthome’, a non-pathological symptom that has a function analogous to art, and Freud’s lifelong work on the symptom as a metaphor for an unconscious conflict. This presentation will also therefore address the possibilities of a psychoanalytic concept of the body in the study and teaching of psychoanalysis today.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

Jennifer Yusin is an associate professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Drexel University and member of the School of the Freudian Letter (London). Her academic work explores the relations among psychoanalysis, philosophy, and global anglophone cultures and literatures. Her works include The Future Life of Trauma: Partitions, Borders, Repetitions (Fordham University Press, 2017) and “Postcolonial Trauma,” in Trauma and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2018). She is also the editor and co-translator of the English translations of books by Jean-Gérard Bursztein, a psychoanalyst who practices and teaches in Paris. Those books include My Lexicon of Psychoanalysis, A Psychoanalytic Commentary of the Hebrew Bible, and Subject Topology: A Lexicon (Hermann Press, 2019). She is currently training in clinical psychoanalytic work.

 

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Sharon Weller

Screening and Discussion of “Ida”

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  •  November 20, 2019
     7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

A.A. Brill Library Film Event:

Screening and Discussion of “Ida”

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

7:00 – 10:00 pm

Post-film Discussant: Gilda Sherwin, M.D.

Ida, an Oscar winning Polish movie made in 2012, takes us back to the Poland of 1962. Set against the historic backdrop of the Holocaust and Stalinism in conjunction with more contemporary cultural developments – such as the fresh glimmerings of jazz  – we witness the personal journey of a young woman, a novitiate in convent and her cynical, though once ideologically inspired aunt, in search for hidden truths about their tragic past. This is a personal tale about faith and identity as well as a political story about betrayal and guilt.

In her discussion, Gilda Sherwin will focus on how the complex entanglement of individual and collective trauma informs the making of this movie. She will explore the lasting effects on the Polish psyche of being implicated in the crimes of the Holocaust. She will also address how unconscious, unaddressed guilt continues not only to help frame the representation of Jews and Jewishness in the Polish cultural and historical imaginary, but also how it literally and symbolically reenacts their elimination.

No CME/CE credits offered. 

Gilda Sherwin, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst at NYPSI and in full time practice in Manhattan. As part of her longstanding interest in massive psychic trauma she worked with severely traumatized individuals, mainly survivors of state sponsored torture, persecution and genocide and served as a mental health advisor to Khmer Legacies. In 2002 she co-founded a study group on Trauma and Transmission of Trauma at NYPSI and presently teaches a course on Psychic Trauma.  She has given many presentations and talks on this subject: “Multiple Meanings of Trauma: Trauma and Re-traumatization in Torture Survivors”, “Why Do Young Muslim Men Join Militant Islamist Terrorist Groups: Integration of Individual Psychology with Large Group Dynamics within a Specific Historical Context”, “Trans-generational Transmission of Trauma and the Memorial Candles Children Narrative”, as well as Trans-generational Transmission of Trauma as Resistance in the Treatment of Children of Survivors.”

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Sharon Weller

Creativity in the Science of Psychoanalysis

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  •  December 10, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The 1040th Scientific Program Meeting: Jointly sponsored by NYPSI, PANY, and APM

“Creativity in the Science of Psychoanalysis”

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

8:00 – 10:00 pm

A reception will precede the lecture from 7:15 – 8:00 pm. All are welcome. 

Moderator: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D.

Panelists: Eric R. Marcus, M.D. (APM), Marina Mirkin, M.D. (PANY), Theodore Shapiro, M.D. (NYPSI)

For years psychoanalysts have been so invested in proving that psychoanalysis is a science that they have all but forgotten that it is an art of a kind.  There have been many attempts to tease apart creative and scientific aspects of psychoanalysis.  Bowlby famously made a distinction between “the art of psychoanalytic therapy and the science of psychoanalytic psychology.” Is such separation possible?  Is it useful?  This panel will discuss different aspects of creativity in everyday psychoanalytic work.  Dr. Shapiro will consider various definitions of creativity and explore their applicability to art and psychoanalysis.  He will investigate the use of the psychoanalytic setting as a creative integrative opportunity to facilitate the treatment.  Dr. Marcus will take up the issue of creativity in science and apply these thoughts to creativity and science in psychoanalytic work and research. The claim will be made that psychoanalytic work is inherently creative and can be scientific. Examples from dream interpretation with patients and use of dreams in social science research will be used to illustrate his ideas. Dr. Mirkin will discuss the transformative role of creativity in therapeutic action of psychoanalysis.  She will outline the analyst’s contribution – the analyst’s own creativity – to the treatment and suggest that the development of the patient’s creative capacity is a measure of the progress of the treatment.  The panelists will engage in discussion amongst themselves and with the audience to further our understanding of these complex issues.

2 CME/CE credits offered.

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in NYC who works in private practice with adults and children, parents and their babies. A member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, she is on the faculty of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research, where she directs the Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Training Program, and she is Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University. Dr. Anzieu-Premmereur is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and she chairs the discussion group Parent-Infant Programs at Psychoanalytic Institutes at the American Psychoanalytic Association meetings.
In French she has co-authored books on play in child psychotherapy and on psychoanalytic interventions with parents and babies.  She co-edited with Vaia Tsolas the recently published A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today’s World (Routledge, 2018). In 2017, Dr. Anzieu-Premmereur published the chapter “Attacks on Linking in Parents of Young Disturbed Children” in Attacks on Linking Revisited: A New Look at Bion’s Classic Work.
Eric R. Marcus, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where he was the director for ten years. He is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. Marcus is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, The American College of Psychoanalysts, The New York Psychiatric Society, The American Board of Psychoanalysis and the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies. In addition, Dr. Marcus is a past president of the New York County district branch of the American Psychiatric Association and currently on their executive committee; a past president of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine; and a counselor-at-large to the Executive Committee and past chair of the University and Medical Education Committee of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He now chairs discussion groups there on modern ego psychology and also on the psychodynamic treatment of the very ill psychiatric patient. For twenty-seven years Dr. Marcus was Director of Medical Student Education for the Department of Psychiatry of Columbia University. His teaching awards include the Columbia University President’s Teaching Award, the first Roeske Teaching Award of the American Psychiatric Association, the first Sabshin teaching award of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the regional teaching award of the Association for Academic Psychiatry, and numerous College of Physician’s and Surgeons teaching awards, including Commencement Speaker. Dr. Marcus’ latest book is Psychosis and Near Psychosis: Ego Function, Symbol Structure, Treatment, revised third edition (2017, Routledge). The first edition won The Hartmann Prize of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
Marina Mirkin, M.D. is a faculty member and Program Committee Chair at PANY.  She is in full-time private practice in NYC.  Additionally, Dr. Mirkin holds a teacher’s diploma in Japanese flower arrangement (Ikenobo ikebana).
Theodore Shapiro, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst. A graduate of NYPSI, he was Professor of Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine from 1972 to 1976 and has been Professor of Psychiatry at Cornell Medical College from 1976 to the present. He has served on NYPSI’s Board of Trustees, as Chair of the Research Program, and on the Education Committee. He also served as Chair of the Subspecialty Board of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.  Dr. Shapiro’s many awards and recognitions include the Sandor Rado Lecturer (1991), the A.A. Brill Lecturer (1999), the Heinz Hartman Memorial Lecturer (2004), the Salmon Akhtar-Brenner Lecturer (Jefferson Medical School, 2007), and the Philip Wilson Memorial Lecturer (2013). He has been the editor of JAPA (1984-1993) and book review editor of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (1993-2001). Dr. Shapiro has published over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is the author or co-author of nine books.

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

  1. Use the transformative role of the psychoanalytic setting as a creative integrative opportunity to facilitate treatment in the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis
  2. Describe the transformative role of creativity in the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis.
  3. Assess the progress of a treatment through the development of the patient’s creative capacity

Psychologists

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Physicians
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society and 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.
Persons with disabilities
The building is wheelchair accessible and has an elevator. Please notify the registrar in advance if you require accommodations.
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