Sharon Weller

Open Group Discussion on Mentalising Homeostasis

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  •  October 5, 2019
     10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis:

Katerina Fotopoulou’s video lecture on “Mentalising Homeostasis” –  an open group discussion

Saturday, October 5, 2019

10:00 am – 12:00 pm

The clinical implications of the research findings on affective touch are just beginning to be explored.  Katerina Fotopoulou, one of the pioneers and leading researchers in this field, has contributed a wonderful course on the topic, entitled “Mentalising Homeostasis:  From Body to Self,” to the NPSA Learning platform (www.npsalearning.org).  We will discuss this rich lecture in an open group discussion.

Participants are encouraged to view the course (requires purchase for $30; discount for current members of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society) in advance.  To purchase and access Dr. Fotopoulou’s course, visit:

www.npsalearning.org/courselibrary

In addition, participants can read the ground-breaking article “Mentalizing homeostasis:  The social origins of interoceptive inference” by Fotopoulou & Tsakiris (Neuropsychoanalysis, 2017) by downloading the open access version here:

https://tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15294145.2017.1294031

No CME or CE credits offered. 

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Sharon Weller

Works In Progress Seminar: The Interplay of Fact and Fiction in Narrative

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  •  October 2, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works In Progress Seminar:

The Interplay of Fact and Fiction in Narrative

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

8:00 pm

Presenters: Lisa Gornick and  Sheila Kohler 

How did your story begin? Where should the narrative start? Who should tell it? What are the facts that will give it a firm underpinning, provide the stuff of life, but allow the story to move forward to its inevitable but surprising end? These are some of the questions the presenters will try to answer in a discussion of writing historical fiction using their own texts as examples: The Peacock Feast by Lisa Gornick and Dreaming for Freud by Sheila Kohler.

No CME or CE credits offered. 

 

Lisa Gornick is a graduate of the doctoral program in clinical psychology at Yale and the psychoanalytic training program at Columbia, where she is on the voluntary faculty. Hailed by NPR as “one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America…immensely talented and brave,” she is the author of the novels The Peacock Feast, Louisa Meets Bear, and Tinderbox—all published by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and Picador—as well as A Private Sorcery, published by Algonquin. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Real Simple, Salon, Slate, and The Wall Street Journal.

Sheila Kohler is the author of ten novels,  three volumes of short fiction, a memoir,  and many essays. Her most recent novel is Dreaming for Freud,  based on the Dora case. Her memoir Once We Were Sisters was published in 2017 by Penguin as well as in England and Spain.  She has won numerous prizes including the O.Henry and been included in Best American Short Stories. Her work has been published in thirteen countries. She has taught at Columbia, Sarah Lawrence, Bennington and at Princeton. Her novel, Cracks was made into a film with directors Jordan and Ridley Scott with Eva Green playing Miss G.  You can find her blog at Psychology Today under Dreaming for Freud.

 

 

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Sharon Weller

Closed Meeting: Outcome in Child and Adolescent Analysis

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  •  September 26, 2019
     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:

“Outcome in Child and Adolescent Analysis”

Thursday, September 26, 2019

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Presenter: Theodore Fallon, M.D.

Psychoanalysis and especially child psychoanalysis has been criticized with little research and data to show its effectiveness, despite the decent body of literature that has amassed.  And yet, as practitioners with closer than front row seats, we are aware that we see, track and influence minds in process.  Reconciling these two perspectives is a significant challenge that psychoanalysis faces.  One approach is to consider our patients before and after treatment – the long term outcomes.

Theodore Fallon, Jr. will report on one effort that has been underway now for over 5 years to consider and gather data from children and their parents and families years after  completion of intensive psychoanalytic treatment.  This study continues to evolve and adjust its focus as we approach our 10 subject mark.  Dr. Fallon will consider some ways we have conceptualized this work, gathered and reviewed our data, and made some preliminary results and conclusions.

2 CME/ CE credits offered. 

Theodore Fallon Jr. is a child supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, Clinical Associate Professor at the Drexel University College of Medicine, teaches and supervises at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Washington, D.C., and has had a rural psychoanalytic practice west of Philadelphia for 20 years.  He has been active in research for over 40 years and involved in the child analysis follow-up study now for three years. In the past, he has worked as an infectious disease specialist in AIDS research, an epidemiologist and an internal medicine physician.

 

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

  1. Name and discuss at least two theoretical perspectives from which to view and test the effectiveness of child psychoanalysis.
  2. Name and discuss at least two observations and preliminary results of the child analysis long-term outcome study.
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 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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Sharon Weller

Waiting for Psychoanalysis

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  •  October 22, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

NYPSI’s 1038th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Waiting for Psychoanalysis”

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Panelists: Lisa Baraitser, Ph.D., Jocelyn Catty, Ph.D., Raluca Soreanu, Ph.D. and Laura Salisbury, Ph.D. (moderator)

‘Waiting for Psychoanalysis’ includes three researchers who form part of a 5-year research project on what it means to wait in and for healthcare to reflect on how psychoanalysis helps us to understand the difficulties and potentialities of waiting within contemporary lives that are increasingly experienced as frenetic, harried and time-starved, while also, paradoxically, impeded and stuck. Psychoanalysis is a practice that takes and uses time self-consciously, working and thinking through rhythms that run counter to the values of immediacy, productivity and efficiency that orientate many of our experiences of contemporary life. By committing to the long timeline of psychoanalysis, the patient is brought into contact with something different: a demand for patience, for suffering and endurance in which processes of mourning, or the emergence and working through of traumatic memory, cannot be sped up but must be endured through time and ameliorated through a practice of endurance on the part of both patient and analyst. This discussion will include academic researchers who also work clinically with patients in three different psychoanalytically-informed traditions to reflect on how psychoanalytic modes of care function through practices of waiting with – through the suspension of the everyday, the repetitions of the transference and processes of working through. They will discuss what this particular use of time might have to offer a social world in which, at one level, waiting seems increasingly devalued or intolerable, while at another the promises of a progressive future seem to be slipping from view – where all one can do it wait.

‘Waiting Times’ is a 5-year, interdisciplinary project funded by the Wellcome Trust working to explore the difficulties and potentialities of what it means to wait in and for healthcare.

2 CME/ CE credits offered. 

 

Dr. Lisa Baraitser is Professor of Psychosocial Theory in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and a final year Candidate at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, London, where she maintains a practice alongside her academic post. She is the author of the award-winning monograph Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption (Routledge) and a recent monograph, Enduring Time (Bloomsbury) that examines the relation between time and care in late liberalism. She is formerly co-editor of the journal Studies in Gender and Sexuality, and currently editor of Studies in the Maternal. She is the joint lead researcher, with Professor Laura Salisbury, of Waiting Times, a Wellcome Trust funded 5-year research project on the temporalities of healthcare. She has published widely on motherhood, psychoanalysis, gender and sexuality, time and care.

Dr. Jocelyn Catty is a psychoanalytic Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist working in the UK’s National Health Service and is Research Lead for the child psychotherapy doctoral training at the Tavistock Centre. Formerly Senior Research Fellow in Mental Health at St. George’s, University of London, she ran a number of studies in social psychiatry including an international randomized controlled trial funded by the European Commission. She has published fifty academic papers in psychiatry, alongside a book on the representation of sexual violence in English literature in the early modern period. She has also recently edited a treatment manual for short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescents with severe depression for the Tavistock Clinic Series with Karnac.

Dr. Raluca Soreanu is Reader in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK. She is a practicing psychoanalyst, affiliated to the Círculo Psicanalítico do Rio de Janeiro and of the Instituto de Estudos da Complexidade, Brazil. She is the author of Working-Through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising (Palgrave, 2018). She has published on psychoanalytic theory, psychosocial studies and the sociology of creativity.

Dr. Laura Salisbury is Professor of Modern Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on modern and contemporary literature and on the relationship between literary modernism and neuroscientific conceptions of language. She is joint Principal Investigator on ‘Waiting Times’ (Wellcome Trust) and is also a Principal Investigator in Exeter’s Wellcome Trust Centre for the Cultures and Environments of Health. As part of her work on ‘Waiting Times’, she is writing a cultural history of waiting in modernity.

 

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

  1. approach the question of waiting from three different psychoanalytically-informed traditions
  2. describe how psychoanalysis gives access to temporal experiences that work with and through the disturbances of lived time found in conditions such as depression, anxiety or trauma
  3. explore how psychoanalytic practices of waiting with, as opposed to waiting for, have value in the contemporary moment

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 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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Sharon Weller

The Legacy of Margaret Mahler

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

NYPSI’s 1037th Scientific Meeting:

“The Legacy of Margaret Mahler: Its Relevance to Current Analytic Practice with Children and Adults

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Panelists: Diana Diamond, Ph.D., Alexandra M. Harrison, M.D., Wendy Olesker, Ph.D., Susan P. Sherkow, M.D. (moderator)

In honor of Manuel Furer, M.D.

This panel will consider the usefulness today of the key contributions of Margaret Mahler and her co-workers John McDevitt, Manuel Furer, Anni Bergman, and Fred Pine. How does the empirical model of separation-individuation inform our current analytic thinking and practice? How do we view that model in the face of recent research on attachment? Have the findings of this research influenced the way we think about Mahler’s observations? Do they confirm or conflict with her model of development? What do we know about the relative attachment of a baby raised primarily by a parent caretaker as compared with one raised by a parent and a nanny or one in full-time daycare? How have “anxiety about separation” and “anxiety about separateness” come to be confused with “separation anxiety?” These and other questions will be addressed at a round-table discussion among the panelists.

2 CME/ CE credits offered.

 

Diana Diamond, Ph.D. is on the faculties of the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology in the City University of New York, the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, and the Weill Cornell Medical College where she is a Senior Fellow in the Personality Disorders Institute.  She is also on the faculty of NYPSI and the New School for Social Research.  She is the co-author and co-editor of four books including Attachment and Sexuality (Taylor & Francis, Routledge Press), Cinematic Reflections on the Legacy of the Holocaust: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and the forthcoming A Clinical Guide to Treating Narcissistic Disorders:  A Transference Focused Psychotherapy.  She has published extensively in the areas of mental representation and attachment theory and has investigated therapeutic changes in object relations and attachment in patients with personality disorders. She is in private practice of individual and couple therapy as well as psychoanalysis.

Alexandra Murray Harrison, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute in Adult and Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and is on the Core Faculty of the Infant-Parent Mental Health Program. Clinically, she specializes in treating preschool children, including children with ASD, and has developed a parent consultation model that is widely applied. Dr. Harrison also founded an NGO, Supporting Child Caregivers, Inc., which promotes global infant mental health through training infant mental health workers. Dr. Harrison’s research work includes collaborating on developing a clinical model that integrates developmental and psychoanalytic theory. She has co-authored a book on autism with Dr. Susan Sherkow and has published articles on subjects such as body image, play therapy, therapeutic change, and volunteer consultation. Dr. Harrison has received many awards, including the Deutsch Prize and the Arthur Kravitz Award for Humanitarian Service.

Wendy Olesker, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and on the Faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is Senior Editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child and on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. From 1991 until 1997, Dr. Olesker collaborated with John McDevitt and Anni Bergman following up on the original Mahler/McDevitt babies of the Separation-Individuation Study and, for the past ten years, she has been involved with further follow-up of eight of the original babies who have been given the Adult Attachment Interview, along with other measures, and are now followed into their sixth decade.

Susan P. Sherkow, M.D. is Director of The Sherkow Center for Child Development and Autism Spectrum Disorder, a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute, and a Supervising Analyst and Instructor in the Child and Adolescent Division of NYPSI. She is on the faculties of the Departments of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai College of Medicine and The Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Sherkow’s work, which has been published in JAPA, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, and elsewhere, focuses on the topics of autism spectrum disorder, primal scene, intergenerational eating disorders, the diagnosis of sexual abuse in young children, watched play, and working in analysis with children under five. She is co-author of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience. In 2010, Dr. Sherkow received the Ritvo Prize in Child Psychoanalysis from the Yale Child Study Center.

 

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

  1. Describe how an analyst would apply the model of the processes of separation-individuation to the evaluations of a patient
  2. Identify how current research has confirmed or refuted Mahler’s contributions
  3. Differentiate between separation anxiety and anxiety about separation
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 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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