Tuesday, October 21, 2025
7:00 – 8:30 PM (EST)
Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)
Presenters: Jeffrey Guss, M.D., Charis Cladouhos, M.D., & Shuli Sandler, Psy.D.
This panel is designed for clinicians who want to learn more about psychedelics with the possibility of gaining further training in the use of psychedelics clinically for their patients.
Presenters are experts in the field of the clinical use of psychedelics. Through a discussion of clinical material, they will consider the use of psychedelics in relation to psychoanalytic treatment.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.
General Admission: $50
Student Admission: $35
Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates
Please note registration closes at 5 PM on Monday, December 8th.
THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:
***Registration in Zoom Before the Meeting is Required to Attend***
After you have completed registering for the event, please look out for a confirmation email with more details on how to receive your Zoom Link.
Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed after the event.
Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register! Contact with questions.
Jeffrey Guss, MD is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, researcher and teacher with an interest in the integration of psychoanalytic therapy and psychedelic therapy. He is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the New York University Langone School of Medicine and was Co-Principal Investigator and Director of Psychedelic Psychotherapy for the NYU Psilocybin Cancer Anxiety Research Project. He has been a study therapist with numerous clinical trials of psychedelic therapy, including Psilocybin-Assisted treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Dr. Gus is on the faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and has published on the topics of gender and sexuality in Psychoanalysis Culture and Society. He is Lead Trainer and Psychoanalytic Program Director at Fluence Continuing Education for Psychedelic Psychotherapy and he lectures on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Psychoanalytic Explorations of Psychedelic Experience, and provides Continuing Case Conferences on Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. He has over 22 publications related to the use of Psychedelic Medicines and lectures internationally on Psychoanalysis and Psychedelic Assisted Psychotherapy. Dr. Gus has recently published “A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Psychedelic Experience” in the most recent issue of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. He maintains a private practice of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in New York City.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Psychologists
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.
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.
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.
None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
Tuesday, November 11 2025
8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)
Panelists: Josephine Wright, M.D., Delia Kostner, Ph.D., & Lindsay Clarkson, M.D.
The multisystemic nature of the accelerating ecological crisis calls for multidisciplinary responses. Conceptual rigidity, society-wide cognitive dissonance, inability to imagine beyond cultural assumptions foster dangerous denial and inaction. Psychoanalysis and psychology must play a role – both in the consulting room and beyond, in understanding the defenses against fear, grief, traumatic empathy that prevent full appreciation of imminent danger and stymie creative re-imagining of how to be in and of the world. Panelists will discuss these resistances to knowledge and resulting affects that arise in therapist, patient and in society. The reality must be acknowledged alongside the unconscious unique conflicts aroused. The dissociation from kinship with the nonhuman world, a characteristic of the modern, techno-industrial civilization, has facilitated the ecological disaster; reconnecting to that kinship, and its common roots in childhood, can promote transformation.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.
General Admission: $50
Student Admission: $35
Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates
Please note registration closes at 2PM on Tuesday, November 11th.
THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:
***Registration in Zoom Before the Meeting is Required to Attend***
After you have completed registering for the event, please look out for a confirmation email with more details on how to receive your Zoom Link.
Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed after the event.
Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register! Contact with questions.
Josephine Wright, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who served adults, adolescents and children for many decades in New York City and Northwest Connecticut. She is a graduate and former faculty member of the the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and a founding member of the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute. In more recent years of her psychotherapeutic practice, Dr. Wright found many patients eager to bring their profound awareness and deep distress of the multiple crises facing our world into their therapy. At times, this called for acknowledgment of the deranged external reality as well as helping the patient understand their own unique responses. Now retired from clinical practice, Dr. Wright continues to explore these issues in study groups, writing and working with environmental issues. She has published papers and essays in several journals including: JAPA, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action and is the author of the 1997 Avon book: Do We Really Need Ritalin: A Family Guide to ADHD. Her essays on Substack are meditations on home, migration, and the environmental crisis. After many years of raising sons, dogs, vegetables and sheep in Northwest Connecticut, she continues to pursue her love and knowledge of the natural world in her new home in coastal Washington State.
Lindsay L. Clarkson, M.D., a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is currently a supervising and training analyst emerita at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and a member of the Humanities and Psychoanalysis Study Group at Dartmouth. She explores our relationship to the natural world with the hope that the inquiry might contribute to a more benign and preservative response to the evolving environmental catastrophe. Dr. Clarkson combines a lifelong interest in natural history with an appreciation of Klein and Bion, and the contemporary aspects of their tradition and perspective. She has used clinical process, narrative and environmental literature, poetry and biography to extend the purview of psychoanalytic listening and developmental theory to include the place of the environment within our internal worlds. In addition to presenting on various aspects of this topic at meetings of APsA and the IPA, and as an invited speaker at society meetings, her essays have been published in four anthologies. Her most recent journal contribution, with Dr. Shelley Rockwell, appeared in JAPA 2024, “The Weight and Heft of the Natural World in our Inner Selves.”
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Psychologists
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.
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.
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.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
Saturday, October 18th, 2025
7:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)
Location: Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium
247 E 82nd St., NYC 10028
Introduction: George Makari, M.D.
Presenter: Philip Herschenfeld, M.D.
Discussants: Yair Qedar, filmmaker & George Makari, M.D.
Please join us for a special screening of the award winning film Outsider.Freud directed by Yair Qedar. Outsider.Freud is a journey into the life and work of Sigmund Freud in four acts, combining animation, dreams, and insights from leading psychoanalysts. It explores Freud’s life of marginalization as a Jew in Vienna during Hitler’s rise to power and how these experiences shaped his theories and personal life. Through an intimate lens, the film reveals new dimensions of Freud’s legacy, focusing on his impact on psychoanalysis, Judaism, and the power dynamics of being an outsider.
**Click HERE to view the trailer.**
After the film, Philip Herschenfeld, M.D. will present on whether there is, as some in the psychoanalytic community feel, a need for a “new Freud.” Although Freud served as an identificatory example for the field, his thinking evolved over time and our understanding of it continues to change. Psychoanalysis has evolved over time to meet the changing needs of society. The evolution of evolution of classical psychoanalytic thinking all too often assumed to have remained fundamentally static. Dr. Herschenfeld will explore the need for a “new Freud” and if this is a proper way to conceptualize this evolution in psychoanalysis.
Please join us for this exciting evening!
NO SALES AT THE DOOR. PLEASE BUY YOUR TICKETS IN ADVANCE.
1 Contact Hour, 1 CME/CE credit will be offered. See details below.
General Admission: $50
Student Admission: $35
Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates
Please note registration closes at 5 PM on Thursday, October 16th.
Yair Qedar is an Israeli filmmaker and cultural producer. He studied Hebrew literature and history at Tel Aviv University and worked for several years as a journalist and editor. In the 1990s, he founded HaZman HaVarod (The Pink Times), Israel’s first LGBTQ+ newspaper. Since 2010, Qedar has been developing The Hebrews, a film series focused on key figures in modern Hebrew and Jewish literature. The project includes 19 feature-length films combining archival material, interviews, animation, and text. The series has been screened widely and has received over 40 awards. In parallel, Qedar has directed filmic works dealing with gender, queer identity, and cultural history. His recent film, OUTSIDER. FREUD, examines the Jewish and outsider dimensions of Sigmund Freud’s life and legacy, in dialogue with psychoanalytic and queer perspectives. His films are shown at cultural institutions, festivals, and universities internationally.
George Makari, M.D. Historian, essayist, psychoanalyst, and psychiatrist is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts, and Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College. His latest book, Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia (W.W Norton, 2021) was the recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize, the Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Prize, was a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a Bloomberg Book of the Year. It was preceded by two award-winning histories, Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind (W.W Norton, 2015) and Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis (HarperCollins, 2008). His books have been or are being translated into thirteen languages. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Raritan as well as many scholarly and literary journals. The recipient of numerous honors, Dr. Makari was presented with the Benjamin Rush Award from the American Psychiatric Association. A graduate of Brown University, Cornell University Medical College, and the Columbia University’s Psychoanalytic Center, he is a Guest Investigator at Rockefeller University and lives with his family in New York City.
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Philip Herschenfeld, M.D. is a graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and of the Psychiatry Residency at that institution. He has taught psychiatric residents as a faculty member at Albert Einstein and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Dr. Herschenfeld has been affiliated with NYPSI since 1975 as a candidate, graduate, faculty member, training analyst and Dean of Education. His major interest has always been the practice and teaching of clinical psychoanalytic work. Dr. Herschenfeld was a somewhat indifferent (resistant?) student as an adolescent. He was mostly self-educated, therefore, through immersion in 19th century Russian literature. Since then he has been interested in artistic (literary and visual) as well as religious expression and interpretation of culture.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
Psychologists
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.
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.
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.
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
8:00 – 9:30 PM
Please join us for introductions & hors d’oeuvres to kick off the 2025-2026 academic year, everyone within the NYPSI community is welcome.
Training, Treatment & Outreach