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Scientific Meeting: “Drive or trauma-Drive and trauma (Ilse Grubrich-Simitis) Revisited”

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  •  January 17, 2026
     10:00 am - 12:00 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

NYPSI’s 1082nd Scientific Meeting:

“Drive or Trauma-Drive and Trauma (Ilse Grubrich-Simitis) Revisited”

Saturday, January 17th, 2026

10:00 – 12:00 PM (EST)

Presenter: Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Ph.D.

Discussant: Luis Ripoll, M.D.

 

Description: Almost 40 years ago, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, in her groundbreaking paper, “Drive or Trauma: Drive and Trauma,” integrated drive and object relational aspects, on the one hand, and trauma-specific perspectives, on the other, in a creative way, as will be discussed regarding some conceptual developments in contemporary psychoanalysis. A short case example will illustrate the conceptual richness for treating chronically depressed patients with early trauma available to clinicians today. Considering both drive and trauma is among the strengths of modern psychoanalytic treatment techniques as will be illustrated alongside recent findings of the LAC depression study indicating that these difficult-to-treat patients profit especially well from psychoanalysis.

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

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

Please note registration closes at 2 PM on Friday, January 16th.

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.

OPTIONAL READINGS
    1. Bohleber, W., & Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. (2016). The Special Problem of Interpretation in the Treatment of Traumatized Patients. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 36(1), 60–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2016.1112223
    2. Krakau, L., Ernst, M., Hautzinger, M., Beutel, M.E., Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. (2024): Childhood trauma and differential response to long-term psychoanalytic versus cognitive-behavioural therapy for chronic depression in adults. The British Journal of Psychiatry, First View, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.112.
    3. Leuzinger‐Bohleber, M. (2015). Working with severely traumatized, chronically depressed analysands. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 96(3), 611–636. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-8315.12238
BIOGRAPHIES

Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Ph.D. is the former Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt, Professor Emerita at the University of Kassel, and Senior Professor at the University of Medicine in Mainz. She is a training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association and she has chaired the Research Subcommittees for Clinical, Conceptual, Epistemological and Historical Research of the IPA, served as Vice Chair for Europe of the Research Board of the IPA, and Chair of the IPA Subcommittee for Migration and Refugees. Dr. Leuzinger-Bohleber has been honored with the Mary Sigourney Award (2016), the Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis (2017), the Robert S. Wallerstein Fellowship (2022-2027), and the IPA’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award (2023). Her research fields are clinical and extra-clinical research in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic developmental research, prevention studies, interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and literature, educational sciences and the neurosciences.

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Luis H. Ripoll M.D. was born in Cartagena, Colombia, completed his undergraduate education in 2001 at Brown University with a double concentration in Biology and Philosophy, and received his medical degree in 2006 from the University of Florida College of Medicine. He completed his psychiatric residency at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 2010 which was followed by a clinical research fellowship focusing on the neurobiology of empathic accuracy in personality disorders and work at Mount Sinai’s World Trade Center Mental Health Program, where he also taught a course on the application of attachment theory and mentalization-based therapy to this severely traumatized patient population. Dr. Ripoll completed psychoanalytic training at NYPSI in 2018, serving as Silvan Clinical Research Fellow. He has presented at APSA’s annual meetings on the disturbance of self in borderline personality disorder and on a panel devoted to Freud’s conception of trauma in “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” as applied to contemporary issues regarding racism, climate change, and immigration. He presently teaches two courses at NYPSI on Interpersonal and Relational Psychoanalysis and the use of tape-recordings of psychoanalytic sessions to understand the psychoanalytic process as well as an online course organized by the William Alanson White Institute on the works of Donnel Stern. Dr. Ripoll serves on the board of the Psychoanalytic Research Consortium where he continues to participate in process and outcome research using recorded analyses. He has been in full-time private practice in NYC since 2015.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

  1. Utilize the concept of embodied memories with psychoanalytic treatment technique
  2. Explain why in treating chronically depressed patients who experienced early trauma, it is crucial to address embodied memories of early trauma both in the transference relationship with the analyst and by approaching the “historical truth” of the trauma.

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.

Physicians
ACCME Accreditation Statement
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 New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
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.
Disclosure Statement
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.
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Fred Pine Award Plenary Address: Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious

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  •  January 13, 2026
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

Fred Pine Award Plenary Address

Time and Timelessness in the Unconscious

Tuesday, January 13th, 2026

8:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)

Presenters: Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. &

Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D.

 

Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. & Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D. will present on the influence of temporality on people’s mind and lives. They reconsider Freud’s assertions that time belongs exclusively to the system Cs. and is absent from the unconscious (UCS), highlighting the inconsistencies in Freud’s own clinical observations and theorizing. Time and timelessness are coexistent, interrelated dimensions of experience, rather than binaries. The past, present and future coexist in both unconscious and conscious mentation. Psychoanalytic literature, contemporary chronobiological and developmental research, recent work in neuroscience, and clinical observations will be drawn upon. As psychoanalytic practitioners and educators, they want to expand recognition of the role of temporality in the workings of unconscious processes and contribute to a revised theory of the unconscious.

1.5 Contact Hours. 1.5 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

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

*Registration will close at 2PM on Tuesday, January 13th*

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.

OPTIONAL READINGS
    1. Cairo, I. (2017). It’s about Time: Temporality in Analysis. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65:317-326.
    2. Scarfone, D. (2016) Enactive Cognition, the Unconscious, and Time. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 36(5):388-397.
    3. Steiner, J. (2018). Time and the Garden of Eden Illusion. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 99(6), 1274–1287.
BIOGRAPHIES
Kenneth Feiner, Psy.D. a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst, is the co- author (with Danielle Knafo) of the book, Unconscious Fantasies and the Relational World. He is a clinical consultant at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and a faculty member at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He has published articles on child development, empathy,
unconscious fantasy, and sexual abuse. Dr. Feiner is in private practice in New York City where he sees adults, teenagers and couples.
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Deborah Waxenberg, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is Teaching Faculty, Clinical Consultant, and served for 6 years as Co-Chair of the Relational Track at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Faculty at the Stephen Mitchell Relational Study Center and the National Training Program of NIP. Dr. Waxenberg maintains an office practice in NYC working with individuals and couples.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

  1. Identify instances in which Freud’s descriptions of the unconscious included time, contradicting his claim that the unconscious is timeless.
  2. Describe how time and timelessness coexist in unconscious processes in their work with patients and discuss the ramifications of this for a psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious.

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.

Physicians
ACCME Accreditation Statement
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 New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of [1.5] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure Statement
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.
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Horowitz Sondheim Clinic Presentation: Treating the Artist Patient

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  •  October 28, 2025
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

***This meeting is hybrid, in person and on zoom***

Horowitz Sondheim Clinic Presentation:

Treating the Artist Patient

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium

247 East 82nd Street, New York, 10028

Presenters: Alana Mendelsohn, MD & Amy M. Rosenthal, LCSW

The “tortured artist” is a Western archetype that depicts professional artists as individuals in constant mental torment. According to this trope, poor mental health contributes to and is potentially even necessary for creative output and ambition. Although artists face mental health challenges at significantly higher rates than the general population, they have not been extensively studied or approached as a patient population with distinct risk factors or needs. In this session, we will introduce providers to the mental health challenges artists face and how mental health treatment can support not only their personal health and wellbeing, but their creative needs as well. Building upon NYPSI’s legacy through Stephen Sondheim’s therapeutic journey with Dr. Milton Horowitz, this session demonstrates how psychoanalytic understanding can support rather than inhibit creative expression. We hope that by the end of the session, providers will obtain a deeper appreciation for the mental health needs of artists and practical skills for how to approach working with them in treatment.

There are no CE/CME credits for this event. 

General Admission: $25

Student Admission: $15

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

IF YOU ARE ATTENDING VIA ZOOM; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:

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.

Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register!  Contact with questions.

BIOGRAPHIES

Alana Mendelsohn, MD is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist, and a co-founder of Creatives Care. Dr. Mendelsohn completed her medical, scientific and clinical training in adult psychiatry at Columbia University and has maintained a part-time private practice in New York for the last four years providing comprehensive medication management and psychotherapy. She is currently based in London, where she helps lead early clinical translation at Sania Therapeutics, a biotechnology startup focused on precision therapeutics for nervous system dysfunction.

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Amy M. Rosenthal, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Clinical Director of Creatives Care, a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting NYC-based artists with affordable, high-quality mental health care. A graduate of NYU’s School of Social Work and the Psychoanalytic Fellowship at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI), she has extensive post-graduate training in psychodynamic, relational, and trauma-informed approaches. A former artist herself, Amy specializes in treating creative professionals and has presented on artists’ mental health needs at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting and The Harkness Center for Dance Injuries.

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NYPSI In-Person Open House Fall 2025

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  •  October 21, 2025
     7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

In-Person Open House

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

7:00 – 8:30 PM (EST)

Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium

247 East 82nd Street, New York, 10028

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Scientific Meeting: Psychedelics: Clinical Applications in Psychoanalytic Practice

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  •  December 9, 2025
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

NYPSI’s 1081st Scientific Meeting:

“Psychedelics: Clinical Applications in Psychoanalytic Practice”

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

REGISTRATION LINK HERE

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.

OPTIONAL READINGS
    1. Bender, D., & Hellerstein, D. J. (2022). Assessing the risk-benefit profile of classical psychedelics: a clinical review of second-wave psychedelic research. Psychopharmacology, 239(6), 1907–1932. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-021-06049-6
    2. Evans, J., Robinson, O. C., Argyri, E. K., Suseelan, S., Murphy-Beiner, A., McAlpine, R., Luke, D., Michelle, K., & Prideaux, E. (2023). Extended difficulties following the use of psychedelic drugs: A mixed methods study. PloS one, 18(10), e0293349. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293349
    3. Guss, J. (2022). A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Psychedelic Experience, Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 32:5, 452-468, doi: 10.1080/10481885.2022.2106140 
    4. Hartogsohn I. (2017). Constructing drug effects: A history of set and setting. Drug Science, Policy and Law. 2017;3. doi:10.1177/2050324516683325
BIOGRAPHIES
Charis Cladouhos, M.D. is a child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with an interest in the treatment of trauma. She is also trained in EMDR, DBR, ketamine and MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. A faculty member at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Tufts University School of Medicine, as well as the incoming Chair of the Psychoanalytic Special Interest Group for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, Dr. Cladouhos has taught courses at BPSI on Developmental Trauma and Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy. She has been interviewed by the On the Couch IPA podcast on the topic of psychoanalysis and psychedelic-assisted therapy. She has been course director of the Healer’s Art Elective at Tufts University School of Medicine and organized the first hospital-sponsored retreat for physicians at Tufts Medical Center during the pandemic. Dr. Cladouhos has a private practice in Waban, Massachusetts.
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Shuli Sandler, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist licensed to practice in New York and New Jersey. Her areas of specialty include working with the full-age range of development from children through elder adulthood. She has experience diagnosing and treating anxiety disorders, depression, ADHD, Asperger’s, and academic difficulties. Dr. Sandler is a psychoanalyst and received her certification to practice psychoanalysis from New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. Dr. Sandler also provides psychedelic integration and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
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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:

  1. Explain the therapeutic use of psychedelics to treat various psychiatric disorders.
  2. Summarize how the use of psychedelics can enhance the work of psychoanalysis clinically.

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.

Physicians
ACCME Accreditation Statement
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 New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
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.
Disclosure Statement

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.

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