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Closed Meeting: The Nature of Therapeutic Action in Child Analysis

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  •  December 3, 2020
     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:

“The Nature of Therapeutic Action in Child Analysis: A Tale of a Young Girl Caught in the Throes of Love and Hate”

Thursday, December 3, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Please note this meeting will be held virtually on ZOOM. Registrants will receive ZOOM link.

 

Presenter: Lee Ascherman, M.D.

This presentation will highlight the challenges and opportunities in analytic work with a young child in the throes of love and hate complicated by only nascent abilities to modulate affect and impulse as she grapples with intense longings, rage, fears and guilt.  Examination of unconscious fantasy emerging in the transference and how it contributes to defense and countertransference serves to elucidate what about work with young children may be similar to work with adults and what distinguishes it. Through the lens of this child’s process, a springboard is provided for discussion of the nature of ‘therapeutic action’.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered.

 

Lee Ascherman, M.D. is training and supervising analyst and child supervising analyst of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute. He is adjunct faculty at the University of Alabama School of Medicine after recently retiring as Professor and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Psychiatry, Director of the UAB Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Chief of Service for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Children’s [Hospital] of Alabama. He has published on ethics of psychotherapy and psychotherapy supervision, and learning disorders including A Clinician’s Guide to Learning Disabilities co-authored with Carleen Franz, Ph.D. and Julia Shaftel, Ph.D., (Oxford University Press, 2017).

 

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
1. identify three components to the nature of therapeutic action in child analytic work.
2. identify in what ways the nature of therapeutic action in child analytic work is similar to the nature of therapeutic action in adult work and in what ways it is different.
3. identify several challenges specific to working with defense with young children.
Physicians
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 the New York Psychoanalytic Society & 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.
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CANCELLED: Scientific Meeting: James Baldwin’s I am Not Your Negro: The Lived Experience of Race Then and Now

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

We regret to inform you that this program has been cancelled due to illness (non-COVID related); we hope to reschedule the program at a later date.  Refunds will be issued shortly.

The 1044th Scientific Program Meeting:

“James Baldwin’s I am Not Your Negro: The Lived Experience of Race Then and Now”

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Panelists: Beverly Stoute, M.D. (moderator), Irene Cairo, M.D., David Goldenberg, M.D., Kirkland Vaughans, Ph.D., Meredith Wong, M.D.

2 CME/CE credits offered. 

The acclaimed documentary, “I Am Not Your Negro,” directed by Raoul Peck, is drawn from James Baldwin’s unfinished work about his murdered friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Peck demonstrates, artfully and poetically, a moving and profound understanding of Baldwin’s prophetic work and relationship with all three historical figures, knitting their stories into the lived experiences of Black America. This panel, “James Baldwin’s  ‘I Am Not Your Negro’: The Lived Experience of Race Then and Now,” seeks to use the documentary drama to explore race and racism through a psychoanalytic lens. The documentary, narrated by Samuel Jackson, is a nuanced and close-to-the-bone exploration of America’s racial history and the conscious and unconscious socio-cultural manifestations of aggression and libido, hatred and love. While adhering closely to the unique history of race in the U.S., the panelists will explore how the experiences that connect us to Baldwin and his messages still resonate so jarringly today. Can we lean into Baldwin’s ideas to reflect on our hybrid identities as Americans?  Can we lean into our understanding of how the construct of whiteness is an obstacle to deeper connection in understanding difference? Can we challenge ourselves to identify with the lived experiences of racism through Baldwin’s penetrating directness, and face the sobering reality that, as Baldwin said, “The story of the Negro in America is the story of America. It is not a pretty story.”?

 

Beverly Stoute, M.D. (moderator) is a Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst. She is President, Atlanta Psychoanalytic Society Training and Supervising Analyst, Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute; Child and Adolescent Supervising Analyst and graduate of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute; and Faculty, Southeast Child Analyst Consortium, the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of the Emory University School of Medicine, and the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.  Dr. Stoute serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, the Advisory Council of the Harlem Family Institute, is a member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak, and is a nationally recognized speaker, author, and consultant on issues of race, racism, implicit bias, diversity, and psychoanalytic applications in the treatment of seriously disturbed children and adolescents.  In 2018 she was awarded the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Rieger Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Distinguished Member Award for her paper “Racial Socialization and Thwarted Mentalization: Psychoanalytic Reflections from the Lived Experience of James Baldwin’s America.”

Irene Cairo, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst and a member of the Faculty of the Contemporary Freudian Society.  She is a graduate and member of the Faculty of NYPSI as well.  Dr. Cairo has contributed chapters to books on Bion, on unconscious fantasy, on language, and on immigration.  She was North American Co-Chair of the IPA Ethics Committee from 2013 to 2019.  Dr. Cairo is in private practice in New York.

David Goldenberg, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He is a graduate of NYPSI and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Goldenberg is boarded in Psychiatry & Psychosomatic Medicine. His clinical and academic interests include the effects of digitally mediated interpersonal relationships and uses of technology on intrapsychic and interpersonal function.  He is also interested in queer theory and ego psychology.

Kirkland C. Vaughans, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist and a psychoanalyst, is a Fellow (training and supervising analyst) of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Vaughans serves on several faculties including: as a senior adjunct professor of psychology at the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies, as the Clinical Director of the Derner/Hempstead Child Clinic, on the Board of Directors for the International Psychotherapy Institute, and as faculty member of The Mitchell Center in New York. He has served as a past Director of the Derner Postgraduate Program in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Chairman of the Board of the Harlem Family Institute. Among his many publications, Dr. Vaughans is the founding editor of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy and co-editor of the two-volume seminal book, The Psychology of Black Boys and Adolescents (2014). He has written extensively on the psychological issues of Black boys, the school to prison pipeline, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma among African American people. Dr. Vaughans maintains a private practice in New York City.

Meredith Wong, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.  She attended George Washington University, where she received a B.A. in biology with a minor in fine arts and an M.D. degree as part of the 7-Year B.A./M.D. program.  In medical school, she was chapter co-president of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association and co-chair of the National Conference in 2003.  She completed psychiatry residency at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and adult psychoanalytic training at NYPSI.  After residency, she worked in a clinic in Harlem and then in homeless outreach psychiatry while starting her private practice.  She is currently in full-time private practice in New York.  Dr. Wong has particular interests in cross-cultural, LGBTQ, and women’s issues.

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

1)  Explain the sources of trans-generational trauma for African Americans through the lens of historical sources discussed by James Baldwin.
2) Revise cross-racial clinical interactions based on analysis of America’s racial history and the conscious and unconscious socio-cultural manifestations of aggression and libido, hatred and love.
Physicians
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 the New York Psychoanalytic Society & 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.
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Closed Meeting: Getting a-way with a blue eye: Analysis of an adolescent biracial girl

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  •  October 29, 2020
     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: “Getting A-way with a Blue Eye: Analysis of an Adolescent, Biracial Girl”

Thursday, October 29, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Please note this meeting will be held virtually on ZOOM. Registrants will receive ZOOM link.

Presenter: Tim Rice, M.D.

Discussant: Felecia Powell-Williams, Ed.D.

Dr. Rice will present material from the opening stage of psychoanalytic work with a seventeen-year-old biracial girl.  Themes in the material include the creation of a space for the patient to develop a consolidated identity as distinct from her parents and younger brother. Challenges to be presented include the patient’s difficulties in identifying with her racially-mixed peer group and in overcoming the ripples of her father’s idealizations of her white male analyst as they appear within the individual work.

2 CME/CE credits offered. 

 

Timothy Rice, M.D. is currently a candidate at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York, NY.  He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he focuses on inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry and medical student education.  He is co-chair of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry’s Task Force on Men’s Mental Health, where he focuses on child, adolescent, and young adult populations and on fathering.

Dr. Felecia Powell-Williams is a Licensed Professional Counselor – Supervisor.  She completed her doctoral degree in Clinical Counseling. Dr. Powell-Williams is also a Child & Adolescent and Adult Psychoanalyst at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in Houston, Texas, where she holds the positions of President of Board of Directors and faculty member in the Child and Adult Training Programs. Felecia provides clinical supervision for the State of Texas licensing board, as well as supervision as a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor with the Association for Play Therapy.  Along with maintaining a private practice, Felecia teaches on a collegiate level and provides clinical consultation and professional training with many local, state and national organizations on recognizing the need of mental health services for children & adolescents, adults, and families.

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

  1. Describe conflicts of adolescent identity formation in children of parents with mixed race.
  2. Identify racial components and their defensive function in patients’ transference.

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 accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and the New York Psychoanalytic Society & 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.
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Scientific Meeting: Gender Identity: What’s Sex Got to Do with It?

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  •  October 13, 2020
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The 1043rd Scientific Program Meeting:

“Gender Identity: What’s Sex Got to Do with It?”

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

This meeting is virtual. ZOOM registration link will be emailed to all registrants the day prior to the event.

 

Panelists: Jack Drescher, M.D. (moderator), Rachel Levine, M.D., Jack Pula, M.D.,

Rabbi Mike Moskowitz, Hilli Dagony-Clark, Psy.D. 

 

 

Early theorists of human sexuality typically conflated the concepts of sexuality and gender. In the mid-19th century, Karl Heinrich Ulrichs theorized that what would later come to be called male “homosexuality” was “caused” by a woman’s spirit being trapped in a man’s body. Richard von Krafft-Ebing defined presentations of people with atypical gender expressions as “homosexuality.” And Freud, in his theorizing about Leonardo da Vinci, attributed the latter’s homosexuality to an “identification” with the mother–an idea not so much unlike a woman’s spirit trapped in a man’s body.  How do we understand today the relation between gender and sexuality?  How do the meanings of these terms relate not only to each other, but also to their embodied and subjective experiences?  What has been the impact of psychiatric diagnoses, such as “gender identity disorder” or “homosexuality,” on individuals and on society at large? Where should contemporary psychoanalysts situate themselves in this scientific and cultural discourse?  These are just some of the questions that will be explored by the panelists.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered. 

Jack Drescher, M.D. (moderator) is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and a Faculty Member at Columbia’s Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health. He is Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant at Columbia’s Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and Adjunct Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Drescher is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute and he Co-Chairs the Committee on Public Information of the American Psychoanalytic Association, co-edits APsaA’s Psychoanalysis Unplugged blog on PsychologyToday.com, and he is a consultant to the Sexual & Gender Diversity Studies Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Dr. Drescher is Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, Past President of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry and a Past President of APA’s New York County Psychiatric Society. He is Section Editor of the Gender Dysphoria Chapter in the DSM-5 Text Revision (DSM-5-TR) process (anticipated 2020 publication); he served on APA’s DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders and on the World Health Organization’s Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health that revised sex and gender diagnoses in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). Dr. Drescher is the author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge) and Emeritus Editor of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health. He has edited and co-edited more than a score of books dealing with gender, sexuality, and the health and mental health of LGBT communities. He has authored and co-authored numerous professional articles and book chapters as well. His publications have been translated into Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Finnish and German. He is an expert media spokesperson who appears on major cable and broadcasting networks and he is frequently sought out and quoted by the media for his views on gender and sexuality.

Rachel Levine, M.D. is currently the Secretary of Health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine. Dr. Levine is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, and the Academy for Eating Disorders. She is also the President-Elect of ASTHO, the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Dr. Levine joined the Wolf administration in January 2015 as the Physician General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and served from 2015-2017. She was named Acting Secretary of Health in July 2017 and confirmed as Secretary of Health in March 2018. Her previous posts included: Vice-Chair for Clinical Affairs for the Department of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Eating Disorders at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Dr. Levine is also an accomplished regional and international speaker, and author on the opioid crisis, medical marijuana, adolescent medicine, eating disorders, and LGBT medicine. Dr. Levine graduated from Harvard College and the Tulane University School of Medicine. She completed her training in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City.

Jack Pula, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, and graduate of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. He was the first out transgender psychoanalytic candidate to complete training at Columbia and to train clinically at an American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA)-affiliated institute.

Rabbi Mike Moskowitz is the Scholar-in-Residence for Trans and Queer Jewish Studies at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah, the world’s largest LGBT synagogue. He is a deeply traditional and radically progressive advocate for trans rights and a vocal ally for LGBTQ inclusivity. Rabbi Moskowitz received three Ultra-Orthodox ordinations while learning in the Mir in Jerusalem and in Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, NJ. He is a David Hartman Center Fellow and the author of Textual Activism. His writings can be found at www.rabbimikemoskowitz.com

Hilli Dagony-Clark, Psy.D. is a member and on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Chair of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute’s Academic and Professional Relations Committee, Chair of APsaA’s Committee on the Status of Women and Girls, Co-Chair of APsaA’s ongoing discussion group “The Psychodynamics and Psychological Impact of Misogyny,” Chair of APsaA’s ongoing discussion group, “On Being Supervised” and former President of APsaA’s Candidate’s Council. She is a clinical psychologist treating children, adolescents and adults in individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in NYC.

Educational Objectives:
  1. articulate some of the unexamined and often dissociated beliefs and values about gender and sexuality in psychoanalysis
  2. list important ethical principles salient to the treatment of LGBT patients
  3. explain how personal beliefs (countertransference) influence clinical thinking about human sexuality
Licensed 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.
Disclosure: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Licensed 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.
Licensed Physicians
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 the New York Psychoanalytic Society & 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.
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Columbus Day

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  •  October 12, 2020
     12:05 am - 11:55 pm
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