Sharon Weller

Meet the Author: Janice S. Lieberman

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  •  January 30, 2019
     7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Brill Library Book Series

Meet the Author: Janice S. Lieberman

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

7:30 – 9:30 p.m.

The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to an evening with Janice Lieberman, the author of Clinical Evolutions on the Superego, Body and Gender in Psychoanalysis  (Routledge, 2018).

The value systems and problematic morality of many of today’s  leaders have affected what is being  heard in the psychoanalyst’s consulting room. These leaders’ blatant disregard for the truth,  their normalization of deception, of “alternative facts”, their greed, have parallels in the thoughts and conduct of certain patients who are in psychoanalytic treatment today. Media idealization of “the body beautiful” and of the acquisition of expensive homes and objects, of what is on the surface, have made the traditional exploration of  the “inner life” a challenge.

This book contains a series of papers Lieberman has written in the past 25 years that include her observations of how changes in values and norms of behavior in ”the world out there” have influenced what is heard in the consulting room. She writes about “a new superego”.  Deception abounds and often goes unpunished. She has observed an increase of greed and envy and an enhanced emphasis on the body and its appearance. Traditional gender roles have been challenged  in fortuitous ways, but a certain amount of chaos and confusion has ensued. Relationships are found and maintained using technology. Many feel lonely, empty. There are parallels for this in several artists’ lives and in their work. She writes about clinical dilemmas and their resolution in working with today’s patients.

Dr. Lieberman will be reading passages from her book, in particular from the chapter “Loss of Integrity in Contemporary Culture and Contemporary Psyche”.  There will be a book signing and books will be sold at a discount.

No CME or CE credits will be offered. 

Janice S. Lieberman, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst (Fellow) and Faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York. She served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association for many years. She chairs a Discussion Group on Masculinity at the Winter Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is a Member of the IPA Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity Studies. She is co-author of “The Many Faces of Deceit: Omissions, Lies and Disguise in Psychotherapy” and the author of “Body Talk: Looking and Being Looked at in Psychotherapy”. She has written numerous papers and reviews on deception, greed and envy, body narcissism and psychoanalysis and art.

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Sharon Weller

On the Origins of Psychiatric Illness: Schizophrenia as an Example

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  •  January 9, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works in Progress Seminar:

“On the Origins of Psychiatric Illness: Schizophrenia as an Example”

Wednesday, January 9, 2019

8:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Presenter: René S. Kahn, M.D., Ph.D.

Schizophrenia is currently classified as a psychotic disorder. This paper will attempt to show that this emphasis on psychosis is a conceptual fallacy that has greatly contributed to the lack of progress in our understanding of this illness and hence has hampered the development of adequate treatments. Not only have cognitive and intellectual underperformance consistently been shown to be risk factors for schizophrenia, several studies find that a decline in cognitive functioning precedes the onset of psychosis by almost a decade. Although the question of whether cognitive function continues to decline after psychosis onset is still debated, it is clear that cognitive function in schizophrenia is related to outcome and little influenced by antipsychotic treatment. Thus, our focus on defining (and preventing) the disorder on the basis of psychotic symptoms may be too narrow. Not only should cognition be recognized as the core component of the disorder, our diagnostic efforts should emphasize the changes in cognitive function that occur earlier in development. Putting the focus back on cognition may facilitate finding treatments for the illness before psychosis ever emerges.

No CME or CE credits offered.

 

Dr. René Kahn is the Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Professor and System Chair of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. After completing Medical School in the Netherlands (1979) and having actively served in the 42 Armd. Brigade of the Royal Army of the Netherlands as a 1st Lt (he retired a Lt. Col in the Army Reserve), he was trained as a psychiatrist and neurologist in Utrecht and Amsterdam, respectively. He then moved to New York City (1985), where he did a research fellowship in biological psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He subsequently completed his psychiatry residencies at Mount Sinai Hospital and then worked as Chief of the psychiatry research unit at the Bronx VA. In 1993 he moved back to Utrecht to become to Chair of Psychiatry at the University hospital, going on to lead the Brain Center Rudolf Magnus, which combines research in basic neuroscience, psychiatry and neurology. He remained connected to Mount Sinai School of Medicine as an Adjunct Associate professor for several years.

One of his most important contributions to science has been to help provide the scientific foundation of the century-old postulate that schizophrenia debuts with cognitive dysfunction – preceding the onset of the first psychosis by more than a decade. Moreover, he and his group have shown that brain changes in schizophrenia are progressive over time; and that these changes are clinically relevant, related as they are to outcome and to loss of cognitive function during the course of the illness. Finally, his research has shown that brain volume is one of the most heritable characteristics of man, paving the way to link brain volumes in health and disease to genetic variation. During his time in Europe he initiated several large treatment trials in schizophrenia in order to improve the outcome of patients with schizophrenia. He is also involved in many other collaborative studies, examining both genetic and neuroimaging parameters. His work has been funded by various sources such as the European Union, the Dutch Government, NIMH and the Stanley Foundation.

Dr. Kahn has published over 800 research papers and in 2015 and 2016 was named Thomson Reuters’ highly cited researcher, representing ‘some of the world’s most influential scientific minds’. He has served on neuroscience grant review boards in the Netherlands as well as those of the United Kingdom and Germany. He received several honors, such as a Fulbright Scholarship, membership of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the ECNP Neuropsychopharmacology Award, an honorary doctorate at Semmelweis University in Budapest, Hungary and the lifetime achievement award of the Netherlands Psychiatric Association. He is Honorary Lifetime Professor at Jilin University in Changchun, China. He was Treasurer and Vice-President of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology and is currently past-President of The Schizophrenia International Research Society. He is a fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

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Sharon Weller

Dialogues On…Understanding Children who Struggle with Feelings and Behaviors

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  •  January 16, 2019
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Dialogues On…Series:

“Understanding Children who Struggle with Feelings and Behaviors”

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Presenter: Leon Hoffman, M.D.

When children struggle they need to feel that the adults in their lives can make sense of them and do not dismiss them as impossible children who make everyone’s life more difficult. If children struggle a great deal they need to start experiencing that others do not see them exclusively through the prism of the difficulties and disruption they create but rather are mindful of their potential. In this discussion we will address:

  • The importance of paying attention and trying to understand the unspoken needs of children
  • How we can ascertain a child’s internal experience
  • The notion that all behavior has meaning

Ideas for this topic were stimulated, in part, by A. Ionas Sapountzis (2018) Revisiting Bion’s “Notes on Thinking”: Implications for School Psychologists, Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 17:3, 187-197, DOI: 10.1080/15289168.2018.1492821 and Leon Hoffman & Carrie Catapano (2015) Emotions Influence Cognition, The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 69:1, 296-315.

No CME or CE credits offered.

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Sharon Weller

Multiple Code Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process: A Conversation between Wilma Bucci and Eslee Samberg

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

NYPSI’s 1034th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Multiple Code Theory and the Psychoanalytic Process: A Conversation between Wilma Bucci and Eslee Samberg”

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Presenters: Wilma Bucci, Ph.D. and Eslee Samberg, M.D.

Drs. Wilma Bucci and Eslee Samberg share the view that psychoanalysis is in need of a general theory of emotion and mind as a basis for clinical work and research. Dr. Bucci has developed the multiple code theory, based on current work in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, to provide a view of humans as having multiple systems of experiencing and processing the world. These systems include symbolic (language and imagery that may be verbal or nonverbal) and subsymbolic processes (visceral and autonomic responses, including sensory and motoric functions); these may operate within or outside of awareness and may sometimes be characterized as unconscious. The ref­erential function involves the linking of subsymbolic bodily experiences with non-verbal symbolic imagery and language. Dr. Bucci will outline these ideas as they apply in the clinical interaction and as a systematic basis for research on the psychoanalytic process. Dr. Samberg looks to fundamental principles in Freud’s metapsychological papers, further elaborated in modern ego psychology, contemporary conflict theory, and object relational perspectives. She views unconscious mental representation as present from earliest development forming the core of the dynamic unconscious and unconscious fantasy as its more complex form. From this perspective subsymbolic processes are also represented symbolically although the prominent manifestation may be somatic or affective. Following Dr. Bucci’s outline of multiple code theory, the presentation will take the form of a discussion between the two participants, addressing points of correspondence of their theoretical approaches and differences between them, and focusing on their application to the therapeutic process. The discussion will be open to the audience and may include, but not be restricted to concepts such as dissociation and repression; embodied communication; instinct, drive and affect; resistance and defense; transference and countertransference; and conflict and compromise.

2 CME/CE credits offered.

 

Wilma Bucci, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita, Derner Institute, Adelphi University, where she served as Director of Research Training; Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI), and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR); Visiting Professor in Psychoanalytic Research, University College, London; Faculty of the International Psychoanalytical Association Research Training Programme; Co-Director of Research at the Pacella Research Center;  author of Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science: A Multiple Code Theory, and many clinical, theoretical and research papers.

Eslee Samberg, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute where she has served as President, Faculty Chair, and Curriculum Chair. She has taught courses on depression, psychoanalytic principles, and Freud’s metapsychology papers. She is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College where she teaches and supervises psychiatry residents. Dr. Samberg is the co-editor in chief with Dr. Elizabeth Auchincloss of Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts published in 2012 by Yale University Press and The American Psychoanalytic Association.  She is the recipient of the Charles Brenner Award for exceptional contributions to psychoanalytic education from The New York Psychoanalytic Insitute; The Distinguished Service Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association; The Laughlin Distinguished Achievement Award for educational contributions to psychoanalysis from The American College of Psychoanalysis; and has twice received the Voluntary Faculty Outstanding Teacher Award from the Payne Whitney residents in Psychiatry.

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

1. Explain the importance of a general theory of mind for clinical and research work.

2. Assess how Bucci’s multiple code theory addresses problematic issues in Freud’s metapsychology.

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 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 has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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 these programs and their 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.

DISCLOSURE: None of the planners or presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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Sharon Weller

Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association

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  •  February 5, 2019 - February 10, 2019
     8:00 am - 5:00 pm
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