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Bodily Experiences and the Developing Capacity for Representation

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  •  December 6, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Advanced Seminar in Child & Adolescent Analysis:

“Bodily Experiences and the Developing Capacity for Representation:

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with an Autistic Toddler and her Depressed Mother”

Thursday, December 6, 2018

8:00 pm

Presenter: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D.

This presentation discusses the treatment of a disturbed baby encapsulated in an autistic relationship with a severely depressed mother. This mother-baby dyad was unable to develop a communicative relationship with potentially catastrophic effects for the baby’s future mental health.

The lack of synchrony between the baby’s needs and feelings and the mother had blocked the baby’s capacity to develop an integrated self capable of sustaining the Body Ego. The young child’s long treatment demonstrates how bodily experiences and affects are present from the beginning of life as the core of the developing self and can be evaluated and interpreted by the analyst. The child’s early mental life initially creates the first representations of the self in relationship with the object. Eventually, through bodily sensations linked with emotions and memories of pleasurable moments, the baby’s capacity to integrate these representations enriches the process of symbolization.

2 CME/ CE credits offered.

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in NYC who works in private practice with adults and children, parents and their babies. A member of the Société Psychanalytique de Paris, she is on the faculty of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research, where she directs the Parent-Infant Psychotherapy Training Program; she is Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University. She is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, and she chairs the discussion group on Parent-Infant Programs at Psychoanalytic Institutes at the American Psychoanalytic Association meetings.

She recently published “The Process of Representation in Early Childhood,”  and “Attacks on Linking in Parents of Young Disturbed Children.” In French she has co-authored books on play in child psychotherapy and on psychoanalytic interventions with parents and babies.  She co-edited  with Vaia Tsolas in October 2017 “A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today’s Psychoanalysis.”

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

  1. identify psychodynamically-based responses to children who present autistic symptoms and developmental delay.
  2. describe the multilayered dynamics present in mother-baby interactions and the consequences on mental health.
  3. identify approaches to the development of a working alliance with parents in order to facilitate in-depth work with young children.
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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Elizabeth Donovan

The Appeal of Tragedy

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  •  November 7, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works in Progress Seminar:

“The Appeal of Tragedy”

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

8:00 pm

Presenter: Paul Schwaber, Ph.D.

Looking closely at Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and King Lear, and guided by both Aristotle and Freud, Dr. Schwaber will explore the appeal of tragedy as a literary form, the ways verbal art imitates significant human action and the illuminating experience it enables. An earlier version of the speaker’s comments on Romeo and Juliet appeared in “For Better and for Worst: Romeo and Juliet” in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 61:294-307.

No CME/CE credits offered.

Paul Schwaber is Professor of Letters Emeritus at Wesleyan University and a practicing psychoanalyst.  For many years, he was Director of the College of Letters, Wesleyan’s undergraduate major in Western literature, philosophy and history. He has published extensively on the relation between imaginative literature and psychoanalysis.

He co-edited Of Poetry and Power: Poems Occasioned by the Presidency and by the Death of John F. Kennedy (Basic Books) and is the author of The Cast of Characters: A Reading of Ulysses (Yale University Press). In 1993 he was given the Robert S. Liebert Award in Applied Analysis by the Columbia Center for Psychoanalysis and the Association of Psychoanalytic Medicine and, in 2014, the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award by the American Psychoanalytic Association. A graduate of the Western New England Institute, Dr. Schwaber has been Chair of its faculty and also its President. He has served on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and at present is on the Boards of the James Joyce Quarterly, the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. He and his wife, Dr. Rosemary Balsam, now edit the Book Review section of JAPA.
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Claustro-agoraphobia, Bertram Lewin, and the Oral Triad

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  •  November 13, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

NYPSI’s 1033rd Scientific Program Meeting:

“Claustro-agoraphobia, Bertram Lewin, and the Oral Triad”

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

8:00 pm

Presenter: Susan N. Finkelstein, LCSW

Discussants: Anna Balas, MD and Leon Balter, MD

Claustro-agoraphobic anxieties are rooted in unconscious phantasies about the maternal body. Henri Rey named the claustro-agoraphobic syndrome in which its sufferers feel trapped when involved in a relationship, desperate to escape, then terrified once free of it, seeking retreat to the illusory security of the primal home – in phantasy, the mother’s body.  The presenter will discuss some early and little-recognized contributions of Bertram D. Lewin that may be applied to Rey’s ideas within the context of a claustro-agoraphobic patient. She will further discuss three dreams to demonstrate how Lewin’s oral triad of wishes: ‘to eat, to be eaten and to sleep’ relates to these phobias and to Rey’s concept.

Susan N. Finkelstein, LCSW, is a faculty member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the Contemporary Freudian Society where she is also a Training and Supervising Analyst. She is in private practice in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and couple therapy in New York City.  In addition, she teaches technique and clinical supervision in Freud, Klein and Bion, is the originator of a study group “Understanding Primitive Mental States,” and co-chairs an annual discussion group with Nasir Ilahi at the American Psychoanalytic Association, “Schizoid Modes in Narcissistic and Borderline States.” Areas of specialization include ongoing seminars in the “The Internal World and Its Objects,” “Bion and Beckett,” “The Claustro-Agoraphobic Dilemma” and “Hysteria.”

Anna Balas, MD is Associate Professor New York Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney Division; Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Member of CAPS (Center for Advancement of Psychoanalysis) and Course Instructor, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.

Leon Balter, MD is Associate Clinical Professor, Mount Sinai Department of Psychiatry and Training and Supervising Analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.

 

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

  1. define the primitive anxieties found in the “claustro-agoraphobic syndrome” termed by Henri Rey.
  2. define Bertram Lewin’s concept of the oral triad of wishes: ‘to eat, to be eaten and to sleep’ and their relationship to the claustro-agoraphobic syndrome.

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 SW CPE 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 #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 the 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 have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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Exploring ideas on “Repression and Defense” raised at the 19th Annual Congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society

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  •  October 6, 2018
     10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis

Exploring ideas on “Repression and Defense” raised at the 19th Annual Congress of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society

Saturday, October 6, 2018

10:00 am

If you were at the Congress, you know how exciting and provocative the talks were.  Leading researchers and thinkers on memory, inhibition, and repression – including Cristina Alberini, Michael Anderson, and Nikolai Axmacher – presented a range of evidence and models of brain/mind function that relate to repression.  Is the process conscious or unconscious, voluntary or involuntary?  Is repression the same or different from suppression?  Does repression lead to the reduction, or the persistence, of traumatic memory?  What kinds of memory is involved – episodic, procedural, emotional?  And how are various brain mechanisms involved, including inhibition of hippocampal activity, or increased alpha frequency?

If you couldn’t make it to Mexico City, you are still very welcome to participate in this discussion.

Refresh your memory about the talks, or listen to them for the first time, and then come chew on these complicated but deeply meaningful questions together.

No CME/CE credits will be offered. 

NPSA Mexico City 2018 – Congress Presentations

 

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Meet the Author: Benjamin H. Ogden

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  •  October 10, 2018
     7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Brill Library Book Series:

Meet the Author: Benjamin H. Ogden

Wednesday, October 10, 2018

7:30 pm

Presenter: Benjamin H. Ogden

Beyond Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism: Between Literature and Mind challenges the tradition of applied psychoanalysis that has long dominated psychoanalytic literary criticism. Benjamin H. Ogden, a literary scholar, proposes that a new form of analytic literary criticism take its place, one that begins from a place of respect for the mystery of literature and the complexity of its inner-workings.

In this book, through readings of authors such as J.M. Coetzee, Flannery O’Connor, and Vladimir Nabokov, the mysteries upon which literary works rely for their enduring power are enumerated and studied. Such mysteries are thereafter interwoven into a series of pioneering studies of how the analytic conceptions of thinking, dreaming, and losing become meaningful within the unique aesthetic conditions of individual novels and poems. Each chapter is a provisional solution to the difficult “bridging problems” that arise when literary figures work in the psychoanalytic space, and when psychoanalysts attempt to make use of literature for analytic purposes.

This talk will address the current place of psychoanalysis within literary studies, and will invite attendees to discuss how literature and psychoanalysis can be put into conservation without detracting from the essence of either field.

No CME/CE credits will be offered.

Benjamin H. Ogden is Assistant Teaching Professor in the College of Arts and Letters at Stevens Institute of Technology. He co-authored the Routledge title The Analyst’s Ear and the Critic’s Eye: Rethinking Psychoanalysis and Literature with Thomas H. Ogden. He has written for the New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement, and authored numerous academic articles on the work of authors such as J.M. Coetzee, Samuel Beckett, and William Faulkner.

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