Screening & Discussion of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation

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  •  May 23, 2018
     7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Brill Library Film Series:

Screening & Discussion of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

7:30 pm

Post-film Discussant: Helen K. Gediman, Ph.D.

Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 masterpiece, The Conversation, is the brilliant forerunner of films in the surveillance stalking genre in which professionals are paid to stalk. The incomparable Gene Hackman portrays a schizoid private investigator whose personality deteriorates under work-related personal guilt that breaks through his characteristic dissociative defenses. The surveillance technology of the Watergate era that sustain his fragile persona is uncannily prescient of present-day omnipresent hacking in Cyberspace. For chills and thrills in great cinema, come one and all.

 No CME/CE credit offered.

Dr. Helen K. Gediman is Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychology at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also Faculty, Supervising and Training Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society, and in full time practice in Manhattan. The writer of numerous published papers on psychoanalysis, she has also authored or co-authored five psychoanalytic books. Her latest are her selected papers, Building Bridges, and Stalker, Hacker, Voyeur, SpyThe latter is a selection of the CIPS series on The Boundaries of Psychoanalysis, a psychoanalytic study of Erotomania, Voyeurism, Surveillance, and Invasion of Privacy, and will provide the basis of her discussion of The Conversation.

The Analytic Frame: Neither Subject nor Object

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  •  May 2, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works in Progress Seminar:

“The Analytic Frame: Neither Subject nor Object”

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 

8:00 pm

Presenter: Marion Oliner, Ph.D.

In this presentation Dr. Oliner will examine the tacit actions involving the frame that take place in each analytic treatment. These actions are not enactments to be accepted as sources of analytic insight.  As Bleger (Bleger, 1967) has shown, tacit actions are the secure foundation for the process, and should be analyzed at the conclusion of the analysis.  It is important not to confuse the contemporary rejection of the rigidity formerly associated with the Freudian model with the silence surrounding the frame, as if it were a throwback to the old authoritarian model.  Dr. Oliner’s interest draws on Winnicott’s conceptualization of the use of the object.  Applied to the analytic process, the analyst’s analytic attitude in response to the destructive transference is experienced by the patient as the analyst’s survival. Case material will illustrate Dr. Oliner’s belief in the crucial importance of the survival of the frame for the patient.

2 CME/CE credits offered.

Marion M. Oliner, Ph.D. (Columbia University 1958, Psychoanalytic Training Program of the NY Freudian Society, 1970) is currently in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. She also teaches, supervises and writes on psychoanalytic topics. Dr. Oliner is a member of the International Psychoanalytic Association and a member and on the faculty of the Contemporary Freudian Society where she obtained her training.She is also a member of NPAP and the Metropolitan Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. For many years, she participated in the study group devoted to the long-term impact of the Holocaust on survivors and their children. In the many years she has been active in the field, she has participated in the governance of the NY Freudian Society, as it was then called, and chaired the Ethics Committee. She devised a syllabus for a course on ethics that is widely used. She has published articles on a wide range of subjects and has written two books: Cultivating Freud’s Garden in France (Aronson, 1988) and, more recently, Psychic Reality in Context Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, Personal History and Trauma (Karnac, 2012). This presentation, based on the importance of survival or its failure, mirrors her experience as a German Jew in Germany.

 

Educational Objectives: After attending this activity, participants should be able to:
1) illustrate the challenges of the frame for traumatized patients.
2) describe situations in which the frame is left out of the process: it is allowed to exist until it becomes a problem.
3) become more aware of catastrophic reactions of patients who experience a breach in the frame.
4) be sensitized to the problem of patients who overvalue the frame at the expense of the analytic process, privileging action over introspection in order to achieve oneness with the analyst.
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 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.

Mentalising Homeostasis: The Somatic and Social Origins of the Self

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  •  May 5, 2018
     10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis:

“Mentalising Homeostasis: The Somatic and Social Origins of the Self”

Saturday, May 5, 2018

10:00 am

Presenter: Katerina Fotopoulou, Ph.D.

According to cognitive neuroscience there are at least two ways of knowing yourself: One, through integrating multimodal signals into an egocentric reference frame and assigning the first person perspective; another, through the cognitive ability to disengage from the embodied first person perspective and adopt another person’s perspective on your experience. These research traditions have progressed with relative independence in the field. For example, different paradigms examine feelings of body ownership and agency from a first person perspective (e.g. the Rubber Hand Illusion) versus third person perspective, self-recognition in mirrors.

Inspired by psychoanalytic insights on development, Dr. Fotopoulou will present a set of behavioural and neuroscientific studies with healthy individuals, neurological patients with right-hemisphere damage, and patients with anorexia nervosa, putting forward the idea that first and third-person perspectives on the self dissociate and proximal, embodied experiences of affective congruency may act as the ‘emotional glue’ between such first and third-person perspectives on one’s own self-consciousness. Without such unification, self-consciousness is either dominated by egocentric (narcissistic), interoceptive priors (as in anosognosia for hemiplegia), or third-person (super-ego) judgements lacking in affective anchoring to the body (as in anorexia nervosa). By contrast, the progressive integration of these perspectives contributes not only in a flexible, unified experience of the self in adulthood, but our ability to understand other minds and empathise with their embodied and mental experience, even though ours may be different.

2 CME/CE credits offered.

Katerina Fotopoulou, Ph.D. studied cognitive neuropsychology and theoretical psychoanalysis before completing her Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience at the University of Durham, UK and her clinical training as a Counselling Psychologist (DCounPsych) several years later. She is currently an Associate Professor (Reader) at the Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology Department, University College London. There she researches how embodied experiences are interpersonally ‘mentalised’ and perceived to form the basis of our selves. Katerina is the Founder of the International Association for the Study of Affective Touch (IASAT) and the London Psychodynamic Neuroscience Group on: ‘Psychodynamic Neuroscience and Neuropsychology’. She has published widely in psychology and neuroscience journals and is the editor of the volume: Fotopoulou, A. Conway, M.A. Pfaff, D. From the Couch to the Lab: Trends in Psychodynamic Neuroscience. Oxford University Press, 2012. In 2016, Katerina was awarded the Junior Investigator Award of the International Neuropsychological Society.

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

1) Explain how ‘sensory synchrony’ and related concepts contribute to predictive mental models.

2) Explain how ‘social synchrony’ and related concepts contribute to predictive mental models.

La Situación Psicoanalítica: Latin American Contributions to Psychoanalysis

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  •  May 8, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

NYPSI’s 1029th Scientific Program Meeting:

“La Situación Psicoanalítica: Latin American Contributions to Psychoanalysis”

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

8:00 pm

Panelists: Jorge Balan, Ph.D., Irene Cairo,  M.D., Luis Ripoll, M.D. (moderator), Rogelio Sosnik, M.D.

 

This panel will address a distinctly Latin-American perspective in psychoanalysis. Latin-American contributions to psychoanalysis have been of increasing interest in the age of psychoanalytic pluralism and, over time, they have come to be grouped together. Yet there is limited opportunity to study this collective contribution, especially where European, British, and North American psychoanalytic traditions prevail. To a greater extent than in other regions, psychoanalysis in Latin America has been characterized by an enthusiasm for object-relations theory, based largely on Melanie Klein’s depressive and paranoid-schizoid positions. British, post-Kleinian authors, along with Wilfred Bion, have also played a significant role (particularly with regard to their research on psychosis, however varied it may be) in the thinking of Latin American psychoanalytic theorists. Some have also been curious about the elucidation of linguistic aspects of the unconscious and associated distinctions between specific levels of mentation, including an interest in unconscious phantasy, with its individual and trans-individual dimensions.  Within the broader domain of Latin American contributions to psychoanalysis, the focus of this panel will be the precise theoretical, societal, and historical frameworks of Latin-American contributions to the field.

Jorge Balan, Ph.D. is an Argentine sociologist who has published extensively on comparative higher education policy, academic and labor mobility, rural-to-urban and international migration, and regional development in Latin America. His work on psychoanalysis and its professional organization in Argentina, published over 25 years ago in Buenos Aires and revisited recently in an article of the Revue Francais de Psychanalyse (Paris, 2017), is widely known. He received his PhD in sociology at The University of Texas at Austin and gained postdoctoral awards from the Social Science Research Council in New York and the John S. Guggenheim Foundation. He has held faculty appointments with major universities in Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, the United States, and Canada. Dr. Balan has frequently advised governments, international agencies, and philanthropic organizations on social science research and policy issues.

Irene Cairo, M.D. is Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member of the Contemporary Freudian Society and a graduate and member of the Faculty at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. Since 1994, Dr. Cairo has co-chaired, with Dr. Rogelio Sosnik, a discussion group on the work of Wilfred Bion at the biannual meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association, where she also coordinates a clinical workshop. Her recent publications include, “To make the best of a bad job” (in The Bion Tradition, eds. H. Levine and G. Civitarese, Routledge, 2015) and “Babette Interrupted” (in Finding Unconscious Fantasy: Narrative, Trauma and Body Pain, Routledge, 2017).  Among her papers, “My colleague, that Other,” which appeared in Psychoanalytic Dialogues (2005), is one of her personal favorites. Dr. Cairo is currently North American Chair of the Ethics Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association. She is in private practice in New York.

Luis H. Ripoll, M.D. received his medical degree from the University of Florida. He completed his psychiatric residency and clinical research fellowship on the neurobiology of personality disorders in New York at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, where he remains Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry. Dr. Ripoll has published articles on neuropsychoanalytic conceptions of borderline personality disorder. Other interests include attachment theory, trauma, hermeneutics and post-structuralism, as well as the influence of curiosity, creativity, and play on the psychoanalytic situation.  He is an advanced candidate and Silvan Clinical Research Fellow at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, where he is also a member of its Scientific Program Committee. He was also recently appointed to the board of the Psychoanalytic Research Consortium. Dr. Ripoll is in private practice in New York.

Rogelio Sosnik, M.D. is Training and Supervising Analyst, Buenos Aires Psychoanalytic Association; Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty, New York Freudian Society; and a member of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the IPA. He is on the Editorial Board of the IJP. Dr. Sosnik has published papers in Argentina, Uruguay, Italy, and the U.S. on the relationship between Ferenczi and Bion, on the British School, on the work of Jose Bleger, and on the “ethical texture” of psychoanalysis. For over twenty years he has chaired a discussion group on the clinical value of Bion’s ideas at the biannual meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association, where he also co-chaired a discussion group on the death penalty. Dr. Sosnik is in private practice in New York City.

 

2 CME/CE credits offered. 

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

  1. distinguish important Latin-American theoretical contributions to the conception of the psychoanalytic frame and clinical work
  2. describe how these came to arise in an historical context
  3. describe how various sociocultural influences can impact the psychoanalytic situation and influence analysand and analyst, in the context of both the analytic relationship and the work of unconscious fantasy
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 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.

Screening & Discussion of Pedro Almodóvar’s Talk to Her

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  •  April 25, 2018
     7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

The Abraham A. Brill Library

Screening & Discussion of Pedro Almodóvar’s Talk to Her

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

7:00 pm

Post-film Discussant: William Fried, Ph.D.

From Pedro Almodóvar, the director of the Academy-Award(r) winning All About My Mother (Best Foreign Language Film, 2000), TALK TO HER is the surprising, altogether original and quietly moving story of the spoken and unspoken bonds that unite the lives and loves of two couples. Two men (Benigno and Marco) almost meet while watching a dance performance, but their lives are irrevocably entwined by fate. They meet later at a private clinic where Benigno is the caregiver for Alicia, a beautiful dance student who lies in a coma. Marco is there to visit his girlfriend, Lydia, a famous matador, also rendered motionless. As the men keep vigil over the women they love, the story unfolds in flashback and flashforward as the lives of the four are further entwined and their relationships move toward a surprising conclusion.

In his discussion, Dr. Fried will explore Talk to Her as  representing the convolutions of desire by focusing on relations in which one of the two partners is comatose.  This situation enables the mechanisms of projection and introjection to become the sole relational vehicles.

No CME/CE credits offered.

 

William Fried, PhD, FIPA, is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, photographer, educator, author, and editor. Until 2000, he was the Associate Director of Psychiatry Residency Training and the Director of Training and Education at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. In 2000, the Association for Academic Psychiatry named him Teacher of the Year, the first time such an award was given to a non-physician.  Dr. Fried has published papers on clinical psychoanalysis, psychopolitics, applied psychoanalysis, group therapy and group dynamics, mental health education and training, and psychoanalytic theory. He has also written catalogue essays for the exhibits of prominent artists. His own photographs were shown in several solo gallery exhibits.  Dr. Fried’s book Critical Flicker Fusion: Psychoanalysis at the Movies, (Karnac, 2016), has just been published and is available from both Amazon and Karnac Books.