Elizabeth Donovan

Exploring Child Analysis: A Case Presentation, Discussion & Exploration of Training Options

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  •  May 15, 2018
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Exploring Child Analysis:

A Case Presentation, Discussion & Exploration of Training Options

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

8:00 pm

Presenter: Susan Sherkow, M.D.

The evening will feature a case presentation by Dr. Susan Sherkow, who has significant experience in working with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other “atypical” children. Dr. Sherkow will discuss how she uses analytic techniques and tools to work therapeutically with this challenging clinical population.

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Elizabeth Donovan

Closed Meeting: Candidate Case Presentation

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  •  June 12, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Please note this is a closed meeting for NYPSI members and students only.

NYPSI’s 1030th Scientific Program Meeting:

Candidate Case Presentation

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

8:00 pm

Presenter: Amber Nemeth, Ph.D.

Discussant: Naama Kushner Barash, Ph.D.

Dr. Nemeth will discuss her work with a complicated patient who has a history of trauma, and a tendency toward action and dissociation. The discussion will focus on the evolution of transference and countertransference reactions, including moments where Dr. Nemeth’s need for a control case influenced her decisions about how to handle the patient’s transference communications.

No CME/CE credit offered.

Amber Nemeth, Ph.D. completed her doctoral training in clinical psychology at the City College of New York. She is currently an advanced candidate at NYPSI, the candidate representative to APsaA, and the former co-chair of the candidate’s council. Her research interests have included the cross-generational transmission of traumatic stress, and clinical approaches to treating co-occurring substance abuse and PTSD. She has taught courses on domestic violence, presented her work nationally, and is the recipient of the Irving H. Paul Dissertation Award. Dr. Nemeth also supervises the psychotherapy work of clinical psychology doctoral students at The City College of New York and maintains a private practice in midtown.

Naama Kushnir Barash, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst and Faculty Member at IPTAR where she teaches a course on Winnicott and his followers. She is on the Faculty at NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy where she teaches a course entitled Working with Hatred, Sadism and Envy in the Therapeutic Moment. She is also a Training Analyst and Past faculty of the Israeli Psychoanalytic Society. She maintains a private practice in NYC.

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Elizabeth Donovan

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, Spy. The 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.

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Elizabeth Donovan

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.
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Elizabeth Donovan

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.

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