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.

Continued Exploration of Clinical Neuropsychoanalysis: A One-Day Workshop

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  •  April 8, 2018
     9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Sunday, April 8, 2018

9:00 am – 5:00 pm

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Suppression of Affects and Psychosomatic Balance in a Dyad

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  •  April 4, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Works in Progress Seminar:

“Suppression of Affects and Psychosomatic Balance in a Dyad: Mother-Child Therapy with a 2-year-old Boy Presenting Behavioral Issues and Skin Disorder”

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

8:00 pm

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

A toddler who was running non stop and banging his head on the floor when emotional had eczema rashes as soon as he was calm. The very concrete, repressed way of thinking of the mother, who was overwhelmed and depressed, made a containing capacity to hold the child impossible, a situation that improved when working in analytic psychotherapy.

2 CME/CE credits will be offered.

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. 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, and she is Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Columbia University. Dr. Anzieu-Premmereur is a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and she chairs the discussion group Parent-Infant Programs at Psychoanalytic Institutes at the American Psychoanalytic Association meetings.

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 the recently published A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today’s World (Routledge, 2018). In 2017, Dr. Anzieu-Premmereur published the chapter “Attacks on Linking in Parents of Young Disturbed Children” in Attacks on Linking Revisited: A New Look at Bion’s Classic Work.

Educational Objectives: After attending this activity, participants should be able to:

  1. Describe specific unconscious issues associated with behavioral and psychosomatic disorders in early childhood
  2. Evaluate the role of the parent-infant interactions in the child’s psychic functioning
  3. Identify the techniques of play and analytic therapy in parent-child work
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 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.

Why and How Consciousness Arises

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  •  April 7, 2018
     10:00 am - 12:00 pm

The Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis

Why and How Consciousness Arises

Saturday, April 7, 2018

10:00 am

Presenter: Mark Solms, Ph.D.

Discussant: Maggie Zellner, Ph.D.

Dr. Solms will discuss recent developments in neuropsychoanalysis that illuminate the “hard problem” of consciousness – how and why the subjective experience of consciousness arises in conjunction with the functions of the brain.   Solms’ model integrates insights from affective neuroscience, the “conscious id” hypothesis, and Friston’s model of predictive coding, free energy and “surprise,” with implications for clinical work.

2 CME/CE credits offered. 

Mark Solms, Ph.D. is best known for his discovery of the forebrain mechanisms of dreaming, and his pioneering use of psychoanalytic methods and theories in contemporary neuroscience. Born in Lüderitz in 1961, he was educated at Pretoria Boys’ School and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He moved to London in 1988, where he worked at the Royal London Hospital (Honorary Lecturer in Neurosurgery) while he trained at the Institute of Psychoanalysis. He returned to South Africa in 2002, where he now holds a Professorship in Neuropsychology at the University of Cape Town. He is president of the South African Psychoanalytical Association, member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, and Honorary Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. Honours include the George Sarton Medal for contributions to the history and philosophy of science (Rijksuniversiteit Gent, 1996), the International Psychiatrist award for contributions to American psychiatry (American Psychiatric Association, 2001) and the Sigourney Prize for contributions to psychoanalysis (2012). He is chair of the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. He has published more than 300 papers in both neuroscientific and psychoanalytic journals, and five books, including The Neuropsychology of Dreams (1997), Clinical Studies in Neuropsychoanalysis (2000) and The Brain and the Inner World (2002). His last book was a bestseller and was translated into nine languages. He is the editor of the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 vols) and the forthcoming Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 vols).

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