Sunday, April 8, 2018
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.
Educational Objectives: After attending this activity, participants should be able to:
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.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
8:00 pm
Presenter: Lynne Zeavin, Psy.D.
Discussant: Richard Zimmer, M.D.
There are two distinct ways in which Melanie Klein writes about idealization. Insofar as she maintains that “The whole of [the infant’s ] instinctual desires and his unconscious phantasies imbue the breast with qualities going far beyond the actual nourishment it affords”, and her increasingly stressed conviction that the libidinally invested breast, when introjected, forms ‘the core of the ego’, Klein is suggesting that the original good object must be experienced as ideal. Nothing less than this would adequately address ‘the whole of [the infant’s] instinctual desires.’ In this view, the infant projects his entire loving capacity, as well as his capacity for pleasure, onto the object and this is then introjected, together with the object’s actual goodness, to become his very core.
At other moments, though, idealization is different, for Klein also asserted that much of what the infant experiences as positive is in fact due to idealization as a psychological defense: in this view idealization is seen as the result of a defensive exaggeration of the object’s goodness: “Idealization is bound up with the splitting of the object, for the good aspects of the breast are exaggerated as a safeguard against the fear of the persecuting breast”; that is, a defense against persecutory anxieties stemming from the infant’s projection of hateful impulses and hate-filled parts of the self into the (bad) breast/mother.
Case material will be used to describe idealization as it permeates and governs the analytic relationship. The analyst’s eventual capacity to discern the workings of idealization in the second sense in which Klein means it brought about significant change for the patient.
2 CME/CE credits offered.
Dr. Lynne Zeavin is a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in full-time private practice in New York City. She is on the faculties of The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute where she teaches Melanie Klein and the Contemporary Kleinians. Dr. Zeavin has published widely on various subjects but she has a particular interest in Kleinian theory and the nature of the object in psychical experience. In addition, with three colleagues, she has founded Green Gang, a group devoted to the study of psychoanalysis and our human relationship with the natural world. Chair of the Fellowship Program of the American Psychoanalytic Association, she also serves on the editorial boards of JAPA, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and Division/Review.
Dr. Richard Zimmer is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Weill-Cornell Medical Center. He is on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and has published papers in numerous areas of interest, including perversion, creativity and the creative process, and field theory. His latest paper, “Common Sense – Its Uses, Misuses and Pitfalls” will appear in a forthcoming edition of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
7:30 pm
The Friends of the Brill Library invite you to an evening with Donald Moss, the author of At War with the Obvious: Disruptive Thinking in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2017).
The author situates each chapter of At War with the Obvious at the border between common and psychoanalytic sense. Cumulatively, the book argues that in order for psychoanalysis to retain its original vitality, it must continuously work against becoming “common sensical”. Common sense–clinical and cultural– almost invariably obscures the uncommon/unconscious determinants that would expose its insufficiencies. The most pointed expression of this border tension may be in the chapter, “The Insane Look of the Bewildered Half-Broken Animal.”
Copies of the book will be made available for purchase for $35 at the event. NYPSI students will get a $20 discount on the book.
Donald Moss is a faculty member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and is in private practice in New York City. He is also a member of the Green Gang, a four-person collective that studies the relationships between the human and non-human environments. He is currently the incoming Chair of the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Program Committee, and has been on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, American Imago, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Over the past 35 years, Dr. Moss has authored more than 50 psychoanalytic papers and three books: Hating in the First-Person Plural (2003), Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man (2012), and At War with the Obvious (2017).
No CME/CE credits offered.
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