Elizabeth Donovan

Interminable Treatments


  • January 9, 2018
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Interminable Treatments

A Special Scientific Program jointly-sponsored with the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

8:00 pm

Panelists: Theodore Jacobs, M.D. (moderator); Harold Blum, M.D., Philip Herschenfeld, M.D., Claudia Lament, Ph.D., Edith McNutt, M.D.

This panel will take up an issue in psychoanalytic treatment that is little discussed – the interminable analysis.  This refers to analysis without end: treatment that continues for many years, often 20 or more years with no termination date set and, not infrequently, no termination contemplated by patient or analyst.
The panel of four analysts, Drs. Philip Herschenfeld and Edith McNutt from the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Drs. Harold Blum and Claudia Lament from IPE, will present their views on this complex, clinically and theoretically important issue in response to questions posed by the moderator, Dr. Theodore Jacobs.
Harold P. Blum, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, affiliated with New York University School of Medicine, and an Honorary Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. He is the Former Executive Director of The Sigmund Freud Archives and the author of several books and more than 165 papers. Dr. Blum was the recipient of the inaugural Sigourney Award given by the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Philip Herschenfeld, M.D. is graduate of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and of their Psychiatry Residency and Fellowship in Administrative Psychiatry.  He has been a faculty member of Albert Einstein and Mt. Sinai Schools of Medicine, having directed inpatient teaching wards at each.  He completed Adult and Child-Adolescent Psychoanalytic training at NYPSI, is a Certified Child and Adult Analyst and a Training and Supervising Analyst.  He has taught numerous courses at NYPSI, most notably the Adolescent Continuous Case Seminar, along with Dr. S. Lomonaco, for 17 years.  He served as Dean of NYPSI for two terms.  Dr. Herschenfeld is in private practice of child and adult psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.  He is also on the editorial review board of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child.

Theodore Jacobs, M.D. is a Training and Supervising analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine. He is a Child Supervising Analyst at the IPE and at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research as well as Clinical Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Geographic Supervising Analyst, Florida Psychoanalytic Institute and Minnesota Psychoanalytic Training Program; and Fellow, American College of Psychoanalysts. Dr. Jacobs is currently on the Editorial Boards of Psychoanalytic Quarterly (where he is also on the Board of Directors); Psychoanalytic Inquiry; International Journal of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy; and Journal of Clinical Psychoanalysis. And he is Past Secretary and President of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis. Dr. Jacobs maintains a private practice in New York City.

Claudia Lament, Ph.D. is Assistant Clinical Professor, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, The New York University Langone School of Medicine. She is also a Training and Supervising Analyst at The Institute for Psychoanalytic Training at NYUMC.  Dr. Lament is a child analyst and graduate of The Hampstead Clinic, London.  She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and Chair of The Anna Freud Foundation.

Edith McNutt, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at NYPSI. For many years she taught the course on Early Theories of Symptom Formation. Dr. McNutt has served as Chair of the Faculty and on many committees, including most recently the Program Committee.

2 CME/ CE credits offered.


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

1) Discuss the factors that predispose some individuals to become engaged in interminable analyses.

2) Discuss the factors in analysts and in the current analytic climate that favor the development of interminable analyses.

3) Discuss the phenomena of unconscious collusions between patients and analysts and the role that such collusions play in the development of interminable analyses.

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 these programs and their 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.

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

Giacomo Casanova: A Biographical Portrait


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


Works in Progress Seminar: Giacomo Casanova: A Biographical Portrait

Presenter: Laurence Bergreen

This presentation is drawn from Laurence Bergreen’s most recent book, Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius (Simon & Schuster, 2016). Casanova’s life as a libertine, as well as his brilliant intellect and importance in European letters (he met both Voltaire and Mozart), will be discussed. The impact of two major traumas on his personal life will also be examined: first, the abandonment in early childhood by his mother, an actress and courtesan, and second, the early death of his father.

 

Laurence Bergreen is a major biographer, historian and chronicler of exploration. His books have been translated in over 25 languages. His most recent books include Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1492-1504 (Penguin Books, 2011) and Casanova: The World of a Seductive Genius (Simon & Schuster, 2016).

No CME/ CE credits offered.

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Elizabeth Donovan

Understanding and Coping with Childhood Aggression


  • January 24, 2018
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm


Dialogues On…Series: Understanding and Coping with Childhood Aggression

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

8:00 pm

Presenter: Wendy Olesker, Ph.D.

Dr. Olesker will look at aggression from a developmental perspective focusing on school aged children. She will discuss the manifestations of aggression, typical developmental conflicts, and the role of caregivers in helping children understand, channel, express, and contain anger as they grow. She will address the differences between normal and pathological aggression. Key ideas include: changing expectations and interventions as the child grows, the shaping influence of early experience, facilitating the development of conscience, and the importance of gentle, consistent limit setting.

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No CME/ CE credits offered.

Wendy Olesker, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and on the Faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is a Senior Editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child and on the Editorial Board of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis. It is from her longitudinal research and her analytic experience that she has developed a focus on the developmental process as it impacts understanding the intrapsychic world and the handling of aggression with children, the focus of this talk.

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Elizabeth Donovan

Heinz Hartmann II Lecture: Mind as Text: Freud’s (Typo)graphical Model of the Mind

Event Phone: 212-879-6900


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

Presenter and Awardee: Adele Tutter, M.D., Ph.D.

Introduction by:  Daria Colombo, M.D.

Freud developed the topographical model of the mind at a time when not only literary, but all academic, scientific, medical, and publications—especially those dealing with sexuality—were subject to strict governmental censorship that specifically sought to distinguish between “real” academic scholarship, and subversive, salacious “fictions” that masqueraded as such. Increasing suspicion was directed in particular toward doctors who used cures based on suggestion, a skepticism that found expression in fin de siècle texts—including Arthur Schnitzler’s play Paracelsus, which the author interprets as a satirical critique of Freud’s Studies of Hysteria. Contextualizing Freud’s early theorizing within the threat of censorship and prosecution that was only heightened by challenges to its legitimacy encourages the conjecture that the topographical mode derived from a proto-model, in which the mind was conceptualized as an erotic “manuscript” that must undergo “censorship” before it can become a published “text”: a typographical model of the mind.

Adele Tutter, M.D., Ph.D. is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and faculty, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.  Her interdisciplinary scholarship, which has focused largely on creativity and its connections to grief, loss, and oppression, has been honored by the CORST, Menninger, and Ticho Prizes, among many other awards. Dr. Tutter is the author of Dream House: An Intimate Portrait of the Philip Johnson Glass House (University of Virginia Press, 2015), co-editor, with Léon Wurmser, of Grief and its Transcendence: Memory, Identity, Creativity (Routledge, 2016), and editor of The Muse: Psychoanalytic Explorations of Creative Inspiration (Routledge, 2017). She is currently completing a second monograph, Mourning and Metamorphosis: Ovid, Poussin, and the Aesthetics of Loss. She currently sits on the editorial board of The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Psychoanalytic Inquiry and American Imago. The chair of the APsaA Artist and Scholar-in-Residence Committee, she lectures throughout the United States and is a regular contributor of art criticism to the Brooklyn Rail. She is in private practice in Manhattan.
 
2 CME/CE credits offered.
Educational Objectives: After completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1) Trace the development of Freud’s construct of the “censor” of the topograpical theory and its derivation from institutionalized censorship.

2) Outline societal attitudes toward the  dangers of the text and the state of institutionalized censorship in fin de siècle Europe

3) Describe the critique of suggestion in Arthur Schnitzler’s Paracelsus and its relevance to Freud’s theorizing 
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Elizabeth Donovan

NYPSI Retreat


  • January 28, 2018
    10:00 am - 2:00 pm
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