On Boundaries: A Nonlinear View

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  •  March 27, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

NYPSI’s 1027th Scientific Program Meeting

On Boundaries: A Nonlinear View

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

8:00 pm

Presenter: Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D.

Discussant: Adrienne Harris, Ph.D.

Boundary concepts pervade psychoanalytic thought and practice from the “repression barrier,” to gender, to institutional expectations about professional behavior. Yet analytic discussion of boundaries often proceeds without a clear conceptual framework and on the basis of intuitive but ill-founded notions about them. In his paper, Galatzer-Levy shows how starting with Leonardo Da Vinci and continuing through the work of twentieth century mathematicians a rich and useful conceptualization of boundaries called fractal geometry has emerged. This conceptualization is directly applicable to psychoanalysis. The paper demonstrates how older, implicit conceptualizations have limited analytic thinking in this area and shows how fractal concepts provide important insight into the nature, development and management of boundaries. Application to clinical and institutional issues will be discussed.

2 CME/CE credits offered.

Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago and a Faculty Member of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute, where he is a training, supervising and child and adolescent supervising analyst. He is the author of seven books and 140 papers and books chapters on topics ranging from clinical psychoanalysis to forensic psychiatry to nonlinear systems theory and psychoanalysis. His most recent book Nonlinear Psychoanalysis: Notes from 40 years of Chaos and Complexity Theory was published in 2017 by Routledge.

Galatzer-Levy grew up in New York where he went to Bronx Science, NYU, and finally NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences starting at age 19. A little earlier he had started an analysis, which he reports enabled him to go to medical school “even though my mother wanted me to.” As with most analyses this one was incomplete and to this day he struggles between the pull of psychoanalysis and that of mathematics, a conflict that is partly resolved through his applications of nonlinear dynamics systems theory to psychoanalysis.

This evening he will talk about a central theme of psychoanalysis, boundaries, as seen through the lens of nonlinear dynamics and fractals.

Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. is Faculty and Supervisor at New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She is an editor at Psychoanalytic DialoguesStudies In Gender and Sexualityand of the IPA ejournal: Psychoanalysistoday.com.  And she co-edits the Book Series: Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis, a series now with over 70 published volumes.  In 2009, along with Drs. Lewis Aron and Jeremy Safran, Dr. Harris established the Sandor Ferenczi Center at New School University.

Dr. Harris is a member of an NGO which the IPA developed to work with the UN and she has been doing education and development on the problem of human trafficking.  She has written on topics in gender and development, analytic subjectivity, and the analytic community in the shadow of the First World War.  Her current work is on analytic subjectivity, on intersectional models of gender and sexuality, and on ghosts.

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

  1. identify the pervasive but implicit use of boundary concepts in clinical work and psychoanalytic conceptualizations.
  2. make interventions based the fractal structure of boundaries, as opposed to interventions based solely on more traditional descriptions of boundaries.
  3. describe methods for building useful boundaries as a result of integrated psychological development as opposed to imposing them on patients and institutions.

 

CANCELLED: Screening & Discussion of Gods and Monsters

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  •  February 28, 2018
     7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Brill Library Film Series

Screening & Discussion of Gods and Monsters

Wednesday, February 28, 2018   THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 

7:00 pm

Discussant:  William Fried, Ph.D.

The Friends of the Brill Library present a screening and post-film discussion of Gods and Monsters with Dr. William Fried.

One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1998 and winner of several awards including the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay, Gods and Monsters is a compassionate speculation about the final days of James Whale (1889-1957), the director of Frankenstein and 20 other films of the 1930s and ’40s, who was openly gay at a time when homosexuality in Hollywood was discreetly concealed. Adapted and directed by Bill Condon from Christopher Bram’s novel Father of Frankenstein, the film stars Ian McKellen in a sublime performance as the white-haired Whale, who is portrayed as a dapper gent and amateur artist prompted by failing health into melancholy remembrance of things past. Flashbacks of lost love, World War I battle trauma, and glory days in Hollywood combine with Whale’s present-day attraction to a newly hired yard worker (Brendan Fraser) whose hunky, Frankenstein-like physique makes him an ideal model for Whale’s fixated sketching.It is at once a keen glimpse of Hollywood’s past, a loving tribute to James Whale, and a richly moving, delicately balanced drama about loneliness, memory, and the passions that keep us alive. –Amazon

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.

No CME/CE credits offered.

General Admission – $15

Student Admission – $10

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CANCELLED: Between the Pink and the Blue: Aspects of Gender Identity Development

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  •  March 22, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

NOTE: This is a closed meeting – for candidates and faculty of NYPSI, IPE, and Columbia University Center only. Child candidates are expected to attend.

Advanced Seminar in Child and Adolescent Analysis

Between the Pink and the Blue: Aspects of Gender Identity Development

Thursday, March 22, 2018  This event has been cancelled due to the storm and will be rescheduled for fall 2018. 

8:00 pm

Presenter: Anat Gedulter-Trieman

Mrs. Anat Gedulter-Trieman will present a 3 x weekly psychoanalytic treatment of a 16 year old adolescent girl who presented with intense phobia and heightened anxiety to a paralyzing degree. Using process material, she will look at the main theme of the analysis as it unfolded. She will explore the centrality of the transference and countertransference relationship as well as the importance of understanding the developmental history in the analytic work.

 2 CME/CE credits offered.

Mrs. Anat Gedulter-Trieman is a Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society and Anna Freud Centre-trained child analyst.  She obtained her MA from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she worked for many years with delinquent adolescents. Anat was the Anna Freud Centre nursery consultant until its closure, and was teaching baby observation as well as running toddler groups at the Centre. She is currently teaching at the Institute of Psychoanalysis, the Anna Freud Centre and in various international venues. She lives and practices in London.

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

  1. Describe the transference manifestations in the analytic material of a phobic adolescent.
  2. Identify counter-transference manifestations.
  3. Recognize the importance of the developmental history in the analytic work with adolescents.

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
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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.

CLOSED MEETING: Beyond Countertransference: Treating the Untreatable Patient

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  •  May 3, 2018
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

NOTE: This is a closed meeting for NYPSI members and candidates only.

Special Event:

“Beyond Countertransference: Treating the Untreatable Patient –  A Case Report”

Thursday, May 3, 2018

8:00 pm

Presenter: Theodore Jacobs, M.D.

In this presentation Dr. Jacobs will describe a six year analysis of a woman who re-enacted traumatic interactions with her parents by acting out extraordinarily provocative behavior.  This evoked countertransference reactions that took her analyst to the brink of insanity or murder.  This case raises questions as to the management of such intense transference-countertransference reactions.

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Institute Closed – President’s Day

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  •  February 19, 2018
     8:00 am - 5:00 pm