Sharon Weller

Scientific Meeting: Intuition, Transference and Countertransference

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  •  May 4, 2024
     10:00 am - 12:00 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

NYPSI’s 1073rd Scientific Meeting:

“Intuition, Transference and Countertransference: A New Look at the Clinical Implications of the Constructivist Dilemma”

Saturday, May 4, 2024

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EST)

Presenter: David Tuckett, M.S.

Discussant: Marie Rudden, M.D.

This presentation is for clinicians seeking to work “psychoanalytically” in a therapeutic context. New evidence will be presented from a 20-year research program that compared analysts’ clinical approaches using a new theoretical framework. The framework reveals (a) gaps in the role analysts ascribe to interpretation as insight (b) differences in the data used to draw inferences about a patient’s unconscious and (c) highly consequential differences in how transference is supposed to become visible. Understanding these differences has significant implications for the work of clinicians.

Please note: Prior to the start of the lecture, Dr. Paula Christian-Kliger will receive an award for her commitment to a diverse community and deeply humanistic values.  This award is made in memory of the late Dr. Frances Cohen. 

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.

General Admission: $40

Student Admission: $30

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates

Please note registration closes at 12 PM on Friday, May 3, 2024.

REGISTRATION LINK

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS TO ENSURE SUCCESSFUL REGISTRATION:

1. Buy your ticket at REGISTRATION LINK above.
2. After you register, you will receive a confirmation email containing a link to Pre-Register in ZOOM for the event.
3. Click on the pre-registration ZOOM link and enter your name and email address. If you do not complete this step, you will NOT receive link to meeting.
4. After completing ZOOM pre-registration, you will automatically receive an email directly from ZOOM containing the JOIN LINK to the meeting. Click the JOIN LINK to “enter” the meeting.
5. Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

PLEASE CHECK ALL EMAIL FOLDERS IN CASE EMAILS GO INTO SPAM OR ANOTHER FOLDER. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH TICKET PURCHASE WITH US FOR THE EVENT AND PRE-REGISTRATION IN ZOOM.  Contact admdir@nypsi.org with questions.

BIOGRAPHIES

David Tuckett, M.S. trained in economics, medical sociology and psychoanalysis and held previous positions at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School and Bedford College (University of London) and Cambridge University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Psychoanalysis (London) and has worked part-time in psychoanalytic clinical practice since 1977. He is currently Director of the UCL Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty, Principal Investigator for the CRUISSE network (Confronting Radical Uncertainty in Science, Society and the Environment), and a Senior Research Fellow with the place-based renewal team at the Blavatnik School of Government of Oxford University. His research work, attempting to integrate insights in psychoanalysis, sociology, cognitive psychology and economics, covers economic and financial decision-making, psychoanalysis and medical sociology.
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Marie Rudden, M.D. is a retired APsaA Training and Supervising Analyst and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell School of Medicine. She is also on the North American Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She has been the Co-chair of the North American Comparative Clinical Methods Working Party, which is relevant for the topic to be discussed. Marie Rudden has co-authored Psychodynamic Therapy of Depression (American Psychiatric Press), first and second editions; From the Ground Up: How Frontline Staff Can Save America’s Healthcare and she was an editor of New Tools for Psychoanalysis: Clinical Investigation and Psychoanalytic Training in the Working Parties, Routledge (New Library of Psychoanalysis). Dr. Rudden has also authored or co-authored over 40 published papers on panic disorder, depression, cocoon states, reflective functioning, misogyny, domestic violence, structural racism and regressive group processes.
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Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
  1. Assess the evidence for what is unconsciously influencing patients to effectively talk to them about these influences
  2. Analyze the risks in the misuse and misapplication of core clinical concepts and how they inhibit psychoanalytic evaluation.

Psychologists

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.

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. DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Social Workers

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 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 #SW – 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 the 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 for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

Cancellation Policy: Full refund will be granted only if registrant cancels prior to event. Please contact the Administrative Director at admdir@nypsi.org

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Sharon Weller

Child Analysis Lecture: Regularity of I.Q. Gains with an Application of Child Analysis

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  •  April 9, 2024
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
This meeting is virtual. Please read instructions for successful registration:
  1. Buy your ticket at nypsi.org. PLEASE NOTE: Ticket Registration is NOT the same as ZOOM registration.
  2. At least one day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for meeting which you will receive by email from Sharon Weller. This step involves entering your name and email address. If you do not complete this, you will NOT receive link to meeting. PLEASE CHECK ALL EMAIL FOLDERS IN CASE IT GOES INTO SPAM OR OTHER FOLDER. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH NYPSI WEBSITE REGISTRATION AND ZOOM REGISTRATION.
  3. After completing ZOOM registration, click on blue JOIN MEETING button in email from Adrian Thomas (host) in order  to “enter” the meeting.
  4. Evaluation and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

Child Analysis Lecture:

“Regularity of I.Q. Gains with an Application of Child Analysis: 81 Preschoolers with PTSD and/or Autism Spectrum Disorders vs. 63 Control and Comparison Children”

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Presenter and Honoree: Gilbert W. Kliman, M.D

The topic of this lecture is Reflective Network Therapy and its effects on the IQ of preschoolers with ASD or PTSD. In this particular therapy, teachers, parents, and children in the classroom become a “reflective network” for the child in treatment. Dr. Gilbert Kliman, who is experienced in this area of applied child psychoanalysis, will address how this therapy works to help preschool children when it is applied specifically in school settings. This talk is directed to candidates and trainees in child and adolescent psychoanalysis as well as others involved in their training and supervision.

2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.

Gilbert W. Kliman, M.D. earned his degree from Harvard Medical School and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Senior Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. After his child psychiatric training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he founded three nonprofit organizations dedicated to childhood mental health services: The Center for Preventive Psychiatry, the Foster Care Study Unit at Columbia University College of Medicine and Surgery, Department of Child Psychiatry, and the Children’s Psychological Health Center, Inc. He has served as Medical Director of The Children’s Psychological Health Center in San Francisco since 1993 and Chairman of the Harlem Family Institute from 2020-2022. Dr. Kliman is the creator of Reflective Network Therapy, an evidence-based synergistic child therapy method which he practices and continues to research throughout the country and around the world. In addition, his practice of forensic child psychiatry often leads to his testifying in federal and state courts. He has testified in over 375 major cases.

The Child Analysis Lecture honors a current distinguished child and adolescent psychoanalyst and offers our candidates and faculty an opportunity to learn from and discuss their ideas.

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

  1. Describe Reflective Network Therapy and explain how it can be helpful to young children by applying it in a school setting.
  2. Summarize the benefits of this method for pre-school students.

Psychologists

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.

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. DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Social Workers

New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 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 #SW – 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 the 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 for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

Cancellation Policy: Full refund will be granted only if registrant cancels prior to event. Please contact the Administrative Director at admdir@nypsi.org

 

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Sharon Weller

Meet the Author: Michal Shapira

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  •  April 2, 2024
     7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

IN PERSON EVENT

Meet the Author: Michal Shapira

“Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka: A Case of Homosexuality in a Woman in Modern Vienna”

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

7:30 – 9:00 PM (EST)

Michal Shapira, Ph.D., a member of the History Department at Tel Aviv University, will be a Friends of the Library guest speaker on April 2nd, when she will discuss her new book, Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka, a historical analysis of one of Sigmund Freud’s least-studied cases, published in 1920 as The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman. Scholars of sexuality often focus on Freud’s writings on male homosexuality, disregarding his views on homosexual women. Michal Shapira’s book serves as a corrective to this imbalance. Part I introduces the case and explores Freud’s attitudes towards lesbianism, radical among his medical colleagues in the early twentieth century. It also puts Margarethe Csonka, the patient, at its center. Michal Shapira considers Freud’s only treatment of a “female homosexual” and assesses Csonka’s background life before and after her encounter with Freud. Part II expands the case beyond the scientific-medical purview of the times and looks at the new opportunities afforded to women and assimilated Jews through growing equality and the modernization of urban life in 1920s Vienna. The book places Csonka’s case within the broader context of contemporary medical and psychological texts, Freud’s writings, Jewish and queer history, and modern Vienna’s urban and artistic milieu.

No CME/CE credits offered.

Professor Michal Shapira joined the History Department at Tel Aviv University in 2013. She previously taught at Barnard College, Columbia University as an ACLS-Mellon New Faculty Fellow and at Amherst College as a Visiting Assistant Professor. She received her B.A. from Tel Aviv University and her Ph.D. in History and Gender Studies from Rutgers University.

Shapira has published articles in leading journals such as Twentieth Century British History, Medical History, History of Psychology, Gender & History, Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Theory & Criticism, Modern Intellectual History, Psychoanalysis & History and more.

She is the author of the book The War Inside: Psychoanalysis, Total War and the Making of the Democratic Self in Postwar Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2013; paperback 2015) and her most recent book is titled A Case of Female Homosexuality in Modern Vienna: Sigmund Freud and his Patient Margarethe Csonka (Routledge, 2023).

 

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Sharon Weller

In Person Open House

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  •  March 26, 2024
     7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

NYPSI In Person Open House

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

Join us for light hor d’oeuvres, drinks, and a lively discussion with NYPSI candidates and members. Those in attendance will include members of the Candidates’ Association, The Committee on Racial Consciousness and the Diversities, as well as chairs of the Fellowship Program, Licensure-Qualifying Program, and the Scholars Program.

We will discuss our Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program and the Child Psychoanalytic Training Program. Additionally, we will inform attendees about the many other training opportunities at NYPSI, designed for students and practicing psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, mental health professionals, psychiatric nurse practitioners, as well as professionals from other disciplines intending to further their psychoanalytic knowledge.

 

DOWNLOAD INFORMATIONAL FLYER

Please RSVP to Hilli Dagony-Clark at hilli@dagony-clark.com by Tuesday, March 19th.
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Sharon Weller

Brill Lecture: Addressing Defenses: A Core Mechanism of Change in Psychodynamic Treatments

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  •  March 12, 2024
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
This meeting is virtual. Please read instructions for successful registration:
  1. Buy your ticket at nypsi.org. PLEASE NOTE: Ticket Registration is NOT the same as ZOOM registration.
  2. At least one day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for meeting which you will receive by email from Sharon Weller. This step involves entering your name and email address. If you do not complete this, you will NOT receive link to meeting. PLEASE CHECK ALL EMAIL FOLDERS IN CASE IT GOES INTO SPAM OR OTHER FOLDER. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH NYPSI WEBSITE REGISTRATION AND ZOOM REGISTRATION.
  3. After completing ZOOM registration, click on blue JOIN MEETING button in email from Adrian Thomas (host) in order  to “enter” the meeting.
  4. Evaluation and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

The 62nd A.A. Brill Lecture:

“Addressing Defenses: A Core Mechanism of Change in Psychodynamic Treatments”

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

8:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)

Presenter and Honoree: Leon Hoffman, M.D.

Introduction by Robert Smith, M.D.

There is an ongoing tension in the psychoanalytic and psychodynamic field between interpreting the meaning of a patient’s verbal productions or actions and addressing the defenses as they occur in sessions. In addition, some authors maintain that implicit interactions between analyst and patient may be more important than the verbal interventions by the analyst. This communication argues the centrality of observing and appropriately addressing how patients manage/defend against painful affects that may arise at any point in treatment. Berta Bornstein and Paul Gray have been instrumental in promoting this perspective. This technique is experience-near and minimizes psychoanalytic/psychodynamic interventions which require a high level of conjecture by the analyst/therapist and are far from the patient’s consciousness. Several vignettes are provided which suggest that interpreting defense against painful affect is a pan theoretical construct. A successful randomized control trial utilizing this technique with children (Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy, RFP-C) is described. There have been limited empirical studies of the impact of therapists addressing defense in sessions but the work of J. Christopher Perry and colleagues, particularly the development of the Psychodynamic Intervention Rating Scales (PIRS) offers an opportunity to further study the impact of defense interpretations and other interventions.

1.5 Contact Hours for the program in its entirety. 1.5 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.

 

Leon Hoffman, M.D. is Co-Director of the Pacella Research Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. He is co-author with Timothy Rice and Tracy Prout of Regulation Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C): A Psychodynamic Approach and, with Timothy Rice, “Defense Mechanisms and Implicit Emotion Regulation: A Comparison of a Psychodynamic Construct with One from Contemporary Neuroscience. Among his discussions of social problems, he has published  “Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Populism” in Contemporary Psychoanalysis in 2018 and “The evolution of racism in the Western world: addressing fear of the other” in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association in 2021.

 

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

  1. Explain the importance of addressing defense mechanisms in analysis and psychotherapy.
  2. Assess how the patient is defending against painful affect and intervene in an experience-near way.
Psychologists
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY – 0073.
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. DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program has any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Social Workers
New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 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 #SW – 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 the 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 [1.5] 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 for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. *Financial relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.

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