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.
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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

 

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).

 

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.

 

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

Scientific Meeting: Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: Two Sciences or One?

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  •  February 24, 2024
     11:00 am - 1:00 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 JOIN MEETING button in email from Emily Summers (host) in order  to “enter” the meeting.
  4. Evaluation and CME/CE documentation will be emailed day after the event.

NYPSI’s 1072nd Scientific Meeting:

“Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: Two Sciences or One? Mark Solms and Ariane Bazan in Debate”

Saturday, February 24, 2024

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM (EST)

Panelists: Ariane Bazan, Ph.D., Mark Solms, Ph.D. and Charles Fisher, M.D. (moderator)

“Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis: Two Sciences or One? Mark Solms and Ariane Bazan in Debate,” is a program intended for members of the psychoanalytic community at large. Two distinguished psychoanalysts and neuroscientists will present their views and engage in a moderated debate before opening the program to include the audience. Mark Solms, the founder of Neuropsychoanalysis, views neuroscience and psychoanalysis as a single science with dual aspects. Ariane Bazan sees a duality in which the body and the mind have fundamentally different laws and regulatory principles. Both agree that the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience integrates psychoanalysis within science. Each of the debaters will present fundamental implications for clinical work.

2 Contact Hours for the program in its entirety. 2 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.

BIOGRAPHIES

Ariane Bazan, Ph.D., who holds doctorates both in Biology and in Psychology, is a psychoanalyst in private practice. She is a professor of clinical psychology and psychopathology at the University of Lorraine (France) and the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). Dr. Bazan has also been conducting research for some fifteen years that has resulted in 120 publications, including one book, Des fantômes dans la voix: Une hypothèse neuropsychanalytique sur la structure de l’inconscient (Editions Liber), and twenty-one book chapters. She is a founding member of the International Neuropsychoanalysis Association (NPSA) and was its liaison officer for Europe from 2014 to 2019. A former chief editor of the Psychoanalysis and Neuropsychoanalysis section of Frontiers in Psychology, Dr. Bazan is a monthly columnist for the Belgian newspaper De Standaard discussing general societal and political matters and contributing to the life of ‘psychoanalysis in the city’. She has been a member of the Superior Health Council in Belgium and, at the invitation of the Belgian Administration, she helped manage the Covid crisis from September to December 2020 (before moving to France in 2021). At the Université de Lorraine, she is Director of the Interpsy laboratory and a co-coordinator of a French academic network on neuropsychoanalysis, Réseau Francophone Psychanalyse et Neuroscience (RFPN). Considering psychoanalysis a science, Dr. Bazan is currently engaged in organizing and instantiating a productive international dialogue between psychoanalysis and adjacent scientific disciplines, such as cognitive neuroscience and psycho- and neurolinguistics as well as in developing a properly experimental section of psychoanalysis.

Professor Mark Solms holds the Chair of Neuropsychology at the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital. He has received numerous prizes and honours, such as the Sigourney Prize, the IPA’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award, and Honorary Fellowship of the American College of Psychiatrists. He is Training Director of the South African Psychoanalytical Association, Director of the Science Dept. of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and was until recently Research Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association. Professor Solms has published 350 articles in both neuroscientific and psychoanalytic journals, and he has authored eight books. The Brain and the Inner World was translated into 13 languages. His collected papers were published recently as The Feeling Brain. His latest book, The Hidden Spring, appeared in early 2021.  He is the editor and translator of the forthcoming Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (24 vols) and Complete Neuroscientific Works of Sigmund Freud (4 vols).

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

  1. Describe evidence presented by the debaters as to whether or not neuroscience and psychoanalysis are a single science.
  2. Summarize several clinical implications of each debater’s theoretical views.
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.