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  •  December 22, 2023 - January 1, 2024
     12:05 am - 11:55 pm

Scientific Meeting: Property, Materiality, Proximity

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  •  December 12, 2023
     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. Click on auto-generated email from Adrian Thomas (host) which contains ZOOM link  to “enter” the meeting.
  4. Evaluation survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

The 1070th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Property, Materiality, Proximity – The Analytic Frame and In-Person Work”

Tuesday, December 12, 2023

8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)

**Please note the Brenner Teaching Award will be presented to Sherwood Waldron, MD prior to the start of this meeting.**

(Note: Registration closes 12/12 at 4 PM)

Presenter: Mitchell Wilson, M.D.

Discussant: David Goldenberg, M.D.

This presentation addresses the issue of differences between in-person and remote ways of doing clinical psychotherapeutic work. In-person meeting offers psychologically usable material––signifiers which serve as day’s residue––that cannot be duplicated or substituted for in remote ways of working. Questions of materiality, the history and specificity of location, and bodily proximity all are key aspects of the psychoanalytic frame, as Bleger’s classic formulations attest. The COVID pandemic has changed the choreography of engagement between analyst and patient: the ghostly dust in the frame enters the room. As Bleger says, with ghosts so rustled, non-process has a chance to become process. Two clinical examples highlight these points about materiality and in-person working.

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


References of Interest (optional reading):

  1. Butler, D.G. (2019). Racialized bodies and the violence of the setting. Studies in Gender and Sexuality 20:3, 146-158.
  2. Ehrlich, L.T. (2019). Teleanalysis: Slippery slope or rich opportunity? Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 67:249–279.
  3. Wilson, M. (2013). Desire and Responsibility: The Ethics of Countertransference Experience. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 82: 435-476.

BIOGRAPHIES

Mitchell Wilson, M.D. is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Wilson has published widely on a variety of topics that cohere around a theory of ethics, desire, and the psychoanalytic process. His recent book, The Analyst’s Desire: The Ethical Foundation of Clinical Practice, is from Bloomsbury Press. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and a Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. He is in private practice and leads study groups in Berkeley, CA.

David Goldenberg, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Manhattan. He is on the faculty at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (NYPSI) and at Weill Medical College of Cornell University. A graduate of NYPSI’s adult program in psychoanalysis, he is an ongoing candidate in adolescent psychoanalysis. Among other publications, he is the author of several book reviews for JAPA and has given talks on technology, intimacy and digitally-assisted dating, and on the psychological effects of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

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

  1. Describe three elements of Bleger’s theory of the psychoanalytic frame.
  2. Explain how materiality and proximity influence specific conflicts regarding bodily safety that emerge in in-person clinical work.
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.

Retreat for NYPSI Members and Candidates

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  •  March 3, 2024
     11:30 am - 4:00 pm

In Person Retreat for NYPSI Members and Candidates

Sunday, March 3, 2024

11:30 AM – 4 PM

NYPSI Virtual Open House

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  •  November 30, 2023
     7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

NYPSI Virtual Open House

Thursday, November 30, 2023

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (EST)

Join us for a question and answer session with chairs of NYPSI’s various educational divisions, as well as members of the Recruitment Committee. 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, PREP 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. We will also focus on the challenges of balancing life and analytic training, the ins and outs of classes and supervision at NYPSI, our Treatment Center, current publications and research of members, community outreach by NYPSI members, and the NYPSI culture.

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Institute Closed for Thanksgiving

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  •  November 23, 2023 - November 24, 2023
     12:05 am - 11:55 pm