Brill Memorial Lecture: The False Procrustean Myth of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute

The 60th Brill Memorial Lecture: The False Procrustean Myth of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute

Tuesday, May 14, 2019

8:00 – 10:00 pm

Presenter and Honoree: Michael Porder, M.D.

Additional Participants: Sander Abend, M.D., Theodore Jacobs, M.D., Albert Sax, M.D., Martin Willick, M.D.

In this presentation, Dr. Porder will describe the dramatic changes in NYPSI’s psychoanalytic curriculum over the past 50 years. He will give credit to the numerous members who have contributed to the scientific growth of the Institutes’s theoretical and technical practices.  Four senior analysts – Sander Abend, Theodore Jacobs, Albert Sax, and Martin Willick – will speak to how these changes have impacted their clinical work.

A Reception will follow the lecture. 

No CME/CE credits offered.

Michael Porder, M.D.  is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. He was an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine from 1965-1990; Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine from 1990-2000; and Lecturer in Psychiatry at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons from 1965 -1990. He has published extensively on borderline conditions, and co-edited (with Sander M. Abend and Martin S. Willick) Borderline Patients: Psychoanalytic Perspectives. He was a member of the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and was the Brill Lecturer in 1996.  He has been a member of CAPS since 1983.

Sander Abend, M.D.  is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. He served as the editor of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly from 1985-1991 and currently serves as an associate editor. He was the Brill Lecturer in 1988.

Theodore Jacobs, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Adult, Child and Adolescent Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.  He is currently on the editorial boards of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Among his many publications are The Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication in the Analytic Situation, The Possible Profession and a novel, The Year of Durocher. He was the Brill Lecturer in 1993.

Albert Sax, M.D.  is a Training and Supervising Adult, Child and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. In 1999 he received the Brenner Teaching Award. He chaired the Progression Committee and also served as President of the Society from 1999-2001.

Martin Willick, M.D.  is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.  He served on the editorial board of the Psychoanalytic Quarterly. He has published and taught courses on Schizophrenia and Paranoid Disorders as well as Depressive States. He was the Brill Lecturer in 1991.

The Brill Memorial Lecture honors the many contributions to psychoanalysis of A.A. Brill (1874-1948), the founder of the New York Psychoanalytic Society in 1911. Although the lecture series was founded in 1950, it was decided to retroactively recognize as the first A.A. Brill Memorial Lecture the paper given by Clarence P. Oberndorf, “Development of Psychoanalysis in America” on the occasion of the A.A. Brill Memorial meeting on March 29, 1949. Brill lecturers have included Sander Abend, Jacob Arlow, Siegfried Bernfeld, Peter Blos, Sr., Heinz Kohut, Margaret Mahler, Annie Reich, and Robert Waelder.