Closed Meeting: Brill Lecture: On the Transition Toward a University Educational Model at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute

Please note this meeting is closed to the public.

The 61st A.A. Brill Memorial Lecture:

“On the Transition Toward a University Educational Model at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute”

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

8:00 – 10:00 pm

This meeting will be held virtually on ZOOM. Registrants will receive ZOOM link.

 

Presenter and Honoree: Robert Smith, M.D.

Dr. Carmela Perri will introduce the speaker.

The politics surrounding the gradual evolution of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute toward the adoption of a university educational model will be described. The nature of the group regression, types of identifications and analytic ego ideals of members on both sides of conflicts about the changes that occurred will be elucidated. The manner in which disagreements were resolved will also be reviewed and recommendations for ways issues could be approached productively in the future will be suggested.

No CME/CE credits will be offered.

 

Dr. Robert Smith received his B.A. in History from Cornell University where he wrote an honors paper on Eric Erikson’s psychobiography of Martin Luther. He entered medical school at SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine with the intention of becoming a psychoanalyst. He began analytic training at NYPSI in 1992 during the final year of his psychiatric residency at the NYU School of Medicine. Since graduating in 1997 he has been teaching, supervising and a member of various committees of the Institute.  He has also been teaching psychiatry residents at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine for many years. In 2018 he published a paper with Mark Solms entitled “Examination of the Hypothesis that Repression is Premature Automatization: A Psychoanalytic Case Presentation and Discussion”.  He was the Chair of Curriculum from 2013 until 2019 and is currently Chair of the Scholars and LP Programs.

 

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.