Closed Meeting: Child Seminar: The ‘free and self-reliant human being’ – Anna Freud’s modernist analysis of children

  • January 26, 2023
    8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Please note this meeting is closed to the public. Child candidates at NYPSI, Columbia and PANY are expected to attend.

Advanced Seminar in Child and Adolescent Analysis:

“The ‘free and self-reliant human being’ – Anna Freud’s modernist analysis of children”

Thursday, January 26, 2023

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Please note this meeting will be held virtually on ZOOM. Registrants will receive ZOOM link.

Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Ann Danto, PhD

Case Presenter: Natalia van Hissenhoven, LCSW

The contributions of Anna Freud to the field of child and adolescent psychoanalysis are quite significant.  In fact, however, her development of the techniques that became modern psychoanalysis with children are often not fully recognized and deserve our special attention.  In this advanced seminar we will hear first a brief case presentation of an early adolescent while keeping the theories of Anna Freud in mind, including delineating the mechanisms of defenses for which Anna Freud is so well known. Then we are pleased to have an Anna Freud specialist as Guest Speaker to share with us biographical aspects of her life, and her theoretical and clinical contributions to psychoanalytic work with children and adolescents.  Attendees will come to understand Anna Freud’s developmental theories about childhood, her delineations of the mechanisms of defense and will also learn about biographical aspects of this seminal person in child analysis.

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

Elizabeth Ann Danto is emeritus professor at Hunter College – City University of New York, and an independent curator who writes and lectures internationally on the history of psychoanalysis as a system of thought and a marker of urban culture. She is the author of Historical Research (Oxford University Press, 2008) and her book Freud’s Free Clinics – Psychoanalysis and Social Justice, 1918–1938 (Columbia University Press, 2005) received the Gradiva Book Award and the Goethe Prize. She is also co-creator with Alexandra Steiner-Strauss of a short film: Anna Freud and ‘The Conscience of Society’ – a digital exhibit which brings to life the fascinating intersection of psychoanalysis and education.

Natalia van Hissenhoven is a graduate and member of NYPSI.  She was trained as a psychologist at the Universidad de Los Andes in Columbia and also as a LCSW having been trained at NYU.  She currently works in private practice in Manhattan.  She has graciously agreed to present aspects of this case while keeping in mind Anna Freud’s contributions of theory of developmental lines and defense mechanisms.

Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
  1. describe Anna Freud’s developmental theories about childhood
  2. describe Anna Freud’s delineations of the mechanisms of defense
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.

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