Fred Pine Award Lecture: Self-Loathing: Origins, Dynamics, and Treatment

  •  January 14, 2025
     8:00 pm - 9:30 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

A Special Lecture hosted by NYPSI and Co-Sponsored by the American Psychoanalytic Association and the NYU Postdoctoral Program

Fred Pine Award Lecture:

“Self-Loathing: Origins, Dynamics, and Treatment”

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

8:00 – 9:30 PM (EST)

Presenter and Awardee: Salman Akhtar, M.D.

(2024 recipient of the Fred Pine, Ph.D. Award for a Paper Contributing to Psychoanalytic Theory, Technique, or Development)

This presentation by Salman Akhtar, M.D. shall delineate the sources of self-loathing and the various dynamic factors involved in it. When self-loathing manifests itself in patients, clinicians often find themselves ill-equipped to treat this issue. In this presentation, Dr. Akhtar aims to address the lack of deeper understanding of why patients hate themselves. The understanding of the sources of self-loathing will help enhance clinician’s empathy and attunement to this affliction. Additionally, Dr. Akhtar will highlight various therapeutic strategies for the amelioration of this malady.

1.5 Contact Hours. 1.5 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.

General Admission: $50

Student Admission: $35

Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students, NYU Postdoc members

and HFI candidates

REGISTRATION LINK – Registration opens November 15.

Please note registration closes at 5 PM on Monday, January 13th.

THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS TO ENSURE SUCCESSFUL REGISTRATION:

1. Buy your ticket at REGISTRATION LINK above.
2. After you register, you will receive a confirmation email containing a link to Pre-Register in ZOOM for the event.
3. Click on the pre-registration ZOOM link and enter your name and email address. If you do not complete this step, you will NOT receive link to meeting.
4. After completing ZOOM pre-registration, you will automatically receive an email directly from ZOOM containing the JOIN LINK to the meeting. Click the JOIN LINK to “enter” the meeting.
5. Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

Please make sure you type your email correctly when you register!  Contact admdir@nypsi.org with questions.

OPTIONAL READINGS
  1. Austin, S. (2016). Working with Chronic and Relentless Self-Hatred. Journal of Analytical Psychology 61:411-433.
  2. Tanner, E. (2024). Girls, Instagram, and Glamorization of Self-Loathing. Dissenting Voices 4:110-118.
  3. Hah, J. M., Mackey, S., Barelka, P. L., Wang, C. K., Wang, B. M., Gillespie, M. J., McCue, R., Younger, J. W., Trafton, J., Humphreys, K., Goodman, S. B., Dirbas, F. M., Schmidt, P. C., & Carroll, I. R. (2014). Self-loathing aspects of depression reduce postoperative opioid cessation rate. Pain medicine 15(6): 954–964.
BIOGRAPHIES

Salman Akhtar, M.D. is an internationally-known psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, writer, and poet based in the United States. He has published 114 authored or edited books and given lectures and workshops in over 40 countries. Dr. Akhtar has served on the editorial boards of the three most important journals in our field, namely Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalytic Quarterly. His books have been translated into many languages and he has received numerous professional honors, including the highly prestigious Sigourney Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychoanalysis. Recently a 10-volume set of his Selected Papers was released at a festive ceremony at the Freud House & Museum in London. Dr. Akhtar has published 18 collections of poetry and serves as a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theater Company in Philadelphia.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

  1. Enumerate the various origins of self-loathing
  2. Use the understanding of the origins of self-loathing to treat self-hating patients more effectively

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
ACCME Accreditation Statement
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 New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
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.
Disclosure Statement

The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME’s identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

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