NYPSI’s Biennial Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Lecture Series 2025 – 2026 edition

  •  May 12, 2026
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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

NYPSI’s Biennial Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis Lecture Series 2025 – 2026 edition

Tuesday, May 12th, 2026

8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Presenters: Kirsten Dahl, PhD

Dr. Kirsten Dahl’s paper addresses the impediments to developing an appreciation of the limitations imposed by external reality. The acquisition of a sense of reality rests on the formation of the mind in the infant-maternal matrix. External trauma and misattunement within the relationship have a significant impact on the acquisition of a sense of reality. Clinical material from the analysis of a 4 ½ year old boy is used to illustrate the developmental progression towards a recognition of reality. This presentation intends to help clinicians recognize the instability of an appreciation of reality.

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

General Admission: FREE

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OPTIONAL READINGS
    1. Knight, Rona. (2021). Reconsidering Development in Psychoanalysis. The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 75. 1-18. 10.1080/00797308.2021.1996123.
    2. Levenson, L. 2025. Why Mourn? IN: Balsam, Brett, Levenson. 2025. The Legacy and Promise of Hans Loewald. New York: Rutledge. Pp 146-158.
    3. Whitebook, J. 2025. Being Grown up: Loewald’s Concept of Maturity. Ibid. Pp 108-127.
BIOGRAPHIES
Kirsten Dahl, PhD is a Training/Supervising Child, Adolescent and Adult Analyst Emerita at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, and on the Faculty of the Child Program for CFPS and CPI. She is Past Chair for the Child Psychoanalysis Training Program, WNEIP. She has written extensively on feminine development, gender, adolescence, representations of the mother in the developing mind and analytic work with preverbal children.

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

  1. Describe how the achievement of a sense of reality is an ideal, never fully achieved.
  2. Describe the differing impacts on the developing mind of two types of trauma: acute “external” trauma and on going “strain” trauma created within the maternal/infant matrix.

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 [2] 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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