Scientific Meeting: Aging and Dying and the Analytic Process

1. Buy your ticket at nypsi.org. PLEASE NOTE: Ticket Registration is NOT the same as ZOOM registration.
2. One day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for meeting which you will receive by email from Sharon Weller. This step involves entering your name and email address. If you do not complete this, you will NOT receive link to meeting. PLEASE CHECK ALL EMAIL FOLDERS IN CASE IT GOES INTO SPAM OR OTHER FOLDER. YOU MUST COMPLETE BOTH NYPSI WEBSITE REGISTRATION AND ZOOM REGISTRATION.
3. Click on email from Lois Oppenheim (host) which contains ZOOM link  to “enter” the meeting.
4. Evaluation survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

The 1066th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Aging and Dying and the Analytic Process”

(Note: Registration closes 6/8 at 4 PM.)

Thursday, June 8, 2023 — Note this is a Thursday

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Panelists: Wendy Olesker, Ph.D., Henry Nunberg, M.D., Harold Blum, M.D., Otto Kernberg, M.D. & Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. (moderator)

The topic of this meeting is of great importance for both the psychoanalyst and patient.  There is a reciprocal interest between analyst and patient concerning these vital issues.  Currently, there are more analysts and patients living to an advanced age with problems and conflicts concerning health, vitality, cognition, and affect regulation.  The panelists will explore the critical conflicts and therapeutic issues that are inevitably involved in the aging process.

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

Wendy Olesker, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and on the Faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is Senior Editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. Dr. Olesker is Director of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at NYPSI and, for the past ten years, she has been Director of the Follow-up Study of the Margaret Mahler Foundation focusing on eight of the original Mahler babies who have been interviewed in depth over many months, given psychological tests, repeated Adult Attachment Interviews, other measures at various points in time, and are now followed into their sixth decade. It is from Dr. Olesker’s longitudinal research and her analytic experience that she has developed a focus on the developmental process as it impacts understanding of the intrapsychic world and the handling of aggression and love relations in analytic work with children and adults.

Henry Nunberg, LLB, M.D.  is a psychoanalyst in clinical practice in New York City.  A member of NYPSI, where he is on the faculty, and of the American Psychoanalytic Association, he is a former member of the NYPSI Board of Directors and a past Vice-President.  Dr. Nunberg is Professional Director of The Psychoanalytic Research and Development Fund.  His recent writings have been devoted to the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

Harold Blum, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Association of NY, affiliated with NYU School of Medicine, and an Honorary Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute.  He is the Former Executive Director of The Sigmund Freud Archives and the author of several books, including Defense and Resistance: Historical Perspectives and Current Concepts, Female Psychology: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Views, and Reconstruction in Psychoanalysis: Childhood Revisited and Recreated.  And he has published more than 165 papers.  Among other honors, Dr. Blum was the recipient of the inaugural Sigourney Award.

Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. is University Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Montclair State University where she teaches courses in both French literature and Medical Humanities.  She is Scholar Associate Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, where she is also on the Faculty, and Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute.  Dr. Oppenheim has authored or edited fifteen books, the most recent being For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience(co-authored; Bloomsbury) and Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion (Routledge), awarded the Courage to Dream Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association.  Other titles include A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor.  She has also published over 120 papers, book chapters, and reviews, been a Visiting Scholar at NYS Psychiatric Institute, and co-creator of two documentary films on mental health.

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

1. identify the conflicts resulting from aging and death during the therapeutic process
2. describe the effects of aging on both analyst and patient