Scientific Meeting: Dora and Her Discontents: Rethinking Freud’s Case in Light of Kate Novack’s The Hysterical Girl

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2. One day prior: Complete ZOOM registration for webinar 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 webinar.
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4. Evaluation survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed the day after the event.

 

Please note the Brenner Teaching Award will be presented to Wendy Olesker, Ph.D. at the start of this meeting.

The 1049th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Dora and Her Discontents: Rethinking Freud’s Case in Light of Kate Novack’s The Hysterical Girl“

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)

Panelists: Drs. Rosemary Balsam, Anne Hoffman, Michele Press & Peter Rudnytsky

 

Following a screening of The Hysterical Girl at the start of the meeting, this panel will focus on the enduring impact of Dora, the case narrative, on modern psychoanalytic theory and technique and on its reception and reworking in this cultural moment. From both clinical and literary perspectives, panelists will explore the tensions and contradictions that inform this famously failed case and the history of its reception.

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

Rosemary Balsam, F.R.C.Psych. (London), M.R.C.P. (Edinburgh) is a British doctor and an American psychoanalyst. Graduated in medicine in Queen’s University, Belfast,  Ireland, and studying psychiatry there, she came to Yale University at the very end of the 1960s. She is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale Medical School and she teaches at the Department of Student Mental Health. A Training and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, Dr. Balsam is also in private practice. Her writings on bodies, gender, and female development include Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis (Routledge, 2012) and her most recent paper “The Natal Body and its Confusing Place in Psychoanalytic Theory” (JAPA, 2019). Interested in the work of Hans Loewald, she is involved in the newly forming Loewald Center – a collaboration between WNE and IPTA – to be inaugurated in 2022. On the editorial boards of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly and American Imago, and former book editor for JAPA, Dr. Balsam was the first woman in the United States to win the Sigourney Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (2018).

Anne Golomb Hoffman, Ph.D. teaches English and Comparative Literature at Fordham University. She is on the faculties of NYPSI and the DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry: History, Policy, and the Arts at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Hoffman is a member of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine at the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. Her articles and reviews, exploring narrative, trauma, gender, and embodiment, have appeared in literary and psychoanalytic journals, including Psychoanalytic Review, JAPA, Prooftexts, American Imago, and Narrative.

Michele Press, M.D. is Dean of Education, and Training and Supervising Analyst at New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. She co-teaches Freud’s Case History course and the Advanced Psychoanalytic Technique course in the analytic training program. Dr. Press is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at New York University Langone Medical Center where she teaches Advanced Psychodynamic Psychotherapy technique in the Psychiatry Residency training program and supervises psychiatry residents. She is past president of NYPSI and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She has previously presented papers on Arlow’s concept of Unconscious Fantasy for NYPSI’s Classic Papers Revisited Series and on the current research on Therapeutic Alliance and the implications for psychoanalytic technique at NYPSI and Mount Sinai.

Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. is Professor of English at the University of Florida and Head of the Department of Academic and Professional Affairs as well as Chair of the Committee on Confidentiality of APsaA.  He co-edits the History of Psychoanalysis series for Routledge and the Psychoanalytic Horizons series.  He served as editor of American Imago from 2001-2011 and is currently on the editorial boards of journals including JAPA, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and Psychoanalytic Psychology.  His latest book, Mutual Analysis: Ferenczi, Severn, and the Origins of Trauma Theory, is forthcoming from Routledge in the Relational Perspectives series.

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

1. identify and utilize the concept of infantile sexuality in psychoanalytic therapy
2. detect and interpret transferential themes in psychoanalytic work

 

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 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 of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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. (as of 4/23/21)

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 these programs and their content.

DISCLOSURE: None of the planners and presenters of this CE program have 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.