Scientific Meeting: “Drive or trauma-Drive and trauma (Ilse Grubrich-Simitis) Revisited”
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January 17, 2026
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***
NYPSI’s 1082nd Scientific Meeting:
“Drive or Trauma-Drive and Trauma (Ilse Grubrich-Simitis) Revisited”
Saturday, January 17th, 2026
10:00 – 12:00 PM (EST)
Presenter: Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Ph.D.
Discussant: Luis Ripoll, M.D.
Description: Almost 40 years ago, Ilse Grubrich-Simitis, in her groundbreaking paper, “Drive or Trauma: Drive and Trauma,” integrated drive and object relational aspects, on the one hand, and trauma-specific perspectives, on the other, in a creative way, as will be discussed regarding some conceptual developments in contemporary psychoanalysis. A short case example will illustrate the conceptual richness for treating chronically depressed patients with early trauma available to clinicians today. Considering both drive and trauma is among the strengths of modern psychoanalytic treatment techniques as will be illustrated alongside recent findings of the LAC depression study indicating that these difficult-to-treat patients profit especially well from psychoanalysis.
2 Contact Hours. 2 CME/CE credits will be offered. See details below.
General Admission: $50
Student Admission: $35
Free Admission for current NYPSI members/students and HFI Candidates
Please note registration closes at 2 PM on Friday, January 16th.
THIS MEETING IS VIRTUAL; READ INSTRUCTIONS BELOW:
***Registration in Zoom Before the Meeting is Required to Attend***
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Evaluation Survey and CME/CE documentation will be emailed after the event.
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- Bohleber, W., & Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. (2016). The Special Problem of Interpretation in the Treatment of Traumatized Patients. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 36(1), 60–76. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2016.1112223
- Krakau, L., Ernst, M., Hautzinger, M., Beutel, M.E., Leuzinger-Bohleber, M. (2024): Childhood trauma and differential response to long-term psychoanalytic versus cognitive-behavioural therapy for chronic depression in adults. The British Journal of Psychiatry, First View, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2024.112.
- Leuzinger‐Bohleber, M. (2015). Working with severely traumatized, chronically depressed analysands. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 96(3), 611–636. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-8315.12238
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber, Ph.D. is the former Director of the Sigmund Freud Institute in Frankfurt, Professor Emerita at the University of Kassel, and Senior Professor at the University of Medicine in Mainz. She is a training analyst of the German Psychoanalytical Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association and she has chaired the Research Subcommittees for Clinical, Conceptual, Epistemological and Historical Research of the IPA, served as Vice Chair for Europe of the Research Board of the IPA, and Chair of the IPA Subcommittee for Migration and Refugees. Dr. Leuzinger-Bohleber has been honored with the Mary Sigourney Award (2016), the Haskell Norman Prize for Excellence in Psychoanalysis (2017), the Robert S. Wallerstein Fellowship (2022-2027), and the IPA’s Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award (2023). Her research fields are clinical and extra-clinical research in psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic developmental research, prevention studies, interdisciplinary dialogue between psychoanalysis and literature, educational sciences and the neurosciences.
Luis H. Ripoll M.D. was born in Cartagena, Colombia, completed his undergraduate education in 2001 at Brown University with a double concentration in Biology and Philosophy, and received his medical degree in 2006 from the University of Florida College of Medicine. He completed his psychiatric residency at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 2010 which was followed by a clinical research fellowship focusing on the neurobiology of empathic accuracy in personality disorders and work at Mount Sinai’s World Trade Center Mental Health Program, where he also taught a course on the application of attachment theory and mentalization-based therapy to this severely traumatized patient population. Dr. Ripoll completed psychoanalytic training at NYPSI in 2018, serving as Silvan Clinical Research Fellow. He has presented at APSA’s annual meetings on the disturbance of self in borderline personality disorder and on a panel devoted to Freud’s conception of trauma in “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” as applied to contemporary issues regarding racism, climate change, and immigration. He presently teaches two courses at NYPSI on Interpersonal and Relational Psychoanalysis and the use of tape-recordings of psychoanalytic sessions to understand the psychoanalytic process as well as an online course organized by the William Alanson White Institute on the works of Donnel Stern. Dr. Ripoll serves on the board of the Psychoanalytic Research Consortium where he continues to participate in process and outcome research using recorded analyses. He has been in full-time private practice in NYC since 2015.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Utilize the concept of embodied memories with psychoanalytic treatment technique
- Explain why in treating chronically depressed patients who experienced early trauma, it is crucial to address embodied memories of early trauma both in the transference relationship with the analyst and by approaching the “historical truth” of the trauma.
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.