Scientific Meeting: Gayness and Psychoanalysis: Bias, Change
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December 10, 2024
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***
NYPSI’s 1076th Scientific Meeting:
“Gayness and Psychoanalysis: Bias, Change”
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)
Presenter: Lawrence Hartmann, M.D.
Discussant: Mark Smaller, Ph.D.
Lawrence Hartmann, M.D. will consider changes over time in psychoanalysis and psychiatry with regard to homosexuality. More specifically, he will discuss the occurrences in and around December, 1973, that led to the discarding of homosexuality as diagnostic of a mental disorder. Until December 1973, numerous psychoanalytic institutes, the American Psychoanalytic Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and public opinion generally speaking, deemed homosexuality an illness and many dubious ideas about causes, “cures,” prevalence, etc. were perpetuated. Following his presentation, Dr. Hartmann will be joined by Mark Smaller, Ph.D. in a discussion aimed at bettering our understanding of what led to change, what change might still be needed, and how clinicians can be most helpful to their patients. By discussing the history of change and biopsychosocial complexity, the objective of this meeting will be to advance recognition of the need for complex listening as well as a deeper understanding of the relationship of health to society and culture.
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 5 PM on Monday, December 9.
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.
- Drescher, J., & Merlino, J. P. (Eds.). (2007). American psychiatry and homosexuality: An oral history. Harrington Park Press.
- Balsam, R. H. (2019). On the Natal Body and its Confusing Place in Mental Life. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 67:15-36.
- Drescher, J. (2017). Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Discussion of “When Harry Met Jimmie”. Psychoanalytic Perspectives, 14:31-39.
- Cheuvront, J. P. (2016). Henry Abelove’s “Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans”. Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 17:80-85.
Lawrence Hartmann, M.D., was educated at Harvard College, Oxford University, and Harvard Medical School. He interned in pediatrics at UCSF and served his residency in adult and child psychiatry at Mass. Mental Health Center (Harvard). Dr. Hartmann taught for over fifty years in various clinical positions as a member of the faculty of Harvard Medical School and ran a child and adolescent clinic and school consultation program. He also saw child, adolescent, and adult psychiatric patients in Boston and Cambridge for over fifty years. In the early 1970s and after, he played several roles in the December, 1973, American Psychiatric Association decision to depathologize homosexuality. Active in several child and adult psychiatric organizations, he served as President (1991-1992) of the American Psychiatric Association and took part in human rights and mental health trips to Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Chile, the Soviet Union, and China. He also led a post-Iron-Curtain APA-invented traveling department of psychiatry that, by invitation, went to Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary in 1992. Dr. Hartmann has written on such topics as child psychotherapy, dirty words, social psychiatry, biopsychosocial integration, apartheid, torture, ethics, confidentiality, homosexuality, and latency development.
Mark D. Smaller, Ph.D., is an adult, adolescent, and child psychoanalyst; past president of the American Psychoanalytic Association and former board member of the International Psychoanalytic Association. He is co-founding Director of Forward Edge Services; Clinical Faculty, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry; and Executive Director Emeritus of the Neuropsychoanalysis Foundation in New York. Dr. Smaller is Founding Director of Project Realize, an in-school treatment and research project in Chicago, and currently supports consultation to schools and patients unable to afford private psychotherapy. Project Realize was awarded the 2012 Award for Excellence by the American Association for Child Psychoanalysis, and was featured in the New York Times, January 2010.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Describe how the history of December 1973 can help clinicians understand and influence change in psychoanalysis, psychiatry, and society.
- Utilize the history of December 1973 to help combine psychoanalytic thinking with other interrelated disciplines such as sociology, anthropology, history, biography, animal studies, brain biology.
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.
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.
Venue: ZOOM Virtual Meeting
