Scientific Meeting: Honoring Fred Pine: A Study of the Role of Identification in Two Sisters Followed for Over 60 Years

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The 1062nd Scientific Program Meeting:

“Honoring Fred Pine: A Study of the Role of Identification in Two Sisters Followed for Over 60 Years”

(Note: Registration closes 1/10 at 4 PM.)

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm (EST)

Presenter: Wendy Olesker, Ph.D.

Discussants: Arietta Slade, Ph.D. and Morris Eagle, Ph.D. 

The purpose of this talk is to focus on the role of identification processes in order to highlight the depth and complexity that has been added to our psychoanalytic endeavor through the far-reaching developmental perspective of Dr. Fred Pine. Dr. Olesker will fill in some of the gaps in the evolving of complex, coherent, integrated mental representations of self and other and the evolving quality of intimacy. She will trace the developmental trajectories of two sisters over 60 years, one–the oldest daughter–was the child whom the mother “never wanted,” and, younger daughter, was the child whom the mother “always wanted.” Some particular gaps will include a focus on the transforming and evolving identifications as the subjects faced the challenges of the different developmental periods, not only during earliest childhood but including latency, emerging adulthood, midlife, and late middle age, as built on from the original Mahler longitudinal study.

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 and Institute and on the Faculty at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. For the past fifteen years, she has also been Director of the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at NYPSI.

Dr. Olesker, who is currently Senior Editor of The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, established and ran, from 1975 until 1986, an observational nursery for research on gender differences in early development at Montefiore Medical Center. From 1991 until 1997, she collaborated with John McDevitt and Anni Bergman in following up the original Mahler/McDevitt babies of the Separation-Individuation Study. 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 now been interviewed over many months, given psychological tests, the Adult Attachment Interview, the STIPO, and other measures, and followed into their sixth decade. It is from her longitudinal research and her analytic experience that she has developed a focus on the developmental process as it impacts understanding the intrapsychic world, the handling of aggression and love relations in analytic work with children and adults. Her talk today will be drawn from a study of two of the original Mahler babies observed over 60 years.

Arietta Slade, Ph.D. is Professor of Clinical Child Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center and Professor Emerita of Clinical Psychology at the City University of New York. An internationally recognized theoretician, clinician, teacher, and researcher, she has written widely on reflective parenting, the development of parental reflective functioning, and the implications of attachment and mentalization theory for child and adult psychotherapy. She is a Co-Founder and Co-Director of Minding the Baby™, an evidence-based interdisciplinary reflective home-visiting program for high-risk mothers, infants, and their families at the Yale Child Study Center and School of Nursing. Dr. Slade is winner of the Bowlby-Ainsworth Award from the New York Attachment Consortium and author of the forthcoming (June, 2023) Enhancing Attachment and Reflective Parenting in Clinical Practice: A Minding the Baby Approach (Slade, with Sadler, Eaves, and Webb). She is also author, with Jeremy Holmes, of Attachment in Therapeutic Practice (Holmes and Slade, SAGE Publications, 2018) and editor of the six volume set, Major Work on Attachment (Slade and Holmes, SAGE Publications, 2014), as well as Mind to Mind: Infant Research, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis (Jurist, Slade, and Bergner, Other Press, 2008) and Children at Play (Slade and Wolf, Oxford University Press, 1994). Dr. Slade has been in private practice for over 40 years, working with individuals of all ages.

Morris N. Eagle, Ph.D. currently holds or has previously held numerous titles including Distinguished Faculty Member, New Center for Psychoanalysis; Professor Emeritus, Derner Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies, Adelphi University; Professor Emeritus, York University, Toronto, Canada; Chair, Psychology Department, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University; Director of Clinical Training, Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University; Distinguished Educator-in-Residence, California Lutheran University; and President of the Division of Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Association. Among his many awards and other positions, Dr. Eagle has been a recipient of the Sigourney Award; an Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Canada; the recipient of the New York Attachment Consortium Award; the Roberta Held Weiss Visiting Psychoanalyst of the Year at the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and Psychology; Erikson Scholar in Residence at the Austen Riggs Center; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland; and Visiting Professor, Bar-Ilan University (Clinical Psychology Program), Israel.  He has been Editor of Psychological Issues; Consultant at the Library of Congress, Freud Exhibit; Consultant at the Public Broadcasting Company (PBS); and on the Board of Editors of JAPA, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychoanalysis & Contemporary Thought, the American Journal of Psychotherapy, and Freud Encyclopedia.  In addition, Dr. Eagle is the author of numerous publications.  His most recent books include Toward a unified psychoanalytic theory: A revised and expanded ego psychology as foundation; Core concepts of classical psychoanalytic theory: Clinical and research evidence and conceptual critiques;  and Core concepts of contemporary psychoanalytic theory: Clinical and research evidence and conceptual critiques. His book The fate of subjective experience in psychology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and philosophy is currently in progress.

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

1. describe how identifications change and transform over the course of 60 years.
2. articulate and describe the role that ways of coping with early manifestations of aggression interfere or facilitate flexibility or rigidity in evolving mental representations.