Scientific Meeting: Leon Balter: A Consequential Analyst

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The 1069th Scientific Program Meeting:

“Leon Balter: A Consequential Analyst”

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

8:00 – 10:00 pm (EST)

(Note: Registration closes 11/14 at 4 PM.)

Panelists: Philip Herschenfeld, M.D., Jess Olson, Ph.D. and Eric Weitzner, M.D.

This panel will focus on the writings of a widely known and deeply influential member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Leon Balter, M.D., who was firmly rooted in traditional psychoanalytic thinking. The late Dr. Balter valued Brenner and conflict theory and Anna Freud and her ideas about the ego and the mechanisms of defense. These ideas are very powerful in understanding an array of human experiences from the cultural to the individual and group dynamics. Why we should value these ideas and not rush to embrace newer schools of thought will be addressed by the panelists. As an extensively published and deeply influential Training Analyst and Supervisor, Dr. Balter left a legacy essential to grasping the state of modern psychoanalysis and it is this that will be explored.

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

BIOGRAPHIES

Philip Herschenfeld, M.D. is a Child, Adolescent, and Adult psychoanalyst.  He is a graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he also did a residency in psychiatry and was a member of the faculty, and of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute where he is currently on the faculty.  He has also been on the faculties of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Mt Sinai school of Medicine.  Dr. Herschenfeld is a Training and Supervising analyst, a former Vice President and former Dean of NYPSI, and a Member of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies. He maintains a private practice in New York City.

Jess Olson, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst in private practice in White Plains, NY. He is a graduate and member of NYPSI and a member of the institute faculty. He is also a professor of history at Yeshiva University in New York.

Eric Weitzner, M.D. is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He is on the faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where he co-teaches courses on Sigmund Freud’s theoretical papers, and on the evolution of
Freud’s structural theory. His interest in ego psychology was nurtured by Dr. Leon Balter, his long-time teacher and mentor.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

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

1. Demonstrate how the traditional thinking of an Ego Psychologist can lead to a deeper understanding of Group Psychology.
2. Apply psychoanalytic theory of psychosexual and ego development to the analysis of classical Greek mythology and other cultural phenomena.