Scientific Meeting: The Aging Analyst

Event Phone: 212-879-6900

  •  September 12, 2024
     8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

***This meeting is virtual and will be held on ZOOM.***

NYPSI’s 1074th Scientific Meeting:

“The Aging Analyst”

Tuesday, September 10, 2024  

Date has been changed to Thursday, September 12, 2024

8:00 – 10:00 PM (EST)

Presenter: Judy Kantrowitz, Ph.D.

Discussant: Alexander Kalogerakis, M.D.

This meeting will address the concept of resiliency within the framework of telephone interviews undertaken by Dr. Judy Kantrowitz with some fifty analysts between the ages of 70 and 92 who were still treating patients at the time. Dr. Kantrowitz will explore the reasons given by those interviewed (twice in the case of some 35 of them) for becoming analysts and what the interviews reveal of the work life, plans for the future, satisfactions, regrets, and thoughts about time of the elderly analyst. What do older analysts wish to pass on to future analysts? How do older analysts see the state of the psychoanalytic field, feel about “lifers,” and consider their own state of health? Those interviewed have not all been without significant illness and personal loss. What contributes to their resiliency? These are among the questions to be addressed in this meeting.

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 Wednesday, September 11.

REGISTRATION LINK

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.

OPTIONAL READINGS

1. Olesker, W., Blum, H., Kernberg, O, and Oppenheim, L. (2024). Aging, Dying, and the Analytic Process. The Psychoanalytic Review, 111(1): 11–23.

2. Kantrowitz, J.L. (2017). Reflections on mortality: a patient faces death. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 65:673-686.

3. Kantrowitz, J.L. (2020). A Psychoanalytic Memoir: The Analyst, enabled and disabled by what’s personal. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association: 68:83-100.

BIOGRAPHIES
Judy L. Kantrowitz, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and formerly a Clinical Associate Professor (now called a corresponding member) at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of four books, The Patient’s Impact on the Analyst (1996) ; Writing about Patients: responsibilities, risks, and ramifications, (2006) and Myths of Termination: what patients can teach analyst about endings (2014) and The Role of Patient-Analyst Match in the Process and  Outcome of Psychoanalysis (2020).  She has served three times on the editorial board of JAPA and won the JAPA paper prize for 2020. She is currently on the board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.  She is in private practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in Brookline, MA.
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Alexander Kalogerakis, M.D. is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine and Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at the New York Presbyterian Hospital. He is Vice-Chair of the American Board of Psychoanalysis.  At the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, he is a Child and Adolescent Supervising Analyst and Chair of Admissions and he teaches Theory and Technique of Child and Adolescent Analysis and Adult Development. Dr. Kalogerakis is a member of the United Nations subcommittee of the International Psychoanalytical Association. His book chapters and presentations include the topics of play therapy, adolescent identity and culture, guns and youth in America, terrorism and adolescence, and international adoption, among others. He is a contributor to Auchincloss & Samberg’s Psychoanalytic Terms & Concepts (Yale University Press, 2012) and authored a chapter on Children and Migration in The Status of Women (Ed. V. Pender 2016).

CONTINUING EDUCATION

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

1. Describe the experiences of older analysts and how they have dealt with the challenges of aging

2. Describe how the clinician’s own reluctance to think about their mortality may interfere with writing a professional will

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.

Physicians
ACCME Accreditation Statement
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.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
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.
Disclosure Statement
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.
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