Scientific Program: The State of the World

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A Special Program co-sponsored with Harlem Family Institute

The 1071st Scientific Program Meeting:

“The State of the World: Facing our hatreds, uncovering our humanity”

Saturday, January 27, 2024

12:00 pm – 4:00 pm (EST)

(Note: Registration closes 1/26 at 12 PM.)

Participants: Paula Christian Kliger, Ph.D.,  Gilbert W. Kliman, M.D., Era A. Loewenstein, Ph.D., Natalia Nalyvaiko, Ph.D., Sargam Mona Jain, M.D., Harriet Wolfe, M.D., and Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. (moderator)

3.5 Contact Hours for the program in its entirety. 3.5 CME/CE credits offered. See details below.

PROGRAM

Welcome Remarks

Part I

12:00 – 1:00 PM (EST) Panel Discussion: Paula Christian Kliger, Ph.D.,  Gilbert W. Kliman, M.D., Era A. Loewenstein, Ph.D. and Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. (moderator)

There will be a short break from 1:00 – 1:15 PM. Please note the same ZOOM link will be used for all sessions.

Part II

1:15  – 2:00 PM (EST) Panel Discussion: Natalia Nalyvaiko, Ph.D. and Sargam Mona Jain, M.D.

2:00 – 2:30 PM (EST) Keynote Talk: Harriet Wolfe, M.D.

2:30  – 3:00 PM (EST) Self-Reflective Vignette: Paula Christian Kliger, Ph.D.

Part III

3:00 – 3:30 PM (EST) Panel Discussion with all Panelists co-moderated by Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. and Paula Christian Kliger, Ph.D.

3:30 – 4:00 PM (EST) Q & A with Audience

References of Interest (optional):

1. Abdel-Malek, H. S. (2020). Birth of a Nation-State: A Battle for Boundaries or Dialogue? International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 17:49-64.
2. Akhtar, S. (2017). The tripod of terrorism. International Forum of Psychoanalysis, 26:139-159.
3. Almond, R. (2015). Meditations on Psychological Repair: Commentary on GobodoMadikizela. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 63:1125-1133.
4. Apprey, M. (2014). Enemies on the Couch: A Psychopolitical Journey through War and Peace, by Vamik D. Volkan, Pitchstone Press, Durham, NC, 2013, 496pp. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 74:392-395.
5. Benjamin, J. (2016). Non-violence as respect for all suffering: Thoughts inspired by Eyad El Sarraj. Psychoanalysis Culture and Society, 21:5-20.

BIOGRAPHIES

Paula Christian Kliger, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst who is Principal Consultant for Harlem Family Institute. She is President/Chair of the Harlem Family Services dedicated to providing clinical services as well as consultation and life coaching skills to underserved multicultural communities located across New York City. Dr. Kliger teaches her “Self-Study” and “Power Your Mind” model internationally and Advanced Ethics at Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute where she received her analytic training and she is Clinical Assistant Professor at Wayne State University’s School of Medicine. She has received the Public Leadership Credential from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School and was recently appointed to the International Psychoanalytical Association as the North America Region Representative of The Community and the World Committee on Prejudice, Discrimination and Racism. She is Chair of APSA’s Department of Psychoanalytic Education Section, The Psychoanalyst in the Community, and a founding/member of Black Psychoanalysts Speak. Dr. Kliger is an award-winning poet and illustrator and her co-produced podcast, “We Are Human First,” received the 2020 Hermes International Creative Gold Award.

Gilbert W. Kliman, M.D. earned his degree from Harvard Medical School and is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Senior Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. After his child psychiatric training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he founded three nonprofit organizations dedicated to childhood mental health services: The Center for Preventive Psychiatry, the Foster Care Study Unit at Columbia University College of Medicine and Surgery, Department of Child Psychiatry, and the Children’s Psychological Health Center, Inc. He has served as Medical Director of The Children’s Psychological Health Center in San Francisco since 1993 and Chairman of the Harlem Family Institute from 2020-2022. Dr. Kliman is the creator of Reflective Network Therapy, an evidence-based synergistic child therapy method which he practices and continues to research throughout the country and around the world. In addition, his practice of forensic child psychiatry often leads to his testifying in federal and state courts. He has testified in over 375 major cases.

Era A. Loewenstein, Ph.D., is a child, adolescent, and adult psychoanalyst. She is a training and supervising analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis where she also serves on the faculty. Dr. Loewenstein was the founder of a Preschool Consultation Project at SFCP. In this capacity she collaborated for over 20 years with early childhood educators. The focus of her work has been the impact of childhood trauma and psychoanalytic understanding of perversion. Since 2016 she has been teaching and writing about fascistic states of mind.

Sargam Mona Jain, M.D., who completed a psychiatric residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center, which was followed by a fellowship in Public Psychiatry at Columbia University and training in adult psychoanalysis, also at Columbia University, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City specializing in trauma-related and somatoform disorders within diaspora populations.  As a member of the International Psychoanalytical Association Committee at the United Nations, she works with NGOs and Member States to promote human rights, mental health and inclusive, psychologically-minded policies and programs.  Her academic work focuses on the intersection of unconscious conflict, post-colonial development and the built environment.  At the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Dr. Jain is co-chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Committee.

Natalia Nalyvaiko, Ph.D. earned her doctorate in psychology and her Master’s Degree in clinical psychology, psychoanalysis and psychopathology at the University of Strasbourg, France.  She is a Training and Supervising Analyst of the European Confederation of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (Austria), a Board member of the European Society of Traumatic Stress Studies (The Netherlands), a member of the Psychoanalytic Division of the National Psychological Association, and in private practice as well as Professor in the Academy of Social Studies and Tourism in Kyiv, Ukraine.  Dr. Nalyvaiko, who is the author of Psychoanalysis in Ukraine: Past. Modernity. Future., is actively engaged in scientific activity connected to theoretical and practical issues of psychoanalysis as a speaker at international meetings and as the author of numerous publications in international professional journals, such as Psychoanalytic Psychology (APA).

Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D., is University Distinguished Scholar, Professor of French, and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Montclair State University where she teaches courses in literature and medical humanities.  She is Scholar Associate Member of the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, where she is also on the Faculty, and Honorary Member of the Psychoanalytic Society of the William Alanson White Institute.  Dr. Oppenheim has authored or edited fifteen books, the most recent being For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (co-authored; Bloomsbury) and Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion (Routledge), awarded the Courage to Dream Prize from the American Psychoanalytic Association.  Other titles include A Curious Intimacy: Art and Neuro-Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalysis and the Artistic Endeavor.

Harriet Wolfe, M.D. is President of the International Psychoanalytical Association, Past President of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis.  Her scholarly interests include clinical applications of psychoanalytic research, organizational processes, female development, and therapeutic action and she has a longstanding commitment to psychoanalytic public health intervention. Dr. Wolfe has co-authored several psychoanalytically-informed guided activity workbooks for children, parents, and teachers to help children cope with natural and manmade disasters. She has a private practice of psychoanalysis, and individual and couple’s psychoanalytic psychotherapy in San Francisco.

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

1. consider the role of human aggression in the context of various theoretical perspectives
2. explain the importance of group process in the creation of war, peace, and the sharing power