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Upcoming Talks and Conferences

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Thursday, May 10, 2012, 11:45am

Facing Reality: Integrating Trauma Screening and Intervention in Inpatient and Adolescent Psychiatry

Dr. Havens will discuss the prevalence of trauma exposure in child and adolescent inpatient psychiatry settings and the issues associated with non-recognition of trauma exposure in acute care setting. Attendees will learn the process for implementing standardized trauma screening in child and adolescent inpatient settings.

Speaker: Jennifer F. Havens, M.D.

Location: William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street

Registration: There is no charge for this evening but seating is limited. RSVP now and reserve a space by clicking here. For more information, please contact Lisa Dubinsky at ldubinskypsy@gmail.com

Friday, May 11, 2012, 8pm

Epistemic Trust and Communicative Abuse

Speaker: Gyorgy Gergely, Ph.D., D.Sc. Moderator: Elliot L. Jurist, Ph.D.

Location: William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street

Registration: There is no charge for this evening but seating is limited. RSVP now and reserve a space by clicking here. For more information, please contact Douglas Rodriguez at d.rodriguez@wawhite.org or 212-873-0725, ext. 10.

Friday, May 11, 2012, 6-10pm

God at an Analytic Impasse: Poverty, Devotion, and the Elusive Self

Dr. Grand's fascinating paper presents her work with a migrant worker who struggles out of poverty to become a physician and caretaker. Unknown to himself as a human subject, his life is a devotion to the needy other. His own health is compromised and his sacrificial practices draw him close to near-death. Analysis of his masochism fails. To save his life, the dyad must examine his Christian convictions of passion, devotion, and sacrifice. These values collide with the analyst's philosophical/metaphysical system, derived from relational analytic theory, her own reform Jewish ethos, and atheistic beliefs. Can patient and analyst meet and save his life?

Sponsored by The Suffolk Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Co-sponsored by The NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and The Division of Psychoanalysis of The New York State Psychological Association

Guest Speaker: Sue Grand, Ph.D. Discussants: Lewis Aron, Ph.D., ABPP and Jeff Wells, M.Div.

Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, #914/912

For more information and to register, call the NYSPA central office at 800-732-3933 or click here.

Friday, May 11, 2012, 6-10pm

God at an Analytic Impasse: Poverty, Devotion, and the Elusive Self

Dr. Grand's fascinating paper presents her work with a migrant worker who struggles out of poverty to become a physician and caretaker. Unknown to himself as a human subject, his life is a devotion to the needy other. His own health is compromised and his sacrificial practices draw him close to near-death. Analysis of his masochism fails. To save his life, the dyad must examine his Christian convictions of passion, devotion, and sacrifice. These values collide with the analyst's philosophical/metaphysical system, derived from relational analytic theory, her own reform Jewish ethos, and atheistic beliefs. Can patient and analyst meet and save his life?

Sponsored by The Suffolk Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Co-sponsored by The NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and The Division of Psychoanalysis of The New York State Psychological Association

Guest Speaker: Sue Grand, Ph.D. Discussants: Lewis Aron, Ph.D., ABPP and Jeff Wells, M.Div.

Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, #914/912

For more information and to register, call the NYSPA central office at 800-732-3933 or click here.

Friday, May 11, 2012, 8-10pm

Imaginary Gardens, Real Toads: On Memory and Its Uses in the Analytic Process - Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecture

Presenter: Theodore Jacobs, M.D.

Location: Austen Riggs Center, 25 Main Street, P.O. Box 962, Stockbridge, MA

Fee: Free

Friday & Saturday, May 11 & 12, 2012

Meditation and Psychotherapy: Practicing Compassion for Self and Others

The objective of this course is to explore how principles and practices of meditation, especially acceptance and compassion, can be inegrated into patient care and support the therapist's own wellbeing. As a result of attending this course, you will be able to: define compassion as a psychological skill; identify conditions to support or hinder compassion in psychotherapy; describe the neurobiological processes of awareness and acceptance; trace the historical roots of compassion mind training; cultivate a compassionate response to suffering; and implement self-compassion as an antidote to compassion fatigue.

In the last five years, meditation has become one of the most widely researched treatment methods in mental and behavioral health. Through didactic lectures, questions and answers, and panel discussions, clinicians will learn the pros and cons of integrating meditation techniques into their practice, and the scientific findings on the benefits of meditation, and therefore be able to close the gap between research and clinical practice, and to explore modern applications of ancient mind training practices. This course is intended for health and mental health clinicians, researchers, educators, and others interested in learning more about the benefits of meditation for their patients and for themselves.

Offered by the Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance Physicians Organization

Location: The Boston Park Plaza Hotel, 64 Arlington Street, Boston, MA

Fee: $375 for physicians, $275 for all others - To register online, click here.

Saturday, May 12, 2012: 9:30 am-1:00 pm

Black Psychoanalysts Speak - Part I (click here for webpage)

Please join the conversation with our five distinguished panelists discussing their thoughts about psychoanalysis and their experience in the psychoanalytic community.

The topics discussed will include the relevance of psychoanalysis to communities of color and how psychoanalytic institute training can better meet the needs of black psychotherapists and black patients.

Presenters: Annie Lee Jones, PhD, Cheryl Thompson, PhD, C. Jama Adams, PhD,

Kathleen Pogue White PhD, and Kirkland Vaughans, PhD

Moderator: Michael Moskowitz, PhD

Location: Park Avenue United Methodist Church / 106 East 86th Street / New York .

Suggested admission fee at door: $25.

Candidate/student suggested fee: $10.

PLEASE RSVP to Richard Reichbart, PhD (co-chair) : reichbart@earthlink.net

Seating may be limited.

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Saturday, May 12, 2012, 11:15am-2pm

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Addictive Disorders

An overview of how addiction is understood from an analytic perspective, using illustrations from a case. Participants are invited to stay for lunch to hear a brief overview of IPE's training and education programs, with an opportunity for discussion with program chairs and current participants.

Location: NYU School of Medicine, Smilow MultiPurpose Room, 550 First Avenue near 31st Street

Registration: Click here to register.

Fee: There is no charge for this session. Refreshments will be provided.

Saturday, May 12, 2012, 8am-4pm

Enriching Psychoanalysis: IntegratingPsychoanalysis and New Therapeutic Approaches

In recent years psychoanalytic ideas have found their way into many neighboring disciplines, and similarly our field has been enriched by concepts and methods imported from approaches tangential to the main body of psychoanalysis. In this conference we will introduce three remarkable innovators who have each introduced psychotherapeutic modalities and methods which have great potential to enhance how psychoanalysts perform and think about their work.

Panelists: Ann Weiser Cornell, Ph.D., Bruce Ecker, M.A., LMFT, Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.

Location: Kimmel Center, NYU

Click here to learn more and to register online.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 7-9pm

Navigating the LGBT Parent Contract Through Life's Transitions

The lesbian mother/daughter pair of speakers will discuss the issues of gay and lesbian parenting from perspectives of parents, children and grandparents from both personal experiences as well as their expertise as therapist and famil mediator. This will be a fun and interactive workshop with ample time for questions and discussion.

Welcoming Comments: Jacqueline Ferraro, D.M.H. Moderator: Deborah Glazer, Ph.D.

Speakers: Barbara Rothberg, D.S.W., L.C.S.W. and Jessican Rothberg, J.D.

Location: William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street

Registration: $20 per person ($25 at the door). To register, contact Diane Amato at d.amato@wawhite.org or 212-873-0725, ext. 20.

Friday, May 18, 2012, 12-1pm

Trauma and Eating Disorders - Teleconference/Webseminar

Location: The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, 1841 Broadway, 4th Floor

Registration: Register at csab@icpnyc.org

Friday, May 18, 2012, 7pm

Charles Laughton's "The Night of the Hunter" - Screening and Discussion

When The Night of the Hunter was released in 1955, it was met by the critics and the public with bewilderment and confusion. In this film about a boy's traumatic destruction of his family during the Great Depression and the menace of a psychopahtic killer, Laughton eschewed conventional film narrative. Rather than presenting an adult's empathic view of the boy, the film shows the subjective mentality of a ten year old, with the boy's actual perceptions and apperceptions of the world around him. Slowly, The Night of the Hunter garnered appreciationg by film critics. It is currently ranked among the 100 best films ever made.

Discussants: Dr. Leon Balter and Matthew von Unwerth

Location: The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium, 247 East 82nd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)

Registration: $10 donation. RSVP encouraged. Please contact admdir@nypsi.org

Saturday, May 19, 2012, 10am

Envy: Why We Feel It and How To Work With It in Treatment

While ALL societies and some psychoanalysts consider envy basic to human emotions, it is surprising how confusing the development of envy is in psychoanalytic theory. Klein and Bion thought it was a basic instinct related to the destructive drive; Freud wrote mainly about penis envy which puts it much later than the first year of life. He clearly also believed boys envied their mother's capacity to have babies (even though he didn't highlight this fact in his theory) but this also occurred after children were able to begin to recognize sexual differences. Other writers thinking about envy have tried to study the first manifestations of envy during the separation-individuation sub-phases (especially starting around 18 months of age). When envy starts is up for debate but that it exists is not. Dr. Ellman will look at the types of fantasies that relate to envious feelings and argue for the universality of envy and how early precursors during the first year of life affect development. She will try to show how for many people when they disown desire they are more likely to have severe problems with envy. She will try to show how envy shows itself across the life cycle and particularly how powerful it is between a mother and daughter. Case examples will highlight how difficult it is to change feelings of destructive envy since they seem to affect the whole sense of self (intellectually, emotionally and even one's body ego). The group will focus on the different types of envy to show how envy can sometimes be just a painful feeling that is fleeting (from a narcissistic wound) and other times, depending on one's early development, is more destructive and entrenched. Hopefully, the workshop will also explore how we all experience envy and what makes it tolerable.

The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health and The Metropolitan Institute for Training in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

Presenter: Carolyn Ellman, Ph.D.

Location: The Metropolitan Center for Mental Health, 1090 St. Nicholas Avenue (located on West 165th between St. Nicholas and Amsterdam Avenues, downstairs level next to Church Santa Rosa de Lima)

Registration: Space is limited. Registration accepted on a first-come first-served basis.

Fees: $50 includes breakfast (no fee to MCMH staff), $30 student fee. On site registration, $60 or $40 (students)

Friday, May 23, 2012, 8pm

Live Supervision: Therapy of a Boy Growing Up in a Family of Women

Therapist: William Baker, Psy.D. Supervisor: Seth Aronson, Psy.D.

Location: The William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street

Registration: There is no charge for this evening but seating is limited. Click here to RSVP online.

For more information, please contact Diane Amato at d.amato@wawhite.org or 212-873-0725, ext. 20.

Friday, May 23, 2012, 8-10pm

Analysts at Work

Senior analysts, candidates and students of the Institute invite our guests to join us in responding to video vignettes of clinical material. Our aim is to highlight our multilayered perspectives of the clinical material, and the approaches that work in psychoanalytic treatment.

Location: The American Institute for Psychoanalysis of the Karen Horney Psychoanalytic Center, 329 East 62nd Street

Registration: To register, please contact the Registrar's Office at 212-838-8044 or RSVP at aipkh@aol.com.

Saturday, May 31, 2012, 8pm

Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program (IPPP) Information Session

The evening will feature a demonstration of the kind of clinical teaching that takes place in the Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program. The one year program is a concentrated, practice-oriented educational experience, designed for working clinicians who wish to apply an interpersonal psychoanalytic perspective to their work with patients. In addition to the live supervision and discussion, IPPP committee members and faculty will describe the program and answer questions raised by potential applicants. Refreshments will be served.

Therapist: Ingrid Luchsinger, Psy.D. Supervisors: Miri Abramis, Ph.D. and Zev Labins, M.D.

Location: The William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street

Registration: There is no charge for this evening but seating is limited. Click here to reserve a space.

For more information, contact Diane Amato at d.amato@wawhite.org.

May 31 - June 2, 2012

Faces of Trauma International Ferenczi Conference

The Hungarian psychoanalyst Sndor Ferenczi presented his most seminal notion in the field of psychic traumathe confusion of tongues conceptand initiated a paradigm shift in trauma theory 80 years ago. Since then a great body of clinical experience has accumulated and a number of new approaches and theoretical concepts have emerged both in clinical studies and academic research.

Location: Gerbaud House, Budapest, Hungary

For more information, please click here.

Friday & Saturday, June 1 & 2, 2012

The Practice of Psychotherapy Patients in Context

Our patients' 'private lives' and narratives are written, shaped, and organized, by the social, political, cultural, and economic landscapes of their daily existence. Their suffering and sense of meaning exists in a language forged by these larger contexts. How do we, as clinicians, learn to speak this language - to be curious, listen, and speak with an understanding of the larger contexts of our patients' lived experiences? The objective of this course is to enrich the way clinicians sit with their patients by thiking more fully about the impact of "larger contexts" upon our patients' experiences of self, suffering, and wellbeing. As a result of attending this course, participants will be able to describe the places where "wider public life" (sociopolitical factors, economics, gender, class, spirituality, religions, and diversity) plays out in patients' narratives and within the psychotherapeutic space.

Offered by the Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge Health Alliance Physicians Organization

Location: Boston Park Plaza Hotel, 64 Arlington Street, Boston, MA

Fee: $375 for physicians, $275 for all others - To register online, click here.

Sunday, June 3, 2012, 12-4pm

The Dark Side of Creativity

This presentation will focus on how psychopathology, when related to developmental arrest and character disorder, can trump the healthy and developmentally enhancing aspects of the creative process. It will focus on brilliant and talented tragic women who tried to live in the creative process when their lives in the world broke down due to early developmental arrest. It will illustrate how those who fail in external relationships, but who possess brilliant artistic and literary abilities, can become captives of internal world enactments, that repeat critical preoedipal trauma in their creative work, perpetually, unless critical psychological treatment (with an object relations focus) intercedes. Such women will also be contrasted with brilliant women artists and writers who were not psychologically devastated by preoedipal trauma, and who advance to the oedipal stage in early development, allowing them to work out a lot of conflicts related to oedipal loss and disappointment within their creative work.

Presenter: Susan Kavaler-Adler, Ph.D.

Location: 248 West 71st Street (between Broadway and West End Avenue)

For more information, please contact Sandra Indig, LCSW-R, LP, at psych4arts@hotmail.com

Friday & Saturday, June 8-10, 2012

The Illumination of Human Experience: How Psychology and Art Help Us Understand Ourselves - NYSPA's 75th Annual Convention

Location: The Saratoga Springs Hilton, Saratoga Springs, NY

Registration: Register online at www.NYSPA.org or call 1-800-732-3933.

Friday, June 15, 2012, 12-1pm

Difficult Patients, Difficult Families - Teleconference/Webseminar

Location: The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, 1841 Broadway, 4th Floor

Registration: Register at csab@icpnyc.org

Saturday, June 16, 2012, 10am-1pm

Bipolar Disorder: The Interface Between Medication and Psychotherapy

Bipolar Disorder is one of the puzzling diagnoses in psychiatric illnesses. As a result of ongoing clinical practice and neuroscience research, the diagnosis has gone through several revisions and includes a wide spectrum of psychological presentations. While the research evidence for genetic roots and biochemical causes of Bipolar Disorder is rapidly growing, the very basic Kleinian principle of Paranoid-Schizoid Position vs. Depressive Position appears to dominate the psychodynamics of most of these patients. These Kleinian positions will be presented and explained. This interactive workshop will review the diagnosis and the psychodynamic and the psychopharmacological aspects of this illness. The interface between medication and psychotherapy together with some clinical case material will be presented.

MITPP 2012 Summer Institute.

Speaker: Kamran Rahmani, M.D.

Location: 60 West 13th Street, Suite #LB (between 5th and 6th Avenues, just off 6th)

Registration: $50 - for more information, call 212-496-2858

Monday, June 18-22, 2012, 9:30am-12:30pm

Master Clinicians of the William Alanson White Institute - Summer Intensive Curriculum

Five master clinicians, offering five vantage points on conducting psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy from a contemporary Interpersonal/Relational perspective, will utilize live supervision to illustrate the ways they work and think about clinical process. During this week-long program, participants will have the opportunity to spend three hours each morning learning from one of the clinicians and watching him or her work with a supervisee. Lunch will be provided to all participants on the first and last days of the program. Afternoons will be free for students to explore the riches of New York City or to return to their work settings.

Clinicians: Lawrence Epstein, Ph.D., Phillip Bromberg, Ph.D., Donnel Stern, Ph.D., Darlene Ehrenberg, Ph.D., Edgar Levenson, M.D.

Location: The William Alanson White Institute, 20 West 74th Street

Saturday, July 14, 2012, 10am-1pm

The Good, The Bad and the Very, Very Bad: Bringing the Whole Child into Therapy

Children are referred for therapy because of difficulties at home and school - they may be aggressive, demanding, anxious, or prone to tantrums. Classmates avoid them, and parents and teachers describe them as impossible. Many of these children begin therapy, quickly become attached, and love to play and spend time with their therapist. It's a pleasure to be with them in sessions. In short, these children are like two different people: gentle, sweet children with their therapists, and angry, needy, oppositional children with parents and teachers. This workshop will focus on ways to bring the whole child into treatment, to work with the loving and aggressive, the anxious and attached, the needy and obstructionist. Case examples will be used to demonstrate how to engage all sides of children in treatment, helping them to bring us their pleasures and pains, anxieties and anger, so that we can work together to help them alleviate their difficulties at home and in school..

MITPP 2012 Summer Institute.

Speaker: Jill Bellinson, Ph.D.

Location: 229 West 71st Street (top floor of walk-up, west of Broadway)

Registration: $50 - for more information, call 212-496-2858

July 19-22, 2012

Art and Psyche in the City

Art expresses the vibrant interplay between the human psyche and our surroundings. For the second Art and Psyche conference, we invite participants in the arts and practitioners of depth psychology to engage the creative process as it registers, reflects, imagines, and is made manifest in museums and galleries, performance halls and libraries, studios and streets of a city.

Traditional plenaries, workshops on the arts, and non-traditional formats will provide time and space for the mutual interaction between the arts, the city and the psyche. One afternoon will be devoted to "Paths" through the city and its art sites. "Sparks" of new ideas will be presented in 10 minute segments, akin to what Jung called glimmers of consciousness emerging from the unconscious and igniting imagination in the arts and within the process of psychotherapy.

Consponsors and Hosts: New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development: Department of Applied Psychology and Department of Art and Art Professions

For more information, please email artandpsyche@nyu.edu.

Saturday, October 6, 2012, 8:30am-5:30pm

When Stress Causes Pain - Innovative Treatments for Psychophysiologic Disorders

Undiagnosed psychological issues are the cause of physical symptoms in 25-50% of primary care medical patients. Tens of millions of Americans suffer at an estimated annual cost of $20 billion. Utilizing didactic material and illustrative case histories, this conference will enable Mental Health Professionals to treat these conditions with confidence.

Sponsored by the Psychophysiological Disorders Association (PPDA) and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

Keynote Speaker: Raja Selvan, Ph.D.

Location: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Avenue (at 103rd St.)

Registration: Register at csab@icpnyc.org or click here to register online.

For further information, contact Frances Sommer Anderson, Ph.D., SEP at stress.causes.pain@gmail.com.

Thursday-Sunday, October 12-14, 2012

Creativity & Madness: Psychological Studies of Art and Artists

Location: The Hyatt Regency Cambridge Hotel, overlooking Boston

Registration: Register online at www.creativityandmaddness.com, 800-348-8441, aimed@earthlink.net. Registration fee $525 ($250 deposit)

Friday, October 12, 2012, 7:30pm

Conversations with... Edmund White

Edmund White is the award-winning author of many novels, including A Boys Own Story, The Beautiful Room Is Empty, The Farewell Symphony, and Hotel de Dream. His nonfiction includes City Boy and other memoirs; The Flneur, about Paris; and literary biographies and essays. His most recent novel is Jack Holmes & His Friend (Bloomsbury, 2012).

Although White is known as a novelist whose work has been widely praised by such writers as Vladimir Nabokov and Susan Sontag, it is as a cultural critic that White has perhaps had his greatest influence. Urbane, knowing, sophisticated, he has chronicled life in the seventies through today with wit and insight. His pioneering work The Joy of Gay Sex: An Intimate Guide for Gay Men to the Pleasures of Gay Life, written with Dr. Charles Silverstein and published in 1977, followed by States of Desire: Travels in Gay America (1980), introduced millions of readers, gay and straight and curious alike, to a brave new world of sexual practices and lifestyle.

The cumulative effect of White's presence simultaneously within so many different genres was to begin to define, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the parameters of "gay culture," whatever that evolving entity might be. White has written of the dilemma facing gay writers in the 1980s: "Some . . . think that it's unconscionable to deal with anything [other than AIDS]; others believe that since gay culture is in imminent danger of being reduced to a single issue, one that once again equates homosexuality with a dire medical condition, the true duty of gay writers is to remind readers of the wealth of gay accomplishments. Only in that way, they argue, will a gay heritage be passed down to a post-plague generation.".

Location: The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 247 East 82nd Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues), Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Normal and Pathological Generosity: Clinical and Cultural Aspects

NAAP 40th Annual Conference

Key Note Speaker: Salmon Akhtar, M.D.

November 15-18, 2012

MaleSurvivor 13th International Conference: A World of Healing

MaleSurvivor.org organization is dedicated to lending support and serving as a network for communication concerning support, research and healing for boys and men who are survivors of childhood exal abuse.

Location: John Jay College of Clinical Justice, New York City

Please contact Ernesto Mujica, Clinical Co-Chair, at EM@psychoanalysistoday.com or Trisha Massa, Administrative Co-Chair, at YTAMassa@aol.com for more information about this event.

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