The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

Meetings & Lectures at The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute

The New York Psychoanalytic Society

founded February 12, 1911

and incorporated March 2, 1911

The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (NYPSI) draws upon its one hundred years of tradition and innovation to address the challenges of the twenty-first century.

CALENDAR OF CENTENARY EVENTS

SEP 2010 - MAY 2012

Events take place at NYPSI (247 E 82nd St., NYC) unless otherwise noted.

(Key: * date to be announced; ** topic to be announced)

2010 -2011 Academic Year

Sep 14 (Tue) 8:15 pm Scientific Program Meeting:

Norman Straker: The Fear of Death and the Treatment of Dying Patients: An Analyst Updates our Concepts; Jimmie Holland, discussant

Oct 6 (Wed) 8:30 pm Extension Division Classic Papers Series I:

Oct 12 (Tue) 8:15 pm Scientific Program Meeting:

Arnold Rothstein: Psychoanalytic Technique and the Creation of Analytic Patients: An Addendum; Lena Ehrlich, discussant

Nov 9 (Tue) 8:15 pm Scientific Program Meeting:

Francis Baudry: Some contributions of English and French Psychoanalysis to the management of Non-neurotic pathology: A personal journey; Alan Bass, discussant

Nov 12 (Fri) 7:30 pm “Conversations with...” I:

Lois Oppenheim interviews Edward Albee (admission fee)

Nov 30 (Tue) 8:00 pm Extension Division Classic Papers Series II:

Leon Hoffman on Berta Bornstein's Clinical Notes on Child Analysis: Relevance to Contemporary Work with Children Introduction by Ruth Karush

Dec 7 (Tue) 8:30 pm Extension Division Classic Papers Series III:

Peter Dunn on Ernst Kris’s On Some Vicissitudes of Insight in Psychoanalysis

Dec 14 (Tue) 8:15 pm Brill Memorial Lecture:

Nellie Thompson: The Transformation of Psychoanalysis in America: Émigré Analysts and the NYPSI, 1938-1961 Introduction by Helene Keable

Jan 6 (Thu) 6:30 pm Gallery talk at the Café Fledermaus, Neue Galerie:

Aaron Esman on Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (free for museum members, $10 for non-members)

Jan 8 (Sat) 1:00-4:30 PM A screening and discussion of The Red Shoes
Joan Acocella and Leon Balter

Feb 1 (Tue) 8:30 pm Extension Division Classic Papers Series IV:

Helene Keable on Edith Jacobson’s Problems in the Psychoanalytic Theory of Affects

Feb 8 (Tue) 8:15 pm Scientific Program Meeting:

Jorge Canestri: Interpretation and Construction - The Work of Transformation in the Psychoanalytic Practice: E. Kris' Contributions on the Preconscious Thought Processes in the Analyst

Feb 12 (Sat) 9:30 am – 4:45 pm 100th Anniversary Symposium: Memory and Unconscious:

Edward Nersessian (Chair);

Morning panel: Memory: Harold Blum, Leo Rangell, Nellie Thompson

Afternoon panel: Unconscious: Heather Berlin; Natasha Chriss

Feb 18 (Fri) 7:30 pm “Conversations with...” II:

Lois Oppenheim interviews Mark Morris (admission fee)

Feb 25 (Fri) 7:00 pm A screening and discussion of Letter from an Unknown Woman

Tom McCarthy

Feb 26 (Sat) Winterfest Gala at the Metropolitan Club

March 11 (Fri) 7:30 pm Interview:

journalist Robert Friedman, Editor-at-Large at Bloomberg News, interviews Robert Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Yale University and co-author (with George Akerloff) of Animal Spirits and Virginia Shiller, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and author of Rewards for Kids!

March 8 (Tue) 8:15 pm Kabcenell Memorial Lecture:

Denia Barrett, Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development/Cleveland Center for Research in Child Development: Why We Don't Speak About Masturbation

March 15 (Tue) 8:30 pm Extension Division Classic Papers Series V:

Edith McNutt and Josephine Wright on Annie Reich’s Narcissistic Object Choice in Women and Pathologic Forms of Self-Esteem Regulation

April 12 (Tue) 8:15 pm 57th Freud Anniversary Lecture:

Theodore Jacobs, MD will present On Hope In Analysis and For Analysis

Martin S. Willick, M.D. will introduce the speaker

A reception will follow the lecture on the third floor, 247 East 82nd Street.

Please respond with attached card if you plan on attending reception.

April 15 (Fri) 7 pm A screening and discussion of Wild Strawberries

Eric Marcus

April 26 (Tue) 8:30 pm Extension Division Classic Papers Series VI:

Gail Reed on William Grossman’s Hierarchies, Boundaries and Representation in a Freudian Model of Mental Organization, with a look back at Grossman and Walter Stewart’s Penis Envy: from Childhood Wish to Developmental Metaphor

May 3 (Tue) 8:30 pm Extension Division Classic Papers Series VII:

Leon Balter on Bertram Lewin’s Some Observations on Knowledge, Belief and the Impulse to Know and The Nature of Reality, the Meaning of Nothing, with an Addendum on Concentration, and Lewin and Henry Bunker’s A Psychoanalytic Notation on the Roots GN, KN, CN

May 11 (Wed) 7:30 pm “Conversations with...” III:

Lois Oppenheim interviews Kiki Smith (admission fee of $25 per person)

May 13 (Fri) 7 pm Film screening and discussion of Laurence Olivier's Hamlet

Simon Critchley, PhD and Jamieson Webster, PhD

May 24 (Tue) 7 - 10 pm An Evening on Research

Posters, publications and presentations 7 - 8 PM

100 Years Panel I: Research: 8:15 - 10 PM

Can Science Save the Clinic?: Evolution of Treatment Research at NYPSI: Leon Hoffman and Wilma Bucci (Chairs), Theodore Shapiro, Will Braun, Sean Murphy

May 25 (Wed) 7 pm Book presentation and discussion of Created in our own images.com

Fred Sander, Peter Dunn, Tom Freudenheim, Adrienne Munich

moderated by Matthew von Unwerth

June 1 (Wed) 8:15 pm Extension Division Classic Papers Series VIII: note date change

Nellie Thompson on Phyllis Greenacre's The Childhood of the Artist

June 14 (Tue) 8:15 pm Scientific Program Meeting:

Louis Rose, Professor of History, Otterbein College, on Ernst Kris**

2011- 2012 Academic Year

Fall* 2011 Extension Division Classic Papers Series IX and X:

Michael Porder on Adolf Stern’s Investigation of and Treatment in Border Line Group of Neuroses

Arnold Rothstein on Charles Brenner**

Sep 13 (Tue) 8:15 pm Scientific Program Meeting:

"Do Movies Have a Future?" A cinematic/psychoanalytic discussion with the New Yorker's David Denby

Oct 11 (Tue) 8:00 pm 100 Years Panel II: Technique:

Three Undervalued Contributions of Ego Psychology to Psychoanalytic Technique: Gail Reed (Chair), Peter Dunn, Francis Baudry

Oct 28 (Fri) 7:30 pm “Conversations with...” IV:

Lois Oppenheim interviews Joyce Carol Oates ($25 per person, $10 with valid student ID)

Nov 8 (Tue) 8:15 pm Blos Memorial Lecture:

Terry McDermott, journalist and author of Perfect Soldiers: The Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It

Nov 15 (Tue) 100 Years Panel III: Theory:

“Conflict and Attachment: The Dynamic Compromise”: Mervyn Peskin (Chair), Edward Nersessian, Wendy Olesker

Nov 29 (Tue) 8:15 pm Extension Division Classic Papers Series IX: Michele Press on Jacob Arlow's Unconscious Fantasy and Disturbances of Conscious Experience (1969)

Dec 9 (Fri) 7:30 pm Film screening and discussion of The Dead

Francis Baudry, MD

No January scientific meeting

Feb 10 (Fri) 7:30 pm “Conversations with...”V:

Lois Oppenheim interviews Adam Gopnik ($25 per person, $10 with valid student ID)

NOTE: Location has now been changed to 213 East 82nd Street.

Feb 14 (Tue) 8:15 pm 981st Scientific Meeting:
Susan P. Sherkow, M.D.: A psychoanalytic approach to a neuro-biological disorder: The dyadic treatment of a toddler with ASD

NOTE: Location has now been changed to 213 East 82nd Street.

Feb 21 (Tue) 7:30 pm Psychoanalysis and the Theatre: Discussion of Freud's Last Session

Daniel Prezant and Fred Sander will lead a discussion and Q&A with Mark St. Germain, the playwright of Freud's Last Session and Jack Thomas, a producer of the play, and The Rev. Daniel Simons of Trinity Wall Street.

($10 donation)

NOTE: Location has now been changed to 213 East 82nd Street.

Feb 25 (Sat) Winterfest Gala at the Metropolitan Club

To benefit the Second Century Campaign

Mar 3 (Sat) 2pm Psychoanalysis and the Theatre: Premiere of "Rx" at Primary Stages: 59 East 59th Street

Daniel Prezant and Fred Sander will lead a discussion after the play.

Tickets are $55 per person. Contact admdir@nypsi.org to purchase tickets or Fred Sander directly.

Mar 13 (Tue) 8:15 pm 982nd Scientific Meeting:

Title: TBA

Presenter: Joel Whitebook, Ph.D.

Discussant: TBA

Apr 10 (Tue) 8:15 pm 983rd Scientific Meeting:

Title: Metamorphosis and the aesthetics of loss III: from the shadow of the object to the realm of Flora

Presenter: Adele Tutter, M.D., Ph.D.

Discussant: TBA

Apr 20 (Fri) 7:30 pm “Conversations with...”VI:

Lois Oppenheim interviews Jacques d'Amboise ($25 per person, $10 with valid student ID)

May 5 (Sat) 9:30 am - 4:45 pm 984th Scientific Meeting

Minding the Gap III: Dreaming: Psychoanalysis or Neurobiology?

****Conference taking place in Stern Auditorium at Mt. Sinai Medical Center****

This conference, jointly sponsored by NYPSI, the Pfeffer Center for Neuro-Psychoanalysis, and the Mt. Sinai Medical Center brings together Mark Solms and Allan Hobson along with a number of panelists who will comment on the long-standing Solms / Hobson debate.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of American Psychoanalytic Association and New York Psychoanalytic Society And Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of [6] AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

May 8 (Tue) 8:15 pm 58th Freud Anniversary Lecture

Lecturer: Francis D. Baudry, M.D.

Title: Ego Psychology 1950-2010 – Stasis or Evolution?

Discussant: Richard Gottlieb, M.D.

Arnold Pfeffer Center for Neuropsychoanalysis:

Oct 1 (Sat) 10 am Arnold Pfeffer Center Lecture:

Georg Northoff, MD, PhD, PhD, Canada Research Chair for Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Michael Smith Chair for Neuroscience and Mental Health Full Professor, Depts of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Philosophy at the University of Ottawa to receive THE ARNOLD PFEFFER PRIZE FOR 2010:

Neuropsychoanalysis – How can we practice such a transdisciplinary enterprise?

Nov 5 (Sat) 10 am Arnold Pfeffer Center Lecture:

Mark Solms, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Cape Town: The Conscious Id

Dec 3 (Sat) 10 am Arnold Pfeffer Center Lecture:

David Schab, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University: Therapy for the Mind, Pharmacology for the Brain?

No lecture held in January 2012.

No lecture held in February 2012.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of American Psychoanalytic Association and New York Psychoanalytic Society And Institute. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

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.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Works in Progress Seminars:

Sep 14 (Wed) 8:30 pm Works in Progress Seminar:

Josephine Wright, Adult, Child and Adolescent Analyst; Faculty, New York Psychoanalytic Institute; Faculty, Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute: What constitutes therapeutic success in the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic work with adolescents?

Oct 12 (Wed) 8:30 pm Works in Progress Seminar:

Nathan M. Szajnberg, MD, Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis: Queen Sheba's Children in Israel

Nov 2 (Wed) 8:30 pm Works in Progress Seminar:

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D.: The Maternal Function and its Consequences on Early Psychic Life

Dec 7 (Wed) 8:30 pm Works in Progress Seminar:

Jamieson Webster, Ph.D.: Hamlet as Seen Through a Lacanian Perspective

Jan 4 (Wed) 8:30 pm Works in Progress Seminar:

Dr. Sabrina Cherry: Psychoanalytic Career Paths: A Prospective Study of Recent Graduates

Feb 15 (Wed) 8:30 pm Works in Progress Seminar:

Herb Cagan, Ph.D.: Dreams in the Elderly

Mar 7 (Wed) 8:30 pm Works in Progress Seminar:

Apr 4 (Wed) 8:30 pm Works in Progress Seminar:

May 2 (Wed) 8:30 pm Works in Progress Seminar:

June 6 (Wed) 8:30 pm Works in Progress Seminar:

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.

Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public and held in the auditorium

of The New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute:

247 East 82nd Street

(between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)

For further information, please contact us at:

info@nypsi.org or 212.879.6900