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The Extension Division Extension Committee Deborah Barchat, Ph.D., Chair Jane Algus, M.D. M. Geraldine Hoban, Ph.D. Barbara Kravitz, Psy.D. (ex-officio) Welcome to the Extension Division of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. Our courses serve as an introduction to psychoanalytic theory or as additional resources to clinicians who wish to expand their knowledge. They present psychoanalysis as a basic science, with opportunities for study at various levels and depths. Many of our courses are interdisciplinary, including psychoanalytic explorations of literature and other humanities, as well as psychoanalytic approaches to aspects of psychotherapy practice. Our courses are taught by NYPSI members and invited guests and are open to all mental health practitioners and interested members of the community. The Extension Division has a long history marked by various transformations over time but imbued with an abiding mission. The first series of lecture courses open to psychiatrists in New York City was organized in 1922. With the inception of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute in 1931, the Extension Committee was established as an official division of the Institute in order to offer a comprehensive curriculum of lectures and seminars for mental health professionals, teachers, and academics from a variety of disciplines. In recent years, we have embarked on a program of growth and expansion. The courses continue to emphasize psychoanalytic approaches to aspects of psychotherapy practice, and include explorations of literature, related humanities, and the sciences. For this centennial year, we will be offering a Series of Classic Papers to commemorate our heritage. Seminal papers from our archives written by NYPSI analysts from the early groundbreaking years of psychoanalysis will be discussed by eminent current members. The papers will be presented in light of their impact on and relevance to psychoanalysis today.
To request a detailed brochure listing the 2011-2012 courses, call (212) 879-6900 or email info@nypsi.org
REGISTRATION Fee is due at the time of registration. To register for courses, please click HERE for Registration Form and mail with check made out to NYPSI or include credit card information. Please send form to New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, Attn: Helen Zimmer, at 247 East 82nd Street, New York, NY 10028. Receipt of Registration will be confirmed. For additional information, please call at 212-879-6900 or e-mail info@nypsi.org
COURSE LOCATION Unless otherwise noted, courses will meet at the Institute: 247 East 82nd Street, New York, NY 10028
Books used in the seminars are available through our Bookstore.
2011- 2012 EXTENSION COMMITTEE COURSES
SEPTEMBER to OCTOBER
1. Values, Virtue, and the Concept of Evil - NEW
Marcia Cavell, Ph.D. Tuesdays 6:30 – 8 pm 9/13/11 - 11/1/11 (8 sessions) $160 How do we come by our values and our valuing sense? As far back as Plato, philosophers have assumed the existence of God. It was thought that our values, as well as our ability to value, were derived from and validated by this external source. The philosopher David Hume argued that values cannot be derived from an external source while remaining one’s own values. If value and fact are in separate realms, neither is derivable from the other. Freud’s theory was a brilliant solution: The valuing sense is internally derived, but in a complex way that involves other people and their values. Both Hume and Freud left open the possibility that no set of values is ‘better’ than another. These and other questions will be considered as we read excerpts from Aristotle, Hume, A. McIntyre, S. Niemann, P. Foote, Nietzsche, and Freud.
2. Speaking to the Narcissistic Disorders George Gross, M.D. Wednesdays 7:30 – 9:00 pm 10/12/11 – 11/9/11 (5 sessions) $200 Freud identified transference as the prime vehicle for analytic interpretation while separating the transference neuroses from the “narcissistic psychoneuroses” (“depression and the schizophrenias”) for which he claimed “inaccessibility.” Over time, however, those narcissistic conditions have received their fair and increasing share of attention. These meetings will look into the ways analysts dealing with such patients render their treatments psychotherapeutic and even, at times, psychoanalytic.
3. Long Day’s Journey into Night: A Psychoanalytic Exploration - NEW George Mandelbaum, Ph.D. Mondays 7:00 – 8:30 pm 9/26, 10/3, 10/17 and 10/24, 2011 (4 sessions) $80 Long Day’s Journey into Night is Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece and arguably the great American play. We will examine from a psychoanalytic point of view the play’s aesthetic value, the nature of some of the creative processes that underpinned its two-year long composition, and its relation to the late plays of other playwrights. Suggested reading from The Library of America three volume collected works includes three plays from O’Neill’s early period—A Wife for a Life, his first extant play, Thirst and Anna Christie—and two from his middle period—Desire Under the Elms and More Stately Mansions. The following topics in relation to LDJ will be covered in the following order: Father and Son/ Brother and Brother Mother and Son Form and Structure The “Late Style” in Drama
4. Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development David Sawyer, M.D. and Ronald Rawitt, M.D. Wednesdays 7:30 – 8:30 pm 10/19/11 - 11/16/11 (5 sessions) $50 This course presents an overview of current psychoanalytic perspectives on child development. The interaction of constitutional factors and environmental influences on the formation of unconscious fantasy and intrapsychic conflict during the sequential stages of development will be emphasized. Clinical examples will be offered to illustrate the concepts being presented.
NOVEMBER
5. Psychotropic Drugs: What You Need to Know and Current Trends Deborah Plachta, M.D. Tuesdays 7:00 – 8:30 pm 11/1/11 – 11/15/11 (3 sessions) $45 This course highlights the cutting edge of psychopharmacology to acquaint participants with the major trends in diagnosis and medication. The aim is to help the clinician recognize when a treatment could benefit from a psychopharmacology consult or ongoing medication backup. Included are issues of how to approach this with patients/clients, as well as medication side effects and their possible (and impossible) remedies. Topics included are: depression and bipolar illness; anxiety disorder spectrum (e.g., panic states, OCD, body dysmorphic disorder, phobias); psychosis; drugs in pregnancy; sleep disorders. Questions (including case presentations) will be encouraged.
JANUARY to FEBRUARY
6. Psychoanalysis and the Theater Fred Sander, M.D. and Daniel Prezant, Ph.D. Three Saturday matinees January 2012 – March 2012 Deposit of $50 Plays to be determined in the fall. Information will be mailed as soon as the schedule is confirmed.
7. Psychoanalytic Couple and Family Therapy - NEW Fred Sander, M.D. $20/session, $100 minimum for 5 sessions 1/3/12 - 5/15/12 "On the spot" consultations and supervision of couple and family therapy. Phone Dr. Sander if you have questions about the format and to assure a place in the seminar 212 534-8150.
8. The Mind in Conflict Ian Buckingham, M.D. Thursdays 8:30 – 10:00 pm March 15 - May 3, 2012 (8 sessions) NEW DATES $80 A contemporary focus on the functioning of the mind from the perspective of Modern Conflict Theory, with emphasis on Brenner’s revisions of traditional structural theory and a new appreciation of the ideas of evolutionary biology for understanding the functioning of the mind.
9. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Cancer Patients Norman Straker, M.D. Thursdays 7:30 – 8:40 pm 1/19/12, 1/26/12 & 2/2/12 (3 sessions) $90 This course will provide an introduction to dynamic psychotherapy with cancer patients and their families. The unique challenges of treating cancer patients will be addressed in the first session. The discussion will include death anxiety and the tendency to deny death, and will be accompanied by the video “On the Edge of Being: When Doctors Confront Cancer.” In the second session, details of dynamic psychotherapy will be explored including: dealing with defenses such as denial and regression, managing the transference and countertransference issues unique to the cancer context, and managing dying patients. In session three, the challenges facing caregivers will be addressed, along with techniques for helping them during the illness and after their loss. These are illustrated in the lecture and in the video “The Courage to Survive: Facing the Loss of Your Soul Mate.” Managing grief and mourning will also be discussed.
10. Principles of Psychosomatic Pathology: Theory and Practice for Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists Muriel Morris, M.D. and Larry Goldblatt, M.D. Thursdays 7:45 – 9:15 pm 1/19/12 – 3/8/12 (8 sessions) $160 The founders of psychoanalysis began their work focusing on the relationship between mental life and bodily functions, including various symptom complexes and illnesses that we now understand are connected with family pathology and psychic conflict. This course covers the history of this discipline up to the present day, with clinical material and treatment for a wide range of topics from hypochondria, chronic disease, conversion hysteria, eating disorders, and many other well-known symptoms and disease states that cannot be cured by medical treatments alone. Familiar historic cases of Darwin, Austen, Carlyle, and Wolfe, as well as those of current day public figures will be described as time permits. Reading materials will be provided. **This course will meet at the office of Dr. Morris, 49 East 96th Street, 19B, NY NY 10128**
MARCH to APRIL
11. Shared Therapy: The Collaboration between Psychotherapist and Psychopharmacologist Charles A. Murkofsky, M.D. Tuesdays 7:30 – 8:45 pm 4/17/12, 4/24/12, 5/1/12 (3 sessions) $45 This seminar focuses on the issues of collaborative treatment: Navigating the interface, dealing with rivalry, understanding therapeutic effects of psychological and pharmacological therapies, identification of appropriate cases for pharmacologic referral, discussion of the benefit/detriment issue of pharmacotherapy on psychotherapy. The syndromes most frequently treated with pharmacotherapy will be reviewed. Participants are invited to bring illustrative case material.
12. Marcia Cavell, Ph.D. Tuesdays 6:30 – 8:00 pm 3/6/12 - 4/24/12 (8 sessions) $160
A close reading of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Shakespeare’s King Lear reveals the theme of omnipotence. But this concept is short-hand for many other vulnerabilities and errors about the world and oneself. In fact, one can see that the illusions of omnipotence can be understood as the node of many key psychoanalytic and philosophic ideas. We will explore these and other ideas in this course.
13. Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp: An Illustrated Discussion from a Psychoanalytic Perspective - NEW Melissa C. Wanamaker, Ph.D., LCSW-R Thursdays 8:00 – 9:30 pm 4/12/12, 4/19/12, & 4/26/12 (3 sessions) $60 Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell were the first Surrealist artists to exhibit in America in 1931. Using classical and contemporary psychoanalytic theories, we will examine the influences of the larger cultural context of early 20th century art on the individual lives of Duchamp and Cornell in order to better understand their mysterious and often enchanting creativity.
14. A Short Course in Psychological Testing for Mental Health Professionals William Braun, Psy.D. Tuesdays 8:15pm – 9:45 pm 4/3/12 & 4/10/12 (2 sessions) $30 This course will address such topics as: Diagnosis and treatment planning, personality assessment, evaluation of ego strengths and weaknesses, assessing suitability for analysis, and therapeutic impasses.
MAY to JUNE
15. Jacques Lacan's Return to Freud and its Clinical Implications - NEW Jamieson Webster, Ph.D. and David Lichtenstein, Ph.D. Thursdays 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm 4/19/12, 4/26/12, 5/10/12, 5/17/12, 5/31/12, 6/7/12 (6 sessions) $120 In this six week course we will read select texts from Freud along with excerpts from Lacan's seminars or writings that comment on these texts either in the dimension of their meaning, structure, or clinical import. We hope to focus the discussion on these readings to their specific place in the experience of listening and intervening in the analytic process. As well, we hope that participants, as they read, will think of illustrative clinical examples to enrich our work on Lacan and Freud. Readings will include Freud's papers On Narcissism, Mourning and Melancholia, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, A Child is Being Beaten, The Ego and the Id, The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex, and Analysis Terminable and Interminable. We will address Lacan's discussions of the mirror stage, the theory of the object, the importance of the death drive, the structuring of fantasy, jouissance, and the end of analysis.
The following courses will not be offered in the academic year 2011-2012:
On Supervision: Seminar for Psychotherapy Supervisors Francis Baudry, M.D.
Psychoanalytic Themes in the Work of Jane Austen Muriel Morris, M.D.
Psychoanalysis and the Literary/Visual Arts Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D.
Early Childhood Loss and Creativity Melissa Wanamaker, Ph.D., LCSW-R
Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury Melissa Wanamaker, Ph.D., LCSW-R
The Play’s the Thing: Transitional Phenomena and Shakespeare’s Plays Howard K. Weiner, M.D.
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