Colloquium: Celebrating Edgar Levenson, M.D.

We will celebrate the extraordinary contribution Edgar Levenson has made to contemporary psychoanalysis. Irwin Hirsch, Ph.D., ABPP will moderate and interview Dr. Levenson; Donnel Stern, Ph.D. will discuss Levenson’s theoretical and clinical contributions to psychoanalysis; and Dr. Levenson himself will supervise Karen Singleton, Ph.D. on an ongoing treatment case.

Speakers:
Discussant - Donnel Stern, Ph.D.
Case Supervisor - Edgar Levenson, M.D.
Case Presenter - Karen Singleton, Ph.D.

Moderator:
Irwin Hirsch, Ph.D., ABPP

Location: NYU Law School, Smart Classroom 206

Colloquium: 2012 Bernard N. Kalinkowitz Memorial Lecture - Thinking in the Aggregate: Digital, Quantified Selves, Social Media, and "Big Data"

Co-sponsored by The Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program, Inc.

This talk will explore the changing nature of experience as our relational connections increasingly include an appreciation of our engagement with a growing multitude of others.

Speaker:
Kimberlyn Leary, Ph.D., ABPP

Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 802

Conference: WHEN STRESS CAUSES PAIN: Innovative Treatments for Psychophysiologic Disorders

Presented by the NYU Postdoctoral Program & the Psychophysiologic Disorders Association

Objectives:
1. To understand the link between psychosocial stress and pain and other physical symptoms
2. Learn to assess clients with medically unexplained physical illness
3. Learn to use psychotherapy to relieve somatic symptoms

For more information, please download the Conference Brochure or email Frances Sommer Anderson, Ph.D.

Keynote Speaker:
Raja Selvam, Ph.D.

Location: NY Academy of Medicine, 1216 5th Ave., New York, NY (@ 103rd St.)

Colloquium: Original Loss: Psychoanalysis, Human Evolution and the Existential Origins of Our Need for Art and Music


Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
------------Dylan Thomas

We need art so we do not die of the truth
-------------Nietzsche

Dr. Slavin’s talk addresses the question of why we humans deeply need art, focusing specifically on music—perhaps the most universally felt, viscerally immediate, of the arts. Why do art and music resonate so deeply in us? How are they so entwined inextricably with what it means to be human? So linked to our capacity to create hope, meaning, connection, agency and joy in face of human existential anxiety—the universal sense of the life’s finite, transient nature, the precariousness of all our meanings, our ultimate aloneness.

The talk will begin clinically, weave through clinical and developmental examples, and end in the clinical context. While the talk ranges over 50,000 or more years of human prehistory—including beautiful images of ancient cave art and diverse musical pieces—we will remain closely connected and relevant to multiple, contemporary analytic perspectives and clinical issues. Ultimately aiming to create an experience of how music can be integral to grieving in its largest sense— remembering, imagining, and deeply grasping both the personal and the larger, existential meanings within individual and collective trauma and loss.

Speaker:
Malcolm Owen Slavin, Ph.D.

Discussant:
Spyros D. Orfanos, Ph.D., ABPP
Clinic Director, NYU Postdoctoral Program
President, International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (IARPP)
Senior Research Fellow, Center of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Queens College, CUNY

Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 914

Colloquium: OPEN HOUSE & Presentation: The Shoah in the Consulting Room: Challenges in the Analytic Relationship and the Transformative Power of Supervision

Come learn about Postdoc’s Psychoanalytic Training Program during the OPEN HOUSE Wine & Reception (7:00 - 7:45 pm) and then attend the Presentation (7:45-9pm), entitled "The Shoah in the Consulting Room: Challenges in the Analytic Relationship and the Transformative Power of Supervision." The case presented will illustrate complicated dynamics in an analysis when both analyst and patient appear to share complementary intergenerational Holocaust histories. A pivotal point in the treatment will be highlighted in which supervision facilitated successful resolution of a treatment impasse.

Meet with our Faculty, Graduates, and Candidates in an informal setting.
Discover what makes NYU Postdoc unique.

* Comprehensive training in all major theoretical orientations
* Move at your own pace, design your own program
* Enjoy a multi-disciplinary intellectual community
* Generous financial aid available

RSVP appreciated, but not necessary, to:
Tamar Martin Tmart@hunter.cuny.edu

Speakers:
Case Presenter - Deborah Liner, Ph. D.
Discussant - Jody Davies, Ph.D.


Location: NYU Kimmel Center, Room 804-805, 60 Washington Square South

Colloquium: Spelrein Between Jung and Freud

Typically referenced in psychoanalytic history for the role she played in the relationship between Jung and Freud, Sabina Spelrein made her own theoretical contributions to psychoanalysis. In this roundtable forum, three scholars consider her life and these contributions in their own right.

Speakers:
John Kerr, Ph.D., author, A Most Dangerous Method
Michael Vannoy Adams, D.Phil., L.C.S.W., NYU Postdoc
Steven Reisner, Ph.D., NYU Psychoanalytic Institute

Moderator:
Katie Gentile, Ph.D., NYU Postdoc

Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room TBA

Special Event: The Power of Love: A Tribute to the Innovative Contributions of Shelly Bach

The Contemporary Freudian Track will host a day-long conference to celebrate and honor the work and career of our esteemed faculty member Dr. Sheldon Bach. Papers presented will discuss the significance of his work from different perspectives, including theoretical, clinical and personal. Tributes will be given by various students and colleagues of Dr. Bach.

Welcome: Lew Aron, Ph.D. - Director, NYU Postdoctoral Program

Speakers:
Steven Ellman, Ph.D. - Shelly Bach --Then and Now

Aaron Thaler, Ph.D. - Having a Place in the Mind and Heart of Another

Tributes – Drs. Mary Libbey, John Rosegrant and Steve Solow

Lunch: 12:30 – 2:00

Eugene Mahon, M.D. - Manifestly Misleading: The Cunning Artistry of Dream Work

Sheldon Bach, Ph.D. - The Gulf Between Living Life and Remembering It

Tributes – Drs. Carolyn Ellman, Robert Grossmark and Therese Rosenblatt

Registration Fee - $25

RSVP – Linda Jaffe Caplan, Ph.D. at lejcaplan@aol.com or make check payable to NYU Contemporary Freudian Orientation c/o Linda Jaffe Caplan, 155 West 71st Street, Suite 1D, New York, NY 10023

Education Committee: Jo Lang, Linda Eidelberg, Ken Feiner, Desnee Hall, Linda Jaffe Caplan, Paul Hymowitz, Richard Lasky, Therese Rosenblatt

Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square S, The Rosenthal Pavilion, 10th Floor

Conference: THE WOUNDS OF HISTORY: Repairing Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma

This weekend conference will address how the traumatic legacies of our forebears haunt our psyches, our relationships and our cultural collectives, and shape our lives. Bedrock to this inquiry is the understanding that traumatic legacies are transmitted across multiple generations and therefore will inevitably return and disrupt human bonds. Invited speakers and faculty of the NYU Postdoctoral Program will present films, papers and engage in conversations that focus on healing and resilience in the face of transgenerational transmission of trauma.

Speakers:
Maurice Apprey, M.D.
Glenn Gabbard, M.D.
Sam Gerson, Ph.D.
Janice Gump, Ph.D.
Dori Laub, M.D.
Sue von Baeyer, Ph.D.

Co-Chairs:
Sue Grand, Ph.D.
Jill Salberg, Ph.D.


To download a Registration form, please go to the Events section, located at the top of this page

Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room TBA

Colloquium: Resolving Trauma by Enhancing Reflection: An Attachment Perspective

Dr. Miriam Steele will discuss the concept of reflective functioning, covering its origins in attachment theory and research and its development as critical feature of treatment, especially with patients with traumatic backgrounds. Case examples from attachment-based therapeutic interventions and longitudinal studies of intergenerational patterns will be used to illustrate the concept of reflective functioning. Dr. Steele will present video recordings to illustrate her work.

Speaker:
Miriam Steele, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the New School for Social Research

Discussants:
Pascale Pantone, Ph.D., William Alanson White Institute
Christopher Bonovitz, Psy.D., NYU Postdoctoral Program & William Alanson White Institute

Location: NYU Kimmel Center, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium

Conference: Lessons in Peace: Two South African Psychologists Share Perspectives on Reconciliation in an Everchanging Landscape
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Gillian Straker share their perspectives on the transformational process through which enemies come to acknowledge one another, and discuss learning to face one’s self when working on the ground and caught in the web of violence.

A full day conference with participatory groups.

Annabella Bushra, Judy Roth, Michal Seligman, Melanie Suchet, Cleonie White

Concluding remarks by Jessica Benjamin

Sponsored by:
MAP-Mental Health Activists in Partnership
and
NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

For more information contact msuchet@optonline.net or go to www.mentalhealthactivistsinpartnership.org

Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 9th Floor 60 Washington Square South New York, NY

Colloquium: Architecture as Potential Space

Psychoanalytic meaning is born in the interstices of the psychical and physical dimensions of lived experience. And yet, the physical dimensions of the spaces in which we live have seldom been explored. This roundtable will examine various dimensions of the architecture of our homes, our offices, our domestic and private spaces as well as of our sacred and devotional laces. Together we will explore Bachelard's view that houses shelter day-dreaming and the dreamer; the Jungian conception of temenos as sacred space; Winnicott's conception of transitional space; along with many others.

Speakers:
A roundtable discussion with:
Alex Gorlin, M.Arch, FAIA
Mark Gerald, Ph.D.
Malcolm Owen Slavin, Ph.D.

Moderator:
Leanne Domash, Ph.D.

For a full listing of our 2012-2013 Events, please visit http://postdocpsychoanalytic.as.nyu.edu/page/events-calendar

Location: NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 802

Colloquium: Where are We Now Regarding the Best Interests of the Child? - The Interface between Legal, Judicial, and Psychoanalytic Perspectives

This distinguished panel will address the heated controversy since the 1970s when Joseph Goldstein, Albert Solnit, and Anna Freud wrote a trilogy on The Best Interests of the Child. Their work represents a profound psychoanalytic contribution to the legal arena.

Panelists include:

Bruce Grellong, Ph.D., Moderator, is Co-Chair of the Interpersonal-Humanistic Track, and Supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. From 1980-2011, Dr. Grellong was Chief Psychologist of the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services and Director of the Martha K. Selig Educational Institute and Director of the Center for Child Development and Learning at JBFCS.

Linda Gunsberg, Ph.D., will present the major contributions of Joseph Goldstein, Albert Solnit, and Anna Freud regarding the Best Interests of the Child. She will review the application and misapplication by the Court of these psychoanalytic/developmental concepts from the early 1970s to the present. Dr. Gunsberg is a graduate of the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Chair of the Washington Square Institute Family Law and Family Forensics Training Program, and Co-Chair of the Psychoanalysis and Law Discussion Group of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She has co-edited A Handbook of Divorce and Custody (Analytic Press, 2005), and has co-edited The Psychoanalyst in the Courtroom (Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 2009).

Ellen B. Holtzman, Esq., will address the various factors considered by the Court in determining the Best Interests of the Child. Ms. Holtzman is an attorney in private practice in Rockland County, NY concentrating in Matrimonial and Family Law. She is President of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York and has served on the Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District. She serves as a member of the Ninth Judicial District Committee to promote Gender Fairness in the Courts. Ms. Holtzman is Director of Legal Training at the Washington Square Institute Family Law and Family Forensics Training Program.

Hon. David G. Sacks will speak to the issue of how to reconcile parents’ rights and the needs and rights of children. Hon. Sacks has served as an Associate Justice of the Hampden Division of the Probate and Family Court Department since 1986. From 1991-2003 he served as the First Justice of the Hampden Division, and from 2003-2009 he was Chair of the Probate and Family Court Department’s Steering Committee on Performance and Accountability. He has regularly participated in judicial and legal continuing education programs.

Hon. Sondra M. Miller will speak from her 21 years of experience as a judge in Family Court, Supreme Court, and the Appellate Courts of the State of New York. Her position is that the voice of the child is a critical component in deciding the child’s destiny. Judge Miller is Chief Counsel to the law firm McCarthy Fingar. Among Judge Miller’s “firsts” are her law degree from Harvard Law School (she was in its first class to admit women); her election to the Supreme Court, Ninth Judicial District in November 1986 (the first Democrat to win a contested election in the Ninth Judicial District in nearly 100 years); and her appointment as Associate Justice, Appellate Division, Second Department, in January 1990 (the first woman in the Ninth Judicial District to be so recognized).

Martin Guggenheim, Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law and NYU School of Law, will demonstrate that child custody disputes have become ever more contentious as adults agree to make the “Best Interests of the Child” the substantive basis upon which custody is decided. He suggests that these disputes are not really about the best interests of children. Professor Guggenheim is a nationally known expert on children’s rights. He has published law review articles on lawyers for children, adolescent rights, and parental rights. He is the author of six books including What’s Wrong with Children’s Rights (Harvard, 2005).


For a full listing of our 2012-2013 activities, please visit
http://postdocpsychoanalytic.as.nyu.edu/page/events-calendar

Location: Jurow Lecture Hall at the NYU Silver Center 31 Washington Place (between Greene St. and Washington Sq. East) or alternative entrance at 24 Waverly Place

Colloquium: The Analyst's Private Space in Potential Space: Listening, Reverie, Ritual, and Self Care

By examining certain practices that unfold within the analyst’s private space, I argue for the potential of listening, waiting, and reverie. I am interested in these practices as they afford the kind of unknowing that is necessary for analytic work, as well as the ways in which they promote the analyst’s self care. I seek to illustrate these matters as I reflect on my work with a young electively mute girl.

Speaker:
Ken Corbett, Ph.D.

Discussants:
Stephen Seligman, D.M.H.
Danielle Knafo, Ph.D.
Irwin Hirsch, Ph.D., ABPP

Location: NYU Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 405