Psychoanalysis for the Modern World.

Educating psychoanalysts to help people become the best versions of themselves.

PANY Updates.


Virtual Psychotherapy for Psychosis Course and Online Consultation Group

4 Saturdays - starting December 13!

For whom? Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other professionals who encounter psychotic persons in their clinical practice.

The Psychotherapy for Psychosis course and online consultation group is led by renowned expert in psychosis treatment and PANY faculty member, Michael Garrett, MD. Guilford Press has released the publication of his latest book "Psychotherapy for Psychosis". 

This 9 hour course aims to assist psychotherapists who are working with psychotic persons by presenting a psychological model of psychosis and a psychotherapeutic approach consistent with that model. A follow up online consult group via videoconference is also being offered for learners to present clinical material for discussion. 

PANY Graduate Society Presents: A Lacanian Approach to Psychoanalysis

Friday Evening, Nov 7, 2025 7:00 PM ET

Presenter: Bruce Fink, PhD

This presentation will highlight similarities and differences between Lacan’s approach to psychoanalytic technique and both Freud’s approach and that of numerous contemporary analysts from non-Lacanian traditions. Whereas in Lacan’s approach the unconscious remains fundamental, the royal road to it is neither 1) the analyst’s countertransference, projective identification, self-disclosure, or intuition, nor 2) the analysand’s affective states. With his reformulation of the unconscious as the “subject supposed to know” and his reconceptualization of the psychoanalytic setting, we will explore Lacan’s innovations in technique with neurotics, including punctuation, "oracular" interpretation, scansion, the variable-length session, delayed use of the couch, and the focus on nonmeaning as opposed to understanding. The role of analysts as "giving what they do not have" as opposed to what they do have will be explored at length.

What We Do.


For those who seek an understanding of emotional life, PANY is an education and treatment center, affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine, that provides training and therapy based on psychoanalytic understanding of the core human dilemmas from childhood through adulthood.

Our training programs offer educational opportunities for clinicians at varying levels of background and experience. Click here for a timeline of all education programs. 

The New PANY.


IPE, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, is now called PANY, the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU School of Medicine.

PANY Events


PANY offers educational events for its members and for the general public. These include lectures, seminars, panel discussions, and clinical presentations.

Oct 25

Graduate Society
Can Psychoanalysts Listen to Eachother?

The 2 recent explosions within the Program Committee and then within the American Psychoanalytic Association are examined, from an insider’s perspective, as analysts’ difficulties with listening to each other. Analysts’ anxiety with erotic excitement, especially with racial erotics, even when used for self-affirmation, is discussed. So too is the need for Othering and the need for those who have been Othered to validate themselves, using anger for self-affirmation. 

Presenter: Stanley Coen, MD

FRIDAY EVENING

Nov 7

Prelude to Training
A Lacanian Approach to Psychoanalysis

This presentation will highlight similarities and differences between Lacan’s approach to psychoanalytic technique and both Freud’s approach and that of numerous contemporary analysts from non-Lacanian traditions. 

Presenter:  Bruce Fink, PhD

Nov 15

Prelude to Training
Bringing Clarity to Confusion, Buddhist Basics for Clinicians

As meditation and other contemplative practices derived from Buddhist practice become more common, there is a need to understand the fundamental tenets of the Buddhist view, and the way meditation and other practices follow from those tenets.

Presenter:  Kathleen Lyon, MD

Nov 22

Prelude to Training
Sadomasochism - Understanding and Working With the Sadomasochistic Patient

The developmental roots and psychodynamic underpinnings of self-defeating behaviors will be illuminated through clinical examples. The goal will be to fortify practitioners for what are often long and difficult treatments.
Presenter:  Robert Calcaterra, MD

Dec 6

Prelude to Training
The Truman Delusion: Revisiting the Psychoanalytic Attitude Toward Psychosis  

This talk will endeavor to address appropriate concerns while also revisiting the utility of a psychoanalytic approach toward patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic illness.

Presenter:  Joel Gold, MD

Dec 13

Prelude to Training
Home, Homelessness, & Immigration

What might contribute to our subjectively feeling at home in the world? What leads to the loss of one’s psychic sense of home which in turn results in us feeling psychically unmoored in the world?

Presenter: Rajiv Gulati, MD

Insights.


​The Importance of Film for Psychoanalysis

By Herb Stein MD

Giving.


Psychoanalysis changes lives.

 

At a time when training in most mental health fields is focused on time limited biological and behavioral interventions, we believe in the importance of training clinicians to do in-depth work with patients, providing effective and durable results.   

 

We believe in making affordable treatment available to the New York City community through our consultation and treatment service.

 

We are dedicated to providing the highest quality in psychoanalytic treatment and education.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York
NYU Department of Psychiatry
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New York, NY 10016

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