Educating psychoanalysts to help people become the best versions of themselves.
This presentation revolves around the role of love in psychoanalysis and how our love is conveyed in the analytic setting. This has been an erasure in our understanding of the way we work and is certainly reflected in the scant literature on the subject. Contemporary psychoanalysis is immersed, involved, yet asymmetric. The role our love plays is not sentimental or oversimplified, as in a corrective emotional experience, but in the way Loewald meant – to paraphrase a famous passage: It is through our sustained attention and moments of deep analyzing that we experience and reflect our love for our patients. I add another dimension to this - our willingness to take in, to receive the unconscious projections and emanations of our patients, our willingness to suffer these, reflect our deep commitment and love for our patients. The parallels to maternal eroticism are obvious as well.
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.
IPE, the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education, is now called PANY, the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU School of Medicine.
PANY offers educational events for its members and for the general public. These include lectures, seminars, panel discussions, and clinical presentations.
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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