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Twenty Fourth C. Philip Wilson, MD, Memorial Lecture: Rethinking Analytic Encounters with Patients Suffering from Eating Disorders: On the Need for a Specific Analytic Presence

Saturday, September 26 - 2:00PM - 4:00PM

Presenter: Katryn Malvaës-Driffield, PhD

Clinical encounters with patients whose functioning lies beyond the neurotic spectrum confront us with particular transferential and technical difficulties. Despite sustained analytic work, these situations often lead to a form of impasse. With patients suffering from eating disorders, this difficulty frequently appears as a psychic condition in which no space seems available for new experience to emerge. This raises a fundamental question: to what extent do the limits we encounter in our patients also reflect the limits of our own analytic frameworks? Drawing on more than twenty years of clinical work with patients suffering from obesity, bulimia and anorexia, this presentation explores the necessity of a shift away from models centered on lack in its classical sense. 

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This 16-session program is designed to meet the needs of psychiatry residents, graduate students, and early-career clinicians interested in learning about practice and treatment approaches in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. The seminars, taught by PANY faculty, have a practical focus, providing participants with an opportunity to hear and discuss clinical material. Most sessions are structured around a key clinical or theoretical concept, including psychodynamic approaches to specialized topics, and may include optional readings. Participants may request a letter of completion upon meeting the requirements at the conclusion of the Prelude program.

The program includes the option of arranging, at no additional cost, two private mentoring sessions with a psychodynamic clinician to help explore your path as a professional in the fields of psychiatry, psychology, social work, and mental health.

In addition to academic study, training is enriched by ongoing case conferences and clinical psychotherapy supervision provided by PANY faculty. Patients are drawn from the clinical practices of students. Candidates are also required to be currently undergoing their own personal psychodynamic psychotherapy or psychoanalysis as an essential facet of their training. Successful completion of the program leads to a certificate in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.

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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. 

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

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PANY Events

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

Sep 26, 2026

memorial lecture
C. Philip Wilson, MD Memorial Lecture

Drawing on more than twenty years of clinical work with patients suffering from obesity, bulimia and anorexia, this presentation explores the necessity of a shift away from models centered on lack in its classical sense.
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Oct 3, 2026

Prelude to training
Barriers to Closeness: Is Race an Obstacle? Or a Bridge?
Dr. Shirke conceptualizes racism and prejudice as the consequence of intergenerational transference of experiences and attitudes about the identities of self and of others. Two analytic theories of mind can be applied to grasp this intellectually, prior to integrating emotionally this sensibility.

Presenter: Aneil Shirke, MD, PhD

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Oct 17, 2026

prelude to training
Examination of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Technique Fundamentals
Transference, countertransference, resistance, neutrality, focus on the unconscious…these are a few of the key elements of a psychodynamic approach to treatment that will be explored in this seminar.
Presenter: Ellen Abrams, LCSW

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Oct 24, 2026

memorial lecture
Couples Therapy Skills for Clinicians With Psychodynamic Training

More information to be announced!

Presenter: Susan Resek, LCSW, FABP
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Jan 9, 2027

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: Dr. Kathleen Lyon

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Jan 30, 2027

memorial lecture
Marianne Goldberger Memorial Lecture

More information to be announced!

Presenter: Dr. Melanie Souchet 

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Insights.

​The Importance of Film for Psychoanalysis

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