This lecture will address the bodily intensities and sensations that come alive within the consulting room of the novice to the most experienced clinician that may go unrecognized, unmetabolized, and unprocessed.
Kathryn J. Zerbe, MD
We are pleased to invite the professional public to our lectures, open houses, scientific meetings, and seminars.
Join us for an engaging case presentation. Afterwards, there will be a Q&A where representatives from the Outreach Committee and PANY Faculty will be available for questions.
For academic year September 2020-May 2021:
Due to precautions in response to COVID-19 at NYU Langone Health, all PANY events and training will be held via Zoom Videoconference until further notice. We anticipate this to continue through the end of the 2020-21 academic year.
Please join us for a case presentation, which will be followed by an informational and question and answer session about the PANY Psychoanalytic Training Program.
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Please join us for our Psychoanalytic Open House in which two of our distinguished faculty and co-teachers, Anne Erreich and Douglas Van der Heide, will discuss clinical and dream material presented by a senior psychoanalytic candidate in an interactional format. The presentation will be followed by an informational and question and answer session about the PANY Psychoanalytic Training Program.
A talk about different psychoanalytic perspectives on substance use disorders as well as some pertinent case material.
Presenter: Benjamin Cheney, MD
Ben Cheney, MD is a graduate of the psychoanalytic program at PANY. He is a psychiatrist working in private practice in New York and is an assistant clinical professor at NYU Langone. He majored in History at Cornell, attended Temple University School of Medicine and did his residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in addiction psychiatry at NYU Langone. He previously served as the director of the inpatient detoxification unit at Bellevue Hospital.
A talk about different psychoanalytic perspectives on substance use disorders as well as some pertinent case material.
Please join us as family members and colleagues share remembrances of his enormous contributions to the profession.
Clinicians can struggle with countertransference reactions to pornography and lack a clear framework for working with this material. The role of fantasies, conscious and unconscious, realistic and impossible, is particularly emphasized in this discussion and in how to work effectively with issues related to pornography.
Presenter: Jason Wheeler, PhD
Jason Wheeler, PhD is on the faculty of PANY and teaches on Freud and sexuality and gender in the Psychotherapy and Psychoanalytic programs. He is also active in writing and editing and is a member of the editorial board of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
Pornography affects many people in therapy and analysis, directly or indirectly. For some it can be a shameful addiction and a main focus of treatment, for others a welcome part of a satisfying sexual life, and anywhere in between. Clinicians can struggle with countertransference reactions to pornography and lack a clear framework for working with this material. The role of fantasies, conscious and unconscious, realistic and impossible, is particularly emphasized in this discussion and in how to work effectively with issues related to pornography. The presentation includes some excerpts from the adult cartoon TV series, Big Mouth (Netflix), which illustrate some of these issues. Some typical clinical examples are also discussed.
Note: this presentation includes explicit sexual language, and the representation of pornography in adult cartoon form that is rated M for Mature.
1 Differentiate various uses of pornography that patients may discuss in therapy including problematic patterns.
2 Help patients identify conscious and unconscious fantasies involved in pornography use.
3 Learn a framework for helping patients develop more integrated sexual lives.
This lecture will address the bodily intensities and sensations that come alive within the consulting room of the novice to the most experienced clinician that may go unrecognized, unmetabolized, and unprocessed.
Kathryn J. Zerbe, MD
Kathryn J. Zerbe, MD is Training and Supervising Analyst, Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Oregon Health Sciences University.
Dr. Z. is the author of 4 books and over 150 papers, chapters, and reviews, and she speaks nationally and internationally on topics such as eating disorders, resilience, therapeutic action, and creative growth over the lifecycle. Her books The Body Betrayed: Women, Eating Disorders and Treatment (1993/1995) and Integrated Treatment of Eating Disorders: Beyond the Body Betrayed (2008) are considered landmark contributions in the field. She attempts to bring psychodynamic principles and their applications to life in her writing and teaching to reach others outside the formal walls of psychoanalytic institutes and centers.
For her clinical, educational, and scholarly contributions, Dr. Zerbe has received numerous awards including the Alexandra Symonds Award from the American Psychiatric Association, the Edith Sabshin Teaching Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association, 7 “Best Teacher” of Psychiatry Residents awards, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Eating Disorder Association. She maintains a private practice in Portland, Oregon. Her recent written contributions focus on secrets in psychotherapy, somatic countertransference, and the bodymind relationship.
The body/mind relationship of patient and therapist is receiving a new focus in psychodynamic clinical work in the 21st Century. This lecture will address the bodily intensities and sensations that come alive within the consulting room of the novice to the most experienced clinician that may go unrecognized, unmetabolized, and unprocessed. Patients often speak with and about their bodies, and the clinician who pays attention to these communications and those emanating from within our own body has an additional resource to understand what may be transpiring within the dyad. Because the analyst’s somatic and/or embodied countertransference reactions can also alert us to what is unconsciously split off, withheld, or burdensome that we may be holding for our patient, attention will be given to the often-neglected issue of the clinician’s self-care.
1. Demonstrate the importance of working with one’s bodily reactions as one guide in a therapeutic process
2. Recognize and use somatic/embodied countertransference reactions more effectively
3. Use 2 – 3 conceptual tools to facilitate, communicate, and understand unconscious communications that can become a source of transformation for patients.
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