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Dr. Daniela Flores Mosri is a psychologist who started her research career investigating sleep disorders at the Reticular Formation Lab (run by neurophysiologist Dr Raúl Alvarado Calvillo) at the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery. Their epidemiological research was awarded second place by the National Council of Psychology (CNEIP) in 2000. Dr Flores Mosri trained as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and her interest in the dialogue between psychoanalysis and neuroscience began in 1999. She has studied borderline pathology from a mainly affective perspective, and is currently conducting research on latent depression. Dr Flores Mosri is a lecturer and researcher at Universidad Intercontinental. She has been a member of the National Researchers System (SNI) at the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT). Her clinical practice focuses on borderline states, addiction, depression, psychosomatic illness, and sleep and eating disorders, amongst others. Since 2014 Daniela has been a liaison officer in Latin America for the International Neuropsychoanalysis Society. She is also Managing Editor of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis.

One of the fundamental concepts in psychoanalysis is the affect. Early works of Breuer and Freud showed the essential role of the affect in the repression and formation of the contents of the unconscious. Neurophysiological mechanisms of the affects could not be understood at that time because the broader field of neurobiology had not yet been developed. When one attempts to understand how the subjective experience works, the neurobiological correlates of the affect cannot be ignored. Recent progress in neurobiology has led to the introduction of the Affective Neuroscience and facilitated the reconsiderations of our ideas about the laws that govern the mind. The neuropsychoanalytic study of the affect has facilitated the revisions of our clinical understanding of the symptom formation and enabled the refinement of the psychoanalytic technique. This talk aims at reviewing some of the core implications of our neurobiological knowledge of affect for clinical work. Clinical vignettes will be used to illustrate some of the clinical applications of Affective Neuroscience. 

1.) Review the core concepts of the Affective Neuroscience.

2.) Learn how the understanding of the symptom formation is facilitated by the neuropsychoanalytic study of the affect.

3.) Understand the clinical implications of this information for the psychoanalytic technique. 

Siavash Ghazi is a psychiatrist in private practice in Manhattan and an outpatient attending at Brookdale Hospital in Brooklyn. He is also the director of psychotherapy training at Brookdale where he teaches and supervises residents and child fellows for their psychodynamic therapy cases. He is a senior candidate at PANY and the organizer and one of the presenters for today’s candidate organized meeting.

Mohadese Adabi, MD is a 4th year adult psychoanalytic candidate at Psychoanalytic association of New York. She did her medical training at Tehran university of Medical Sciences and completed her psychiatric residency at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. She also completed psychodynamic psychotherapy training at PNAY during her residency and received an award for excellence in psychotherapy by Austen Riggs Center. Dr. Adabi currently works as an outpatient psychiatry attending at Lincoln Medical Center, where she also teaches and supervises psychiatry residents

 John Steiner is a training analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society, who was formerly a psychiatrist at the Maudsley Hospital and a psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic. He has now retired from clinical practice but continues to supervise and write. He is the author of Psychic Retreats, (1993), Seeing and Being Seen, (2011), and Illusion, Disillusion and Irony in Psychoanalysis, (2020). He has also edited and written introductions to: The Oedipus Complex Today, (1989), Psychoanalysis, Literature and War, by Hanna Segal, (1997), Rosenfeld in Retrospect, (2008), and Melanie Klein’s 1936 Lectures on Technique, (2017).  

The goal of this meeting is to shed light on the difficulties that candidates have in bringing their cases to the mid-phase analysis. Identifying the primitive pre-oedipal themes, which are frequently expressed through actions is helpful for bringing the "infant into the room ". At the meeting two PANY candidates will present the clinical material illustrating how unanalyzed pre-oedipal issues hamper the deepening of the analytic process. The discussant, Dr. John Steiner, a post- Kleinian who developed the concepts of the "pathological organization " or the "psychic retreat" will discuss the clinical material. At the end of the meeting ample time will be left for the discussion with the audience. 

As a result of participating in this presentation, the attendees will become able to:

• Describe the pre-oedipal problems and its importance in the development of the individual’s psyche in general, and its relevance to later psychological issues

• Address pre-oedipal problems in order to navigate through different impasses in the treatment with the hopes of advancing the patient into mid-phase of analysis.

• Apply this knowledge clinically to the treatment of both patients with more primitive mental structure, as well as individuals who exhibit more mature mental states.

Peter Goldberg, PhD, FIPA is a personal and supervising psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, is Chair of Faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, and on the faculty of the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California. Prior publications related to psyche-soma phenomena include "Successful dissociation, pseudo-vitality and inauthentic use of the senses" (1995), "Fabricated bodies: A model for the somatic false self" (2004), and "Active perception and the search for sensory symbiosis" (2012). His latest publication is a book, co- authored with Adam Blum abd Michael Levin, just publishedby ColumbiaUniversityPress, entitled "Here I am Alive: The Spirit of Music in Psychoanalysis ".

While dream-work functions have taken on ever-more significance in contemporary clinical models, the phenomenon of day-dreaming has seldom received attention in psychoanalysis. The particular characteristics of day-dreaming will be explored, highlighting the way in which day-dreaming induces imaginative states of perception – states that allow new ways of being and experiencing the world. The clinical process can thus be described in terms of something like day-dream-work, which depends on the workings of the analytic frame and on the analyst’s particular ways of participating with the patient in shared perceptual states. 

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Freud came up with the idea of “psychic bisexuality” in the context of his intensely erotic relationship with Wilhelm Fliess. Despite its central place in Freud’s theory and its usefulness, bisexuality occupies a controversial place in psychoanalysis. It has been a beacon for sexual and gender minorities and yet within psychoanalysis it has been put to heteronormative and transphobic use. This talk will attempt to throw some light on the contemporary use of the concept of bisexuality in one analyst’s clinical work.