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.
Due to precautions in response to COVID-19 at NYU Langone Health, PANY events will be held via Zoom Videoconference until further notice. More information and updates will be provided when available.
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Dr. Mirkin will introduce the class to the challenges and opportunities provided by working remotely with a special emphasis on the effect of COVID pandemic on the frame of the psychotherapeutic/ psychoanalytic treatment.
Marina Mirkin, MD is a graduate of the Adult and Child programs in psychoanalysis at PANY where she is also on Faculty. She is a chair of PANY Program committee and is responsible for organization of the PANY scientific meetings and faculty seminars. Dr. Mirkin maintains full time private practice treating adults and children in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
Dr. Mirkin will introduce the class to the challenges and opportunities provided by working remotely with a special emphasis on the effect of COVID pandemic on the frame of the psychotherapeutic/psychoanalytic treatment. The impact on the transference and countertransference related to “visiting” our patients at home and “inviting” them to the therapist’s home via Zoom will be examined. Dr. Mirkin will present clinical vignettes to illustrate her way of working with these issues. The class is arranged as a seminar, and participants are encouraged to share brief examples of the clinical dilemmas they have been facing during these unusual times.
This talk will attempt to throw some light on the contemporary use of the concept of bisexuality in one analyst’s clinical work.
Rajiv Gulati, MD is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York. A native of New Delhi, he has a strong interest in the ways in which culture inflects the experience of selfhood, cropping up as well in the normative discourses that seek to police gender identity and sexual orientation. He co-edited the book, “EROTICISM: Developmental, Cultural, and Clinical Realm,” with Dr. Salman Akhtar. Dr. Gulati maintains a private analytic practice in Brooklyn.
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.
In recent years, mindfulness has become a popular and useful therapeutic tool. Distinctions between secular mindfulness and meditation as a part of a spiritual practice have become blurred, leading to inappropriate use of meditation as a substitute for necessary psychological growth. This “spiritual bypassing”, as it has been termed, can be challenging to recognize and work with in therapy.
Kathleen Lyon, MD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in NYC since 1991, and a student and practitioner of Buddhism for more than 20 years. A training analyst at PANY, she has taught courses on theory and technique in the psychoanalytic program there, and has taught and supervised at the NYU Medical Center Psychiatry residency program. She has also taught mindfulness meditation and compassion cultivation meditation programs in NYC and elsewhere. She is a member of the Contemplative Studies Project in NYC.
Meditation, Psychotherapy, and Spiritual Bypassing:
In recent years, mindfulness has become a popular and useful therapeutic tool. Distinctions between secular mindfulness and meditation as a part of a spiritual practice have become blurred, leading to inappropriate use of meditation as a substitute for necessary psychological growth. This “spiritual bypassing”, as it has been termed, can be challenging recognize and work with in therapy.
A young adult with a history of early deprivation presented for therapy after disappointing personal and academic setbacks. Through treatment, it was discovered this patient used spiritual bypassing to defend against social contact and achievement of appropriate young adult life goals. Join us for a discussion of how spiritual bypassing, a defensive use of spiritual pursuit/identity to avoid psychological difficulties or growth, manifests in this case, various other ways it can present, and how it can be approached and worked with in treatment.
This lecture discusses the historical roots and the theoretical corpus of the Paris School of Psychosomatics and relates one clinical case.
Presenter: Marilia Aisenstein
The psychoanalytic treatment of patients suffering from a somatic disease covers an important field. When confronted with those patients the psychoanalyst needs a theoretical background and technical adjustments. This paper exposes the historical roots and the theoretical corpus of the Paris School of Psychosomatics and relates one clinical case.
To recognize the contributions of the Paris School of Psychosomatics to the treatment of the patients suffering from somatic symptoms.
To understand FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN PSYCHOSOMATIC THEORY AND PRACTICE
To modify their technique to maximize the effectiveness of the psychoanalytic treatment of the patients with somatic illnesses.
Working with patients with a history of relational trauma, including sexual, physical, and emotional, presents the dynamic therapist with a host of challenges. These treatments may call upon the therapist’s subjectivity and experience in difficult, often confusing ways.
Presenter: Leslie Cummins, DSW
Leslie Cummins, DSW is a Faculty Member and Chair of the Fellowship Program at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York.
Working with patients with a history of relational trauma, including sexual, physical, and emotional, presents the dynamic therapist with a host of challenges. These treatments may call upon the therapist’s subjectivity and experience in difficult, often confusing ways. Understanding the various and specific transference, countertransference, and enactments that may arise in this work, however, offers opportunity not easily found in other modalities for working through early malignant relationships. In this seminar, we will discuss the forms therapeutic interaction may take and how the therapist may make best use of his or herself in these interactions.
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