Stop in and say hello.

We are pleased to invite the professional public to our lectures, open houses, scientific meetings, and seminars.

Graduate Society at PANY Events


For all PANY events, see below

October

GRADUATE SOCIETY

Scientific Meeting

Lecture | October 26 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: via Zoom Videoconference

Love and Embodied Countertransference in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

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.  

Presenter: Andrea Celenza, PhD
Program Committee Chair: Marina Mirkin, MD

2 SW / Psychology / MHC / LP CE Credits available

2 CME Credits available

About the Speaker(s)

Andrea Celenza, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute and Assistant Clinical Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is also Adjunct Faculty at the NYU Post-Doctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and The Florida Psychoanalytic Center. She has written numerous papers on love, sexuality and psychoanalysis and is on the Editorial Board of JAPA. She has two online courses and is the recipient of several awards. Her writings have been translated into Italian, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Chinese and Farsi. Her third book, entitled, Transference, Love, and Being: Essential Essays from the Field, was published in 2022 by Routledge and she has two forthcoming works, Erotic Transferences: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge, July, 2024) and a co-edited volume (with Murray Schwartz) of American Imago on Perverse Scenarios. Dr. Celenza is in private practice in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA.

About the Presentation

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.  

Learning Objectives

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

1) To identify and explore aspects of erotic transferences and countertransferences, especially as these relate to the multiple meanings underlying erotic transferences in its defensive and adaptive aspects.

2) To explore the ways in which the analyst’s countertransference can foster the emergence of the full intensity of erotic transferences at different phases of the treatment.

3) Acquire greater comfort in the identification and exploration of their own countertransference.

CE/CME statement

ACCME Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Psychoanalytic Association of New York. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement

The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support. 

Psychoanalytic Association of New York (affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0112.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU School of Medicine is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0124.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P0064.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0304.

November

GRADUATE SOCIETY

Scientific Meeting

Lecture | November 16 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: via Zoom Videoconference

Candidate Organized Meeting:

From Tehran to NY- Differences in the Analytic Dyad: How Gender, Sexual and Religious Identity Impact the Transference and Countertransference
The purpose of this presentation is to expose participants to concepts beyond gender/sexual and religious normativity and to explore a psychoanalytic approach to working with these issues.

Presenters: Omar Khan, MD & Arash Hessam, MD 
Discussants: Rajiv Gulati, MD & Ann Pellegrini

2 SW / Psychology / MHC / LP CE Credits available

About the Speaker(s)

Dr. Omar Khan, MD is a psychiatrist who trained at NYU Grossman School of Medicine for residency and Consultation-Liaison Fellowship, now a 2nd year Adult Psychoanalytic candidate at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York. He currently works at the Weill Cornell Physicians Organization providing outpatient psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, in addition to treating Cornell House Staff. He serves as voluntary faculty at NYU and Weill Cornell where he teaches and supervises psychiatry residents. Born in New York City to a Mexican mother and Guyanese father, he has a particular interest in the way that people navigate multiple identities individually and collectively. Though not reflected in his current work, he has a strong interest in group psychoanalysis and understanding group process.


Dr. Arash Hessam, MD, Psychiatrist & Forensic Psychiatry Specialist is a board-certified psychiatrist with a fellowship in forensic psychiatry. He was born in 1975 in Tehran, graduating from Tehran University of Medical Science. Arash Hessam has over 12 years of experience as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist and psychiatrist in private practice in Tehran. In addition to clinical work, he serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Freudian Group of Tehran, where he also heads the Educational Committee, playing a pivotal role in advancing psychoanalytic education and practice in the region.

About the Presentation

The purpose of this presentation is to expose participants to concepts beyond gender/sexual and religious normativity and to explore a psychoanalytic approach to working with these issues. PANY candidates, Dr. Omar Khan and Dr. Arash Hessam will present material from cases where differences in gender/sexual and religious identity between the analyst and analysand emerge in the transference and countertransference. Discussants, Dr. Ann Pellegrini and Dr. Rajiv Gulati will share their thoughts on the case material, followed by an open discussion.

Learning Objectives

1.    Describe challenges and complexities that arise in the transference and countertransference due to diversity in identities in the therapeutic dyad.

 

2.    Discuss how care is interwoven in psychoanalytic practice when working with patients whose subjectivity is shaped by very different experiences and background than those of the analyst.

 

3.    Summarize how to hold a frame where the patient can explore and create their own self theory or narrative when their experience is distinct from the social constructions of gender, sexuality and religion.

CE statement

Psychoanalytic Association of New York (affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0112.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU School of Medicine is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0124.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P0064.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0304.

December

PRELUDE TO TRAINING

Seminar | Saturday December 7, 11:45AM - 1:15PM

Location: In-Person - 1 Park Ave, 8th Floor or Virtual: Zoom Videoconference

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.

1.5 SW / Psychology / MHC / LP CE Credits available

About the Speaker(s)

Dr. Aneil M. Shirke, M.D., Ph.D, is on the faculty of PANY and NYU. He is a board-certified psychiatrist and graduate psychoanalyst. He has worked for the Visiting Nurse Service of NY, and has taught at Columbia University and Mt. Sinai. He has a private practice in the West Village. He enjoys conversing between different psychoanalytic theories of mind to understand better the experiences of patients and trainees alike. 

 
About the Presentation
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.
 
From an object-relations point of view, our experiences of ourselves in relation to others are initially within our family of origin, and eventually are of ourselves (usually within the family unit) relating to the outside world. The speech and behavior of those around us regarding concrete aspects of identity, such as skin tone, class or perceived ethnicity (religion, race, culture, nation of origin), are internalized most often via non-verbal experiences, but also at times by explicit verbal instruction. These early experiences are transferred on top of current experiences. And analytically, we can understand that the template of our formative experiences were themselves transferred from what was experienced by people in previous generations.
 
From a self-psychological point of view, our subjective self-estimation is transferred from what was 'mirrored' to us by those around us, starting with parents and growing to include others in our community. This mirroring includes what we think is esteemed subjectively as good or bad by those others. Analytically, what is mirrored as valuable by those others is also transferred from what was mirrored as good or bad to them in previous generations.
 
A particular set of objective and subjective experiences of African-Americans is distinguishable from that of other people who have been targets of prejudice, such as voluntary immigrants. The fact of slavery, the relatively recent history of the ownership of a group of people as a form of capital in early industrial farming, has left an impression that can be better understood both from the object-relations point of view and also a self-psychological perspective.
Learning Objectives
1. Students should be able to describe a connection between a particular person's early experiences of identity and how that has become internalized into the way they relate to others.
 
2. Students should be able to describe a connection between a particular person's subjective sense of themselves and how that self-estimation is the result of what they sensed was subjectively valued by those in their developmental years.
 
3. Students should be able to discuss what, if anything, is analytically distinct about the African-American experience.
 
CE statement

Psychoanalytic Association of New York (affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0112.

 

Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU School of Medicine is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0124.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P0064.


Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0304.

December

GRADUATE SOCIETY

Scientific Meeting

Lecture | December 14 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: via Zoom Videoconference

Obsessions and Compulsions: How to Understand and Treat a Disorder of Initiative

 This talk presents three of the key developmental milestones that go into shaping obsessive and compulsive suffering: the just-so behavior of toddlerhood, the real-ideal self-discrepancy of later childhood, and narrative trends of adolescence and adulthood. 

Presenter: Gregory S. Rizzolo, PhD
Program Committee Chair: Marina Mirkin, MD

2 SW / Psychology / MHC / LP CE Credits available

2 CME Credits available

About the Speaker(s)

Gregory S. Rizzolo, PhD, is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and a faculty member at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author of the Critique of Regression (Routledge, 2019), and his work has appeared in Psychoanalytic Psychology, the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, and the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, among others.

About the Presentation

“Obsessional neurosis is unquestionably the most interesting and repaying subject of analytic research. But as a problem it has not yet been mastered.” – Freud, 1926

The obsessional neurosis occupies a privileged yet enigmatic position in psychoanalytic history. Along with hysteria, Freud considered it a model condition for psychoanalytic intervention. He believed that it should have been easier to analyze than hysteria, in fact, because it manifests itself in language rather than in the obscurities of bodily symptoms. As late as 1926, and although he had already posited the central role of anality, he wrote, however, that the problem of the obsessional neurosis had yet to be solved. The difficult seemed to lie, at least in part, the heterogeneity of the disorder, that is, in its “variety of forms.” This talk presents three of the key developmental milestones that go into shaping obsessive and compulsive suffering: the just-so behavior of toddlerhood, the real-ideal self-discrepancy of later childhood, and narrative trends of adolescence and adulthood. I argue that we should think of obsessions and compulsions not as the result of any one fixation, but as a disorder of initiative that evolves across the lifespan. By means of this approach, we can not only account for a wider variety of obsessive presentations, but also better appreciate the nature of therapeutic action in psychoanalytic approaches.

Learning Objectives

(1) Participants will be able to situate obsessive compulsive disorder in the history of psychoanalytic thought.

(2) Participants will be able to identify the problems that have historically made it difficult for theorists and researches to understand the etiology and treatment of obsessive-compulsive problems.

(3) Participants will be able to articulate the benefits of a lifespan approach to this complex disorder.

CE/CME statement

ACCME Accreditation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Psychoanalytic Association of New York. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement

The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support. 

Psychoanalytic Association of New York (affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0112.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU School of Medicine is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0124.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P0064.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0304.

December

PRELUDE TO TRAINING

Seminar | Saturday December 14, 11:45AM - 1:15PM

Location: In-Person - 1 Park Ave, 8th Floor or Virtual: Zoom Videoconference

Dreams in Theory and Practice

Since Freud's opus of 1900 the dream and the process of dreaming remain the royal road to the heart of our work. To know how to work with dreams is tantamount to knowing how to do psychoanalysis. This lecture will review the core discoveries of mind, starting with Freud, which explains the why and wherefore of dreaming with the goal of underscoring how to work with them in the office to enrich and deepen the therapeutic exchange.

1.5 SW / Psychology / MHC / LP CE Credits available

About the Speaker(s)

Douglas Van der Heide, MD is a Board-Certified Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst practicing on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. His work is grounded in the seminal discoveries of Sigmund Freud as well as later contributors including Klein, Lewin, Winnicott, and Meltzer. Dr. Van der Heide trains psychiatric residents, fellows and psychoanalytic candidates. He has numerous publications in the field

 
About the Presentation

Since Freud's opus of 1900 the dream and the process of dreaming remain the royal road to the heart of our work. To know how to work with dreams is tantamount to knowing how to do psychoanalysis. This lecture will review the core discoveries of mind, starting with Freud, which explains the why and wherefore of dreaming with the goal of underscoring how to work with them in the office to enrich and deepen the therapeutic exchange.

Learning Objectives
1. Review Freud's basic postulates of mind
2. Highlight the shifts in thinking from Freud to Bion
3. Demonstrate how dream "data" can be utilized to promote a deeper understanding of the patient's mind and conflicts
CE statement

Psychoanalytic Association of New York (affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0112.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU School of Medicine is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0124.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P0064.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0304.

March

PRELUDE TO TRAINING

Seminar | Saturday March 15, 11:45AM - 1:15PM

Location: via Zoom videoconference

Group Psychoanalysis: Who Knew?

In this 90 minute offering, Dr. Attwell will introduce the class to the didactic similarities and differences between individual and group psychoanalysis as well as how they can work in effective tandem. He will then run a 30 minute experiential group to illustrate the key principles in a here-and-now focus on growth of the interpersonal ego and meaningful affective communication. In closing, the class will wrestle to link the didactic and experiential portions of the class to illuminate future directions of learning.

1.5 SW / Psychology / MHC / LP CE Credits available

About the Speaker(s)

Chap Attwell, MD

About the Presentation

Individual psychoanalysis offers a host of pitfalls and opportunities for psychological growth through the use and analysis of transference, unconscious fantasy, dream analysis, interpretation, and a strong working alliance. Few candidates in training know that group psychoanalysis offers unique windows into the understanding and treatment of the pre-Oedipal character, early life trauma, addiction disorders, and other difficult-to-formulate, unconscious, persistent struggles.

In this 90 minute offering, Dr. Attwell will introduce the class to the didactic similarities and differences between individual and group psychoanalysis as well as how they can work in effective tandem. He will then run a 30 minute experiential group to illustrate the key principles in a here-and-now focus on growth of the interpersonal ego and meaningful affective communication. In closing, the class will wrestle to link the didactic and experiential portions of the class to illuminate future directions of learning.

Learning Objectives
1. To differentiate the parameters of individual v. Group psychoanalysis 
2. To introduce the concept of the interpersonal ego
3. To Demonstrate the core principles and techniques of effective affective communication in group 
CE statement

Psychoanalytic Association of New York (affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0112.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU School of Medicine is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0124.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P0064.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0304.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York
NYU Department of Psychiatry
One Park Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: 646-754-4870
Fax: 646-754-9540
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

Sign-up for our email mailing list