Join us for the Psychoanalytic Training Program Open House featuring PANY Faculty and candidates. Participants will have the opportunity to join a Q&A with faculty from the PANY Psychoanalytic Training Program.
Presenter: Tanya Weisman, MD
Join us for an informal evening at a faculty member’s home as Tanya Weisman, MD, leads a discussion of how clinicians work psychoanalytically with questions of sexuality and gender. An informational session about PANY’s Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program will follow the presentation.
Refreshments will be served and attendees will have the opportunity to talk with faculty and candidates.
Dr. Stefano Bolognini is one of the most active, prolific and well - known Italian psychoanalysts. He lives and works in Bologna, where he trained as a psychoanalyst at the Italian Psychoanalytic Society. An Associate member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society since 1985, he became a Training Analyst in 1998. He has been a member of the European Editorial Board of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis since 2002 and a President of the Bologna Psychoanalytic Center. Dr. Bolognini is a former President of the IPA. He published numerous articles and several books, one of them As Wind, as Wave received the prestigious Gradiva Award.
The current extension of the concept of the Unconscious to different levels, configurations and functioning of the mind is the result of decades of collective reflection on clinical practice as well as on theory. Analysts today have a broader, more refined and complex knowledge of defensive and transformative processes, and this has also led to an evolution in technique. The paper presents a combination of psychoanalytic theory and technique through two clinical cases that present complex articulations of spurious unconscious functional areas and modalities, alternately repressed and not repressed.
KEY WORDS: Central self, experiential self, integration, removal, sharing, splitting.
Schedule:
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM: Paper presentation
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Presenter-led audience question/answer session
Recognize the need to extend the concept of the unconscious beyond the limits of the repressed unconscious .
Describe the subjective way of relating to one’s own self and to the unconscious.
Understand both initial basic functional immaturity and the dysfunction caused in later periods by post-traumatic disorganisation/de-structuring of the Ego.
Presenters: Barry Rand, MD & Tanya Weisman, MD
Tanya Weisman, MD, who identifies in many ways including as a person who uses she/her pronouns, was trained in psychiatry at NYU and psychoanalysis at PANY. She is currently on the faculty at PANY.
Barry Rand, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who is on the Faculty at PANY. He loves teaching and has taught courses at PANY on Depression, Psychoanalysis and Medication, and currently on Sexuality and Gender. He was the chair of the Curriculum Committee.
Sexuality has long been thought to be at the core of psychoanalysis. As the categories of sexuality and gender have become more expansive, elastic and expressive we have been thinking about ‘what is gender’ and ‘what is sexuality’ through a psychoanalytic lens. To our delight, such investigations led us to reexamine what psychoanalysis is. We will engage with you on the intersection of these thoughts about gender and sexuality from a psychoanalytic perspective and think about how it impacts our view of contemporary psychoanalysis.
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.
Presenter: Chap Attwell, MD
Dr. Chap Attwell is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine (adjunct), where he teaches the group therapy curriculum. For 16 years he served as the Clinical Director of the Medical Student Mental Health Service; for 10 years he directed the NYU/Bellevue Psychiatry Residency Process Group Program.
Dr. Attwell obtained his MD degree from Baylor College of Medicine and his MPH degree from the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, Texas; pursued residency training in Psychiatry at NYU/Bellevue in New York City; and graduated from the adult program in psychoanalysis at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY, affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine). Dr. Attwell is an advanced candidate at the Center for Group Studies in New York City, where he currently studies in the reading program.
Dr. Attwell works from his private practice in Dobbs Ferry, NY where—as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic—he has rebuilt online the complexity and fray of an intensive, thriving group practice—specializing in the training group function for psychiatrists, physicians, and all manner of mental health professionals at the national level. He enjoys blending the practice of medicine, the soul of psychiatry, and the art of group therapy in his favorite research area—decoding body language as bridge to emotional immediacy.
When not at work, Dr. Attwell enjoys the down time hanging out with his family, three large hounds, and/or writing notebooks.
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.
Schedule
1:45 AM - 12:45 PM: Didactic seminar
12:45 PM - 1:15 PM: Experiential group
Dr. Linda Mayes is the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology and Chair of the Yale Child Study Center in the Yale School of Medicine. She is also the scientific integrity officer for the Yale School of Medicine. Trained as a pediatrician and child and adult psychoanalyst, Dr. Mayes’ research focuses on early childhood adversity and its impact on socio-emotional and cognitive development from infancy through school age. Taking a two-generation perspective, Dr. Mayes also studies the psychobiological underpinnings of parenting and how conditions such as substance abuse impact the adult transition to parenthood.
In addition to her research, Dr. Mayes has developed in collaboration with several colleagues interventions for parents and families including a program to foster family and community resilience called Discover Together. A theme running throughout Dr. Mayes scholarly work is the central role of human relationships in supporting children’s adaptive development and flourishing as adults. An author of over 350 peer reviewed papers as well as over 100 review chapters, her work appears in the developmental psychology, pediatric, behavioral neuroscience, and psychoanalytic literature. She is also the author of seven edited books on topics such as parenting and substance abuse and developmental research as well as three books for parents and teachers on parenting and fostering resilience. Dr. Mayes is also a visiting professor at Sewanee: The University of the South where she collaborates around courses on the social determinants of mental health, psychological journeys across the lifespan, and child and family development in rural Appalachia.
Winnicott's concept of primary maternal preoccupation highlighted an altered mental state presumed essential to a mother's transition to parenthood. This presentation will review how Winnicott's is relevant to more contemporary understanding of the psychological transition of adults to parenthood, what are the challenges to adults becoming parents, and how do individual differences in adults' development as parents relate to their infants' development.
Schedule:
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Paper presentation
9:00 PM - 9:30 PM: Presenter-led audience question/answer session
1) Describe contemporary evidence for an essential altered mental state as essential for adult transition to parenthood
2) Describe how a neuroscience perspective on the neural basis of parenting and early care informs psychoanalytic perspectives on primary maternal preoccupation
3) Describe how stress and early adversity may compromise adult's developmental transition as parents