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Dr. Sugarman is a Training and Supervising Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychoanalyst at the San Diego Psychoanalytic Center and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He is the former and founding Head of APsaA's Department of Psychoanalytic Education.

The Eitingon model of psychoanalytic education was created to implement rules and regulations for educating psychoanalysts. Inadvertently, this created a superego approach that has stifled and complicated training for a century. An ego ideal approach will be offered as a contrast and corrective.

Coline received her BA in Political Philosophy from Princeton and then moved to the UK where she received her MPhil in Criminology from Cambridge and her PhD in Sociology from LSE. She worked for nearly ten years as a consultant with criminal justice agencies throughout England and set up the first UK mediation project between victims and juvenile offenders with the Metropolitan Police in London.
Coline is a Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and the British Psychotherapy Foundation and former Chair of the British Psychoanalytic Council. She is a Fellow of International Dialogue Initiative (IDI), a think tank formed by Prof. Vamik Volkan, Lord Alderdice and Dr. Robi Friedman to apply psychoanalytic concepts in resolving political conflict.
From 2011 to 2013 Coline was Visiting Research Fellow in International Politics and Development at the Open University and Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C..
Coline’s publications include Terrorism and War: Unconscious Dynamics of Political Violence (Karnac, 2002), Shrinking the News: Headline Stories on the Couch (Karnac, 2014), Sabina Spielrein: Forgotten Pioneer of Psychoanalysis, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2015), and Everyday Evils: A Psychoanalytic View of Evil and Morality (Routledge, 2017). Her new book is For Goodness Sake: Bravery, Patriotism and Identity (Phoenix Publishing House, November 2020}. Her forthcoming book, Who’s to Blame? The Political Morality of Collective Guilt, will be published by Phoenix in 2022.
Coline is in private practice in London.

Within any atrocity or life-threatening situation, there is the silent presence of the brave individuals who act and stand apart from the crowd, who risk their own lives by rescuing others and, in other ways, by voicing their dissent. The actions of these exceptional individuals raise questions as to why they were able to do what they did and why other people don’t. Clinical material of a young male patient, a war hero struggling to separate from his refugee parents, illustrates the role of the ego ideal, insofar as it is consonant with innate morality, as the primary factor motivating acts of bravery. The compulsion to act bravely is primarily attributed to conscience; not to act is experienced as a betrayal of self. As such, bravery is a fundamental assertion not only of the self but of a moral order necessary to sustain the self.

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Ellen Abrams, LCSW is a psychotherapist and Faculty member at PANY.

"in Treatment" is a thought provoking HBO televisions series about a psychologist, portrayed by Gabriel Byrne, and his weekly sessions with patients, as well as those with his own therapist, and offers a tantalizing peek at the psychopathology of everyday life. Ms. Abrams will show clips which highlight psychodynamic psychotherapy principles and use them as a springboard for discussion about technique. 

Chap Attwell, MD

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.

Presenter: Marilia Aisenstein

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Arden Rothstein, Ph.D.Arden Rothstein, Ph.D.Training and Supervising Analyst, PANYClinical Professor of Psychiatry, NYU School of MedicineChair, Progressions Committee, Department of Psychoanalytic Education, American Psychoanalytic Association

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