About the Presenter:

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.

About the Discussants:

Nasir Ilahi, LLM, LP

Training and Supervising Analyst, PANY; Honorary Member, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Fellow, British Psychoanalytic Society; Editorial Board member, International Journal of Psychoanalysis; Chair, Board of Directors of PEP which was also awarded the Sigourney Prize. Authored, and lectured internationally, in areas dealing with primitive mental states and non neurotic aspects of disturbance.

Dr. Dionne Powell is a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (NY), and the Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine (PANY), and is the PANY Chair of the Education Committee; an Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at The New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University in New York, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at The New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College in New York. Dr. Powell has written and presented extensively with recent contributions, most notably “In Pursuit of Racial Equality in American Psychoanalysis Findings and Recommendations from the Holmes Commission. Holmes, Hart, Powell, Stoute, et. al. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol 72, No. 3, June 2024”, and is the recipient of awards, most notably: 2024: Payne Whitney Award - In recognition of individuals who have demonstrated exemplary leadership and commitment to advance the field of psychiatry for the betterment of the communities we serve. Presented New York-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medicine, December 18, 2024. New York, NY.

One of the most special and unique experiences in psychoanalytic training can be the time one spends in supervision. Supervision is a space that offers an opportunity for greater understanding of different theoretical approaches, technique enhancement, and one’s own deep personal exploration.

Here at PANY, candidates have the opportunity to train and work with supervisors whose expertise spans different theoretical orientations. Exposure to this kind of supervision can help to enhance one’s capacity to understand clinical material more effectively and therefore deepen treatment in one’s clinical practice.

Senior candidate Siavash Ghazi, MD, will present clinical material to faculty members Dionne Powell, MD, and Nasir Ilahi, LLM, LP, who will offer supervision from two differing theoretical backgrounds and approaches.