Saturday, Mar 1 -11:45AM-1:15PM
Topic: Prelude to Training

The Truman Show Delusion: Revisiting the Psychoanalytic Attitude Toward Psychosis

Before the advent of anti-psychotic medications, the only treatment options available to psychiatrists who worked with patients with psychosis in the first half of the 20th century were talk therapies and brutal somatic ones, notably frontal lobotomy. The results of the psychoanalysis of psychosis were decidedly mixed, but over the last 35 years negative, even hostile attitudes toward talk therapies with psychotic individuals have taken root. This talk will endeavor to address appropriate concerns while also revisiting the utility of a psychoanalytic approach toward patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic illness. We will review of the history of the seminal contributions of psychoanalytic thinkers to theories of psychosis, as well as their applications. The benefits, limitations and dangers of psychoanalytic treatments of psychosis will be addressed.
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Event Location

Saturday, Mar 1 -11:45AM-1:15PM

About the Event.

Before the advent of anti-psychotic medications, the only treatment options available to psychiatrists who worked with patients with psychosis in the first half of the 20th century were talk therapies and brutal somatic ones, notably frontal lobotomy. The results of the psychoanalysis of psychosis were decidedly mixed, but over the last 35 years negative, even hostile attitudes toward talk therapies with psychotic individuals have taken root. This talk will endeavor to address appropriate concerns while also revisiting the utility of a psychoanalytic approach toward patients with schizophrenia and other psychotic illness. We will review of the history of the seminal contributions of psychoanalytic thinkers to theories of psychosis, as well as their applications. The benefits, limitations and dangers of psychoanalytic treatments of psychosis will be addressed.

About Our Speaker.

Joel Gold, M.D.

Joel Gold, M.D. is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine. He evaluates and treats adults in his private practice in Manhattan. Dr. Gold practices both psychotherapy and medication management. Dr. Gold graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown University, earning a B.Sc. in Neuroscience, with honors, and an M.D.C.M. from McGill University. He completed his residency in Psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital Center and New York University Medical Center. Dr. Gold is the co-founder of the Tibetan Support Group, which he led for five years, at the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture. He was Unit Chief of the Inpatient Psychiatric Training Unit at Bellevue, became Bellevue's Director of Psychiatric Emergency Services and finally the hospital's Director of the Psychiatric Outpatient Division. Dr. Gold is a regular contributor to Edge.org and his work has been profiled in The New Yorker and The New York Times, on This American Life, and elsewhere. Dr. Gold has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, Psychiatry, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, The Journal of Traumatic Stress, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, and The American Journal of Epidemiology. His first book, Suspicious Minds: How Culture Shapes Madness was published in 2014.

Learning Objectives.

1. To develop an understanding of important analytic theories of psychosis.  

2. To recognize the risks and benefits of utilizing psychoanalytic techniques when treating psychosis. 

3. To appreciate the ways in which one can and should tailor talk therapy depending on the symptomatology being addressed (i.e. neurosis, psychosis, borderline pathology)

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CME/ CE 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 1.5 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.

CME/ CE Credits Available: 1.5
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