The Graduate Society at PANY, founded in 1955, is comprised of PANY members who hold degrees in medicine, psychology, social work and other mental health professions. The Graduate Society has several functions. First, it represents our organization, PANY, as a component society of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA). In addition, the Graduate Society sponsors monthly scientific meetings, providing a venue where scholars present recent findings in psychoanalysis as well as topics dealing with the relationship between psychoanalysis and other fields – such as child development, the neurosciences, and the arts. These meetings are open to the public, including psychoanalytic and psychotherapy candidates, and are designed to enhance the education of psychoanalytic clinicians. The Society also sponsors postgraduate seminars that are open to PANY faculty members. In addition to postgraduate education, the Society helps to promote practice development and the profession of psychoanalysis, including increasing public awareness of the wide usefulness of psychoanalytic ideas as well as the utility and efficacy of psychoanalytic therapies. The Society Student Aid Fund assists psychoanalytic candidates in financing their training. Finally, the Society sponsors social functions – fun get-togethers that are so important for strengthening the cohesiveness of our psychoanalytic association.
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In this lecture, Dr. Jacobs will discuss the all important question of the sense of self in analytic patients and which attitudes and approaches on the part of the analyst favor its improvement and which are ineffective or work against such improvement.
He will discuss the developments in psychoanalysis over the past half century that have led to changes in analytic technique.
Theodore Jacobs, MD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at PANY and the New York Psychoanalytic Institute; a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Emeritus) at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; Author of The Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication in the Analytic Situation; The Possible Profession; The Analytic Process of Change; Co-Editor, On Beginning an Analysis. He is the author of 60+ papers and book reviews on a variety of analytic topics, and a winner of the 2018 Sigourney Award.
In this lecture, Dr. Jacobs will discuss the all important question of the sense of self in analytic patients and which attitudes and approaches on the part of the analyst favor its improvement and which are ineffective or work against such improvement.
He will discuss the developments in psychoanalysis over the past half century that have led to changes in analytic technique.
After attending this lecture, those present should be able to:
1) Describe the major contributions in the last 50 years that led to changes in psychoanalytic technique
2) Discuss the major psychological factors that affect the sense of self
3) Describe the attitudes and approaches on the part of analysts that favor and also work against improvement in the sense of self
Presenter: Dr.Monisha Nayar – Akhtar, Ph.D
Discussant: Dr. Barry Rand, MD
Henry Lothane, M.D., D.L.F.A.P.A.
Psychoanalytic Association of New York
NYU Department of Psychiatry
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New York, NY 10016
Telephone: 646-754-4870
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