The PANY Graduate Society

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. 

Chair, Programs, Graduate Society, Marina Mirkin, M.D., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..


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Events

January

GRADUATE SOCIETY

Scientific Meeting

Lecture | Saturday January 30

Location: Zoom Videoconference

Insights from Couple Therapy: What Working with Couples Has Taught Me About Couple Fights, Projective Identification, and Partner Selection

Working for 40-plus years both as a couple therapist and a psychoanalyst has given Dr. Art Nielsen a special window into the problems of intimate relationships. This workshop will focus on three related topics that can facilitate the clinical work of psychoanalytic individual therapists and couple therapists alike.

 

Presenter: Arthur C. Nielsen, MD

CME/ Social Work CE Credits Available: 2

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About the Speaker(s)
Presenter: Arthur C. Nielsen, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University


Arthur Nielsen, M.D. is a full-time, practicing psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and couple therapist in Chicago, Illinois. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, a faculty member at Northwestern's Family Institute in Evanston, and a faculty member of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis where he has taught courses in severe personality disorders, psychoanalytic research and single case design, and, relevant to this workshop, couple therapy.

For many years and until recently, he was the coordinator of a popular for-credit course he developed for Northwestern undergraduates, “Marriage 101: Building Loving and Lasting Relationships.” In recent years, he has lectured nationally and internationally, and has taught courses on couple therapy to students in Iran and China.

He is the author of more than 40 published professional papers in the fields of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and couple therapy, together with a textbook, A Roadmap for Couple Therapy: Integrating Systemic, Psychodynamic, and Behavioral Approaches. Much of this present workshop is based on his recent lead article in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association titled: Projective Identification in Couples.
About the Presentation

Working for 40-plus years both as a couple therapist and a psychoanalyst has given Dr. Art Nielsen a special window into the problems of intimate relationships. This workshop will focus on three related topics that can facilitate the clinical work of psychoanalytic individual therapists and couple therapists alike.

We will first review the most common vicious cycles that couples get caught up in. Understanding these will help therapists be more informed when they hear patients complaining about such fights, but only from their patient’s limited point of view.

We will then take up the often misunderstood, but nonetheless uniquely valuable concept of projective identification as it applies to such cycles, explains their tenacity, and points us to therapeutic options.

Finally, we will discuss how projective identification accounts for some forms of partner selection and polarizations in marriage. Throughout, we will demystify and critically examine the concept of projective identification, highlighting its strengths, limitations, and independence from other Kleinian concepts.

Learning Objectives
  • 1. Recognize the most common vicious cycles that cause deterioration in couple relationships, and then use an understanding of each type to inform interventions that can move couples towards collaboration and intimate connection.
    2. Demystify, unpack, and critically evaluate the concept of projective identification and apply it to explaining and remediating intransigent couple conflicts.
    3. Understand unconscious, maladaptive partner selection, including some common “fatal attractions.”
CME / Social Work CE statement
ACCME Accreditation Statement for Joint Providership 
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 the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY). The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
 
Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU Langone Health 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.

March

GRADUATE SOCIETY

Scientific Meeting

Lecture | Saturday March 22

Location: Zoom Videoconference

Anonymity and Sameness: Clinical and Theoretical Considerations

TBD

 

Presenter: Nathan Kravis, MD

CME/ Social Work CE Credits Available: 2

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About the Speaker(s)
Presenter: Nathan Kravis, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, Training and Supervising Analyst at the Columbia University
 
About the Presentation

TBD

Learning Objectives
  • TBD
CME / Social Work CE statement
ACCME Accreditation Statement for Joint Providership 
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 the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY). The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
 
Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU Langone Health 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.

April

GRADUATE SOCIETY

Scientific Meeting

Memorial | Saturday April 21

Dr. Leonard Shengold Memorial Event

 

TBD

 
Save the Date
About the Speaker(s)

TBD

About the Presentation

TBD

Learning Objectives
  • TBD
CME / Social Work CE statement
ACCME Accreditation Statement for Joint Providership 
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 the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY). The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
 
Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU Langone Health 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
NYU Department of Psychiatry
One Park Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10016

Telephone: 646-754-4870
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