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, Graduate Society Committee, Aneil Shirke, PhD, MD, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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

Events

March

Graduate Society

Scientific Meeting

Lecture | Saturday, March 25 | 2:00 PM

Location: Zoom Videoconference

Hidden in Plain Sight - Sex and Psychoanalysis

It isn’t the what and the where, it’s the who and the why. This talk will explore how the sensory-emotion experiences of sensual physicality in human sexual experience are forms of symbolic representations reflecting core personality object relations fantasy.

Presenter: Eric Marcus, MD

CME/ CE Credits Available: 2

About the Speaker(s)
Eric R. Marcus, MD, is a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and a training and supervising analyst at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, where he was the director for ten years.
 
He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, The American Board of Psychoanalysis, The New York Psychiatric Society, and the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies. He has won many teaching awards including the Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.
 
His research is in modern ego psychology, studying the symbolic processes of affect representations and resultant symbolic alterations of reality: in phenomenology, psychic structure, characteristic alterations in psychiatric illness, neurophysiology, and adaptational uses in dreams and culture.
 
His modern ego psychology publications include his 1999 paper, "Modern Ego Psychology" on an ego basis of theory synthesis, his 2018 paper "Does Psychoanalysis Have a Meta-theory" on a modern ego psychology view of meta psychology synthesis, The Adaptation Function of Dreams and the Waking Work: A Modern Ego Psychology View is in Psychoanalytic Inquiry. and his book, Psychosis and Near Psychosis: Ego Function, Symbol Structure, Treatment, 1992, revised third edition, 2017, a modern ego psychology description of illness specific alterations in the ego's symbol organizing processes and experiences. The first edition won The Hartman Prize from The NewYork Psychoanalytic Institute.His recent book is Modern Ego Psychology and Human Sexual Experience: The Meaning of Treatment from Routledge. 
About the Presentation
It isn’t the what and the where, it’s the who and the why.
This talk will explore how the sensory-emotion experiences of sensual physicality in human sexual experience are forms of symbolic representations reflecting core personality object relations fantasy. These fantasies are on ego spectrums that differentiate favorite variations from fetish and fetish enactments. The use of this approach for treatment will be described. Characteristic transference and counter-transference resistances will be discussed. 
Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe that sexual experience is a sensory emotional metaphor experience and forms a story that reveals the personality core fantasy
  • Apply this information to fetish and fetish enactment 
  • Describe how to use this information in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy treatments.
CME / 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 (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.

April

Graduate Society

Scientific Meeting

Lecture | Saturday, April 22 | 2:00 PM

Location: Zoom Videoconference

Hans Loewald: A Theoretician for All Seasons of Our Lives

Loewald’s re-interpretations of Freud, with his own focus on the developmentally archaic to mature oscillations in language, communication and the psychic impact of relationships, develop a modern, flexible open-system theory of mind. This can help suggest ways forward for understanding individuals in contemporary life. Clinical vignettes will be offered connecting the body, internalization and building gender portraiture, to show the potential for range in Loewald’s theory.
Presenter: Rosemary H. Balsam, F.R.C.Psych., M.R.C.P.

CME/ CE Credits Available: 2

About the Speaker(s)

Rosemary H. Balsam, F.R.C.Psych., M.R.C.P., is a British medical doctor and an American psychoanalyst. She grew up in N. Ireland, graduated Medical School in Queen’s University Belfast, studied psychiatry, and moved to join the faculty of Yale School of Medicine. She is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; staff psychiatrist in the Yale Department of Student Mental Health and Counseling, and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, New Haven, Conn. Her special interests are female gender developments; young adulthoods and the body in psychic life, psychoanalytic education and Hans Loewald’s work. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Loewald Center. She has written award-winning papers and books, lectured nationally and internationally. On the editorial boards of PQ and Imago, she is a former Book Review editor of JAPA. Her most recent book is: Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis (2012, Routledge); and latest paper: Misogyny and the Female Body (2022) Psychoanalytic Inquiry. In 2018 she was a recipient of the Sigourney Award for Outstanding Psychoanalytic Achievement.

About the Presentation

Loewald’s re-interpretations of Freud, with his own focus on the developmentally archaic to mature oscillations in language, communication and the psychic impact of relationships, develop a modern, flexible open-system theory of mind. This can help suggest ways forward for understanding individuals in contemporary life. Clinical vignettes will be offered connecting the body, internalization and building gender portraiture, to show the potential for range in Loewald’s theory.

Learning Objectives

As a result of participating in this presentation, the attendees will become able to:

1) Describe Loewald’s sense of developmental growth as non-linear, with the ego struggling to individuate and develop against natural forces pulling towards an originary undifferentiated merger.

2) Describe the structural role of “Internalization” and its shaping force in psychic life.

3) Apply clinically the focus of internalization and rhythms of regression and re-integration to an understanding of emergent gendered expressions

CME / 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 (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
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