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Tuesday April 27, 2010 Scientific ProgramTuesday Evening Presentation – 7:00 P.M. Clinical Implications of Contemporary Gender Theory: A Case Study Presenter: Nancy Kulish, Ph.D. Nancy Kulish, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Wayne State Medical School, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Detroit. Dr. Kulish was the American Psychoanalytic Association National Woman Scholar in 2005. Among her publications are: (with D. Holtzman) A Story of Her Own: the Female Oedipus Complex Reexamined and Renamed (Jason Aronson, 2008); “Countertransference and the female triangular situation” (International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 2003); (with D. Holtzman) Nevermore: the Hymen and the Loss of Virginity (Jason Aronson, 1997); and “On Childlessness” (Psycho-analytic Inquiry, 2009). Dr. Kulish is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Quarterly and the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. Her professional interests include female sexuality, gender, transference/countertransference, and termination. Jeffrey Stern, Ph.D. is a Faculty member of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis where he teaches Dreams in the Psychoanalytic Training Program. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in English Literature where his dissertation on Shakespeare’s late romances won the Humanities Prize. He is a lecturer in Psychiatry at The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and he also has lectured at The University of Chicago in the Committee on General Studies in the Humanities. In addition, Dr. Stern is a member of the Psychiatry faculty at Rush University, where he lectures on Shakespeare and Film, and a faculty member at The Institute for Clinical Social Work. He has published articles in Shakespeare Quarterly, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychoanalytic Review, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (where he served on the editorial board), and The Annual of Psychoanalysis, of which he is currently Associate Editor. His work also is represented in Errant Selves: a Casebook of Misbehavior (edited by Arnold Goldberg) and in Transforming Lives: Analysts and Patients View the Power of Psychoanalytic Treatment (edited by Joseph Schachter). Purpose: This presentation will examine contemporary psychoanalytic ideas about gender and their implications for clinical work. Contemporary gender theories both elucidate and undo our need for certainty and the comfort of binary categories. A detailed clinical case will illustrate these ideas. Educational Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1) delineate five major ideas in contemporary thinking about gender; 2) demonstrate how contemporary theories about gender can be applied to clinical work; and 3) discuss gender biases in therapeutic work. Target Audience: Psychoanalysts, other interested mental health professionals, and members of the community Continuing Education Accreditation Chicago Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Program Committee: Joanne Marengo, Ph.D., ABPP (Chair); James Anderson, Ph.D.; Lucy Freund, Ph.D.; Ronald F. Krasner, M.D. (ex-officio); Jonathan Lear, Ph.D.; Linda Marino, Ph.D.; Caryle Perlman, M.S.; Dennis Shelby, Ph.D.; Ruth Yanagi, M.D. Chicago Psychoanalytic Society Officers: President: Ronald F. Krasner, M.D.; Secretary: Caroline Loeb, M.D.; Treasurer: Ellen Rosenberg, Ph.D.; Councilor: Neal Spira, M.D.; Membership Chairperson: Ruth Hedvat Shorr, M.A., LCPC (RuthShorr@aol.com) www.chicagopsychoanalyticsociety.org 312-922-7474 122 S Michigan Avenue, 13th Floor, Chicago, IL 60603
March 23, 2010 Scientific Program Presentation – 7:00 P.M.Admission is free. No reservations are required. The Neurobiologically-Informed Psychoanalytic Treatment of a Toddler with
Discussant: Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, M.D. Susan P. Sherkow, M.D. is a Founding Member, Training Analyst, and Instructor at the Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute and a Supervising Analyst and Instructor in the Child and Adolescent Division of The New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She is Adjunct Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at Mount Sinai College of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Sherkow is a regular presenter in child psychoanalysis for the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. She has had works published in the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and in other volumes on various subjects, including infantile eating disorders, the diagnosis of sexual abuse in young children, and “watched play.” She is co-Principal Investigator of “The Behavioral Correlates of Children’s Play in the Anal Phase,” a research study from which the first article, “Stock-Still Behavior,” was published in The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child (2008). Dr. Sherkow has two articles currently in press, “A Clinical Study of the Intergenerational Transmission of Eating Disorders from Mothers to Daughters” (The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child) and a paper on the psychoanalytic treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (Psychoanalytic Inquiry). Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst and a Child and Adolescent Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He also teaches at the University of Chicago. Dr. Galatzer-Levy’s professional interests include clinical psychoanalysis, lifespan development, non-linear dynamics, and the application of psychoanalysis to law. He has authored or edited five books including: (with H. Bacharach, A. Skolnikoff, & S. Waldron) Does Psychoanalysis Work? (Yale University Press, 2000), (with L. Kraus & J. Galatzer-Levy, Eds.) The Scientific Basis of Child Custody Decisions, 2nd ed. (John Wiley & Sons, 2009), and (with B. Cohler) The Essential Other: A Developmental Psychology of the Self (Basic Books, 1993). Among his more than 110 other publications are: “Good Vibrations: Analytic Process as Coupled Oscillations” (The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2009), “The Nuts and Bolts of Child Psychoanalysis” (Annual of Psychoanalysis, 2008), and (with I.R. Galatzer-Levy) “August Aichhorn: A Different Vision of Psychoanalysis, Children, and Society” (The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 2007). He has been an active member of the International Psychoanalytical Association and the American Psychoanalytic Association, of which he is Secretary. Purpose: This presentation will use clinical material from the psychoanalytic treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as a framework with which to examine the ways in which psychoanalytic treatment can impact brain functioning on a systemic level and to demonstrate its use as part of a multiple modal approach to treating ASD. Educational Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1) integrate knowledge of the neurobiology of Autism Spectrum Disorder with a psychoanalytic approach to working with children with ASD; 2) describe potential neurobiological changes in the brain promoted by psychoanalytic treatment; and 3) explain the usefulness of psychoanalytic treatment of ASD as part of a broad range of intensive behavioral treatment strategies. Target Audience: Psychoanalysts, other interested mental health professionals, and members of the community Continuing Education Accreditation Physicians: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medication Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis/Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates each educational activity for a maximum of 2 credit hours in Category 1 credit towards the Physician Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he or she actually spent in the educational activity. Psychologists: The Institute for Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program. The Institute designates each continuing education activity as earning a maximum of 2 hours Continuing Education for psychologists. Social Workers and Counselors: The Institute for Psychoanalysis is approved as a continuing education sponsor by the Department of Professional Regulations of the State of Illinois. The Institute designates each continuing education activity as earning a maximum of 2 hours Continuing Education for social workers and counselors. Important Disclosure Information for all Attendees: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. CE Coordinator: Mary Bain (mary@chicagoanalysis.org) Phone: 312-922-7474 (ext. 311) Chicago Psychoanalytic Society Scientific Program Committee: Joanne Marengo, Ph.D., ABPP (Chair); James Anderson, Ph.D.; Lucy Freund, Ph.D.; Ronald F. Krasner, M.D. (ex-officio); Jonathan Lear, Ph.D.; Linda Marino, Ph.D.; Caryle Perlman, M.S.; Dennis Shelby, Ph.D.; Ruth Yanagi, M.D.
February 23, 2010 Scientific ProgramTuesday Evening Presentation – 7:00 P.M. A More Usable Winnicott Presenter: Kenneth Newman, M.D. Discussant: Paul C. Holinger, M.D. Kenneth Newman, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He co-authored, with Howard Bacal, Theories of Object Relations: Bridges to Self Psychology (Columbia University Press, 1989). Dr. Newman has published several articles on the usable object, including (with C. Kligerman and D.M. Terman), “Countertransference: Its Role in Facilitating the Use of the Object” (The Annual of Psychoanalysis, 1988); “Winnicott Goes to the Movies: The False Self in Ordinary People” (Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1996); “Disclosure, Countertransference, and the Promotion of Usability” (The Annual of Psychoanalysis, 1996); and “The Usable Analyst: The Role of the Affective Engagement of the Analyst in Reaching Usability” (The Annual of Psychoanalysis, 1999). Paul C. Holinger, M.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst, Child Supervising Analyst, and Co-Chair of the Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is Professor of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College. Dr. Holinger has authored articles and books in psychiatric epidemiology, psychoanalysis, and infant and child development, including (with D. Offer, J.T. Barter, and C.C. Bell) Suicide and Homicide Among Adolescents (The Guilford Press, 1994) and Violent Deaths in the United States (The Guilford Press, 1987). His most recent book, What Babies Say Before They Can Talk: The Nine Signals Infants Use To Express Their Feelings (Simon & Schuster, 2003), was a Book-of-the Month Club Selection and has been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic. Recent publications include, “Further issues in the psychology of affect and motivation: A developmental perspective” (Psychoanalytic Psychology, 2008) and “Winnicott, Tomkins, and the psychology of affect” (Clinical Social Work Journal, 2009). Purpose: This presentation will examine how we can conceptualize the inner world of a child following failure in good enough caretaking. The purpose is to more fully appreciate how Winnicott’s model of development, or of failures in this area, explains anxiety and the need for significant internal reorganization. The resultant character will reflect, especially in its pathological form, the way the child had to shift adaptively/maladaptively to manage unintegrated tension and unmanaged affects. Educational Objectives: Participants will: 1) expand their knowledge on the central role of affects and especially the failure in their early management in the creation of pathological adaptation; 2) obtain a clearer understanding of the relationship between early environmental failure and the nature of anxiety within a Winnicott model; and 3) formulate an expansion of the concept of leading edge of need by conceiving of two dimensions of failure and hence needs for not only a new experience with responsiveness to the “true self” but also for a new experience with affects.
Tuesday 26th January 2010 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. The Inhibition of Passion for Life: Transformations of the Tragic into the Shameful Presenter: Peter Shabad, Ph.D. Discussant: John Riker, Ph.D. Peter Shabad, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He is a Faculty Member of the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis and of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. Dr. Shabad co-edited The Problem of Loss and Mourning: Psychoanalytic Perspectives (IUP, 1989), and he is the author of Despair and the Return of Hope (Aronson, 2001). He also has published numerous papers and book chapters in psychoanalysis on subjects such as disillusionment, shame, regret, and mourning. In addition to teaching and supervising, Dr. Shabad has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. John Riker, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Colorado College. He is the author of two books relating psychoanalysis and ethics: Human Excellence and an Ecological Conception of the Psyche, and Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconscious. During 2003-2004, he was the Heinz Kohut Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Dr. Riker has been voted “Best Teacher” three times by the entire student body of Colorado College. Purpose: This presentation will examine how tragic elements of human experience that are outside of our control (such as misfortune and disappointments) are transformed into the shameful. This shame then is responsible for inverting our passion into characterological passivity. Educational Objectives: At the end of this presentation participants will be able to: 1) understand how disappointment is transformed into shame; 2) understand the retroactive quality of shame morality; and 3) understand how the shame dynamic of splitting “shoulds” and “wants” is manifested in the transference and becomes an obstacle to change. Target Audience: Psychoanalysts, other interested mental health professionals, and members of the community Continuing Education Accreditation Physicians: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medication Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis/ Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity. The American Psychoanalytic Association designates each educational activity for a maximum of 2 credit hours in Category 1 credit towards the Physician Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he or she actually spent in the educational activity. Psychologists: The Institute for Psychoanalysis is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Institute for Psychoanalysis maintains responsibility for this program. The Institute designates each continuing education activity as earning a maximum of 2 hours Continuing Education for psychologists. Social Workers: The Institute for Psychoanalysis is approved as a continuing education sponsor for social workers by the Department of Professional Regulations of the State of Illinois. The Institute designates each continuing education activity as earning a maximum of 2 hours Continuing Education for social workers. Important Disclosure Information for all Attendees: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Access the 0910 meeting planner Tuesday November 24th, 2009 7:00pm - National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL – Room 5006 – Admission is free The Romantic Sensibility in Psychoanalysis Presenter: Frank Summers, Ph.D., ABPP; Discussant: Marcia Dobson, Ph.D. Frank Summers, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institute of Psychoanalysis and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He also holds faculty appointments at The Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and at the Psychoanalytic Institutes of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Southeast Florida, and Tampa Bay. Dr. Summers has published extensively and lectured nationwide on object relations theories and the therapeutic action of psychoanalytic therapy. He is the author of three books, Object Relations Theories and Psychopathology: A Comprehensive Text; Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Model of Psychoanalytic Therapy; and Self-Creation: Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Art of the Possible. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Psychoanalytic Psychology and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Distinguished Educator Award of the International Federation of Psychoanalytic Education and the Hans Strupp Award for Contributions to Psychoanalysis. Marcia Dobson, Ph.D. is Professor of Classics at Colorado College. She holds a Ph.D. in Classical Philology and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis on Depth Psychology. Dr. Dobson’s areas of interest span classical mythology, dreams and the unconscious, psychoanalysis in the contemporary world, and self psychology. She writes and presents in the fields of ancient Greek myth and drama in relation to psychoanalysis in its various forms, and she teaches many popular classes including Myth and Meaning, Discovering the Unconscious, Classical Mythology in Art and Literature, Sources of the Self, and Renaissance Culture. Dr. Dobson also is Associate Editor to the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and was the contributing editor to this journal’s recent issue, The Life and Forward Edge of Marian Tolpin, Vol.4, Supplement 1 (2009). She has a private practice in Self Psychology in Colorado Springs, CO. Purpose: The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that there is a way of looking at the psychoanalytic process that transcends theoretical divisions and has concrete implications for the stance and strategy adopted by the analyst. This analytic sensibility will be related to the Romantic Movement in the humanities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and its reaction to the neoclassical period. Contemporary currents in psychoanalysis can be seen as a similar reaction to a kind of classicism that characterized the history of psychoanalysis and have opened the process in a manner analogous to the Romantic Movement in the humanities. Educational Objectives: At the end of this presentation participants will be able to: 1) delineate the primary concepts of a romantic sensibility in psychoanalysis; 2) articulate the clinical implications of the romantic sensibility in psychoanalysis; and 3) understand the relationship between trends in contemporary psychoanalysis and the Romantic Movement in the humanities of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Target Audience: Psychoanalysts, other interested mental health professionals, and members of the community Download November 2009 meeting flyer Tuesday October 27, 2009, 7:00pm Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: Fredric N. Busch, M.D., Presenter Fredric N. Busch, M.D. is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and Faculty member of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center for Training and Research. He has authored 40 articles and several book chapters. His writing and research have focused on the links between psychoanalysis and psychiatry, psychodynamic approaches to specific disorders, issues in pursuing psychoanalytic research, and psychoanalysis and medication. He has co-authored 4 books, including Psychotherapy and Medication: The Challenge of Integration (2007), Panic-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Adolescents (2004), Psychodynamic Treatment of Depression (2004), and the Manual of Panic-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (1997). He participated in the first research study to demonstrate efficacy for a psychodynamic treatment of panic disorder. Arthur C. Nielsen, M.D. is a Faculty member at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine; and a Faculty member of The Family Institute. For many years at Northwestern, he taught the resident’s journal club and a course on research methodology in psychiatry. For the past eight years, he also has taught “The Underlying Logic of Clinical Psychoanalysis” at the Institute for Psychoanalysis. Purpose: This paper will describe the theory and clinical approach of a psychodynamic treatment of panic disorder, Panic Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Educational Objectives: At the end of this presentation participants will: 1) Understand the psychodynamic theory and clinical approach to panic disorder; 2) Understand that this approach, Panic-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, has been systematically studied; and 3) Recognized the differences between this approach and traditional psychoanalytic therapies. Target Audience: Psychoanalysts, other interested mental health professionals, and members of the community Download flyer (word doc)
Tuesday September 29, 2009, 7:00pm Infantile Thoughts: Reading Ferenczi's Clinical Diary as a Commentary Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., Presenter Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D. is Professor of English at the University of Florida; Editor of American Imago; an Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic Association; a Candidate at the Emory University Psychoanalytic Institute; and an M.S.W.-Registered Clinical Social Work Intern in the State of Florida. He received the 2003 Gradiva Award for Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck (Cornell, 2002) and in 2004 he was the Fulbright/Freud Society Scholar of Psychoanalysis in Vienna. Trained as a Renaissance scholar, Dr. Rudnytsky’s areas of specialization include Freud, the history and theory of psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic approaches to literature. James W. Anderson, Ph.D. is a Faculty member and Director of Conferences and Continuing Education at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis; Associate Editor of the Annual of Psychoanalysis; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University where he teaches theories of personality and the psychology of film. In his research, Dr. Anderson is a specialist in the study of the individual life. He has published psychobiographical papers on William and Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, Woodrow Wilson, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Edith Wharton. Purpose: This paper will explore the ramifications for the history of psychoanalysis of Freud’s (presumed) affair with his sister-in-law through the lens of Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary. The perennial analytic question of the relation between sexual fantasy and traumatic reality is seen to play itself out in assessing both the “Minna affair” and Ferenczi’s response to it. Educational Objectives: At the end of this presentation participants will: 1) Appreciate the importance of the “Minna question” for the history of psychoanalysis; 2) Gain deepened insight into the Freud/Ferenczi relationship; and 3) Contemplate anew the psychoanalytic dialectic between fantasy and real experience. Target Audience: Psychoanalysts, other interested mental health professionals, and members of the community Download flyer (word doc)
Access the 0809 meeting planner Saturday, April 11, 2009 at The presentation will be entitled: In this paper the Novicks propose a crucial phase of treatment that addresses readiness to begin the work of saying a good goodbye. A therapy can be saved or ruined by the experience of this part of the relationship. Ample discussion with participants after the clinical presentation will allow for further understanding of the concept. Presenters: Jack Novick, PhD and Jack Novick, formerly Chief Psychologist of Youth Services, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, is the past Chair of the Michigan Psycho-analytic Institute’s Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis training program. Kerry Kelly Novick was Lecturer in Psychoanalysis at the University of Michigan Medical School and is now Senior Consultant to Allen Creek Preschool and MPF’s Walnut Lake Preschool. She is President of the international Association for Child Psychoanalysis and currently Chair of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute’s Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis training program. Both Jack and Kerry are in private practice in Ann Arbor.
Educational Objective: 1. Be able to identify characteristics of the pretermination phase. 2. Understand and apply effective techniques for starting a goodbye time in treatment. 3. Expand their perspective on the trajectory of a complete treatment.
Target Audience: Psychoanalysts and other interested mental health professionals and members of the community.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. The presentation will be entitled: This program will focus on the motivation and meaning of video game playing. Presenter: Discussant: Educational Objective: 1. Be able to identify several motivations that underlie involvement in video game play. 2. Have an increased recognition of the variety, prevalence and impact of the virtual space on our patients. 3. Be able to differentiate healthy and problematic modes of game play.
Target Audience: Saturday, February 28, 2009The Chicago Psychoanalytic Society invites you to a symposium: Philosophical and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the “Subject” What does it mean to be to be a “subject”? How does this differ from the notion of a “person”? What do we mean when we use the word “subjectivity”, particularly when thinking about the nature of psychological development? Does the concept of “intersubjectivity” deepen our understanding of the nature of interaction between analyst and patient? This symposium will examine the nature of this topic in both disciplines, exploring the interplay between psychoanalytic and philosophical ideas. The meeting will feature the work of two leading scholars, followed by commentary from two philosophers and two psychoanalysts. Saturday, February 28, 2009
“Recovering a Lost Idea of the Subject” “Reflections on the Somatic Sublime”
Biographies: Jonathan Lear, Ph.D. is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Eric L. Santner, Ph.D. is the Philip & Ida Romberg Professor in Modern Germanic Christine C. Kieffer, Ph.D. is faculty at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Marilyn Nissim-Sabat, Ph.D., M.S.W. is Professor Emeritus, Philosophy Dept., Lewis John Riker, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Colorado College. Admission is free and open to all members of the mental health and academic communities. CEU’s are available for Psychologists, Psychiatrists and L.C.S.W’s. Faculty and students of all Institute for Psychoanalysis programs are invited to attend the following 2 activities:
Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. The presentation will be entitled: Dr. Stern will argue that organized psychoanalysis needs to redefine what it means to practice psychoanalysis. Such a redefinition is dictated not only by current realities of the market place but also by contemporary theory, which emphasizes the co-created, non-linear nature of the analytic relationship. Presenter: Steven Stern, PsyD Dr. Stern is a faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute for Psycho-analysis where he has taught a course on contemporary theory and technique for the past 4 years, and a faculty member at Maine Medical Center where he teaches psychoanalytic therapy to psychiatry residents. He has written numerous psychoanalytic papers, including "The Conundrum of Self-Care" (Contemporary Psycho-analysis, 2007), and"The Dialectic of Empathy and Freedom" (International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology, in press). He is in private practice in Portland, ME Discussant: Salee Jenkins, PhD Dr. Jenkins is adjunct faculty at NUMS and training analyst at the Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. She has published and discussed papers on therapeutic action, stalemates and momentum in the clinical situation. Educational Objective: 1. Learn to question the traditional definition of psychoanalysis in the light of contemporary theory, and the changing nature of the marketplace. 2. Consider a new definition of psychoanalysis grounded in these same arguments. Target Audience: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 7:30 p.m The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will take place at: National Louis University The presentation will be entitled: Dr. Nussbaum will argue that the implicit denial of humans that we are really animals—or "anthropodenial"— Presenter: Martha Nussbaum, PhD Discussant: Mark Smaller, PhD Educational Objective: 1. Have an increased understanding 2. Have an increased understanding of how the integration of psychoanalysis and affective neuroscience as studied through empirical research with animals can contribute to our understanding of this moral problem. 3. Have an increased understanding of the implications of "anthropodenial" and affective neuroscience for clinical work.
Access the 0708 meeting planner Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 7:30 p.m The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will take place at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 5006. The presentation will be entitled: Dr. Levy will discuss a new model for psychoanalytic education, the reasons we need one, obstacles to its development and implementation and the changes for our field that such a model affords. Presenters: Steven T. Levy, MD Bonnie Litowitz, PhD Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will learn: 1) A new model for psychoanalytic education; Tuesday, October 28, 2008 The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will take place at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 5006. The presentation will be entitled: This presentation is about the way that analysts conceptualize the longing for transcendent authority, and how this impacts the way analysts think about transference. Presenters: Neal Spira, MD Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will learn: 1) How psychoanalysis relies on an authority which it is constantly striving to deconstruct. Tuesday, September 23, 2008 The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will take place at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 5006. The presentation will be entitled: Three presenters will talk about Marian Tolpin’s work as an inspiring, thoughtful, outspoken, and committed psychoanalyst. There will also be time for others to comment on her contributions as a member of the Chicago psychoanalytic community. Presenters: James William Anderson, PhD Kate Schechter, LCSW Ernest Wolf, M.D. Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will be able: 1. To see the difference between regressive, pathological aspects of transference and aspects of transference that reflect tendrils of health, that show a reaching for development and growth Target Audience: Psychoanalysts and other interested mental health profess-sionals and members of the community. Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The presentation will be entitled: This presentation will offer a psycho-analytic review of the art of Jim Dine, taking into account his responses to the illness and death of his mother when he was a boy. Drs. Weiss and Trosman will show a film from Dine's childhood and relate his subsequent work to research done at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis on parent loss in childhood. Presenters: Samuel Weiss, M.D. Educational Objective: 1. Have an increased understanding of the effects of parent loss over a lifetime. 2. Have an increased understanding of how this artist struggled with parent loss and how he tried to resolve it through his art. Target Audience: Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The presentation will be entitled “Rethinking Psychotherapy vs. Psychoanalysis: What Does Feminism Have To Do With It?” Presenter: Lewis Aron, Ph.D. Dr. Aron is the author of A Meeting of Minds: Mutuality in Psychoanalysis (The Analytic Press, 1996). He is the Editor (with Adrienne Harris) of The Legacy of Sandor Ferenczi, (TAP, 1993), the Editor (with Frances Sommer Anderson) of Relational Perspectives on the Body, (TAP, 1998), the Editor (with Stephen Mitchell) of Relational Psychoanalysis: The Emergence of a Tradition, (TAP, 1999), the Editor (with Adrienne Harris) of Relational Psychoanalysis II: Talk: Educational Objective: 1. Understand the historical context that led to the differentiation between psychotherapy & psychoanalysis. 2. Understand the historical and biographical reasons that led Freud to be so keen to eliminate suggestion from psychoanalysis. 3. Understand how feminist theory helps us rethink the differentiation between psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and how this understanding has implications for psychoanalytic education and practice. Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:30 p.m. National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 5006. “A Ship Made of Paper: From Dissociation to Engagement to Empathy.” Presenter: Christine C. Kieffer, Ph.D., ABPP Christine C. Kieffer, Ph.D., ABPP is a board certified child/adolescent and adult psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist who serves on the faculties of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and Rush University Medical Center. The author of numerous papers and 3 edited books, Dr. Kieffer also serves on the editorial boards of JAPA, Psychoanalytic Inquiry and the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. Dr. Kieffer is in private practice in Chicago and Winnetka. For more info: www.drchristinekieffer.com Discussant: Marian Tolpin, M.D. Marian Tolpin, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Talk: This presentation will examine how modes of play in child analysis can create clinical momentum and enable a resumption of psychological development through a process of procedural enactment, empathic immersion, ongoing rupture and repair of fragile relational bonds--allowing an engagement of previously dissociated affect states and building expanded capacities for both self-reflective thought and creative action. Commonalities between child and adult psychoanalysis will be highlighted. Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will: 1. Have an enhanced understanding of the commonalities between child and adult psychoanalysis. 2. Have an enhanced understanding of how enactment often precedes empathic immersion. 3. Have an enhanced understanding of how interpretation can promote new relational capacities. Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will take place at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 5006. The presentation will be entitled “The Complex Nature of Empathy.” Presenter: Stefano Bolognini, M.D. Stefano Bolognini, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst at the Italian Psychoanalytical Society, who is deeply engaged both in the institutional (IPA) and scientific field. His papers and books have been published in many languages. He works in private practice in Bologna (Italy), and he is a consultant and supervisor also in Psychiatric Hospitals and Adolescence Therapeutic Centers. Discussant: Paula Fuqua, M.D. Paula B. Fuqua, M.D. is a member of the Faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and a Council Member of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. She also serves as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. Talk: How has the concept of empathy evolved? What preconceptions do we have about this concept? This presentation will examine the evolution of the concept of empathy, and will also discuss how psychoanalytic empathy may be differentiated from” natural” empathy. The speaker will stress that empathy, like the creativity of the preconscious, cannot be deployed at will as a psychoanalytic technique or method. Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will: 1.Have an enhanced understanding of the ways in which the concept of empathy have evolved. 2. Understand the differentiation between psychoanalytic empathy and “natural” empathy.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 “The Complex Legacy of Franz Alexander” 7:30 p.m. National Louis University, Room 5006, 122 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois About the Presenter: Erika Schmidt MSW About the Discussant: David Terman,
M.D. About the paper: Franz Alexander's most controversial ideas about psychotherapy and psychoanalysis--planned interruptions, brief therapy, and the corrective emotional experience--have their origins in his training and psychoanalytic experience in Berlin of the 1920s where Alexander was the first graduate of a formal psychoanalytic institute. This paper puts Alexander's ideas in historical context and traces Alexander's impact on the evolution of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will have an understanding of: 1. Understand the controversies generated by Franz Alexander's ideas about psychotherapy, including the "corrective emotional experience," in historical context. 2. Appreciate the enduring influence of Franz Alexander on the practice of psychoanalysis in Chicago. 3. Understand the ways in which the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute and Polyclinic provided a model for the establishment of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 Presenter: Christopher Lane, Ph.D.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 “Reluctant Warriors: Israelis Suspended Between Rome and Jerusalem” Presenter: Nathan Szajnberg, M.D. National Louis University, Room 5006, 122
South Michigan Avenue Dear Colleague, The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, Room 5006. The Scientific Presentation will consist of a paper entitled “Reluctant Warriors: Israelis Suspended Between Rome and Jerusalem”. Presenter: Nathan Szajnberg, M.D. Nathan Szajnberg, M.D. is a Visiting Scholar at the Freud Center, the Hebrew University, and Wallerstein Research Fellow in Psychoanalysis. He was born in a displaced persons' camp in Germany, raised in Rochester, New York and studied at the College and Medical School of the University of Chicago. His teachers at Chicago included Bruno Bettelheim, Saul Bellow and Henry Rago. He completed analysis with Peter Giovachinni, then joined the faculty at Cornell University Medical School/New York Hospital. He has received NIMH awards in adolescence and infant psychiatry. His empirical research is in attachment, development and psychoanalytic concepts. He has written or edited three books: Educating the Emotions: Bruno Bettelheim and Psychoanalytic Development, Lives Across Time (with Henry Massie) and Reluctant Warriors: Israelis Suspended Between Rome and Jerusalem. He has two daughters and lives in Jerusalem. Discussant: James Fisch, M.D. James Fisch, M.D. is a Faculty Member and Director of the Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is also an Assistant Professor of the Department of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College as well as a Member and the Training and Supervising Analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Institute. In addition he has a private practice in psychoanalysis and psychiatry. Talk: Dr. Szajnberg will discuss a psycho-analytic exploration of courage among elite combat soldiers in the Israeli Army, a study he completed of transition to young adulthood among Israelis. Analysts have worked in military settings -- Grinker, Spiegel, Menninger, Karndiiner – contributing to our understanding of war trauma and mourning. This talk is the first known psychoanalytic study of courage. We will also consider the nature of a conscript army in a democratic society and the impact on psychic transition to young adulthood. Educational Objective: At the end of
the presentation, participants will have an understanding of: 2. The nature of courage considered from the perspective of the soldier. 3. The position of courage in character structure and its development antecedents. A copy of the paper will be available via email at a later date. Target Audience: Psychoanalysts and other interested mental health professionals and members of the community. Tuesday, May 22, 2007 "President's Address: Continuity in Community" Speaker: Robert Gordon, M.D. Robert Gordon,M.D. is a Training Analyst and Associate Dean at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University Medical School. In addition to his clinical work, he has a strong interest in organizational issues. He is one of four analyst partners in Analytic Consultants, a business consulting of the U.S. Public Health Service, and was director of aftercare at Northwestern for five years. The meeting will be held at 7.30pm at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, 2nd Floor Atrium. Room 5006.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 “Gender As Soft Assembly: Reflections on Postmodern Gender Theory”. Presenter: Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. Adrienne Harris, Ph.D. is Faculty and Supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. Dr. Harris also is training analyst on the faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California as well as an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, and Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Discussant: Christine Kieffer, Ph.D. Christine Kieffer, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst on the faculty of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and a clinical psychologist on the faculty of Rush University Medical Center. She is the author of numerous papers and three edited books on gender and sexuality, therapeutic action and child and adolescent psychoanalysis. Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will be able: 1.Have an enhanced understanding of how gender is co-constructed in a variety of relational contexts. 2.Have an enhanced understanding of how chaos theory may be utilized to generate new perspectives for comprehending gender. 3.Have an enhanced understanding of how the perspective of gender as soft assembly may be utilized to work clinically. A copy of the paper will be available via email at a later date. Please note that this presentation will occur one week later than usual – that is on May 1 rather than April 24. Tuesday, February 20, 2007 “The Telescoping of Generations” Presenter: Haydee
Faimberg, M.D. Discussant: Harry
Trossman.M.D. The meeting will be held at 7.30pm at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, 2nd Floor Atrium. Room 5006.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, Room 5006. The Scientific Presentation will consist of a paper entitled “Psychoanalysis, Terror and the Theatre of Cruelty”. Presenter: Jeffrey Stern, Ph.D. Jeffrey Stern, Ph.D., is a research and clinical graduate of the Institute for Psychoanalysis, and a member of the faculty. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in English Literature. He is a lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. Dr. Stern is also a member of the psychiatry faculty at Rush University, where he lectures on Shakespeare and film. Dr. Stern has published articles in Shakespeare Quarterly, The Journal of American Psychoanalytic Association, Psychoanalytic Review, Psychoanalytic Psychology, The Annual of Psychoanalysis, and Progress in Self Psychology, among others. His work is also represented in Errant Selves: A Casebook of Misbehavior, edited by Arnold Goldberg, and in Transforming Lives: Analysts and Patients View the Power of Psychoanalytic Treatment, edited by Joseph Schachter. Discussant: Jonathan Lear, Ph.D. Jonathan Lear, Ph.D., is currently the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is a member of the faculty at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Before coming to Chicago he taught at Yale, where he served as Chair of the Philosophy Department, and at Cambridge where he was a Fellow of Clare College. Dr. Lear has trained as a psychoanalyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis. His books include: “Love and its Place in Nature: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis”, “Therapeutic Action: An Earnest Plea for Irony”, “Freud”, and just published, “Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation”. Note: A copy of the paper will be available in the library and by request via email. You may view or download the paper by clicking here Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will be able:
1. To consider whether it is reasonable to imagine that practicing psychoanalysis puts us in vivid touch with emotions that are shaping our current world.
2. To consider whether our clinical work with borderline patients sheds any light on our understanding of the rage and political strategies of the Al Qaeda terrorists.
3. To consider whether self Psychology provides us with ideas about how we might improve our relations with peoples around the world who mistrust or even hate us.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006 The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, Room 506. The Scientific Presentation will consist of a paper entitled “Therapeutic Action in Self Psychology: with a special focus on two dimensions of selfobject failure.” Presenter: Kenneth Newman, M.D. Kenneth M. Newman, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst and former Dean of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. In 1989 he co-authored (with Howard Bacal) “Theories of Object Relations: Bridges to Self Psychology”, a pioneering effort to integrate post-Freudian theories of preoedipal development. Dr. Newman’s subsequent teaching and scholarly contributions reflect his continued interest in synthesizing the contributions from different psychoanalysis schools of thought, especially with regard to their implications for clinical technique. Discussant: Robert J. Leider, M.D. Robert J. Leider, M.D. is a training and supervising analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he did his analytic training. As a fourth year analytic candidate he participated in Kohut’s first course on Self Psychology. Dr. Leider is a past president of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society, and has served on the National and International Council for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology. He has published papers on a wide variety of topics including aggression, analytic neutrality, and self psychology. Note: A copy of the paper will be available in the library and by request via email. You may view or dowload the paper by clicking here Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will be able: 1. To outline Kohut’s theoretical model and its implications for theoretical action. 2. To consider criticisms of the model from more traditional perspectives and from the relational point-of-view. To evaluate modifications and criticisms from within self psychology especially as they depart from “classical self psychology” and involve technical shifts. 3. To consider certain aspects of the theory that I consider to have been underemphasized. Specifically the role of affects and their ultimate effect on character development and/or pathological outcome. From this to offer my own view that giving the role of affect management a greater significance leads to a greater emphasis on a 2nd dimension of self-object need. This then would become an essential transference expression. Tuesday, October 24, 2006 The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, October 24, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at *National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, 2nd Floor Atrium. The Scientific Presentation will consist of a debate entitled “A Debate on the Training Analyst System”. Moderator: Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, M.D. Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D. is training and supervising analyst of adults and children, who serves on the faculties of the Institute for Psychoanalysis and the University of Chicago. He is President-Elect of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. Panelist: Jorge Schneider, M.D. Jorge Schneider, M.D. is training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis. He is a former Dean of the Institute, and a past-president of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society. Panelist: Arnold Tobin, M.D. Arnold Tobin, M.D. is training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis. He has a longstanding research interest in psychoanalytic process. Panelist: Marian Tolpin, M.D. Marian Tolpin, M.D. is training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Chicago Medical School.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at *National Louis University, 122 S. Michigan Ave, 2nd Floor Atrium. The Scientific Presentation will consist of a paper entitled “On The Nature of Thoughtlessness”. Presenter: Arnold Goldberg, M.D. Dr. Goldberg will present a chapter from his new book: Moral Stealth: how correct behavior insinuates itself into the practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He is a training and supervising analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and a professor at Rush University Medical School. Discussant: David Solomon, M.D. David Solomon, M.D., is Faculty, Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis. Note: A copy of the paper will not be available. *The meeting location has been changed for the month of September only. Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will: 1. Be better able to assess the signs of thoughtlessness as a sign of psychopathology. 2. Be better able to assess when thoughtlessness manifests itself in an analysis. 3. Be able to identify common types of countertransference reactions in treating thoughtless patients.
Tuesday May 23rd, 2006 The next meeting of the Chicago Psychoanalytic Society will be held on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 at 7:30 p.m. The meeting will be held on the 5th floor, the National Lewis University Auditorium, Room 5006, at 122 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago. The Scientific Presentation will consist of a paper entitled “Erik Erikson’s Challenge to Psychoanalysis”. Presenter: Lawrence J. Friedman, Ph.D. Discussant: Marian Tolpin, M.D. Note: A copy of the paper will not be available. Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants will:
Target Audience: Psychoanalysts and other interested mental health professionals and members of the community. Tuesday, April 25, 2006 From Bi-Sexuality and Homosexuality to Intersexuality: Rethinking Gender Categories” Presenter: Jack Drescher, M.D. Discussant: Bertram J. Cohler, Ph.D. 5th Floor, National
Lewis Auditorium, Room 5006, Time: 7.30 p.m. Presenter: Jack Drescher, M.D. Jack Drescher, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute and Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at New York University’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He Chairs the Committee on GLB issues of the American Psychiatric Association and is Past President of the New York County District Branch of the APA. He is the author of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (The Analytic Press) and has edited 19 books. Discussant: Bertram J. Cohler, Ph.. Bertram J. Cohler, Ph.D., is William Rainey Harper Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, on the faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalysis, and a volunteer therapist at The Center-on-Halsted, serving Chicago’s LGBT community. Note: A copy of the paper will not be available. Educational Objective: At the end of the presentation, participants should:
Target Audience: Psychoanalysts and other interested mental health professionals and members of the community.
Tuesday, March 28, 2006 at 7.30p.m. “The Enacted Dimension of the Analytic Process” Presenter: Karen Martin, M.A., L.C.S.W. B.C.D. Panelist: Kenneth Newman, M.D. and Henry Evans, M.D. 5th Floor, National
Lewis Auditorium, Room 5006, Presenter: Karen Martin, M.A., L.C.S.W., B.C.D. Karen Martin, M.A., L.C.S.W., B.C.D. is a Clinical Social Worker who practices full time in Highland Park. She completed her psychoanalytic training at the Chicago Institute in 2003. Panelist: Kenneth Newman, M.D. Kenneth Newman, M.D. is training and supervising analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he served 2 terms as Dean. He is co-author (with Howard Bacal) of “Theories of Object Relations: Bridges of Self Psychology”. Panelist: Henry Evans, M.D. Henry Evans, M.D. is training and supervising analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Past President of the Society. Note: A copy of the paper will not be available this month. Educational Objective: At the conclusion of this learning activity, participants should be able to describe:
Tuesday, February 28, 2006 “Developing Clinical Momentum” Presenter: Marian Tolpin, M.D. Discussant: Mark Levey, M.D. Tuesday, February 28, 2006, 7:30 p.m. 5th Floor, National Lewis Auditorium, Room 5006, 122 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois Presenter: Marian Tolpin, M.D. Marian Tolpin, M.D. is training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Chicago Medical School. Her numerous theoretical and clinical publications reflect a long standing interest in psychoanalysis as a developmental process. Discussant: Mark Levey, M.D. Mark Levey, M.D., is training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalysis and a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois School of Medicine. Note: A copy of the paper will be emailed to all society members. If anyone else would like a copy of the paper, please contact Lucy Wrobel at saba90@comcast.net Educational Objective: At the conclusion of this learning activity, participants should be able to describe:
2. The ability to recognize two distinct forms of transference: the recently described “forward edge” transference which revives the patient’s remaining childhood health and developmental momentum; and the familiar “trailing edge” transference which revives the patient’s nuclear childhood disorder. 3. An understanding of the role played by recognition, interpretation, and reconstruction of both “edges” of transference in revived developmental impetus and clinical momentum. Target Audience: Psychoanalysts and other interested mental health professionals and members of the community. Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 at 7.30pm Arthur Nielsen, M.D. – “The Underlying Logic of Clinical Psychoanalysis” Discussant: James Anderson, Ph.D. Where: 5th floor, National Lewis Auditorium, Room
5006 About the Presenter: Arthur Nielsen, M.D. is a faculty member of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and a faculty member at Northwestern's Family Institute. Tonight's talk, "The underlying Logic of Clinical Psychoanalysis" derives from a course he has been teaching since 1997 at the Institute for Psychoanalysis. About the Discussant: James W. Anderson, Ph.D. is a faculty member and Director of Extracurricular Education at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, Associate Editor of the Annual of Psychoanalysis, and Professor of Clinical Psychology, Northwestern University Medical School. Target Audience: Psychoanalysts and other interested mental health professionals and members of the community.
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005 at 7.30pm Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D. – “Good Vibrations: a new, non-linear dynamics of psychoanalysis” Discussion: Charles Jaffe, M.D. Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 at 7.30pm Stuart Twemlow, M.D. – “A Developmental Approach to School Violence: The Peaceful Schools Experiment” Discussant: Samuel Weiss, M.D. JAMES GROTSTEIN, M.D. - LECTURE AND WORKSHOP PROJECTIVE TRANSIDENTIFICATION: EXTENSION OF THE CONCEPT OF PROJECTIVE
IDENTIFICATION ALL DAY WORKSHOP WITH DR. GROTSTEIN SATURDAY OCTOBER 22, 2005
Tuesday, Sept 27th, 2005 at 7.30pm Jonathan Lear, Ph.D. will be lecturing on Freud's critique of morality and religion from a chapter in his new book which will soon be released. Jeffrey Stern, Ph.D. will be the discussant. Time: 7:30 Tuesday, May 24, 2005 at 7.30pm
Presenter: Jerome Grunes, M.D. 5th Floor,
Scientific Meetings of The Chicago Psychoanalytic Society 1996-97 JANUARY 28, 1997 "Developmental Psychopathology and Technique with Borderline Personality Organizations" By Peter Fonagy, Ph. D Discussant: Bert Cohler, Ph.D.
FEBRUARY 25, 1997 "Integrating Behavior Modification and Pharmacotherapy with the Psychoanalysis of Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder: A Case Study" By Prudence Leib, M.D. Discussant: Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D.
MARCH 25, 1997 "Transcending the Self: An Object Relations Concept of the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis" By Frank Summers, Ph.D. Discussant: Susan Fisher, M.D.
APRIL 29, 1997 Business Meeting
MAY, 27, 1997 "The Usable Winnicott " By Kenneth Newman, M.D. Discussant: To Be Announced
JUNE 24, 1997 Presidential Address By Harvey S. Strauss, M.D.
The Chicago Psychoanalytic Society's Scientific Presentation
Self-Organization and Consciousness January 27, 1998 Northwestern Dental School 240 E. Huron Rm 3380 7:00 pm Presenter: Virginia C. Barry, M.D. Discussant: Charles Jaffe, M.D.
Abstract: This paper attempts to correlate a biologically based model of brain function with a psychoanalytic model of the mind. The neurological model addresses the nature of processing experience in "primary consciousness" and "higher-order consciousness." Psychoanalysts often treat patients with limited ability to reflect on their experiences (i.e. To employ "higher-order" consciousness). The clinical material in this paper describes the repetition compulsions of a patient who required symbiotic adaptations to sustain her self organization. Interpreting the meaning of the behaviors was useless in altering the press for repetition until the analyst became imbricated into the patient's self system. The pressure to reenact rather than to reflect upon this patient's experiences is discussed from the perspectives of a neurological model and a psychanalytic model. Each model is explored with the goal of enhancing this patient's reflective capacities.
Scientific Meetings of The Chicago Psychoanalytic Society 1998-99
All meetings are held from 7:30pm to 9:30 pm at: Northwestern University Dental School, 240 East Huron, Chicago (unless otherwise noted)
September 22, 1998 Dr. Susan Fisher: A Case Study of an Autistic Child: a Reappraisal Discussant: Martha McClintock, Ph.D.
October 27, 1998 Dr. Hlena Basserman Vianna The Brazilian Analyst involved in uncovering candidates' involvement in torture of political prisoners which is currently being investigated by the International Psychoanalytic Association.
January 26, 1999 Dr. Irwin Hoffmann: Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process
(Chapter 9 in Hoffman, I.Z. (In press; expected December 1998) Ritual and Spontaneity in the Psychoanalytic Process: A Dialectical-Constructivist View. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press) This paper brings together several themes developed in the author's earlier work and integrates them with a view of the analyst's affirmation of the patient as pitted against the "dark side" of the analytic frame and, at the same time, the dark side of the human condition. With respect to the former, the analyst could be viewed as exploitative, playing upon the patient's neediness from a position of power. With respect to the latter, life itself can be viewed as a seduction which is followed by disillusionment, abandonment, and death -- in other words, as a cruel deception. The love of parental figures in critical periods of childhood helps to buffer the impact of reflective human consciousness, particularly as it comes up against the terror of mortality. When the injuries of childhood are sufficiently traumatizing, the added insults of the human condition can be unbearable. The analyst is in a position to counter these assaults on the patient's sense of worth through a powerful kind of affirmation, one that is born out of the dialectic of psychoanalytic ritual and personal spontaneity. The interplay of the two can triumph over cynicism and despair and cultivate the patient's capacity for expansive and committed living. Among the new concepts introduced here is the notion of liminal space, a transitional zone, identified by the anthropologist Victor Turner, between structured, hierarchical, role-related ways of being and spontaneous, relatively unstructured, egalitarian ways of being. Many experiences occur in that liminal zone, which is "neither here nor there." An example within the analytic situation is the time period between the moment the analyst says it's time to stop and the moment the patient leaves the office. At such a moment the sense of analytic ritual is suspended, and the analyst and the patient are together more simply as fellow human beings. Nevertheless, even then the sense of the power of the ritual is in the background so that the liminal interaction has a special kind of charge. This paper includes a detailed and extended clinical illustration. A key liminal moment demonstrates the co-creation by analyst and analysand of a quality of relatedness that is new and generative even as the specter of potentially destructive forms of enactment is evoked. The case affords an especially poignant look at the interplay of neurotic and existential anxiety. The patient's primary symptom, a kind of vertigo, could be viewed as rational, whereas the usual sense of balance and confidence that people maintain in their everyday lives could be viewed as illusory, grounded essentially in denial. The case also offers the opportunity to explore the relationship between "drive" and "deficit," with particular attention to the issues highlighted by self psychology and classical theory. The two perspectives in this case play themselves out in a special manner in that the patient had an interest in self psychology which he seemed, at times, to use defensively. The paper closes with a series of dreams bearing on the termination of the analysis, ending finally with an account of the last hour in which analyst and analysand try to co-construct a "good-enough ending" for that hour and for the analysis.
February 23, 1999 Dr. Arnold Wilson: Kindling a Passion for Analysis:Analytic Preparation and the Opening Phase
Clinical psychoanalysis has long labored with two primary pseudo-world hypotheses, one organized around internalization and the other around intrapsychic conflict. The characteristics of these (as seemingly autonomous and self-sufficient aggregates) have delayed a process-centered comparative psychoanalysis from contributing to the maturation and evolution of our theory. Hierarchy is a construct that can help boost contemporary structural psychoanalysis past this hurdle into a next necessary synthetic stage of model building. The opening phase is put forward as an example of how these can be transcended. Preparing an analysand for what is to come -- kindling a passion for analyzing -- becomes an inextricable part of beginning an analysis, and adds a welcome freedom to the analyst's technical vision. Several depictions of "analytic preparation" are offered as illustrations. Positioning oneself "inside" bidirectional processes or "outside" the transference becomes a central axis of analytic technique. The assumption that transference must invariably and assiduously be protected against contamination is critically examined and it is noted that at times, the transference must be first contaminated if it is to later be successfully analyzed. The role of countertransference as either an induced response or an irreducible aspect of the analyst's subjectivity is clarified by the discussion of pseudo-world hypotheses.
March 20, 1999 Sixteenth Biennial Conference on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Dedicated to the memory of Thomas J. Pappadis, M.D.
April 9th at 10:00 am at the Institute Perversions and Erotic Transference Open to Society Members Helen Meyers, M.D. The First Traveling Woman Psychoanalytic Scholar Open to Faculty and Candidates Only 1:00pm Case Presentation
April 27, 1999 Business Meeting 13th Floor, 122 S. Michigan
May 25 at the Dental School 7:30 pm Presenter: Frank Summers, Ph.D. The Analyst's Vision of the Patient and Therapeutic Action Discussant: Bonnie Litowitz, Ph.D. Open to the Mental Health Community
As psychoanalytic therapy shifts from a conflict resolution theory to a model of self realization, the analyst's vision of the patient takes on a role in the process that did not exist in the traditional psychoanalytic model. This paper builds on Loewald's (1960) concept of the analyst as "behind" because he or she can only build from the patient's spontaneous productions and yet "ahead" in that the analyst goes beyond the patient's material to construct an image of whom the analysand can become. In this way, the future becomes a prominent component of the analytic process. The famous case of Ann O. is used to demonstrate the deleterious effects of failing to include the analyst's vision in the treatment process. This case is contrasted with the contemporary treatment of a young woman that illustrates the use of the analyst's vision in the conduct of psychoanalytic treatment.
June 22, 1999 at the Dental School 7:30 PM Presenter: Henry Evans, M.D. Presidential Address: Fear and Adaptation: The Role of Consciousness
Scientific Meetings of The Chicago Psychoanalytic Society 1999-2000
Please Note Change of Location All meetings are held from 7:30pm to 9:30 pm Pritzker Auditorium, Northwestern Memorial Hospital (unless otherwise noted)
OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY
September 28 at 7:30 PM Presenter: John E. Gedo, M.D. A 40 Year Follow-up on a Supervised Case of Psychoanalysis Done in Training Discussant: Henry M. Evans, M.D.
October 26 at 7:30 Presenter: Philip F. E. Rubovits-Seitz, M.D. Interpretive Processing of Clinical Data: Problems and Progress Discussant: Bertram J. Cohler, Ph.D.
This essay focuses on a crucial phase of the interpretive process, the data-processing strategies and operations that cognitively transform clinical data and information into latent meanings and determinant which are unique to the individual patient at a given time. Rather than attempting to review all of the diverse processing operations, the author selects several important and problematic examples for detailed discussion and illustration: pattern seeking, thematization, and clinical inference. A clinical method of investigating data processing, the retrospective "unpacking" or "naturalizing" of therapy sessions is described and illustrated. The author stresses also that we can learn a great deal from various other disciplines whose methods of studying cognitive processing supplement our own. Does detailed knowledge of the preconscious processes that underlie clinical interpretations make therapists better interpreters? The author suggests that the more we can learn about methods of cognitive transformation, and the more we can make such information part of our clinical interpretive knowledge base, the more likely we are to draw on and use that knowledge preconsciously in depth-psychological understanding of our patients.
January 25, 2000 at 7:30 Presenter: Paula B. Fuqua, M.D. Termination: End or Transition? Discussant: Mark D. Smaller, Ph.D.
The paper begins with a brief review of the existing literature on the termination of psychoanalytic treatment, focusing on the importance given to the complete resolution of the transference neurosis by Ferenczi, Glover and others. Schlessinger and Robbins made it clear in their later research that the transference never resolves completely and irrevocably. Taking a self-psychological perspective, the author argues that the concept of analysis as a discrete process with a beginning, middle and end is a Procrustean bed, which limits our effectiveness. Psychoanalysis is an on-going process that aims at sustaining the growth of the individual. An adolescent-like process through which the analysand wishes to establish her independent competence fuels those treatments that end most discretely. Other treatments may dwindle, stop and start several times, or never really end. This ought to be permissible as long as it continues to promote the growth and stability of the self.
February 22, 2000 Presenter: Mark J. Gehrie, Ph.D. Forms of Relatedness: Self Preservation and the Schizoid Continuum Discussant: Susan M. Fisher, M.D.
March 17-19, 2000 Clinical Issues with Lesbians and Gay Men: A Conference for Mental Health Professionals The Knickerbocker Hotel, North Michigan Avenue, Chicago Reserve your room: 800-621-8140 Speakers and panelists include: Ralph Roughton Elizabeth Young-Bruehl Bert Cohler Marian Tolpin Martha Nussbaum Topics include: * Finding and Sustaining Relationships * The Impact of Changing Social Perspectives on Clinical Technique * Issues of Gay and Straight Therapists Conference attendees will be eligible for CME credits. For more information, or to register call Eva Sandburg at the Chicago Psychoanalytic society at 312-922-7474, ext. 600
May 12 and 13, 2000 The Institute for Psychoanalysis Conference on Youth and Violence * The Chicago Cultural Center
June 27, 2000 Presenter: Arnold Goldberg, M.D. Gaps, Barriers and Splits: The Psychoanalytic Search for Connection Discussant: Jorge Schneider, M.D. Click Here for ABSTRACT Gaps, Barriers and Splits: The Psychoanalytic Search for Connection
June 27, 2000 Northwestern Dental School 240 E. Huron Rm 3380 7:00 pm Presenter: Arnold Goldberg, M.D. This paper explores the pictorial imagery that is often used to explain the mind and mental processes. In particular it examines the gap that is said to exist between neurophysiologic and psychologic phenomena, the barrier said to explain the separation of unconscious from preconscious and conscious ideation and the split said to constitute the essentials of disavowal and denial. In each of these visual renditions, the claim is made that there is a logical contradiction, which stems from linear thinking. In addition the paper aims to suggest to the reader that the proper appreciation of these erroneous images might remove present-day futile efforts to pursue solutions based upon these images.
Scientific Meetings of The Chicago Psychoanalytic Society 2000-2001 7:30pm to 9:30 pm Pritzker Auditorium Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Feinberg Pavilion (unless otherwise noted) OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY
September 26, 2000 Presenter: Judith S. Yanof, M.D. Barbie and the Tree of Life: The Multiple Functions of Gender in Development Discussant: M. Barrie Richmond, M.D.
Abstract:Gender identity is the lens through which people experience being boy or girl, man or woman. It is a complex compromise formation that is not separate from the wishes, fears, and intrapsychic conflicts of other domains. Over the course of development, gender identity becomes layered and reconfigured. This paper looks at one child's experience of gender over several phases in her development in order to learn how gender is integrated into identity. At different times, as different conflicts came to the fore, she used gender to shape and lend definition to those conflicts. Conversely, her experiences in other spheres influenced her experience of gender.
October 24, 2000 Presenter: Jerome Winer, M.D. In collaboration with: Eric Ornstein, MA Titration in the Treatment of the More Troubled Patient Discussant: Kenneth Newman, M.D. Abstract: This paper focuses on defining and discussing a modification of technique the authors recommend in the psychoanalytic treatment of more troubled patients, a modification they call titration. Titration is defined as a conscious decision by the analyst to gradually increase or decrease the level of assistance (or gratification) in order to facilitate the analytic process. The complexity of nodal points in treatment is emphasized by focusing on the decision making process faced by analysts in implementing titration. Guidelines and a case vignette are presented. The authors conclude by discussing some of the politics involved in the introduction of technique modifications, the salience of the titration concept and directions for further exploration. At the Institute
November 28, 2000 Business Meeting
January 23, 2001 Presenter: John Munder Ross, Ph.D. "INTERSUBJECTIVITY:" Preconscious Defense Analysis and the Neuropsychology of Memory Discussant: Mark Levey, M.D. The Knickerbocher Hotel in Chicago
February 24, 2001 "THE THERAPEUTIC EMOTIONAL CONNECTION" The Seventeenth Biennial Conference on Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Featured Speaker: Evelyne Albrecht Schwaber, M.D. Discussants: Kenneth Newman, M.D. Steven Stern, Psy.D. Abstract Not Available
February 27, 2001 Presenter: Virginia Saft, M.D. The Role of Recognition Memory in Reconstruction Discussant: Daniel Busch, M.D. Abstract:The role of recognition memory in the reconstruction of very early childhood events is explored via the study of a treatment in which unremembered early childhood abuse was reconstructed. The patient's extensive associations to newspaper and TV news stories, movie plots, patient case histories and novels came to be understood as a way of remembering by recognition early childhood moves as well as sexual abuse which had no later childhood equivalents to serve as screen memories. This necessitates a discussion of the concept of implicit memory. A memory research phenomenon called printing, which enables subjects to recognize previously encountered but unremembered material is discussed with the associated concept of recognition memory. A corollary question is raised as to whether all screen memories are not in fact triggered by a specific kind of recognition memory in day residues.
April 24, 2001 Presenter: Douglas Kirsner, Ph.D. Australian Author of Unfree Association will speak on the History of the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Future of Psychoanalysis Discussant: Meyer Gunther, M.D. Abstract:The Chicago Institute Story:From Machine Politics to Democracy Like the city itself, Chicago's leading psychoanalytic institute was from its beginnings, 'on the make.' This story is not about personalities so much as about a crucial structural fault in the governance of the Chicago Institute that allowed boosterism, authoritarianism and conflicts of interest to flourish. This flaw eventually brought about the fall of its director as well as a revolution by the members that brought about a greater measure of democracy and ethics to the Chicago Institute's structure. This paper will detail the history of the Chicago Institute from its 1932 inception until the 'revolution,' and will explore the structural reasons for the changes, through the directorships of Drs. Alexander, Piers and Pollock.
May 22, 2001 Presenter: Shelley Doctors, Ph.D. Attachment-Individuation: Clinical Notes Toward a Reconsideration of Adolescent Turmoil Discussant: Robert Galatzer-Levy, M.D. Abstract:In this paper, the author takes issue with Anna Freud's (1958) claim that adolescent turmoil is normative adolescent separation distress and suggests instead that when it occurs, turmoil in adolescence is better understood as attachment-individuation difficulties. Two supporting clinical vignettes are offered which illustrate the aspect of individuation referred to as "finding one's own voice." the first case illustrates the turmoil that may result when insecurely attached adolescents attempt to rework emotional ties in adolescence. The second illustrates healthier attachment-individuation in adolescence. The material implies that individuation is not solely determined by structures within the adolescent but is codetermined by the subjective psychological worlds of those who interact with the adolescent, as the adolescent's psychological organization is formed, maintained and transformed in highly specific intersubjective environments providing (or failing to provide) specific selfobject experiences.
June 26, 2001 Presidential Address Phil Lebovitz, M.D. What is Empathy is the Question
Scientific Meetings of The Chicago Psychoanalytic Society 2001-2002 7:30pm to 9:30 pm 122. S. Michigan Ave 5th floor room 5006-Lecture Hall (unless otherwise noted) OPEN TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY
September 25, 2001 Presenter: By Barbara Fajardo, Ph.D. The Therapeutic Alliance: Coupled Oscillators in Biological Synchrony Abstract:This paper is an application of some principles of nonlinear dynamics systems theory to expand our understanding of the therapeutic alliance in self psychology. The therapeutic alliance is understood as an aspect of a selfobject, a shared created experience in the process of a partnership between analyst and patient. Biologists and other scientists have used dynamic systems theory to described shared behavior patterns that organize the lives of individuals forming a system, sometimes identifying the agents and parameters of change in the process of the system. Applying the principles of spontaneous organization in biological process to the embodied behavior and experience of the analytic dyad, patients and their analysts work together in an alliance that can be organized in several different ways. A synchronous alliance is characterized by symmetrical experiences and behaviors of the dyadic partners, when there is a feeling of being "in step," as in empathic attunement. An antisynchronous alliance is when the partners are together but at odds, similar to music when a syncopated counterpoint plays parallel to the main melodic line. In the analytic dyad, this is exemplified by repetitious patterned behavior when the analyst does one thing and the patient does another, still responding to one another, but experiencing different things in tandem. A third type of dyadic organization is incoherence, when the system is unable to achieve synchrony or antisynchrony. This can be an impasse, or it might be a phase transition, which is followed by a spontaneous reorganization into new patterns related to growth and development in the patient's self. Clinical vignettes are described to illustrate each type of alliance.
October 23, 2001 Presenter: Harold P. Blum, M.D. The Dream in the Second Psychoanalytic Century Abstract:During this past century of psychoanalysis and into the new millennium, there have been continuing challenges to psychoanalytic dream theory. This paper reconsiders the basic characteristics of most dreams and current controversies concerning the motives and meanings of dreams. The recalled manifest dream, loosely analogous to the daydream, is a ubiquitous experience, which has had historical, theoretical, and clinical importance. The clinical use of dreams has changed with the evolution of technique and prevailing theoretical interests. Dreams are no longer regarded as the via regia of analytic work, and there is no royal road to interpretation without resistance. Dreams represent compromise formations, including a core of hallucinatory wish fulfillment, which may provide compelling vivid evidence and conviction. Dreams illuminate transference and countertransference, self and object representation, current interpersonal elements, the analytic relationship and analytic process, ego state, character, mood, and defense. Dream psychology is differentiated from the neurophysiology of the dream and from dreaming sleep. The psychoanalytic theory of dreams should be consistent and compatible with neuroscience. The expectation of the convergence of psychoanalysis and neuroscience looms ahead, an old dream in a postmodern context.
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"..every
dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a
meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the
mental activities of waking life."
Sigmund Freud - The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900
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