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VIRTUAL
FEB 12-14 | FEB 20-21 | FEB 27-28
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psychoanalysis now.
FINAL PROGRAM
2 02 1 NATI O NAL M EETI NG
WEEKEND 3: Feb 27-28
welcome
OPEN VIRTUAL SESSIONS THROUGHOUT THE DAY
POSTER SESSION
The 2021 Poster Session will be offered as a virtual gallery. Conference attendees will be able
to independently view the posters throughout the conference.
This poster session is designed to promote stimulating conversations and mutual learning
among psychoanalytic practitioners, theorists, and researchers. Submissions have relevance to
psychoanalytic theory, technique, practice and effectiveness of psychoanalysis, or interdisciplinary
scholarship addressing research questions in neighboring fields.
This is the 20th annual poster session at the APsaA National Meeting.
HALLWAY/”MEET AT THE CLOCK”
In keeping with the spirit of APsaA’s Waldorf days where attendees would run into colleagues in the
hallway or meet a friend at the clock, APsaA will have a Zoom room where participants can meet up
with old and new friends throughout the day, have lunch together and network.
Programming is in Zoom format: MEETING MEETING WITH BREAKOUT ROOMS WEBINAR
Confidentiality
Ensuring the confidentiality of all clinical material • Presenters of case material must have either
presented at our meetings is of the utmost importance obtained informed consent from the patient (or
to APsaA. Attendance is contingent on an agreement guardian) or taken other carefully considered
to adhere to the following guidelines: measures to safeguard confidentiality.
• Clinical material must not be discussed outside of • If at any time a participant suspects he, she or
the session in which it is presented and furthermore they may recognize the identity of a patient in a
must not be recorded, conveyed, or disseminated in case presentation, the participant must leave the
written or electronic form. session immediately.
• Participants must agree to maintain a secure • Failure to observe these guidelines constitutes a
environment to be utilized solely by the registered breach of APsaA’s ethical principles and may be
participant and protected from intrusion by, or cause for disciplinary
exposure to, unauthorized persons. or legal action or both.
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DAILY SC H ED U LE WEEKEND 3: Feb 27-28
CONVERSATION WITH A
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2021 DISTINGUISHED ANALYST:
DR. JACK DRESCHER “A HISTORY OF
HOMOSEXUALITY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS:
All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time FROM THE THEORETICAL TO THE PERSONAL”
Chair: Holly Crisp, M.D. (Houston, TX)
11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET Host: Sumru Tufekcioglu, Ph.D. (New York, NY)
SCIENCE DEPARTMENT SESSION 1: Distinguished Analyst,
ON THE EDGE OF DISCOVERY: SELECT Presenter: Jack Drescher, M.D. (New York, NY)
STUDIES FROM THE POSTER SESSION Note: This program is intended to satisfy the
PRESENTED BY THE COLLEGE OF RESEARCH requirements of those states that require CE/CME
FELLOWS OF APSAA credits in the area of cultural competency for license
Chair: Robert Gregory, M.D.* (Syracuse, NY) renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification
Host: J. Christopher Perry, M.P.H, M.D.* is made by each state’s board.
(Montreal, Canada) Join renowned analyst Dr. Jack Drescher for a
Presenters: Himanshu Agrawal, M.D. (Hartland, WI) conversation on his ideas about psychoanalytic
Sheila Hafter Gray, M.D. (Washington, DC) practice and thinking. Early psychoanalytic
Sarah Johnson, M.A.* (Knoxville, TN) theorizing about homosexuality made it impossible
Michael Scharf, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) for openly gay men and women to become
Lauren Smith* (Gambler, OH) psychoanalysts. The history of psychoanalytic
Nicole Weishoff* (New York, NY) attitudes toward homosexuality illustrates how
Discussants: Barton J. Blinder, M.D. (Newport Beach, CA) psychological theories cannot be divorced from
Rebecca Drill, Ph.D.* (Needham, MA) the political, cultural, and personal contexts in
which they are formulated. This presentation will
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John Markowitz, M.D.* (New York, NY)
elucidate some of that history as well as the impact
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the
of theoretical formulations on the personal level of
APsaA Poster Session, with contributions from
an openly gay male psychoanalyst. In this interactive
psychoanalytic researchers throughout the United
presentation, attendees are encouraged to engage
States and around the world. This session “On the
in discussion. Dr. Drescher is a Faculty Member and
Edge of Discovery,”inaugurates a new program
Senior Psychoanalytic Consultant, Columbia Center
for APsaA. The newly formed College of Research
for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and a
Fellows of APsaA has selected outstanding
Training and Supervising Analyst at the William
contributions from researchers who have submitted
Alanson White Institute.
poster presentations for the 2021 National Meeting.
After attending this session, participants should be
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The authors of the selected posters will present
their studies in more detail and a faculty member able to: 1) Discuss and distinguish between the three
will discuss the strengths and limitations of the broad categories of theorizing about homosexuality:
research methodology and how the findings may theories of pathology, theories of immaturity and
inform psychoanalytic theory and practice. theories of normal variation; 2) Assess how personal
beliefs (countertransference) influence clinical
After attending this session, participants should be
thinking about human sexuality. 2
able to: 1) Utilize relevant design elements such as
sample size and selection, control of independent
variables, randomization, mediation, and statistical
analysis for psychoanalytic research; 2) Analyze the
strengths and limitations in research methodology
for psychoanalytically-oriented studies to inform
psychoanalytic theory and practice. 2
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D A ILY SC H E DUL E WEEKEND 3: Feb 27-28
11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued speakers will present an overview of the
legal implications associated with COVID-19,
COMMITTEE SPONSORED WORKSHOP
telemedicine, suicide risks and colleague peer hand
3: PRACTICE BUILDING TODAY: BLACK
off/coverage issues. Using closed and potential claim
LIVES MATTER, PSYCHOANALYSIS AND
FAITH IN BUILDING PRACTICE scenarios, the presenters will suggest strategies
and resources to assist the attendees to minimize
Chair & Host: Susan Flinders, Ph.D. (Chelsea, MI)
professional liability. The session with be highly
Presenters: Robin Rayford, M.A.* (Troy, MI)
interactive and encourage questions and comments
Stan Rayford, M.A.* (Troy, MI)
from the attendees in dialogue with panelists.
Note: This program is intended to satisfy the
After attending this session, participants should be
requirements of those states that require CE/CME
able to: 1) Describe two major risks associated with
credits in the area of cultural competency for license
suicide in the COVID-19 environment; 2) Summarize
renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification
best practice process and procedures suggested
is made by each state’s board.
for telehealth licensing and documentation in the
This workshop will address environmental and COVID-19 environment. 2
self-induced biases that might keep clinicians
from offering more psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic
DISCUSSION GROUP 36:
treatment to Black patients, especially those of faith. TREATMENT RESISTANCE: APPLICATION
These issues will be discussed interactively with OF PSYCHOANALYTIC IDEAS TO
two Black professionals who are intensely involved PSYCHIATRIC DILEMMAS
with an inner-city church which provides emotional
Co-chair: Eric M. Plakun, M.D., DLFAPA, FACPsych
and spiritual support with an underpinning of (Stockbridge, MA)
psychoanalytic concepts. There will be time for Co-chair, Discussant
questions and discussion to help increase the & Host: Elizabeth F. Weinberg, M.D. (Stockbridge, MA)
interpersonal competence and confidence needed Presenter: Heather Churchill, Psy.D.* (Stockbridge, MA)
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to offer psychoanalysis/psychoanalytic therapy to
“Treatment resistance” is increasingly described
more patients.
in the treatment of severe mental illness, with
After attending this session, participants should be dramatic increases in citations using this term
able to: 1) Describe how bias of the Black Lives Matter over the past decades. This group will begin with a
movement has limited work with Black patients and presentation of psychoanalytic work with a severely
patients of Faith; 2) Analyze environmental and self- disturbed patient with a history of poor response to
induced biases to reduce mutual bias and build a conventional treatment. Participants will explore
psychoanalytic practice with individuals from more psychoanalytic concepts and approaches as they
diverse populations, especially those of faith. 2 apply to these dilemmas. Discussion will include
reflections on the alliance, transference, and the
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ETHICS COURSE role of the “third.”
OVERVIEW OF LEGAL & RISK After attending this session, participants should
CHALLENGES OF TELEHEALTH, be able to: 1) Describe dynamic explanations
PRESCRIBING, SUICIDE & PEER COVERAGE underlying common forms of treatment distance;
IN TODAY’S WORLD. SPONSORED BY AIG/ 2) Discuss the process of establishing a treatment
EDGEWOOD PARTNERS INSURANCE CENTER alliance in a psychoanalytic therapy when serious
FORMERLY KNOWN AS FRENKEL & COMPANY psychiatric illness is present. 2
Presenter
& Host: Kris Oliveira, J.D., M.A., R.N., CPHRM*
(Boston, MA)
Note: This program is intended to satisfy the
requirements of those states that require CME credits
in the area of risk management or medical ethics for
medical license renewal, but the final judgment for
such qualification is made by each state’s medical
board.
Utilizing an interactive presentation format,
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DAILY SC H ED U LE WEEKEND 3: Feb 27-28
11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued an attack by an offender. Where the “symmetry”
DISCUSSION GROUP 37: of the unconscious tends “like an acid” to cancel
PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACHES TO THE distinctions, the psychoanalytic task is to promote
SERIOUSLY DISTURBED PATIENT distinctions that stimulated discrimination, thought,
Co-chair: Marlene Kocan, Ph.D., FABP (Columbus, OH) and emotional containment.
Co-chair After attending this session, participants should
& Host: Peter Kotcher, M.D. (Cincinnati, OH) be able to: 1) Utilize the exigencies of the pandemic
Presenter: Nancy Bakalar, M.D. (Lone Tree, CO) in work with disturbed patients unable to tolerate
The discussion group will be of interest to all anxiety evoked by traumatic intrusions of reality
conference attendees who wish to explore and such as the reality of the pandemic; 2) Describe and
improve their knowledge of and competence clinically utilize the numerous ways in which the
in treating their patients who have serious body mind relationship has been brought into sharp
disturbances. In response to a detailed case focus in a time in which threats to the body can no
presentation, the group will ask questions and longer be overlooked. 2
discuss process and events to clarify the underlying
strategies, obstacles, and competencies revealed in DISCUSSION GROUP 39:
the presenter’s reported treatment. Marlene Kocan, THE PSYCHOANALYTIC TREATMENT
Ph.D. and Peter Kotcher, M.D. are both graduates OF PATIENTS WITH PSYCHOSOMATIC
of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute who SYMPTOMS: TRAUMA AND EMBODIED MEMORY
have extensive experience in inpatient psychiatric Chair: Phyllis L. Sloate, Ph.D. (New Rochelle, NY)
treatment. Host: Fredric T. Perlman, Ph.D. (Pleasantville, NY)
After attending this session, participants should be Presenter: Marilyn Rifkin, LCSW (Naples, FL)
able to: 1) Use their emotional reaction to patients The psychoanalytic treatment of trauma is fraught
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with serious primitive pathology to verbalize with dissociative mechanisms and concomitant
the patient’s emotional state and to guide the enactments. Embodied memory research explicates
participant’s intervention; 2) Explain what the the way trauma is stored in the body and how it
patient’s internal experience is or might be and can be understood within the transference and
recognize that inner experience to present it in a countertransference matrix. A practice gap exists
way that is useful to and can be understood by the where the analyst is not sensitized to embodied
patient. 2 communication. Modification of technique is needed
to transcend the enactment cycle. This case presents
DISCUSSION GROUP 38: an alexithymic patient with a history of trauma due
CORONAVIRUS AND THE BODY IN to early maternal failure and medical treatment
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PSYCHOANALYSIS of secondary enuresis. Repeated sadomasochistic
Chair: Vaia Tsolas, Ph.D. (New York, NY) enactments were often difficult to manage. The
Host: Anand Desai, M.D. (New York, NY) decoding of bodily experience led to a deepening of
Presenter: Riccardo Lombardi, M.D.* (Rome, Italy) the treatment and increased symbolic capacity.
Discussant: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. After attending this session, participants should
(New York, NY) be able to: 1) Explain embodied memory theory as
Dr. Riccardo Lombardi presents a theoretical it pertains to the analysis of traumatized patients;
formulation, expanding on the ideas of Freud, Bion 2) Apply techniques that decode embodied
and Matte-Blanco to explain the theory behind communication in order to enable patients to
viewing in the contemporary body-mind crisis of overcome dissociative states and move from
the coronavirus pandemic as an opportunity for enactment to comprehension. 2
deepening the analytic process. Struggling with
body boundaries and acute anxieties has the
potential to become a springboard for creativity for
both patient and analyst. For patients vulnerable
to guilt and internal paranoia, tragic news of
the pandemic necessitates an unfolding of the
distinctions: body and mind, external and internal
reality, objective tragedy and imagined fear of
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D A ILY SC H E DUL E WEEKEND 3: Feb 27-28
11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued those who hope to contribute to it, “consumers”
of psychoanalytic research who want to apply it to
DISCUSSION GROUP 40:
practice, and those who want to intelligently support
THE DIFFICULT CHILD TO REACH:
the research effort. The presentation will be in the
A KLEINIAN PERSPECTIVE ON
PSYCHOANALYTIC WORK WITH CHILDREN form of a dialog with Dr. Robert Galatzer-Levy and
will include audience participation.
Chair & Host: Karen Proner, M.S. (New York, NY)
Presenter: Debra Gill, LCSW (New York, NY) After attending this session, participants should
be able to: 1) Explain the crucial importance of
This session will focus on children and adolescents
psychoanalytic research for the development
with severe problems that may make them
of psychoanalysis as a discipline, and its role in
uncertain patients for psychoanalytic work. With
“suicide prevention” for psychoanalytic institutes
the growing pressure on child analysts to work with
and societies; 2) Discuss resistances to research
more disturbed children, this discussion group will
that occur within psychoanalytic organizations.
look at technical problems and theoretical problems
2
through the presentation and discussion of clinical
material. The clinical case will be selected for its
difficulties and challenges to our usual ways of THE 2021 CANDIDATES’ COUNCIL
thinking and working as child analysts. Klein and PSYCHOANALYTIC PAPER PRIZE
her followers believed that one could adapt the Chair: Rachel D. Maree, M.D., M.P.H.
method of psychoanalysis to work with children’s (Brookhaven, GA)
earliest anxieties and their defenses and stay true Host: Melissa Jenereski, M.S.W. (Pittsburgh, PA)
to the principles of psychoanalysis. Presenter: Rochelle M. Broder, Ph.D.
(Huntington Woods, MI)
After attending this session, participants should be
Discussant: Joan E. Sarnat, Ph.D., ABPP*
able to: 1) Describe the Kleinian methods of working (Berkeley, CA)
with children and adolescents whose problems are
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The Candidates’ Council Psychoanalytic Paper
from early trauma or deficit and whose primitive
Prize is awarded based on a competition in which
mental states and defenses make them difficult
any candidate member is eligible to participate.
to reach in the conventional analytic approach; 2)
The award-winning paper is selected based on a
Assess emotions that are generated by the primitive
blind peer review process with candidates serving
process of projective identification to bridge the
as readers and judges. This year’s finalist prize
difficulty of children who may not play or symbolize
winner Rochelle M. Broder, Ph.D. will present her
in the conventional way or who challenge the setting
paper “Low Fee, Rage and Countertransference”. A
and the analyst. 2
senior analyst, Joan Sarnat, Ph.D., will serve as the
discussant and comment on the themes of the paper
2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET as well as on the writing process more broadly.
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SCIENCE DEPARTMENT SESSION 2: Participants will have the opportunity for discussion
OTTO KERNBERG: PERSPECTIVES FROM in a collegial and informal atmosphere.
SEVEN DECADES OF PSYCHOANALYTIC After attending this session, participants should be
RESEARCH able to: 1) Discuss issues of countertransference
Chair: Robert M. Galatzer-Levy, M.D. (Chicago, IL) and patient enactments related to setting fees; 2)
Host: Adam N. Moriwaki, Psy.D. (Muskego, WI) Analyze the phenomenon of a parallel processes that
Presenter: Otto F. Kernberg, M.D. (White Plains, NY) occurs in the candidate’s supervisory experience.
Dr. Otto Kernberg’s enormous contributions to 2
psychoanalytic research have spanned seven
decades. In this presentation he will discuss the
development of psychoanalytic research, its roles,
methods, problems and limitations as he has seen
them evolve. Building on his own experience to
illustrate the excitement and frustrations of the
field, he will discuss where research has been, where
it is and what the future may hold. Dr. Kernberg
will provide a picture of research that can inform
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DAILY SC H ED U LE WEEKEND 3: Feb 27-28
2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued DISCUSSION GROUP 41:
PSYCHOTHERAPIST ASSOCIATES
COMMITTEE SPONSORED WORKSHOP 4: PRESENT: FROM PERSECUTION TO
2021 RALPH ROUGHTON AWARD PAPER: PSYCHIC BIRTH: COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AND
FROM BATTLEGROUND TO PLAYGROUND: TRANSFERENCE FROM AN OBJECT RELATIONS
A WINNICOTTIAN READING OF THE VIDEO GAME PERSPECTIVE
AVATAR AS TRANSITIONAL PHENOMENON FOR
Co-chair: Margo P. Goldman, M.D.* (Andover, MA)
THE QUEER, TRANSGENDER, AND/OR GENDER
Co-chair
NON-CONFORMING PATIENT & Host: Petra Pilgrim, M.D.* (New Canaan, CT)
Co-chairs: Carol B. Levin, M.D. (Okemos, CA) Presenter: Padma Desai, LMHC, LPC* (New York, NY)
Don Spivak, M.D. (Birmingham, MI) Discussant: Aisha Abbasi, M.D. (West Bloomfield, MI)
Host: Justin Shubert, Psy.D. (Los Angeles, CA)
This discussion group applies psychodynamic
Presenter: Sien Rivera, M.D. (Columbia, SC)
principles and techniques to real-world
Note: This program is intended to satisfy the psychoanalytic psychotherapy with special attention
requirements of those states that require CE/CME to identifying and managing transference/ counter-
credits in the area of cultural competency for license transference enactments. The case presentation
renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification and discussion will portray how individual and
is made by each state’s board. cultural persecutory experiences are internalized
This presentation, for any practitioner who and limit psychic growth. The program will address
encounters patients that engage with video games, managing and using containment, internalization
will utilize the work of D.W. Winnicott as a lens and regression to improve competence and avoid
to examine play in the development of queer, pitfalls that can impede the clinician’s or patient’s
transgender, and/or gender-nonconforming progress in treatment. All levels of clinical
patients, and the safety that video games provide training and skill are welcome. Padma Desai is a
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for this play. Included is a discussion of a case of a psychoanalytic psychotherapist practicing in New
trans patient who utilized a video game avatar as a Jersey with an interest in object relations theory
tool in therapy during their medical transition. Sien and technique. Aisha Abassi is a psychiatrist and
Rivera, M.D. is a PGY4 Child/Adolescent Psychiatry psychoanalyst practicing in Michigan, with clinical
Fellow at Prisma Health Midlands, a member and published expertise in cross-cultural issues
of Prisma Health’s physician working group for and inadvertent psychosocial disruptions in the
transgender patient care, the Association for Gay treatment relationship.
and Lesbian Psychiatrist’s Resident Committee, and After attending this session, participants should
the American Association for Child and Adolescent be able to: 1) Identify the transference-counter-
Psychiatrist’s Sexual Orientation and Gender transference reactions between the patient and
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Identity Issues Sub-Committee. therapist to manage and trace movement in the
After attending this session, participants should be dyad during psychotherapy; 2) Utilize clinical
able to: 1) Apply Winnicottian concepts to formulate interventions and technique consistent with the
patient engagement with video games: 2) Utilize relevant object-relations theories to support the
play as an effective therapeutic tool for the queer, treatment dyad while holding and interpreting
transgender and/or gender non-conforming toward transformation. 2
patient. 2
DISCUSSION GROUP 42:
THE INTEGRATION OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
AND COUPLE THERAPY
Chairs &
Presenters: Graciela E. Abelin-Sas Rose, M.D.
(New York, NY)
Peter Mezan, Ph.D.* (New York, NY)
Host: Ellen Mezan, Ph.D.* (New York, NY)
This discussion group will define the distinction
between the unconscious organization of the
individual and of the couple, studying the marked
continued
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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued engagement to infer and imagine the infant history
of adult patients with early trauma. 2
differences between an individual’s transference
to his or her analyst and the transferences to the
partner. To that effect clinical material will be DISCUSSION GROUP 44:
presented where the same patient is studied in CULTURAL NARRATIVES IN
PSYCHOANALYSIS
his individual session and in the couple session.
The presenters have designed a collaboration Chair
& Host: M. Nasir Ilahi, L.L.M. (Riverside, CT)
maintained during many years whereby one of
Co-chairs: Sandra Buechler, Ph.D.* (New York, NY)
them sees the couple while the other treats one of
the partners in psychoanalysis. The observations
Alan Roland, Ph.D.* (New York, NY)
are extremely clarifying about the great differences Presenter: Fang Duan, Ph.D.* (Lake Hiawatha, NJ)
encountered in both settings. It opens up the Note: This program is intended to satisfy the
question of how to deal with these different aspects requirements of those states that require CE/CME
of the psyche in each treatment. credits in the area of cultural competency for license
After attending this session, participants should renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification
be able to: 1) Assess how distortions and projective is made by each state’s board.
identifications, articulated by patients about their Psychoanalysis has rarely considered that culture
partners, are expressed not only through words, is deeply internalized. While psychoanalysis
but through subtle gestures and tone; 2) Design has universal applicability, internalized values
interventions that address how a fixed construction of Western individualism deeply inform many
of the other affects the emotional field of the partner psychoanalytic formulations. Potential conflicts
and then reverberates back into the patient’s mind, arise when the analyst (or his/her explicit/implicit
maintaining an immovable pattern, impeding theories) comes from a Western culture and the
mutual development. 2 patient from a radically different, non-Western
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culture (e.g. Japan, China, and India) where
DISCUSSION GROUP 43: profoundly different family-centered unconscious
CONTRIBUTIONS OF INFANT RESEARCH emotional values prevail. While each non -western
TO ADULT TREATMENT culture has unique features, they all share in common
Chair, Co-presenter the family-centered aspect to varying degrees in
& Host: Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D. (New York, NY) contrast to the individual-centered emphasis in
Co-chair & the West. These nonconflictual internalizations
Co-presenter: Frank M. Lachmann, Ph.D. (New York, NY) date back to the earliest preverbal mother/infant
This discussion group will present research on interactions and seldom become conscious since
mothers who were pregnant and widowed on 9/11, they are silently woven into the entire emotional
fabric. This territory will be intensively explored
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and their infants: an “Urgent Engagement” picture
– and its relevance to adult treatment. The session utilizing detailed clinical process
will show films/frame-by-frame analyses of mother- After attending this session, participants should be
infant interaction; role-play brief interactions able to: 1) Describe the role of deeply internalized
identified by the research; discuss case vignettes culture in psychoanalytic therapy with patients from
of adult treatment that illustrate the applicability of non-Western cultures; 2) Explain how transference
this research, and invite participants to bring case and countertransference developments in
vignettes of adult patients with early trauma. Beatrice psychoanalytic therapy with patients from non-
Beebe is an infant researcher/ psychoanalyst; Frank Western cultures can lead to clinical impasses.
Lachmann is a psychoanalyst. Their books are good 2
background: Beebe & Lachmann, 2002, Infant
research and adult treatment: Co-constructing
interactions; Beebe & Lachmann, 2014, The origins
of attachment: Infant research and adult treatment.
After attending this session, participants should be
able to: 1) Describe the mother-infant interaction
patterns of urgent engagement; 2) Use urgent
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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued to describe the specific struggles that twins have
in individuating from one’s twin at different
DISCUSSION GROUP 45:
stages of their development. The transference/
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND
countertransference issues that may be enacted in
PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC HOSPITALS
the treatment by the patient will be highlighted.
Chair & Host: M. Sagman Kayatekin, M.D. (Bellaire, TX)
Co-chair: Michael D. Groat, Ph.D., M.S.* After attending this session, participants should be
(New Canaan, CT) able to: 1) Analyze the competitive feelings of rivalry
Presenters: Allison de Seve, Ph.D.* (New Canaan, CT) and jealousy that twins experience as they attempt
Michael McClam, M.D. (Houston, TX) to develop their separate identities; 2) Describe
how in the transference a twin with maternal
Drs. Kayatekin and Groat have extensive experience
psychopathology searches for a good maternal
in psychoanalytic individual, family, group, milieu
object to replace or remediate the bad early infant
and hospital team work. The target audience is
mother mis-attunement. 2
clinicians who have a wide range of exposure to
psychoanalytic venues; from the office to hospitals,
IOP’s, partial hospitalizations, and day treatment 5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET
programs. These contexts, with their regressive/ SCIENCE DEPARTMENT SESSION 3:
progressive capabilities on the person and the TRAUMA-FOCUSED PSYCHODYNAMIC
psychopathology, provide a unique window to PSYCHOTHERAPY (TFPP)
the fascinating interrelatedness of intra-psychic Chair
and interpersonal matrices of human minds. & Presenter: Barbara Milrod, M.D. (New York, NY)
Clinical presentations from psychoanalytically Host: Charles P. Fisher, M.D. (Berkeley, CA)
informed multiple treater settings and discussion Presenters: Fredric N. Busch, M.D. (New York, NY)
will increase participants’ knowledge beyond the Cory K. Chen, Ph.D. (New York, NY)
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intrapsychic/dyadic psychoanalytic approaches that In this program, the authors of the forthcoming book,
dominate the psychoanalytic theory. This will allow Trauma Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy,
for a more sophisticated, multilayered use of the will present their research findings about treatment
multiple venues of therapeutic action that makes of patients with PTSD. “Patients said they yearned
multiple treater settings effective environments to regain a sense of life purpose, of which they felt
conducive to therapeutic growth and change. their traumas had robbed them, because of their
After attending this session, participants should be ongoing symptoms and the way their traumatic
able to: 1) Describe the capacity for the regression experiences had come to overshadow their lives.”
of the individual in dyadic therapeutic relations Many psychotherapies are helpful with symptoms
and families and groups as an essential part of of PTSD. Moving beyond symptom relief, “The
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psychopathology; 2) Use the individual, dyadic, goal of TFPP is to help patients with PTSD make
group regressions from the lens of bi-personal coherent sense of their often disjointed symptomatic
defenses like projective identification in the experiences, and thereby to provide an emotionally
formulation of therapeutic interventions. 2 vibrant road linking the trauma survivor to his/her
emotional life before the trauma, hence helping to
DISCUSSION GROUP 46: restore that lost sense of purpose and coherence.”
PSYCHOANALYSIS WITH TWINS: After attending this session, participants should be
PSYCHOANALYSIS OF A LATENCY AGE able to: 1) Summarize recent research findings about
MALE FRATERNAL TWIN the nightmarish consequences of PTSD; 2) Describe
Co-chair the elements of a trauma-focused psychodynamic
& Host: Maida Greenberg, Ed.D. (Newton Centre, MA) psychotherapy that moves beyond symptom relief to
Co-chair help PTSD patients regain a “sense of life purpose.”
& Presenter: Mali Mann, M.D. (Los Altos, CA)
2
The challenges that exist for twins as they attempt
to develop a separate sense of self will be offered
to clinicians who are working with twins, siblings
of twins, and parents of twins in their professional
practice. The presentation and discussion of analytic
material about fraternal twin will enable clinicians
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D A ILY SC H E DUL E WEEKEND 3: Feb 27-28
5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET continued will present the process and video material,
accompanied by Dr. Weinstein’s testing results.
DISCUSSION GROUP 47:
They will discuss diagnostic criteria, the concept of
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHODYNAMIC
neuroplasticity and change, and the impact on ego
PSYCHOTHERAPY
development of neurogenetics and conflict in the
Chair: Ralph Beaumont, M.D. (Portland, OR)
formation of symptoms.
Host: Cynthia Ellis Gray, M.D. (Portland, OR)
Presenters: Kristen Callahan, M.A., M.F.T. After attending this session, participants should
(Redwood City, CA) be able to: 1) Compare the classic symptoms of
Petra Pilgrim, M.D.* (New Canaan, CT) ASD with conflict-driven symptoms in a child; 2)
Discussant: Britt-Marie Schiller, Ph.D. (Saint Louis, MO) Describe a psychoanalytic approach’s impact on
ego and superego development and conflicts in the
Contrasting psychoanalysis and psychodynamic
formation of symptoms. 2
psychotherapy has been a long established
tradition, focusing often on limitations of the latter.
This discussion group will take a different stance DISCUSSION GROUP 49:
toward this relationship. The emphasis will be JAMES JOYCE’S ULYSSES AND
psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy, PSYCHOANALYSIS
rather than one versus the other. The group will Co-chair
& Host: Steven Rolfe, M.D. (Bryn Mawr, PA)
emphasize side by side comparison with the
Co-chair: Paul Schwaber, Ph.D. (Hamden, CT)
intention of greater knowledge of the two areas of
practice and their relations. The group believes “Ulysses” by means of characterizations that in
that examining these two clinical approaches context makes real and credible the inner lives
together will increase knowledge of their shared of fictive persons and provides, through artistic
aspects. The format will involve two presenters, form and aesthetic experience, what scientific case
one providing psychoanalytic material, the other studies cannot manage, for it portrays minds in
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psychotherapeutic material. A discussant will help action, the specificity, rhythms, ideas, association,
pursue consideration of the two processes in terms feelings, and recurrences that distinguish and, in the
of method, technique, and therapeutic action. clinical situation, reveal distinct persons. In doing
this it offers occasion for showing by extrapolation
After attending this session, participants should
how an analyst listens and ponders, that is follows
be able to: 1) Compare the two processes of
along, notices things, and reflects about a person
psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy
who is saying whatever comes to mind, or trying to.
in terms of technique, method, and therapeutic
The chapter “Cyclops” in James Joyce’s Ulysses will
action; 2) Demonstrate the distinctions that can be
provide an opportunity to increase knowledge of the
made conceptually between the psychoanalytic and
relationship between narcissism, aggression and
psychotherapeutic processes. 2
paranoid and racist attitudes. The session will focus
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on the blindness of the characters in the novel, and
DISCUSSION GROUP 48: the dangerous consequences of xenophobia which
PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACHES TO result. This year’s reading: Ulysses: Chapter 12
WORKING WITH CHILDREN WITH AUTISM “Cyclops” Gabler Edition, Vintage Books/Random
SPECTRUM DISORDER
House. Supplemental reading: “The Argument of
Chair: Susan P. Sherkow, M.D. (New York, NY) Ulysses” Stanley Sultan
Presenter
& Host: Lissa Weinstein, Ph.D. (New York, NY) After attending this session, participants should
be able to: 1) Describe the nature and limitations
This group will examine the developmental course
of a “one-eyed” narcissistic, prejudiced view of
of a nine year old boy, whose five-year analysis
the world; 2) Apply Freud’s concepts of character
revealed a confluence of genetic and constitutional
types to analyze the dangers and consequences of
factors, and environmental stressors, that together
nationalism, racism and unbridled characterological
contributed to his manifest presentation of
narcissism. 2
being both brilliant and well-endowed, yet still
often asocial and dysregulated, which negatively
impacted his capacity to function in a school
setting. Neuropsychological testing confirmed the
difficulty of finding a clear “diagnosis.” Dr. Sherkow
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5:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. ET continued
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2021
DISCUSSION GROUP 50:
DEEPENING THE TREATMENT
Chair All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time
& Host: Jane S. Hall, LCSW, FIPA (New York, NY)
Presenters: Luke Hadge, Ph.D. (Honolulu, HI) 11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET
Timothy H. Rayner, M.D. (San Diego, CA) COMMITTEE SPONSORED WORKSHOP 5:
This discussion group will address the difficult topic TEACHING ABOUT ANALYTIC CASE
of deepening the work with those who know nothing WRITING
about psychoanalytic work. The problems presented Chair: Stephen B. Bernstein, M.D. (Chestnut Hill, MA)
often do not surface in the beginning of treatment Co-chair
so the clinician must be equipped to handle the & Host: Mark Moore, Ph.D. (Philadelphia, PA)
revelations that occur. Case material will illustrate Co-chairs: Melvin Bornstein, M.D. (Birmingham, MI)
working with naiveté, anxiety, and fear of trusting. Jonathan Palmer, M.D. (Newton, MA)
Working with patients that are resistant to in depth Harvey J. Schwartz, M.D. (Philadelphia, PA)
therapy requires sophisticated communication Peggy E. Warren, M.D. (Waban, MA)
skill. Skills in patient communication, explaining Presenter: Deborah L. Cabaniss, M.D. (New York, NY)
why deeper treatment is necessary and how to
help patients begin addressing their problems This workshop will continue to discuss teaching
by understanding their roots are taught. The and writing about treatment cases. Deborah
presenters will use case material and share their Cabaniss, author, clinician and educator, will reflect
knowledge about how they deepened the work. on her personal journey to understand and teach
Both presenters are mid-career psychoanalysts the psychodynamic formulation. With her writing
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who understand that the general public knows little group, she has created an operationalized model
about deep psychoanalytic work. They will share for formulating psychodynamically to help trainees
their expertise in encouraging patients to do the and seasoned clinicians create the formulations
work. that are essential for understanding and treating
patients. She will discuss her earlier contributions
After attending this session, participants should be on case writing and the formulation. More recently,
able to: 1) Create a non-judgmental environment Deborah and her group have begun to explore how
to deepen psychoanalytic work that includes more to make internalization of perceptions about race,
frequent sessions; 2) Prepare patients for intensive gender and sexuality central to all psychodynamic
psychoanalytic work that involves exploring the formulations. This will be an interactive workshop.
deep roots of their problems through expressing (This workshop is related to the discussion group:
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emotion, speaking freely, and analyzing dreams to “Writing About Your Analytic Work In a Case Report”,
make the unconscious more conscious. 2 Sunday, February 28 at 2:00p.m.)
After attending this session, participants should
7:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M. ET be able to: 1) Utilize psychodynamic formulation in
CANDIDATES’ VIRTUAL the teaching and writing about patient treatments;
COCKTAIL PARTY 2) Demonstrate how to make internalization of
This is a chance to unwind, socialize, meet perceptions about race, gender and sexuality central
and network with candidate colleagues from to all psychodynamic formulations. 2
across the country and around the world.
The goal is to socialize with other candidates, make
professional connections and develop friendships
in a non-educational event. There will be a chance to
talk as a larger group and then break into smaller
groups for informal conversation and socializing.
All sessions are live and listed in Eastern Time apsa.org #APSAmeeting @psychoanalysis_ 40D A ILY SC H E DUL E WEEKEND 3: Feb 27-28
11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued schizoid phenomena, while obtaining the tools to
work within the transference-countertransference
CANDIDATES’ COUNCIL MASTER
dynamic. The session will integrate the connection
TEACHER AWARD: DR. DIONNE POWELL:
between theory and practice by discussing an article,
“A MOVEMENT NOT A MOMENT:
SUSTAINING A DIVERSE, RACIALLY INCLUSIVE examining a case presentation with detailed process
APPROACH TO PSYCHOTHERAPY AND notes, and a lengthy discussion among participants
PSYCHOANALYTIC EDUCATION.” culminating in a final summary by the chairs,
all within the Independent and British Kleinian
Chair: Holly Crisp, M.D. (Houston, TX)
Schools of psychoanalysis. Ms. Susan Finkelstein,
Host: Sumru Tufekcioglu, Ph.D. (New York, NY)
a training analyst in NYC conducts Understanding
Master Teacher Award Recipient,
Presenter: Dionne R. Powell, M.D. (New York, NY) Primitive Mental States study groups on the Internal
World and Its Objects with London Contemporary
Note: This program is intended to satisfy the
Kleinians. Mr. M. Nasir Ilahi, a training analyst, is a
requirements of those states that require CE/CME
Fellow of the British Psychoanalytic Society.
credits in the area of cultural competency for license
renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification After attending this session, participants should
is made by each state’s board. be able to: 1) Describe the nature of schizoid
mechanisms and their links with neurotic,
Seismic changes in our national conversation,
borderline and narcissistic functioning; 2) Apply
following the inexplicable deaths of too many black
specific technical approaches with origins in Freud
people, result in our reckoning as analysts on how
and Klein to working with the non-neurotic patient
we unconsciously and consciously exclude the
or the disturbed aspects of neurotic patients. 2
racial other. Our racism and supremacy, cloaked by
liberalism, blinds our ability to view ourselves as part
of the problem and contributors to viable solutions. DISCUSSION GROUP 52:
By striving to include the cultural/ethnic self in PSYCHODYNAMIC WORK WITH ELDERS 2.0
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all aspects of psychoanalytic education, including Chair
the recruitment, retention and development of & Host: Daniel Plotkin, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D
(Los Angeles, CA)
diverse candidates of color, we can make a change
Discussants: Doryann M. Lebe, M.D. (Los Angeles, CA)
promoting diversity, equity and inclusion. Racial
reconciliation must go beyond public statements Jolyn Welsh Wagner, M.D. (Birmingham, MI)
to the intra-psychic, to acknowledging our failures Mi Yu, M.D., Ph.D. (Nashville, TN)
regarding the mental health care and training of Previous discussion groups have focused on
black and brown people, to consciously “do better”. establishing that elders can and do benefit from
After attending this session, participants should doing deep psychotherapeutic work, which may be
be able to: 1) Describe ways to actively include identified as psychodynamic work with elders 1.0.
The current discussion group goes a step further,
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the cultural and ethnic self in all aspects of
psychoanalytic education; 2) Analyze impediments asserting that not only can older adults do the work,
to change that are intrapsychic and dynamic as well but they are uniquely qualified or “ripe” for this kind
as those that are systemic. 2 of work. Characteristics associated with favorable
therapeutic process and outcome (i.e., “suitability”)
will be compared to characteristics associated with
DISCUSSION GROUP 51:
normal aging, demonstrating many common factors
SCHIZOID MODES IN NARCISSISTIC
and characteristics.
AND BORDERLINE STATES: LEVELS OF
DISTURBANCE IN THE CAPACITY TO SYMBOLIZE After attending this session, participants should be
AND ESTABLISHING A SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM able to: 1) List qualities associated with “suitability”
Chair: Susan N. Finkelstein, LCSW (New York, NY) for doing depth psychotherapeutic work; 2) List
Co-chair: M. Nasir Ilahi, LLM (Riverside, CT) qualities of normal aging that may be associated
with favorable capability to do psychotherapeutic
Host: Carla Rentrop, Ph.D.* (New York, NY)
work. 2
Presenter: Lee Zuckerman Share, Ph.D.* (New York, NY)
This group targets analysts at all levels wishing
to increase their knowledge of working with
unconscious phantasy, primitive anxiety and
41 Programming is in Zoom format: MEETING MEETING WITH BREAKOUT ROOMS WEBINAR | =Continuing Education Credits *Non-APsaA MemberDAILY SC H ED U LE WEEKEND 3: Feb 27-28
11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued issues will update the group on the origins of
contemporary developments. An analyst working
DISCUSSION GROUP 53:
with infants and toddlers will show clinical work
ANALYTICALLY-ORIENTED WORK WITH
with intense early repression of drives. The many
CHILDREN AND ADULTS ON THE AUTISM
SPECTRUM different interpretations of the psychoanalytic use
of masochism and self-destructiveness have made
Chair, Discussant
& Host: Michael Krass, Ph.D. (Falls Church, VA) those important concepts confused. The session
Presenter: Nathan Leslie, B.S.* (Washington, DC) plans to show their use in clinical evaluations and
in analysis.
Clinicians working with patients on the autism
spectrum often make the mistake of either After attending this session, participants should be
underestimating the psychic impact of living able to: 1) Describe and critically evaluate historic
with neurobiological differences and limitations, and contemporary theories of Masochism; 2)
or overestimating the role of psychology and Analyze the multilayered dynamics present in early
environment in those difficulties that have a sado-masochistic interactions. 2
neurobiological origin. This discussion group will
present a clinical case of analytically-oriented work DISCUSSION GROUP 55:
with a patient with Asperger’s Syndrome to discuss DISTANCE PSYCHOANALYSIS AND
the neurobiology of Asperger’s through the lens of DISTANCE PSYCHOANALYTIC EDUCATION
Winnicott’s and others’ (e.g. Bion’s) theories on the Co-chair
origins and development of the mind. This group will & Host: David Scharff, M.D. (Chevy Chase, MD)
function as a space in which to think together about Co-chair: R. Dennis Shelby, Ph.D. (Chesterton, IN)
innovating techniques for working therapeutically Presenter: Ralph E. Fishkin, D.O. (Bala Cynwyd, PA)
with adults, adolescents and children in analysis and Discussants: Kerry Kelly Novick (Ann Arbor, MI)
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analytic therapy Participants are invited to bring Jill Savege Scharff, M.D. (Chevy Chase, MD)
additional case material to present and discuss. Katherine M. Williams, Ph.D., LCSW
After attending this session, participants should (Chicago, IL)
be able to: 1) Prepare analytic techniques with This discussion group addresses effective teaching
Asperger’s Syndrome patients that use Winnicott’s in the online situation that now confronts most
and Bion’s theories on the origins and development institute teachers of analytic candidates and
of the mind within the framework of the neurobiology therapists today. We will focus on how the internet
of Asperger’s; 2) Compare and distinguish the hard- or telephone both aids and hinders the educational
wired causes of autism spectrum phenomena from process, consulting with teachers and students for
the psychic results of these neurobiological causes. their perspective of the online learning experience.
Results of focus groups with candidates illuminate
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2
holes in educational process. The group’s discussion
DISCUSSION GROUP 54: will pool experience of teaching and learning in
PSYCHOANALYSIS WITH BABIES: the situation of required online training. This
MASOCHISM AS A REGULATION session will cover didactic seminars as well as
MECHANISM supervision, mentoring and faculty meetings, with
Chair: Talia Hatzor, Ph.D. (New York, NY) the aim of being inclusive about the educational
process. Presenters have extensive experience in
Host: Francoise G. Graf (New York, NY)
educational research, teaching and learning.
Presenter: Alan Sugarman, Ph.D.
(Cardiff by the Sea, CA) After attending this session, participants should be
Discussant: Christine Anzieu-Premmereur, M.D., Ph.D. able to: 1) Apply the strategy of involved discussion
(New York, NY) and candidate critique of readings for effective
Adult and Child Psychoanalysts will discuss the teaching to a group of dispersed candidates in an
masochistic patients who require a specific attention online learning environment; 2) Revise teaching
to their need for regulation of transition. Punishment methods based on candidate feedback through the
inducing behavior and self-destructiveness are use of equalizing the experience of online and in-
issues which can be observed early in life and can be room candidates, engaging candidates instead of
associated with a lack in early transitional capacity. lecturing or reading of papers. 2
An expert on psychoanalytic theories in masochistic
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11:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. ET continued Freud’s conceptions of unconscious processes; 2)
Discuss the implications for the psychodynamic
DISCUSSION GROUP 56:
operationalizing of the unconscious based
PSYCHOANALYTIC EXPLORATIONS: THE
on intrapsychic and societal models as either
ANALYST’S AFFECTIVE EXPERIENCE
intertwined or separated. 2
Chair, Presenter
& Host: Merton A. Shill, LLM, Ph.D. (Ann Arbor, MI)
This session is intended for clinicians of all 2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET
experience levels. The specific focus here is to COMMITTEE SPONSORED WORKSHOP 6:
increase knowledge of and responsiveness to the MEDICAL STUDENT EDUCATION
affective experience of both patient and analyst Co-chair
in the treatment. The instructional method to & Presenter: David Mintz, M.D.* (Stockbridge, MA)
be employed is the presentation of a theoretical Co-chair
introduction followed by clinical case material & Host: Janis L. Cutler, M.D. (New York, NY)
which is illustrative. This approach is intended to Presenters: Dinorah M. Gomez, B.S.*
contrast with the training analysts traditionally (Isabela, Puerto Rico)
receive which involves interpreting conflict or Murad Khan, M.D.* (New Haven, CT)
self-states in a cognitive manner without sufficient Brian Schulman, M.D.* (Somerville, MA)
attention to deepening the affective experience and This workshop is designed for individuals who are
meaning of those issues for the patient. interested in teaching medical students and other
After attending this session, participants should be early career trainees. Psychoanalysts who are active
able to: 1) Assess the patient’s affective response to members of national professional organizations in
the treatment hour and the treatment as a whole; 2) academic psychiatry will be joined by a senior medical
Design technical interventions based on the crucial student and a psychiatry resident to describe recent
contribution of affects in both the patient and the trends in medical education, including an increased
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clinician. 2 focused on issues of interpersonal communication
and social justice. Participants will develop skills
DISCUSSION GROUP 57: to engage medical students effectively in learning
THE CRITICS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS: about the relevance of psychoanalytic concepts for
PLATO AND THE ORIGINS OF these topics, including a demonstration of their
PSYCHODYNAMIC THINKING value in assessing the social history and as a tool for
Co-chairs & social justice. There will be ample time for group
Presenters: Jonathan Lear, Ph.D. (Chicago, IL) discussion.
Alfred S. Margulies, M.D. (Auburndale, MA) After attending this session, participants should be
Host: Kay Long, Ph.D. (New Haven, CT) able to: 1) Describe effective pedagogical approaches
to presenting psychoanalytic concepts to medical
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As citizens and clinicians, we have been shaken by
assaults to our republican democracy and by our students and other early career trainees; 2) Discuss
need to reimagine who we are. Presciently, Plato psychoanalytic concepts - such as unconscious bias
did imagine just these challenges, and the problem - to conceptualize oppression and social justice in
of human nature written large into the structure of medical education. 2
society. While Freud drew on Plato to fashion his
basic model of human nature into an operationalized SERVICE MEMBER AND VETERANS
psychoanalytic, clinical approach to the unconscious INITIATIVE
of the individual, Plato’s vision was larger: he Chair, Presenter
imagined the implications of individual human & Host: Harold Kudler, M.D. (Durham, NC)
nature that is conflicted, irrational, and grasping— Co-chair: Norman M. Camp, M.D. (Richmond, VA)
and is always in a recursive, spiraling relationship Discussant: Arthur Blank, M.D. (Bethesda, MD)
with larger group and societal psychological Note: This program is intended to satisfy the
dynamics. The individual and society are entangled requirements of those states that require CE/CME
and moving within incorporative and projective credits in the area of cultural competency for license
interactions—often with tragic consequences. renewal, but the final judgment for such qualification
After attending this session, participants should is made by each state’s board.
be able to: 1) Compare and summarize Plato’s and
continued
43 Programming is in Zoom format: MEETING MEETING WITH BREAKOUT ROOMS WEBINAR | =Continuing Education Credits *Non-APsaA MemberDAILY SC H ED U LE WEEKEND 3: Feb 27-28
2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. ET continued After attending this session, participants should be
able to: 1) Assess the efficacy and possible limitations
This session targets clinicians seeking to increase
of different theoretical approaches to the same
their knowledge and skills in treating combat
clinical material; 2) Plan clinical formulations from
veterans. Essential connections between the
alternative theoretical and clinical perspectives.
evolution of psychoanalytic theory and technique
2
in military settings and the standards of modern
evidence-based practice will be discussed in a
lively, interactive format. Following this session, ARTIST/SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE:
participants will be able to apply sophisticated “WROUGHT WITH THINGS FORGOTTEN”:
SHAKESPEARE’S MOTHER
conceptualizations of psychological trauma in
clinical settings and analyze the evidence-base Chair: Peter L. Rudnytsky, Ph.D., LCSW
(Gainesville, FL)
for psychoanalytic treatment of combat veterans.
Co-chair
The presenters are senior clinicians with unique & Host: Murray M. Schwartz, Ph.D. (Amherst, MA)
experience in military and veteran settings, each of
Presenter: Richard P. Wheeler, Ph.D.*
whom has led national VA mental health programs (Champaign-Urbana, IL)
and published widely on the psychoanalytic Discussant: Stephen Greenblatt, Ph.D.* (Cambridge, MA)
treatment of veterans.
Although critics have explored psychological
After attending this session, participants should themes grounded in infant-mother relations in
be able to: 1) Apply sophisticated psychoanalytic Shakespeare’s plays, they have said very little
conceptualizations of psychological trauma in about Shakespeare’s own mother, Mary Arden
the clinical assessment and treatment of combat Shakespeare. Mary gave birth to William, her first
veterans; 2) Analyze the evidence-base for son, in times that must have involved significant
psychoanalytic treatment of combat veterans stresses on her pregnancy and nurturing experience.
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suffering from the sequelae of psychological She was still grieving two dead daughters, and
trauma. 2 England’s worst plague of the century was bearing
down on Stratford. In his paper, eminent scholar
Richard P. Wheeler inquires whether, and how,
NAPSAC CLINICAL EXPERIENCE the circumstances of Mary’s pregnancy and early
Chair: Randi E. Wirth, Ph.D.* (New York, NY) experience with her newborn son might enrich our
Host: Leigh Tobias, Ph.D.* (Beverly Hills, CA) understanding of Shakespeare’s art.
Moderator: Drew Tillotson, Psy.D.* (San Francisco, CA) Note: This session does not offer Continuing
Discussants: Michael J. Diamond, Ph.D. (Los Angeles, CA) Education Credit.
Martin Gauthier, M.D.* (Montreal, Canada)
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Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, Ph.D. DISCUSSION GROUP 58:
(Chestnut Hill, MA) FINDING UNCONSCIOUS FANTASY IN
Reader: Andrea Kahn, Ph.D.* (Los Angeles, CA) NARRATIVE, TRAUMA, AND BODY PAIN
This clinical workshop offers the unique Chair: Paula L. Ellman, Ph.D. (Rockville, MD)
opportunity for clinicians to come together and Host: Christian J. Churchill, Ph.D.* (New York, NY)
have an experience of “dreaming” shared material. Presenter: Nancy R. Goodman, Ph.D.* (Bethesda, MD)
Anonymous verbatim clinical material is presented Discussant: Catalina Bronstein, M.D.* (London, England)
by a reader, not the treating analyst. A panel of three
This discussion group will increase the clinician’s
IPA North American analysts will hear the material
competence in their clinical work with trauma and
for the first time with the audience and associate to
body pain through a focus on finding unconscious
the material as freely as possible. This format allows
fantasies. Case material will bring attention to
the group the opportunity to observe how the mind
the use of countertransference, global and micro
of the analyst works in “real time” - as close to an
enactments between analyst and patient leading
actual session as possible. This workshop provides
to contact and the analysis of meaning. Bringing
an opportunity for a clinical discussion among
focus to the place of unconscious fantasy in the
colleagues with a diversity of theoretical viewpoints,
mind offers a symbolizing process that allows
in an atmosphere free of any supervisory dynamics.
for clinical transformation. Nancy Goodman and
This workshop is targeted towards seasoned
Paula Ellman will provide reflections from their
analytic clinicians.
continued
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