Series: Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Clinical Practice During Pandemic

 Pol-Pot Trauma Reaches Our Shores: Online Interviews During COVID-19

Thursday December 3, 2020

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT

A Live Program on Zoom

 

Gilbert Kliman, MD

Medical Director,

Children’s Psychological Health Center

Chairperson of the Board of Trustees,

Harlem Family Institute and Harlem Psychoanalytic Institute

Honorary Member, Contemporary Freudian Society

Overview  

A traumatized Cambodian mother and child were seen forensically by a senior psychoanalyst. The task was assisted by psychoanalytic self-awareness and countertransferential knowledge.  Mother, a Pol Pot survivor was raped in a chaotic refugee camp during her childhood.  Her daughter was, years later, sexually harassed in a negligent U.S. kindergarten.  Transgenerational influences were powerful sources of psychological damage for both mother and child.   Videorecordings of interviews will be shown during the seminar.  Epigenesis, moral injury and betrayal effects will be discussed as will the persisting attachment from prior in-person interviews in facilitating the online work.  The report and a deposition resulted in a generous financial settlement.

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NYPSI EXTENSION PROGRAM :  Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development with David Sawyer, M.D.   Psychoanalytic Principles of  Child Development  David Sawyer, M.D. October 19 – November 16, 2020 Mondays, 7:00 – 8:00 pm 5 classes  /  $150 This course is virtual and will be held on ZOOM. To register, click here, visit nypsi.org or call 212-879-6900

NYPSI Extension Program: Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development
This is a course designed to help students better understand child development phases from a psychoanalytic perspective: the pre-oedipal, oedipal, latency, and early, middle and late adolescent phases.  The course will highlight how certain issues affect child development at the different stages:  sibling trauma, separation  anxiety, beating fantasies, the origin and evolution of childhood narcissism, family romance fantasies (oedipal and latency fantasies) and object removal in adolescence.  The discussion of these universal childhood fantasies is facilitated by a study of certain classical papers and current considerations of these issues. Clinical examples will be offered to illustrate the Continue reading Psychoanalytic Principles of Child Development with David Sawyer, M.D.

Returning to Freud’s considerations on repetition in the analytic experience as a form of past behavior that emerges in the present, this seminar will study repetition in its dual aspect, both as an insistence of the signifying chain and as an encounter with an object missed by definition.
Suggested readings: Freud: “Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through” (1914); Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920). Lacan: Seminars XI, 1964, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis, classes 4, 5, 10; XVII, 1969-70, The Other Side of Psychoanalysis, class 5.
Adriana Passini, LCSW, practices psychoanalysis in NYC, and is a member and faculty member of Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association and a member of the advisory board of the American Psychoanalytic Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work.
General fee: $20 For students with ID: $10 With 2 CE Credits  Licensed Psychoanalysts and Social Workers: $40.00
For Members, AFs, and Yearly Participants of Après-Coup: No fee
Attendance is free for all annual fee members of Après-Coup as well as for the faculty and students of the School of Visual Arts. To register, use access code during the checkout process. Need the access code? Email apres.coup@yahoo.com to request. Continue reading Repetition in Analytic Experience, Part 1 with Adriana Passini online with Après-Coup