Winnicott’s 1953 paper, Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena is widely recognized as contributing seminal ideas that have been further developed by generations of psychoanalysts. In his original description, Winnicott emphasized the impact of the environmental mother who is central to the infant’s development and its capacity to make use of the transitional object. The mother’s breast is made available just when the infant is ready to receive, which allows for a period of omnipotence where Continue reading DEVELOPING TRANSITIONAL PHENOMENA IN AN ADULT PATIENT: THE ANALYST’S ROLE with Debra Gill, LCSW at MITPP

This presentation will provide an overview of the many malpractice litigation risks faced by psychiatrists, psychologists, psychoanalysts/therapists and social workers in New York State. Dr. Rubin will discuss some of the tools and protections available to mental healthcare providers to help reduce the risk of litigation and to mitigate Continue reading HAT CLINICIANS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT LEGAL LIABILITY WITH JONATHAN D. RUBIN, J.D. at MITPP

THE METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE FOR TRAINING IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY, THE METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH, and THE METROPOLITAN SOCIETY FOR PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPISTS invite you to A CLINICAL WORKSHOP/CONVERSATION ON RACE AND CULTURE: ENGAGING WITH DIFFERENCE IN TREATMENT
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2019 PRESENTER: DEBRA GILL, LCSW
When the therapist’s racial and/or cultural worlds are overtly different from the patient’s, barriers to trust need to be recognized and addressed.  Enactments around difference, when understood, have the Continue reading RACE AND CULTURE: ENGAGING WITH DIFFERENCE IN TREATMENT WITH DEBRA GILL, LCSW at MITPP

The twice-weekly treatment of a Yemeni woman who emigrated alone as a young adult to the United States will be discussed. The presentation will explore the impact of sadomasochistic dynamics in the patient’s family of Continue reading OPEN HOUSE: SADOMACHOCHISM, SEPARATION AND LOSS IN THE ERA OF TRUMP at MITPP

“A Courageous Trip by First Responders to Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria in September 2017” Dr. Edward Colt  Wednesday, November 6, 2019 | 8:00 pm New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute 247 East 82nd Street, NYC (btwn 2nd and 3rd Aves) $20 – General Admission $15 – Student Admission No charge for NYPSI members/students Register HERE, visit nypsi.org or call 212.879.6900
We were 3 doctors and 6 nurses. What we found was chaos – roads destroyed, electricity gone, clean water unavailable, medical care unavailable, education unavailable.  No one was helping the local Continue reading A Courageous Trip by First Responders to Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria in September 2017 with Dr. Edward Colt at NYPSI

Arnold Pfeffer Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and  Neuroscience Co-Presenters:  Ludovica Lumer, Ph.D. and Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D.
Saturday, November 2, 2019,  10 am – 12 pm  The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium  247 E. 82nd Street, NYC Free and open to the public  RSVP is appreciated but not required; first come, first-seated To register, click HERE, visit nypsi.org, or call 212.879.6900
Everything changes, moves, varies, appears and disappears in the environment around us and within our selves. This continual change has modelled our nervous system to extract a sort of stability out of what is not Continue reading For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and  Neuroscience Co-Presenters:  Ludovica Lumer, Ph.D. and Lois Oppenheim, Ph.D. at Arnold Pfeffer Center of NYPSI

This reading group will read closely and clinically Freud’s case studies. We will compare and contrast them with Freud’s biographical studies. How Lacan discusses these cases in his seminars will also influence the way these studies are read. 

The group will begin on Tuesday, October 29, 2019, to meet monthly through May 2020. Meetings will take place from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Continue reading Freud’s Case Studies Mark Stafford and Martin Winn  at Après-Coup